Chapter 76: The Exposed (Part )

Xu Chu?

Gu Yue Jiarong confirmed that he did not know the jailer in front of him, but he felt that he had heard the name somewhere before. Even the other person's smiling face seemed familiar.

Unconsciously, he started talking and asked, "Who sent this?"

Now that he is in a difficult situation, who would want to get involved at this time?
"It's your wife Wang Mei." The jailer told him.

Gu Yuejia Rong was silent for a moment, then took out a letter from her sleeve: "Xu Chu, if she comes again next time, can you give this to her for me?"

The jailer took it and saw the word "divorce" written on it: "..." No, this is how you repay the person who has never left you?
The jailer probed, "Master Gu Yue, are you thinking of divorcing your wife and giving her a way out because you feel that you are a burden to her?"

"No." He did not make false excuses. The faint moonlight poured in from the iron window. Although he was down and out, he was still like a piece of cold jade, with clear bones and eyes as cold as ice.

"In my life, I often wonder why I live. Just like I never have the kind of feelings for her that my mother talked about. We have been married for more than 20 years, but looking back on the past, it seems that everything is meaningless."

"Life is a meaning. Why bother to explore what this meaning is specifically? Besides, feelings are actually a very mysterious thing. You feel that you don't have the kind of feelings for her that your mother talked about, but there may be feelings between you two." said the jailer.

"You are trying to persuade me too?" Gu Yuejiarong suddenly smiled. He looked up at the empty air and said, "I always feel like there is a voice trying to persuade me to fall in love with Wang Mei. Maybe it's not Wang Mei, but just someone else. It wants me to experience the feeling of being happy. I'm sorry, I tried my best, but I can't do it."

The jailer felt a tightness in his throat and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"You are too stubborn and too sober."

"is it?"

The two of them didn't say anything for a while, until someone outside shouted anxiously: "The fire is coming! The fire is coming! Run!"

The jailer was startled and quickly took out the key to open the iron chain: "Sir, come with me quickly, there is a fire!"

Gu Yuejiarong was forcibly dragged by "Xu Chu" to run, surrounded by raging flames. He was in the sea of ​​fire, as if being swallowed by a huge heat wave.

"Sir, let's escape together." The jailer suddenly suggested.

"escape?"

"Yes, didn't the Lord say that? You have been trapped all your life, without freedom. Now this fire has destroyed everything. Then we should regard the former Gu Yue Jia Rong as having died in this fire. From now on, you can be yourself and please the one you truly love."

"Xu Chu" turned her head. Her hat fell off crookedly because of running. She pulled it off, and her long hair fell down. Her little face, which was rosy in the firelight, looked soft and peaceful. She smiled at him and encouraged him.

Gu Yuejia Rong stared at her in amazement, then slightly widened his eyes: "You——"

But before he could respond, a familiar voice called out from behind him: "Jia Rong——"

They were in a sea of ​​fire, the raging fire was burning everything, people's shouts echoed in the flames, the scene was in chaos, but Gu Yue Jiarong felt that all sounds seemed to have disappeared.

He turned around in surprise, only to see Wang Mei holding a sword and leading a team of people into the fire scene. It had been twenty years, and she was over forty years old. Her face was no longer as plump and delicate as that of a girl.

But she had a temperament that came from years of experience, and she remained calm in the fire, unperturbed: "Come here."

Just two words, but they shocked him.

"...Wang Mei?"

Wang Mei glanced at "Xu Chu" beside him and asked, "Where are you going to leave me and go with another woman?"

"I'm sorry." He apologized subconsciously.

"What's wrong with that?" "Xu Chu" stepped forward to block him, and she said seriously, "Is it wrong to not like someone?"

"Isn't that wrong?" Wang Mei raised an eyebrow.

"My Lord, you are not wrong. You just followed your heart."

Xu Chu threw the "divorce letter" written by Gu Yue Jiarong to Wang Mei: "This is what the master asked me to give to you."

Wang Mei squatted down to pick it up, then opened the letter. Taking advantage of this opportunity, "Xu Chu" immediately pulled Gu Yuejiarong and ran out.

But after running for a distance, there was no movement behind her. Gu Yuejiarong looked back anxiously, only to see Wang Mei tearing up the "divorce letter". She was motionless in the middle of the sea of ​​fire, even though the beam above her was burnt black and cracked, and was about to fall...

His heart was like an ant being roasted by flames, anxious, frightened, and with nowhere to escape.

He finally broke free from Xu Chu's hand, turned around and ran towards the fire.

Xu Chu froze, turned around, and shouted in disbelief: "Gu Yue Jia Rong, are you crazy?! Didn't you always want to get rid of her? Why did you turn back?"

But he did not answer. Instead, he rushed forward regardless of his own safety, spread out his arms, and protected the petite Wang Mei.

Tongues of flame swept over, and the intense pain made people feel like they had walked through hell, and every inch of skin on the body seemed to be severely burned by the flames.

Wang Mei raised her face in his arms. Her deep and mysterious eyes had a kind of otherworldly tranquility that made Gu Yuejiarong lose his mind. He asked in a trembling voice, "...is it you?"

Wang Mei smiled, just like an autumn lake that can accommodate all the complexity of the world. The slightly upturned corners of her eyes carried a touch of imperceptible tenderness: "I said, as long as you don't mistake me, I will always find you."

Gu Yuejiarong also smiled, like the bright stars in the quiet night sky, emitting a soft and peaceful glow, so beautiful that it was breathtaking: "It's you."

Eyes can deceive, but the feeling in his heart always guides him. Throughout his life, over decades, what he is looking for...

He looked at her, and the "peach blossom evil" behind his neck was triggered at this moment.

Wang Mei said "Huh".

"Xu Chu" stood there in a daze. All the noisy sounds were distorted in the fire. She suddenly laughed at herself and tore everything apart.

Flames, cells, human figures, injuries…the unreal dream, Ying Mei’s life, it was as if the curse was suddenly broken.

The shadow's eyes were red as if dripping blood.

"Why? I will become whatever you like, but why is it that I am not the one who makes you fall in love in the end?"

The shadow with the "Xu Chu" face spoke in a sharp voice with strong resentment and hatred.

"Didn't you always dislike Wang Mei? Why did you come back in the end?"

And why did she give up in the end?

The three of them returned to reality. It was still dark and the night was not over yet. However, Gu Yuejiarong and the other three had spent almost their entire lives in a dream.

Remembering everything, Gu Yuejiarong recalled the false twenty years he had spent in his dream, and he was still a little dazed. Xu Shanshan, who had been covered with Wang Meishen, also restored her original appearance. She waved her hand, and white butterflies fluttered seductively in the dark night, passing by Gu Yuejiarong's eyes, and his eyes lost their luster.

Shadow flew down, but was stopped by Xu Shanshan. The light was shining like a golden snake, forming a canopy above him. "You said he was stubborn, but so are you. You become whatever he likes, but no matter what you become, you are still you, and he is still him. Do you understand?"

Ying Mei floated in the air, her clothes and eyes were red. She listened to Xu Shanshan's words, but still didn't understand: "But am I not a part of you?"

"Although you were born from me, you have become your own shadow since you gained self-awareness."

After Ying Mei heard this, she murmured, she is herself...

She is not Wang Mei, not "Xu Chu", not Li Yue'e, nor Shan Shan and Funan, she is just Ying Mei herself.

However, in order to get a man, she gave up her hard-earned "self" and became someone else.

As if awakened from his delusion, Ying Mei stopped attacking.

"I lost." She laughed bitterly. When she chose to use Lord Xu's identity and appearance to seduce Gu Yue Jiarong, the outcome of this battle was already decided.

At that time, Xu Zhu also entered Ying Mei's dream. She knew it, but she didn't care.

Because even if it was Lord Xu, once he entered her dream, he would have to obey her arrangements.

Lord Xu could not choose his own identity, nor could he interfere with her decisions. He could only follow her wishes.

When Lord Xu was the matchmaker, she had to act as a matchmaker and help Gu Yue Jiarong meet and marry the three women she was incarnated from.

But she didn't expect that Gu Yue Jiarong didn't like the three women with different characteristics that she transformed into, but chose Wang the matchmaker.

Ying Mei thought Gu Yue Jiarong liked this kind of tone, so she forcibly exchanged identities with Xu Zhu, and also put Xu Zhu in the identity of Gu Yue Jiarong's seriously ill mother.

She thought that in this way, Master Xu would never become the third party between them.

But she didn't expect that after Gu Yue Jiarong got married, he regarded his mother as more important than his wife, and devoted himself to taking care of his mother, so she erased the role of mother.

After all obstacles disappeared, the two grew from youth to middle age, from poverty to success. Ying Mei thought that as long as she stayed with him, she would be able to make him change his mind and fall in love with her.

But even if there was no one else, he still didn't like her.

But at the beginning, it was clearly him who chose Wang Mei... No, he chose Xu Zhu who existed in Wang Mei's body, not her.

So Ying Mei made up her mind and gave up the identity of Wang Mei and became "Xu Chu". Everything started out smoothly. Gu Yue Jiarong was indeed shaken by her, but...

When the real "Xu Chu" appeared, even though the other party had become Wang Mei, whom Gu Yuejiarong had never fallen in love with in more than 20 years, he still chose her.

To live and die with her.

She thought that this was the love between husband and wife accumulated over the years, but she didn't know that he was induced to have the "Peach Blossom Evil". At that moment, Ying Mei couldn't tell how she felt.

From an ignorant and instinctive evil spirit to a mental growth of decades in a day in a dream, she has become a "human", but she still does not understand emotions.

It was Master Xu who woke the dreamer up with just one word.

Ying Mei bowed to Xu Shanshan and said, "I accept the loss. Now that I have become a human being, I know how short life is. It may seem like a few decades, but if one thought goes wrong, it will be difficult to turn back and return to the original self."

The dream she had woven was her entire life. When she woke up, her figure gradually disappeared in the air, becoming as thin and faint as smoke, carried away by the wind.

"Shadow Phantom, I bid farewell to my Lord."

Xu Shanshan looked at Ying Mei, who had spent his entire life seeking a result. He should have thought that he was foolish, but he inexplicably felt a sense of enlightenment in his heart.

There was one thing that Ying Mei was not wrong about. She was a part of herself, an existence that could not be completely separated. Even if she was separated and had a mind, there would always be a part that was connected to her.

Some of her emotions, regrets, relief and lust were actually returned to Xu Shanshan, but her heart was as hard as iron and the impact was minimal.

After solving the problem of Yingmei, Xu Shanshan began to work on removing the "Peach Blossom Evil" from Gu Yuejiarong.

She reached out and pulled him closer, and Gu Yuejia's scattered pupils focused again. His clear dark eyes stared at her, and the moment their skin touched, the "Peach Blossom Evil" really began to attack her.

The essence of "Peach Blossom Evil" is exclusivity. It is only loyal to the caster and also requires the victim to be absolutely loyal to the caster. Once he is attracted to another woman and makes moves, the "Peach Blossom Evil" will turn into a sharp weapon to sever his marriage.

The result is that all kinds of disputes arise, and in the end, if you don't die, you will be injured. This is a bad fate.

He was really tempted, but the target was her, which was something Xu Shanshan didn't expect.

But it doesn't matter, as long as the problem can be solved and this evil account between her and Gu Yue Jiarong can be settled.

"Offended sir."

She apologized to Gu Yue Jiarong when he was awake. In fact, if the "Peach Blossom Evil" could not be triggered only when the host was awake, she would be willing to remove the evil without his knowledge.

"what?"

There was a sense of emptiness in Gu Yuejiarong's pupils, as if they were covered by a thin and light cage. He was confused and puzzled.

It really looks like a stupid rabbit being eaten.

Xu Shanshan said in his heart.

She raised her head and pulled him down with one hand. While he was stunned, she pressed a kiss on his forehead. Seal the kiss, and an array of light immediately spread out from the ground.

The strong wind blew up their clothes and hair. She was surrounded by flying lights, while he was surrounded by black mist.

Gu Yue Jiarong suddenly raised her eyes, and he bent down to look at her level. Her eyes were like crystal clear amber, and there seemed to be a terrifying yet undisturbed valley sleeping inside them.

Her long eyelashes half-closed, casting a faint shadow on her fair skin, like a beautiful painting, making people reluctant to disturb this peaceful beauty.

The "Peach Blossom Evil" was completely aroused, and peach petals filled the sky along with a sharp wind. It was clearly a gorgeous scene of peach blossoms in full bloom, but it contained a certain cruel and murderous atmosphere.

"Not even close..."

Xu Shanshan stepped back a little and asked Gu Yuejiarong: "Sir, where is the most sensitive part of your body?"

Gu Yuejiarong's face tightened, and her lips blushed: "What else are you going to do?"

"Just adding fuel to the fire." She leaned close to his ear, her eyes fixed on the falling "peach blossoms": "Everything is just to break the curse, sir, be obedient and tell me."