Chapter 973 New Year's Eve Reunion (Second Update)
Gu Jiao stayed on Dark Night Island for seven days.
She told Chang Kun about her background. Although Chang Kun had expected it, he was still shocked to hear it from her mouth.
Gu Jiao also mentioned the identity of the Shadow Lord. After Chang Kun asked which year he arrived and which year he left, he felt extremely regretful.
Chang Kun sighed, "You guys... almost ran into each other..."
"What?" Gu Jiao looked at Chang Kun in astonishment, feeling the cold wind blowing in her face and listening to the sound of the crashing waves.
Chang Kun looked at the vast and boundless sea and sighed, "There are some things I didn't understand before, but after hearing what you said, I think I understand what the island lord meant by those words back then."
Back in the organization, Gu Jiao violated an unforgivable rule and was targeted for assassination. To save Gu Jiao, the Godfather deliberately arranged for her to obtain a small first-aid kit during an operation.
"Godfather, this box is beautiful, here you go."
"I'm not interested."
His cold voice echoed in the empty building. He lifted his long, straight leg, stepped over the still-warm corpse on the ground, and left without looking back.
Afterwards, the small medicine box brought Gu Jiao to this time and space.
The little medicine box ran out of energy and took ten years to recover. The first thing it did after that was to bring the Godfather over as well.
However, it lacked sufficient energy, and its time dimension was skewed, arriving ten years earlier than Gu Jiao.
At that time, Chang Kun was still a child living in a small fishing village by the sea. He saw the young man who had fainted on the beach.
The man's clothes were quite strange, but his face was very handsome and he didn't look like a bad person. He ran home and called his father.
The father rescued the man and took him in for several months.
Later, the village was submerged by a tsunami, and the man led the villagers to evacuate to a deserted island, which later became Dark Night Island.
“About two years,” Chang Kun said. “One morning I went to deliver food to him and found he was gone. My father and I searched the entire island, but we couldn’t find him. Ten years later, he reappeared. By then I had grown up, and he helped me establish the Dark Night Sect. He said he was going to sea to find someone and hoped he could meet him this time. You know what happened next; he returned empty-handed.”
“This was his third time here. He didn’t mention looking for anyone this time. Instead, he started planting gromwell.”
Because by then her plane had crashed and her body was gone, she could no longer possess the body, and soul-transmigration required an important medium—purple grass.
Gu Jiao summarized it.
She made a mistake within the organization, had her key memories erased, and was subsequently hunted down.
She traveled to another world and became the first Lord of Shadows. Later, she returned to the modern world, but due to the influence of the spacetime magnetic field, she lost her memories related to the time travel.
She went to the organization as usual, and the organization pretended nothing had happened and launched a second hunt for her—the plane crash plan.
But what mistake did she make? What were the key memories that were erased from her memory by the organization?
...
"Sir, do you take this lady beside you to be your wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to stay with her forever?"
"Yes I do."
"Madam, do you take this groom to be your husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to stay with him forever?"
"Um?"
The bride stared blankly at the man.
The man raised his long, slender hand and gently stroked her cheek, looking deeply into her eyes: "Are you willing?"
"I……"
Bang!
A gunshot rang out.
Gu Jiao suddenly woke up with a start, sat up in bed alertly, and reached under her pillow for the gun.
When I couldn't touch it, I realized that this wasn't my past life, and that I had just been dreaming.
The events in the dream were real. They received a mission: someone would assassinate the daughter of a conglomerate at a wedding of the century. Gu Jiao disguised herself as the bride to lure the assassin out.
The groom was originally himself, but for some reason it was changed to the godfather.
Fortunately, it was a change of personnel. The other party was too fast, and the snipers lying in ambush all around didn't have time to snipe him before he fired a shot at Gu Jiao.
The godfather took a bullet for her.
If the person standing in front of Gu Jiao at that time had been the real groom, Gu Jiao would have been shot dead.
"Huh? Where's Ah Heng?"
Gu Jiao looked around and found that Xiao Heng was not there.
She put on her shoes and got out of bed. As she walked around the screen, she saw Xiao Heng sitting cross-legged on the blanket in front of the brazier, his face dark and him sulking.
Who was he angry at? Of course, he was angry at that Godfather!
His wife is always thinking about other men; he's so jealous!
"What are you thinking about?" Gu Jiao asked, tilting her head.
Xiao Heng asked with utmost seriousness, "If I and the Godfather fell into the water, which one would you save first?"
Gu Jiao: "???"
...
In October, the weather on the ice sheet is not very suitable for travel, and they must cross the ice sheet before the end of the month.
Gu Jiao bid farewell to Chang Kun.
Chang Kun hoped that Gu Jiao and Long Yi could stay on the island a few more days, but he also understood that Gu Jiao had twins at home, so they should indeed go back sooner.
"I think Dark Night Island is great, and I'm a little reluctant to leave," Feng Wuxiu said regretfully.
Master Qingfeng glanced at his younger brother indifferently: "You're just reluctant to part with the food on the island, aren't you?"
Feng Wuxiu pouted and remained silent.
"Farewell." Xiao Heng bowed to Chang Kun.
Finally, it's time to leave this place of trouble!
No more getting jealous over another man!
Chang Kun smiled and bowed in greeting, saying, "Take care, everyone."
Liao Chen and Daoist Qingfeng nodded in return.
Feng Wuxiu also bowed politely: "Uncle Chang, if you have time to visit Yan, I'll treat you to a delicious meal!"
Chang Kun laughed heartily: "Okay, okay, it's a deal!"
The father and son watched as they boarded the sled and sped away into the distance, led by the direwolves.
Chang Jing lowered her eyes silently, her mood downcast.
Chang Kun suddenly threw a burden at him.
Chang Jing was taken aback and looked at Chang Kun with confusion.
Chang Kun snorted coldly, "Alright, let's go!"
A grown son is no longer meant to be kept at home!
...
At the end of September, the group of six returned to Pucheng.
Gu Jiao met Black Wind King. This was the longest separation they had had since they fought side by side. Black Wind King nuzzled Gu Jiao with his head, as if silently expressing his longing.
It snowed at the border in October.
Braving the biting wind and snow, the group returned to Shengdu. The twins, a boy and a girl, had already learned to sit and crawl, and had grown into two adorable little chubby babies.
Jingkong has grown taller again. He practiced his marksmanship with Xuanyuan Qi. When Gu Jiao first saw the dashing little figure in the courtyard, she didn't dare to recognize him for a moment.
"Jiaojiao!"
He saw Gu Jiao, and with a swift and graceful motion, he planted his little red-tasseled spear heavily into the ground!
He then leaped forward and ran towards Gu Jiao with great spirit.
When the youth are strong, the nation is strong.
She saw the future of the Xuanyuan family, and she saw the future of the Yan Kingdom.
...
On New Year's Eve, Princess Xinyang was woken up early by Xiao Yiyi.
"Mother, I can't sleep anymore, I want to get up!"
Little Yiyi is two years old. She speaks very fluently and has a lot of energy. She wants to go out to play before dawn every day.
But she wasn't going out to play today. She dressed herself, put on a pretty pink rabbit fur hat, and huffed and puffed as she came to the door, eagerly peering outside.
"What is Yiyi looking at?"
Yu Jin asked her with a smile.
"Brother, sister-in-law," Xiao Yiyi said in her childish voice.
Xiao Heng sent a letter saying he was rushing back for the New Year's Eve dinner.
I heard that the official road outside the West Gate has been hit by snow for several days, and I don't know if I can make it back in time.
Little Yiyi didn't go anywhere; she just sat down on the doorstep with her little bottom, propping her cheeks up with her hands, waiting like a little statue of a brother-gazing stone.
As the saying goes, perseverance pays off. Just before noon, Xiao Heng and Gu Jiao's carriage arrived.
The first one to jump was Xiao Jingkong.
"Brother Jingkong!"
Little Yiyi greeted him sweetly, then looked up at Xiao Jingkong, who had grown much taller, and exclaimed in amazement, "Wow!"
"Yiyi." Little Jingkong moved his little head like a big kid. The eight-year-old boy already had some of the dashing and handsome air of a young boy.
Soon, Xiao Heng and Gu Jiao came downstairs carrying the twins.
"Brother! Sister-in-law!" Little Yiyi came over and greeted them again, then looked eagerly at the little one in their arms, "Who are they?"
If we're talking about who has changed the most among this group, it has to be the twins.
They were only two months old when they left, and now they are ten months old. They have grown taller and fatter, and their features have also developed. They used to be wrapped in swaddling clothes, but now they are dressed neatly and wearing little tiger head hats. They are clever and sensible big babies.
Xiao Heng chuckled and pinched her chubby cheek: "Don't you remember your little niece and little nephew?"
Little Yiyi opened her eyes wide: "Ah."
Bandits were rampant in the eastern part of Zhao Kingdom. General Weiyuan was injured. Not long after Gu Jiao and Xiao Heng left Zhao Kingdom, Xiao Ji was ordered to go to the east to suppress the bandits.
On New Year's Eve, he was on the battlefield.
The New Year's Eve dinner was eaten at Renshou Palace.
The Emperor, Empress, Consort Zhuang, and all the princes and grandsons of the Emperor have arrived.
Gu Jiao met with Princess Rui and Huangfu Xian, whom she hadn't seen in a long time.
Princess Rui's little princess is about the same age as Gu Xiaobao, a little over three years old this year, and is a shy and lovely little girl.
Princess Rui is pregnant again. Du Xiaoyun has already given birth to the Crown Prince's eldest grandson. Empress Xiao does not care whether Princess Rui's baby is a boy or a girl.
Xiao Jingkong and Qin Chuyu lit firecrackers in the yard, which startled the little ones, causing them to scream loudly.
Huangfu Xian has fully adapted to his prosthetic limbs and walks just like a normal person.
He underwent another bone-shaping procedure at the Miaoshoutang clinic, performed by Dr. Song himself. With the anesthetic left by Gu Jiao, the pain was kept within a tolerable range.
The Prince and his wife were kind-hearted and took meticulous care of him, which made him much more cheerful than when he first arrived.
Gu Jiao also saw him tease Xiao Jingkong and Qin Chuyu with fake firecrackers, but only Qin Chuyu fell for it and laughed so hard he bent over.
Princess Rui smiled and said, "It's been a long time since the palace has been this lively."
Gu Jiao looked at her aunt playing cards with Empress Xiao, Consort Zhuang, and Princess Xinyang, and smiled, saying, "It'll be lively from now on."
"I won!" The aunt slammed the cards in her hand onto the table with a flourish.
Empress Xiao was on the verge of tears: "Why did I let it happen again?"
...
As night deepened, the group gradually emerged from Renshou Palace.
The children were already asleep.
Xiao Heng carried Xiao Jingkong off the carriage: "He's grown up, he's really heavy."
Only after entering the courtyard and placing Xiao Jingkong on the soft bed did the cunning little monk grumble, "I'm not heavy, it's just that you're weak!"
Xiao Heng's face darkened: "You're pretending to be asleep!"
...
In the main courtyard of the princess's residence, Yu Jin put the sleeping Yi Yi under the quilt and turned to Princess Xinyang, saying, "Princess, you should rest early too."
Princess Xinyang stood by the window, gazing quietly at the boundless night.
"Princess?" Yu Jin came to her side and looked her up and down. "What's wrong? Are you missing the Marquis?"
If Yu Jin had asked this question in the past, Princess Xinyang would have said without hesitation, "How could I possibly miss him?"
This time, however, she remained silent.
Yu Jin poured her a cup of hot tea and then draped the cloak she had just taken off her over her shoulders: "It's windy."
Princess Xinyang took the teacup and said to Yu Jin, "Yu Jin."
"Hmm?" Yu Jin looked at her, waiting for her to continue.
"Never mind, it's nothing." She backed down.
Having served her for many years, how could Yu Jin not understand her thoughts?
"Is the princess missing the Marquis?"
A man as good as the Marquis, how could any woman not be tempted?
The princess was unmoved before because she was ill. But after the Marquis killed the old King Liang, the princess's condition improved a lot. With everything the Marquis did for the princess, something must have sprouted in her heart.
The princess simply didn't know how to like someone.
The princess always believed that her tolerance of the marquis was because he was the father of her child, and that she allowed him to enter and leave the princess's residence in order to appease the crying Yiyi.
Yu Jin stared at her intently: "Princess, go find the Marquis."
"What?" She was taken aback.
Yu Jin sighed, "Don't you want to understand your own heart?"
She opened her mouth: "I..."
Yu Jin smiled and said, "Go find the Marquis. The moment you see him, you will know the answer in your heart."
Xinyang and Xiao Ji's sweet romance
After those two are over, it'll be Jingkong and Liu Yisheng's turn.
You all keep saying I've forgotten Liu Yisheng, but I'm so wronged.
Shouldn't this be written according to time?
(End of this chapter)
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