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As the morning light penetrated the Diamond Window Lattice, Luna was startled awake by a sharp pain at the back of her neck.
Curled up in her Yun Jin quilt adorned with a Wisteria Pattern, she stared at the twenty-nine Moonstones hanging from the Crystal Chandelier—each stone contained the Magic Mist sealed from the previous night, swaying and refracting varying shades of gray as they danced in the light.
"Miss, it's time for your medicine." Qin Si entered, holding an Emerald Medicine Bowl, her skirt carrying the fresh scent of newly bloomed Snow Lily of the Valley from the courtyard.
The maid Yin Ling's wrist jingled softly as she moved, startling three Azure-Billed Buntings that had been pecking at the shards of Moonstone on the windowsill.
Luna gazed blankly at the unfamiliar girl whose hair tips were entwined with an icy crystal chain; those tiny ice particles flickered with a Blue Light in sync with her Breathing Frequency.
She attempted to channel her magical perception to sense the Coordinate of time and space but found a misty shape resembling a baby carriage floating in her Mind Sea—suddenly, the Wisteria Scent from that night exploded on her Tongue, mingling with the lingering bitterness of coffee and causing her to cough.
"Be careful not to choke." Qin Si hurriedly used a Spell to stabilize the overturned medicine bowl, mint-colored liquid forming a swirling sphere in midair. "Last night, when you used the Guardian Array to purify the West Wing, your magic was depleted. The Great Mage said you need at least three days of rest..."
"What about Mother?" Luna suddenly clutched the edge of her quilt tightly.
Memory Fragments reassembled amidst the pain: in the Ice Prism, twenty-nine Soul Devouring Arrays from full moon nights, Leonard's Signature Tiny Inscriptions falling like faded Wisteria Petals, and the brittle sound of shattered stone slabs from the direction of the Nursery... As she jumped barefoot off the bed, she stepped on a raised Magic Rune hidden beneath the carpet; Silver Blue Magic Patterns crawled up her ankle and anchored her unsteady small body in place.
Qin Si's fingertip glowed with a Red Glow from a Dispel Spell but was repelled upon touching Luna.
The maid stared in astonishment at the Frost Flower forming on her fingertip. "Is this the extreme cold power from Madam's severed wrist?"
Luna belatedly reached for her burning neck, where a sandglass-shaped mark had been scorched by moonlight.
Suddenly, she recalled Aelia wrapping her in silver hair—the strands that should have been soft carried a blade-like Coldness, twisting the black mist that tried to invade her ear into Ice Shards.
"I want to see Mother!" Luna scraped at the binding Magic Pattern with Ailya's White Nails; droplets of Blood Pearl fell onto the Silver Blue talisman and ignited an Azure Blue Flame.
As the third drop of blood fell, all the Moonstones hanging above her bed suddenly turned towards the West Wing, casting a shadow on the wall that resembled a baby carriage rolling over a Star Map.
Qin Si suddenly pressed down on her bleeding wrist, her shallow golden eyes reflecting the floral calligraphy of the contract scroll. "Three minutes ago, Lucius reinforced the barrier in the West Wing. If you go there now, it will trigger..." The maid's voice abruptly cut off as a wisp of black mist shaped like wisteria petals seeped from her ear, turning to ashes the moment it touched the guardian array on Luna's forehead.
Luna caught a whiff of coffee lingering in the ashes, reminding her of the latte that had spilled during the lab explosion before she crossed over.
She opened her palm; the hourglass from last night was absorbing the energy of the moonstone, with the flow of fine sand perfectly aligning with the track of the baby carriage Xu Ying.
"Miss, don't be afraid." Qin Si suddenly lifted her back to the bed, and the contract scroll that slipped from the maid's sleeve flashed with Leonard's family crest. "Madam is dealing with the West Wing..." The latter part of her sentence was swallowed by an ice crystal storm that erupted outside, as twenty-nine ice butterflies collided against the glass, splattering dark purple light like wisteria juice.
Luna suddenly grasped Qin Si's trembling hand, her soft baby voice wrapped in the pressure of a great mage. "Did Father add a new teleportation circle in the nursery last night?" She pressed her fingertip against the maid's palm, tracing out in ice Jing Chen a star map trajectory that she remembered from when the baby carriage rolled over it.
The emerald medicine bowl suddenly exploded, its liquid pooling on the floor to form a glowing blood arrow pointing toward the nursery.
The ice crystal chain in Qin Si's hair snapped in response, and as the falling ice particles hit the ground, they transformed into twenty-nine azure-billed buntings carrying wisteria, all flying in unison away from the direction of the blood arrow.
"Those birds..." Luna watched as the last azure-billed bunting crashed against the guardian barrier, its feathers mingling with blood pearls to form an ancient magic script that read "Don't go."
The hourglass mark on her nape suddenly began to flow backward; as fine sand reassembled, it formed a miniature church spire model beside her pillow—the very architecture she had seen on that fateful night when she crossed over.
Qin Si was repairing the cracks in the medicine bowl with a healing spell. The wisteria brooch pinned at her collar suddenly began to grow wildly, thorny vines wrapping around beams in an instant. "Miss, why don't you sleep a little longer?" As petals fell, Luna's eyelids grew heavy; her last sight was of wisteria juice seeping from Qin Si's sleeve, flowing through gaps in the floor tiles toward where Xu Ying's baby carriage had disappeared.
Qin Si's fingertip glowed with a pearlescent light from her healing spell as it gently brushed over Luna's bleeding wrist.
The traces of Ailina's burn that had been magically sealed began to heal gradually within a halo but revealed dark purple veins beneath her skin in a spider web pattern. "Miss always pushes herself recklessly," the maid's voice trembled as her ice crystal chain pendant clinked against the edge of the medicine bowl with delicate sounds. "The old wounds you left from forcibly entering the Forbidden Book Pavilion last time haven't..."
Luna suddenly grasped her pinky finger, her delicate baby fingers precisely pressing against Qin Si's thumb where the contract mark was located. "Did Father inscribe tracking spells into every moonstone?" She distinctly felt Qin Si’s pulse racing three times, and a blood-red ripple suddenly surfaced in the mint-colored liquid within the emerald medicine bowl.
"You should rest now," Qin Si said, covering Luna's wrist with her wide sleeve. The gold-thread-embroidered wisteria flowers on her sleeve swayed without wind.
As the third petal detached from the embroidery, Luna caught a whiff of the same bitter coffee aroma that had lingered on the night of her crossing—an invigorating scent that pervaded Leonard's study.
Outside, the Ice Crystal Storm suddenly calmed, and twenty-nine Ice Butterfly remnants formed a small whirlpool on the windowsill.
Luna gazed at one of the butterfly wings, where an Emerging Nursery Star Map appeared, only to be cocooned by Qin Si with Yun Jin.
The ice crystal chain hanging from the maid's hair suddenly extended into countless Light Threads, weaving a barrier to prevent prying eyes within the Canopy.
"Don't move." Qin Si formed an Ice Prism with her Fingertip, reflecting the swirling black mist within the hourglass mark on Luna's nape.
The maid gasped, unraveling her Hair Bun to wrap the ice crystal chain around the infant's delicate ankle. "This is made from Millennium Ice of the eternal frost layer in the far north; it can temporarily suppress..."
Before she could finish, a crisp sound of Crystal Shoes striking against Peacock Stone Tiles echoed from outside.
As Aelia's Silver White Skirt swept past the door, the moonstones in the entire room shifted to a thirty-degree angle.
Luna noticed that the Wisteria Brooch pinned in her mother's hair was growing wildly, its thorny vines casting a shadow in the shape of a baby carriage on the wall.
"The physician said the Soul Devouring Array in the West Wing has been completely cleared." Aelia's voice clashed like Ice Spikes, raising her hand to freeze the vine that attempted to crawl up Luna's pillow into an Ice Sculpture.
A Healing Scroll that slipped from the Lady of the Fortress's sleeve glowed with an unusual red light but softened to a gentle Moon White upon touching her daughter.
Luna observed that her mother's left hand remained hidden behind her back, with tiny Blood Pearls crystallizing at the tips of her silver hair.
When Aelia leaned down to kiss her forehead, Luna's keen infant sense of smell detected a Bloody Smell mingled with the unique cold fragrance of Nursery Lapis Lazuli Tiles.
"Madam, should we ask the Great Mage again..." The accompanying physician hesitated while holding a testing crystal, as twenty-nine overlapping infant Footprints emerged within the crystal ball.
Aelia waved her wide sleeves lightly, and the crystal ball in the hands of the physician suddenly became shrouded in Frost Mist. "Luna needs to rest," she said. As she turned, her skirt brushed against the windowsill, scattering the remnants of Ice Butterfly wings, which instantly formed a half-complete Family Crest upon hitting the ground.
Luna curled up on Yun Jin's bed, counting the flickering frequency of the moonstone. She noticed that every time Qin Si approached the bedside, another stone in the Crystal Chandelier turned dark purple.
When the tenth Seven Moonstone began to change color, she suddenly used the baby carriage Xu Ying to project a Star Map Trajectory on the wall, shaping the remaining mint-colored liquid in the medicine bowl into an Arrow Shape.
"Mother used the Ice Blade to sever her wrist last night," Luna said, touching Aelia's sleeve adorned with Silver Thread and Embroidered Shoes with her newly healed fingers. "Did you mix in the Holy Snow Crystal Powder from the Northern Territory royal family?" She felt Aelia's muscles stiffen instantly, and those Silver Thread-embroidered Wisteria flowers began to frantically absorb energy from the moonstone.
Half a charred Contract paper suddenly fluttered down from Aelia's sleeve. Luna recognized it as a Bloodline Authentication Document she had seen in the original book before her transmigration.
As the Lady of the Fortress sealed the Remnant Page with frost, Luna saw Scorch Marks at the edges emerging with an hourglass pattern identical to the mark on her nape.
"The young lady needs a change of medicine." Qin Si timely brought over a new Emerald Medicine Bowl, which contained three melting ice crystals at its bottom.
As the maid turned around, twenty-nine Wisteria Phantoms suddenly bloomed in the air swept by her Hair Tips, each flower's stamen shimmering with a Ruby glow akin to that of Leonard Ring.
As Luna began to doze off amidst the scent of medicine, she heard Aelia speaking softly to the physician. "That child's Dark Mark..." The latter part of her sentence was swallowed by a sudden intensification of Ice Crystal Storm. The Blood Pearl crystallized within Lady of the Fortress's silver hair suddenly floated into an hourglass shape, resonating with Luna's nape mark in a Zhen Chan-like manner.
Just before the last trace of Awareness sank into darkness, Luna used her remaining magic to imprint a Star Map Trajectory on the Canopy.
When the moonstone projected by Xu Ying coincided with her mark, she hazily saw Aelia standing before an Ice Prism, burying half of her blood-stained silver hair into a Lapis Lazuli Brick Gap inscribed with Ancient Incantations—right at the center of where she had knocked over coffee during that fateful night when the laboratory exploded.
As the tenth Seven Moonstone in the Crystal Chandelier completely turned dark purple, Luna suddenly grasped Aelia's sleeve adorned with Silver Thread and Embroidered Shoes.
The delicate Fingertip of a baby precisely pointed at the hourglass pattern on the Contract Fragment. "Is it a reversal spell activated by Mother’s severed hair?"
Aelia’s Silver White eyelashes fluttered as frost enveloped her daughter's fingers. "The moonstone array of Glorious Demon Fortress will protect every child." She traced Luna's hourglass mark on her nape with her Fingertip, and Ice Crystal Fragments solidified into a twenty-nine-layer Guardian Array upon contact.
"Father buried the Soul Devouring Array in the Nursery..." Luna suddenly coughed violently, and the Blood Pearl she expelled crystallized in mid-air into the shape of Wisteria Petals.
As the third blood petal fell onto the Canopy Star Map Trajectory, the baby carriage Xu Ying, illuminated by moonstones, let out a piercing cry.
Aelia's wide sleeves swirled, conjuring an icy whirlwind that trapped the sound of the wailing within a rotating Hexagonal Ice Crystal in her palm.
The Lady of the Fortress's silver strands suddenly grew wildly, weaving around Luna to form a cocoon shimmering with Xing Hui: "The West Wing barrier is protected by seven layers of holy light; it was Mother who was negligent last night."
Luna grasped Aelia's damaged left wrist, the unique warmth of a baby’s touch causing the blood-seeping cracks in the ice crystals to tremble slightly.
She pressed her forehead against Mother Leonard's Wisteria Brooch, clearly sensing the twenty-nine different frequencies of Magic Fluctuation sealed within.
"Father didn't use Long Blood Ink when signing the Contract." Luna traced the Betrayal Mark recorded in the original book on Yun Jin with her recently healed fingers. "Instead, it was mixed with Holy Spring from the Northern Royal Family..."
Aelia suddenly covered her mouth, and the Blood Pearls crystallized into a silencing Curse hovering among her silver hair.
The Lady of the Fortress's chest heaved like a turbulent sea before a Wind and Snow storm; the Wisteria Brooch at her temple burst forth with thorny vines, shattering three moonstones hanging above the bed.
"Miss has become confused." Qin Si hurriedly lit Anshen Incense, but a Contract Scroll slipped from the maid's sleeve, revealing Leonard's Signature—letters oozing with the same purplish-red hue as Luna's expelled Blood Pearls.
Luna suddenly broke free from the silencing spell; the baby carriage Xu Ying projected onto the wall's Star Map abruptly reversed.
She tugged at Aelia's silver hair, pointing towards the West Wing: "What Father brought back on the third full moon night was not a Healing Scroll!
The Cedar Fragrance that Mother smelled was mixed with Wisteria Potion..."
"Luna!" Aelia's voice cracked for the first time as shattered moonstones gathered at her feet to form a fragmented Family Crest.
The left hand, missing a part, suddenly revealed the Ice Blade, which severed all the silver hair surrounding the girl.
Clang—
As the Ice Blade fell to the ground, the sound of a wooden wheelchair rolling over a magic rune echoed from outside.
Eldest Brother swept away the ice crystals that had formed on the door frame with his Azure Magic Robe, the Detox Rune embroidered on his cuffs flickering with his breath: "I can hear Little One tearing down the house even through the Triple Barrier."
Luna looked at the Detox Vine climbing up her brother's wheelchair armrest and suddenly reached out to grab the silver-gray tips of his hair.
Those strands of hair automatically wove into a Star Map Trajectory in her palm, perfectly completing the missing imprint of a baby carriage on the wall.
"It seems the backlash of magic hasn't affected your brain." Eldest Brother flicked his fingers to try and ensnare the Wisteria Phantom around his wheelchair, when suddenly a Liuli Medicine Butterfly sprang out from his sleeve and landed on Luna's nose. "But next time you force your way through a barrier, remember to undo the positioning spell set by the physician in the medicine bowl first."
Luna puffed up her cheeks to blow away the medicine butterfly, only to see that the powder from its wings revealed a pattern of the Leonard Ring on Yun Jin's upper body.
She suddenly grabbed her brother's rune-embroidered sleeve, her round baby eyes sparkling with sharpness like a Great Mage's: "Brother, there’s Evening Primrose Juice hidden in your wheelchair armrest that can break the Bloodline Curse, right?"
The wheelchair suddenly emitted a mechanical grinding sound, and Eldest Brother's Detox Rune flashed wildly, dyeing his entire sleeve crimson.
He tapped Luna's forehead with his fingers, and an Alchemical Puppet popped out from the armrest, busy mixing potions: "Mother, I suggest adding some sedative to this Little One's supplementary food."
Aelia gently stroked her daughter's hourglass mark on her neck, a smile barely forming at her lips that was more fragile than ice crystals: "Once Luna heals, Mother will take you to the Northern Territory to see a real Aurora Array." Suddenly, a Healing Scroll that had fallen from her sleeve ignited spontaneously, and from the ashes emerged Lucius standing under Wisteria flowers with a mysterious woman.
Luna abruptly grasped that burning ash, her delicate palm scorched without her noticing.
She pressed the ashes onto Aelia's remaining Contract Fragment, and two different sources of Bloodline Authentication documents suddenly fused into a complete Hourglass Totem.
"Father's Leonard's Concubine is six months pregnant," Luna said, completing the last crack in the hourglass with her bloodied fingers. "In the third layer of the West Wing Cellar, using the Calming Wisteria that Mother planted when she was pregnant with me as a barrier."
Suddenly, all the moonstones in the room shattered simultaneously, and the Blood Pearl entwined in Aelia's silver hair transformed into a storm of ice crystals.
The Lady of the Fortress staggered as she grasped the handle of the wheelchair, while the metal entwined with Detox Vine suddenly bloomed into pale Wisteria flowers.
The sound of cracks forming on the wheelchair armrest jolted time back to life, and my elder brother's Alchemical Puppet emitted a piercing alarm.
He stared at the fused Hourglass Totem, his voice echoing as if from beneath a millennium of Ice Layer: "Father just reinforced the Cellar's Defensive Formation last week."
Luna was suddenly enveloped in Aelia's cold embrace, and Mother's heartbeat shattered three Moonstone Pendants.
The baby carriage Xu Ying spun wildly among the scattered Shattered Crystal before finally stopping against the wall in the direction of the West Wing, reflecting the faintly bulging outline of a belly deep within the Cellar.
Outside, a sound erupted from the Ice Crystal Storm Tear barrier as twenty-nine Azure-Billed Bunting corpses collided with the Window Lattice, their feathers forming the final stroke of the character for "betrayal."
As Ailya's silver hair began to move on its own without wind, Luna heard chaotic footsteps approaching from a distant corridor—those were Second Brother's familiar Swiftwind Boots crushing Peacock Stone Tiles, mixed with Brother San's jade pendant clashing against Jian Qiao.
When Twilight crept in through the broken Window Lattice, Luna counted the ninth new white hair at Mother's temple.
Aelia still held her in an embrace, unaware even as ice crystals formed at her fingertips pierced her palm.
Suddenly, all the new sprouts on my elder brother's wheelchair armrest withered away. A silence more suffocating than the Ice Crystal Storm approached with the footsteps echoing from the end of the corridor, swallowing the entire Glorious Demon Fortress.
Aelia's fingers brushed over a mirror that rippled like water; suddenly, light burst forth from the Ancient Silver Mirror, illuminating the entire Reception Room.
Curled up in Qin Si's arms, Luna gazed into the mirror at the emerging Magic Image—a Winter Night from Twenty Years Ago. A swaddled baby was quietly placed beneath an icy Rose Arch, and the Morning Star Family Crest embroidered on the swaddle was fading amidst Wind and Snow.
"This is... the Family Crest of the Great Sage from the Holy White City?" Lucius suddenly grasped the armrest of the wheelchair, his brother's knuckles turning white from the force.
In the mirror, Leonard's Last Night continued to unfold. The young Leonard received a baby from Madam Speaker, while the Forgetfulness Spell held by Zhang Jian glimmered with a ghostly blue light.
Aelia stumbled backward, her pearl-embellished heels shattering the light spots cast by the crystal chandelier.
Luna felt the arms around her trembling; Qin Si's Lily of the Valley fragrance mingled with a salty tang.
Brother San suddenly kicked over the golden footstool, and the inlaid moonstone rolled onto the carpet, producing a dull thud.
"The Bloodline detection crystal from Mother..." Second Brother pulled out a purplish crystal ball from within his cloak. Mist of silver white seeped from the ice cracks. "It has always been inexplicably hot over the years; turns out it's warning us about this."
The wheelchair rolled over the wool carpet, making a faint crunching sound as his brother's pale fingertip touched the mirror's surface.
The Star Emblem spread from his sleeve, automatically activating a deeper layer of Memory Seal.
The Mirror Speaker Lady shed her human disguise, revealing dark purple serpent-like pupils. Her right hand, with a missing pinky, was tying a spell necklace that altered bloodlines around the baby's neck.
Luna suddenly recalled Aelia's death in the Original, where a serpent-shaped bruise emerged on her neck.
She reached out her chubby little hand to grasp Aelia's trembling skirt hem. The Mage-level Purification Spell transformed into golden light spots that entered Aelia's heart.
The Magic Star Chart in the Reception Hall Dome suddenly began to reverse its rotation, and a long-dormant star shone brightly once more.
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