That night, Gu Xicheng had a very strange dream.
He was in a dream, but only as an observer.
He saw a girl who looked a lot like Lu Qing, trapped in a magic circle, questioning the person casting the spell with a sorrowful expression.
“Jian, I know your responsibilities as a god!”
"Actually, you don't need to lie to me. Just tell me that I am willing to give up my life for peace in this world."
"Now all I want to ask you is, did you ever love me?"
The one casting the spell is a deity.
His expression was indifferent, and he showed no intention of answering the girl's question.
Until the girl began to struggle, resist, and question with heart-wrenching intensity:
"Hey, did you ever love me? Tell me!"
Only then did the deity speak:
"Gods are not moved by emotions."
Having received an answer, the girl stopped struggling and closed her eyes in despair.
As the formation was completed, her physical body gradually disappeared.
Seeing this, the god remained indifferent, but a tear slid down his cheek and was blown away by the wind.
Gu Xicheng suddenly understood the story Lu Qing had told him during the day about the girl being deceived by a scumbag. The girl who was deceived was Lu Qing's past life, Helian Qing, and the scumbag was a god.
This dream didn't belong to Gu Xicheng; it belonged to the gods.
He saw this scene in his dream, but still couldn't remember what had happened between him and Helian Qing.
He only remembered that Helian Qing was the sacrifice he had chosen to repair the vessel and seal the Wrathful King.
For the sake of peace and stability, sacrificing one person is worthwhile.
But why did he shed that last tear?
Did he really ever love her?
If that's the case, why can't he remember the feeling of love at all?
The deity seemed to realize something and closed his eyes to examine his emotions.
Sure enough, his emotional ties were severed!
He peeled it off himself!
Even if he couldn't remember it all, he could piece together the general process.
He must have truly fallen in love with Helian Qing, and therefore couldn't bear to see her die. But for the sake of the world, he chose to sever his ties of affection, forget everything between them, and forced himself to kill her with his own hands.
Upon learning the truth, the gods did not feel they had done anything wrong.
Sensing the god's thoughts, Gu Xicheng couldn't help but sneer:
"You've remembered everything, and you don't feel even a shred of remorse?"
The deity said, "If I had to do it all over again, I would still do the same thing. Compared to the life of one person, everyone would choose the life of all living beings!"
"You speak so eloquently, but you're just a coward!"
Gu Xicheng's eyes were filled with disdain.
"Sacrificing one person to save the world sounds worthwhile, but if you had just told Helian Qing about it and asked her opinion, I would have respected you as a man."
"But what did you do? You didn't say anything, you just dragged her to be sacrificed, and then you refused to admit that you loved her, leaving her to leave with sadness."
"You detach yourself from your emotions, which you call it for the sake of the world and to avoid being soft-hearted. In reality, you just don't want to bear the pain of killing your lover."
"Even if you were my past life, I can't help but want to curse you. You're just a cowardly wretch who lacks any sense of responsibility!"
After venting his anger, Gu Xicheng left to sleep, leaving Shenming alone to ponder his words.
Since his birth, he has adhered to his responsibilities as a god, with the only exception being when he fell in love with Helian Qing.
He stripped away his emotional ties, thinking it was a matter of setting things right, but Gu Xicheng's words just now completely exposed his inner cowardice.
No wonder his power weakened after he repaired the container, and he even fell into a deep sleep.
It wasn't that the formation had exhausted his power, but rather that his heart had been clouded by darkness.
That night, the gods thought a lot.
Gu Xicheng sensed all his thoughts, but Gu Xicheng was busy sleeping and didn't pay any attention to him, letting him be emotional all night.
This resulted in Gu Xicheng feeling somewhat irritable when he woke up the next day.
"I was wrong!"
Hearing the deity's dejected voice, Gu Xicheng couldn't help but feel annoyed:
"Either apologize and calm down, or shut up and stop spreading your bad mood to me, okay?"
"I'll borrow your body for a bit!"
After saying that, the deity directly took over Gu Xicheng's body.
Lu Qing was groggily shaken awake, and when she opened her eyes, she saw Gu Xicheng looking at her.
"Gu Xicheng, why did you wake me up so early?" Lu Qing asked, looking sleepy.
"I want to apologize to you!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Qing was stunned for a moment, then realized that this was a deity, not Gu Xicheng.
She quickly reached out and pulled the blanket over herself.
Fortunately, she doesn't have the habit of sleeping naked. Even after she and Gu Xicheng did *that*, she would take a shower and change into her pajamas, otherwise she would have been completely exposed by now.
Lu Qing stared at the god with a face full of black lines:
"Are you crazy?! Why are you apologizing to me first thing in the morning?!"
"To be precise, it's an apology to your past life!"
As he spoke, the deity rose from his bed and bowed in an ancient gesture of respect:
"I'm sorry! I have no feelings for you now, but my feelings for you were real. I chose to forget because I didn't want to bear the pain of killing my lover."
Lu Qing was about to say that Helian Qing from her previous life had long since lost consciousness, but at that moment, she seemed to feel something dissipate in her sea of consciousness.
In the darkness, she vaguely heard a girl's voice:
"Jun, I forgive you!"
That might be the last vestige of Helian Qing's obsession, hidden deep within her consciousness.
After realizing that he had truly loved her, her obsession dissipated.
Lu Qing sighed softly:
"Forgiving so easily, what a silly girl!"
The deity heard the forgiveness and then returned to silence in the sea of consciousness.
Gu Xicheng regained control of his body and took another nap while holding Lu Qing.
The two were woken up by a phone call when the sun was high in the sky.
Gu Xicheng reached out and touched the phone, then opened it to find that it was a call from Meng Lianyun.
"Meng Lianyun, you'd better have something extremely urgent to do, or don't blame me for being impolite!"
Gu Xicheng, who had been woken up, spoke in an extremely unfriendly tone.
Across from him, Meng Lianyun chuckled awkwardly:
"Old Gu, it's already past nine o'clock, I didn't expect you to still be in bed!"
Gu Xicheng: "What is it? Speak quickly!"
Meng Lianyun: "Do you still remember our elementary school classmate, Zou Jiakai?"
Gu Xicheng thought about it carefully and said:
"The one who almost burned down the principal's office with us?"
Meng Lianyun: "Yes! It's him! He's getting married and wants to invite you and Lu Qing to the wedding."
Gu Xicheng asked in confusion, "I haven't been in contact with him since elementary school graduation. Why would he suddenly think of inviting me and Qingqing?"
"I told you, he invited you not only to attend the wedding, but more importantly, he wants you to catch a ghost," Meng Lianyun said with a smile.
"Catching ghosts???" Gu Xicheng immediately snapped out of his daze.
Lu Qing also came to her senses upon hearing this:
"What ghost are you catching?"
Meng Lianyun: "I knew you would be interested in this. It seems he is haunted by an evil spirit. He held three weddings, and someone died each time. He also keeps dreaming of a female ghost."
"If you help him resolve this matter, I'll give you a top-grade jade unicorn. How about that?"
Upon hearing this, Gu Xicheng knew that Meng Lianyun must have reached some business deal with Zou Jiakai.
Gu Xicheng asked Lu Qing for her opinion, and Lu Qing nodded repeatedly.
"Set a time, and we'll go check out the details."
Hearing that Gu Xicheng had agreed, Meng Lianyun couldn't stop smiling, which showed how much benefit this matter would bring him.
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