Gu Xin blinked: "Brother Yuanyuan, are you dreaming?"
Lu Zheng was taken aback, thought for a moment, and said, "It was a dream! You were in my dream, really."
Gu Xin asked curiously, "Did you carry me up a long staircase in your dream, a staircase that seemed to have no end? Did you take me to a lantern festival, on a bustling street, and buy all the little tiger lanterns? And also, on the canal, I was on a very big and beautiful boat, and someone wanted to kill me!"
Lu Zheng laughed: "Yes. In the dream, the stairs were at Baiyun Temple in Suzhou, and they were very, very long. You little lazybones, you only climbed halfway up, and you rested in the pavilion, playing around with me, and ended up hurting your leg. You couldn't go up or down, so in the end, I had to carry you on my back! The little tiger lantern, that was before we left Suzhou, when we went to the lantern festival. The assassination attempt on the ship was by my stepmother's men who came to kill me."
Gu Xin exclaimed in surprise, "I dreamed about it too! It was a very long staircase, seemingly endless, and someone was carrying me on their back. Their back was very broad, and their aura was very warm. They spoke very gently! You know, it scared me to death! I thought I was dreaming about another man! The lanterns in my dream were so cute and beautiful. Is this really real?"
Lu Zheng nodded: "It really exists. I'll take you there when we have time! This time, I'll carry you up the mountain from the bottom, okay? Let's do it next year's Lantern Festival. I'll take you to Jiangnan, and I'll buy all the little tiger lanterns in Suzhou for you. I'll have someone build you the biggest and most beautiful ship in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, and we'll set off from the capital to Jiangnan together. This time, there won't be any more assassination attempts!"
Gu Xin smiled so hard her eyes narrowed: "Great! I'm not going to do anything when I get back. I'm going to have a blast for a year! Yuan Yuan, take me everywhere you go!"
Lu Zheng: "Okay!"
Gu Xin asked again, "In Yuan Yuan's dream, did my father become an official in Jiangnan? That's why Yuan Yuan met me in Jiangnan?"
Lu Zheng shook his head: "No. In the dream, you were different from now. Second Uncle and Second Aunt, Sister Nian Nian, and Grandpa, Grandma, Uncle, and Fourth Uncle were all absent. Perhaps, in the dream, you were like Madam Li, a lost little girl!"
Gu Xin was terrified: "Thank goodness, it was just a dream. My parents and sister wouldn't lose me! Even if I were lost, look, I've already wandered all the way to the west, and my parents and sister are still looking for me. Brother Yuanyuan, it must have been you who brought me to the capital in the dream, which is why my parents couldn't find me."
Lu Zheng: "Then I'm sorry, Xin Xin. Can Xin Xin forgive me?"
Gu Xin waved her hand: "Those were all just dreams. But if you want me to forgive you, when we get back, you have to redo all the places you took me to in your dream and all the things we did!"
Lu Zheng smiled: "Okay!"
Gu Xin asked again, "Your stepmother harmed you and killed me. Did you get revenge on her in the end? Did you avenge me? Also, did you marry someone else? Did you sleep with other girls? Did you have children with other girls? Did you do anything to betray me?"
Lu Zheng raised his hand and swore: "Absolutely not. Whether in dreams or reality, I, Lu Zheng, have only ever loved Gu Xin. I have never married anyone else, never touched anyone else, and never done anything to betray Gu Xin, the third daughter of the Gu family. Heaven above, I, Lu Zheng, hereby swear that in my heart there is only one woman, Gu Xin, the third daughter of the Gu family. In this life and the next, I will never betray her. If I break this oath, may I be struck by lightning, my soul scattered, and never be reincarnated!"
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