Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 1366: Chapter 1023: No Way to Repay, Deadlock!

Not quite a gentleman?

Shi Wei said he wasn’t quite a gentleman?

Gu Changsheng’s expression involuntarily changed, and his other hand supporting him on the bed couldn’t help but clutch the thin quilt tightly, his phoenix eyes flashing with a hint of anger...

That palace maid actually said such a thing to mock him?

Gu Changsheng couldn’t help but rewind everything that had happened since he woke up in his mind, his face growing darker and darker...

Though the dead should be respected, even so, at this moment, Gu Changsheng genuinely wished he could dig Shi Wei up from the ground and demand to know why she did this?

Did she take him for a fool easily fooled? Or was she certain Zhou Mu cared about him, concerned for him, and would absolutely follow the routine she set?

How hateful!

Too hateful!

Thinking of how every time Zhou Mu started to speak these past days, Shi Wei would timely interrupt and shift the topic, not giving him a chance to reveal the truth, Gu Changsheng couldn’t suppress the flames of anger rising in his heart...

She wasn’t truly a fool!

In fact, she was a very meticulous person!

If she hadn’t been ill and severely weak, how could she have let herself be careless enough to overlook Zhou Mu’s abnormality, giving Shi Wei a chance to exploit?

Looking at Zhou Mu, who wore a guilty expression before him, Gu Changsheng’s phoenix eyes narrowed; now, everything made sense...

Everything encountered these past few days made sense...

Shi Wei’s every word and deed, her defying Shi Wujue’s orders to take her to the Ten Miles Peach Grove, all of it made sense...

She had been digging a pit for herself and Zhou Mu!

She dug a deep trench between them!

Gu Changsheng believed if it weren’t for her disposition, always so, knowing the truth afterward, and having a night to sleep fitfully, getting some time to think, otherwise, Gu Changsheng felt she would definitely have fallen into Shi Wei’s trap, just as she wanted, and be indifferent to the man before her!

”Not quite a gentleman?” Looking at Zhou Mu, Gu Changsheng murmured softly, then her lips curled into a mocking smile, speaking in a deep voice, ”Evildoer, love is inherently selfish, a person’s heart is only so big, it can’t hold the entire world! It can’t hold all the people in the world! Love is a matter between two people, in love, there is no distinction between gentlemen or villains, nor is there right or wrong! If it were me instead of you, even if I pride myself on keeping my promises, if there were a woman trying to take you away, I would also do whatever it takes to get you back! To hell with gentlemen, to hell with villains, what do they have to do with me? Not quite a gentleman? Villain? If the world wants to think so, let them think so, I only seek satisfaction in my heart, not the world’s admiration!”

”You...” Zhou Mu heard this, and a deep shock appeared on his divine-like face...

The struggles and hesitations of the past days, the tossing and turning, in this moment, Zhou Mu suddenly felt it all was meaningless!

”Do you really think this way?” Zhou Mu, still somewhat incredulous, asked, staring intently at the sickly pale woman before him, his expression tense.

In the eyes of the world, a man should be open and straightforward, his words aligning with his deeds...

Yet, she spoke this way...

In this instant, Zhou Mu felt none of it mattered anymore!

Even if Gu Changsheng’s words were merely to comfort him, he felt satisfied in this life!

Staring straight at Zhou Mu, Gu Changsheng nodded firmly, ”That’s right, I truly believe this way! Zhou Mu, I don’t blame you for your choice that day, nor do I blame you for concealing the truth afterward, because everything you’ve done, if it were me, I’d do the same...”

Gu Changsheng believed she had a basket-full of flaws, too many to count!

She lacked femininity, though she was attractive enough to stir men’s hearts, having grown up in the military, developed a strong character, she wasn’t the graceful lady fitting for this era! But her sole merit was her self-awareness!

She understood how to think from different perspectives! Not accustomed to pushing all faults onto others!

Looking at the man before her, Gu Changsheng felt a trace of guilt in her heart, knowing her evildoer’s cold and proud nature, naturally understanding how much struggle and self-blame he felt within for hiding the truth, even speaking ill of Shi Wujue under Shi Wei’s misleading...

One was on the bed, the other at the bedside, so close, yet for a moment, they were speechless.

Instead, following the palace tassels, Little Palace Maid Ling Xi took in their every action, her small face gradually turning black with increasing resentment visible in her eyes!

How could it be this way?

How could it be this way?

If the Southern Emperor and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mu reconcile, then what about our Hall Master?

All the efforts of our Hall Master and all the schemes of our Sister Shi Wei, wouldn’t they all be in vain?

It’s not fair! It’s just not fair!

”Changsheng...”

”Zhou Mu...”

By the side of the white jade bed, Gu Changsheng and Zhou Mu spoke simultaneously, calling out to each other.

”Zhou Mu, listen to me first! I can understand everything you’ve done, but right now, I’m truly heartbroken!” Gu Changsheng raised his hand to interrupt Zhou Mu, continuing in a low voice, ”Zhou Mu, I don’t know if you know Shi Wujue’s current situation... but what I want to say is, you sold out our love, in exchange for this life, but now it has left me, left us, in a desperate situation...”

”Shi Wujue? He...” Zhou Mu heard and immediately a flicker of surprise flashed in his eyes, speaking in confusion.

Seeing this, Gu Changsheng understood immediately.

He sighed and said bitterly, ”You didn’t know, when I first woke up, he was guarding beside my bed, his blue silk hair turned white... it was he who saved me, using his life to exchange for mine, his vitality was transferred to me...”

Upon hearing this, Zhou Mu was exceedingly shocked, unable to believe, ”How could it be? He...”

”It’s possible! I saw it with my own eyes, amidst the Ten Miles Peach Grove, his hair still white, vitality almost gone, just leaning there under a withered tree, all alone, looking heart-wrenching... Evildoer, your choice wasn’t wrong, but the outcome is something I cannot accept... I’d rather die than see this kind of outcome! I owe him a life, this great favor, how can you ask me to repay it? Can I truly repay him with a lifetime of deep love like you promised? I can’t do it!”

As Gu Changsheng spoke, a mist of tears welled up in her eyes...

And Zhou Mu, upon hearing it, his body was somewhat stiff, the whole person dumbfounded in shock.

This was entirely different from what he knew!

What blue silk hair, what vitality gone, Shi Wei clearly told him, Shi Wujue was immersed in lingering pleasure with the concubines in the mansion...

However, Zhou Mu, although not talkative, was not foolish!

He believed Gu Changsheng would definitely not see wrong or deceive him!

Then there’s only one possibility, Shi Wei is lying!

All of this, everything, was Shi Wei misleading him...

Making him believe Shi Wujue saved Changsheng effortlessly, making him believe Shi Wujue was both affectionate and ruthless...

”It was I, who misunderstood him...” Zhou Mu, not one to shy away from facts, understood the oddity and immediately spoke in a deep voice.

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng sighed deeply, weakly collapsed back onto the bed, murmuring, ”Whether there’s a misunderstanding or not, it’s no longer important... Evildoer, what troubles me most is Shi Wujue’s attitude... If he were forceful in making you fulfill the promise, forceful in seeking gratitude, making me marry him to repay this favor, I might temporarily forget this great favor, at worst just return my life to him... but he didn’t. You must have noticed too, from beginning to end, it’s all about that Palace Maid Shi Wei... But saying these things now is too late, Shi Wei is dead, Shi Wujue refuses to mention the promise of that day, and now his vitality is nearly vanished, hanging on by a thread, he suffers for me, I’m the one who has implicated him, harmed him...”

”Shi Wei is dead?” Zhou Mu heard this, and immediately showed a look of disbelief.

”Yes! Dead! She was Shi Wujue’s close palace maid, yet because of me... she died... The deceased have priority, no matter what she did before, we need not bring it up again! Evildoer, now, everything has become a deadlock! It’s not you breaking your word and being a villain, nor can I resolve the current stalemate by being ungrateful, the key is, how can Shi Wujue be safe and sound...” Lying on the bed, Gu Changsheng looked up, eyes unfocused at the hall’s ceiling, said softly, ”If he is well, there’s still a turnaround, but if he is not... Evildoer, I will never forgive myself for the rest of my life! Even harder to come to terms with...”

Knowing herself, even if she is a Doctor, confident few could surpass her, there’s no way to save someone whose vitality is exhausted!

Shi Wujue is the key to this deadlock, and also the hardest aspect...

Gu Changsheng once nearly exhausted her own vitality, survived against odds, no one understands better than her, this illness, is not a disease, has no cure...

”Save him! No matter what, we must save him!” But Zhou Mu at this moment, slapped the bed, firmly said, ”No matter the cost, no matter what, we must save him! Even if it means using my own vitality to exchange for his!”

Hearing this, Gu Changsheng immediately turned her gaze to Zhou Mu.

Zhou Mu thought of this, how could she not think of it?

Shi Wujue, because of saving her, ended up in this situation, if they can save him, this favor would be half repaid...

”It’s not that easy... restoring vitality, such an against-the-heavens task, even Little Monk Bu Jie doesn’t have this ability, in the whole world, who else can help us solve this deadlock?” Shaking her head, Gu Changsheng slowly said, worry all over her face, unreserved.

With no repayment! There’s no way to repay!

These four words, saying them is easy, but only those in the midst of it know how difficult it really is to stay calm and accepting!

Everyone has a heart, empathy, Gu Changsheng asks herself, she owes Shi Wujue too much, a lifesaving favor, truly unrepayable...