Liu Jiangfusheng knew that Dan Ya was afraid the world would not be chaotic enough. He took a deep breath, maintaining his last shred of composure, and decided to give Gu Junshi another chance.
He asked, "Is that so? Wuming?"
Heavenly Dao quickly urged, "Gu Junshi, can't you hear what I'm saying to you? He is very angry right now. He wants you to tell Dan Ya that you belong only to him."
However, Gu Junshi turned a deaf ear to Heavenly Dao's advice.
She met his gaze, smiling placidly, "Indeed, Uncle Dan Ya has just helped Wuming a great deal..."
But before she could finish, Liu Jiangfusheng could no longer listen. He interrupted, "A great deal? Tell me, what kind of great deal requires him to lean so close to you, and for you to stand behind him without avoiding me even after seeing me?"
His gaze towards her grew colder and colder, as if the gentleness and softening from before had collapsed in an instant. Their relationship had entered a state of unprecedented hostility and tension.
"Wuming and Uncle Dan Ya have done nothing improper. We are just standing closer for the convenience of conversation. As for anything else, compared to the solitary Uncle Liu Jiang, I believe Uncle Dan Ya can resolve my doubts better."
What did she mean?
Did she think he was too boring, not as interesting as Dan Ya, and that she regretted it and now wanted to choose someone else?
Were all those words of admiration and desire to keep her by his side just lies?
Liu Jiangfusheng's face turned pale, his eyes fixed on Gu Junshi without blinking.
"You come with me!"
Saying this, he reached out and pulled Gu Junshi. Dan Ya, seeing that the situation was not good and wanting to intervene, had a corner of his robe severed by a dazzling cold light.
He looked at Liu Jiangfusheng with lingering fear. If he hadn't retracted his hand in time, his arm might have been chopped off by Liu Jiangfusheng's immortal sword.
Frost gathered in his eyes, and his lips were stained with the taste of blood. "Dan Ya, don't think I dare not do anything to you. I didn't care about what you did in the past, so I let you be reckless. But if you dare to deliberately approach her again, I will not let this go."
Dan Ya had never seen Liu Jiangfusheng's expression and eyes like this before; it was truly chilling.
He was momentarily speechless, his face a mixture of green and white.
After the two left, he clenched his sweaty palms and raised his eyebrows in self-mockery. Heaven and earth, what a vast difference. Liu Jiangfusheng's demeanor just now had truly intimidated him.
However, it was the first time he had seen him so serious and tense. It seemed that the woman named "Wuming" was truly different to him.
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Gu Junshi was dragged by Liu Jiangfusheng to a deserted, secluded back mountain. Cherry blossoms were falling, and purple petals swirled and danced. He pinned her against the trunk of a thick tree.
"Are you Wuming or Gu Junshi?"
He asked her, almost in a rage, to confirm.
Finally, he had been forced by her to break the unspoken understanding between them.
Gu Junshi looked at him innocently and retorted, "What are you talking about, Uncle? Wuming is naturally Wuming."
He was stunned at her words, a mixture of disbelief and powerlessness. Then, like a defeated rooster, he rested his forehead on her neck.
"If you are Wuming, just Wuming..."
"Did Uncle mistake me for someone else?" Gu Junshi's fingertips were cool as she lightly brushed over Liu Jiangfusheng's warm earlobe, making him stiffen all over. He looked up in surprise.
"Uncle, were you jealous just now? But Wuming only acts like this towards Uncle~"
Her eyes had a magical quality, captivating his soul and making his body unable to move, leaving him at her mercy.
"Who are you? Are you Gu Jun—"
"If I am not her, then you will not want me?"
She leaned closer to him, their noses touching, their breaths intertwining as if they could merge into one in the next second.
But Gu Junshi never crossed the last, thin-as-cicada-wing distance, instead watching him quietly.
Compared to her familiarity and composure, Liu Jiangfusheng's expression at this moment was like a dying butterfly struggling, yet unable to escape the web woven by a venomous spider.
"You clearly are..." He stubbornly believed this.
Gu Junshi seemed a little helpless. She gently massaged his earlobe and said nonchalantly, "Think whatever you want. You can consider me as that person too. I am willing to be her substitute, as long as Uncle Fusheng no longer misses her, but only focuses on Wuming."
Gu Junshi's warm and fragrant breath sprinkled on his lips. That faint, tickling sensation brushed against him, making his lips blush a sensitive, alluring red. This was undoubtedly a form of intimacy.
But more impactful than her actions were her words. Liu Jiangfusheng seemed to suddenly wake up. At the crucial moment, he turned his face away, avoiding her.
Gu Junshi found it amusing, "Does Uncle not want to be close to Wuming? You didn't treat me like this before."
Liu Jiangfusheng pushed her hand away and withdrew from the ambiguous atmosphere with a cool detachment, as if his previous loss of control and anger were all a pretense.
He stared at her, puzzled and deep, "Impossible, I wouldn't mistake someone."
Heavenly Dao: ...What are you doing? He recognized you. Why aren't you admitting it? Do you want to cuckold yourself?
Gu Junshi ignored Heavenly Dao and pressed closer to Liu Jiangfusheng.
"So, you knew who I was all along but refused to expose me because you intended to deceive yourself like this? You know full well that you cannot accept that I am Gu Junshi, but now it seems you also cannot accept that I am merely Wuming, unrelated to Gu Junshi. With you like this, how can I cooperate with you?"
The veins on Liu Jiangfusheng's neck throbbed. He squeezed his eyes shut tightly and said dejectedly, "Isn't it better for us to be as we were before? Why do you have to change all of this?"
"Because I discovered that doing so cannot truly reach your inner heart nor resolve your inner demons."
"What scheme do you have now?" He opened his eyes to look at her, then, as if unable to bear it, turned his gaze away. "Saying these things... it's as if you've truly fallen for me. Do you think I'll be fooled by these lies after everything I've been through? Why did you come back from the dead? What exactly do you want to do?"
Gu Junshi also became somewhat annoyed. She lowered her expression and asked with a slight frown, "You are negating everything about me. Then, in your heart, what am I like?"
She sent a message to Heavenly Dao using her divine sense: "See clearly what 'I' am like in his heart."
Gu Junshi's words struck a chord with Liu Jiangfusheng.
What was she like in his heart?
In Liu Jiangfusheng's eyes, she was once an unfathomable mystery, full of allure and curiosity, but also inspiring fantasies of the beauty and wonder hidden behind the mist.
But later, the tip of the iceberg that was revealed was extremely cold and cruel.
It was heartless. Those who approached it would only be severely hurt and end up with heartbreak.
After reading it, Heavenly Dao summarized, "He thinks you are heartless, that you don't love him, and that you abandoned him. He believes your origins are not righteous, that you are deeply calculating and ambitious, and that you pose a threat to the world. In short, he doesn't think you're a good person."
Gu Junshi: ...
It seemed that in his heart, she was not a good person, nor a suitable partner. Moreover, after he recovered his memories, he instinctively sensed her darkness and terror, thus he did not trust her. Aside from the aftereffects of being bitten by a snake once, there was also the innate caution of mammals towards cold-blooded animals.
This was somewhat unexpected for her...
Heavenly Dao said, "What else did you expect?"
Gu Junshi: Since good and evil cannot coexist, I don't think we need to force it...
Hearing her imply she was ready to give up, Heavenly Dao became anxious: "You must force it! Since ancient times, young heroes have loved demonesses. Don't you understand from all those storybooks? He's already enchanted by you. Do you really want to watch the father of your child lie in eternal slumber?"
Gu Junshi calmly continued, "I mean, it's not necessary to force it. Everything requires a method and a strategy."
She had already found the reason why he was always hesitant about her.
First, she needed to rectify the impression that her origins were unknown and that she was untrustworthy.
All along, he hadn't known her origins or past. People fear what they don't understand, feeling a great distance between them and thus hesitating to move forward.
Liu Jiangfusheng seemed to have thought a lot in a short period. He said, "I don't know what kind of person you are. You seem different from everyone else. Sometimes I feel like you could disappear at any moment, and I wouldn't be able to find you even if I searched the heavens and the earth."
This time, Gu Junshi did not evade the question. She directly gave him the answer, "I am indeed not from this world. My soul comes from another world."
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Gu Junshi grabbed his hand, "Do you want me to take you to see it?"
After speaking, without waiting for his reply, she waved her hand and guided his spiritual consciousness to a strange and bizarre world.
They floated like two free clouds, drifting with the wind.
Tens of thousands of feet below were steel skyscrapers and bustling roads, tin-plated vehicles and a riot of visual stimuli. This prosperous and crowded world, so utterly different, made Liu Jiangfusheng gasp in amazement.
"This is..."
"The world I used to live in. My worldview and the place where I was first born. It is my past and an important, inseparable part of the me you see before you."
Liu Jiangfusheng said in disbelief, "You lived here? Then how did you come to my world?"
Gu Junshi cupped his face, making him look at her, and told him in a solemn tone, "Because, my future is in your world."
Indeed, she was brought in by another Heavenly Dao to take the blame. It believed that the plan of this Heavenly Dao would not succeed, and thus she appeared.
Liu Jiangfusheng looked at her eyes, stunned.
Her past was a world he did not understand, but her future was his (world). These words, which made his heart pound more than any sweet talk, caused Liu Jiangfusheng's ears to burn like fire.
It was evident that regardless of whether he believed her or not, the moment Gu Junshi revealed the truth to him, and they witnessed her past together, his mindset began to change.
And the resentment value, which had been like cement sealing his heart, finally began to move miraculously.
Heavenly Dao's excited tone could not be concealed: "Gu Junshi, his resentment value has dropped!"
It seemed her previous thoughts were correct.
Love and liking could be supported by momentary impulse and blind hormones, but marriage and love required understanding, knowledge, sincere communication, and the establishment of a shared worldview to achieve harmony.
Otherwise, they would only love but not stay together, eventually parting ways like scattered birds.
She had truthfully revealed her past to him. Through her change, he had felt something different, and some of his defenses finally crumbled. However, the resentment value had not completely disappeared, indicating that he still had other unresolved issues.