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Chapter 232 Speculation (11)
"Yes, since ancient times, parents have decided on major matters of marriage. Xue'er's life has been full of ups and downs. Her mother died of dystocia when she was born. Later, when Xue'er was three years old, her father married concubine Chen. Xue'er thought that life would get better, at least her father wouldn't be unhappy every day." Like Gu Chang, Nie Qingxue turned her head to look at the mountain scenery in the distance.
In the moonlight, the distant mountains rose and fell like waves. Her voice changed from being deliberately reserved at first to becoming firmer.
Gu Chang had a momentary illusion that the Nie Qingxue in front of him was the real Nie Qingxue.
Nie Qingxue's voice continued after a pause, and her tone became somewhat sad and unwilling.
"But I didn't expect that after my sister was born, I would become alone and lose my father. Later, when I was eight years old, I accidentally fell into the pond on a winter day. I thought I would die, but I was unwilling to accept it. I didn't want to accept why I had to suffer so much."
After she finished speaking, she turned to look at Gu Chang, with a gentle and determined gleam in her eyes.
"So after I struggled to get ashore, I decided to take back what was mine."
"Mr. Gu, are you willing to assist me?" Nie Qingxue pursed her lips. Her beautiful eyes, which had always been pitiful and delicate, now turned sharp. A cold glint shone in them, and even her eyebrows were tinged with a sharpness.
This is not like Nie Qingxue at the banquet.
Gu Chang raised his eyebrows slightly, things were getting interesting.
His eyes darkened slightly, his voice clear and gentle, and he spoke in a calm tone, "Perhaps I should call you the real Miss Nie?"
"I wasn't wrong about you, Master Gu. You're truly not an ordinary person." Nie Qingxue curled her lips slightly. She raised her hand and tucked the strands of hair behind her ear. "Master Gu, no matter what she's about to do, please stop her."
After Nie Qingxue said this, she suddenly froze and just stared at Gu Chang blankly. Her eyes widened unconsciously and then blinked frequently.
About five or six seconds later, Nie Qingxue came to her senses. She noticed Gu Chang's eyes on her and smiled shyly, "Mr. Gu, why are you staring at Xue'er like that? But is there something on Xue'er's face?"
As soon as he heard this self-introduction, Gu Chang knew that it was "Nie Qingxue" who had traveled through time.
"Miss Nie, it's windy at night and your face has turned pale. Please take care of yourself. I have something important to do, so I won't be with you for now." Gu Chang smiled calmly and turned to leave. Seeing Nie Qingxue's reaction, Gu Chang knew that she didn't know that the real Nie Qingxue had just come out.
Nie Qingxue was a little confused. She raised her hand and touched her face, which felt a little dry. Then she looked up at Gu Chang's departing figure.
She thought to herself: I have to apply three facial masks before going to bed tonight to moisturize my skin!
When Gu Chang was leaving and walking down the stairs, he glanced at Luo Yingsheng who was still sitting on the second floor.
Luo Yingsheng drank a lot of wine, and there were many wine bottles on the table in front of him.
As if noticing someone was looking at him, Luo Yingsheng stared towards Gu Chang with dazed eyes.
He squinted his eyes and stared at Gu Chang for a long while before he grinned. He raised his hand and pointed at Gu Chang, saying loudly, "Mr. Gu, come and have a drink! I can't drink alone! I need a beautiful woman to accompany me!"
Gu Chang ignored Luo Yingsheng. He looked away and went downstairs.
By the end of the banquet, Luo Yingsheng was drunk.
The pleasure boat had also stopped at the shore, and Luo Yingsheng was helped off the boat by the servant.
He leaned against the servant in a daze, his voice muffled, "Send me to Zuihualou! I want to see that bitch Ruyun!!"
The servant lowered his voice and said, "Yes, I'll take you there right away."
Luo Yingsheng was helped onto the carriage by a servant. Before he could even touch the seat, the servant had already let go of his hand. Luo Yingsheng stumbled and nearly hit his head on the ground.
"What the hell?!" Luo Yingsheng muttered in dissatisfaction. He touched the cushion to support himself and then lay down on the seat.
The carriage was running smoothly at first, but gradually became bumpy, waking Luo Yingsheng up.
Suddenly the carriage stopped. Luo Yingsheng struggled to open his eyes and called out, "Are we at Zuihualou yet?"
But no one responded to him.
Luo Yingsheng began to feel dissatisfied. He propped up his upper body with his elbows on the cushion, then reached out to open the car door.
But he didn't expect that the person outside was one step faster than him.
Before Luo Yingsheng could react, a sack was put over his head.
Then came the ruthless iron fist.
Luo Yingsheng was screaming in pain as he was beaten. Suddenly, the fists stopped and Luo Yingsheng thought he was saved.
But as the sack was lifted, a smelly rag was stuffed into his mouth, blocking it so tightly that he could only groan.
The sack continued to be put on Luo Yingsheng's head, and then the ruthless iron fist continued to fall.
Tianyu didn't stop until Luo Yingsheng stopped resisting and lost consciousness.
Tianyu's face was covered with a black cloth. He looked at the filthiness of Luo Yingsheng's lower body with disgust, then opened the door and jumped out of the carriage.
The carriage was now parked in a wasteland with no one around.
Tianyu took advantage of the darkness to leave the place quickly.
After returning to Gu's house, Tianyu went to the study to report to Gu Chang.
"Sir, he's already been beaten up. I can guarantee he'll be bedridden for the next two weeks." Tian Yu pulled off the black cloth covering his face and smiled softly. He extended his right hand, revealing two bloodstained white teeth on his palm.
Gu Chang put down the brush in his hand and smiled slightly, "Well done, Tianyu, it's late, you should go to rest."
"Yes, I'll take my leave!" Tian Yu put away his right hand, then turned around and left the study, closing the door.
Gu Chang picked up the brush in his hand and continued to write a mind map about the heroine's rebirth on the rice paper.
Nie Qingxue who came in now is a person from another world, simply called a strange person.
The real Nie Qingxue is simply called Zhenren.
Because Nie Qingxue mentioned that she had fallen into the water when she was eight years old, Gu Chang knew from his past experience that this point was the opportunity for the alien to enter the body of a real person.
The script in Yiren's hand is the script in which the seventh prince will become the emperor.
The original plot in Gu Chang's hands was that the real person would marry Prince Duan Tu Weizhi.
But now Yiren's engagement with Prince Duan has been cancelled. Does this mean that Yiren knows that Prince Duan actually has problems? Otherwise, Yiren would not choose to cancel the engagement with Prince Duan. Gu Chang speculates that the script in Yiren's hand is the script after the real person is reborn for the third time.
According to the popular melodramatic plot, the real person was framed and died by his concubine's sister and aunt in his first life, and then was reborn.
In her second life, the reborn Zhenren successfully married Prince Duan, but in reality, Prince Duan was not a good person. When Zhenren discovered Prince Duan's true face, he was already dead.
Then came the third rebirth. The real person in this life wanted to change his route. However, he did not expect that there would be a variable, that is, the alien who came in.
Yiren possesses the memories of Zhenren's previous two lives. She understands that Prince Duan is not a good person, so she chooses to cancel the engagement with Prince Duan and choose the Seventh Prince.
But how did Yi Ren know that the Seventh Prince would become the Emperor? Could this be another part of the system's plot that wasn't mentioned?
Gu Changxian wrote down these two doubts on rice paper and then continued to think.
Yiren's goal is to become the queen, so she goes to Tianyao Kingdom to approach Murong Heng, hoping to get the token that can mobilize the Night Shadow Guard, and then return to Zhou Kingdom, hand the token to the Seventh Prince, and then help the Seventh Prince ascend the throne.
Gu Chang took a brush and circled the first suspicious point, then wrote down his guess.
The stranger got not the second life script, but the third life script?
"The fourth time the real person is reborn."
Gu Chang wrote this sentence under the first doubt.
Gu Chang felt that he was very close to the truth, but there were still some things he didn't understand.
If the real person in the third life married the seventh prince and became the queen, then why was there a fourth rebirth?
Could it be that the Seventh Prince also killed the real person?
Gu Chang wrote the five words "Prince Duan" and "Seventh Prince" on the blank space of the rice paper.
Will these two key characters awaken their past life memories after being reborn three or four times?
Because of the experiences in previous worlds, awakening memories of past lives has also happened.
Gu Chang put a question mark under these two names.
Gu Chang put down the brush and frowned slightly. There was not much information available, and he could not get an accurate answer through reasoning.
He suddenly remembered what Wange had said, that Nie Qingxue was like a puppet in an empty valley.
Could the alien be a hollow puppet with the memories of a real person?
Gu Chang wrote this question on rice paper.
He gave two answers, yes and no.
If so, who is the person who made the Konggu puppets? What is his purpose?
If the answer is no, then maybe Wangge made a wrong judgment. After all, she was not sure whether the alien was a puppet in the hollow valley.
Gu Chang put the brush aside. Now he needed to verify the answers to the questions he wrote down.
At least now Nie Qianyuan has a good impression of him, so there is still some hope for the Deer Hunting Festival in August.
Gu Chang picked up the rice paper that was already filled with words, and then held a corner of the paper towards the flickering candlelight beside him.
The flames lifted up the rice paper, swallowing it up in big mouthfuls and burning it.
When only a corner was left, Gu Chang let go of the rice paper and let it burn to ashes, which finally fell lightly to the ground.
The system asked in confusion, "Host, if you burn it, don't you have to write it again if you need it later?"
"That's the only way to find out what I didn't expect. Besides, if this piece of paper is accidentally taken away, wouldn't it expose my identity?" Gu Chang curled his lips and smiled slightly. He picked up the light candlestick, and the candle on the candlestick shook violently a few times.
"That's right." The system said thoughtfully, but it still felt that having a database would be the best. In this way, if any information was missing, it could get all the information by just entering the relevant words.
But the host is a human being and cannot own a database. It’s a bit sad to think about it.
The system decided that it would have to re-watch the melodramatic TV series "The Rich Man xxx Reborn to Slap the Faces of His Seventh and Eighth Uncles".
There are three hundred and sixty episodes in total, which is enough to kill time for a while.
Gu Chang took the candlestick and walked all the way back to his room. He put the candlestick on the table beside him, and then he saw a letter under the teacup.
Gu Chang raised his eyebrows slightly, opened the envelope and took out the letter inside.
Suddenly, a faint fragrance filled the air. It seemed that the letter paper was specially fumigated with floral scent.
There was only one sentence in the letter.
"Are you safe?"
Gu Chang knew at a glance that the handwriting was Murong Heng's.
However, when Murong Heng sent the letter, he did not let Yinli and Tianyu tell him.
If this was a surprise, then Gu Chang felt that the content of the letter was really brief.
However, Gu Chang thought of Murong Heng's awkward personality and understood Murong Heng's intention in writing this way.
Gu Chang looked around and found that there was no paper in the room, so he picked up the candlestick and returned to the study again.
In the study, Gu Chang wrote his reply on the letter Murong Heng had written. Then Gu Chang took the letter and candlestick and returned to his room.
Gu Chang put the letter back into the envelope and placed it under the teacup.
Then she took off her outer clothes, untied the hairband on her hair, and lay down on the bed in her inner clothes and fell asleep.