Chapter 2 Chapter 2 (Flashback) She was born clear and broken...
The thin blade pressed against Nan Qiong Shuang's neck, like a cold silk thread.
She gritted her teeth and raised her head, trying not to get close to the blade.
Seeing this, the gangster in black pressed the blade against her skin fiercely: "Don't move! If you move again, I'll kill you!"
Her eyes were blurred with tears as she looked across at the other side through a layer of chaotic water curtain.
On the small boat opposite, Gu Zhi, the young leader of the Tianshan Sect, was standing in the boat, dressed in white and holding a sword.
Moonlight poured down, petals fell, and the sword light and the water reflected him like a crystal statue of a god. The falling petals landed on his sword blade and silently broke in two.
He said, "Girl, don't panic. I will definitely save you today."
She blinked desperately, leaving no room for her to speak, and tears fell on her collar.
The chest of the man in black behind him rose and fell rapidly: "Young Master, if you are willing to spare my life, today, I will also spare this girl's life."
Gu Zhi sneered. Under the moonlight, the usually gentle man revealed an undeniably cold expression. "I went down the mountain to visit the market, and you wanted to assassinate me, and you're begging me to spare your life? Wishful thinking."
The man in black flashed his blade and said, "Then don't blame me for being rude!"
The cold light of the blade pierced Nan Qiong Shuang's eyes, causing her to feel pain. She closed her eyes in shock, but then she heard Gu Zhi shouting:
“Wait!”
Nan Qiong Shuang opened her eyes exhaustedly, with a thin layer of sweat on her forehead.
Under the moonlight, there were more than just the two boats in the middle of the lake. The rest of the tourists saw the commotion in the middle of the lake and hurriedly moved away. Under the full moon, the mirror-like surface of the lake was covered with several boat tracks.
Someone on the boat was fanning himself in the shadow of the boat's awning. "I don't know where this boat girl came from. She's worthless. I don't know why Master Gu saved her. Why would he risk his life for her?"
Nan Qiongshuang lowered her eyelashes.
Yes, these days, human life is the cheapest, and the body of a woman like her who has no money, no power, no father, no mother, and no husband is even cheaper.
If the person on the opposite side were someone else, she wouldn't be able to threaten anything with just her life.
But this person is the famous Master Ji Yue, Gu Zhi.
With her current status as a hostage, the only person who can be threatened is a true gentleman like this.
The man in black smiled:
"Master Gu, I know you're reluctant. It was wrong of me to take your life, but we're only following orders. How about you remove the boat and go to shore? I'll take the girl to the other side. Once we reach shore safely, she'll row the boat back. What do you think?"
After saying that, he pointed behind Gu Zhi.
Behind him was a small boat that was trying to get to the shore.
There are people on the boat.
Nan Qiong Shuang knew that once Gu Zhi boarded the boat, he would not force anyone to come back and save her. Other people's lives were lives too, and their lives, like hers, were no different to Gu Zhi now.
Gu Zhi hesitated for two seconds, and the man in black pressed the blade hard against her thin skin again.
"Young Master, please?"
On the boat, a man and two women poked their heads out from under the awning in fear: an old man with gray hair and two young singing girls.
Their faces showed the panic of ordinary people being involved in such a thing for the first time.
Gu Zhi sighed deeply, looked back at Nan Qiong Shuang, his long robe fluttered, and he stepped on the clouds and landed on the small boat.
The man in black behind him let out a sigh.
Nan Qiongshuang held back her tears, choked for a moment, and said nothing.
Gu Zhi turned around, and under the moonlight, the tail of his clothes formed a snow-white fan. The sword spun back into the sheath and turned into a cold star.
"Girl, don't be afraid. I said today that I would save you, and I will definitely keep my word."
The man in black had already pushed her around, his back to the boat that was rapidly sliding towards the shore, and gave her a push:
"Paddle the boat!"
Nan Qiongshuang hurriedly bent down to take the pole, her whole body shaking so much that even the boat began to sway. She took the long pole and pushed it in the water, and it actually pushed the boat far away.
The man in black laughed.
It's so far away that even with Mr. Gu's martial arts skills, there is no good way to deal with it.
As he was thinking this, he suddenly heard a buzzing sound behind his head, as if a huge fly was rushing into the back of his head.
Before he could turn around and look back, his head went "bang".
At the last second, he saw clearly that it was a glass bead.
The man in black twitched twice, and like a puppet with its strings cut, he tilted his body and fell into the water.
Create a splash of water.
The water splashed with fragmented light and fell, revealing people not far away.
Gu Zhi stopped snapping his fingers, calmly smoothed the hem of his long sleeves, and lowered his eyelashes, as if the move he had just made was just a casual one and not worth mentioning.
He nodded slightly to the person in the boat tent, tapped the water surface several times in mid-air, and then landed in front of her with his sleeves spread out like a crane.
In the candlelight and water shadows, his long eyelashes fluttered, reflecting a bright spot in the orange candlelight, and his eyes were clear and watery.
His long hair, as black as night, was draped over his body smoothly, with swaying locks. His eyebrows were lowered, and petals fell in his hair.
Only then did she realize that his profile with his head lowered, his forehead, eyebrows and nose were all as white as jade, so handsome and elegant that it was almost unbelievable.
It was April, the season of beautiful flowers. Petals were falling in all directions, the moonlight was cold, and the lake was shimmering under the full moon. He held his sword behind his back and stretched out a hand to her.
Flowers fell on her shoulders, and her body was filled with the scent of cedar.
"Are you frightened?"
She pouted in grievance, tears streaming down her face. She placed her hand in his palm and knelt down uncontrollably.
Almost buried under his snow-like long coat.
Gu Zhi hurriedly bent down and helped her up. She threw herself into Gu Zhi's arms, shivering slightly.
He was a man with a strong sense of boundaries, and he just couldn't bear to see the weak suffer, so he didn't push her away, but just let her sob quietly in his arms.
After a long time, he patted her shoulder and took the boat rod naturally.
"A man and a woman alone in a boat together might ruin the girl's reputation. Let's get back to shore quickly."
Nan Qiong Shuang was startled when she saw him pick up the boat pole, and hurriedly tried to grab it: "Master, I am the boat girl, and rowing the boat is my job. How can you let me..."
Gu Zhi just smiled, avoided her hand that was trying to take the boat rod, put the rod into the water naturally, and started rowing.
"Since there are men present, how can a girl do this kind of thing?"
In the moonlight, he smiled openly and broadly.
Nan Qiong Shuang thought for no reason that he really looked like a piece of jade.
"I went down the mountain today to buy some medicine, but someone was planning to kill me and I discovered him. I chased him all the way to the lake, but the assassin was desperate and took the girl hostage. Actually, all of this is caused by me, Gu. Allow me to apologize to the girl."
Amid the sounds of oars and the lights, the boat glides slowly in the inky water.
Nan Qiong Shuang propped up her cheeks and looked at the water.
The lights flickered one by one, and the river water, rolling with petals, surged towards the boat in waves.
In the delicate light and shadow, he was so handsome that she didn't know what to say.
"We've reached the shore, be careful girl."
Gu Zhi put one foot on the bow of the boat and stretched out one hand to her, fearing that she would slip and fall.
She lowered her head in shame, afraid that he would notice her blushing earlobes.
After getting ashore, Gu Zhi protected her for a while and finally stopped at the end of the long street, with an endless sea of lights behind them.
He smiled and said, "Since the young lady lives here, it would be inconvenient for me to send her off again, lest others see her and gossip about her."
"Yeah." She responded while twisting her handkerchief.
He turned around and entered the alley on the side.
Gu Zhi waited at the entrance of the alley for a while. When her figure was completely hidden in the shadow of the alley, he also raised his feet and re-entered the crowd.
Nan Qiong Shuang stopped in the shadows.
Seeing Gu Zhi leave, she wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, shook it expressionlessly, and put it into her sleeve.
There was a damp figure beside him.
Without even looking at it, she walked deeper into the dark alley.
"It's hard to believe you drank so much water and still managed to crawl out." She chuckled, teasing with a nonchalant air. "Did you act out your heartbeat just now? Was it convincing?"
Wu Dao chuckled and followed her side: "Like, your usual specialty."
"But you, your acting is too unrealistic. If I were you, I would strike first. Only when I see blood can he be sure that you have nothing to do with me."
Wu Dao laughed for a while: "As expected of my men, they are so ruthless."
Nan Qiongshuang smiled indifferently, stood in front of a house, lifted her skirt, tilted her head and waited for Wu Dao to open the door for her.
"But you wasted a great opportunity."
The door creaked open, the candle in the room flickered, and Nan Qiongshuang stepped over the threshold holding up her skirt.
"It's rare to see someone like him in the Tianshan Sect. Someone of his stature must have lived in seclusion deep within the Tianshan Mountains for years. Seeing him like this, how could you let him go so easily? I thought you should at least find a way to repay him with a gift of a golden sachet, so that he would remember you."
Nan Qiong Shuang sneered in disdain: "So old-fashioned? You've become less and less intelligent lately."
Wu Dao leaned against the wall with his arms folded, and made a "tsk" sound when he was ridiculed.
Nan Qiongshuang untied her long hair, put it in front of her right chest, and combed her hair in the candlelight.
"Tell him to remember me, to take me away, or even to bring me, an outsider, into the interior of Tianshan. These things cannot be rushed."
"It's only a matter of time before I follow him, and—"
The dense-toothed comb with a strange and fragrant smell combed her black hair smooth and shiny. She had long eyelashes and white earlobes. Under the candlelight, she looked like a fox spirit that transformed into a human at night in the strange stories of the mountains.
"And...I want him to bring it up on his own initiative."
The candle flame jumped.
Wu Dao tilted his head and smiled, "The Tianshan Sect never lets outsiders into the mountains. It would be too difficult for him to let you go, or for him to let you go on his own initiative."
Nan Qiong Shuang smiled without saying anything, but placed a round bronze mirror in front of her and looked at her own appearance.
The person in the mirror was a porcelain-white complexion, so pale you could almost see the blue veins at her neck. Her eyes were pointed, shimmering with a watery glint. Narrow, delicate eyelids, cheeks naturally rosy without the need for makeup, a strikingly vibrant color.
Her long, pure black hair draped behind her, making her look like a sad, wet water ghost.
She was born sad and miserable, transparent and fragile, but she looked like a demon. When she looked up, she was full of indifference and contempt.
She laughed: "Difficult?"
Wu Dao stopped talking.
She combed her long hair carefully with a smile on her face, and that smile was meaningful.
Suddenly a shudder ran into his bones, and he understood something in an instant.
—That comb?!
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