Jin Zijin placed the food box on the stone table beside the bed and gently patted her back, waking her up.
As she turned around, she saw the tall figure sitting by the bed.
"Zijin?" She was stunned for a mont and rubbed her eyes. Confirming it was him, she exclaid, "You’re back?"
"Yeah." He responded softly, saying, "You’ve worked hard these days, I..."
"Shh, don’t say, I know it all."
The scene of Tian Jizi’s death was too strange. They actually believed in Yu Jizi, who had exchanged souls, because Gu Youyou herself had experienced such an event. It’s just that for so reason, Yu Jizi didn’t manage to exchange with Jin Ziyuan but ended up in Tian Jizi’s body instead.
Jin Zijin thought for a mont and said, "Maybe it was because Master consud the Sun Zhuzhao."
"Hmm...?"
"Master had a Pure Yang Body. I guess a Pure Yin Body combined with the Youying Pearl and a Pure Yang Body combined with the Sun Zhuzhao might have the sa effect."
After a brief silence, Gu Youyou said, "So you still believe that the latter person was Yu Jizi and not Tian Jizi’s final monts of lucidity?"
"I think so!" he replied.
Nobody could be certain about it. Maybe, at the last mont, even the soul inside that body didn’t know who it truly was.
In any case, everything was over. The deceased were gone, what is there for the living to hold onto?
Jin Zijin forced a smile, gently tucked the stray hair from Gu Youyou’s forehead behind her ear, and softly said, "You can sleep later, let’s eat sothing first."
Gu Youyou’s stomach coincidentally grumbled, and they both laughed.
It seed they hadn’t sat together for a proper dinner in a long ti.
No, this was more like a midnight snack.
They hadn’t sat together for a midnight snack in quite a while.
The people of Qiuci weren’t as indulgent in food and drink as those from Zhongyuan. Their food was simple, various not-so-tasty flatbreads accompanied by a pot of lamb soup, which was considered quite a good al.
Gu Youyou barely managed to eat until half-full, finding the food rather unpalatable.
When life improves, people beco picky about their food, and she was no exception to this common tendency.
Not having filled her stomach, she ate many grapes instead.
She actually knew that eating such high-sugar grapes in the middle of the night wasn’t good, but after the lamb soup, the greasy taste was uncomfortable, and she needed fruit to counter it.
And in her room, there was only this type of fruit available—grapes.
Yu Jizi was already dead. Sotis thinking about it was still unbelievable. Lying in bed, Gu Youyou recounted how she was captured into that cave, t Jin Ziyuan, and how Yu Jizi had seized innocent people to coerce her in various ways.
This included why Jin Ziyuan ended up like this.
After listening, Jin Zijin asked after a long while, "How is Jin Ziyuan’s illness?"
Gu Youyou, worried and troubled, sighed softly, "His condition isn’t good. I don’t understand the Poisonous Insect toxin as well as Searcy. The dical facilities here are too lousy. If only we could do so tests. Sigh, look, your junior even wounded Searcy."
Jin Zijin was silent for a mont, then softly said, "I talked to him about it."
"Yeah, he apologized."
"He might..." Jin Zijin always felt sothing was off. Over the years, he considered himself quite knowledgeable about Yue Rujing, but now it seed he might have been mistaken.
"Forget it, let’s sleep quickly."
"Mm, you sleep too!"
Still, this embrace allowed her to sleep peacefully.
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