C174 Chapter 174

The White Estate garden.

Bai Lingxuan’s pale lavender gown swept the ground, the hem embroidered with lifelike butterflies among blooming flowers. A butterfly-bead hairpin in her updo swayed with every small movement, as if it might flutter to life.

She wore only light makeup, one hand wrapped around an ornate gold-and-jade hand warmer, the other holding a book she read with quiet focus