"Why would you ask such a question?" Jin Zijin suddenly asked in surprise.
Gu Youyou sneered and said, "Now it’s my turn to ask you, isn’t it hard for you to answer?"
"No!" Jin Zijin shook his head crisply.
Gu Youyou was astonished!
"The people from Xuanzong are after you, not Ajing!" Jin Zijin answered with certainty and seriousness.
Gu Youyou rolled her eyes and said, "I mean hypothetically, what if both of us were captured together?"
Jin Zijin replied directly, "There are no hypotheticals for things that won’t happen. The people from Xuanzong would never touch Ajing!"
Gu Youyou: "..." My heart feels so tired!
Then let’s put it another way.
"If Yue Rujing and I were both falling into the water at the same time, whom would you save first?"
Jin Zijin said seriously, "You should be asking if Ajing and you both fell into the water together, whom would he save first?"
"He would definitely save me first."
"Ajing is from the south, where there’s a lot of water. He’s a good swimmer and can save us both at the same time, so you really don’t need to worry about drowning!"
Damn it, my heart feels so tired!
Gu Youyou was left speechless with anger!
Storming off, the sooner to bed the better.
Watching the woman stomping off toward their thatched cottage, Jin Zijin shook his head with a smile and hurried to catch up.
"Actually, I know what you want to ask!" he said.
Gu Youyou didn’t want to listen to him.
"Ajing and I grew up together since we were young," he added.
Childhood friends, thought Gu Youyou to herself.
"To me, you are as important as Ajing," he continued.
Gu Youyou paused, stopped, and turned to look at him.
In the hazy moonlight, his expression remained calm and serious, yet it seemed tainted with a hint of indiscernible melancholy!
Jin Zijin was also looking at her. There weren’t many people important to him, and now there was one more. He didn’t regret saying that.
He could be decisive in everything he did, but only when it came to Gu Youyou, he always wavered. Just as he had said before, Youyou, you made me lose many principles.
He used to be a principled man, but for Gu Youyou, he had become someone without principles.
For instance, he would do some silly things, with a very clear purpose—to make her happy. However, just as Yue Rujing said, he still stubbornly refused to admit it.
Gu Youyou wasn’t a greedy person. Upon hearing Jin Zijin’s words, she did not feel lost because in his heart she figured she was more or less the same as his best friend.
She didn’t think so, only that she was now as important to him as Yue Rujing was.
Just as he said, he and Yue Rujing had grown up together since childhood and had a deep relationship, which is why when he was poisoned, only he and Yue Rujing knew about it.
This showed his trust in Yue Rujing.
The progress was getting bigger, wasn’t it? From not trusting her at all, to all sorts of suspicions, to gradually trusting her, and now to this point.
After spending time with him, Gu Youyou understood what kind of person Jin Zijin was. He seemed to be carrying some heavy burden that made it hard for him to breathe, and it also made him cautious in everything.
It was hard for him to sincerely open up to someone, because there were few people he could trust.
"Do you trust me now, trust that I’m not a trap set by anyone for you, that I have no intention of harming you?" Gu Youyou asked with hopeful eyes.
"I trust that you won’t harm me, you won’t, right?"
He said this, asked this, but he seemed not to want to know the answer, or perhaps he was afraid to know it, and he walked away right after asking.