He was laughing while spitting out blood.
"If you run into your mother, please tell her for me." Gu Li's voice choked with emotion. "I'm sorry."
He should have died a long time ago.
His grandmother died suddenly from an illness not long after he left the capital, leaving him all alone in the general's mansion.
During the more than ten years he spent in this place, he fought war after war, but he became increasingly unsure of what he really wanted.
Sometimes he wonders if things would have been different if he had persisted a little longer.
If he and Liuyin had had a child back then, the child would be about the same age as Qiao Yu now.
Upon realizing that Gu Li had stopped breathing, Qiao Yu felt a sudden, sharp pain in his heart, making him feel numb and unable to move.
He died.
This was the first person to die for him.
"good."
After experiencing this life-or-death separation, Qiao Yu suddenly matured.
He became the new general after Gu Li.
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Later, Qiao Yu also asked her mother if she knew Gu Li.
My mother's expression was also strange at that time, but more than that, it was disgust.
The disgust in Liu Yin's eyes only flashed for a brief moment, but Qiao Yu still caught it. Now that she was an adult, Qiao Yu saw it clearly this time.
"What, you ran into him on the battlefield?"
In front of her child, Liuyin always played the role of a loving mother, so her tone couldn't be gentler at this moment.
Looking at her mother, Qiao Yu felt something was off, but she didn't think much of it.
"He died on the battlefield trying to save me." Even when she brought it up again, Qiao Yu still felt a pang of sadness.
"He asked me to pass on a message to you, Mother: I'm sorry."
Dead? Or did it all happen to save the child in front of her? Liuyin was somewhat surprised.
"Alright." Looking at Qiao Yu, who was about to cry, Liu Yin comforted her, "It was only right that he saved you, so you don't need to blame yourself so much."
What do you mean "should be"? Qiao Yu looked up abruptly, only to meet his mother's caring eyes.
There wasn't a trace of sadness inside.
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