Married to Ke Qing

Chapter 10

Even though I obviously overdid it with the amount of food for dinner, Ke Qing still liked what I cooked and believe me, any cook is pleased when the food he cooked is praised. I still remembered how once in childhood I decided to cook something myself for the first time, at that time I was on vacation with my grandmother and specially got up earlier than everyone else, peeled potatoes and grated them to fry potato pancakes. I did not know then that eggs and flour are added to pancakes and in the end I simply threw some pork fat into the frying pan and fried small pancakes on it, consisting only of salt and potatoes. I was lucky then and these pancakes turned out similar to potato chips. True, I did not calculate the amount then and in the end I had to fry them again, I do not remember exactly how old I was then, but definitely less than 10, mainly thanks to this successful first experience I periodically began to cook myself, which in the future helped me quite a lot when I lived in a dorm.

Since Ke Qing was busy until the evening, there was no longer any talk of training, but there were still a few extremely important topics that I wanted to talk about. So now we were sitting opposite each other in the living room, and since I had sent the servants home earlier today, we could calmly talk about rather sensitive topics.

- So, what else are you going to surprise me with? - the girl asked a little tiredly, after all, too many surprises had fallen on her in these couple of days.

- I see that you are tired, and I would suggest that we postpone this conversation for another day, but if you find out about this now and start preparing, then in the future it will be much easier for you. - I said with a slightly crooked smile.

- In that case, I'm listening. - The girl straightened up and looked at me intently, ready to listen.

- I should start with the fact that I not only received specific knowledge, but also saw a version of future events where I was not, which is possible because I did not survive the poison there. - I began. Perhaps someone would say, are you stupid? Why are you telling her all this? I would keep the knowledge to myself and have the advantage of foreknowledge. And I do not agree in response. Still, I do not consider myself the smartest person in the world and can very well end up ruining everything, so in such cases it is better to find a smart person you can trust and join forces. Moreover, this is not a game, but real life. A small change can be enough for everything to accidentally go awry. Then again, in the future, when there is a battle with the archon of vortices, it will be near the port, which in my opinion certainly could not remain completely unscathed after such a battle, especially after the fall of the floating palace of Ning Guang, this should have caused a rather large wave that will not pass without a trace for the ships in the harbor.

- First the discovery of the method of becoming an adept, then the declassification of the mundane identity of the Geo Archon, and now knowledge of the future? - the girl shook her head. - It seems to me more and more that today is some kind of strange dream.

- Fortunately, this is not a dream. - I smiled. - However, I think it is worth clarifying first that I do not know exactly how much time is left until the events known to me begin. The only thing I can say as a guide is that it will be Ning Guang's turn to conduct the descent ceremony.

- Hmmm. This year I held the ceremony, and Ning Guang's turn will be next year, that is, in about 2 years. - Ke Qing answered after thinking for a while.

"That's good, it means we have time to prepare," I nodded.

- So, what exactly will happen?

- To begin with, in Mondstadt, one of the guardians of the four winds, the dragon Dwalin, will awaken from his sleep, but he will be infected with the abyss, so he will start causing trouble, and the Fatui, taking advantage of the situation, will try to lure out the Anemo Archon in order to take the Heart of God from him and, what is even more important...

- Wait. So you want to say that the Fatui want to kill the Archon? - the girl stopped me.

- No. - I shook my head. - I suppose I should explain. The Heart of God, also known as Gnosis, is not meant in its literal meaning, but rather an artifact that Celestia gave to each of the seven victors in the Archon War. These are artifacts of immense power, created from the body of one of the descendants. To briefly explain the power of these artifacts, without Geo Gnosis, Morax is unable to create Mora. Or you can take Sumeru as an example, their network, thanks to which it is possible to unite the minds of all the inhabitants of the region and stores a huge amount of knowledge that can be downloaded directly into the brain, is based precisely on the Heart of God. True, if Celestia had not gone into hibernation. It is possible that in the near future there would have been at least two regions less.

- Let's just let go of the information that goes beyond all bounds about Celestia being in hibernation, why exactly do you think that the Dendro region would have been destroyed.

- These idiots took advantage of their Archon's weakness 500 years ago and locked her in a special sphere that she can't leave. And they're still trying to create an artificial Archon.

- ... I don't like to say this, but I don't think we should interfere in the affairs of other regions. - It was obvious that Ke Qing was shocked by such news. After all, although she talks about how people should decide their own fate, she is also one of the main fans of Geo Archon, and I know for sure that she has a whole collection of his figurines. For her, the very idea of betraying her own Archon in such a way seems wild, but as she said, as one of the leaders of Li Yue and as her husband, I should not interfere in the internal affairs of other regions.

- Okay, in that case let me continue from where I left off, after all these events will go in order starting from Mondstadt and our region will be next.

"Okay," Ke Qing nodded.

- So, the most important thing is that when all these events begin, one key figure will appear who will participate in every decisive event of the future and prevent many disasters. A traveler from another world who will look for his or her missing relative.

- So you know so many things in detail, but at the same time you don't know what gender this most important figure will be?

- Um. Yes. The problem is that they are twins. And depending on the gender of the traveler, he will look for a sister or brother of the opposite gender. However, it doesn't matter, because they will act the same way.

- Okay, so how sure are you that the future you know will actually happen?

"About 60 percent," I answered.

- So little?

- Yes, although I am 90 percent sure about what will happen on the territory of Li Yue, not counting our intervention.

- It is clear that in general this information should be used as something to prepare for, but at the same time, we should expect that everything can change dramatically at any moment.

- True, that's the best option. Well, now let me tell you a story I know about the future of a certain traveler, and it begins 500 years ago when two twins, in the midst of a catastrophe, wanted to quickly leave our world, which was not very hospitable at that time, but were stopped by the Guardian of the heavenly order.