A herd of alpacas galloped through Ye Qingyun's mind.
What did he hear? The scumbag and his pirate crew... gone?
Perhaps because his expression was too disbelieving, Gu Chenyuan actually comforted him, saying, "The dead cannot be brought back to life, don't be too sad."
Ye Qingyun buried her face in the blanket, pretending to be too heartbroken to speak, but actually desperately calling out in her mind: [System? System, did you hear me? The scumbag gong is gone, gone!]
The system replied with a voice that sounded like it was about to crash: "[...I heard you.]"
Ye Qingyun asked again: "What should we do next? He's gone. Should we still be so devoted to his corpse?"
The system paused for a long time before speaking: "Please remain in a state of profound grief and confirm whether Pu Tian is truly dead. If he is indeed dead… I'm sorry, we need a little more time to analyze the situation, but this is not your problem, please don't worry."
Ye Qingyun was overjoyed. He understood the system's unspoken meaning: he might soon no longer need to play this damned, vicious cannon fodder!
Hearing such good news and still being heartbroken is really difficult.
Ye Qingyun laughed silently, her body trembling. She tried hard to calm herself down, rubbing her eyes hard to force out two tears. Then she lifted her face from under the covers and said in a trembling voice, "No, I don't believe it. You must be lying to me! Pu Tian will definitely be alright. I have to go back and check on him!"
Ye Qingyun jumped out of bed and stormed out the door.
Behind him, Gu Chenyuan's eyes grew even more profound.
He actually cried over such a worthless thing.
If I had known, I should have made Pu Tian die a more gruesome death.
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Ye Qingyun returned to the place where the space pirate ship had previously docked.
The pirate ship remained where it was, its hatch wide open, and not a single crew member could be seen watching the ship from the outside.
Ye Qingyun cautiously approached and stepped inside.
Upon entering, one sees a group of people lying haphazardly, a rather bloody scene.
Ye Qingyun took a deep breath and moved her trembling legs with difficulty, weaving through the crowd, trying to find Pu Tian's figure.
“Here,” Gu Chenyuan said.
Ye Qingyun walked over quickly and saw a figure lying face down on the ground at Gu Chenyuan's feet.
Ye Qingyun couldn't see the person's face; the first thing she noticed was their clothing.
The clothes the person was wearing looked familiar to him; they were the same clothes worn by the person who had impersonated Gu Chenyuan not long ago and was about to give him away as a plaything.
This...this is Pu Tian?
Ye Qingyun was almost suffocating. He bent down and turned the person over.
The person's face slowly appeared; it was a familiar face.
It really is Pu Tian.
Ye Qingyun's feelings were extremely complicated at this moment.
Was it Pu Tian who impersonated Gu Chenyuan before? Why did Pu Tian suddenly harm him? Was Pu Tian's death also due to being bound and unable to move by him?
[Beep—Target person detected dead!]
Suddenly, the system's voice rang in Ye Qingyun's mind. The system hurriedly said, "[Host, after urgent analysis, we have reached the following arrangement: You should pretend you cannot accept this fact, experience an emotional breakdown, and fly your small spacecraft to a remote planet, far away from the plot. After some time, once the investigation is complete, we will inform you of the final conclusion.]"
Ye Qingyun secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Away from the plot, living a peaceful life, doing whatever he wants—that's exactly what he's looking forward to.
It's just a breakdown, and he's already putting on an act!
Gu Chenyuan looked at Ye Qingyun's profile, a thought stirring in his mind.
Now that Ye Qingyun knows that Pu Tian was the one who tried to harm him before, he should no longer be sad for Pu Tian. Pu Tian is not worth his tears at all.
Don't cry. He's such a good person. He'll find a better partner in the future. Pu Tian should be completely forgotten by him.
However, the next moment, Gu Chenyuan saw that Ye Qingyun's eyes were red.
"Ah Tian, how could you die..." Ye Qingyun covered her face, her body slightly bent in pain, as if she had received unbearable news. "I can't accept it, I can't accept it! This must all be fake, you must still be alive somewhere, right? Wait for me, I'm coming to find you right now!"
Ye Qingyun turned around and ran towards the place where the small flying vehicles were placed on the pirate ship.
He arrived at the location smoothly, opened the cockpit door, sat down, started the aircraft, and closed the open door.
Once he flies away, he'll be a free man! Forget the plot!
However, a second before the hatch closed, someone jumped in and sat in the co-pilot's seat.
The spacecraft started up, burst out of the pirate ship, and soared into the sky.
Ye Qingyun looked at Gu Chenyuan: "..."
Hey bro, what are you doing here?! With you around, how can we stay away from the plot?!
The system weakly replied: "Host... just to be safe, please don't break character in front of the protagonist for now. We can't afford to have it broken again and again QAQ!"
Ye Qingyun expressed her understanding, then said fiercely to Gu Chenyuan, "Why are you talking to me?"
Gu Chenyuan remained expressionless and said calmly, "You haven't finished the lesson yet."
Ye Qingyun: "?"
"My man is dead, and you, my rival in love, still expect me to lecture you?" Ye Qingyun said incredulously.
“He’s not your man,” Gu Chenyuan retorted instinctively.
Ye Qingyun: "..." Is that the point? Shouldn't the point be that he refused to attend class?
Ye Qingyun pretended to be very angry: "What do you mean? He's already gone, and you still want to mock me like this? And you even follow me around to make me feel uncomfortable?"
Gu Chenyuan looked at Ye Qingyun and fell silent.
Of course he wanted to stay by Ye Qingyun's side, whether it was for reason or for emotion.
Logically, he needs Ye Qingyun's help to successfully create drugs that suppress emotions or break the bloodline bindings.
Emotionally speaking... it was his own choice not to leave.
When a person has been walking in a cold world for too long, and suddenly encounters a warm and bright flame, they will always want to stay there for a while, even if they know they will have to leave sooner or later.
But now Ye Qingyun doesn't want to stay by his side.
This fact made Gu Chenyuan frown.
Of course, he had many ways to keep Ye Qingyun here. He could have used force to suppress her and make her continue teaching him.
But he didn't want to do that; he didn't want to use violence against Ye Qingyun at all.
Gu Chenyuan looked at Ye Qingyun's profile, at his curled eyelashes, his crimson lips, and his light amber eyes filled with warmth.
How can violence be used against such a person?
He wouldn't hesitate to let anyone who dared to use violence against him also experience the taste of violence.
Aside from violence, there is another method.
Although Ye Qingyun is stubborn, she is soft-hearted. He could easily take advantage of her kindness and force her to stay by his side.
Thinking this, Gu Chenyuan manipulated his supernatural power, swirling it within his body, and immediately spat out a mouthful of blood.
When Ye Qingyun saw Gu Chenyuan suddenly vomit blood, she was immediately shocked: "What happened to you?"
"Cough..." Gu Chenyuan coughed lightly, covering his mouth, and said weakly, "When those hostile space pirate groups attacked, I was on the ship. They outnumbered me and were all very strong. I couldn't beat them, so when I escaped... I was seriously injured. I had been enduring it, but now I finally couldn't hold back anymore."
After Gu Chenyuan finished speaking, he closed his eyes, his face pale, and remained motionless.
Ye Qingyun screamed inwardly, but outwardly remained indifferent as she asked, "Gu Chenyuan, are you dead?"
Gu Chenyuan did not respond and remained motionless.
Ye Qingyun reached out with trembling hands to check Gu Chenyuan's breathing and found that he was still breathing, so she breathed a sigh of relief.
Thank goodness, he just fainted—or maybe he didn't actually faint, but just closed his eyes and didn't want to pay attention to him?
Ye Qingyun thought for a moment, then reached out and pinched Gu Chenyuan's cheek: "Hey, stop pretending to be dead."
Gu Chenyuan remained motionless.
It seems he really has fainted.
Ye Qingyun let go of his hand and hurriedly searched for spare medicines in the small aircraft, but after searching the entire aircraft, he could not find any medicines.
What should we do? What if something really happens to Gu Chenyuan...?
Looking at the spacecraft's energy reserves, which were nearly depleted, Ye Qingyun slammed his fist on the control panel in frustration and chose to land on the nearest inhabited planet.
Let's give Gu Chenyuan some emergency treatment here first, so he doesn't actually die.
Once the aircraft came to a stop, Ye Qingyun helped Gu Chenyuan off and they disembarked.
Ye Qingyun remembered that there was a village not far from where she landed, so she walked in that direction and soon reached the edge of the village.
An old man was sitting and smoking at the village entrance. Ye Qingyun walked up to him and asked, "Hello, excuse me..."
The old man looked up, saw Ye Qingyun's face, his eyes widened, and he turned and ran into the village.
Ye Qingyun: "?"
What, is he that scary-looking?
Not long after, Ye Qingyun saw the old man return, followed by a large group of people.
They looked at Ye Qingyun with excitement in their eyes, and as they approached, Ye Qingyun and the others began to talk.
Those people weren't speaking the common interstellar language, but rather some obscure regional dialect. Fortunately, Ye Qingyun happened to have studied it, so she was still able to understand it.
"So beautiful, God will surely love it."
"It looks like we'll have a good harvest next year."
"Oh, I was worried that Nina wasn't pretty enough, but now I'm relieved."
Ye Qingyun sensed something was wrong and asked, "What are you talking about?"
Perhaps it was because Ye Qingyun seemed too harmless and too weak that those people answered Ye Qingyun's question.
"The once-in-a-decade divine assembly is just around the corner, and every year at this time, we offer our most beautiful young people to our gods." The leading man looked at Ye Qingyun with a happy smile on his face. "We were worried because we haven't had any good beauties in the past ten years, and then we saw you. Heh, you're very lucky, young man."
"Luck?" Ye Qingyun was completely bewildered. "God?"
In this interstellar age, how can there still be such backward places?
Those people answered Ye Qingyun in a cacophony of voices:
"Yes, those who follow God live a life of luxury, much better than the people in the village!"
"They don't have to do any work, and their skin is whiter than snow!"
Ye Qingyun would never agree to go; there was something wrong with that. He thought for a moment, then said with a mixture of joy and doubt, "Really? That's wonderful! By the way, your god shouldn't require purity, right?"
Those people were all stunned.
Ye Qingyun pointed at the unconscious Gu Chenyuan: "I've slept with this guy more than ten times... a few times... once in bed, it should be fine, right? God won't care, will he?"
An eerie silence fell over the room. After a long while, someone asked, "Are you... a couple?"
Judging from this reaction, they probably don't want someone as "impure" as him anymore.
To increase credibility, while Gu Chenyuan was unconscious, Ye Qingyun mustered her courage, leaned close to Gu Chenyuan's face, and kissed him on the cheek. She then turned to the villagers and smiled, "Yes, he is my husband."
Gu Chenyuan, who was pretending to be unconscious: "..."
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