Crying While Filling the Pit I Dug - Chapter 51

But just as Song Miaomiao thought so, she bumped into Yi Qing who was walking under the tree in the gazebo in front of her.

Because she bumped into him, she decided to bite the bullet and do it. 

Song Miaomiao slowly walked closer and closer.

Yi Qing knelt down on one knee, saying, “This guard sees the Princess.”

Song Miaomiao looked at Yi Qing. It was impossible for him to carry brushes, inks, papers, and inkstones with him, and he may not carry a folding fan with him as it was not summer. But he did not have the jade pendant that she gave him.

The thing she gave Yi Qing before must have been discarded by him. So the sachet would be as well. The meaning of giving a sachet in ancient times was very ambiguous. Song Miaomiao didn’t know whether she should be happy for the male lead’s loyalty to the female lead, or be sad because he didn’t accept her love.

“Please get up.”

“Yes.” Yi Qing stood up and looked at Song Miaomiao quietly, his eyes as clear as a pool of water.

“Don’t be afraid,” Song Miaomiao cheered herself up. She had given gifts so many times, therefore, she just needed to treat it as an ordinary gift, just treat it as an eraser.

However, the more she thought about it, the more nervous she became.

“The weather is nice today.”

What did she just say? What was she talking about?

Yi Qing looked at the sky, gloomy and chilly. “Princess, do you like this weather?”

“Uh… yeah… I prefer, um, Autumn.”

Can weather and seasons be equated? There was a certain relationship, but it didn’t seem to be one, right? What was she saying?

Song Miaomiao said again, “The weather is so nice, I…I think it’s very suitable to give a gift.”

Yi Qing asked, “What is it?”

“Spread your palms.”

Yi Qing didn’t ask any further questions and obediently stretched out the palms of both hands, looking at Song Miaomiao honestly.

Seeing his clear eyes, Song Miaomiao panicked even more. She licked her lips, saying, “Close your eyes.”

Although Yi Qing was a little puzzled, he still closed his eyes immediately.

He didn’t look at Song Miaomiao. Therefore, she finally found some courage. She put the sachet into his left palm. “Well, this thing is… for you.”

Song Miaomiao added, “Don’t open your eyes, and don’t speak. You… listen to me…”

She took three deep breaths, summoned up her courage, and said in a low voice, “Yi Qing, I love you!”

Yi Qing stiffened all of a sudden. His eyelashes trembled, his face suddenly turned red like a tomato, his throat moved slightly, as if he wanted to say something and swallowed it again.

The mechanical male voice of the system Oppa sounded again, [Congratulations, the second task is completed. You’ve earned 1000 reward points, bringing your total to 2200 points.]

Song Miaomiao didn’t dare to stay there, so she ran away before Yi Qing opened his eyes.

When Song Miaomiao ran back to Sishui Hall, she was still panting. She drank a few sips of tea to calm down. Before the bench was warmed up and her heart calmed down, task number three came.

System Oppa: [Third Task: Punish the female lead Gu Jiaren for the damaged clothes, and give up punishing her after the male lead Yi Qing intercedes. Nature of the Third Task: Following the plot of the original novel. Bonus Points: 1000 points.]　

When Song Miaomiao set up the plot, in simple terms, the female lead accidentally offended the Princess, and the male lead came out to take responsibility and took the matter on himself. This not only consolidated the affectionate characters of the male and female leads but also added more depth to the story. Additionally, it could also show how annoying the female supporting character was. It really killed three birds with one stone.

Song Miaomiao hadn’t met Gu Jiaren, the female lead, anyway. She only knew one thing, and that was that Gu Jiaren was very beautiful as described in the setting.

Gu Jiaren was the supervisor, in charge of the clothes. It was reasonable to punish her for the damage to the clothes. It was not bad if the nature of the task was not summarized into a perfect and unreasonable plot.

The Princess gave a sachet to the male lead Yi Qing, confessing her love, but she was about to persecute the female lead, Gu Jiaren. The female supporting character was really “fulfilling her duty”! In the TV series, she was a standard annoying female supporting character, and she was responsible for all the troubles.

Since Gu Jiaren was being punished for the damage to the clothes, Song Miaomiao had to find props and clothes first. Her existing clothes were washed by court ladies, and the job of the supervisor Gu Jiaren mainly involved new clothes, embroidery, changing the size of clothes, and other needlework-related tasks.

Song Miaomiao decided to take a look at the clothes in her closet first. If they were suitable, she would ask the maid to order Gu Jiaren to come over, measure her figure, and enjoy a high-end fashion production. In all these years, she had never worn a tailor-made garment.

“Yan Yu, where are my clothes?” Song Miaomiao inquired.

Yan Yu responded, “Does the Princess want to change clothes? This servant girl will go get them now.”

“No, I just want to see my clothes,” Song Miaomiao clarified.

Yan Yu asked uncertainty, “All?”

Song Miaomiao nodded, “All.”

“Alright,” Yan Yu acknowledged before exiting the hall.

After a while, more than twenty palace maids carried a total of thirty eight boxes three times to fill Song Miaomiao’s bedroom.

Song Miaomiao was startled. “This… are all my clothes?”

Yan Yu confirmed, “Yes.”

Other people’s clothes were counted by piece, and hers were counted by box. This was so stupid! As expected of a Princess! Would she be able to take some back after traveling back to the real world in the future?

Song Miaomiao opened a few boxes at random, and all kinds of neatly folded gorgeous skirts, jackets, and clothes dazzled her eyes.

According to the fact that the Princess was about seventeen or eighteen years old, she had thirty-eight boxes of clothes, not counting the old things from when she was a kid. She estimated that the Princess got a few boxes of new clothes every season.

It wasted a lot of manpower, material, and financial resources to make new clothes. Even if she was a Princess, even if she was in a book, she couldn’t waste it at will. Song Miaomiao, a good citizen who had been impoverished all her life, couldn’t do it.

If she couldn’t get new clothes, she needed to let the female lead change the clothes size.