newbobooks Chapter 318: Floating Dreams (3)
Chapter 318: Floating Dreams (3)
Passing through the bare tree trunks, he finally came to the source of the sound.
I was immediately shocked by the scene before me.
Not far away, lying on the ground were the bodies of seven hunters who were accidentally killed by Nangong Jiayao.
The remaining survivor was sitting on the ground, looking at Nangong Jiayao with fear.
Nangong Jiayao had regained consciousness by now, her whole body was trembling, tears falling like beads from a broken string.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I didn't mean it... I didn't mean it..." She sobbed softly, her voice filled with endless regret and pain.
He approached the survivor step by step and threw a dagger in front of him.
"Kill me... avenge your friends and relatives... kill me..."
Close your eyes, wait for death, and pay for your sins.
The man picked up the dagger tremblingly, and as he hesitated, his eyes became ferocious and he swung the knife towards her.
Before he could get close, an arrow flew through the air and pierced his neck. His body stiffened and he fell backwards...
Warm blood splashed on his face. Nangong Jiayao opened his eyes instantly and looked back in the direction where the arrow came from.
Gu Xiyan stood there, holding a bow and arrow in his hand, his eyes full of anger and grief.
He threw away the bow and arrow in his hand, walked a few steps to her, hugged her tightly in his arms, and coaxed her softly: "Yaoyao, you are not wrong, this is just a dream, a nightmare you had..."
Nangong Jiayao burst into tears again, tightly grasping Gu Xiyan's clothes, her voice trembling: "Sanlang, how long are you going to lie to me? This is not a dream, the warm blood sprayed on my face, I heard those people screaming clearly, I... I killed people, I killed people... Let me die... I am a monster now... I hate myself... Why is it like this..."
Gu Xiyan hugged her tightly, letting her tears soak his clothes, his heart filled with endless bitterness and despair.
After struggling for a bit, he still said, "Don't be afraid, Yaoyao. I will keep an eye on you. I will keep an eye on you... I won't let you go crazy again."
She shook her head desperately, stepped out of his embrace, raised her hand, and gently stroked his cheek, "Sanlang, I'm really afraid that one day... I won't be able to control myself... and even kill you... Sanlang... It's too boring to live like this... I really want to go back to the starting point... back to that time..."
Her eyes were slightly red, and the tears in her eyes were shining with tiny lights in the moonlight. She slowed down and continued, "Back to Jiangnan... the time when we first met... Gu Xiyan... I'm sorry... I shouldn't... I shouldn't have recognized you so late... I shouldn't have lied to you from the beginning..."
The moment she called out the name "Gu Xiyan", his breathing suddenly choked and he stood there in a daze, as if he had been struck by lightning. The blood in his body instantly solidified and he stared at her in disbelief with his eyes wide open.
"You...how could you..." He spoke with difficulty, his voice so hoarse that it was almost inaudible.
Nangong Jiayao gently stroked his face, tears falling again, "When you went down the mountain, I would secretly wander around in the forest and see the burned-down house. You mentioned Jiangnan during the wedding night..."
She stroked his slender brow and spoke with difficulty, "You are not Wuyou...you are...the little guard who has been with me for more than a month..."
Gu Xiyan looked at her, his eyes suddenly turned red, he gently wiped the tears from her face, the corners of his lips trembled slightly, and his voice was full of pain and helplessness.
"Yaoyao, I would rather you... didn't recognize me... and just remember that I'm Sanlang."
Nangong Jiayao shook her head gently, closed her eyes, and said seriously: "Sanlang, I caused you to lose your martial arts, and was blinded by hatred, committing many sins. I don't deserve happiness. If I can start over, I hope God will let me meet you earlier, so that there will be no hatred between us, and we can be together cleanly... Can... okay?"
As she spoke, her eyes gradually became blurred, and finally slowly closed, and she fell into Gu Xiyan's arms.
Gu Xiyan gently stroked her face and whispered, "Yaoyao, you are not a monster, nor a sinner. You are the one I love the most, and the one I am willing to protect for my entire life. No matter what the future holds, I will always be by your side and will never leave you."
He carried her back to the cabin, laid her on the bed, took off her bloodstained wedding dress, and gently covered her with a blanket.
Wash the wedding dress and put it by the stove to dry.
He reached into his arms, took out the bottle of 'Soul-breaking Powder', and clenched it tightly in his hand. His eyes were gentle, and he looked at the sleeping woman on the bed reluctantly.
"Yaoyao, you are right. If I could do it again, I would find you before them, treat you better than all your husbands, listen to you, not make you angry, and not make you sad."
He paused, his eyes full of regret, and gently held her hand, "I will never hurt you again..."
I remembered. All of Yao Jia's memories came back. So that's it... So that's it...
It turned out that after she woke up that night, she had completely forgotten what happened in the forest. She drank the poisoned wedding wine and became poisoned. She mistakenly thought that Sanlang had poisoned her, but she didn't know that this was actually her own death.
She asked him again and again why he wanted to poison herself, but ignored the helplessness and sadness in Gu Xiyan's eyes.
"Don't be afraid, Yaoyao. Sanlang is with you. I'm sorry... I didn't know... it would hurt so much."
Gu Xiyan tilted his head and spat out a large mouthful of blood. He held her tightly in his arms with a look of pity in his eyes, and coaxed her softly over and over again, "Don't be afraid, Yaoyao, I will accompany you. If you are afraid of the cold, Sanlang will hold you. I will accompany you to the ends of the earth and warm your body. You won't be cold anymore... Don't be afraid... Don't be afraid..."
The soft body in his arms gradually lost its temperature, and Gu Xiyan's heart also turned cold.
He gently wiped the blood off her face and tightened his arms again, as if he wanted to merge her into his bones and blood.
The tears fell silently, falling on her cheeks, mixing with the tears she had shed before.
"Puff" a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth again, and his face instantly turned pale as paper, but he still held the person in his arms tightly.
He lowered his head and gently kissed her forehead, "Yaoyao, wait for me...soon...I will catch up with you soon...soon..."
He overturned the stove beside him, and the charcoal rolled all over the floor.
At this moment, the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside.
Yao Jia was stunned for a moment when she saw the man in white rushing in.
Nangong Xiulan...he actually...came here...
"What did you do to her!"
After seeing the situation inside the room clearly, Nangong Xiu Lan shouted with bloodshot eyes, rushed forward and pushed Gu Xiyan away.
He hugged her cold body, his eyes full of disbelief, his whole body trembling, and he kept sending his true energy into her chest, but the true energy was like a stone sinking into the sea, with no response at all.
His eyes were full of disbelief, his pink lips trembled, and he couldn't utter a word.
"Give it back to me...Give Yaoyao back to me..."
Gu Xiyan crawled towards her body with difficulty, "Yaoyao is already married to me, she is my wife, give her back to me, give her back to me."
Nangong Xiu Lan looked at him coldly, her willow-leaf eyes already filled with a cold and murderous look, her face filled with deep hatred and murderous intent, even colder than the air on this high mountain.
Yao Jia couldn't help but shudder when she saw it.
Nangong Xiulan freed his arms, waved Gu Xiyan away, and said angrily: "Wife? You only approached her for revenge. You deceived her into being unconscious, tricked her into suspecting Shuanghua, and encouraged her to rebel with An He. Now you have poisoned her. How can you say that she is your wife? How... you have acted so many times that you can no longer tell what is true and what is false?"
Gu Xiyan fell heavily to the ground and spat out a mouthful of blood, as if he knew he couldn't get her back. He chuckled softly, and gradually the chuckle turned into a loud laugh. He looked at Nangong Xiu Lan with eyes full of resentment.
"Hahaha... no wonder you suddenly disappeared... it turns out you found some clues... this is just the right time for me to fulfill my desire for revenge..."
Nangong Xiulan glanced at the fire that was gradually spreading around him and cursed at him, "You lunatic!"
He took off his cloak and wrapped it around Yao Jia's cold body. He looked at the person in his arms with pain in his eyes and coaxed her softly, "Yao Yao, be good. Brother Lan will take you home now and never separate from you again..."
"No, please don't take her away." Gu Xiyan's voice softened. He leaned against the table, supporting his shaky body, his eyes fixed on the woman in Nangong Xiu Lan's arms, begging.
"Let me die with her... I have no hatred towards her... no more... I can finally see my family..."
"Don't take her away..."
"...I am...the first man...it's me..."
Nangong Xiu Lan pretended not to hear anything. He picked her up, stood up, walked out of the wooden house, and melted into the falling snow.
The wooden house was surrounded by a raging fire. The firelight illuminated Gu Xiyan's face. His eyes were fixed on the direction where Nangong Xiu Lan left, his eyes full of unwillingness and sadness.
Yao Jia felt a pang of pain in her heart. She quickly walked up to him and said softly, "Sanlang... I'm here... I've always been by your side... I've never left..."
Gu Xiyan seemed to have heard her words. His body slowly fell to the ground. His eyes closed very slowly, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his lips, as if he was asleep.
Seeing his relieved look, Yao Jia could no longer suppress the sorrow in her heart. She lay beside him, hugged him tightly, and cried.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I actually... I actually forgot all this... I've always treated you like that... I forgot the promise we made... I forgot that it was me who asked you to kill me... Sanlang... my Sanlang..."
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