Gu Xingqiao stared at him, his eyes bloodshot, his gaze like that of a ferocious dragon - his scales had all fallen off, his wings were broken, but he was still a dragon, born to shock the world with his sharpness.
He snapped, "They should understand!"
The priceless crystal bottle fell to the ground, and the piercing sound was enough to break the heart of any wine lover. But Tianyuan just looked at him with a rational expression, and his eyes could even be said to be indulgent.
"I have made unimaginable efforts. The merits and achievements I have accumulated are so great that those good-for-nothings in the empire will never see the end of their lives!" Gu Xingqiao roared at the top of his lungs, "My blood has been replaced more than six times, my bones have been broken and connected, my spirit has collapsed and reconnected, and my thoracic vertebrae are completely artificial, because no human body is strong enough to match the thermal cannon, and that cannon shattered nearly 40% of my bones!"
"Why am I doing this? Why am I fighting so hard..." His arms were shaking like sieves, and he grabbed Tianyuan's collar again. His eyes were like a fire, shining so brightly that even intelligent beings would look at him sideways, feeling that they couldn't look directly at him. "I endure contempt, endure being trampled by people who are less capable than me, endure the ridicule that has always accompanied me since I was born. Why am I doing this?"
"... You're telling me now, don't expect people to... understand my words and actions, understand my character and what I want?" He choked with laughter, "I'm also telling you, there's no such good thing, there's no such cheap deal in the world!"
Tianyuan was silent for a while. The cold incarnation of the warship asked sincerely for the first time: "Then what are you doing this for?"
Gu Xingqiao said hoarsely: "Freedom. I want freedom, I want us to be free. Eliminate prejudice, eliminate original sin and taxes paid with blood, no bullying, no separation and war... I am for them, only for them."
"Anyone can...anyone can misunderstand me..." He loosened his fingers one by one and stumbled backwards powerlessly. The distilled energy of the golden emerald was like a flame, jumping in his blood vessels that were stretched to the limit. "Only my people can't do that. Only they...can't do that."
He moved his lips in panic: "Anyone can throw dirty water on me, I can't stand this, I can't stand it... I can chop off Cecil's head and hang his body at the highest point of the palace, but I... How can they not believe me?"
Combining his fragmented words, Tianyuan quickly figured out the whole story.
The young man of destiny was born into a group that suffered discrimination. In order to improve the situation of his home planet and the living environment of his people, he met the crown prince, a man named Cecil, while heading towards the power center of the empire.
Later, because he discovered the dirty inside story about Dionysus, he blindly believed in his position in the heart of the Crown Prince and told him everything, but was eventually betrayed and misunderstood by his own people. When he fled, he was already an exile wanted by the Empire and despised by his homeland...
Tian Yuan asked: "How do your people evaluate you?"
Gu Xingqiao fell to the ground and did not answer for a long time.
"Go ahead," Tian Yuan said, "You've already said so much, a few more sentences won't make a difference."
Gu Xingqiao murmured, "... a villain who covets wealth and fame, a traitor who sells out his country; I never thought you were such a person, but no matter how well you disguise yourself, you'll be exposed one day; I knew you had bad intentions, calling yourself a savior, but you're full of shamelessness and meanness... There are things like this, there are also things that are a hundred times more vicious than this, what else do you want to hear?"