Chapter 86 Dying for Her
Guan Zhiwei then noticed that Gouya was wearing mourning clothes, but the white cloth was soaked in blood and had turned completely black.
He's dying.
Such a thin body could actually bleed such a large pool of blood.
His pulse was weakening.
Speaking and smiling are just moments before death.
"As long as you're willing to engage in romance and follow the storyline, you'll gain experience points, which you can then exchange for medicine to prolong his life. You've been through all this; you know you can save him." The system suddenly announced.
"Shut up!" Guan Zhiwei snapped angrily.
Dogtooth hesitated for a moment, then said, "Xiao Guan, I'll say it one more time, then I won't say it again."
"Xiao Guan, you're so beautiful."
Guan Zhiwei brought up the display panel. "You lied again. My charm value... is ten."
For a moment she was bewildered, "Why did it go up?"
The system says: "Because someone is willing to die for you. Congratulations, you've discovered a way to increase your charm: as long as someone is willing to die for you."
Dogtooth is dead.
Guan Zhiwei looked down at him, her expression heavy, but not very sad.
She will not bow to the system, nor will she save him.
She said, “It’s no use. You’re not the first person to die for me. The first person to die for me deeply moved me, and I wept uncontrollably. I looked for his shadow in every person who followed me and took his name from them. Later, I didn’t think of him for a long time, and when I did think of him later, I had already forgotten his name.”
Dogtooth couldn't respond; his body was ice-cold.
Guan Zhiwei hugged him tightly: "Gouya, I wasn't yelling at you or telling you to shut up."
Gao Huan stood there for a while, his hands and feet getting cold, and his chest itching so badly he started coughing. He wiped the blood from his mouth, leaned closer, and gently assured him, "Leave him to me. I will take care of his funeral arrangements, prepare a thick coffin, and choose a beautiful place for him to be buried. May he be reborn into a better life next time."
"He doesn't like you," Guan Zhiwei said, rejecting him.
Gao Huan froze for a moment.
Zhi Junyuan quickly stepped forward, "Give him to me. He doesn't seem to dislike me. I'll bury him as a soldier who died a heroic death. He was very brave!"
Guan Zhiwei loosened her grip and said with a sense of loss, "My heart is as cold as ice and snow."
Zhi Junyuan took the dog tooth away, cleaned it up, and then quickly found a coffin. These days, so many people die, and coffins are hard to find.
Gao Huan coughed from the cold wind. He followed Guan Zhiwei down the city gate, but he was too tired to walk any further. Captain Liu helped him into a sheltered house.
"Si Lang, let me go find you a doctor."
"No need, I won't die anyway," Gao Huan said, covering his mouth and nose, and refused in a muffled voice.
He caught his breath, propped himself up to stand, and then did something that shocked Captain Liu to the extreme.
He picked up anything he could see and smashed it, kicked over everything he could overturn, and destroyed everything in sight like a madman, until he was so exhausted that blood was streaming from the corner of his mouth.
The room was a mess; all the porcelain was smashed, and the table was overturned. Captain Liu stood in the corner, not daring to move.
Exhausted from smashing things, Gao Huan leaned against the wall, panting heavily, his handsome face contorted in a grimace.
"Why should I!"
"What right does he have to die for Guan Zhiwei? Does he even deserve it?"
"In this world, only I have died countless times for Guan Zhiwei, only I!"
Captain Liu was so frightened that he didn't dare to say a word and kept his head down.
After a while, Gao Huan straightened his clothes and said calmly, "Whose house is this? Find their family and remember to compensate them."
"yes."
As he walked out, he gave instructions: to prohibit soldiers from looting and to maintain military discipline; to organize people to clean up the corpses in the streets to prevent the spread of plague; to conscript laborers to repair and reinforce the city's defenses; and to issue a public notice to reassure the people and allow them to continue their work.
"To prevent people from taking advantage of the chaos, we will use severe laws, including collective punishment and torture, to crack down on bandits in the next two days."
"yes."
Gao Huan was very busy; even when she lost her temper, she could only vent for a short while before throwing herself back into her work.
He knew very well that Guan Zhiwei wouldn't handle these trivial matters.
She loathed the world and didn't want to bother.
This world may have saddened her a little.
"Give the order that if you see Grand Tutor Guan, do not go up and disturb him. Give special instructions to Zhi Junyuan."
"yes."
Guan Zhiwei descended from the city gate tower and wandered aimlessly.
The autumn wind is cold, but the autumn moon is bright.
The withered leaves were blown by the wind, fluttering and falling all over the capital, covering the corpses scattered everywhere.
The corpses lay scattered about, some old, some young, all barely clothed, and all died from different causes.
The air was thick with the smell of rotting corpses; it was as if they had been devoured by the city.
Those who died were either soldiers or civilians.
The gates of those wealthy and powerful families remained tightly shut. Even if the thick walls were breached by rubble, their retainers would still guard their courtyards. They only cared about the interests of this small area and would never send anyone up the city walls.
Those who guarded the city walls were all lowly people.
Whether the emperor or the high-ranking officials fall into someone else's hands or become powerful ministers, they won't make any effort for it.
With only Dogtooth, he would defend Xiaoguan's territory even if it meant his death.
Only ordinary people, living in small houses and cramped courtyards, prayed for the city's protection.
When the Yuan army entered the city, they did not sheath their swords for three days; this was a tradition.
Guan Zhiwei unknowingly walked back to that alley, still thinking about the money Gouya had left for her.
She saw someone familiar.
Amidst the ruins, Madam Feng leaned against a large rock, her gaze vacant.
Their eyes met, and Lady Feng gradually came back to life.
"Xiao Guan?"
"It's me."
"Xiao Guan, Atu is dead."
"I saw it."
Madam Feng was about to go crazy from being cooped up.
Guan Zhiwei reached out her hand, and she gripped Guan Zhiwei's arm tightly, using a lot of force, until her finger marks turned white.
Guan Zhiwei's arm wasn't broken, but her fingers were cracking as if they were about to shatter.
“There’s no food at home. I’m going out to borrow some food from people. Forget it, I’m going out to find a man to exchange for grain. I don’t care about my reputation!” Madam Feng said carefully, holding the bag of grain. “I just wanted my son to not go hungry. I exchanged some grain for a small bag and rushed back to find my son.”
Her face suddenly contorted in a grimace. "Guess what? Yan Chunsheng couldn't keep an eye on the child. A-Tu ran out to find me and got crushed by a stone thrown in by the catapult! He was crushed to death! I was begging him for this little thing, I was just asking someone to lend a hand and help me take care of the child!"
"Ah! He deserves to die, he deserves to die! I only asked him for this little thing, I only have this one request of him!"
Guan Zhiwei looked at her quietly.
“He could die a thousand times over, but why did my child die! Atu was so small, not even as tall as the water vat!” Madam Feng wailed.
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