"Hacho!"
The sound that was quite shocking was very disturbing even the woman who owned the voice. I don't know how many times An Jia Li rubbed the tip of her nose which was constantly itching and kept releasing natural virus-fighting fluids. Her head felt dizzy and heavy, her body was also shivering under the sun so he couldn't focus on removing the leaves that had fallen on the ground. Even though it was a light job, but with her current condition, An Jia Li felt like she was sweeping sand in the desert.
An Jia Li slumped on the handle of the bamboo broom she was holding. Not only sweeping the sand in the desert, she even felt like she was sweeping using a coconut tree.
"Agh!" An Jia Li screamed in her heart and occasionally gulped annoyed with her condition. She missed the time when she could hold her laptop on the bed and finish his work in a relaxed manner when conditions weren't good. "When will all these dry leaves stop falling?!" Dumalnya.
The wind blew again as if answering An Jia Li's question while mocking him a little. She was bullied by the wind who seemed to be happy to get a new toy "Can't this damn wind stop blowing for a while?!" An Jia Li's chatter was getting more and more irritated when a few piles of leaves that he had gathered back were scattered in the wind. She pounded the air with his bamboo broom helplessly but wished he could split the wind.
"Very good. It's still early in the morning," someone said. It was a very familiar voice to An Jia Li's ears, so she ignored it and was more concerned with her activities of beating the wind.
Miss Liu came with her harsh words, but her actions were the opposite. She touched An Jia Li's forehead before finally pinching An Jia Li's nose.
"Ah!. What are you doing Miss Liu?!-" The words ended with An Jia Li's sneeze being inflamed again.
Miss Liu slightly furrowed her brows. She was surprised but also not surprised as if he already knew what had happened. "How can you have a fever on a sunny day like this?" Miss Liu ridiculed, but it was just something like a joke to her and nothing more than acupuncture needles to An Jia Li. Piercing but not painful. She was used to Miss Liu.
"You just ask this fallen leaf. Don't ask me," An Jia Li said lightly as if she didn't care. She couldn't possibly tell if last night her had been soaking in cold water in a water prison. Her didn't want to make Miss Liu worry about her any more. Miss Liu is the only person she can look up to as his family. An Jia Li didn't want to bother him any further.
"You think fallen leaves can talk? How can the dead act like the living" said Miss Liu about the dry leaves that fell to the ground.
Of course. No one could talk to leaves or even dead leaves, so An Jia Li was just lazily looking for a plausible reason for her sudden fever.
"Last night a cat took the food I kept and I didn't realize I was chasing it until it slipped into the pool"
"Aren't you the cat? And what you're after is a poor mouse. You're still eating bones," Miss Liu quipped again. She knows the habit of his half-sister who likes to leave and save food to eat at night. For same reason the habit of chewing something at night can't be separated from An Jia Li. Whether it was in her previous life or now.
"Sis!" An Jia Li finally called Miss Liu as her older sister and clung to her arms.
"What?. Do you want to ask me for fish?"
"Let me rest for a while. I promise to destroy all the leaves later," said An Jia Li, pleading. She really couldn't bear to lie down in bed for a while.
Miss Liu sighed. However, her had to be able to act wisely and fairly as a palace butler and could not make any special choices just because An Jia Li was close to her.
"It's fine. You can rest for one incense stick. After that clean all the leaves here and destroy all the dusty papers in the archive room" said Miss Liu.
"the dusty paper?"
"Yes. You Majesty asked me to tidy up the library and destroy useless files. Here's a list. Do it carefully, remember that," said Miss Liu again. She handed her a roll of paper with a list of things to clean.
Instantly An Jia Li's eyes lit up like she was looking at gold. "Sister. Miss Liu. This...this..."
"Don't talk too much. Just clean up. I have to go to the kitchen to prepare Your Majesty's food," said Miss Liu. She smiled gently at An Jia Li after giving the list of 'gifts' to his spoiled sister.
"I'll definitely clean up everything! Thank you!"
An Jia Li read through the many lists there. All of which he saw as very valuable. He even almost forgot his fever when he saw the list of books there.
"I didn't expect to find so many novels I could read!" muttered An Jia Li. Even though they were a list of the old collections of novels in the empire and they might have been dusty and yellowed, but as long as there were interesting writings in them. An Jia Li would definitely be happy.
"I'll finish things quickly so I can read these second-hand novels!" And one more uniqueness of An Jia Li. She really likes hunting secondhand novels in her previous life. For some reason old stories always make her interested as if she entered a different dimension when reading it so that she can forget the tiredness of his routine by diverting her world for a while. Although right now, she was in the world of a novel.
An Jia Li was not surprised by Miss Liu's actions. From the novels she reads. Miss Liu knows that Xiang Lian's character is very fond of reading. On the other hand, she also knows about the emperor Feng who is fond of art and literature, so it is not surprising that she has a large collection of novels.
Without wasting time. An Jia Li actually magically forgot her fever, she even swept over with speed exceeding the wind and immediately went to the royal library.
Da Huo Manor - Da Hua Hall, a special room for storing literary books.
This was the first time that An Jia Li had felt so happy since she opened her eyes in that second life, although it was hard to compare which one made her happier. Her meeting with the emperor Li Xi or the shelves filled with rows of literary books. An Jia Li can survive without food for a week, but it feels like she needs a book every day to feed her mind which is often crazy because life is always pressing her. Of course the fantasy genre first.
"I must be in heaven now!" An Jia Li almost burst into tears of joy. If in his previous life she could go back and forth between the national library and bookstores, or even more sophisticated, he just needed to open a webnovel and read from his cell phone whenever she want. But in today's era. An Jia Li really felt like going back in time where books could only be read by scholars who were mostly from nobles and royal families. For lower class people like An Jia Li. He just needs to work hard to learn to count to calculate the amount of money that can support him.
"On the White Bridge" An Jia Li muttered as she read the first row of books on the front shelf. Instead of doing her job. An Jia Li instead decided to take a quick look at the great emperor's library. The room has a very calm and natural feel like a forest is entered into it. "The Star Among the Three Realms" continued An Jia Li for the second book series from the first.
An Jia Li then took the second book. She seemed to be interested because the title sounded fantasy, so he tried to take a quick peek at the contents.
... She is hope. She is pure as dew. He stands between the two colors. He is the keeper of balance. He is the Star that illuminates the three Realms. The sun and moon honor him. After the bridge was destroyed. The star disappeared ....
An Jia Li opened the book at random and then read the paragraph fragments on who knows how many pages. It was An Jia Li's habit. She always starts things randomly even though she doesn't like messy things and likes structured things.
... the three Realms knew him, but none could touch him. The existence of the stars is like a water that is needed but too many can be disastrous. After the bridge collapsed. The three realms experienced a catastrophe just as the god said. However. Falling stars is an incomprehensible thing.
The war began. The eruption of the demon realm smoldered like a shattered mountain.
An Jia Li continued reading even though she didn't know who the star was referring to, or about the broken bridge and the god who announced the disaster.
"That's right. This is the second series of the Legend of the Black and White Star novel," muttered An Jia Li. It seems that she only realized after seeing the title of the novel as a whole. Then An Jia Li opened the info page about his first series and her found the same title as the title of the first book she read on the shelf.
"On the White Bridge is the first series?" muttered An Jia Li. She then looked at the first book and took it. But when she just took it in her hand, An Jia Li was startled by a sound so An Jia Li immediately returned the book she had taken to the shelf quickly.
"Mei-Mei, you're already here," said Miss Liu.
"Miss Liu. I thought who. It just surprised me," said An Jia Li, breathing a sigh of relief. She had thought that it was the concubine or perhaps Emperor Feng himself.
"Keep going. I just want to keep an eye on you, but it seems there's no need for this one. I trust you. I'll go first" said Miss Liu who had finished checking whether there was a problem because Xiang Lian's character was careless at work.
After Miss Liu left. An Jia Li again planned to put the book that was still in her back hand. Previously, she did not have time to put down the second series of books, so this is the right time. But again, An Jia Li's curiosity got the better of her, so she opened the book in her hand to read it again. And one more thing he should know first before reading a novel.
"Who's the writer?" An Jia Li looked at a corner near the title and found the two characters of the novel's author's name.
"Xing Yi"
"...."
An Jia Li instantly fell silent when she read the name. She thought he remembered something important. And when her remembered An Jia Li made a very surprised face like she had just seen an apparition.
"Xing Yi...isn't that the same name as the author of the novel 'True Love From the Heart?!'" An Jia Li shouted very loudly in her heart. Her hands were shaking because suddenly his heart was beating so fast, just like the state he was in free fall into the sea and ended up in the life in the novel.
"No way... what does that mean?. Is this the same person?!"
"What kind of coincidence is this!?"