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    Chapter 26

    Nile’s soul crosses the Aegean Sea, and the Pharaoh’s wife plays with Hebon

    Saying goodbye to the red walls and yellow tiles of the Forbidden City, Qinglian and Gu Baifei were full of fun. In an instant, they crossed the mountains and seas and landed on the romantic island of Santorini, Greece.Looking at the intertwined blue and white buildings and the clear Aegean Sea, Gu Baifei suddenly had an idea. He leaned into Qinglian’s ear and smiled: “Why don’t we change the drama to a foreign land. You play the role of the Egyptian princess, and I play the pharaoh. Let’s go to the Greek land and act out an old dream by the Nile.” Qinglian was intrigued by this novel suggestion and happily agreed.

    The two found a secluded bay, raised their hands and changed their clothes.Qinglian wears a crimson Egyptian robe embroidered with gold-threaded lotus flowers. The skirt is hung with fine turquoise pieces. Her high bun is decorated with scarab-shaped gold ornaments. Her eyebrows add a bit of the splendor and mystery of the ancient Egyptian royal family. In her original gentle temperament, she actually has a trace of an exotic princess.Unique charm; Gu Baifei wore a white pharaoh’s dress inlaid with gold, a red and white crown symbolizing royal power, and held a miniature staff. The divine power of heaven was removed from his body, leaving only the majesty and calmness of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh. However, when he looked at Qinglian, there was indelible love hidden in his eyes.

    With some deception, the two wandered into the small town of Santorini.Among the buildings with white walls and blue roofs, two people dressed in Egyptian royal attire are particularly eye-catching. Passers-by just thought they were tourists participating in a retro-themed event, and they cast curious and amazed glances.Gu Baifei simply put on the pharaoh’s airs, stretched out his hand to hold Qinglian, and deliberately “instructed” in a low tone: “My beloved concubine, come with me to see the scenery of the Aegean Sea.” Qinglian bowed her knees in response and “saluted”, holding his arm, and the gold ornaments on her skirt rang lightly with her steps, causing the street vendors to smile and greet them to stop.

    They first went to an open-air cafe on the beach. Gu Baifei followed the pharaoh’s style and asked the waiter to present the sweetest local honey wine, and poured it to Qinglian himself: “My dear, please try this exotic wine. Is it sweeter than the date wine on the Nile?” Qinglian took a sip and nodded with a smile, but her fingertips quietly diluted the sweetness of the wine with the fragrance of lotus, making the taste more refreshing.The tourists at the next table saw the interesting interaction between the two and offered to take a photo with them. Gu Baifei held Qinglian in his arms and posed in a majestic yet intimate posture towards the camera, fully enacting the drama between the pharaoh and the princess.

    In the afternoon, the two climbed to the commanding heights of the town and overlooked the entire Aegean Sea.The sea breeze blew by, and Qinglian’s crimson robe and Gu Baifei’s gold-edged skirt fluttered in the wind. The shadows of the red and white crowns fell on the blue and white buildings, creating a wonderful atmosphere of the romantic intertwining of Nile royalty and the Aegean Sea.Gu Baifei put down his scepter, hugged her from behind, put his chin on the top of her hair, and whispered: “Back then, in the Demon Realm and the Demon Realm, I couldn’t be as comfortable as I am now in this foreign land pretending to be a mortal couple with you.” Qinglian turned to look at him, and the gold ornaments in her hair shone with tiny light: “As long as I am with you, no matter where I am, no matter where I am, I will be perfect.”

    In the evening, the two went to the beach market again.Gu Baifei spent a lot of money to buy a turquoise necklace and put it on Qinglian himself, calling it a “treasure gifted to the princess by the Pharaoh”; Qinglian picked a silver ring engraved with an olive branch and put it on his fingertips, saying with a smile that “the princess is a gift of peace to your majesty in return.”It wasn’t until the setting sun dyed the Aegean Sea golden red that they took off their Pharaoh and Princess attires and put on modern clothes, but still walked hand in hand on the beach.

    Before leaving, Qing Lian left a petal of purple lotus on the beach and let the sea breeze carry the lotus fragrance to the distance; Gu Baifei left a faint royal mark on the reef to protect the safety of the fishermen in this sea area.Local people passing by thought that the sea style was very sweet that night, but they didn’t know that it was a pair of gods and goddesses, performing a gentle drama that spanned civilizations on the land of Greece, integrating the romance of royal power on the banks of the Nile into the blue waves of the Aegean Sea.

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