|˙▽˙) What are you playing?
"Me?"
At that, Daiyu couldn't help but freeze. The little bit of sympathy and hope she'd felt vanished like a bubble, replaced by even greater astonishment.
"You..."
"Third Sister, you mean that in the illusion, you saw... saw me?!"
Lin Daiyu suddenly couldn't make sense of it. It seemed absurd.
She was a woman, and so was Third Sister. If she'd looked into the Mirror of Romance and Illusion and seen herself marrying a demon bear, that might have made sense. But what was the meaning of Third Sister seeing her?
"Mm..."
Tanchun lowered her head, her voice so quiet it was almost inaudible. Her cheeks were so red they looked as if they might catch fire.
"It was you."
"But the Lin-jie in the mirror... seemed... seemed to have turned into a man?"
"Mm..."
"And not just any man... You were a handsome, dashing young gentleman, with a noble bearing..."
"But you looked the same otherwise..."
By the time she said this, she was so mortified she could have buried her face in her knees.
"And then..."
"Then we... we bowed to heaven and earth, and... and went to the bridal chamber..."
"And then..."
"And then..."
No matter what, Tanchun couldn't bring herself to say what happened next. She could only bury her face in the crook of her arm, humiliated and furious.
It was simply too embarrassing!
In the illusion conjured by the Mirror of Romance and Illusion, the intimate, tender details had left Tanchun blushing and her heart pounding whenever she thought of them. Now they came surging back into her mind like a tide, making her feel hot all over. An unfamiliar, heart-fluttering tingle even stirred through her body.
She had to clamp her legs tightly together and press herself against