"It's just... Yan Shu Ge is such a sacred place. If someone like me were to enter, it would be disrespectful to the deities, and Father Emperor would be furious. I knew this, actually."
"I always felt, and even decided, that after finding the ancient book and leaving Yan Shu Ge, I would personally apologize to my Father Emperor. I wouldn't care what punishment he gave me."
"Qian Ying, do you know? At that moment, I was prepared to be dealt with by Father Emperor, but..."
At this point.
Su Cheng's eyes turned red.
His voice trembled slightly.
Gu Qian Ying moved closer to him, almost leaning against him.
"Su Cheng, it's alright. Everything will get better."
Gu Qian Ying patted Su Cheng's shoulder, comforting him.
She didn't know what happened next.
But she could tell that Su Cheng must have remembered something unhappy.
Su Cheng regained his composure.
He looked up at Gu Qian Ying, "Qian Ying, do you know? When I went to find my Father Emperor, I saw the Grand Tutor being carried out by several guards. He... he was dead..."
Gu Qian Ying was startled.
She hadn't expected anything like this to happen.
"Su Cheng, what... what happened? Why is the Grand Tutor dead? Was he murdered, or...?"
She had an answer in her heart, but Gu Qian Ying didn't voice it.
At the same time, she wanted Su Cheng to speak out the pain he had held in his heart for years, the suppressed emotions that had weighed him down.
This way, Su Cheng would feel a little lighter.
"Qian Ying, the Grand Tutor died for me. I defiled the sacred Yan Shu Ge. I am guilty of grave sins. It's all my fault, but I wanted to bear this mistake myself. I didn't want to implicate anyone."
"But... I still implicated the Grand Tutor. He saved me with his life. I heard them say that before the Grand Tutor committed suicide, he knelt before my Father Emperor, hoping my Father Emperor would no longer have any prejudice against me. He also begged my Father Emperor not to care about my identity as an Yin Gu person."
"The Grand Tutor asked Father Emperor to value me. Before he died, he also hoped Father Emperor would arrange a position for me in court and cultivate me well."
At this point, Su Cheng choked up.
"Qian Ying, I feel like I'm a jinx. Anyone who gets close to me brings misfortune. Qian Ying, stay away from me. I don't want to hurt you."
Su Cheng pushed Gu Qian Ying away. He suddenly stood up, wanting to leave, wanting to escape something.
"Qian Ying, I am an ill-fated person. I will bring disaster to you. In the Su family all these years, I was the happiest. I always thought that the Su family would not suffer harm or misfortune because of me."
"But I... I was wrong... Qian Ying, I was wrong. Back then, after I buried the Grand Tutor, I took the ancient book and learned the Gu techniques from it. I intended to return to Nan Yi Kingdom, to the Su family, and cure young Su Cheng."
"But I never expected that by the time I returned, young Su Cheng would already be dead, and my brother had become young Su Cheng. His body was placed under the bed by my brother."
"Ironically, at that time, the elder Mr. and Mrs. Su thought that young Su Cheng had recovered after treatment."
"I killed young Su Cheng. If I hadn't left then, young Su Cheng wouldn't have died."
"It was also from that moment that I fell out with my brother, Murong Yun. I told him to leave the Su family. When he left, I bit him."
For many years after that, I learned to be young Su Cheng. Although I was often bullied by Su Yu Xi, I felt familial affection from the elder Mr. and Mrs. Su.
"But... now... the Su family has become like this because of me. The people in the mansion are dying one by one. Mr. and Mrs. Su are so old and live in constant fear. Su Yu Xi has also been harmed and turned into an idiot."
"Qian Ying, it's all because of me..."
Su Cheng was filled with self-reproach.
At this moment, he wanted to leave Gu Qian Ying.
He didn't want more people to be hurt because of him.
He especially didn't want the person he loved deeply to be hurt because of him.
Just as Su Cheng was about to leave, Gu Qian Ying grabbed his hand and walked over to hug him.
A faint fragrance spread into his nostrils. Su Cheng's body stiffened abruptly.
"Su Cheng, listen to me clearly. I don't care if you are an Yin Gu person or whatever. What I want to tell you is that you, Su Cheng, have friends, and people who care about you. You, Su Cheng, are not an ill-fated person."
"They don't like you, they despise you, even disdain you, it's not that you are bad, it's that their vision is flawed."
As she spoke.
Gu Qian Ying released Su Cheng and looked at him very seriously.
"Su Cheng, if you give up on yourself, then others despising and disdaining you is also the result of your self-abandonment and lack of self-love. Their vision is flawed, but you should not be the same as them, despising and disdaining yourself."
"You only need to make yourself strong to avoid being bound by their way of thinking."
"Su Cheng, being an Yin Gu person is not scary, nor is it pathetic. Since we cannot decide our birth, if we want to change, we should strive to change our future lives."
"Everyone has the opportunity to strive and prove themselves, and this opportunity is given by oneself."
Hearing this, Su Cheng's voice became hoarse, "Qian Ying, do you... do you think I can do it?... You won't leave me because of my identity, will you?"
Of course not.
Gu Qian Ying looked at Su Cheng and smiled.
"Qian Ying!"
Su Cheng hugged Gu Qian Ying tightly.
"Qian Ying, thank you. Thank you for saying so much to me. Thank you for not disliking me, nor despising me. Thank you."
Held tightly by Su Cheng, Gu Qian Ying also hugged Su Cheng.
Her chin rested on his shoulder. Looking past Su Cheng, Gu Qian Ying saw the moon hanging in the sky.
The moon was surrounded by countless stars.
The moonlight was beautiful, and her mood was beautiful at this moment.
As she embraced Su Cheng, she saw the red mark behind his ear.
In Nangong Mo's previous life before his tribulation and reincarnation, when they parted.
Although Nangong Mo had erased her memories, she actually remembered everything. His memories had not disappeared.
In this life, she had come to find Nangong Mo's new identity.
And Su Cheng was Nangong Mo.
The moment she saw Su Cheng, she felt that Su Cheng was very familiar.
It wasn't Su Cheng's face, nor his voice.
It was a sense of familiarity.
This familiar feeling, she found it in Su Cheng.
Before, she had been unsure if Su Cheng was Nangong Mo.
Su Cheng's past experiences were very tragic, and she felt very heartbroken.
But if Nangong Mo were to be reborn in this life, he wouldn't have grown into such a tall person in just a few years.
This was unreasonable.
However... she had figured this out later.
Every time her husband, Nangong Mo, underwent tribulation and reincarnated into the next life with a new identity, he would undergo "rapid growth" to become the most suitable person.
Each of her husband Nangong Mo's reincarnations and tribulations, his lifetime, was her three years.
That is to say, her three years were his lifetime.
And tonight, after talking with Su Cheng for so long, based on this familiar scent and feeling, as well as the characteristics of her husband's identity.
At this moment, she was certain.
Tears flowed down from her eyes.
Gu Qian Ying hugged Su Cheng even tighter.
Her husband, Nangong Mo, she had found him!
The moist teardrops dripped onto Su Cheng's shoulder.
Su Cheng felt it. He released Gu Qian Ying and looked at the tears at the corners of her eyes.
Su Cheng was instantly flustered, "Qian Ying, what's wrong?"
He raised his long fingers, wiping the tears from the corners of Gu Qian Ying's eyes, and asked nervously.
"Qian Ying, I'm sorry. Did I say something wrong? Qian Ying, please don't cry, okay? I deserve to be hit. You can scold me or hit me, but please don't cry, okay?"
Su Cheng didn't know how to comfort Gu Qian Ying.
His cheeks turned red from the effort. "Qian Ying, what's wrong? Please tell me, okay?"
*Puff...*
Gu Qian Ying pushed his hand away and actually laughed.
Su Cheng looked at her, completely bewildered.
"Qian Ying, you..."
I'm teasing you. I'm fine.
Gu Qian Ying lightly punched Su Cheng's chest.
Su Cheng smiled at her too.
Under the moonlight, the two figures embraced, a beautiful scene seeming to freeze at this moment.
The starry sky stretched for miles, and the air seemed to carry a sweet scent.
Just then, behind them, in the grass beside the rockery, a dark shadow suddenly flashed, followed by a strange sound.
"Who?"
Both Su Cheng and Gu Qian Ying noticed this.
They both looked towards the rockery at the same time...
"Let's go see." Su Cheng suggested, nodding to Gu Qian Ying.
They walked towards the rockery together.
At this moment, the flower branches next to the rockery were still swaying.
"The wind isn't strong tonight."
"Mmm, someone was hiding here just now."
Someone was spying on us?
Su Cheng looked at Gu Qian Ying.
Gu Qian Ying glanced around and nodded back at Su Cheng. "Yes, it seems there are still things we don't know in the Su mansion. Who else is hiding here?"
"It's late. I'll escort you back to your room."
Su Cheng decided it was not safe at the moment.
"Mmm, okay."
Su Cheng insisted on escorting Gu Qian Ying, and she didn't refuse.
After Su Cheng escorted Gu Qian Ying back to her room, he also returned to his own.
But on his way back, a voice suddenly called out, "Help!"
Su Cheng's heart leaped. He instinctively rushed back towards the room where Gu Qian Ying was staying...