Wang Shun didn’t move, looking towards Gu Xiaoqing.
Gu Xiaoqing whispered, "If I told you not to follow, then don’t. He’s my dad, he won’t kill me, right?"
Wang Shun remained standing in place, and it was only after Gu Wu and Gu Xiaoqing had walked far away that Gu Youyou stood up.
It was so awkward, she definitely didn’t want them to discover her.
Crouching for too long had made her legs soft, and as Gu Youyou bent down to pat them, she suddenly felt someone approaching her at high speed from behind. She turned around sharply, seeing a blurry figure. Before she could react, she closed her eyes.
In that moment of fuzzy consciousness, she still heard Wang Shun’s voice in the distance from within the woods.
Her mind was groggy, and she felt a nauseating tumult within her, as if she might vomit yet couldn’t! In her daze, Gu Youyou couldn’t distinguish between reality and dream.
She felt as though she had returned to the Gu Family’s villa. Her grandfather was practicing Tai Chi with a wooden sword, and Dahuang was squatting not far away, watching. As Gu Youyou walked over slowly, Dahuang dashed towards her on all fours, and she was caught off guard and knocked to the ground by it.
It licked her incessantly with its tongue, frolicking around her and causing Gu Youyou to laugh out loud.
But that was a little girl, only about seven or eight years old, apparently even younger than Dahuang.
When did I become so small?
Gu Youyou was suddenly alarmed inside, which jolted her awake.
Her bright eyes snapped open, and in the darkness, she saw another pair of bright eyes staring back at her.
Looking into each other’s eyes, Gu Youyou screamed in fright.
She kicked the person lying on top of her with all her might.
The person was kicked off her and rolled to one side, with a wall nearby, yet still uncomfortably close to her.
"Who are you?" Gu Youyou asked warily, staring at the person.
It was a man, appearing to be in his twenties, with very white skin, unnaturally pale, ghostly white and frightening.
The sickly paleness of Gu Youyou was abnormal; she was two shades paler than the average person, yet the man was even paler than her.
Almost transparently white!
If not for the translucent whiteness, he could have been mistaken for a zombie from the movies.
The man did not answer her, only staring blankly at Gu Youyou.
Gu Youyou looked around and realized they were in a narrow space, like a stone box encased on all sides.
The space above was vast, evidently crafted with care. It seemed that this stone box was within a very large area.
Seeing that the strange man did not respond and made no move to approach her, she boldly stood up.
She then carefully observed him, and seeing no reaction, she dared to clamber out of the stone box.
The edge of the stone box was as high as her chest, and it took her an immense effort to climb out.
Gu Youyou sat on the ground, resting against the stone, and took deep breaths. She wiped her face haphazardly, feeling some sticky substance, and the thought of what had just happened disgusted her utterly.
Hadn’t she just been dreaming, thinking she was licked by a dog? It turned out that it wasn’t a dog that had licked her but this strange man.
My God! I am a married woman!
After catching her breath, she started to look around this strange place.
A circular structure with several lamps on the walls emitted a green light; it couldn’t be more eerie.
The walls and ceiling bore many intricately carved decorations, just like the top.