Chapter 119: Resurrection
Everyone fell silent and looked in the same direction.
The man speaking was dressed in white. He stood tall and straight, exuding an extraordinary demeanor. A servant holding an umbrella flanked him. Judging by his masculinity, he looked like a young man from a prominent family. His only flaw was that his eyes were covered with white silk, indicating he was blind.
Seeing that the newcomer was a blind man, everyone was unimpressed and curled their lips, "What kind of world is this now? A dead person can't even be criticized."
The man pursed his lips and was about to retort, but was stopped by the waiter beside him.
The master and servant exchanged some words, but the man finally calmed down. However, his brows were still furrowed, and his whole demeanor was depressed.
The attendant put away the umbrella, helped the man through the lobby, and came to a private room on the second floor. When they entered, they found a man and a woman in the room.
The young man stood in front of the window, his eyes looking directly at the lobby through the window. The girl seemed to be exhausted and was taking a nap on the chaise longue.
The servant beside the man in white never took a peek into the private room from beginning to end. After sending his master away, he retreated outside to prevent strangers from entering.
Gu Ze said: "Your Highness, I hope you are well."
The figure in front of the window slowly turned around, revealing an exceptionally outstanding face. Perhaps because he had been running around for a long time, there were dark circles under his eyes and his face looked a little tired.
He said, "Thank you, Gu Zhongcheng, for your willingness to help."
Gu Ze said: "Your Highness, your words are too kind. Just call me Gu Ze. I am a clean person. How can I be called the Minister of Justice?"
"Besides, this is something that Wanyi has not yet resolved."
"My sister is dead. When everything is settled, Gu Zhongcheng will still be Gu Zhongcheng."
When Li Yu was mentioned, Gu Ze was rarely silent. After a long time, he said, "Wanyi, what happened..." His voice stopped abruptly, and his fingertips trembled slightly.
"I will avenge my sister. Since Gu Zhongcheng has no interest in my sister, there's no need to get involved in this mess."
Gu Ze opened his mouth, but it was as if someone was holding his throat and he couldn't utter a word.
He took out a box half the size of his palm from his sleeve, placed it on the table, and then turned and left.
When the attendant saw his young master coming out, he asked, "Young master, the rain is getting heavier. Do you need a room to rest for a while and wait until the rain stops before leaving?"
"No need, go back—" he paused, "back to the princess's mansion."
Gu Ze said, "Yuanzhi, why are people out there saying things about me and Wanyi?"
Mentioning this, the attendant named Yuanzhi said angrily: "The rumor is so unpleasant, everyone says..." He shut up and carefully observed his master's expression.
"Go on." He said in a firm tone, leaving no room for refusal.
"They all say that the princess coveted your beauty and forcibly abducted you back to the princess's mansion. They also say that you have been depressed and unhappy since you were trapped, and that you hate the princess to the core..."
"I don't know which bastard said that. It's obviously Young Master..." He stopped talking.
Two balls of blood mist gradually spread on the white cloth covering Gu Ze's eyes. The blood mist gradually expanded and almost dyed the entire white cloth red.
Yuan Zhi panicked, "Sir, your eyes!"
"It's okay." He seemed to have something stuck in his throat, and his voice was trembling. "Go home and see her again."
Li Yu's body is still warm and is now stored in an ice room. The coroner is still looking for the cause of her death.
He murmured, "It's my fault. I should have…"
The sound gradually faded away.
The woman on the couch opened her eyes.
Li Daoxuan paused stroking the box with his fingertips. He strode towards her and asked, "You'an, am I disturbing you?"
Shen Qing shook her head. She hadn’t slept at all.
She just felt that the crowd in the lobby was noisy and the discussions were very noisy, so she closed her eyes and took a nap on the couch, but she couldn't fall asleep.
Looking at the gilded silver box in Li Daoxuan's hand, she said, "Now that the crown prince is in power, what use is there for this thing?"
Li Daoxuan rubbed her head and said, "Keep it. It will give you a reason to attack the crown prince in the future."
This thing originally belonged to the Third Prince, but he accidentally contracted an epidemic while controlling floods in Huazhou and passed away not long ago. After several rounds of transfers, the gilded silver box passed from Wanyi to Gu Ze, and finally to Li Daoxuan.
This was what the Gao family gained in exchange for their entire clan being destroyed, just to redress the injustice inflicted on the Gao family more than ten years ago.
Chen Qing asked, "How did Princess Wanyi die?"
Li Daoxuan's breath stopped, and he asked in surprise: "What?"
"I'm talking about how Princess Wanyi died." There was a lot of noise downstairs, and most of them were discussing the cause of Wanyi's death a few days ago. Chen Qing only listened to half of it.
She was quite curious and asked.
It was just a casual question, but the person on the other side seemed to have suffered a major blow. His eyes turned red in an instant and he breathed heavily from his throat.
"Youan, don't joke with me, I——"
Chen Qing said with a serious face, "I'm not kidding you. I'm just curious about why Wanyi died suddenly." She sat up and held Li Daoxuan's face, looking carefully, but found that his loss of composure was not fake. Chen Qing couldn't help but feel a little flustered by him, "You, what's wrong with you?"
Li Daoxuan carefully observed Youan's expression. There was confusion, puzzlement, and curiosity on her face, but nothing else.
It was as if the person who died a few days ago was not her best friend, but an unrelated stranger.
He took a step back, several thoughts flashing through his mind, and finally he deceived himself: She was just too sad, so she temporarily lost her memory and forgot about Li Yu.
It will be fine soon.
It will be fine soon...
Chen Qing didn't know that his heart had been boiling for a long time. After a trance in his mind, he finally woke up and looked at him puzzledly.
Li Daoxuan reached out to grab her hand, but Shen Qing frowned and shook it off, looking at him with an even more vigilant expression: "Your Highness, you and I are just partners. If you act this way, it's hard not to suspect you have ulterior motives!"
Chen Qing thought: The person in front of me seemed to have suddenly changed. His body suddenly became much taller, and his already delicate face grew longer, becoming even more attractive.
His eyes suddenly turned red, and he still wanted to get closer.
Chen Qing seemed to have seen something new and strange. "Your Highness is crying? How could the great Cang King cry like a three-year-old one day? If this gets out, everyone will laugh their heads off!"
She gradually stopped laughing.
He really cried.
Chen Qing hated to see him cry, for some reason. She pursed her lips and took a few steps back, trying to suppress the strange feeling in her heart. She took in the unfamiliar scenery around her. Then she realized everything had changed. She still remembered the two of them had just agreed to cooperate, to catch, to catch...
What to catch? Her mind seemed to be blocked by a lump, and she couldn't figure it out.
Before she knew it, she was curled up in a ball, covering her head.
Li Daoxuan stood there blankly. He chopped her down with his knife, but she stopped moving. However, her frown remained on her face and she couldn't relax.
He smoothed her brows and thought anxiously:
His Youan seems to be sick.
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Chen Qing's mouth and nose felt like they were filled with lead water, and her breath was filled with a fishy and rusty smell. Her nose and throat were irritated by the dry and pungent smell.
The stench was so bad that the girl suddenly stood up. The wound on her abdomen, which had not yet healed, was affected, causing her to grimace and cover her stomach.
Chen Qing couldn't help but regret that she seemed to have been too harsh on herself.
There were some goose down snowflakes falling, covering her eyelashes. She blinked affectionately, and the goose down snowflakes disguised as crystal tears slid down the corners of her eyes.
The cold touch made Chen Qing's eyelids tremble. She looked up at the sky. She didn't know when the continuous rain had stopped, and was replaced by goose down snow falling down.
Now she was lying in an open field, with no one beside her and the cold tiles beneath her. Even in the dead of winter, she didn't feel cold because a thick cloak had been laid beneath her and a hot water bottle was stuffed into her arms. Turning her head, she saw Qiu Renjian beside her.
Qiu Ren crawled out of the sword and coiled on the ground. His snake pupils opened and closed, coldly scanning everything around him. His spine was straight, a posture that allowed him to attack at any time.
Now she was alone, with a cool breeze blowing, but her heart was strangely filled and warm.
The snow fell even heavier.
Chen Qing swept the snow off her head and shoulders. She propped herself up and tried to stand up, but her hand touched something cold.
She picked it up and saw that it was a green umbrella.
The man seemed to have anticipated everything and thoughtfully prepared everything that could be used.
No need to guess who it is.
Chen Qing opened her green umbrella and covered her still aching wound. When Qiu Ren saw her wake up, his needle-like snake pupils suddenly widened and became round. He immediately crawled to Chen Qing's feet, holding a ball of cloth wrapped in something.
She opened the cloth and saw a brand new goose yellow cloak inside. The collar of the cloak was surrounded by a circle of fluffy fur, which was very warm when she put it on.
Chen Qing buried her face in her collar and took a deep breath. A faint scent of grass and trees rushed into her nose, causing her eyelashes to tremble slightly.
It wasn't cold either way, so Chen Qing simply threw away the cumbersome hot water bottle in her hand, picked up Qiu Renjian and walked out. Qiu Ren immediately shrank his body and coiled around her shoulders, his tongue hissing.
Chen Qing looked at the snow gradually condensing on the ground, and a strange feeling gradually spread in her heart. She kept muttering: "Little Bell, how long have I slept?"
Little Bell's voice sounded somewhat helplessly: "More than a month, Master. It's already the end of December."
Bang!
Chen Qing was instantly dizzy and dazed by this information.
When she made her move, she had already estimated that after this blow, she would at worst be unconscious for seven or eight days. How could she be unconscious for so long?
When he woke up, it was almost the end of the year. Even the surrounding environment was unfamiliar. Shen Qing said dazedly: "What's going on? Where is Li Daoxuan? Am I not in Dongshan Temple?"
Little Bell said, "Master, you are in Dongshan Temple now. However, when you were unconscious, a great demon took away a wisp of your soul. Your Li A'man followed the great demon to summon your soul."
"So many things happened during this period that I can't explain them all. You can go and see for yourself, Master." Little Bell was a little weak and kept silent for the time being.
Chen Qing took a breath of cold air. Her lips were pale, but her cheeks were flushed with a sickly red.
No wonder the wound hasn't healed after so long. A person whose soul has been taken away is extremely fragile and should not worry or engage in strenuous activities. Therefore, Li Daoxuan chose to leave her where she was and chased the big monster alone.
She wanted to move forward, but Qiu Ren grabbed her collar and pulled her back, spitting out his tongue anxiously, as if trying to stop her from moving forward.
Chen Qing turned around, the scenery behind him remained unchanged, but the hot water bottle he had just dropped had disappeared, indicating that there was an ambush here.
She went no further.
Chen Qing carefully felt the wound on his abdomen and found that the injury had mostly recovered. However, he could not move too much as he did when he just woke up, otherwise the wound would easily tear.
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