Covering the Sky: The Years I Was the Empress's Strictest Master

"How could this be?"

One day, after this phenomenon was completely confirmed, Qi Xiyuan was astonished, but she quickly composed herself and avoided making a fuss.

She knew what this meant.

She planned to keep this discovery to herself.

……

Time flies,

A whole month or so passed in the blink of an eye.

Deep within the Forbidden City, inside the Bamboo Vine Secret Pavilion...

Splash...

The sound of books turning pages continued for more than a month.

Over the course of a month, Audrey searched through countless ancient scrolls, lost historical texts, and the handwritten notes of the Eternal Queen of her ancestors.

Based on the clues and gaps in the timeline of the Devouring Emperor that she had previously discovered, she worked day and night to deduce and compare, trying to uncover even the slightest mystery surrounding Tan Lin.

of course,

Right now, she has too much information to uncover: the unusual movements of the ancient imperial weapon, and the ancient truth that doesn't seem to have been deliberately erased.

Even if all the clues to the single mystery were completely broken,

She had been tirelessly poring over all the records hidden in the pavilion for so long, but the relevant information was either originally very vague and ambiguous, or as incomplete as before.

All the deductions ultimately came to nothing.

Wow!

After a while, Audrey closed the ancient scroll.

Her deep purple eyes gazed at the unchanging Milky Way high in the sky outside the window, and finally she let out a soft sigh.

A month of intensive work yielded nothing.

The mysteries have coalesced into an even greater cloud of confusion, and the truth remains buried deep within.

a long time,

She composed herself, temporarily setting aside her obsession with solving the mystery, turned and left the Secret Pavilion, boarded a special train, and returned to the Bauhinia Castle in Tianyuan City.

There was a hunch that perhaps when that black-haired boy grew up, the truth would come out.

When Audrey returned to the castle, dawn had not yet broken.

Her first stop was Tan Lin's recuperation and accommodation facility.

But when she pushed open the heavy door of the cabin and looked up, the scene inside made her instinctively pause in surprise.

Inside, a long-legged girl with long, wavy brown hair was, as usual, relieving the blood stasis in Tan Lin's right arm day after day.

Qi Xiyuan leaned down, her slender hands, with their flowing lines, gently massaged the black-haired boy's arm.

After more than a month of working day and night, I've become extremely skilled at taking care of it.

The girl leaned slightly forward, her naturally long, wavy hair cascading over her shoulders. Her breath was soft and gentle. From Audrey's perspective at the doorway, the two appeared to be standing very close, which looked rather strange.

A subtle fragrance wafts between them, creating a warm and tender scene, imbued with an indescribable intimacy and romance.

clatter……

Just as Audrey Hepburn stood frozen at the doorway,

On the couch, Tan Lin's eyelids, which had been closed for a long time, trembled slightly.

next moment,

shuh...

Those deep, dark eyes slowly opened, and for a fleeting moment, a sense of timelessness, as if encompassing eternity, seemed to pass through them.

As for Tan Lin himself...

His consciousness had just returned to the present world from the long period of time when he was passively revived.

This time, unlike the scattered fragments of memory from the past, it consisted of continuous memory segments spanning two or three decades.

His gaze was just beginning to awaken, a sense of bewilderment and confusion washing over him, as if he had just returned from another world.

However, his gaze quickly focused,

Just inches away, there was the girl's fair and radiantly beautiful face; at such close range, their breaths could almost touch.

Immediately afterwards, Tan Lin's gaze shifted slightly, and he realized that his shirt was half undone, but he saw that the other person's palm was still warmly pressed against the skin of his arm.

Swish!

At that moment, their eyes met.

The air inside the cabin seemed to freeze instantly.

Right now,

An atmosphere that defies description permeated the entire cabin.

The two locked eyes, and for a fleeting moment, drawn by the "maturity" in the other's gaze, Qi Xiyuan subconsciously forgot her actual age, and her heart skipped a beat for some reason.

Even though it was nothing really, her cheeks instantly flushed crimson.

After caring for him for more than a month, she was both surprised and delighted to see him finally wake up. Her hands and feet stiffened slightly, and for a moment she didn't know whether to withdraw her hand or remain still.

In that brief exchange of glances, it seemed he noticed the girl's embarrassment, or perhaps his consciousness returned from a distant memory, realizing that he was now just a boy not yet ten years old.

Tan Lin closed his eyes, dispelling the awkwardness of the moment.

But then, a soft laugh rang out from the doorway:

"Oh, looks like I came back at the wrong time, huh? 'Little brat,' you've had quite the ladies' man lately, haven't you?"

Da...da...

With footsteps in the background, Audrey Hepburn's figure gracefully approached the bedside.

Upon hearing this, Qi Xiyuan pursed her lips slightly, seemingly troubled, and did not look at the person who had come.

Tan Lin, however, kept his eyes closed, remaining calm and unperturbed, ignoring the goddess's teasing.

Unlike Qi Xiyuan, he, with over twenty more years of experience, didn't take the matter seriously at all.

He closed his eyes and turned to process the long stretch of memories that had been revived and were now available for continuation.

Nobody knows.

This deep slumber of more than a month was, for Tan Lin's closed and trapped consciousness, an extremely long and arduous process of reviewing his memories.

In slumber, the innate wisdom no longer flashed by like before.

Instead, it was a real, vivid memory spanning two or three decades, complete and coherent from beginning to end, with every detail and every moment clearly remembered, as if he were reliving it all.

In his memory, he was born in a snowy, icy land.

Two groups of people arrived, one after the other, but before that, there had been a crisis.

Later, one group of people took him away, and the woman who was all alone became his "aunt"...

Subsequently, until his teens, under pressure from various parties, he left the Xiang family and went north to Tianchi.

Then, she encountered the pair of identical twin lotus flowers, the two beauties of the Chi family...

The story recounts his daily interactions with various people, including his relationship with the enchantress Shao Hanyun, his cultivation and enlightenment within the secret realm of the Central Domain, and his later journey to the outer regions for further training.

The emotions and entanglements he had experienced along the way surged within his consciousness, further expanding it.

But it is worth mentioning that,

The first thirty years of that life, though incredibly real, were unlike the previous ones, which were just fragmented, fleeting images, because they were firsthand "experiences." This time, there was sound, and all five senses were involved.

And it was at this point that Tan Lin found it increasingly difficult to see clearly the invisible destiny that bound him to Chi Yao in this life.

Judging from the existing memories, it seems that my feelings for Chi Xuan, whom I almost got engaged to, are more complicated.

Of course, that rainy night, the oil-paper umbrella, the farewell outside Tianchi Lake—these weren't entirely without connection either…

It can only be said that something else must have happened afterward.

In addition, the memories that have been revived also include insights gained from spiritual practice during that period.

However, the innate wisdom that awakened in that same lifetime was not synchronized with this.

Perhaps this is a form of self-protection?

After all, he was not yet ten years old, and his Sendai had not yet opened. Some of his insights and experiences could hardly be openly displayed.

In fact, the insights gained from that thirty-year lifetime alone were already vast and profound, requiring him to spend a great deal of time sorting through them, digesting and settling them down, and ultimately transforming them into his own in this life.

Because the achievements and level of attainment he reached at the age of thirty in that previous life are already extremely high for him now!

…………

After waking up,

Life returned to normal within the castle.

However, in their daily lives, because of the extra person and because of what happened in the past, a subtle relationship is slowly developing between the three of them.

During the day, Tan Lin continued to accompany Audrey Hepburn to Cheongdam Academy for further studies.

The former's understanding is now quite advanced, and he has been enjoying trying to dismantle the unique cultivation system of the Eternal Kingdom.

The two traveled together and stayed by each other's side day and night. After the major incident at Chang Le Wei Yang, they had long become a sight that no one at Qing Tan Academy dared to easily criticize.

As for Qi Xiyuan, she is still studying at the First National University.

Although they were separated by the academy during the day, the three of them lived together in the Bauhinia Castle during their free time, sharing the same space and environment, seeing each other every day, and eating and sleeping in the same castle.

One man and two women, the three of them living under the same roof.

Each of them has their own entanglements and hidden thoughts, making their relationship increasingly subtle, ambiguous, and lingering, with invisible tugs of affection.

While Tan Lin was "studying" at Qingtan College,

There would always be a stunning redhead who would frequently run into him.

This was all because of Fan Nuo; that night, she witnessed a young man defeat a quasi-emperor with a single punch from afar outside the Tianyuan business district, a scene of earth-shattering divine conferment that deeply affected her.

At the same time, women's curiosity is always hard to control.

That youthful figure was deeply etched in her memory, indelible.

Besides the regular opportunities for exchanges between the two universities, she often appears around Cheongdam College, for various reasons such as commercial performances or club visits.

He subtly approached Tan Lin, intentionally creating opportunities for interaction and testing the waters repeatedly.

Later, taking a break from Audrey Hepburn, she personally handed Tan Lin a top-tier ticket to her solo tour concert, which was extremely difficult to obtain at Tianyuan City.

They expressed their hope that the other party could come and visit at that time.

Ultimately, the concert opened in grand style, attracting the attention of people from the three great star seas of the Outer Realm Demon and Immortal Feather.

Tan Lin, however, never showed up or appeared at all.

The enormous first seat remained vacant throughout the entire event.

As the grand and bustling night came to an end, Vanno's eyes lingered with a deep melancholy.

……

The flowing water remains calm, the swift horse gallops on.

Time flies, and half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

Six months is enough time for most of the previous turmoil in the Eternal Kingdom to begin to subside.

During this time, Tan Lin grew an inch taller, and her grade also changed along with Audrey's. Students like Vanno, who were in the twelfth grade, graduated and officially entered "society".

Recently, however, the attention of various capital conglomerates has begun to shift towards overseas regions.

Sixty years later, a grand ceremony, a spectacle for all the realms, is about to begin.

Star Awards

Over these two millennia, it has undoubtedly become a premier event spanning numerous life-bearing starfields, encompassing a multitude of races, lineages, and reclusive forces.