“Brother Yuanyuan, you’re so kind.” Gu Xin smiled, took Lu Zheng’s arm, and said, “Since you’ve already found my jade bead, then I’ll tell you! It was when I was ten years old that I saved a little carp. It was caught by a little boy from the next village. I was picking firewood in the woods behind the mountain when he was playing and his mother dragged him back home by the ear.”
“There’s a small waterfall in the back mountain of the village where people have drowned. So, the aunt from the next village didn’t want the little carp and went back scolding the little boy. I felt sorry for the little carp, so I mustered up my courage and took it back to the waterfall. Then, the little carp could talk. It gave me a fish-shaped jade pendant, saying it was a gift for me and that I shouldn’t tell anyone, or they would harm me if they found out.”
"Then I took the jade pendant home. That night, when I was washing my feet..."
Gu Xin recounted what happened a few years ago, as well as the effects of the jade beads and how her family of four used them.
Lu Zheng was initially surprised, but then he thought, if he could be reborn as he wished, what was so strange about this?
Moreover, he was especially grateful to God for the gift He had given Gu Xin, allowing her to have such a life-saving item.
"So, back when we were being chased and you were kidnapped during the Lantern Festival, I was so badly injured, and you fed me jade beads and used jade beads on my wounds?" Lu Zheng shook his head and laughed after a while.
“Yeah, I was really panicked at the time. How deep was that stab? How stupid of you! You couldn’t have stabbed me even slightly. And when we came back from Yuzhou and fell off the cliff, you carried me into that cave. I was afraid you wouldn’t make it, so I ate you too!” Gu Xin nodded and said.
"No wonder my health is getting better and better. It's all because my Xinxin fed me these good things!" Lu Zheng said proudly.
“Brother Yuanyuan, I have no secrets from you anymore! I can bully you without restraint from now on! Hehehe…” After saying it, Gu Xin felt incredibly relieved.
Over the past few years, she has gained some insights and feels that in a relationship, especially between lovers, honesty is essential. There should be no secrets. Now that there are no secrets, she feels very relaxed and can say, "I love you," openly and honestly.
Seeing that Gu Xin was visibly relieved, Lu Zheng thought for a moment and said, "Then I also have a secret I haven't told you. Since Xin Xin is so honest, then I must be honest with her too."
Gu Xin was stunned, her eyes widening in surprise.
Lu Zheng looked at Gu Xin and said, "Xin Xin, do you believe in past lives and reincarnation?"
Gu Xin pursed her lips, not understanding Lu Zheng's meaning.
Lu Zheng then asked, "If I said I remember our past lives perfectly clearly, would you believe me?"
Gu Xin became interested: "Did we have any connection in our past lives? What was I like in my past life?"
Lu Zheng said, "In your past life, you looked exactly the same as you do now—gentle, kind, the most beautiful girl in the world. When we first met in Jiangnan, I fell in love with you at first sight and took you back to the capital. But my father and stepmother objected, and the power dynamics in the court were unclear, so I had to make do with you and not marry you immediately. I thought that when I became second only to the emperor, and no one in the world dared to speak ill of you, I would marry you. Unfortunately, in the end, I couldn't protect you and lost you. So, after remembering these things in this life, I told myself that I must protect you in this lifetime."
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