After the hug, neither of them spoke for a long time.
Until Yan Luqing felt that Gu Ci, very inconspicuously and probably very reluctantly too, raised his hand and patted her on the back.
Yan Luqing never thought that she herself would take the initiative to hug someone of the opposite sex who is also almost the same age as her.
When she is in a completely sober and sane state.
But she really can’t help it. She didn’t expect that she would cross into a novel and become a character who had neither friends nor anyone to complain about in this world.
Moreover, she and Gu Ci—Or rather she, has a very, very strange sense of dependence on Gu Ci that she has never experienced in her previous world before.
Yan Luqing is so sure that in her previous world, Gu Ci was just a piece of a paper man that she loved. And he really has magic power. Just relying on getting along in such a short one month, day and night, he can already let her give birth to such a feeling.
Not that kind of dependence on elders.
It’s that kind where she wants to show him when there’s something she is happy about, wanting to find him to cry when there’s something sad, and wanting to find him at the first time to solve whatever thing that can’t be solved.
——Obviously, he is a patient and he is depending on others too. He should be the one who is relying on her instead.
“Alas…” Yan Luqing hugged him, resting her chin on his shoulder, and couldn’t help sighing, “It’s really magical.”
Gu Ci was stunned: “What’s magical?”
“I mean you. You are very magical.”
“……”
What kind of words are this?
Gu Ci was somewhat helpless by her sudden hug and sudden rhetoric of ‘you are very magical’, which he doesn’t know whether it is a praise or a criticism. He was silent for a while, and finally asked directly: “So, what’s the matter with you?”
This sentence easily touched her dull tear glands again.
Gu Ci heard a loud sobbing sound in his ear.
“……”
Gu Ci could feel the sharp touch when she suddenly put her chin on his shoulder. He was silent, then raised his hand again and put it on her back.
“… See? I said you are magical.” Her voice became choked, and the ending of each sentence was a little trembling, “I was fine when I was in the car, and I didn’t plan to cry either… But with you asking me, asking me like this, I want to shed tears now…”
So wronged, and still shedding tears.
Some people’s negative emotions can be completely digested and eliminated by themselves. But Gu Ci could tell at a glance that Yan Luqing obviously doesn’t belong to that kind of person.
She said she was fine, but it was just herself who thought she was already fine. If it was really completely over, she wouldn’t look like that from the moment she entered the door.
Yan Luqing sniffed, her mood recovered a little, and said softly: “But I still want to hug you while talking about it.”
Her tone was like that of a little child who asks for candy.
At present, a certain someone whose status is Ci best friend, chuckled, “You and your best friend hugged each other every day, right?”
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“We not only hug, we also paste each other, and also sleep in the same bed——Oh, that reminds me that I’ve slept with you too…”
Yan Luqing wanted to continue counting, but she heard Gu Ci’s doubting voice, “Paste…?”
“…” Actually, this means very intimate interaction, but it seems very cute when she said it as ‘paste’. Yan Luqing was too lazy to explain it in a straight-forward manner, and fooled him by saying, “It’s the kind where two people’s faces stick together.”
After she finished speaking, she could imagine what Princess Ci would look like even without looking at it with her eyes——
It must be a face full of ‘you really can’t be saved anymore’, or a face full of ‘won’t you be mentally retarded if you really do this?’.
Yan Luqing heard him sigh, but he didn’t let go of his hands and didn’t tell her to let go either. The clear but cold voice, and the helpless tone lingered in her ears.
“Go ahead.”
……
It took more than 40 minutes on the way back, and Yan Luqing had thought clearly about all aspects.
From her own experience, it can be inferred that after the original owner became more and more sick, the two brothers probably gave up on her completely, and her parents treated her as a stranger too.
Yan Luqing still doesn’t know how the original owner used to be at home before. She was worried about whether to look at the original owner’s memory again, but later she figured out that it’s meaningless to look into the memory again, because the original owner’s past, whether good or bad, has nothing to do with her.
[1] Paste (Tietie 贴贴) : tease the other party or run away after a wave of teasing. It can also be used to comfort others occasionally, and use the intimate action of kissing and hugging to comfort each other.
Even if the original owner really had a reason to become the pervert who imprisoned Gu Ci, tortured Gu Ci and finally contaminated other human’s lives, she also would not give birth to a trace of sympathy at all——If the murderer had a tragic childhood, she could not justified herself to simply sympathize with the murderer, because the reason of life experience could not wash away the murderer’s mistakes.
She believed that even Maria would not be able to.
Although she doesn’t know the specific things of the Yan family, Yan Luqing has always been very clear, and has never regarded these members of the Yan family as her own relatives. Not to mention Gu Ci, their status in her heart can’t even catch up with her bodyguards, twin sisters, Aunt Disney and so on.
In her heart, the Yan family’s members are more like NPCs (non-player characters), and it’s still the kind of NPCs in which she has to show her face in front of them to complete the task.
If she was simply wronged by the NPC, she would probably only be angry. How could she be distracted?
But the starting point of today’s emotions is that this little girl who is protected and favored by them today without any hesitation at all, reminds her of herself who was beaten, scolded and sent back for no reason.
Sometimes, people’s thoughts are really inexplicable. The circumstances between the two of them are actually very different but Yan Luqing’s emotion is still aroused by it——Even after changing her identity, the one who suffered the injury is still herself.
“Let me think about how to start talking about it…” Yan Luqing organized the words and decided on the order of cause and effect to tell Gu Ci, “Didn’t I tell you that I forgot a lot of things? Before today, I didn’t remember that the Yan family had adopted a little girl of six or seven years old, a little sister. The little sister was the child of the Yan family’s friend. Because both of her parents died, she was taken into the Yan family to be adopted. “
Gu Ci raised his eyelashes slightly.
He also hadn’t heard that the Yan family had a little sister in their house.
It may be that they simply don’t want to disclose it, or it may be that the child’s parents have enemies. The purpose is nothing more than two things. Not only to protect the child, but also to prevent some bad reputation and speculation to the Yan family.
“Yeah.” He dropped his eyes and asked again, “And then?”
Yan Luqing said: “When I arrived at the Yan family’s house in the morning, they hadn’t come home yet so I went upstairs and stayed by myself. A little girl came in after a while, and she was crying. I went over to take a look and found that a lollipop was stuck in her throat, so I took it out for her…”
Then her tone changed sharply, mixed with a little anger in it, “Who knows! Suddenly, a man rushed in and pushed me directly to the ground. He also scolded me for being crazy, thinking that I made the little sister cry.”
“Who?”
“It’s Yan…” Yan Luqing almost blurted out ‘Yan family’s second son’, but immediately changed her words, “It’s… my second brother.” After a pause, she added, “nominally.”
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Yan Luqing thought that narration should not only describe what is beneficial to oneself, but must also tell a complete story. So without waiting for Gu Ci to say anything, she continued: “But then I remembered that it was because something had happened before, so now it makes my second brother so extreme.”
“What happened?”
“It’s the original——” Shit! She almost had a slip of tongue again. Yan Luqing stopped in time and immediately changed her words, “It’s me——me targeting this little sister all day long when she first got home about two or three years ago. The most serious one was taking her to the countryside and coming back only by myself. Iit took a long time for my second brother to finally find the child… So, the reason why I didn’t see this little girl when I went to the Yan family’s house last time, I guess that it was because they were afraid that I would see her. This time, I don’t know why they didn’t hide her well. “
But it was actually not her who did that!
But she can’t tell Gu Ci either that it wasn’t her who did that!!
Yan Luqing was so deadly suffocated and also asked carelessly at the same time: “So, after listening to this, do you think that besides being impulsive, my second brother’s action is also understandable…”
“I don’t think so.”
Before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Gu Ci.
After giving this answer very succinctly, Gu Ci let go of his hands and also loosened her hug. The two of them straightened up and looked up at each other at the same time.
Yan Luqing saw that his usual calm expression became more formal and serious.
He said: “What you experienced is yours. You don’t have to stand in someone else’s position to speak for others.”
He said: “You just did a good thing today. What do all the previous things have to do with you?”
Yan Luqing’s nose began to turn sour when she heard the first sentence. After she finishes listening to the last sentence, especially that sentence of ‘you just did a good thing’, her eyes immediately change from blurry to clear, and her face becomes wet again.
“In this case, the wrong person is the one who wronged you, the one who was saved by you but didn’t speak for you.” Gu Ci finished speaking slowly, then raised his hand to wipe the tears on her face. His voice was light when he said, “No one can forgive the person who did you wrong for you, and neither can you.”
Then he changed the topic and his expression turned gentle for a moment, “Although, it is only you who knows this.”
……
Yan Luqing cried again to her heart’s content.
She still couldn’t tell Gu Ci why she was emotionally touched in the first place, because it belonged to her past.
But these words… they were too much in line with her thoughts. It made her feel really good. It made her whole body feel comfortable and at ease.
It was so well spoken, as if he knew everything.
But at this moment, Yan Luqing didn’t want to care at all about what he knew. She only knew that what she thought was right——
In this world, only Gu Ci is completely on her side.
In these words, he gave her unquestionable partiality.
She wants to go back on her words. Even if the original owner has a best friend, who is in a very good relationship with her and thinks of her wholeheartedly, it will not be the person Yan Luqing would go to either when she is unhappy.
Because it belongs to the original owner. It belongs to others, not hers.
But Gu Ci is.
What she experienced with him was a completely new plot that had never appeared in the original book.
Gu Ci’s kindness towards her is really for her. What Gu Ci said to her is really for her, not for the original owner of this body.
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Maybe she cried too miserably and too aggrievedly and in the haze, she saw Gu Ci, who was passing her a tissue, suddenly stretched out his fair and beautiful hand to her and coaxed her like a child, “Give you a hug? My shirt is already wet anyway.”
The useless weeping good-for-nothing homeowner then hugged today’s considerate wife. She rubbed the snot and tears against him, crying and thinking: She must make a few more garlands for him.
Princess Ci, forever the almighty God.
After a small crying scene and a big crying scene, Yan Luqing lost all her sadness. From watching the family themed movie in college to the grievances she suffered today, all of them have completely passed.
When she blew her nose with the tissue, she heard Gu Ci suddenly asked:
“What else do your so-called ‘best friend’ do besides hugging?” Gu Ci leaned against the sofa cushion leisurely, “Tell me.”
Just now, when she was crying, she made a demand to Gu Ci. The time for this so-called ‘best friend’ was too short and it must be postponed until she said stop.
It may be because seeing her too miserable today, Princess Ci did not launch the bamboo shoots attack and agreed mercifully instead.
“It’s nothing actually…” Yan Luqing thought about it and said casually with a heavy nasal voice, “For example, if I am bullied, my ‘best friend’ will try to bully back the people who bullied me, comfort me, and then apply some medicine for me or something like that.”
“Apply medicine?” Gu Ci’s voice paused for a moment, and then his beautiful eyes half squinted, becoming narrower and longer, “You also got injured?”
“That’s right!” Yan Luqing slapped his thigh, “I forgot to tell you! It is definitely bruised, definitely. It really feels so painful at that time!”
The two of them were near the sofa, and there was a small cabinet under the coffee table less than half a meter away from them. Gu Ci didn’t say a word, but stretched out his hand to open the cabinet door and took out a first-aid kit. While turning over, he asked: “Is it just bruised? No bleeding?”
Is he rummaging for the ointment to treat bruises?
Yan Luqing nodded: “Yeah, there is no bleeding.”
“Where is the injury?”
“It’s on——” The moment Yan Luqing was about to answer, her voice got stuck in embarrassment.
Then she supported the sofa cushion, put her lips close to Gu Ci’s ear, and said in a very small voice:
“It’s on my butt.”
Gu Ci’s hand that was rummaging for the medicine paused, and he raised his eyes: “…?”
After the hug, neither of them spoke for a long time.
Until Yan Luqing felt that Gu Ci, very inconspicuously and probably very reluctantly too, raised his hand and patted her on the back.
Yan Luqing never thought that she herself would take the initiative to hug someone of the opposite sex who is also almost the same age as her.
When she is in a completely sober and sane state.
But she really can’t help it. She didn’t expect that she would cross into a novel and become a character who had neither friends nor anyone to complain about in this world.
Moreover, she and Gu Ci—Or rather she, has a very, very strange sense of dependence on Gu Ci that she has never experienced in her previous world before.
Yan Luqing is so sure that in her previous world, Gu Ci was just a piece of a paper man that she loved. And he really has magic power. Just relying on getting along in such a short one month, day and night, he can already let her give birth to such a feeling.
Not that kind of dependence on elders.
It’s that kind where she wants to show him when there’s something she is happy about, wanting to find him to cry when there’s something sad, and wanting to find him at the first time to solve whatever thing that can’t be solved.
——Obviously, he is a patient and he is depending on others too. He should be the one who is relying on her instead.
“Alas…” Yan Luqing hugged him, resting her chin on his shoulder, and couldn’t help sighing, “It’s really magical.”
Gu Ci was stunned: “What’s magical?”
“I mean you. You are very magical.”
“……”
What kind of words are this?
Gu Ci was somewhat helpless by her sudden hug and sudden rhetoric of ‘you are very magical’, which he doesn’t know whether it is a praise or a criticism. He was silent for a while, and finally asked directly: “So, what’s the matter with you?”
This sentence easily touched her dull tear glands again.
Gu Ci heard a loud sobbing sound in his ear.
“……”
Gu Ci could feel the sharp touch when she suddenly put her chin on his shoulder. He was silent, then raised his hand again and put it on her back.
“… See? I said you are magical.” Her voice became choked, and the ending of each sentence was a little trembling, “I was fine when I was in the car, and I didn’t plan to cry either… But with you asking me, asking me like this, I want to shed tears now…”
So wronged, and still shedding tears.
Some people’s negative emotions can be completely digested and eliminated by themselves. But Gu Ci could tell at a glance that Yan Luqing obviously doesn’t belong to that kind of person.
She said she was fine, but it was just herself who thought she was already fine. If it was really completely over, she wouldn’t look like that from the moment she entered the door.
Yan Luqing sniffed, her mood recovered a little, and said softly: “But I still want to hug you while talking about it.”
Her tone was like that of a little child who asks for candy.
At present, a certain someone whose status is Ci best friend, chuckled, “You and your best friend hugged each other every day, right?”
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“We not only hug, we also paste each other, and also sleep in the same bed——Oh, that reminds me that I’ve slept with you too…”
Yan Luqing wanted to continue counting, but she heard Gu Ci’s doubting voice, “Paste…?”
“…” Actually, this means very intimate interaction, but it seems very cute when she said it as ‘paste’. Yan Luqing was too lazy to explain it in a straight-forward manner, and fooled him by saying, “It’s the kind where two people’s faces stick together.”
After she finished speaking, she could imagine what Princess Ci would look like even without looking at it with her eyes——
It must be a face full of ‘you really can’t be saved anymore’, or a face full of ‘won’t you be mentally retarded if you really do this?’.
Yan Luqing heard him sigh, but he didn’t let go of his hands and didn’t tell her to let go either. The clear but cold voice, and the helpless tone lingered in her ears.
“Go ahead.”
……
It took more than 40 minutes on the way back, and Yan Luqing had thought clearly about all aspects.
From her own experience, it can be inferred that after the original owner became more and more sick, the two brothers probably gave up on her completely, and her parents treated her as a stranger too.
Yan Luqing still doesn’t know how the original owner used to be at home before. She was worried about whether to look at the original owner’s memory again, but later she figured out that it’s meaningless to look into the memory again, because the original owner’s past, whether good or bad, has nothing to do with her.
[1] Paste (Tietie 贴贴) : tease the other party or run away after a wave of teasing. It can also be used to comfort others occasionally, and use the intimate action of kissing and hugging to comfort each other.
Even if the original owner really had a reason to become the pervert who imprisoned Gu Ci, tortured Gu Ci and finally contaminated other human’s lives, she also would not give birth to a trace of sympathy at all——If the murderer had a tragic childhood, she could not justified herself to simply sympathize with the murderer, because the reason of life experience could not wash away the murderer’s mistakes.
She believed that even Maria would not be able to.
Although she doesn’t know the specific things of the Yan family, Yan Luqing has always been very clear, and has never regarded these members of the Yan family as her own relatives. Not to mention Gu Ci, their status in her heart can’t even catch up with her bodyguards, twin sisters, Aunt Disney and so on.
In her heart, the Yan family’s members are more like NPCs (non-player characters), and it’s still the kind of NPCs in which she has to show her face in front of them to complete the task.
If she was simply wronged by the NPC, she would probably only be angry. How could she be distracted?
But the starting point of today’s emotions is that this little girl who is protected and favored by them today without any hesitation at all, reminds her of herself who was beaten, scolded and sent back for no reason.
Sometimes, people’s thoughts are really inexplicable. The circumstances between the two of them are actually very different but Yan Luqing’s emotion is still aroused by it——Even after changing her identity, the one who suffered the injury is still herself.
“Let me think about how to start talking about it…” Yan Luqing organized the words and decided on the order of cause and effect to tell Gu Ci, “Didn’t I tell you that I forgot a lot of things? Before today, I didn’t remember that the Yan family had adopted a little girl of six or seven years old, a little sister. The little sister was the child of the Yan family’s friend. Because both of her parents died, she was taken into the Yan family to be adopted. “
Gu Ci raised his eyelashes slightly.
He also hadn’t heard that the Yan family had a little sister in their house.
It may be that they simply don’t want to disclose it, or it may be that the child’s parents have enemies. The purpose is nothing more than two things. Not only to protect the child, but also to prevent some bad reputation and speculation to the Yan family.
“Yeah.” He dropped his eyes and asked again, “And then?”
Yan Luqing said: “When I arrived at the Yan family’s house in the morning, they hadn’t come home yet so I went upstairs and stayed by myself. A little girl came in after a while, and she was crying. I went over to take a look and found that a lollipop was stuck in her throat, so I took it out for her…”
Then her tone changed sharply, mixed with a little anger in it, “Who knows! Suddenly, a man rushed in and pushed me directly to the ground. He also scolded me for being crazy, thinking that I made the little sister cry.”
“Who?”
“It’s Yan…” Yan Luqing almost blurted out ‘Yan family’s second son’, but immediately changed her words, “It’s… my second brother.” After a pause, she added, “nominally.”
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Yan Luqing thought that narration should not only describe what is beneficial to oneself, but must also tell a complete story. So without waiting for Gu Ci to say anything, she continued: “But then I remembered that it was because something had happened before, so now it makes my second brother so extreme.”
“What happened?”
“It’s the original——” Shit! She almost had a slip of tongue again. Yan Luqing stopped in time and immediately changed her words, “It’s me——me targeting this little sister all day long when she first got home about two or three years ago. The most serious one was taking her to the countryside and coming back only by myself. Iit took a long time for my second brother to finally find the child… So, the reason why I didn’t see this little girl when I went to the Yan family’s house last time, I guess that it was because they were afraid that I would see her. This time, I don’t know why they didn’t hide her well. “
But it was actually not her who did that!
But she can’t tell Gu Ci either that it wasn’t her who did that!!
Yan Luqing was so deadly suffocated and also asked carelessly at the same time: “So, after listening to this, do you think that besides being impulsive, my second brother’s action is also understandable…”
“I don’t think so.”
Before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Gu Ci.
After giving this answer very succinctly, Gu Ci let go of his hands and also loosened her hug. The two of them straightened up and looked up at each other at the same time.
Yan Luqing saw that his usual calm expression became more formal and serious.
He said: “What you experienced is yours. You don’t have to stand in someone else’s position to speak for others.”
He said: “You just did a good thing today. What do all the previous things have to do with you?”
Yan Luqing’s nose began to turn sour when she heard the first sentence. After she finishes listening to the last sentence, especially that sentence of ‘you just did a good thing’, her eyes immediately change from blurry to clear, and her face becomes wet again.
“In this case, the wrong person is the one who wronged you, the one who was saved by you but didn’t speak for you.” Gu Ci finished speaking slowly, then raised his hand to wipe the tears on her face. His voice was light when he said, “No one can forgive the person who did you wrong for you, and neither can you.”
Then he changed the topic and his expression turned gentle for a moment, “Although, it is only you who knows this.”
……
Yan Luqing cried again to her heart’s content.
She still couldn’t tell Gu Ci why she was emotionally touched in the first place, because it belonged to her past.
But these words… they were too much in line with her thoughts. It made her feel really good. It made her whole body feel comfortable and at ease.
It was so well spoken, as if he knew everything.
But at this moment, Yan Luqing didn’t want to care at all about what he knew. She only knew that what she thought was right——
In this world, only Gu Ci is completely on her side.
In these words, he gave her unquestionable partiality.
She wants to go back on her words. Even if the original owner has a best friend, who is in a very good relationship with her and thinks of her wholeheartedly, it will not be the person Yan Luqing would go to either when she is unhappy.
Because it belongs to the original owner. It belongs to others, not hers.
But Gu Ci is.
What she experienced with him was a completely new plot that had never appeared in the original book.
Gu Ci’s kindness towards her is really for her. What Gu Ci said to her is really for her, not for the original owner of this body.
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Maybe she cried too miserably and too aggrievedly and in the haze, she saw Gu Ci, who was passing her a tissue, suddenly stretched out his fair and beautiful hand to her and coaxed her like a child, “Give you a hug? My shirt is already wet anyway.”
The useless weeping good-for-nothing homeowner then hugged today’s considerate wife. She rubbed the snot and tears against him, crying and thinking: She must make a few more garlands for him.
Princess Ci, forever the almighty God.
After a small crying scene and a big crying scene, Yan Luqing lost all her sadness. From watching the family themed movie in college to the grievances she suffered today, all of them have completely passed.
When she blew her nose with the tissue, she heard Gu Ci suddenly asked:
“What else do your so-called ‘best friend’ do besides hugging?” Gu Ci leaned against the sofa cushion leisurely, “Tell me.”
Just now, when she was crying, she made a demand to Gu Ci. The time for this so-called ‘best friend’ was too short and it must be postponed until she said stop.
It may be because seeing her too miserable today, Princess Ci did not launch the bamboo shoots attack and agreed mercifully instead.
“It’s nothing actually…” Yan Luqing thought about it and said casually with a heavy nasal voice, “For example, if I am bullied, my ‘best friend’ will try to bully back the people who bullied me, comfort me, and then apply some medicine for me or something like that.”
“Apply medicine?” Gu Ci’s voice paused for a moment, and then his beautiful eyes half squinted, becoming narrower and longer, “You also got injured?”
“That’s right!” Yan Luqing slapped his thigh, “I forgot to tell you! It is definitely bruised, definitely. It really feels so painful at that time!”
The two of them were near the sofa, and there was a small cabinet under the coffee table less than half a meter away from them. Gu Ci didn’t say a word, but stretched out his hand to open the cabinet door and took out a first-aid kit. While turning over, he asked: “Is it just bruised? No bleeding?”
Is he rummaging for the ointment to treat bruises?
Yan Luqing nodded: “Yeah, there is no bleeding.”
“Where is the injury?”
“It’s on——” The moment Yan Luqing was about to answer, her voice got stuck in embarrassment.
Then she supported the sofa cushion, put her lips close to Gu Ci’s ear, and said in a very small voice:
“It’s on my butt.”
Gu Ci’s hand that was rummaging for the medicine paused, and he raised his eyes: “…?”
