Gu Shengyin had just ordered the servants to carry the palace gifts into the warehouse, when she saw the figure of the old steward arrive.
“Does Father need me for something?” This old housekeeper had always served at old General Fu’s side. When he came to look for her, Gu Shengyin didn’t even need to guess that this was the reason.
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“Father.” Gu Shengyin entered old General Fu’s study, and the old steward thoughtfully closed the door behind her, giving the father and daughter space to speak privately.
“Tell me truthfully, what exactly happened? It is impossible for His Majesty to bestow so many gifts for no reason.” Old General Fu looked at Gu Shengyin.
Gu Shengyin denied it: “Isn’t it written in the imperial decree? Princess Shuhe contracted a serious illness, and her marriage to me was cancelled. This is the compensation from the imperial family…”
Old General Fu interrupted her impatiently: “I want to hear the truth.” With this type of excuse from the imperial family, although it would fool ordinary people, for people like them, they would know that something had happened as soon as they heard.
Gu Shengyin suddenly laughed shortly, and gazed at her father mockingly: “Do you truly wish to know?”
Old General Fu frowned when he saw his daughter like this.
“Then I’ll tell you the truth. It was because Princess Shuhe was unwilling to marry to me. The assassination attempt at the city gate when I returned victorious from war was schemed by her.”
Old General Fu squeezed the teacup in his hand so hard that it cracked.
He had thought of many different possibilities, but he would never have thought of this.
“You…” He looked at his daughter with a lump in his throat, but didn’t know what to say in the end.
In the end, he was a part of the root cause of this situation. In the past, if it hadn’t been for his terrible decision1, his daughter would not have suffered so much.
Gu Shengyin stood there quietly. She was waiting, waiting for old General Fu to speak2.
She knew that the real Fu Yunzhen had been waiting for all her life. She may not have known what exactly she wanted to hear, perhaps it was simply an affirmation from her father, or perhaps it was a late admission of regret from the old General Fu, or perhaps it was something else entirely.
However, Fu Yunzhen’s life was too short, and in the end she couldn’t keep waiting for what she had wanted.
Gu Shengyin’s heart suddenly surged with a strong wave of grief, shocking her: these were not her own feelings.
The system gave a timely response: “This was the residual emotions left by the original Fu Yunzhen, seared into the depths of her body. The host was temporarily affected by the influence of the emotions.”
Gu Shengyin had heard that hosts that were completing tasks like her current task were, to describe it bluntly, possessing the original owner’s body and replacing them with a new existence, with the original soul dissipating. Logically speaking, it should be impossible for the system host to be affected.
And yet, humans were one of the most paradoxical existences in the world, and their ‘feelings’ were also the most complex and difficult to comprehend.
Like the situation just now, the real Fu Yunzhen had long passed in her original life, and yet some deep obsessions were still entrenched in her body, and unless she received the answer she wanted, it would never be resolved.
Under the premise of it not negatively affecting her mission, Gu Shengyin did not mind helping these host bodies fulfill their regrets.
However, she waited for a very long time, and never received an answer from old General Fu.
Gu Shengyin looked at him coldly. Old General Fu clearly already held regrets in his heart, and yet whether it was due to his rigid temperament, or his need to save face, he was unwilling to say even the slightest word of apology to his own daughter.
She decided her next course of action3.
1. [一念之差 – yī niàn zhī chā – making the wrong decision in a moment of weakness/weak will, leading to serious consequences]
2. [though it simply says ‘for him to say something’, it implies that she’s waiting for something specific, like a confession of regret or an apology]
3. [she says ‘the next dose of strong medicine’, meaning that her next actions or words will be something that greatly affects him]
Gu Shengyin had just ordered the servants to carry the palace gifts into the warehouse, when she saw the figure of the old steward arrive.
“Does Father need me for something?” This old housekeeper had always served at old General Fu’s side. When he came to look for her, Gu Shengyin didn’t even need to guess that this was the reason.
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“Father.” Gu Shengyin entered old General Fu’s study, and the old steward thoughtfully closed the door behind her, giving the father and daughter space to speak privately.
“Tell me truthfully, what exactly happened? It is impossible for His Majesty to bestow so many gifts for no reason.” Old General Fu looked at Gu Shengyin.
Gu Shengyin denied it: “Isn’t it written in the imperial decree? Princess Shuhe contracted a serious illness, and her marriage to me was cancelled. This is the compensation from the imperial family…”
Old General Fu interrupted her impatiently: “I want to hear the truth.” With this type of excuse from the imperial family, although it would fool ordinary people, for people like them, they would know that something had happened as soon as they heard.
Gu Shengyin suddenly laughed shortly, and gazed at her father mockingly: “Do you truly wish to know?”
Old General Fu frowned when he saw his daughter like this.
“Then I’ll tell you the truth. It was because Princess Shuhe was unwilling to marry to me. The assassination attempt at the city gate when I returned victorious from war was schemed by her.”
Old General Fu squeezed the teacup in his hand so hard that it cracked.
He had thought of many different possibilities, but he would never have thought of this.
“You…” He looked at his daughter with a lump in his throat, but didn’t know what to say in the end.
In the end, he was a part of the root cause of this situation. In the past, if it hadn’t been for his terrible decision1, his daughter would not have suffered so much.
Gu Shengyin stood there quietly. She was waiting, waiting for old General Fu to speak2.
She knew that the real Fu Yunzhen had been waiting for all her life. She may not have known what exactly she wanted to hear, perhaps it was simply an affirmation from her father, or perhaps it was a late admission of regret from the old General Fu, or perhaps it was something else entirely.
However, Fu Yunzhen’s life was too short, and in the end she couldn’t keep waiting for what she had wanted.
Gu Shengyin’s heart suddenly surged with a strong wave of grief, shocking her: these were not her own feelings.
The system gave a timely response: “This was the residual emotions left by the original Fu Yunzhen, seared into the depths of her body. The host was temporarily affected by the influence of the emotions.”
Gu Shengyin had heard that hosts that were completing tasks like her current task were, to describe it bluntly, possessing the original owner’s body and replacing them with a new existence, with the original soul dissipating. Logically speaking, it should be impossible for the system host to be affected.
And yet, humans were one of the most paradoxical existences in the world, and their ‘feelings’ were also the most complex and difficult to comprehend.
Like the situation just now, the real Fu Yunzhen had long passed in her original life, and yet some deep obsessions were still entrenched in her body, and unless she received the answer she wanted, it would never be resolved.
Under the premise of it not negatively affecting her mission, Gu Shengyin did not mind helping these host bodies fulfill their regrets.
However, she waited for a very long time, and never received an answer from old General Fu.
Gu Shengyin looked at him coldly. Old General Fu clearly already held regrets in his heart, and yet whether it was due to his rigid temperament, or his need to save face, he was unwilling to say even the slightest word of apology to his own daughter.
She decided her next course of action3.
1. [一念之差 – yī niàn zhī chā – making the wrong decision in a moment of weakness/weak will, leading to serious consequences]
2. [though it simply says ‘for him to say something’, it implies that she’s waiting for something specific, like a confession of regret or an apology]
3. [she says ‘the next dose of strong medicine’, meaning that her next actions or words will be something that greatly affects him]
