Dual Personality
The spring water splashed against the stones. Gu Youan lowered her head slightly and placed her hand on her heart. She could no longer feel Qingyang.
She glanced at Jiannan silently, but he didn't dare look her in the eye. "I know you want to go out to see him, but the back mountain isn't a place you can just come and go as you please."
"I know you have the ability to get me out of here."
Jiannan suddenly chuckled, "How can you be so sure I can take you out?"
Gu Youan slowly stood up. "Bai He set up this trap, and you were the one who spearheaded it. I believe you can lead me out to see Qingyang."
Jiannan placed the water glass on the table. "If you leave, I will be held responsible."
Gu Youan looked closely into Jiannan's eyes. "Most of the people here are connected to the drought of that year. Jiannan, who were you before you entered the Emperor's Ship?"
Jiannan may seem like a playboy, but he is actually very shrewd. It is hardest to change a person's little habits. He is someone who lives in the back mountains but pays the most attention to the neatness of his clothes. He could not have been born into a poor family.
Long, slender fingers and smooth nails are things that only people from wealthy families pay attention to.
Jiannan picked up the teacup and handed it to Gu Youan, saying, "Our goals are the same, Gu Youan."
Just as Gu Youan caught the teacup, Jian Nan suddenly let go. A hint of surprise flashed in her eyes, and she steadily caught the teacup.
She glanced at his retracted right hand. "You want to attack me? It seems your true identity wasn't discovered by the Emperor's Ship."
Jiannan's expression changed. "Has anyone ever told you that people who are too smart can bring about their own demise?"
Gu Youan smiled gently, "People only die from their own stupidity."
Jiannan raised his eyes and said, "You are smart and beautiful enough, but people die from their own arrogance. Don't know things you shouldn't know. People who know too many secrets will die a violent death."
Gu Youan looked down at the tea in her hand and slipped the drug into it the instant Jian Nan let go.
"Jiannan, your identity is useless to me. I just want to see Qingyang right now."
Jiannan looked at her chest and said, "This Gu worm has such a great effect on you, Gu Youan. Do you know that the Gu worm planted in your body is a love Gu? But now he has lost his memory. Every time you get close to him, his love will grow a little stronger. But if he remembers his past memories, how will you deal with it?"
“I don’t want to know what happened between you two, but when I met him, he was already my drug user. My drug user’s life or death is unknown. Am I just supposed to sit here and wait to die?”
Jiannan suddenly lowered his head and pressed down on her shoulder, "He is not your medicine man, Xuanji. Here, you can only protect yourself."
Gu Youan looked up at him and said, "Is it wrong for me to want to see my drug patient, Sheng Jingche?"
His right hand wrapped around her neck. "You're so smart, Gu Youan. If that drought had happened a few years later, your three brothers wouldn't have died."
"You entered the Emperor's Ship under the identity of Jing Che, concealing your surname. What is your purpose in coming to Dayong, Young Marquis Sheng?"
The Sheng family of Shengguo is the most powerful clan. Sheng Jingche must have a secret to hide for entering Dayong under someone else's identity.
Gu Youan gently lowered his hand. "I'm not interested in your identity. I only want to see Qingyang right now!"
Jiannan sighed, "Gu Youan, Qingyang won't die. From the moment you planted the Gu worm, his fate was intertwined with yours."
Gu Sheng, the Sheng family—is this a coincidence or a premeditated scheme?
If the Gu family really colluded with Shengguo, then Gu Youan was abandoned several times, or perhaps Gu Youan was originally a pawn of the Gu family, a pawn planted by the Gu family in the Xie family, only to be rendered useless in the end.
“Host, don’t get stuck in your own mental dead end. There is currently no evidence to prove that the Gu family is colluding with the enemy and betraying the country.”
Gu Youan's pupils contracted. "Are you trying to mislead me?"
Jiannan gave a wicked smile, "Don't you already have the answer in your heart?"
Gu Youan pulled out the hairpin from her hair and stabbed it hard into his shoulder. Jian Nan leaned to the side, grabbed his wrist tightly, and snatched the hairpin away.
"Do you think your martial arts are invincible? You even learned to use sneak attacks like others. Xuanji, you've only been on the Emperor's ship for a short time, yet you've already learned demonic arts, thinking you can improve your power with them. You're wrong. Underestimating others is your weakness."
He reinserted the jade hairpin into her hair, saying, "Don't use hairpins to hurt people; it will only expose your identity."
Gu Youan snorted coldly, and Jian Nan pinched her face, "Let me tell you, Gu Youan, only the strong can freely enter and leave the back mountain. You can only go to see him when you are strong enough, otherwise you will only cause him trouble."
“Please call me Xuanji! Sheng Jingche!” she retorted defiantly.
"It's rare for Young Master Sheng to do this kind of servant work." These past few days, Jian Nan has been taking care of her personally, allowing her to live a comfortable life.
"Serving you is what I should do, Xuanji. You are the one we chose."
Her eyes were vacant. She felt like someone else had said those words to her, but she couldn't remember who.
"I never imagined I had such great abilities."
Jiannan stroked his face, "We believe you can become the best assassin."
"He's my medicine person, he can protect my safety, and I'm his medicine too, right?"
Jiannan turned his head to look at Gu Youan, "You and Qingyang complement each other. Qingyang will be able to help you in the future, and your timely appearance also saved her life."
Jiannan touched Gu Youan's cheek, "Xuanji, you can't go see her yet. Alchemists can't have selfish motives towards their medicine practitioners, and the Emperor's position on you is still unclear."
"Whether I am an alchemist or an assassin, I will do my utmost."
Jiannan shook his head. "Xuanji, no one can escape unscathed from an assassination. Once the assassins of the Emperor's Ship are caught, their fate is extremely tragic. Even if you are invincible, you are still a woman. There are too many ways to deal with a woman."
She wasn't someone who liked to pry into other people's pasts, but since Jiannan had come all the way from the Sheng Kingdom, she also wanted to know Jiannan's purpose. The drought had only affected Dayong.
"You, a citizen of Sheng Kingdom, why do you insist on coming to Dayong to stir up trouble in the court?"
Jiannan chuckled, "There are no absolute positions in anything in the world. I am a citizen of Sheng Kingdom, and I am also a member of the Emperor's Ship."
“Xuanji, from the day you came here, you are first and foremost Xuanji, and only then Gu Youan. No matter what happens, you must remember to restrain your behavior as an envoy of the Emperor.”
Gu Youan frowned. She came to the Emperor's Ship so that she would have the means to fight against the male lead in the future, but Jian Nan meant that he wanted her to take on the responsibility of the Emperor's Ship!
She began to wonder how she could become a leader.
Gu Youan said softly, her voice revealing a sense of helplessness, "I just want to find out the cause of my brother's death, and I just want to know the truth about the drought back then."
Jiannan looked at her mockingly, "Xuanji, the drought is inextricably linked to the royal family, otherwise how do you explain how a small drought could quickly sweep across the country?"
In the year the drought occurred, Dayong and Sheng were about to go to war, but at that very moment, a drought greatly weakened Dayong's strength.
This drought saved Dayong and Shengguo from another drought, but it also left nine out of ten houses in Dayong empty. Later, there were rumors that it was the work of the witch people of Shengguo.
After a drought comes locusts, and the corpses bring plague. It's like a cycle, and the plague will cause more deaths.
"Are you a member of the Witch Clan?" Jiannan concealed the darkness in her eyes, but Gu Youan still noticed her difference. It was rumored that the Witch Clan members were born with alluring bodies. Among the seven, Xingxiu seemed to be the most charming, but in reality, Jiannan was the most attractive.
Gu Youan looked up at him. Who wouldn't like such a lively man? She suddenly thought of her junior high school deskmate, who had accompanied her throughout her youth. She lowered her head again, thinking that she would be attracted to people with a sunny personality for the rest of her life.
“Xuanji, no one here has any secrets. Instead of guessing what my purpose is, you should become one of the Twelve Messengers as soon as possible, leave the Emperor’s Ship, return to the Gu family, and investigate what happened back then.”
He stroked her hair. “Instead of guessing my purpose, I’m more curious about yours. You were only three years old when your brother died. I heard that after Miss Gu fell seriously ill, her personality changed drastically. She used to be timid, but suddenly came to the Emperor’s Ship.”
Gu Youan grabbed his hand, "Whether it's a chaotic world or a prosperous one, the lives of ordinary people are as insignificant as ants. I just want to fight for myself and ask for a chance to live."
The young witch was skilled in using Gu poison, half cold and half lively. When Gu Youan mentioned Sheng Jingche, he would become agitated, but when Jiannan was mentioned, he would return to normal.
"Host, are you guessing that Jiannan has a dual personality?"
"I think he has a split personality."
“Host, I have not detected that Jiannan is a person with a split personality.”
"If you can discover the true identities of the people around me, wouldn't I be cheating?" Although she had transmigrated into the book, she felt powerless to control the characters. Even though she knew the fates of the characters in the book, she was not the strongest person here.
She lowered her head slightly, feeling a little disappointed.
Jiannan looked at her, "You've recovered these past few days; the next challenge is about to begin!"
"Ah!" Gu Youan looked at her in shock.
"What do you mean, 'ah'? Xuanji, do you want to stay here forever?"
"Those who cannot pass the test cannot leave. Don't you want to see Qingyang?"
"Do you want to become the number one assassin?"
"But I want to rest too!" Gu Youan looked up at her. Since entering this place, she hadn't been able to rest unless she was unconscious. But she was just a child. What child would accept such harsh training?
"Rest? It seems I've been serving you so well that you don't even want to train anymore. As long as you become the number one assassin of the Emperor, I will serve you every day. Xuanji, you can't slack off."
Gu Youan smiled slightly. Sure enough, her guess was right. There was another personality inside Jiannan's body.
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