QG Chapter75

The unrest in the Gu Insects Forest started strangely, a month earlier than usual. I didn’t even have time to make arrangements for Yuze Ah-ge before I had to rush off.

 

As I was leaving, I saw Wan Ying. She stood beside the leader, staring at me expressionlessly.

 

I moved my lips, silently warning her: Stay away from my person.

 

She understood. Her expression didn’t change, but she no longer looked at me.

 

I don’t care if they deal with others, but Li Yuze is off-limits.

 

Wan Ying is even more cautious than the leader. I knew she wouldn’t dare touch Yuze Ah-ge, otherwise, I wouldn’t let her off easily.

 

After the unrest in the Gu Insects Forest subsided, on the way back, I saw the medicinal herb growing on the cliff.

 

The medicine that could heal Yuze Ah-ge’s foot injury.

 

A thought suddenly popped into my mind.

 

It was a crazy and daring idea.

 

Yuze Ah-ge once said I was a lunatic. I admit, he was absolutely right.

 

When a lunatic goes crazy, they’re not only ruthless to others but also to themselves. So I must be a qualified lunatic.

 

I’m going to take a gamble.

 

Li Yuzhe, you’re so soft-hearted towards those insignificant people, so what about me? If you knew I was injured because of you, would it stir even a tiny bit of emotion in your heart?

 

So, I “slipped” and fell from the cliff.

 

It was dangerous; I could have died. But it wouldn’t matter if I died; the leader and Wan Ying would surely send Yuze Ah-ge down to accompany me.

 

Thinking about it, it seemed like I wouldn’t lose no matter what.

 

Fortunately, I didn’t lose the gamble.

 

I briefly lost consciousness from the violent impact. When I woke up, I felt Yuze Ah-ge tightly holding my hand.

 

His tears dripped onto the back of my hand, they were scalding hot.

 

Were these tears only for me?

 

That’s great, I’m so happy.

 

I lay on the bed with my eyes closed, my soul trembling with this realization. Joy and happiness swelled in every vein.

 

He said as long as I got better, he wouldn’t blame me anymore.

 

See? I told you my Yuze Ah-ge was the most soft-hearted. Do you know, Yuze Ah-ge, how captivating your gaze was when you looked at me back then?

 

Your heart isn’t entirely without me either.

 

If my arms weren’t really broken, I’d have immediately crawled up and kneaded my Yuze Ah-ge into my bones and blood, not letting anyone else see him already.

 

I don’t blame Yuze Ah-ge for trying to escape. That crazy woman Wan Ying enticed him!

 

I only regret not being more careful, thinking that the packet of insect repellent herbs was given by Ah Song. That fool, Ah Song, I’d seen him stuttering with insect repellent herbs, saying he wanted to protect the girl he loved.

 

It was too much of a coincidence, excessively coincidental.

 

Why would Ah Song appear outside my and Yuze Ah-ge’s stilt house for no reason?

 

Later, when I thought about it, the answer was obvious.

 

Wan Ying dared to!

 

Anger flared up from the bottom of my heart, but another realization filled me with dread.

 

Yuze Ah-ge is in danger.

 

If Yuze Ah-ge were to die… No, impossible!

 

I refused to think further about that possibility. I used to be indifferent to life and death. Everyone dies; Ah-ba will, and so does Ah-ma. Death isn’t worth grieving over.

 

But the thought of Yuze Ah-ge also becoming a silent corpse, also becoming a cold jar of ashes, made it hard for me to breathe from the pain.

 

This was a feeling I’d never had before; falling from the cliff hadn’t hurt this much.

 

Was this how Ah-ma felt after Ah-ba died?

 

No wonder she wanted to rush into the fire.

 

Rather than endure such pain every day, it’s better to turn into dust with him.

 

I rushed into the leader’s stilt house and dragged Wan Ying out of her room. She looked at me with a sneer, unhesitantly saying that Yuze Ah-ge was already dead.

 

At that moment, I truly wanted to strangle Wan Ying. But after I calmed down, I chose a different way to punish her.

 

Hong Hong devoured Wan Ying’s Gu.

 

One Gu encapsulates decades of a Gu master’s effort. I’ll torment her slowly.

 

Every Gu she refines from now on will be Hong Hong’s meal.

 

The leader trembled, about to hit me, but my people held him back. Did he really think that after all these years, I was still a helpless nobody, at his mercy?

 

People grow.

 

Later, An Pu told me that Yuze Ah-ge was fine and had returned to his own world.

 

I considered for a long time whether to bring him back immediately or give him some freedom before bringing him back, and I chose the latter.

 

Means are just a path; my goal is for him to willingly stay and willingly love me.

 

I wasn’t sure I could just drag him out of his world like that, and I knew that with forceful methods, he would still think about escaping.

 

Yuze Ah-ge is someone who responds to gentleness, not force.

 

Since that’s the case, I don’t mind continuing to exploit his soft-heartedness.

 

It’s a total of 600,000 steps from Shidi Miao Village to Yuze Ah-ge’s home. But getting into his heart doesn’t seem to require so many steps.

 

God knows how much willpower it took to control my urge to grab him when I saw him.

 

You need to be patient. A voice in my heart said, you need to let him know you’ve changed!

 

Otherwise, how would he willingly come back to you?

 

If Yuze Ah-ge likes it, I don’t mind wearing a mask.

 

Changing a lunatic—how fulfilling!

 

When I left, I gave him two options: either come back to me or live a good life.

 

But I didn’t give him the right to choose.

 

I left Hong Hong behind.

 

Hong Hong is very well-behaved; it knows who can approach Li Yuze and who cannot.

 

Oh, of course, no one can, except for me.

 

Yuze Ah-ge, you should be glad you willingly returned to me. Otherwise, when everyone around you gradually distances themselves, you’ll return to a state of loneliness.

 

How pitiful that would be.

 

Only I, only I will always steadfastly choose you.

 

I don’t mind fulfilling your small wishes; I can also give you the freedom you think you have.

 

But the prerequisite is that you must love me.

 

Just like me, I love you so deeply. Yuze Ah-ge.

 

Tonight, a full moon hangs in the dark sky, though there are far fewer stars outside than in Shidi Mountain. The clamor of tourists has died down, and it’s very quiet around. Bathed in the moonlight, I gaze at Yuze Ah-ge, who was sleeping soundly beside me. A smile still seems to linger on his lips, and his brows and eyes are steeped in happiness.

 

My heart stirred, and I leaned down to gently kiss his lips.

 

The method doesn’t matter. What I want is his heart, full of only me.

 

You see, in both your eyes and mine, this has now become the most perfect ending.

 

True confinement isn’t about controlling his body but about confining his heart.