Yan Zheyun had always worn blue on Qixi. There was no significance to this, no long-ingrained tradition that he was following. Just Lixin's preference for the colour on him, her eyes taking on a proud gleam every time she picked out a hanfu for her brothers. She'd always insisted that they dressed up to go to town with her so that they could satisfy her superficiality by allowing her to parade them in front of all the green-eyed girls sneaking glances at them. She'd known that it would have been impossible to get her dear older brother to wear anything too frivolous, so she'd favoured sober, mature shades for him. But poor Liheng was a whole other story; Yan Zheyun swore that she would spend more time dolling her long-suffering twin up than doing her makeup.
(1) A mushy way of saying darling, used colloquially.
(2) Technically, the year wouldn’t be named after the emperor until posthumously so this is very, very inauspicious actually ^^;; But the year naming system is rather complicated and I didn’t want to create more confusion by coming up with arbitrary year names that wouldn’t be used often if at all in the future. So for the purposes of this novel, the years are named after the reigning emperor regardless of whether alive or dead.
A/N: Thank you very much for reading! Phew! I managed to rush this out but not before the usual posting time, sorry! x.x Thank you also for the gifts, comments, golden tickets, and power stones! We are currently in a series of chapters that will focus on the main couple and reveal bits and pieces about some of the unsolved mysteries in this novel so I'm looking forward to seeing if anyone has any new theories about what's been going on! (: