Chapter 46 He is the only legacy "Only one of us, him or me, survived, you..."
Li Yuheng looked at Gu Shanyue, and Gu Shanyue also looked at Li Yuheng.
The atmosphere became slightly tense. Li Yaoguang's eyes darted left and right. She had thought she would be able to see some gossip today, but unexpectedly, Qi Baitong was completely listless. Only Li Yuheng and Gu Shanyue were exchanging barbs, and the atmosphere was quite tense.
"Um... cough cough, I don't feel very hungry. I'll go to the third floor for some tea."
Li Yaoguang knew he should tactfully leave as soon as he saw the back of Li Yuheng's head.
As soon as she left, Nanxing naturally followed, leaving only a white lacquer tree standing in the field.
Li Yuheng turned around, his eyes full of impatience. Before he could even curse, Li Yaoguang gave him a look, and Nanxing grabbed Qi Baitong and pulled him up: "Let's go!"
Logically speaking, Nanxing shouldn't have been strong enough to pull Qi Baitong up, but only Li Yuheng turned around. Gu Shanyue didn't turn around to look at him, so Qi Baitong let Nanxing take him away.
If this is what she wants, then he can leave.
The actors on the stage had all left at some point, leaving only Gu Shanyue and Li Yuheng on the vast second floor, apart from Jiang Feng.
Gu Shanyue ate his food, gazing at the distant waters stretching to the horizon, shrouded in mist.
Li Yuheng looked at her profile for a long while, then said softly, "Sister, I've disappointed you, haven't I?"
Since that day, the two seemed to have tacitly erased the argument, and no one mentioned it again, but Li Yuheng could sense that subtle change.
In the past, if he had pleaded more, Gu Shanyue might have stayed after the wedding. But now it's different; his intuition tells him that Gu Shanyue will leave immediately after the wedding.
This feeling was terrifying, as if he was no longer so important or special to her.
Gu Shanyue nodded: "Yes."
She just admitted it.
She's always been like this, and Li Yuheng should have gotten used to it by now, but he didn't expect that an expected answer could be so painful.
My heart beat weakly, like a crumpled sheet of rice paper.
After a moment of silence, Li Yuheng spoke up: "Is it because of the lacquer tree?"
Gu Shanyue frowned: "It doesn't matter who it is."
“I understand now. I shouldn’t have lied to you, I shouldn’t have kept anything from you, and I shouldn’t have broken my promise to you…”
Li Yuheng spoke one sentence after another, looking at Gu Shanyue with pleading and longing, as if he wanted to touch her but dared not.
"Sister, Yu'er really knows she was wrong. Please forgive me this time. You're really the only family I have left..."
Gu Shanyue sighed silently when he heard the last part.
"There's no point in asking for forgiveness. You're all grown up now. Do you think I can discipline you like I did when you were a child? I can't control you, and you don't need to ask me for forgiveness."
Li Yuheng shook his head vigorously, gave Gu Shanyue a smile revealing his tiger teeth, and grabbed her sleeve.
“Yes, I’m still your Yu’er no matter how old I am. I want you to forgive me for liking me and disciplining me,” he said stubbornly, like a child. “I want it all.”
Gu Shanyue thought for a moment, put down her chopsticks, and looked at him.
Do you remember your senior sister's birthday?
She took her senior sister's body out of the palace and buried it in Zhuoguang Mountain.
For the past ten years, every year on her birthday, the two of them would go to her grave to talk to her.
Since she sent Li Yuheng back to the palace, she had written to him in the past two years, but he always said he was too busy to come back and never returned to Zhuoguang Mountain or to his senior sister's tombstone.
When Li Yuheng met those dark, pure eyes, he couldn't help but look away for a moment.
"I... of course I remember, it will be in half a month."
Gu Shanyue's brows relaxed slightly: "Alright, this year you'll come back with me to see your senior sister, do you agree?"
Li Yuheng looked troubled. Emperor Yong was seriously ill, the Third Prince's faction was stirring up trouble, and there were undercurrents among the court officials. It was already difficult for him to find time to accompany Gu Shanyue. Lately, he had been busy until the third watch of the night.
The journey to Zhuoguang Mountain is long and arduous; it will take at least ten days to reach it…
"You won't agree?" Gu Shanyue's face was covered with a thin layer of frost.
"Of course not!"
Li Yuheng instinctively retorted, knowing all too well how much Gu Shanyue valued Wushan Jade.
He sighed softly, "I will go back to Zhuoguang Mountain with you."
Gu Shanyue confirmed, "Really?"
Li Yuheng: "Really."
Gu Shanyue's expression softened, and the corners of her mouth curved into a smile.
She smiled, and Li Yuheng smiled too: "Happy now?"
Gu Shanyue nodded, her eyes shining: "Senior sister hasn't seen you for two years. You've grown so much taller. She'll definitely be very happy to see you like this."
Li Yuheng smiled and shook his head. How could a dead person still look like a living person? He never believed in such things.
"As long as you're happy."
"Of course I'm happy."
Gu Shanyue's lips curled up, the wind blowing through her hair, carefree and unrestrained.
Li Yuheng knew he had appeased the man, but the lingering resentment in his heart began to resurface: "Actually, I didn't want to lie to you like that, I just..."
Gu Shanyue raised an eyebrow: "Just what?"
“From childhood to adulthood, you have always been the closest person to me, and I have always been the closest person to you. There has never been anyone else,” Li Yuheng said, looking up at Gu Shanyue. “But now there is Qi Baitong. I’m wondering if you will abandon me for him?”
Gu Shanyue grew increasingly confused: "What? What are you talking about?"
What does this have to do with anything?
Besides, her closest person is clearly her senior sister, not him.
“He scares me. Does he want to take you away? Sister, I don’t want you to leave me.” Li Yuheng hugged her shoulders, rested his forehead against her shoulder, and gently rocked her.
Gu Shanyue was utterly puzzled: "You're the one who always hits him, what are you afraid of?"
As she looked down, Li Yuheng leaned against her like a small animal, reminding her of when she was a child and would lean on her senior sister like that.
She loved hugging her senior sister the most, loved the scent of her senior sister, loved the way her senior sister's hair brushed against her face, loved the way her senior sister's slightly rough fingers ran through her hair, loved the way her senior sister touched her head...
So Gu Shanyue reached out and gently stroked Li Yuheng's head.
"No one can take me away. I'm here, and I'll always be here."
She couldn't help but be gentle with him; he was her senior's child, the only bloodline she had left in this world.
Li Yuheng looked up and laughed with delight, his eyes narrowing and revealing tiny, rice-grain-like canine teeth at the corners of his mouth, just like his senior sister's smile.
Gu Shanyue's eyes were slightly dazed. The face of the person in front of him seemed to gradually overlap with the face of the person in his memory, as if time had reversed and everything in the past had returned.
Li Yuheng held her hand and kissed it: "Sister, I'm more important than him, aren't I?"
Gu Shanyue nodded again: "Of course you are more important."
In this world, no one is more important than him. As long as he lives, his senior sister's shadow will forever linger, giving her a moment to indulge in it.
Li Yuheng's smile widened; he knew it must be like this.
"If only one of us can live, and the other dies, who would you save?"
Gu Shanyue was stunned: "What?"
"Only one of us can live, Qi Baitong or I. Who do you choose?" Li Yuheng smiled at her, tilting his head as he asked, "Sister?"
Gu Shanyue found the question absurd.
"Why can only one live? With my martial arts skills, I can protect you, and I can protect him too."
"What if?"
"What if?"
"Who knows? What if that happens?" Li Yuheng could barely maintain his smile, his hand holding Gu Shanyue's trembling slightly. "Why won't you answer? Is it because you want him to live and me to die?"
Gu Shanyue remained silent for a moment, then sighed and firmly grasped his trembling, cold hand.
"I will let you live."
Li Yuheng's pale face seemed to instantly regain color, and his smile became genuine: "Sister, you chose me, didn't you? If only one of us could live, you would definitely choose me, right?"
He repeated it over and over, and Gu Shanyue gave him an affirmative answer once again.
"I choose you to live."
As soon as he finished speaking, a dull thud echoed from the corridor outside the window, as if someone had accidentally bumped into something.
Li Yuheng was startled and turned around: "Who's there!"
Gu Shanyue remained motionless and did not turn around: "It was Qi Baitong. He has already left."
Li Yuheng's expression shifted several times, then he suddenly realized, "He was just outside? He heard everything?"
Gu Shanyue calmly replied, "Yes."
A look of almost ecstatic joy spread across Li Yuheng's face, and his voice was so loud it sounded like he was about to jump up.
"You always knew he was there, but you still chose me!"
Gu Shanyue's lips naturally curled up, as if she were smiling, and she glanced sideways at Li Yuheng.
"I chose you not just to tell you, it doesn't matter who asks or who listens. When it comes to life and death, I will always choose you."
If she failed to protect Li Yuheng and caused Li Yuheng to die prematurely, how could she face her senior sister in the afterlife?
She knew her senior sister wouldn't blame her, but she would never let her senior sister be sad.
Therefore, she chose Li Yuheng.
Under Li Yuheng's excited, shining gaze, Gu Shanyue raised her hand and, just as she had done countless times before, touched his face with gentle eyes.
He was the only memento his senior sister left in this world.
Li Yuheng's chest heaved as he grasped Gu Shanyue's hand that was stroking his face; his palm was burning hot.
"I knew it, sister, you will always be mine, only mine."
His voice trembled slightly with excitement. Before Gu Shanyue could speak, he pressed down on the table, his palms bulging with force, and leaned closer to Gu Shanyue.
Gu Shanyue didn't dodge, but looked at him with suspicion, wondering what he was going to do.
Li Yuheng's eyes were slightly closed, and the distance between the two was so close that it made Gu Shanyue's scalp tingle.
From this angle and in this posture, if she understood correctly, Li Yuheng was going to kiss her?
His breath brushed against her cheek, and Gu Shanyue leaned back, pulling away before his lips could press down on hers.
"what you do?"
Li Yuheng opened his eyes, and Gu Shanyue leaned back, his eyes wide open, his face full of astonishment, as if he had been frightened by his action.
Li Yuheng smiled slightly, then leaned forward, "Why do you look so surprised, sister? You like me, but I like you even more, don't you understand, sister?"
"not understand."
Gu Shanyue pushed Li Yuheng away with considerable force. Li Yuheng fell back into his seat, his elbow hitting the corner of the table. He hissed, clutching his elbow, but continued to laugh.
He was overjoyed that Gu Shanyue said she would always choose him.
Gu Shanyue was different from everyone else. No one else mattered to her; she only cared about him and was always behind him.
She is his.
"Sister, are you angry?"
Li Yuheng leaned over the table, looking at Gu Shanyue with his face turned to the side. He hadn't been drinking, but he seemed drunk, his face flushed and his eyes filled with tenderness.
Gu Shanyue felt goosebumps all over from his gaze, and she rubbed her arm vigorously: "Have you taken the wrong medicine?"
Li Yuheng was eccentric and had wild thoughts when he was a child, and he is still the same now. He doesn't know what he is thinking about every day, and he asks strange questions. It seems like he is possessed.
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