Qi Jing stopped talking and looked at Gu Xuanyi silently.
He calculated Gu Xuanyi's fortune three times, and all three times were fatal outcomes, but he didn't know when he calculated Gu Xuanyi's fortune.
Gu Xuanyi continued, "He was pierced by thousands of arrows on the battlefield."
"Then how did you dodge it?" Qi Jing was curious. If this was his fate, and he had forgotten it, how did Gu Xuanyi dodge it?
Gu Xuan leaned back against the pear tree. "So you rejected me and forgot what happened that day. I was angry with you, so I left on my own and followed my father to the border for two years.
If you agree, I will stay in the capital and wait until my father is in trouble before going to the battlefield. Without those two years of training, I would have died on the battlefield."
Gu Xuan glanced at Qi Jing and said, "The Qi family was convicted, and I made a bet with the emperor. If I could win that battle, I would use the twelve foreign tribes in exchange for the safety of the Qi family. I won, isn't that amazing?"
"Well, very impressive." Qi Jing looked at him. This was a favor that the Qi family owed the Gu family, and it was also what he owed Gu Xuanyi.
Gu Xuanyi curled his lips, "But you lied to me again. I led the army back in triumph, and the Qi family held a banquet to thank me. We drank together, and you said you would repay me, and I asked you to marry me. You agreed at the time, but when I sobered up and went to look for you, you had forgotten."
Gu Xuanyi smiled bitterly, "That's the second time you've told me your fortune. You'll be beheaded for disobeying my orders."
The scene of Gu Xuanyi being beheaded suddenly flashed before Qi Jing's eyes. He couldn't help but shrink back and leaned into Gu Xuanyi's arms.
Gu Xuanyi hugged him and kissed his forehead, "I was really angry at that time. I was angry that you lied to me. I felt that my sincerity had been wasted.
After two years of fighting and countless near-death experiences, you clearly promised me that you would marry me, but you lied to me.
Qi Jing didn't know what to say. He didn't remember. He didn't remember his promise to Gu Xuanyi, and he didn't understand his true feelings for Gu Xuanyi.
He was just afraid and felt that he shouldn't be with Gu Xuanyi. It was wrong and he would kill Gu Xuanyi.
But Gu Xuanyi didn't know what he was afraid of. In Gu Xuanyi's opinion, he was just deceiving him, nothing more.
Gu Xuanyi closed his eyes and took a deep breath before continuing, "I was appointed a general. I am the youngest and most skilled general in Mingdu. His Majesty is wary of me and worried that the Gu family will rebel, so he intends to grant me the princess' hand in marriage.
If you had agreed to marry me, I would have disobeyed the imperial decree. But you rejected me, and I had a quarrel with you. Out of spite, I went to Zhaotai Mountain and became a monk. The imperial decree was stuck and not issued.
Qi Jing pursed his lips, supported Gu Xuanyi's shoulders and turned over to sit on him, "What about the third time? Why were you tied up and burned to death?"
Gu Xuanyi raised his eyes and looked at him. "After I became a monk, I couldn't change my habit of drinking and eating meat. I was driven down the mountain by the abbot and returned home in disgrace. That's when I discovered your secret."
"The dragon on me?"
Gu Xuanyi hummed and continued, "I didn't mean to peek at you taking a bath. It was you who left the window open and hummed in the tub. I thought you weren't asleep, so I wanted to come over and talk to you."
Qi Jing was a little speechless, but soon became angry, "The first time was not intentional, so why did you always climb over my window afterwards?"
"Who told you to lie to me? I can't eat or marry you, so why can't you let me take advantage of you?" Gu Xuanyi said confidently, "You said it yourself. It won't hurt that men will lose a piece of meat if they look at it."
Qi Jing was even more speechless. He was so angry that he pinched Gu Xuanyi's waist several times. How could he talk about being a hooligan so confidently?
Gu Xuanyi did not stop him and let Qi Jing pinch him several times. He waited until Qi Jing vented his anger before continuing.
"At least my reputation is ruined. I became a monk and was kicked out. I get beaten every day. People say I'm crazy. No one dares to come to my house to propose marriage to me. How good is that."
Qi Jing snorted twice and leaned down on Gu Xuanyi's shoulder, "You haven't told me what the third fortune-telling was about."
"I saw your dragon, so I shared a secret with you. You planted the poisonous insect in me, and you trusted me more. Sometimes you would ask me when you had something you couldn't solve." Gu Xuanyi touched the back of his head, again and again. "You said that the Prime Minister's daughter was possessed by a ghost and you wanted to take her away, but at that time, the Prime Minister's daughter was already involved with King Mu, and she was protected by many secret guards. You couldn't do it without being noticed.
I nearly lost my life helping you distract those secret guards. You went even further, accepting a demon, but King Mu loved that demon. You imprisoned the Prime Minister's daughter and secretly hired a Taoist priest to summon her spirit. This is called ruining a marriage."
Qi Jing remembered this and said confidently, "She is evil to begin with. It is wrong to occupy someone else's body."
"That's called rebirth. They came back for revenge, but you, on the other hand, just beat them back to their original form with one move." Gu Xuan glanced at him, "You made me the target of that guy King Mu. If it weren't for my high martial arts skills, I don't know how many times I would have died."
Qi Jing frowned, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it."
"So what if you didn't mean it? Those injuries of mine are real." Gu Xuanyi lowered his head and bit Qi Jing's neck, with a hint of venting his anger, but let go before Qi Jing cried out in pain, leaving only a shallow tooth mark.
Qi Jing grabbed Gu Xuanyi's hand and rubbed it on the teeth marks several times. "Then I returned the soul to him and threatened that soul not to let King Mu cause trouble for you again."
Gu Xuanyi hummed, "That night when we were drinking on the rooftop, I couldn't help but kiss you, and you didn't reject me. I thought you agreed, and I even pulled you to swear not to lie to me again this time."
"Uh...did I lie to you again?"
"More than that! You started to get scared of me. You ran away the moment you saw me. I finally caught you and tried to interrogate you, but you almost beat me to death."
Gu Xuan felt pained when he thought about it. Qi Jing's strength was not to be underestimated. He was lucky to be able to survive.
Qi Jing smiled awkwardly, "What happened next? How did you avoid being burned to death?"
Gu Xuanyi shook his head. "Later, when you returned to your spirit and told me the results of three fortune-tellings, you also revealed my original fate. I suspect that if I marry you, I will die. This goes against the storyline, unless I refuse to marry."
"Who is your heroine then?"
"The princess who was given the marriage." Gu Xuan disliked her very much.
Qi Jing was also surprised, "But why can I change other plots, but not yours?"
"Because the person I fall in love with is you. In the plot, I can fall in love with anyone except you. Otherwise, God will wipe me out." Gu Xuan held Qi Jing's face in his hands.
"That's why I didn't reincarnate. This was the only way I could escape the plot and not be controlled. But you really forgot. Those three fortune-tellings gave you quite a shock. Without your soul, you can't control those fears. If it weren't for the return of the soul saying there was a way to break it, I would have dragged you down with me."
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