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

"Qingze, are you... okay?"

Chu Lingxiao keenly noticed that the hand holding the sword was shaking due to excessive use, and asked with concern.

Gu Qingze shook his head slightly and forced a smile: "I... am fine. I can recover after drinking some recovery potions. Anyway, there are still a lot of recovery potions in the storage bag, so there is no need to worry about this."

Upon hearing this, Chu Lingxiao curled his lips in dissatisfaction, as if because he did not get the answer he wanted, and his bright golden eyes stared straight at him.

After a while, as if in compromise, he gently wrapped Qingze's hand with his own and massaged his hand and wrist carefully.

"Qingze, you know that my special ability is to be able to understand your emotions and current state."

"...So, even though I knew it clearly, I still asked because I hoped to hear the most truthful answer from you, rather than Qingze's boastful words."

Gu Qingze lowered his eyes for a moment, then raised them again. He did not continue to speak as he said, but asked in return: "What about Ling Xiao? Ling Xiao, are you okay?"

Chu Lingxiao was speechless for a moment: "I...I..."

Gu Qingze seemed to have anticipated the result. He smiled calmly, with a hint of helplessness in his smile:

"Look, Ling Xiao is also unable to show his vulnerable side without reservation, even in front of his most beloved person. So, we are both the same."

Chu Lingxiao's force in massaging his wrist suddenly increased a lot. Gu Qingze pretended to "cry out in pain" and complained: "Lingxiao can't win the argument with me, so he's taking revenge on me, right?"

"What do you mean by 'taking revenge'? Massage requires greater force. How can gentle massage be effective? Qingze, don't make empty statements and wrongly accuse good people for no reason."

Chu Lingxiao said, and increased his strength again, and then as if he had thought of something, he added:

"One more thing, I'm not doing this because I can't argue with Qingze or I feel I'm in the wrong."

"When faced with Qingze's question just now, I was just a little hesitant. I was not like Qingze, who directly told me some so-called 'white lies' and didn't tell me the truth at all."

"If we talk about who is at fault, it should be Qingze who is at fault."

Gu Qingze shrugged and stopped arguing with Ling Xiao. He just leaned on his shoulder quietly and sighed helplessly:

"Okay, I am indeed in the wrong, but even if I tell Ling Xiao, what's the use? This kind of thing can't be solved by medicine, and Ling Xiao can't solve it either. The only thing that can be done is a long rest."

"Ling Xiao, you and I both need a long rest now to offset our current fatigue, which cannot be recovered by drinking any amount of recovery potions."

Chu Lingxiao did not deny it, or to be more precise, he also felt that what Qingze said made sense, and he really needed a long rest.

He continued to accumulate the spiritual power in his Dantian, then consumed it all, then used recovery potions to instantly fill up the spiritual power in his Dantian, then consumed it all again...he kept repeating this cycle, and his Dantian could no longer bear it.

He felt that his Dantian seemed unable to withstand such a strong impact. Every time he drank recovery potion to restore his spiritual power, his Dantian felt unbearable pain, as if it was about to break.

Chu Lingxiao stretched his legs to make himself sit more comfortably, and said casually:

"Qingze, tell me, did I misjudge the intentions of the person behind the scenes? He may not guarantee our lives."

"Perhaps... the person behind the scenes was only responsible for leading us here, and we are of no use to him in his plan... We will be left to fend for ourselves here."

Gu Qingze was slightly startled when he heard this. Could it be that Ling Xiao didn't know that he was the "Son of Luck"? If he knew, he wouldn't think anything could go wrong here.

He originally thought that Ling Xiao knew about this... After all, Ling Xiao's bloodline awakened and he gained that ability, and before his bloodline awakened, he had already realized his own peculiarities.

After his bloodline awakened and abilities were acquired, Ling Xiao's conversations with him were smooth and there were no flaws at all.

So...it was Heaven that intentionally concealed the part related to the "Son of Luck" and also deliberately changed part of Ling Xiao's thinking so that he would not think in this direction?

Otherwise, with Ling Xiao's ability, he couldn't have thought of these...

Gu Qingze held his hand tightly: "Don't say such discouraging words, we will definitely be fine. Maybe... the process will be a little tortuous and painful, but the ending will definitely be good."

Chu Lingxiao could feel the certainty in his words. It was definitely not just a way of comforting himself, but an inexplicable confidence that came from the bottom of his heart.

Gu Qingze continued, "Besides, I am here. As long as I am here, even if something unexpected happens to me, I will definitely not let Ling Xiao get into trouble."

Chu Lingxiao frowned in disapproval: "We all need to be safe. If one day you are gone, I won't live alone... huh?"

As he was speaking, a hand covered his mouth and he could not continue speaking.

Gu Qingze came close to him and said seriously, "If there really comes a day like that, even if I am no longer here, you must live on and live for yourself."

When Chu Lingxiao heard this, he became more and more dissatisfied, but his mouth was covered and he could only make "mmm" sounds.

Seeing that he was struggling more and more violently, Gu Qingze added as if to comfort him: "Of course, our Ling Xiao is so good, I will definitely not want to leave, so there will never be such a day."

Chu Lingxiao gradually calmed down and stopped struggling.

Seeing that he seemed to be comforted, Gu Qingze slowly loosened his hand that was covering his mouth and gently stroked his fur.

"Ling Xiao, Ling Ling, Xiao Xiao? I just made an assumption that will never happen, please don't ignore me."

Seeing that he ignored him, Gu Qingze's tone was a little aggrieved.

"Even if it's impossible, that won't work!"

Chu Lingxiao seemed to be really angry.

"Don't use this tone when explaining your last wishes in the future. It's not only unlucky, but... I don't like it either."

"I was wrong, I was really wrong. Ling Xiao, please don't be angry." Gu Qingze's tone became increasingly depressed.

Chu Lingxiao sighed, as if trying to calm himself down, and then continued:

"Qingze... It's not that I can't accept death. On the contrary, I'm not afraid of it. What I really can't accept is... that I'm the only one alive in this world."

When he said this, his tone was extremely fragile, like a puppy that had been ruthlessly abandoned, exuding helplessness.

The guilt in Gu Qingze's heart grew deeper and deeper. He kept mentioning it over and over again, he just hoped that Ling Xiao could live better and not die without him.

Ling Xiao took him too seriously... He had realized this a long time ago.

This is not a bad thing, and he is very happy that he can occupy such a profound position in Ling Xiao's heart, but... Ling Xiao's life should not revolve around him alone.

So...he was always forced to make Ling Xiao accept more new things and find more meaning in life. If you think about it carefully, he was a little...too self-righteous to force his own ideas on Ling Xiao under the banner of doing good for Ling Xiao.

How could he know that this was definitely good and correct? Maybe Ling Xiao didn't need this at all...

Gu Qingze hugged him tightly in his arms and said in an extremely gentle voice: "Ling Xiao, I was wrong. This time I am more sincere than before. I really know I was wrong. From now on... I will never say these words that make Ling Xiao unhappy again."

Chu Lingxiao hugged him back and buried his head in his arms: "Qingze, you don't need to apologize to me, and you don't need to use this attitude. I know that Qingze is thinking about me, but I just can't accept it."

"But... Qingze, please don't say these words cursing yourself again in the future. If you say it again, I will be at least twice as angry as I am now, and it will not be so easy to appease me then."

Gu Qingze's arms around him tightened: "Well, I understand."