Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life

Chapter 862 - 855: An Unexpected Ending

In recent days, Ji Yue and Yun Cai have been preoccupied. Having both entered the Tang Palace from the Nanliang Palace, they were eventually given to Le’an Xiangjun Mansion by Li Shimin, making their relationship closer than with other servants.

But this time, the two always seemed on the verge of speaking but hesitated, unable to reveal the secret held in their hearts, both worried and distressed.

Finally, on a night when they were not on duty, the two lay in the dormitory. Ji Yue quietly crawled onto Yun Cai’s bed and whispered in her ear in the dark, "Yun Cai, recently, when I was bathing the mistress, she..."

After listening, Yun Cai replied in a lowered voice, "Did you notice? I saw it too."

The two silently stared at each other in the dark, speechless for a moment.

Though they were both unmarried virgins, they had served nobility in the palace and understood such marks.

But their mistress retired early every night, and Xiao Mingfu hadn’t visited for a very long time. How could it be? Unless...

If it wasn’t Xiao Mingfu, then this was a big issue, as the two were married by the Emperor’s decree!

Thinking of this, they looked at each other, speechless for a long while.

Then, Ji Yue, determined, clenched her fist in the air, "Our mistress is the best master in the world; we must cover for her! From now on, no one else can attend to her bathing and dressing!"

"Yes!" Yun Cai nodded emphatically.

The two maids shared a secret and reached a consensus.

Lin Wanwan, of course, didn’t notice these things because Lu Shouyue, the cunning fellow, never left marks on her front but always where she couldn’t see, from her back to her thighs, like planting flowers.

Not to mention bathing, dressing, or massaging, even wearing something like a spaghetti strap gown might expose the marks.

Fortunately, her close maids were all loyal to her. Even if she really had a toy boy every night, they wouldn’t let a word slip out.

But everyone found it strange; despite being attentive to the mistress’s movements at night, once she entered her room, there wouldn’t even be a sound of turning over. It was truly puzzling. Could it not be those kinds of marks, but a skin disease?

Time passed quietly, and in a blink, the May engagement banquet was over.

The furniture Lin Wanwan made for the marital home was almost finished.

The furniture she brought from the Great Tang, crafted by dozens of Great Tang carpenters, was not only masterful but made from rare wood.

Just these pieces had a total value exceeding the nine-figure worth of the villa.

Saying Lin Wanwan was a little rich lady was no exaggeration.

The soft furnishings and hard installations of the marital home were almost complete, with her gradually moving the precious paintings and calligraphy she had hidden in the Great Tang to the modern era.

Lu Shouyue, who had a private museum, was best at preserving these antique paintings. With modern high-tech methods, he could provide them with the best environment.

Lu Shouyue specially built a vault to store these priceless treasures for Lin Wanwan, occasionally admiring them together.

While sorting the collection, Lin Wanwan also found a box of letters and paintings from Xiao Chong, as well as peach charms and couplets made last year.

Regarding these, she certainly wouldn’t bring them back to modern times for safekeeping.

Recalling her initial days in the Great Tang, when her greed led her to take Xiao Chong’s handwritten works back to modern times to auction for money, it felt like a lifetime ago.

In the blink of an eye, she had been in the Great Tang for three years, and the two major waterworks projects, Ta Mountain Dam and Sun Lake, were both completed.

By July, everything for the marital home was ready, and the wedding date approached as scheduled.

After the grand wedding, Lin Wanwan embarked on a different life.

Time flew by swiftly; days passed too quickly.

Due to outstanding administrative achievements while in office, Xiao Chong, who wanted to leave, was promoted away as soon as his term in Mao County ended. When Lin Wanwan saw Xiao Chong off, she told him she would arrange the matter of annulment quickly, so as not to delay him.

But Xiao Chong refused her proposal.

He nonchalantly told her that he liked freedom and that remaining unmarried was his pursuit. Having her as a cover was very satisfactory. An imperial marriage involved too many considerations; annulment could be a lose-lose situation, so why bother?

After Xiao Chong left, Lin Wanwan’s life continued, sometimes in the modern era, sometimes in the Great Tang, shuttling between the two worlds, immensely happy. Her influence grew wider, and her name as Le’an Xiangjun was prominently displayed on the Official Protection Talisman of the new Mao County County Magistrate.

However, the Space-Time Gate never upgraded again, so the idea of taking Lu Shouyue back to the Great Tang for a tour was still not achievable.

Just like that, another four years passed. Suddenly one day, Lin Wanwan couldn’t summon the Space-Time Gate anymore; the Space-Time Bracelet had lost its effect!

In her panic, Lin Wanwan felt cold all over, with a strong sense of nausea, and couldn’t help but run to the bathroom to vomit.

Even after that, she was still thinking about the Space-Time Gate, while Lu Shouyue excitedly brought a pregnancy test kit, thinking she might be pregnant.

Holding a mindset of trying it out, Lin Wanwan tested, and indeed, Lu Shouyue was right; she was pregnant!

For fear of having children, after marrying Lu Shouyue, Lin Wanwan had been on contraception for four years, and the Lu family’s relatives never pressed them about children.

It wasn’t until last month, as Qingyu was growing up, and nearing the thirties milestone, that Lin Wanwan decided to have a true love child.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she stopped using contraception, she got pregnant so fast!

The unexpected joy of pregnancy eased Lin Wanwan’s anxiety about not being able to summon the Space-Time Gate.

Perhaps being pregnant made her body weak, hence unable to open the Space-Time Gate.

Lin Wanwan experienced significant reactions in early pregnancy, with severe morning sickness and an inability to tolerate the smell of rice. In the first three months, she barely ate rice, subsisting on fruits, vegetables, and small amounts of seafood.

While suffering physically, she also endured mental torment—after that day, she could never summon the Space-Time Gate again!

Lin Wanwan was now quite certain that being pregnant caused her inability to open the Space-Time Gate, perhaps because of the new life within her that was now being repelled by it.

Whether she could open it again in the future would have to wait until after the child was born.

Meanwhile, during pregnancy, she faced the situation of mysteriously disappearing from the Great Tang, unsure of how her family there would worry.

Without her protection, Qingyu inheriting so much of her estate was like a child carrying gold in the market, inevitably facing threats. Hopefully, Dugu Di would keep his promise to guard her family for ten years.

Once she gave birth and returned to the Great Tang, who knew if everything would change, if her place would be usurped?

Or worse, she might never open the Space-Time Gate again, unable to return to the Great Tang.

Every time she thought of this, Lin Wanwan regretted the decision to try for a baby.

Had she known, she wouldn’t have decided to have a child.

Luckily, when the imperial decree conferring the title of Village Lady was hinted at several times by the Lin Clan Leader, Lin Wanwan didn’t bring it to modern times but placed it in the Lin Clan’s ancestral hall in the Great Tang. Besides paintings and calligraphy, some palace-awarded treasures were also left in her home there.

With these, along with Qingyu’s close pen-friend relationship with Li Zhi and Lu Zhao Lin, hopefully, she would grow up smoothly and peacefully.

Contrary to Lin Wanwan’s frustration and disappointment, Lu Shouyue felt a sense of relief knowing she could no longer open the Space-Time Gate.

He no longer worried about Lin Wanwan traveling through time and potentially never coming back.

Although he was delighted on the inside, he didn’t show it outwardly.

To alleviate Lin Wanwan’s sense of loss, he treated her like a princess—or rather, more than a princess, like an Empress Dowager.

It was precisely because of Lu Shouyue’s attentive care that Lin Wanwan felt a bit better.

At this point, she could only leave it to fate.

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The main story ends, extras will begin updating tomorrow.