Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

Gu Yue faced him for a while and felt his heart beating faster.

The heat on his face woke him up. He wanted to step back and create some distance, but Gu Xu held his waist.

"...Gu Yue, what exactly do you want to do?" Gu Xu lowered his voice and asked patiently.

Gu Yue suddenly woke up, and with quick eyes and hands, he pressed Gu Xu's jaw.

Gu Xu pursed his lips into a straight line and his chest heaved.

Gu Yue said: "Don't kiss me. You will regret it."

"Why?" Gu Xu's forehead was covered with veins, "You don't want to?"

"Do you think I don't want to?" Gu Yue rubbed his cheek with the back of his free hand: "Let go first."

Gu Xu felt angry, but more confused. He loosened his hand and watched Gu Yue take a big step back, almost retreating into the hall.

He whispered, "I won't regret it."

The back of Gu Yue's hand burned on his face.

Gu Xu then asked: "Why not?"

Gu Yue's mind raced, and then an idea struck him: "Because I'm under a spell. If I do something intimate before the spell expires, I will turn into a wild fox and will never be able to transform into a human form again."

Gu Xu's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.

"What kind of magic is this? How about asking a Taoist priest to take a look?" He said, "The master of Taiqing Temple seems to be very skilled in Taoism. Let's go find him."

Gu Yue suddenly remembered what the Taoist priest had told him to return his body.

"I am a spirit, how can I meet a Taoist priest... We will discuss this later."

He rubbed his hands and changed the subject: "By the way, when did you come back here from your previous life? What was the ending of your previous life? Did you see it?"

"The ending?" Gu Xu frowned, noticed his choice of words, and took note of them secretly.

"Why were you reborn?" Gu Yue asked in a different way: "According to what you said, Qin Zhaoyue used the Chaozhen Army in your hands to defeat all his enemies. Did he become the emperor?"

Gu Xu recalled his past life, his eyes turned cold: "Of course not."

Gu Yue widened his eyes.

How can this be?

The original ending was a happy family reunion, but Qin Zhaoyue almost killed all his brothers. If he didn't become the emperor, who would be?

"Then who became the emperor? What happened to Qin Zhaoyue? Was he killed?" Gu Yue asked hurriedly.

Gu Xu glanced at him.

"I won't tell you." He turned his head away.

"Why!" Why do you spoil the story without explaining it clearly?

Gu Xu snorted softly through his nose.

"No, I was led astray by you. How did you come back to life?" Gu Yue asked again.

Gu Xu said: "When you let me kiss you, I will tell you."

Gu Yue… was struck by a bolt from the blue!

Will he ever know it in this lifetime?

"This is crucial, Xiao Xu. It shouldn't be traded for that kind of thing." He tried to persuade Gu Xu.

"What's the key? Things in the previous life are unpredictable and have nothing to do with this life." Gu Xu said, "It's better to take precautions before it happens. I have my own arrangements."

Gu Yue was very conflicted.

Gu Xu thought for a moment and said, "There is something I can tell you."

"What's the matter?"

"That year, King Yin and we met by chance in the woods. It wasn't a chance encounter." Gu Xu said, "I deliberately released the news in order to test the connection between the various forces. But I didn't expect that the fake Wen Qing would jump out as well."

Gu Yue had long felt that what happened that day was not accidental. Meeting three important characters at once was a lucky coincidence that would not normally happen to the protagonist in the early stage.

He frowned and slowly sat back.

Seeing this, Gu Xu turned to the door and gestured to Wu Yan.

Wu Yan nodded and left for a moment.

"You revealed the news to King Yin, but it attracted the fake Wen Qing." Gu Yue said, "Either the news was leaked halfway, or King Yin has an undercover agent with the fake Wen Qing's group, or... they are on the same side. King Yin wants to be a hero and save the beauty."

"Save the beauty." Gu Xu nodded.

Why are you stressing this? Can you be serious?

They both fell silent.

"Which side is the fake Wen Qing on?" Gu Yue said, "First, rule out Qin Zhaoning."

Wu Yan brought in a plate of snacks, placed the tray on the table, and collected the leftover tea from King Yin's table.

"Why didn't you take it out just now? Just give water to King Yin?" Gu Yue said.

On the dessert plate were peanut crisps and salty biscuits, as well as some cut fruits with silver forks.

It feels so nice not to have to peel the oranges myself!

"Where did the fruit come from in the twelfth lunar month? They are so sweet!" Gu Yue ate first. After thinking about it for a while, he felt hungry.

"Don't give him any." Gu Xu said, "I wanted to eat after playing gateball, but it's too late."

"No delay." Gu Yue ate it with a smile, "Did King Yin report what happened back then to the emperor?"

"Yes, but he concealed our existence and only said that it was the fake Wen Qing who led the people to assassinate him." Gu Xu said, "Maybe he was afraid that we would enter the emperor's sight and suspected that he was involved with us."

"Qin Zhaoyue knows about your stay in Gujia Village. As for the others..." Gu Yue asked, "Before I came, did you find any unusual signs at home, or did you find someone following you?"

"I came here only one day earlier than you." Gu Xu said, "I was reborn suddenly, and when I saw Gu Dashi, who I had already executed... I was a little frightened. I couldn't help but take action that night."

"It's really too risky." Gu Yue was scared for a moment, "Luckily there are people in the village who are looking after you."

"I naturally guessed that they would stand up and speak for me. Some of them were people that Gu Mengliu had helped during his lifetime." Gu Xu said, "I also used them... and harmed them."

"You don't have to blame yourself." Gu Yue said, "Because of the power struggle, teenagers and ordinary people were involved and killed. Shouldn't the murderer bear all the responsibility? Why should you, a victim, feel guilty?"

He snorted and continued, "In my opinion, if someone thinks that this is your fault, then they are bullying the weak and afraid of the strong. They dare not condemn the person who actually wielded the butcher knife, but instead bully a helpless child."

Gu Xu looked at him steadily and finally smiled.

"What you said... does make sense," he said.

"The weak wield their swords against the weaker ones." Gu Yue said.

"But I wonder if Gu Mengliu's family chose to adopt me because they knew my identity." Gu Xu lowered his eyes, "If they kept me in the dark and just treated me as an ordinary orphan, it would be really wrong."

"From the jade pendant, it seems that they must have known about it." Gu Yue said with a smile, "Gu Mengliu is not a person who covets money and property. The jade pendant is yours, but he kept it privately and never gave it to you, nor did he pawn it."

"Why doesn't he tell me the truth?" Gu Xu held the corner of the table.

"Maybe it's what your parents said." Gu Yue guessed. He put his hand on the back of Gu Xu's hand and held it in his palm. "Parents don't want their children to bear hatred. They just want them to grow up safely and happily. This is not uncommon."

Gu Xu sighed slightly.

"Even after I knew all this, I still chose the path of revenge. Perhaps I let them down," said Gu Xu.

He narrowed his eyes and thought for a while: "Perhaps, my not remembering the past is also their arrangement."

"If I could find the people from that time and ask them..."

Gu Yue suddenly said: "Maybe we can start with Gu Mengliu's interpersonal relationships."