"I greet Your Excellency." I gave a simple bow, since this figure was very familiar.
"The star lantern you lit?"
Once the young-looking woman's true form coalesced, everyone finally got a clear look at her appearance.
Her emerald feather earrings swayed gently, paired with a delicate blue-green veil that covered her face and revealed only her eyes, gazing straight ahead.
She was not wearing a star robe. Instead, she wore a pale-green gown of resplendent beauty, with wide sleeves and a long skirt. The satin flowed like drifting catkins for several yards, billowing in the breeze high above, displaying her nobility in full.
Moreover, every word and subtle expression she made was indescribably captivating, as though she came with her own filter. Even with only her eyes exposed, her beauty was such that Di Juan and Cang Zhao, two of the ten great beauties of the star sea, could probably only stand as her equals.
"Great Ancestress! Xia Ye dared to abduct my imperial consort! I beg you, Great Ancestress, suppress and kill him, and uphold justice for your descendant!" Cang Luo's voice carried a hint of a sob, as though he had suffered a grievous injustice.
"Oh?" Cang Yao's gaze shifted to Cang Zhao beside me. "Were you being held hostage by him?"
"No! Great-Aunt Grandmother, Cang Zhao came of her own accord!" Cang Zhao hurriedly explained, then quickly moved in front of me, afraid that I would be in danger if she was even a moment too late.
As though someone had stepped on his tail, Cang Luo cried out anxiously, "What nonsense are you spouting?! Great Ancestress is already here, yet you still dare to be willful! You and I already have a marriage agreement—how can you marry him? Now that you two want to form a