Chapter 212: Fate Is All Wrong

“Who will the dragon light choose this time?”

“I think it will be Princess Hongluan again. After all, she’s one of a kind in the capital.”

“One of a kind, my foot! Just now, she was foolish enough to summon butterflies, and ended up attracting a swarm of bees. Maybe the last time the dragon light chose her, it was just a fluke.”

While the people were busy discussing, the dragon light suddenly fell to the ground.

No, when they looked down, it was actually on a little girl, no taller than an adult’s thigh.

The little girl had two small pigtails and was wearing a red floral cotton jacket. At that moment, she was munching on a mini candied hawthorn skewer.

“Uh… It’s the little princess!” Someone recognized Di Jiaoyang.

Di Zian and Luo Zifeng were overjoyed and looked at Ah Bao with excitement. “Sister, you’ve been chosen! You’re the lucky one, hahaha! Sister, you’re the one!”

Wait a minute.

In his excitement, Di Zian suddenly recalled his sister’s inner thoughts and began to worry. His sister had been eager to go in there—uh, once she goes in, will she be able to resist eating the offerings?

Those are offerings for the Divine Dragon, after all.

Oh no, oh no. If she goes in and can’t resist eating the offerings, what if the Divine Dragon gets angry?

For a moment, Di Zian couldn’t feel happy anymore.

Luo Zifeng, on the other hand, didn’t think too much about it. He rubbed Ah Bao’s little head. “Little sister Ah Bao is so lucky.”

Ah Bao, thinking this was a good thing, squinted her eyes and smiled cheerfully. “Yeah, I think I’m lucky too. Hehe, but… am I the only one?”

【It would be great if Seventh Brother and Brother Luo could go in with me.】

【They’ve never seen what’s inside either, right? They must be just as curious as I am.】

As soon as Ah Bao had this thought, two more beams of dragon light appeared, shining on the left and right sides of Ah Bao.

They landed on Di Zian and Luo Zifeng.

“Oh my goodness! Am I seeing things? Did the dragon light choose three people this time? Three!”

Concubine De, Concubine Chun, and Yun Ci were also watching from the crowd, their faces full of questions.

Concubine Chun was overjoyed. “Having Ah Bao around really brings good fortune. Look, even Prince Seven and Zifeng got to bask in the light.”

Yun Ci nodded in agreement. “That boy Zifeng is really lucky. If it weren’t for the little girl, he wouldn’t have such good fortune in a thousand lifetimes.”

Oh, how she wished she had a daughter like Ah Bao.

The two women looked at Concubine De with envy.

“Hey, where’s Jing’er?” Concubine De looked at Concubine Chun and noticed that Di Rongjing, who had been holding her hand, was nowhere to be seen.

Concubine Chun was momentarily stunned and waved her hand dismissively. “Oh no, I lost track of Jing’er.”

Concubine De frowned. “Go find him quickly.”

“Don’t worry, Sister. Jing’er has someone protecting him.” Concubine Chun had thought ahead this time and had arranged for secret guards to protect Di Rongjing, just in case they lost him in the crowd outside the palace.

Yun Ci, scanning the crowd, stood on tiptoe and pointed ahead. “Sister Chun, isn’t that Jing’er up there?”

Di Rongjing couldn’t speak, but he had spotted his sister Ah Bao in the crowd. Excited, he let go of his mother’s hand and sneaked up to Ah Bao.

He tugged on Di Zian’s clothes. Di Zian, still in his excitement, looked down to see Di Rongjing.

“Ninth Brother?”

“Ninth Brother.”

Ah Bao gave Di Rongjing a sweet smile.

Di Rongjing smiled back, holding Ah Bao’s little hand. It had been several days since he’d seen his sister in the palace.

“Ninth Brother, come with us inside, okay?”

Di Rongjing was taken aback. His mind had become sharper recently, and he pointed to himself.

Ah Bao nodded.

Di Rongjing shook his head and took a step back. Without the dragon light’s guidance, he wasn’t eligible to enter.

Then, a fourth beam of dragon light appeared.

The crowd, still reeling from the sight of the three beams of light, suddenly saw a fourth one appear.

The dragon light fell precisely on Di Rongjing.

“Four people? This time, it chose four people!”

“Oh my! How come Princess Hongluan wasn’t chosen? Last time, she was the only one selected by the dragon light. But now, with four people chosen, she’s not among them. What’s going on?”

“I’ve lived my whole life, but this is the first time I’ve seen something so strange. I heard that the Divine Dragon, in the other six nations, only ever chose one person to enter. There were never even two. But here in our Tiansheng Empire, four people have been chosen.”

The crowd continued to buzz with discussion.

Meanwhile, Di Zian and Luo Zifeng were stunned.

It seemed like whoever Ah Bao wanted to enter, the dragon light would shine on them!

After a while, when Ah Bao stopped talking, the dragon light also stopped appearing.

The bearded old man smiled at the four of them. “Ladies and gentlemen, please proceed.”

Di Zian held Ah Bao’s hand.

Luo Zifeng held Di Rongjing’s hand.

Apart from Ah Bao, the other three were still in a daze.

Little Ah Bao happily skipped toward the offering room.

In the crowd, a girl wearing a white veil stared at the four of them with a fierce gaze.

She wasn’t chosen!

Despite the dragon light’s blessing, she wasn’t chosen!

Di Hongluan was almost furious. The last time the Dragon’s Light appeared, it had only chosen her. She was three years old at the time, and she had stolen the spotlight, even being called a “Little Goddess” by the people of the capital.

Although she appeared three years old on the outside, her inner soul thoroughly enjoyed that kind of admiration and envy.

She was unwilling to accept this outcome. Where did things go wrong?

Why did she feel that something was off?

In the modern world, Di Hongluan had read so many novels, but she had never seen a time-traveling female protagonist live as miserably as she did. She felt like she had embarrassed the entire army of time-traveling female leads.

It seemed that everyone’s fate was wrong.

…

Ah Bao, Di Zian, Luo Zifeng, and Di Rongjing, two adults and two children, entered the Offering Hall together.

As soon as they stepped through the door, Ah Bao was dazzled by the golden sight before her, her eyes wide open in astonishment.

[Wow, the offerings to the Divine Dragon are really abundant! White silver, golden ingots, and sizzling roast meat—these are all my favorites.]

Di Zian, Luo Zifeng, and Di Rongjing instinctively all turned to look at the little girl.

Her favorites…

Indeed.

Anyone who didn’t know better might have thought these offerings were meant for Ah Bao.

“Seventh Brother, come on, come on,” Ah Bao pulled Di Zian inside, sitting on a large chest filled with gold ingots. The people had always been generous in their offerings to the Divine Dragon, and even the royal family revered the Divine Dragon.

Whatever it liked, the people would offer. Every household contributed what they could.

Accumulated over time, this chest of gold ingots was just the tip of the iceberg in this room.