Late at night.
The boy was lying on the bed, his injured back turned up, and slept very restlessly.
Gu Peijiu sat on the side and held his hand with a calm demeanor.
The moon is like water, the candles are dimly lit, and the tourmaline whispers, "Miss, go to sleep, I'll just come here."
Gu Peijiu looked at the boy's frowning eyes, closed his eyes for a while, and said in a low voice, "It's okay, you go to rest."
Tourmaline's eyes widened in disbelief, "... Miss? You... "
Gu Peijiu looked at her sideways, the candlelight reflected in her dark eyes, she was quiet but could not refuse.
Tourmaline suffocated slightly, and finally bowed her head, Nuonuo replied, "Yes."
Night is getting darker.
The boy's hands were a little cold, Gu Peijiu lowered his eyes, held his hand and put it under the quilt.
She didn't quite understand why she cared so much about this child.
Is it because there are too many doubts
Like, it's not.
It just feels like... he seems to be, it's his own.
Gu Peijiu's heart skipped a beat, and he held his hand slightly tighter. Closing her eyes, she put the strange thought aside.
... Maybe it's because I haven't slept well these past few nights, that's why I have such a weird idea.
Gu Peijiu laughed at herself, then opened her eyes and looked at the boy on the bed. After a while, she took out a medicinal pill from her arms with her empty hand and slowly put it into the boy's mouth.
The boy's brows were frowning, and he looked very uncomfortable, but he swallowed the medicine obediently.
As long as she holds his hand like this, no matter what she does to him, he will be good.
Being obedient makes people's hearts soften, and being obedient is nothing like that romantic boy full of nonsense.
He seemed to instinctively trust the guy named "Beanie", no matter what that guy might do to him.
Gu Peijiu watched the boy take the medicine, his brows slowly stretched, as if he was away from the nightmare, and the hand he held her was slightly looser.
She paused, wanting to gently pull out her hand, but she only moved a little, and the slightly loose hand was instantly clenched, tight, not willing to let go at all.
"...don't go."
He murmured softly and hoarsely, as if he was afraid of scaring someone, "Don't."
Gu Peijiu did not move.
Feeling that the hand did not intend to leave again, the young man was relieved.
Seeing the young man's brows stretched out and sleeping peacefully, Gu Peijiu said in a low voice, "You sleep so peacefully."
Recently, she was in charge of Danfeng's competition, her affairs were complicated, and she had nightmares with her eyes closed, and she hadn't had a good rest for a long time.
Xia Wuyin was naturally impossible to answer her.
The night cicada chirped, the moon was in the middle of the sky, and Gu Peijiu was held by the young man, hiding the tiredness in his eyes, and slowly closed his eyes.
She too... take a break.
A night without dreams.
Safe till dawn.
= =
midnight.
The medicine pill worked, the pain of the wound subsided, and the system that was half-failed due to the impact of the spiritual energy also began to gradually wake up with the recovery of Xia Ge's body.
[Drop - body detection in progress...]
[Drip-Consciousness sea testing...]
[Dip, the detection is completed, the system restart is completed]
[Ding! No. 003 primary puppet system invincible puppet for you!]
[Name: Xia Ge
Physical status: moderate risk
Mental state: high risk (imminent collapse)
Occupation: Puppet Master (Elementary)
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Deputy Position: Alchemist (Apprentice)
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In a state of emergency, the self-healing system for endangered spirits can be activated: yes/no (10 points)]
[Drip-System Transfer Host Points Power-]
[drop! The system will start the endangered spirit self-repair service, which will forcibly blur the host's negative memory emotions. Are you sure to implement it?]
[drop! start-]
[Points deduction: 10]
[In progress 1/100]
= =
the next day.
Gu Peijiu opened her eyes, the candles on the table were all gone, and she looked a little lost in the morning light outside the window.
Actually... did not wake up.
No nightmares either.
Safe, as if she just closed her eyes for a while, and then opened them and it was dawn.
The morning light that has just appeared in the east is very soft through the green curtain. The boy was fed an anti-pain pill by her, and it seemed that he slept very peacefully.
The rooster crowing in the morning, tourmaline's voice sounded, "Miss? Can you get up? Can I come in?"
Gu Peijiu paused and whispered, "Come in."
Tourmaline lifted the curtain and came in. The warm yellow morning light was accompanied by the mist in the mountains. She was surprised to see the appearance of her young lady beside the teenager's bed, "Miss, you... this..."
She was distressed and angry, "Let tourmaline take care of it, you have to deal with Danfeng things today, you will collapse like this!"
Gu Peijiu shook his head and said in a low voice, "I'm not tired."
She was telling the truth.
This is the best time she has slept in these days.
She turned her eyes slightly, looking at the hand tightly clasped by the young man, and after a while, she found an explanation.
Once a person is depended on by others, he will unconsciously make himself stronger.
Become that person who deserves to be depended on by others.
And now.
— She was believed by this child, holding hands like this.
Whether she is the person in the other person's heart or not, she is trusted.
And she, Gu Peijiu, will never betray the trust given by anyone.
So instead of overcoming the nightmare
Gu Peijiu was thinking about it here, but Xia Wuyin was still holding Gu Peijiu's hand even if he loosened it, making tourmaline a little angry.
"Is this child pretending to be sleeping to take advantage of you?" Tourmaline wrinkled her nose, "Did you rest like this last night? How can you do this?"
Gu Peijiu just said, "He's still young."
"Not too young, I heard that he is thirteen years old." Tourmaline said, "Miss, you are only three years older than him."
"No problem." Gu Peijiu asked, "How's the game going? Are there any files sent over there?"
"some."
Gu Peijiu instructed, "Pack up and bring the file here, I'll have a look today."
"Yes, ma'am."
Tourmaline took off the candles on the table and tidy up the room briefly, "Miss... Do you want tourmaline to serve you today?"
Gu Peijiu glanced at his hand, and after a while, "No need, bring some hot water and go get the file."
"Yes."
After Tourmaline put hot water and a towel and left, Gu Peijiu wrung the towel dry, moistened the boy's dry lips with water, wiped the boy's face carefully, thought about it, and fed him a bigu pill.
The boy held her hand, his slender eyelashes trembled, and he swallowed the medicinal pill obediently. No matter what she did to him, he had no resistance, and was as obedient as a big cat.
"I've always been so obedient..." Gu Peijiu fed him a little water, paused, and said to herself, "I won't be hurt."
The young man would naturally not answer.
"Never mind."
When Tourmaline came in with a pile of files, Gu Peijiu had already started to review the files. She put her hands on the table, wiped off the sweat, and looked at the red-clothed who was sitting beside the bed, who had already washed up and was reviewing the files with one hand. The girl said, "Miss, this is what I sent to you today to deal with."
The disciple recruitment competition of the three peaks has come to an end, but the detailed selection of the subsequent peaks is solely the responsibility of the eldest disciples of each peak.
Gu Peijiu finished the final volume with one hand and said in a low voice, "Well, leave it there."
[drop-]
[Completed 100/100]
[Host spirit adjustment completed]
After Gu Peijiu finished speaking, she suddenly felt that her hand was slightly loosened. She froze slightly and looked at the boy who was sleeping peacefully on the bed.
The tightly clasped fingers slowly loosened. His eyebrows and eyes were delicate. Although his face was still pale, his demeanor was calm.
Yesterday, what she fed him was the Xuan-level tranquilizer that she had made by herself, which has the effect of relieving pain. In fact, according to common sense, after feeding the pill, he should let go.
But then she pulled away and he clenched again.
He took her as the person named "Doudou", held her hand, trusted her, and panicked and worried about her departure.
Faith and nightmare.
Now... the nightmare should be gone.
Yep.
She twitched lightly, and easily pulled her hand out of the ten fingers that were stained with a little coolness. The slender and white fingers were exposed in the air, slightly cold.
… like, something is missing.
Gu Peijiu's eyelashes moved slightly, and she didn't know what she was thinking. She slowly put down her hand, and when Tourmaline was not paying attention, she quietly held the slightly cold hand under the quilt of the boy.
The touch is like cool jade, smooth and soft, but there is no temperature.
- It's too cold.
she thinks.
The body's spiritual power turned slightly, and the palms were warm.
Help warm up, it's nothing.
Tourmaline came over and glanced at the hand of her young lady who was "pulled" into the quilt by the young man. She felt uneasy, "Miss, why are you so used to him."
Gu Peijiu changed the dossier with one hand, with a calm expression on his face, "It's okay."
Tourmaline wanted to say something else when she heard Gu Peijiu's order, "Go and show me the file with the results of yesterday's game."
Tourmaline didn't say any more, she brought the file and put it on the small table where Gu Peijiu temporarily approved the file. Tourmaline looked at the slight curvature of Gu Peijiu's lips, and suddenly felt inexplicably, in fact, my young lady seemed to be in a good mood.
Gu Peijiu opened the file with one hand and saw the first page.
Her movements paused slightly.
After a long while, she lowered her eyes, pursed her lips and continued to turn back, page by page, turned for a long time, and finally closed it and put it aside.
Tourmaline hesitated, "Miss, this... You haven't approved..."
Gu Peijiu looked up at her, her dark eyes were light, "I know."
Then he asked, "How about Sword Peak and Beast Peak?"
"It's not bad... There is a talented young man from the Chang family over there in Jianfeng. He is very good. All the events in the preliminary round are first." Tourmaline thought for a while, "The Ye Ze you sent to Jianfeng has already settled down. Now, when the class starts, you can go to practice swords with Jianfeng disciples."
"And over there on Beast Peak... Senior Brother Baili..." Tourmaline paused, glanced at the boy who was sleeping very peacefully on the bed, and said euphemistically, "He seems to be very interested in this Junior Brother Xia, so I asked His physical condition, I hope to come and visit when he wakes up."
Gu Peijiu lightly refused, "The dignified disciple of the first peak, how can you visit a disciple who has just entered the inner sect
A disciple who just entered the inner door
Tourmaline glanced at the dossier subconsciously, and after agreeing, she tentatively said, "After Junior Brother Xia is healed, should he be allowed to go..."
"Don't go."
The sun shines warmly and softly on the delicate and fair cheeks of the girl in red and white maple clothes, and her dark pupils are solitary and cold.
"My Dan Peak disciple, I don't visit outsiders."