After traveling through the book, I conquered the male protagonist Long Aotian!

"Have you finished chatting?"

Chu Lingxiao looked at Gu Qingze who had returned, and couldn't help revealing a hint of surprise on his face.

He originally thought that the conversation between Qingze and Jinluo would take a long time and require a lot of preparation, but how come Gu Qingze turned back in less than half an hour? What was going on?

He keenly noticed that Gu Qingze, who had returned, was in a slightly strange mood, so he hurried forward and hugged him in his arms, trying to comfort him, but heard Gu Qingze ask in a muffled voice.

"Ling Xiao, I forgot to ask you before. After you brought Chin Luo back, did you restore your original appearance, or did you continue to use your previous disguise to meet her?"

When Chu Lingxiao heard this, he was stunned at first, and then he carefully and truthfully revealed his thoughts.

"Because I don't know how Qingze plans to deal with the matter of Jinluo, just in case, although I have restored my original face, I still selectively used the Dream Pearl to confuse her vision, so that when she sees me, she still sees the face I disguised before."

"Isn't the Dream Pearl...here with me?" Gu Qingze asked casually, seemingly nonchalantly.

"Oh, about this matter. Although the Dream Pearl is in your hands, Qingze, you only have the right to use it. In fact, I am its real owner."

"Since I signed the master recognition agreement, part of its power has been integrated into my sea of ​​consciousness, so even if the Dream Pearl is not with me, I can still use some of its power."

"What's wrong? Why did Qingze suddenly ask this? Could it be that something went wrong because of me?"

Chu Lingxiao raised his eyes and looked at him, while speaking, he revealed the worst guess in his mind.

"No... Ling Xiao has done it very well. This has nothing to do with Ling Xiao. I'm asking this just... just..."

Gu Qingze seemed to be hesitant to speak, looking depressed.

Seeing him so depressed and hesitant, Chu Lingxiao became more curious.

"Qingze, you once promised me that you would never hide anything from me as long as you could tell me."

He just calmly stated Gu Qingze's past promises, staring straight at him, which instead aroused certain emotions in Gu Qingze.

Gu Qingze let out a long sigh, then spoke slowly, his words full of self-mockery.

"Ling Xiao, I'm really not good at dealing with emotional matters. I underestimated the feelings that Qinluo had for me. Due to my misjudgment... I ended up hurting Qinluo."

"She refused to listen to me finish my words and started crying... I stood there and it was no use, so I went back."

Seeing that Gu Qingze, even in such a depressed mood, still obeyed his words and narrated the general course of events, Chu Lingxiao felt extremely satisfied.

He gently held Gu Qingze's cheeks and comforted her softly.

"It's okay, Jinluo just needs some time to accept it. No matter what Qingze says, the ending is almost the same. You don't have to blame yourself."

When Gu Qingze heard this, his pupils trembled slightly and he lowered his eyes.

"Am I really not wrong? I was obviously wrong. Even if the ending is the same, I could have made the process better."

"And I promised Ling Xiao before that I would handle it properly, but in the end..."

Chu Lingxiao listened to his self-doubt but did not give him too much advice. For things like this...it would be better to let Qingze figure it out slowly on his own, so he just patted him on the shoulder and changed the subject.

"In fact, I am very curious. Before Qingze left, he vowed to make up a beautiful but slightly regretful story for Jinluo. This shows that Qingze was mentally prepared to make Jinluo sad."

"But now he is so depressed. Could it be that Qingze was nervous when he saw Jinluo and changed his story to another one? If so, what kind of story is that?"

"What kind of story?"

Gu Qingze pondered for a moment and shook his head.

"There's nothing wrong with the story itself. I misjudged the feelings that Tiaoluo had for me. Plus, I made those promises to her unconsciously. So, using this story as an explanation to her is too cruel."

"Feelings, commitment?" Chu Lingxiao caught the key words and looked at him with a very calm attitude.

"Well, what Ling Xiao said before is absolutely true. Regardless of whether Jinluo has such feelings for me, in her eyes, it is love."

"And without me noticing, perhaps because of the oppressive environment in the brothel, or perhaps for other reasons, that feeling was growing and accumulating in her heart at a rapid pace."

"But I was too slow to deal with that kind of emotion. When we were in the flower house, Jinluo repeatedly asked me if I could go with her if I could leave."

"At the time, I thought 'going together' only meant leaving the brothel together, but Qinluo believed that it had a deeper meaning, which was not only leaving the brothel together, but also living together."

"So, when I told Tingluo that I (Linglan) already had someone I loved, that is, the person Lingxiao was disguising himself as, and was ready to start a new life, and I wished her a new life, she was so devastated."

"I originally thought that I could pretend that I didn't know that she liked me, and tell her these things unconsciously, so that she would give up. I wouldn't delay her, and I wouldn't have to reject her directly. Then I could give her sincere and good wishes. I never thought..."

Chu Lingxiao understood the whole story and felt a little unhappy.

"In that case, this is all a misunderstanding. It's not Qingze's fault because the two of us didn't understand each other. We just need to explain it clearly."

"It's easy to say, but I know that kind of emotion very well. Once a person collapses to a certain level, he or she will not want to listen to any explanation."

"So I can only wait until Tianluo calms down, and then explain. Although the situation has become very bad, I still have to do my best to make up for it and not let it get worse."