A fierce wind was blowing outside, and suddenly it started to rain.
A gust of wind blew the window open and extinguished the candles in the room.
Suddenly, the entire room went dark.
Dark clouds covered the sky, making it pitch black.
Gu Mu could only hear the undisguised breathing of himself and Shen Ling.
A flash of lightning and a clap of thunder,
Accompanied by the sound of sudden rain,
And then there's the cool night breeze carrying the fresh scent of earth.
Gu Mu patted Chen Ling's head: "If you like me, just say so sooner."
You made me think you were going to kill me.
However, Gu Mu didn't know that liking someone and wanting to hurt someone are not contradictory...
After all, he was obsessed with being reborn once more...
Even if he changed his appearance and won Shen Ling's favor, looking at that face... Shen Ling would still feel a surge of hatred for no reason.
He recalled his past life.
This is probably what they mean by loving and hating at the same time.
Although it's agonizing, letting go of even one of them would be much easier than having to love and hate at the same time.
But... I couldn't help it.
If people could decide for themselves who they liked and disliked, there wouldn't be so much suffering in the world.
That's always been up to fate.
Another thunderstorm struck.
For a fleeting moment, it illuminated the scenery inside the room.
Gu Mu and Shen Ling faced each other.
In that instant, he saw Shen Ling's face clearly, which was covered with tears.
But the corners of her mouth...
But it brought a smile to my face.
She looked contradictory and broken.
After the lightning disappeared, darkness returned.
Gu Mu gently pulled Chen Ling into his arms, ruffled her hair, and whispered, "Actually, I like you too."
Unexpectedly,
Just a short while later,
He heard Shen Ling sobbing softly in his arms.
In her previous life, when she was imprisoned in the dungeon, Shen Ling did not cry.
She did not cry when she was given poisoned wine.
Even if she were torn apart by five horses, she would only look at the moon to distract herself and prevent herself from losing her composure, thus making her enemies even more smug.
She probably didn't shed any tears at that time.
She always thought that she had cried all her tears at the moment she lost her loved ones.
But unexpectedly,
Because of Gu Mu's simple words, she easily broke down her inner defenses.
For the first time, she experienced the vulnerability that comes with her age.
Like a sixteen-year-old girl,
She nestled in Gu Mu's arms and began to sob.
Some people, having traversed endless darkness, believe that nothing in this world can defeat them, only to be dazzled the moment they see the sunlight.
When a person's heart is invulnerable...
But perhaps, even the smallest bit of simple warmth could make her fly like a moth to a flame.
Dedicate everything.
That's the human heart—unpredictable, yet so fascinating.
Gu Mu quickly felt that Shen Ling's tears had soaked his clothes and were warm against his skin.
Although the cold wind kept blowing into the room through the window
Gu Mu could feel the warmth in his arms.
He gently stroked Shen Ling's head, letting her vent her emotions.
He knew why she was crying.
She also has the most right to cry.
She's always put on such a tough exterior, but she's always been that little girl at heart.
Otherwise, why would she have such a happy and innocent smile when she went out to fly kites with Gu Mu?
It was that smile as she turned around that made Gu Mu's heart flutter.
Only then did he realize that the princess who had always wanted to kill him was simply... forced into that situation by the world.
She was once innocent and carefree, like all the girls Gu Mu had ever met, and she had a vulnerable side.
She just hid it.
And after all this time, it was only tonight, in Gu Mu's arms, that it was exposed again.
Outside the room,
The vigorous maid finally heated up a large tub of bathwater.
She planned to carry it little by little into Gu Mu's room and pour it into Gu Mu's bathtub.
After finishing all this,
Then she rushed to Gu Mu's study, intending to call him to take a bath.
But just as they were about to knock on the door,
A parchment scroll that looked extremely bloody and evil stood between her and the door.
Wherever she pointed, the parchment scroll flew there, refusing to let the fierce maid open the door.
And horrifying blood kept seeping from the parchment scroll.
Although the fierce maid had seen this parchment scroll before, she was still unwilling to reach out and touch it.
So when the parchment was brought to her hand, she moved her hand away slightly, intending to knock from a different direction.
But to her surprise, the parchment scroll seemed determined to go against her. No matter where she moved her hand, the parchment scroll would fly there, refusing to let her knock on the door.
The fierce maidservant, being quite fierce after all, was about to angrily demand the meaning of the parchment scroll when...
The moment she opened her mouth, a blur appeared before her eyes, and the parchment scroll flew to her face with lightning speed, tightly covering her mouth and preventing her from making a sound.
Moreover, the parchment scroll, with its immense force, dragged the fierce maid backward, little by little, silently away from the doorway of Gu Mu's study.
The fierce maid had no idea what was wrong with this sheepskin-curled haircut.
All she knew was that her nose was filled with the extremely pungent, bloody smell emanating from the parchment.
Even more so, she could feel the blood flowing from the parchment scroll, drop by drop... falling into her mouth from her wide-open mouth.
Because she couldn't close her mouth, she struggled to breathe and try to make a sound.
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