Chapter 155: Fateful Fate

It was the third time that Yu Hexi and Gu Wuhui met after they had gone their separate ways again. They met in a border town. Their luck was bad.

They encountered the Tatar army entering the city to plunder civilians, burning, killing, and looting. They did all kinds of evil.

The city was called Qingxiao City, which was on the border, and outside the city gate was the Tatar territory.

They robbed food and women, and they would naturally not let go of a beautiful woman like Yu Hexi.

Although Yu Hexi was good at martial arts, she could not withstand a large number of people. Even if she kept wielding the long sword in her hand, as long as the enemy was not dead, she would always run out of strength.

Her face was splattered with the enemy's blood, and her dress was stained red. Her hand holding the sword was shaking and weak.

Looking at the Tatars who were gathering around her cautiously, she closed her eyes and put the long sword on her neck.

She was the only daughter of the general Yu Jianghe of Zhenguo. Her pride would never allow herself to fall into the hands of the enemy.

Moreover, if one day the Tatars knew her identity, she would become her father's soft spot and a sharp blade to stab the soldiers of Xuan Dynasty.

Because such a thing must not be allowed to happen.

So she, Yu Hexi, would never regret dying.

At the moment when the sword pierced her skin, warm blood fell on her face. Her eyelashes trembled slightly and she opened her eyes.

Standing in front of her was Gu Wuhui.

He didn't carry a sword, so he caught the sword that was stabbing at Yu Hexi with his hand, but the force of the sword was too great, it cut through his palm and stabbed into his chest.

It left a wound that was neither deep nor shallow.

Gu Wuhui kicked the Tatar in front of him away, and said to Yu Hexi without even turning his head.

"My men will be here soon, Miss Yu, hold on for a while."

If you hold on for a while, we can all go back alive.

If you can't hold on, maybe we will die here together.

Yu Hexi looked at his back, feeling a little powerless.

"I have no strength left."

She finished speaking, lowered her head, and held a white jade porcelain bottle in one hand and handed it to her.

She knew what it was, a life-saving pill that could restore a person's full strength and vitality. It lasted for twelve hours, after which the person would become exhausted and die.

The medicine was precious, and only the royal family had it, but there was only one pill.

It was used to keep one alive.

Yu Hexi looked at Gu Wuhui's back, and glanced at the Tatars around her. She gritted her teeth, took the bottle from Gu Wuhui, popped the cork on the bottle, and poured the pill into her mouth.

She stood up and leaned back against Gu Wuhui, her strength recovering quickly.

"When will your people arrive?"

"A quarter of an hour."

"Okay."

...

That sword, that moment, changed the image of Gu Wuhui in Yu Hexi's eyes.

After being rescued, they were even sent to the same clinic, sitting next to each other on the old wooden chairs in the clinic.

Yu Hexi leaned back in the chair and raised her arm to cover her eyes. Her right hand was injured more seriously, and her body was just exhausted. She would recover after a rest.

Gu Wuhui's chest injury was more serious.

The doctor was bandaging him.

"You are a prince, why are you wandering around all over the world?"

Yu Hexi felt a little magical, why did she and Gu Wuhui always meet.

The doctor had bandaged and left to see other patients. Gu Wuhui answered while getting dressed.

"Running away from marriage, aren't you?"

Yu Hexi responded, and when she heard the sound of dressing beside her stopped, she turned her head to look at him, and met a pair of gentle eyes.

His eyes were different from Gu Wuzhi's. There was no calculation or viciousness in his eyes.

This was the first time that Yu Hexi really looked at Gu Wuhui, and she also saw the difference between Gu Wuhui and Gu Wuji.

Although she didn't want to, she had to admit that because of this incident, Gu Wuhui was indeed a little different from other royal family members in her heart.

"We parted ways and went in opposite directions twice, but we still met."

"Three times."

Gu Wuhui replied, and Yu Hexi didn't quite understand.

"What?"

Gu Wuhui said.

"We parted ways and went in opposite directions three times."

They went in two completely opposite directions, but they met in the same place in the end, three times in total.

Yu Hexi pursed her lips.

"What's this?"

They both wanted to escape, but they always went to the same place and met again.

Gu Wuhui lowered his eyes, feeling a little lost.

"It's a bad fate."

Yu Hexi didn't say anything else.

This time, they didn't go their separate ways tacitly, but waited until Gu Wuhui recovered from his injury, and then Yu Hexi sent him to the city gate.

He said that he had been out for too long, and no matter how invisible he was, if he was missing for a long time, someone would notice him.

He had to go back.

"You've already escaped, why do you want to go back?"

Gu Wuhui mounted his horse, looked at the wind and sand and the scorching sun outside the city gate, and smiled.

"It's fine if you run away, but if the news of my running away gets out, it will be bad for your reputation."

He left after he finished speaking, without giving Yu Hexi a chance to ask any more questions.

Yu Hexi stood at the city gate, watching his receding figure disappear in the wind and sand, and whispered absentmindedly.

"But you don't have to care about my reputation."

She ran away from the marriage, and everyone in the capital knew about it. This was a loss of face for Gu Wuhui and the royal family.

Gu Wuhui didn't have to care about him at all.

Even Gu Wuhui herself couldn't figure out why she wanted to go back.

Yu Hexi had already escaped, so it wouldn't have any effect on him if he escaped again.

He originally thought that he didn't want to marry someone he didn't love, and live a life of respect for each other.

Unexpectedly, now, he was the one who admitted defeat to himself first.

Perhaps it was because Yu Hexi was bright and outgoing, different from the young lady from the upper capital, that caught his eye.

Or perhaps it was because of the three encounters that he fell in love with her unconsciously.

Or perhaps it was even earlier.

Under the Songxue Tower, the blue-white figure galloped past on horseback, rushed out of the city gate, and also crashed into his heart.

But Gu Wuhui didn't expect that half a month after he returned to the upper capital, Yu Hexi would also come back.

Just like when she left, she galloped past Baiyu Street and passed by the Songxue Tower.

But within just one day, everyone in Shangjing, from high-ranking officials to ordinary people, knew that the eldest daughter of the general's mansion who had run away from her marriage had returned.

When Gu Wuhui learned the news, he just smiled and said nothing.

Because not long after that, he was poisoned by Gu Wuyuan and his time was running out.

He knew what Yu Hexi's return to Shangjing meant.

Yu Hexi would not run away, and she was willing to marry him.

But Gu Wuhui did not want to delay Yu Hexi, so he began to avoid her.

While escaping, he was looking for a doctor with hope,

but he was afraid that if he found a doctor who could heal him, Yu Hexi would be completely pushed away by him and could never be saved.

Until, when he was about to give up, he met Yu Chi on the street.

He was a bit desperate. Who knows if Yu Chi can really cure it, but the process may be a bit long. This poison is very sinister. If he wants to avoid damaging the root, he can only nurture it, step by step.

He finally had some hope until one day, when he was drinking tea with Yu Chi in Songxue Tower, he was caught by Yu Hexi.

Seeing this, Yu Chi knew that "the visitor may have bad intentions," and left this place of trouble very tactfully.

Yu Hexi put the sword on the table, some anger burned in her beautiful eyes, and her voice was very cold.

"Why are you hiding from me?"

Gu Wuhui blinked, not daring to look at Yu Hexi.

"I didn't."

Yu Hexi snorted coldly.

"You'd better."

Gu Wuhui was helpless.

"Miss Yu, you've already escaped, why do you want to come back?"

Yu Hexi hesitated for a long time before she spoke dryly.

"Those three encounters..."

"Bad fate?"

"Why not a good fate?"

As soon as Gu Wuhui finished speaking, Yu Hexi said this with some excitement, and Gu Wuhui was stunned.

They went in completely opposite directions three times, and met three times.

Isn't it God telling them not to miss it?