Gu Jingyan had been having strange dreams, but never as vivid and tense as this one!
Nuwa and Fu Xi were supposed to be lovers, right? Why did Nuwa look at him as though he was a mortal enemy, ready to fight to the bitter end?
She even said... Fu Xi forced himself on her?
As a man, if you can’t win a woman’s heart with charm and instead resort to force, isn’t that a terrible humiliation, worse than a beast?
Even he, a mere mortal, felt ashamed. Emperor Fu Xi, a god, would bully his own woman with such methods?
More importantly, the cup of Immortal Execution Wine that Nuwa gave him, was it meant to poison him?
Did he drink it or not?
Gu Jingyan didn’t know.
Because in the next moment, thunder and lightning descended upon him.
The tomb had collapsed.
His vision went black! He fell into chaos!
Whether Fu Xi died or not was unknown, but it seemed that Gu Jingyan was about to be crushed inside.
When he opened his eyes again.
He was in a hospital.
Gu Jingyan rubbed his throbbing forehead, staring at the face in the mirror marred with disfiguring bruises, somewhat dazed:
"I actually didn’t die... Did Nuwa regret it, not wanting me to die?"
The nurse auntie beside him, taking his blood pressure and temperature, twitched her lips at his words: "Young man, still dreaming? I’ve heard you mumbling about Fu Xi and Nuwa non-stop these past few days, your dream seems a bit ancient and tasteful?"
Gu Jingyan coughed awkwardly.
"Wasn’t the tomb collapsed? May I ask who saved me?"
"Oh, only that small section where you were treasure hunting collapsed. Most of the tomb is just fine, your senior classmates even visited today, it’s totally safe."
"Auntie, I wasn’t treasure hunting!"
"Bah, if you weren’t treasure hunting, how did you end up here?" The nurse’s tone was clearly sour, and she pressed the thermometer harder against his forehead, making Gu Jingyan feel a bit of pain.
"Auntie, my forehead is injured, could you be gentler?"
"No! This isn’t an injury, it’s left from treatment. By the way, the young girl who saved you is your classmate, what’s her name... Xi Baobao! She woke you up by pounding on your head three times."
"Three times!" Gu Jingyan felt a little upset.
What was Xi Rubao doing, hitting so hard?
But what he was more concerned about was—
"Auntie, since Nuwa’s tomb collapsed, did anything mystical happen?"
"No! Why do you have so many silly questions?" The nurse walked out of the room, her face cold, leaving with a parting shot, "Young man, you’re really terrible at talking, I am a young lady, not an old auntie!"
He had always thought calling an older woman "auntie" was respectful.
He rubbed his forehead and turned on the TV in the hospital room.
If there were any anomalies with Nuwa’s tomb, the news would have reported it.
Yet, the TV broadcast was serene and peaceful, with no disturbances reported.
The most frequent news was about the upcoming national ceremony, which the Empire would hold to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the nation’s founding.
The event catching everyone’s eye was the awarding ceremony during the national celebration.
It was said that only a hundred people in the whole Empire qualified for an award at the national celebration, and this awarding carried a special meaning that would be recorded in the Empire’s history.
Unlike other boys, Gu Jingyan was not a military enthusiast. His only interest was in archaeology.
So he skimmed through this news, single-mindedly looking for any information regarding Nuwa’s tomb.
He grabbed his phone to search the news.
Nuwa’s news wasn’t found, but he immediately saw the hot topic trending at number one: the true and false heiress story.
Gu Jingyan was taken aback.
After a moment, his hand froze, and the phone slipped from his hospital bed, crashing onto the floor.
"She, she... Xi Zuzi, she’s my cousin?"
The girl sitting next to him every day driving him crazy, was his sister? With real blood ties?!
Gu Jingyan’s brain, just awakened, felt like it had taken a mysterious hit, and he fainted back onto the bed.