The riverbank.
An Ning watched from afar at a familiar figure.
He was riding a white horse, looking at her with a face full of sorrow as she stood on the ship, leaving him behind.
The fire ahead was fierce, and the river water deep.
They were harshly separated by the raging waters and fire.
An Ning’s eyes eventually reddened.
She truly hadn’t expected that in such a tense situation, Gu Xingchuan would still follow her here, to bid her farewell.
She had always thought that Gu Xingchuan should be accompanying Xiao Jinxing on the battlefield at this mont.
No need to imagine, she knew just how intense the war had beco.
However.
Gu Xingchuan had arrived, and that was good.
With his support, Xiao Jinxing would take down the Bai Family with ease.
She waved her hand, bidding farewell to Gu Xingchuan.
If fate allows it, see you again!
She smiled.
With a sincere blessing.
Then she turned to walk into the ship, ready to leave in peace.
But at that mont.
Her eyes suddenly tightened, filled with panic.
"No!" An Ning shouted.
She clearly saw Gu Xingchuan being struck down by a sword from the Bai Family troops behind him.
In that instant, he fell from his horse.
"Don’t!" An Ning watched as Gu Xingchuan fell straight down.
At the mont of his fall, he seed to be smiling at her.
No.
She couldn’t let Gu Xingchuan die.
In the original text, Gu Xingchuan served as an official for years, only to die suddenly from a seizure.
She thought she had changed Gu Xingchuan’s fate against all odds.
Yet, did tragedy still happen?!
"Uncle Zhang!" An Ning called out loudly for Zhang Wenhe.
Zhang Wenhe, who was about to tend to the ship personally, heard An Ning’s frantic voice and hurried over, "Miss."
"Go back, take back quickly!" An Ning’s voice was fast and urgent.
"Miss..."
"Quickly!" An Ning said without a mont’s hesitation.
She had to go back to save Gu Xingchuan.
She wouldn’t let him die!
"But what if as soon as we return, they stop us?" Zhang Wenhe persisted.
After planning for so long.
Taking all the wealth, the young master and young miss, and all the house servants and martial experts willing to follow Miss, they had made it this far; they couldn’t fail at this juncture.
"Even if there is any danger, I must go back to save Gu Xingchuan! I must return."
"What if it’s a trap, after all, Gu Xingchuan worked for the emperor..." Zhang Wenhe had never seen Miss so agitated before, and he feared she had lost her reason, leaving many things unclear.
An Ning articulated clearly, "Everyone can deceive , everyone might plot against , but Gu Xingchuan never will!"
Zhang Wenhe saw Miss’s determination.
He had no choice but to comply.
"Only take one boat back." An Ning tried to calm herself, "Uncle Zhang, take care of Lung and Youyou!"
"Miss, I’ll go back with you..."
"No need, I’ll catch up with you soon!" An Ning instructed.
She used Qinggong and leapt onto another boat.
The boat only had a boatman, the rest were all filled with gold and jewels.
"Imdiately take back to the shore!" An Ning commanded.
The boatman hesitated, looking towards Zhang Wenhe on the adjacent boat.
Zhang Wenhe nodded, "Miss, we’ll wait for you at the next landing!"
"Alright." An Ning nodded.
She truly hadn’t thought that once she returned, she would never co back again!
Zhang Wenhe instructed the boatman to take An Ning back to shore.
The other boats continued onward as planned.
They hadn’t yet arrived.
An Ning used Qinggong to swiftly fly to the shore.
There was continuous fighting on the shore.
The Bai Family troops and Gu Xingchuan’s soldiers were relentlessly killing each other.
But none of this concerned An Ning anymore.
Her only wish was to save Gu Xingchuan, to keep him alive.
He must live.
An Ning quickly found Gu Xingchuan lying motionless on the ground, his body stained with blood...
An Ning’s eyes were bloodshot.
Her trembling fingers extended towards Gu Xingchuan’s breath.
As long as he wasn’t dead, as long as there was a hint of life, she would surely save Gu Xingchuan.
Just a little, that’s all she needed...
Just as An Ning touched Gu Xingchuan’s breath.
As she felt a slight warmth.
A dagger was suddenly placed against An Ning’s neck.
She didn’t even feel anyone around, and now her life was being threatened.
Her focus was entirely on Gu Xingchuan.
And at this mont.
Gu Xingchuan suddenly opened his eyes.
There was no trace of weakness, no pain in his eyes, as if the sight of him being killed was rely an illusion.
The Gu Xingchuan before her was clearly, unscathed.
Unscathed, he stood up in front of her.
An Ning looked at him.
She just kept looking at him.
Without thinking of anything.
Truly, she didn’t want to guess anything.
She would never doubt Gu Xingchuan.
Gu Xingchuan returned An Ning’s gaze, looking at her plainly, without any guilt or panic for what he had done, as if everything was justified.
He said, "I wasn’t hurt."
"I can see that." An Ning also stood up.
Standing up, the dagger from the person behind was still pressed against her neck.
Any slight movent from her, and she could die at Gu Xingchuan’s hands.
An Ning suddenly laughed.
She had imagined many ways to die, but never once by Gu Xingchuan’s hand.
At this mont, she even wondered if her appearance had completely altered all the characters in the book?!
Xiao Jinxing was no longer Xiao Jinxing.
Bai Mowan was no longer Bai Mowan.
Even Gu Xingchuan was not the Gu Xingchuan she knew.
"Are you going to kill ?" An Ning asked him.
"No." Gu Xingchuan said, "Just using you to threaten the emperor."
An Ning looked at him like that.
Listening to such words, she wasn’t even surprised.
From the mont Gu Xingchuan placed the dagger at her throat, she felt that anything catastrophic involving Gu Xingchuan, she could accept.
"The taste of being second, is unpleasant." Gu Xingchuan said, indifferently speaking.
As if comnting on how nice today’s weather was.
"So, you want to overturn Xiao Jinxing’s regi."
"I also want to try, the taste of being emperor."
"When did you beco so ambitious?" An Ning asked him.
When the hell?!
She hadn’t seen a sign of it.
Nor did Xiao Jinxing.
Instead.
He was so heavily relied upon.
All local military power was handed to Gu Xingchuan.
What a great power, but only with trust, could soone go to such lengths.
Yet Gu Xingchuan said, he was tired of being the second in command.
He wanted absolute power!
"When?" Gu Xingchuan murmured, "I don’t know when, maybe it was the day you beca the Empress."
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