Why not create the Dahuang world together? (Waiting is hard, but doesn’t have to be boring)

 ZYHLJ:

Xiao Yao thought carefully about Xin Yue's words, then took a deep breath and said: "No need, the date has already been determined, if you change it, people will definitely speculate. We will get married sooner or later anyway, so why delay? However, I'm happy that Feng Long is willing to tolerate me, please thank him on my behalf."

 ZYHLJ:

This is Cang Xuan's first New Year after ascending the throne,

In the novel, CX got married to Xing Yue 3 years after he got the throne. And the marriage date between Fang Long and Xiao Yao was only set after more than 6 years since their engagement, which also means FL asked for determination of the wedding date after more than 6 years. 

Xing Yue wanted the marriage between FL and XY more than anyone on earth. She sensed CX had special feeling for XY, thus marrying XY to someone else is what she wanted most. "Xing Yue went to Xiao Yue Summit to visit Xiao Yao with a feeling like she was above Xiao Yao’s fate in life, feeling happy and pitying her at the same time". She felt pity because she knew XY didn't love FL and XY would be unhappy

Coming! The completed "New Year Little Theater":

@Kokuto

New Year's Eve, heavy snow.

This is Cang Xuan's first New Year after ascending the throne, and as usual he would spend it with his family. Since Xiao Yao and Feng Long's wedding was on the agenda, and it was tacitly understood that Xin Yue will be crowned queen, this year's New Year's Eve was spent by the Xiyan family and Chenrong family together. In order to enjoy the snow, at Xin Yue's suggestion, Cang Xuan took Xiao Yao, A nian, Shen Shu Hui, grandpa, and Chenrong's family of four to the lake on Xin Yue's boat. Accompanied by four boats carrying guards, they enjoyed the snow while eating New Year's Eve dinner.

Although there are still some political matters have not been completely resolved, for everyone present, this is indeed the most relaxed moment in the past many years, so the atmosphere at the dinner table is quite good. Cang Xuan, former King Xiyan, Chen Rong Yi, and Feng Long were chatting enthusiastically about the tribes in the south that had not yet recognized Cang Xuan. Shu Hui was listening to their conversation with interest. Mrs. Chenrong was taking this opportunity to secretly observe her future daughter-in-law and son-in-law. Xiao Yao was thinking about her marriage to Feng Long, and couldn't help but think over and over Feng Long's words, "Jing was a bit sad, but he also said that as long as I treat you well, he is willing to bless us", and Xiang Liu's words, "You will find someone else, I won’t accompany you there." It is difficult for her to truly relax and enjoy the festival atmosphere, so she just ate in silence the foods Feng Long kept putting in her bowl, not even noticing A Nian's anger towards Xin Yue. Xin Yue had been directing the servants to take care of everyone like a real hostess. Looking at her like this, A Nian was so angry that she couldn't eat. But Cang Xuan had told her before not to conflict with Xin Yue today, so she could only drink hard by herself. After a while, she fell drunk and was helped back to the cabin to rest by Hai Tang.

After drinking and eating, now everyone was drinking tea and waiting for dawn. The men were still talking about matters related to moving the capital. Xin Yue began to become impatient, so she picked up the mink fur and took Xiao Yao to the bow of the boat to enjoy the snow. 

The lake was calm at night, with only feathery snowflakes flying quietly in the air. Xiao Yao sat on the bow of the boat and watched for a while, couldn't help but think of the snow Xiang Liu once conjured for her when she was still healing in his "lair", which was even more beautiful than this one.

Now Cang Xuan has become the king, so the future of Chenrong army became more dangerous. Is he worrying about this now? she thought.

"Xiao Yao, you were silent just now. Were you thinking about your marriage to my brother?" Xin Yue suddenly interrupted her thoughts.

"Yeah..." Xiao Yao couldn't deny it, but strangely, she didn't feel shy talking about it.

Xin Yue teased her: "Thinking about my brother, but not looking at him. My brother kept looking at you just now!"

Xiao Yao smiled and did not answer her.

"Actually...my brother knows, and understands that you haven't let go of Jing yet, so even though your heart is not with him now, he has never blamed you." Xin Yue said, "Before coming today, he asked me to find a chance to ask you a question, because It’s not appropriate for him to ask, that is, do you want to postpone the wedding? He said that if you feel you are not ready yet, he can wait, and he will explain it to the elders, you don’t need to worry about it.”

Xiao Yao thought carefully about Xin Yue's words, then took a deep breath and said: "No need, the date has already been determined, if you change it, people will definitely speculate. We will get married sooner or later anyway, so why delay? However, I'm happy that Feng Long is willing to tolerate me, please thank him on my behalf."

Xin Yue sighed, tightened the collar of Xiao Yao's cloak, and said: "Actually, I know you were probably engaged to my brother to help Cang Xuan, and you didn't really have interest in my brother.  If this marriage wasn't of great significance to the Chishui family and the throne, I would have told you that if you really don’t want to marry my brother, just break off the engagement. Anyway, with my brother’s temper, he will only be angry for some time, but never really hold a grudge against you."

"But," she continued, "I still have to defend my brother for one thing. You may think my brother wants to marry you only because of your identity and appearance, and that he mistakes friendship for love, but in fact, it is because, he just loves smart people! When he decided to follow Cang Xuan, although he had his own ambitions, the most important reason was that he was impressed by Cang Xuan's wisdom and foresight! He was attracted by Jing and you for the same reason. In the beginning, he was truly only attracted by your appearance, but later, after gradually knowing you more, he grew more and more fond of you... I'm pretty sure that as long as you treat him sincerely, one day he will become loyal to you like he is to Jing and Cang Xuan. Did you see him ever wavered when supporting Cang Xuan was the most dangerous and unwise choice?"

Xiao Yao was a little surprised after hearing her words, and said: "I never thought about this. He has always been a bit male chauvinistic in his speech. I thought he liked the kind of girls who only care about 'things women should care about'."

Xin Yue rolled her eyes and said, "Maybe he himself thought so too, because he was too proud to see his own heart clearly. Anyway, at least this was what the girls who wanted to marry him thought, so they acted like having no brain in front of him, needing him to teach everything in the hope that this 'big man' can have enough face. The result is my brother's relationship history had always been blank, until he met you! "

Xiao Yao thought about it carefully, and said, "Hearing what you said, I seem to understand him a bit..."

Xin Yue immediately said: "I didn't say this to ask you to marry my brother. What I said is what I believe."

Xiao Yao quickly patted her hand and said, "I know. In fact you don't have to worry. It's not that I don't want to marry Feng Long. For me, there is really no better choice than your brother... When he proposed, he actually could have told me directly that this was the quickest way he could help Cang Xuan. He knew that as long as he did this, I would probably agree. However, he did not mention Cang Xuan at all, but simply said he wanted to marry me, asked me if I was willing. Later, it was because I pressed him that he told me about Cang Xuan. At that time, I knew that he was a trustworthy man who could give me the security I want."

She looked seriously into Xin Yue's eyes and said, "Although I can't guarantee that I will be able to love him as much as I love Jing, I swear that as long as Feng Long is sincere to me, I will also be sincere to him. I will support him, help him, for the rest of my life."

Xin Yue grabbed her hand and said, "That's enough. Don't worry, if he treats you not good enough, I will be the first one to scold him."

Xiao Yao said teasingly: "Yes, I have such a good girlfriend and sister-in-law to support me, what should I be afraid of?"

Xin Yue nodded proudly: "That's right!"

Then Xin Yue thought for a while and then said: "Xiao Yao, you are going to marry my brother, so I should call you sao sao from now on, but I am going to marry your brother too, so you should call me sao sao, then we...how about we just call each other sisters? You are older than me, so I will call you jie jie, and you will call me mei mei. How about that?"

Xiao Yao said: "Okay, then... I will call you mei mei?"

Xin Yue nodded, "That's settled! In the future, if we all give birth to daughters, they will be real sisters connected by blood and grew up together. When the time comes...how about we give them paired names? If your daughter’s name has 'snow' in it, then my daughter’s name will have 'rain'. If your daughter’s name has 'qin' in it, then my daughter’s name will have 'se', just like sisters in one family. How about that?”

Xiao Yao couldn't help but want to laugh, "Okay~ How did you know I want to have a daughter?"

Xin Yue tilted her head, "Because I want to have a daughter. Only a daughter can understand her mother's heart, unlike those stinky men, who only make you angry!"

Xiao Yao couldn't stop giggling.

Suddenly, there was a muffled sound of firecrackers in Zhiyi City in the distance. It turned out that it was midnight, and every household and the Department of Ceremony started to set off fireworks to drive away the "New Year beast". The whole brightly lit city was in jubilation, with all kinds of colorful and wondrous fireworks rising up like heavy rain falling into the pond. Even from such a distance, it was still thrilling to see. After a while, with a huge explosion, two giant "living fireworks" carefully forged with spiritual power, a dragon and a phoenix, rose into the sky. They chased and played with each other in mid-air, using their spiritual power to gather the snowflakes into a huge "snow-and-wind ball", throwing them to each other and playing... Finally, amidst the cheers of the whole city, they quickly soared high into the sky, end to end, formed a circular "dragon and phoenix in auspiciousness pattern", and then annihilated in an instant, scattering into a meteor shower of countless light points and falling down, illuminating the entire lake. Everyone walked out of the cabin and looked at this scene with excitement.

A new beginning, let me use it to commemorate those lost dreams, Xiao Yao thought. From now on, she must cherish this upcoming long autumn of her life, which will definitely be beautiful as well.

THE END

@ ZYHLJ

Woah! It's so good... It's like a beautiful start of new year... The details are amazing... I loved Xin Yue and Xiao Yao's conversation... Actually, I think it would be best if their relationship remains same till the end.. But the turn it takes in Original novel, it makes me sad everytime... Also I believe Xiang Liu shouldn't have taken Xiaoyao away from her wedding ceremony, it changed many things... To be honest, after thinking carefully.. I found that it all happened because of Jing again... He always do something that shouldn't be done nor he want to let go... Nothing would have happened if Jing hadn't made a deal with Xiang Liu to take Xiaoyao away... Sigh!

 Sharanya:

@ ZYHLJ

Woah! It's so good... It's like a beautiful start of new year... The details are amazing... I loved Xin Yue and Xiao Yao's conversation... Actually, I think it would be best if their relationship remains same till the end.. But the turn it takes in Original novel, it makes me sad everytime... Also I believe Xiang Liu shouldn't have taken Xiaoyao away from her wedding ceremony, it changed many things... To be honest, after thinking carefully.. I found that it all happened because of Jing again... He always do something that shouldn't be done nor he want to let go... Nothing would have happened if Jing hadn't made a deal with Xiang Liu to take Xiaoyao away... Sigh!

When I read the novel, I saw Xiang Liu snatching Xiao Yao away at the wedding. All I could think about was "If it were me, I would go with him too!" Then Xiang Liu gave her to TSJ... and then I was... "Wait, can Xiao Yao travel back to before the wedding? I suddenly find Feng Long is not bad...". When I think about the moment Xiao Yao was taken away by Xiang Liu at the wedding, she must have had the hope of being with him, I feel so sorry for her! Yang Zi said that Xiao Yao is the most miserable heroine she has ever played, absolutely true...

 H19279:

do you have the link of this information?

Huh, the drama production and Tong Hua said that their heroine has happy end or "not tragic ending" respectively

This:

https://k.sina.cn/article_6209134135_m17217de37033015h3t.html

The "miserable" Yang Zi refers to does not refer to Xiao Yao's ending, but to her experience:-)

 liddi:

Only came upon this thread now. Thank you so much for such an evocatively written vignette which beautifully captures each character and the entire mood in that moment. Love it and hope you'll share more!

Thanks for loving it, I’m so happy!:-D If I have new ideas in the future, I will write more~ (I want to write a "Xiao Yao and Xiang Liu's date one day"), and I will send you a message then!

@ZYHLJ

Have you ever seen a map of the Great Wilderness, in accordance with Tong Hua's universe?

The one originally shared on Weibo does not appear to be accurate, based on what we know from the novel:

The best we've come up with through our discussions on the other thread is take the drama map, and do a best guess scenario of where the  key locations are.