Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 1353: Chapter 1011: Shi Wei’s Refusal to Accept Defeat

However, as the palace maid in Heaven Deceiving Hall said, with his body full of slaughter, what reason does he have to blame Shi Wujue’s habit of wanton killing?

Shaking his head helplessly, Zhou Mu’s heart felt desolate, indifferent to the surroundings, as he turned and continued walking towards Heaven Deceiving Hall.

People always want more than they can have!

Even he cannot escape this!

During the battle in Secluded Valley, he originally only hoped for her to survive, that’s all!

But at this moment, seeing her safely improving, his heart still cannot restrain the rising discontent!

She is the woman he loves!

He not only wishes for her to live, but also wants her to stay by his side, as in the past, with her heart solely belonging to him!

Yet, all of this no longer exists...

Between them, there is ultimately one more person, a man who makes him feel choked, unsure how to face.

Shi Wujue!

Thinking of Shi Wujue, Zhou Mu’s heart feels unbearably bitter. Will such a man, surrounded by concubines, indulging in love and violence, be good to her?

How can a woman proud to her core like her endure this?

Thinking so, Zhou Mu appeared somewhat lost as he arrived at Heaven Deceiving Hall.

Since Zhou Mu left, Gu Changsheng has been tossing and turning, unable to sleep. The more she thinks about it, the more wronged she feels. Honestly, even now, she does not know what mistake she made to make Zhou Mu so angry!

Especially when she is so weak at the moment, this makes Gu Changsheng feel unprecedentedly wronged and helpless!

Originally, she wanted Shi Wei to invite her old father and her little bun, or else invite Borjigin Nian, to comfort her restless heart. But thinking of her present sorry state, she held back, worrying they would be concerned.

Gu Changsheng is not known for patience, but still, she keeps her temper, waiting, waiting for him to come!

She does not believe that Zhou Mu, after venting his anger at her for no apparent reason, would truly leave her unattended!

Waiting is a person’s desolation!

Just as Gu Changsheng was losing her confidence while waiting, Zhou Mu finally came!

Seeing Zhou Mu’s tall figure appear at that moment beyond the fluttering palace tassels, Gu Changsheng suddenly felt her eyes fill with tears!

During the battle in Secluded Valley, when faced alone with the choice between life and death, she did not cry...

With all vitality exhausted, knowing impending death, she also spoke gently about her life’s final arrangements, without shedding a tear...

But at this moment, she suddenly felt overwhelmed by a flood of grievances, turning all into tears, flowing uncontrollably from her eyes!

Zhou Mu stands three steps away from the bed, looking blankly at the woman leaning against the soft pillow, her face pale, speechless with tears flowing, his heart inexplicably seized with pain...

In the next instant, his body’s reaction surpassed all reason, and Zhou Mu stepped forward, transforming into a phantom, and in an instant, had the delicate figure on the soft bed enveloped in his embrace...

His long arms held tightly, as if fearing Gu Changsheng would disappear in the next moment...

”It is my fault! It is all my fault! I should not have lost my composure, should not have said those things to you! I was wrong!” Without hesitation, the apology flowed from Zhou Mu’s mouth.

All the dignity of the Undefeated War God of Great Zhou, all the nobility of the Crown Prince of Great Zhou, was instantly cast aside.

His heart, his eyes, were all filled with the woman in front of him, crying like a teary figure!

The warmth of tears seeping through the fabric on his chest intensified Zhou Mu’s regret. He should not have hesitated, should not have lingered outside for so long before returning!

”You... I...”

Buried against Zhou Mu’s shoulder, Gu Changsheng’s floodgates to tears completely opened, uncontrollable!

The words were incoherent, fragmented...

Originally, she wanted to scold Zhou Mu fiercely to vent her anger, but seeing him so promptly admit his wrongdoing, the words caught in Gu Changsheng’s mouth turned into a sea of grievances, unsure how to express them, she could only cry!

Though previously, in Gu Changsheng’s heart, she had deeply despised the saying that women are made of water, but she had to acknowledge, her tear glands are indeed naturally overactive, entirely uncontrollable!

”I’m sorry! It’s all my fault! I shouldn’t...”

”Sob sob...”

”...”

One frantic, subdued apology, one buried, suppressed sobbing, in Heaven Deceiving Hall, on the white jade bed, the two figures nestled closely, expressing an indescribable harmony, as if they were a match made in heaven.

This scene deeply pierced the eyes of Shi Wei, standing with her head bowed behind the palace tassels. Watching Gu Changsheng and Zhou Mu tightly embrace, she clenched her hand under her sleeve tightly, truly wishing she could step forward and separate the two!

Finally, when Gu Changsheng cried till she was almost breathless and nearly done crying, Zhou Mu gently wiped the tears from her cheeks, consoling her with a warm voice, ”I was wrong, I lost my composure...”

”You know you lost your composure? I was just concerned about Shi Wujue’s health, you have no idea how he looked when I woke up, his head was all white...” Gu Changsheng immediately widened her eyes in anger as she spoke upon hearing this.

”I know! I know! Don’t be angry, don’t be angry!”

Gu Changsheng’s words were interrupted by Zhou Mu’s string of apologies.

”I know he lingers around the concubines, you are upset, but he’s always been like this, and if he’s to change, it can’t happen overnight...” Zhou Mu paused for a moment here, but still chose to speak honestly about what he’d seen, ”Today, several concubines were dragged out of the mansion, presumably because they failed to win his favor, so you needn’t take it to heart...”

”Dragged out? You mean...” Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng’s previous grievances vanished, and she lifted her head from Zhou Mu’s embrace, with a face full of uncertainty, she asked, ”You mean he’s killed someone mercilessly again?”

Shi Wujue’s ways, which she’d heard about from Zhou Mu while in Licheng City, were known to her, as she knew he’d once spent a night of springtime warmth, and the next moment killed the person beside him...

Zhou Mu frowned upon hearing this, but still nodded his head.

Gu Changsheng’s brow furrowed immediately in response.

Truth be told, although this is Shi Wujue’s personal life, the rapidity of his mercilessness is a bit extreme, such a severe and bloody act against someone close is a bit too much, and though Gu Changsheng has seen plenty of life and death, it’s still a bit much to stomach!

Those were living human lives!

One moment, fantasizing about obtaining love and enjoying glory, the next, meeting an untimely death...

Anyone would feel a pang of sorrow over this...

Zhou Mu saw Gu Changsheng’s tightly knitted brows and sorrowful expression, thinking she was concerned about her future, the topic, difficult to broach, now that she knew was a good thing!

”Alright, don’t worry, a woman like you deserves any man’s wholehearted devotion, with you here, other women are just fleeting clouds...” He will surely treat you well, otherwise, I will not permit it!

Zhou Mu looked at Gu Changsheng in front of him, lifting his hand to wipe the tears from the corner of her eyes.

Gu Changsheng, upon hearing this, rolled her eyes at Zhou Mu in disdain, lifted her chin a bit arrogantly, saying, ”Naturally! Do you even know who I am? I am Gu Changsheng! It’s just you who dare to upset me! Ugh, I’ve been wronged to death, my heart, it aches...”

”You...” Zhou Mu replied with a bitter laugh, shaking his head.

Indeed!

Who is she?

She is his Changsheng!

She has always been the confident and flamboyant woman, whose every smile and frown ensnares and captivates!

A woman like her, how could she be compared to those common and vulgar powders? He... indeed, was overthinking!

A misunderstanding, though in the end, neither’s words were fully said, after Zhou Mu’s apology and Changsheng’s nature of not pursuing matters to the root, was dismissed with a laugh!

Zhou Mu saw Gu Changsheng’s mood improving, concealed his own inner sorrow, and chatted with her for a while longer until Ling Xi brought the medicine bowl, naturally taking it without others’ help...

...

Meanwhile, in Linyuan City, many citizens’ gazes were drawn to the Ten Miles Peach Grove surrounding the City Lord’s Mansion...

”Look, our peach grove is blooming exceptionally beautifully today!”

”Indeed, these peach blossoms blooming this month are all thanks to us being in the mountains of the North, but how come today these peach blossoms are blooming so red? As if stained with blood?”

”Ah, hush! Don’t talk about unlucky things, what do you mean ’as if stained with blood?’ that’s a good omen! The peach blossoms are as fiery as flames, our Linyuan City will surely have favorable weather this year!”

”True, but I’ve heard that the woman brought into the mansion by the City Lord hasn’t been brought out as flower fertilizer, tsk-tsk... We might actually gain a new Lady of the City Lord, huh?”

”Who knows?”

”...”

For a while, everyone’s attention was drawn to the fire-like peach grove, while rumors about flower fertilizer and the City Lord’s new love made Linyuan City simmer once again.

They haven’t seen flower fertilizer being carried out, but in places they hadn’t noticed, who knows how much flower fertilizer was buried within the Ten Miles Peach Grove...

The peach blossoms blazing like fire, full of vitality, as if truly stained by blood, just as they said...

The peach blossoms are red, the peach blossoms are exquisite, bright as fire, piercingly vibrant, drawing glances...

Shi Wei stood in the Heaven Deceiving Hall, with distant eyes gazing towards the direction of the City Lord’s Mansion’s backyard wall, seeming as though she could see the blazing Ten Miles Peach Grove, eyes full of worry and struggle...

In the Heaven Deceiving Hall, Zhou Mu was accompanying Gu Changsheng, yet her Hall Master, at this time, was still uncertain...

Shi Wei hadn’t expected that the conflict between Gu Changsheng and Zhou Mu would be completely dissolved by Zhou Mu’s reappearance and a couple of words, the feelings between them caused Shi Wei’s brow to frown tightly...

This can’t continue!

The throat-blocking issue His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mu had, gave her several chances to cut him off, but if things went on like this, inevitably, there would come a day when their ambiguous words would be spoken clearly...