Chapter 2027: Did You Not Sleep All Night?
Staring at the message Ye You had sent, Gu Zhiqi fell silent.
So, the words on the blueprint really were written by him?
Obviously, neither Su Yunling nor Tang Yichen had ever gone back to five hundred years ago, could it be that...
Thinking of how the loopholes in this world still weren’t fully patched, Gu Zhiqi’s gaze darkened.
Looks like, this trip to Nine Stars City, she’d have to bring one more person along.
They chatted for a while longer before Gu Zhiqi and Ye You finally ended the conversation.
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The next day, as soon as she got up, Gu Zhiqi went to look for Su Yunling.
When she walked into Su Yunling’s courtyard, he was practicing his morning exercises there.
The moment Gu Zhiqi stepped into the yard, Su Yunling noticed her.
He stopped at once and walked toward Gu Zhiqi. "How come you’re up so early today?"
Gu Zhiqi stood where she was and didn’t speak.
It wasn’t until Su Yunling came up to her that she tilted her head slightly and stared at his face, studying it.
Su Yunling’s lashes trembled lightly as he looked back at her. "What? Is there something on my face?"
Gu Zhiqi nodded.
Seeing this, Su Yunling raised his hand and scrubbed randomly at his face. "Now?"
"Still there." Gu Zhiqi spoke as she walked toward him, stopping two steps away from Su Yunling.
Su Yunling had thought she’d reach out to help him wipe it off, but to his surprise, she never made a move.
In the end, he could only speak up to her. "Then help me wipe it off."
Gu Zhiqi said with a straight face, "It doesn’t wipe off."
Su Yunling: ?
Gu Zhiqi looked back at him and said, "How do you wipe away dark circles?"
Su Yunling: "..."
He had dark circles?
Su Yunling raised his hand and, eyes closed, felt around the area of his eyes.
He hadn’t looked in a mirror since he got up this morning, so he really didn’t know if he had dark circles or not.
"Is it that obvious?"
Gu Zhiqi didn’t answer his question. Instead, she rose slightly on tiptoe and let her fingers fall to the corner of his eye.
Su Yunling froze his movements and lowered his gaze slightly to look at her. The corners of his lips unconsciously curved up, and a trace of warmth spread in his eyes.
After kneading at the corner of his eye for a bit, Gu Zhiqi finally asked, "Did you not sleep at all last night?"
Su Yunling was silent for a moment, then said, "I did."
He had slept a few hours.
It was just that whether awake or in his dreams, his mind had been full of Gu Zhiqi and that lover of hers.
He had even had a nightmare last night.
He dreamt that Gu Zhiqi recovered her memories and went to find that lover of hers.
And he, holding a bouquet of flowers, appeared in divine attire at her wedding—with someone else.
When he woke up, the corners of his eyes were wet.
After the age of nine, he rarely cried.
Yet last night, because of a nightmare, he had actually cried.
While his thoughts were churning, Gu Zhiqi’s voice sounded by his ear. "I don’t believe you."
Su Yunling came back to himself, lowered his head slightly, and stared at her for several seconds, then reached out and pulled her into his arms.
While she was still here, he had to hug her more.
With that thought, Su Yunling rubbed her hair, then gently nuzzled the top of her head.
Suddenly, Gu Zhiqi’s voice came from his arms. "Yesterday at the Heavenly Domain Pavilion, did Ye You say something to you?"
Su Yunling’s body stiffened a little. "No..."
He hadn’t finished when Gu Zhiqi cut him off. "Still trying to hide it from me? I already asked Ye You last night, he told me everything."
Su Yunling froze completely. All his words got stuck in his throat, and he didn’t even know what he was supposed to say. After a long while, he finally muttered in a low voice, "You know everything? You even know about you and that Pavilion Master?"