“My general,” he thought his heart filled with both sweetness and sorrow: “For generations, how many renowned generals were able to safely retire? Don't these words stab at my heart?”
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Gu Yun flipped over and pressed him in his arms, he suddenly found that no wonder the ancients said that tenderness was a hero's grave — holding a beloved one in the cold winter days, there was no need to be in such places as the Marquis's manor or the palace. As long as there was a small bedroom in an ordinary residential courtyard, with a brazier enough to warm the wine, his bones had all gone soft. Let alone fight, he did not even want to enter the court.
This time, the kiss seemed to be different from the parting between life and death on the city wall. It was not so desperate, hopeless and fierce. A corner of Gu Yun's heart suddenly collapsed, creating the softest spot he thought to himself, “From now on, he is my man.”
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Chang Geng muttered, “Zi Xi, can I hold you?”
Gu Yun thought: how clingy.
Even so, he went over and sat next to him, letting him reluctantly lean over and put his arms around his waist.
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Gu Yun tightened his hold on him. When Chang Geng opened his eyes again, the bloodish hue and double pupils in his eyes had faded. Suddenly he turned over, pressing the person he missed day and night on the soft and thin quilt. “Zi Xi , do you know what the Bone of Impurity is?”
Gu Yun was surprised.
“The Bone of Impurity is a kind of evil god and the oldest curse of barbarians. When their whole clan is destroyed, they will leave behind a pair of children and make them into the Bone of Impurity. In this way, the refined person will have unparalleled strength in thebworld, bringing bloody storms and ending the lives of their mortal enemies, no matter how powerful they could be.”
Chang Geng laid on him, there was a slight tremor in his chest as he spoke but his voice was as warm as ever, onky with a little unspeakable hoarseness. “Before her death, Hu Gu Er had said to me, all my life, I will only have hatred, tyranny, and suspicion in my heart, I will be violent and homicidal. Everywhere I go, there shall be a storm of blood, I am doomed to drag everyone to a horrible death, no one will love me, no one will treat me with sincerity.”
Gu Yun took in a breath of cold air. He used to think that when Chang Geng was a teenager, his mind was too heavy with thoughts. There were innumerable twists and turns in it, making one confused. But he did not know that behind those innumerable twists and turns, he was still being weighed down with such a critical remark.
“But someone does love me, someone does treat me sincerely... Is that right? You had called me back just now.” Chang Geng whispered, “She had never given me warmth for even a day, and I will never become what she had wished for me. Do you believe me? Zi Xi, as long as you say a word, even a sea of flame or a mountain of swords, I will still charge ahead.”
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“I was very troublesome at that time, even the teacher was afraid of me from all the tricks I pulled to torment him. He dared not scold me face to face but ran back to tell the old man about it. Besides beating people, the old Marquis punished me to take a stance on the stool, falling of with only a slight tremble. He did not appear like a goddamn blood-connected father no matter how you look at it. Later, I thought that old man goatee kept running to tell on me day after day was simply too annoying. I had come up with a scheme with Shen Ji Ping, we stole zome laxatives and poured it into the teacher's tea.”
“Laxative is nothing, but we are both young not knowing the proper measure. Teacher is already old and frail, almost dying from it. Throughout two hundred years, the Gu family has not had a house wrecking and crazy child like this, the old Marquis was enraged, wanting to beat me to death, fortunately the Princess stopped him.”
“Well, my mother later admitted that she too want to hit me at that time, but it was difficult for her to give birth due to her cold body. She was afraid that after killing me, there will be no one left for the Gu family.”
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Shen Yi nodded and asked, “Do you actually want to make use Xiao Cao, or are you afraid that he will inform His Royal Highness Yan Wang?”
“Am I one to mix up private and official affairs?” Gu Yun lifted his eyebrows, but without waiting for Shen Yi to apologize, he said again, “Both.”
Shen Yi: “...”
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“The old man on the opposite side thinks he's very good at fighting along the sea? I'll show him the difference between a general and a marshal.”
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“Zi Xi, even if you're blind, can you atleady change to a normal liuli glass?”
Gu Yun dressed in armor and readied to go out for camp patrol — the Marshal making daily patrolling in person without missing a day was also a distinguished feature of Liangjiang camp, even if he was blind.
“No,” he replied solemnly with an utmost serious expression, “I want to follow the example of Lan Ling Wang*.”
Shen Yi thought that this bastard might not have transferred him here to share his worries, but to be his entertainment!
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The next day, Shen Yi had a good laugh at him when he heard it: “Perhaps it was some god that had their eyes sored by your flirtatious attitude.”
“Then that god must be a busybody,” Gu Yun said without shame, “Maybe she saw that I am too handsome and want to become my wife in a hurry.”
Shen Yi: “...”
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“The emperor died...” Xiao Cia licked his lips at a loss. He hesitated for a moment, then gathered his courage to kneel beside Gu Yun's bed and carefully pulled Gu Yun's robe. He whispered, “Marshal, Marshal.”
“He can't hear you if you call like that.” He Rong Huu strode forward, dragged up Gu Yun, grabbed him by the shoulder and shook him a few times, shouting loudly like a gong, “Marshal! Marshal! Wake up! Something major happened! The Emperor kid is dead!”
Young General Cai: “...”
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At this time, Shen Yi ran to Gu Yun in panic, as if he had been chased backby the Western pope on the sea monster: “Zi – Zi – Zi Xi!”
He Rong Hui asked with irritation: “Brother Ji Ping, why are you so dejected?”
Shen Yi could not be bothered with him. He charged towards Gu Yun's bedside, his breathing uneven: “Your little Highness arrived, you– you...”
In the tent, people were still immersed in the shock of 'Yan Wang actually became emperor'. For a whike, they didn't know who Shen Yi referred to as 'little Highness'. He Rong Hui and Xiao Cai stared at each other. Gu Yun slowly let Shen Yi's lip language run by his mind once, then asked with astonishment, “Chang Geng?”
Shen Yi nodded rapidly.
Gu Yun suddenly lost color and almost jumped up, butbwith no strength, he could not managed to jump. As if he was caught red-handed by his wife for fooling around, his tongue was tied in a knot: “Is there a place under the bed for me to hide? Don't block the way Old He, move aside, move aside, cough, cough...”
Under an emergency, Gu Yun's wound on his throat that has not completely healed yet caused him to cough violently. Before he could finish coughing, a faint spring breeze came from thw outside of the tent and brushed the back of the deaf and blind man's pale hanf. Through the special liuli glass, Gu Yun faintly saw a tall silhouette standing at the entry.
Gu Yun: “...”
It's over.
For a while, the tent was dead silent. Gu Yun was simply frightened, while the others were startled from witnessing the new emperor in the letter standing in front of them.
Only Shen Yi broke the silence with an off the wall remark: “You cannot blame me for being slow.”
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danmei lines
DiversosThis is basically lines that I copied, and is currently chilling in my clipboard lol The lines here isn't in order, since I would reread some parts of the novel based on my mood, and when I would read that line again, I would copy it and not caring...
