C41 (1/2)

The trap was not very deep. If it was in the past, Gu Xin would be able to go up with just a breath of air. However, right now, his ankle was injured, so the easy task had become difficult.

Ye Zichen opened the trap first, and carefully took out his ankle.

The wound was deep enough to see bone. Gu Xin furrowed his brows in pain, but he was still able to endure it.

He was used to being beaten up since he was young, so he wouldn't cry out in pain from such heavy injuries, especially when Mian Niang was still on top of it.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier. The soil around him was slippery and there was no place for him to exert his strength.

Gu Master tried a few times, but each time, he would grab a piece of dirt and would comfort Mian Niang, ”Don't worry, I'll be up soon.”

In the end, without any other choice, he raised his head to look at Mian Niang who was standing above him. ”Ah Mang, go find some tree vines or something.

He laughed, somewhat foolishly but also helplessly at himself.

This was too embarrassing, he couldn't even go up.

Mian Niang didn't speak, she turned and left. She returned very quickly with a vine in her hand, she stood there and looked at Yun Che coldly.

”Young Master Gu.”

She called to him, her usually soft voice somewhat cold and hard, ”Do you want to come up?”

Gu Xin raised his head and looked at her. The rain had obstructed his line of sight, so he was unable to clearly see that ugly little face.

”Ah Mi.” He wasn't going to call her precious baby anymore. He was being too frivolous, so it was fine to just keep it in his heart.

Mian Niang frowned, she did not refute him.

Gu Han didn't think too much and just asked, ”How am I going to bring you home if I don't go up? It's raining so heavily, we can't just spend the night in this forest.”

”You are wrong. You can only spend the night here. I won't.”

It seemed that the little lady of today was a little different, Gu Xin thought silently. It was just that even though her voice was naturally soft and cold, in the ears of others, it was like raindrops hitting a lotus, pleasant and captivating.

Just like her song, it was simple and unadorned, but unexpectedly pleasant to hear.

There were always many reasons to hate someone, and liking someone usually only required a single reason.

”You can't go back. It's raining so heavily, let the vines hang down and pull me up. I'll ride you back.”

Gu Xin could not help but feel anxious when he heard the howls coming from the distance. They say that wolves were lurking in the forest, but from the sound of the howls, it was obvious that they would not be able to get out in the dark.

”There's no rush. Young Master Gu, let's discuss this first. We'll discuss matters that cannot be discussed later.”

Mian Niang had been feeling uneasy before, and did not know how to respond to these words. But now, she had opened her mouth, said the first sentence, and everything that followed was fine.

No matter how foolish Gu Yan was, he had already understood a bit of what was going on in his heart at this moment. His heart had instantly turned cold, and along with it, his face also turned cold.

”What's the matter, A-Mai, speak!”

”You said it already, don't force me in the future, let me live my life in peace. If you continue to be your young master, I will throw these vines down, if not —” Mian Niang lifted his head and looked at the sky: ”How much time did you take to find me, you know very well, if you were to find your family and catch a rainy day like this, it would be even more difficult. ”What if …”

However, at this point, she simply did not have any other option. She could only muster up her courage and continue: ”It's not that I want to scheme against you, but all of this is because you are forcing me to do it step by step. I am a woman from the countryside, I have no other choice but to do it.”

”Hmph, those words seem to be completely my fault now.” ”I wonder who it is that has appeared in front of me time and time again and seduced me.”

He turned black and white, Mian Niang did not want to argue with him, she only said: ”You just tell me what to do?”

”Ah Mi, you should stop thinking about this. I've grown up, the worst thing I can't take is being coerced.”

With that, he sat cross-legged without caring about the dirt and water on his body. He looked relaxed and didn't seem anxious at all.

Mian Niang did not expect him to act in such a manner and did not know how to respond.

Young Master Qing, she bit his lips and said hatefully to the person sitting at the bottom of the pit, ”Then just you wait, wait for your family to find you.”

She threw away the vine in her hand, picked up the spade from the grass, and left without looking back.

Only Gu Shenwei was left behind, sitting at the bottom of the pit and looking at the sky in the square.

He actually left.

The cold and wet rain had long since covered all of his clothes, but it didn't have the same coldness in Gu Xin's heart.

Remembering his heart's desire from fifteen minutes ago, Gu Xin felt that he had been reduced to a joke at this very moment.

He wanted to hold her in his arms and protect her. So she hated him so much. She would rather live with the phthisis than be with him, even daring to scheme against him for the phthisis.

He had lived for more than twenty years, and this was the first time he had ever had feelings for a woman. He never thought that in the end, he would be reduced to such a state.