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Chap 799

Chapter 799: Long Feiye's lies

Soft as they were, Han Yunxi still heard Gu Beiyue’s words. Actually, she didn’t want Gu Qishao to be present at the trial either, but she hadn’t known how to coax him. They would have to outline Gu Yuntian’s previous crimes there and verify each piece of evidence, one by one. And unlike the Apricot Woods Conference, this would be a completely public forum right by Medical City’s gates. Everyone in the city could see the proceedings while all of Cloud Realm Continent watched.

Gu Qishao said before that he didn’t needed sympathy. She firmly believed that he had the courage to face his unbearable past. Maybe she was the one who lacked strength. She couldn’t remain indifferent to the man who always smiled so easily while exposing his fresh and bleeding scars to countless eyes before them. She couldn’t accept that, and she didn’t want to! She was afraid that she’d cry again

Gu Qishao only pretended not to hear Gu Beiyue’s request as he stretched lazily. “Have you guys eaten breakfast yet?”

“Old Fiend, don’t go. I still have something--” Before Han Yunxi could finish, a miserable cry rose from outside the courtyard.

“Qi gege...Qi gege!” Mu Linger flew in with a face full of tears and threw herself at Gu Qishao, holding him tight. She buried her head in her his chest and bawled. “Qi gege, don’t go! Don’t! I don’t want you to! I won’t let you!”

“Qi gege, sobsob...why didn’t you tell Linger, why? Sobsob…”

“Qi gege, we’ve known each other since we were little, why didn’t you say a thing?”

Mu Linger’s sobs were heartrending. She always thought Qi gege was only an orphan who lived on alms to grow up, but only found out later that he was Gu Qi Sha, the expelled disciple of Medical City. A few days earlier, she received news from Medical City and discovered the whole truth. Leaving the affairs of Pill Fiend Pharmacy behind her, she had galloped nonstop on horseback until she reached her. Her eyes were almost blind from crying. 

How much she regretted being such an idiot when she first met Qi gege. Why didn’t she investigate him thoroughly? Qi gege must have just been expelled when she saw him, covered with wounds yet with no one to protect or comfort him. Why had she...why had she even fought with him? And cursed him as a feral child?

Mu Linger sorely wished she could go back to the past and the first moment they met so she could give Little Qi a good hug. 

Silence reigned in the courtyard. Chu Xifeng and Xu Donglin, who had rushed in after all, could only stand rooted to the spot without making a sound. Mu Linger’s sorrowful cries were enough to break one’s heart. Gu Qishao’s eyes were hooded as he let Mu Linger hug him. It was a long while before he pushed her aside and wiped his robes clean with dislike. “Your tears and snot are all over my clothes now, so dirty. Stay away.”

Mu Linger’s sobbing intensified at his words. She almost threw herself at him again, but Gu Qishao hastily backed away.

“Qi gege, sobsob...I feel bad, so bad….sobsob….” Mu Linger couldn’t stop crying as she looked at him.

Her crying vexed Gu Qishao the most, but before he could yell at her, he saw her bloodshot, red-rimmed eyes. With a start, the words died in his throat.

“Still crying?” he arched a brow, his gaze as unhappy as ever even as he dried her tears with his sleeve. “If you keep crying, you’ll go blind. Then you’ll never see me again.”

Mu Linger’s tears abruptly stopped. Not a single one more leaked out from her eyes as she stared at him blankly, then at his hand. It was brushing past her eyelashes and extremely gentle. She was afraid to move in case Qi gege vanished before her eyes and really disappeared from sight. Gu Qishao finished cleaning up Mu Linger’s tears before he said gruffly, “Try and cry again if you dare.”