The dim light stubbornly penetrated his eyelids, and Gu Yue felt someone touching his face.

The pain in his chest was like a needle, suppressing his already weak breathing. He could no longer tell whether the sweat soaking his back was cold or hot. The two feelings were intertwined repeatedly, and in the end, they were suppressed by the severe pain in his heart.

Someone leaned close to his ear and whispered something indistinctly.

He could barely smell the disgusting smell of alcohol. Gu Yue tried hard to open his eyes, and saw the snow-white ceiling and the luxurious crystal chandelier. The shadow of a person was swaying and passing by him repeatedly.

What is this place?

The voice said.

"…It's just a permanent position. After tonight, I can arrange it for you with just one word. Kids nowadays are stubborn. What good will it do to resist?…"

Some fragments of memory gradually emerged in Gu Yue's confused mind.

Is this a dinner party for the company’s backend interns?

Why is he here?

However, the gradually rising feeling of suffocation made it hard for him to breathe. He wanted to raise his hand to touch his throat, but his body felt as heavy as a thousand pounds.

My chest hurts.

The light before my eyes finally disappeared.

……

Gu Yue was awakened by the regular sound of chopping.

His vision was covered with a layer of blood red, and he was surrounded by three men with knives.

The blade was facing him, rising and falling continuously, but Gu Yue felt no pain.

He seemed to have lost even his fear, and just "watched" everything in front of him, listening to the thinnest man talking to the other two people with a forgiving smile.

"...The resignation certificate has been processed. He doesn't have many connections, so no one would look for him if he got lost... Yes, yes, I was too careless this time... I've also found a place to bury him... No, now the crematorium needs a death certificate before cremation..."

"I'll do it, I'll do it, I'll drag the boxes, I've read a lot of detective novels, no problem..."

It seemed like someone was fiddling with his body. Gu Yue felt as if he had lost the ability to think. He had no idea what was going on or what was happening.

The black lid of the box was closed, and after a long bumpy ride, when we saw the light of day again, we saw an extremely desolate forest.

The bushes obscured the view, and the wet soil gradually covered the vision, swallowing up the last ray of light.

Gu Yue fell into a very long dream.

There is boundless darkness in the dream, without direction or time, and I cannot feel my own existence.

He floated in the darkness like this for a long time, the light and shadow of memories passed by his eyes and gradually gathered into colorful fragments.

Things that I had never thought of in my previous life flooded into my mind.

Is this a revolving lantern before death?

Gu Yue thought. Does he have to go through all of his boring twenty years again before he can truly find the peace of death?

He watched for a long time, with familiar or unfamiliar scenes flashing before his eyes. Gu Yue had no regrets until the last scene of the "Gu Yue" theater came into his sight.

Complex lights, chaotic voices, and a pair of feet stopped in front of him.

……

"Gu Xu is the unlucky one."

"Do you know why your parents, brothers and sisters-in-law were killed?"

"Because of Gu Xu."

"He is the descendant of a treasonous prince. He hid in your house without caring about anything. But he was not obedient enough and revealed his whereabouts, which led to the destruction of the whole family."

"You? Of course your family has done nothing wrong. But being kind can be a burden to you."

"This is how the world is... Good people don't live long, but evil people last for thousands of years."

"Why can't he take revenge? Those assassins spared your and Gu Xu's lives to give you a chance for revenge... For the next ten or twenty years, he will have to rely on you to survive."

"Why should you be nice to him? Gu Dashi, he owes you, he owes your whole family's lives!"

"Tell him about his distinguished life story and let him go back to enjoy his glory? What about your dead relatives? Four thin coffins and a hasty burial?"

"Are you willing?"

"Don't be a coward, Gu Dashi."

"The murderer has been wiped out by the county government... Your only enemy left is Gu Xu."

The still youthful voice kept repeating this.

……

Chanzhou.

There seemed to be a surge of anger in his chest. Gu Yue moved his eyelids and finally opened his eyes.

He had a dream that seemed as long as twenty-four years and had stayed in such a mysterious state for too long. He could no longer distinguish whether this was reality or a dream.

Am I dead? What happened?

He asked himself again, his brain was a little rusty, but after a brief confusion, it started to work smoothly.

Party, drunkenness, time travel, Beiqin...

The vicious little brother, the protagonist of the novel, the prince...

King Yin, poisonous grass, and fried chicken...

Ganzhou, Mu You, Qin Zhaoning, Qin Zhaochen...

Dun Xinbo...On a snowy night...

Gu Yue stared blankly at the top of his head, which was an antique and quite old hip-and-gable roof beam.

Was he dreaming? He was unwilling to accept his death, so he started a new dream to deceive himself?

Where is true and where is false?

He even made up a…

Do not……

Gu Yue closed his eyes.

He felt the presence of his body.

I first barely moved my fingertips, then I clenched my entire hand. I couldn't lift my arm, but I could feel the muscles working. My toes, my legs, everything.

Gu Yue tilted his head and quietly felt the heartbeat in his chest.

Calm and powerful.

Suddenly, a tear fell from the corner of his eye.

At this moment, the door of the room was opened with a very old sound. Gu Yue hurriedly turned his head and tried to see the appearance of the person who came.

The man seemed to be wearing a Taoist robe.

After the Taoist priest entered the room, he closed the door, knocked the clapper in his hand three times, and said respectfully: "The time has come, the three souls have returned to their places--"

The sound of the clapper was extremely penetrating. Gu Yue's head shook, and his whole body seemed to be immersed in mint liquid and he woke up.

He remembered that he had fallen into a trap in Yunxi and was shot through the heart by an arrow and fell off the cliff!

What is the situation now?

The Taoist's ritual didn't seem to be over yet. He put away the clapper, took out a porcelain bowl and manipulated it for a while (Gu Yue couldn't really see what he was doing), then stepped forward, took a little liquid from the bowl, and dotted it on Gu Yue's forehead.

The cold touch made Gu Yue shudder. Then, as if the powerful anesthetic had lost its effect instantly, his whole body suddenly felt numb and itchy. His face twisted and he clenched his teeth.

what happened!

Finally, the Taoist took out a copper bell and shook it three times in front of his face.

Bell, bell, bell.

Gu Yue's muscles twitched slightly due to the pain, but he was worried that the Taoist priest's ritual was not over yet, so he endured it and said nothing.

The Taoist stood there for a while, but he didn't speak, so he leaned over in confusion.

Ah! Gu Yue recognized him immediately. This man was the Taoist priest dressed like Wang Ye from Taiqing Temple near Yuning Prefecture!

The two looked at each other, waiting for the other to speak.

There was silence.

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