Everyone at home said she had a serious illness and had forgotten many things from the past.
But she remembered her eldest brother and her parents; what she had actually forgotten was only this second brother.
She didn’t know whether she had done something in the past that made her second brother very angry or whether he had always disliked her—that was why she was so afraid of him, and even after falling ill, she had only forgotten him.
She had asked her eldest brother and Uncle Li whether her relationship with her second brother had been bad in the past.
All they said was, "Your second brother is good to you, it’s just that his methods might be wrong."
Gu Yao came in front of Gu Sheng, opening her mouth nervously, "...Second Brother, why are you here?"
"..." Gu Sheng didn’t speak, only looking at her like that.
Gu Yao lowered her head, not daring to look into his eyes.
Feeling the icy and angry gaze of Gu Sheng constantly on her, Gu Yao felt as if she had a thorn in her back, too frightened to even breathe deeply.
As time ticked by second by second, Gu Yao’s legs trembled uncontrollably, and her heart seemed to want to leap out of her throat.
Finally, when Gu Yao could no longer bear it, Gu Sheng opened the car door and took the driver’s seat.
The car window rolled down, revealing Gu Sheng’s sharply chiseled profile.
His gaze fixed ahead, without a trace of emotion, he uttered two icy words, "Get in."
Gu Yao snapped back to reality, not daring to waste time, and without even stopping to catch her breath, she moved forward two steps, reaching out to pull open the rear door of the car.
But she found that the rear door wouldn’t open.
Even without seeing Gu Sheng’s expression, Gu Yao could guess that his face must have darkened even more at that moment.
Gu Yao had to stiffen her resolve, circle around most of the car, and take the passenger seat.
Before Gu Yao even had the chance to fasten her seatbelt, Gu Sheng stomped on the accelerator, and the car shot forward like an arrow from a bow, startling Gu Yao into screaming.
Gu Sheng slammed the accelerator to the floor, and the car sped away in a straight line.
Gu Yao, terrified, clutched the seatbelt around her, not daring to open her eyes.
Soon, Gu Yao realized that Gu Sheng had no intention of crossing the bridge; after descending a slope, he kept driving straight ahead... and ahead was a vast ocean.
"Stop the car, stop it!"
As the car approached closer to the seaside, Gu Yao was terrified out of her senses, and she reached out to grab Gu Sheng’s hand on the steering wheel, hoping to make him stop.
But Gu Sheng was unresponsive, as if he couldn’t hear her cries, unaffected by her fear, his entire being seemingly in a trance, not even decreasing the speed of the car once.
It was as if he couldn’t see the danger up ahead, he just kept driving forward.
Gu Yao cried out in desperation, facing the imminent threat of death, she had forgotten even to be afraid, all she felt was despair.
And the image of Shangguan Yu fiercely hammered at her nerves.
Just as the car was about to plunge into the sea, Gu Yao, consumed by fear, closed her eyes, her whole body curling into a ball, huddling in the car seat.
The car abruptly came to a halt, and even with the seatbelt on, Gu Yao’s body lurched forward due to inertia.
If not for the seatbelt, Gu Yao might have been thrown off the seat, one could only imagine how fast the car had been going just now.
Gu Yao’s hair was a bit disheveled, she clutched her seatbelt tightly, her entire being still in shock, her mind blank, confused, her body trembling uncontrollably.
After a while, Gu Yao finally regained her senses from the despair she had just experienced.
Swallowing hard, her breathing ragged, she didn’t dare move a muscle.