Gu Qingjiu didn’t explicitly say what kind of a story it was.
She was talking about a dream, but everything in that dream appeared so clear.
So clear that she could recount this dream completely, clearly, and indifferently.
When she spoke of the first time she smashed someone’s head and completely changed, she could feel Helian Niancheng tighten his hug of her.
The way he was gripping Gu Qingjiu’s waist was as though he wanted to rub her into his bones.
“Later… Later I died in prison. It was murder. And then I woke up and realized that it was merely a dream I had when I was 18.”
She recounted her ending in her previous life in a few mere words.
She concluded all the origins to that moment she was reborn four years ago.
If it weren’t because it felt too real, the past was like a dream.
She believed she could forget this past as time went by.
“It won’t happen again.”
Helian Niancheng lowered his head, running his slim and long fingers through Gu Qingjiu’s hair. He pressed his forehead against Gu Qingjiu’s and said in a low and gentle voice, “You won’t ever have such a nightmare again. I won’t allow it.”
When she heard this, Gu Qingjiu couldn’t hold herself back anymore.
It had been a long time since she cried.
She couldn’t suppress the feeling welling up in her heart.
She didn’t know if Helian Niancheng would believe her words, but this statement made Gu Qingjiu’s heart quiet down completely.
A tear slipped down Gu Qingjiu’s cheek, and in a choked voice, she replied, “Mm, won’t ever happen again. That was only a dream.”
Only a dream.
Only by regarding it as a dream would it pass.
This lifetime was her actual life.
Everything that happened in the dream didn’t occur, and those who ought to be punished were already suffering the consequences of their actions. Also, the people dearest to her were perfectly fine.
Hence, that was merely a nightmare.
He gently planted his thin and cold lips on Gu Qingjiu’s forehead, like he was making a solemn promise to her.
An obscure glint flickered in his eyes. There was a tad of darkness and a tad of elements that made one feel uneasy.
But towards Gu Qingjiu, there was only gentleness and love.
After telling him everything, Gu Qingjiu felt wholly relaxed in her heart.
She didn’t know what Helian Niancheng thought about this, but his response didn’t make Gu Qingjiu feel uneasy.
“Let’s make a trip to the capital tomorrow. I need to attend to something. Wait for me for a day. Then we’ll go to Penalan first.”
Gu Qingjiu nodded obediently, then leaned into Helian Niancheng and hugged him.
The duo hugged in such a peaceful manner for a while. Then Qi Yuefeng came in and called for them.
On the next day, they went back to the capital as planned.
Inside the villa, Helian Niancheng went to attend a Penalan business that he had in China.
Gu Qingjiu received a call from Lu Ziyang, whom she had not heard for a long time.
It seemed like her incident affected the Ninth Department during these three years, but Gu Qingjiu didn’t know the details.
She didn’t leave the Ninth Department, but instead, she had been receiving some special training in the department.
The sort of training that exceeded her usual performance and training never stopped unless it was the holidays, where Gu Qingjiu wouldn’t go over. They knew about this.
This phone call came because Lu Ziyang learned that Gu Qingjiu happened to be in the capital, so he asked her over to talk about something