Chapter 67 67 But. But.

"Aren't you in District 53?" Liang Guanyue looked at Fu Yunlu expressionlessly. "Why did you suddenly come here?"

"Help me! Help!" Theo shouted to Fu Yunlu as if he saw hope, "This man is going to kill me!!"

"Noisy." Liang Guanyue rolled his eyes slightly to the right, then squatted down, raised his hand, and knocked the noisy Alpha unconscious with the base. He patted Theo's face, making sure he was unconscious before looking up at Fu Yunlu. "You interrupted what I was doing."

Fu Yunlu rushed over with a face full of anger. He snatched Liang Guanyue's revolver and threw it away fiercely. Liang Guanyue raised an eyebrow and smiled: "What if it breaks?"

"Liang Guanyue!" Fu Yunlu grabbed his collar and said through gritted teeth, "Are you crazy?!"

Liang Guanyue asked in return, "Fu Yunlu, what qualifications do you have to meddle in my affairs?"

"..." Fu Yunlu was stunned. His lips trembled, as if he wanted to say something in rebuttal, but in the end he couldn't find a suitable reason. He said in disbelief, "Is this all you want to say to me?"

Liang Guanyue sneered mockingly: "What else? What do I need to say to you? I reminded you, Fu Yunlu, it's meaningless to waste your time on me. You think too highly of me——"

"You've spent so much effort to get to the main city, and now you want to destroy everything in the past for someone you've never met?!" Fu Yunlu raised his voice. Liang Guanyue's harsh words made him more angry than the fact that Liang Guanyue gave up on him. It was like a grown-up looking back at his younger self. Self-abandonment was far more unacceptable than the blow of external disasters.

Liang Guanyue was silent for a long time before saying, "So what does this have to do with you?"

"...Do you hate him so much?" Fu Yunlu's hands were shaking. He said hoarsely, "Liang Guanyue, do you really have to kill him yourself? Can't you... think a little more about how I feel?"

"I don't hate him, but I want to kill him." Liang Guanyue stared into his eyes quietly, "Just like I didn't hate you before, but I wanted to take revenge on you. It's the same principle, do you understand?"

"What happens after you kill him?"

"Escape from the main city." Liang Guanyue said calmly, "Go to the administrative district fifty or so miles away. There will always be places beyond the reach of the law."

Fu Yunlu demanded, "What about the company? Are you just going to leave it alone? Did Stello University produce a murderer? Liang Guanyue, you can't let all your efforts go to waste."

Liang Guanyue said indifferently: "What does it matter? I can survive anywhere. It's just that living in the main city makes me feel more relaxed."

"You told me that you risked your life to leave your hometown—"

"My roots are there," Liang Guanyue said calmly. "I've cheated, harmed, and killed people. Those scars won't fade away with the seemingly glamorous days of these past few years. So, although it's a pity to go back, it can be said that fallen leaves return to their roots."

"..." Fu Yunlu said hopelessly, "Trust me."

Liang Guanyue pushed his trembling hand away.

“…Trust me.”

Liang Guanyue said calmly: "You are still under supervision from all parties, so don't get yourself into trouble."

"Liang Guanyue." Fu Yunlu covered his eyes. He bent down, resting his head on Liang Guanyue's shoulder, and said in a hoarse voice, "Let me kill him for you, is that not okay?"

Liang Guanyue frowned at Fu Yunlu and reminded her, "Fu Yunlu, you are no longer the Fourth Prince who had absolute control over the main city. Even entering and leaving the main city needs to be inspected. If the Supervisory Office finds anything unusual, you will be thoroughly investigated."

"..." Fu Yunlu choked up, "Trust me, Liang Guanyue. Give me your trust just once, just this once." He raised his head, tears escaping from his eyes and falling on the back of Liang Guanyue's hand. He murmured, "...I beg you, is that not possible?"

The back of Liang Guanyue's hand seemed to be burned by the tear, and he pulled it back suddenly. He opened his mouth, then slowly closed it. Before he knew it, his thumb wiped away the tears that were about to flow from the corners of Fu Yunlu's eyes.

They might have stared at each other for a long time, or perhaps just a second. Liang Guanyue couldn't remember anything after that. He only knew that Fu Yunlu put her arms around him and gently patted his back, as if comforting a crying baby. Fu Yunlu said, "If you don't hate, let me hate for you, okay?"

Liang Guanyue lowered his eyes and stared absentmindedly at his father who was still unconscious on the ground - he and Theo probably had another similarity, which was that he always brought trouble, sadness, and misfortune to those who loved him.

This is true for Liang Mengwei and Fu Yunlu.

Regarding today's incident, Liang Guanyue thought that perhaps some of his words were too extreme.

"Falling in love with me never leads to good results," Liang Guanyue said. "Fu Yunlu, I thought I wouldn't be controlled by my emotions, but when I confirmed that Theo was my biological father, I was already thinking about how to kill him."

"I don't even have the last good quality worth mentioning anymore," Liang Guanyue told him. "What do you still like about me? This face? Or some fantasy about me that I can't even fathom?"

Fu Yunlu hugged him tightly and said gently, "Liang Guanyue, your mother's death is not your fault."

Liang Guanyue said: "You are wrong, I have never felt sorry for her death."

Fu Yunlu didn't refute him, but continued, "In order to survive, when laws and morals can no longer guarantee it, people with nowhere else to go do things that may violate them. This is not unforgivable."

"You are too young to face the world, and you are simply helpless. The bad things you have done in the past do not mean that you are hopeless. Your roots are not on that distant planet, but in yourself."

Liang Guanyue replied indifferently: "You are very good at making excuses for me."

Fu Yunlu smiled: "Liang Guanyue, do you know what the first thing a person learns when they grow up?"

"..." Liang Guanyue felt that she probably didn't want to hear it very much.

Fu Yunlu held his face in her hands, kissed his forehead, and softly spoke as if she were telling a story that was very far away from the present: "Learn to be tolerant of your past self who was weak, ignorant, and cruel."

Liang Guanyue looked at Fu Yunlu: "That doesn't make sense."

"The moment we're born, the only burden on our shoulders is the first cry we make when we open our mouths," Fu Yunlu said. "After that, life will continue to pile up more and more. If we can't even forgive our past, the future will be difficult."

The traces of tears were still on Fu Yunlu's face, but she had to put on a smile and try to comfort Liang Guanyue: "I want you to stand tall and walk towards a bright future."

"..." Liang Guanyue remained silent for a long time, then suddenly asked, "Fu Yunlu, what about you?"

"What?"

"Have you learned to forgive your past self?"

“…”

Did he learn it? Fu Yunlu wondered. She might never learn it in her lifetime.

Liang Guanyue said: "Your great principles cannot convince yourself."

He held a high position but was unable to face the cruelty that was evaded. He made countless mistakes, and the consequences and impacts they brought were far more serious than those of ordinary people. Therefore, Fu Yunlu could not easily forgive the past.

but.

but.

"If your future is bright, I think that seeing you happy might give me more courage to shoulder my past mistakes and move towards the light that belongs to me."

This is how Fu Yunlu answered him.

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The author has something to say: I'll see if I can find time to slowly revise the story next week... It's such a headache.