Chapter 668 - 323: Qiming’s Fall (Part 2)

Bottom... line... is it? Gong Yulu couldn’t help but smile bitterly to herself. It seems she was mistaken. This child is definitely a seed of that woman, Su Jiameng, even his thoughts are the same. Always sticking to her so-called principles at inappropriate times, and then ending up causing herself a lot of trouble.

"Since that’s your thinking, then... don’t forget what you said today. You will definitely grow to be an outstanding warrior like your mother." Gong Yulu squatted down, her eyes level with Huaixi’s, "I believe you will accomplish it."

Huaixi was a bit confused, but also understood that this aunt must know his mother, so she counted as his elder?

He nodded heavily, "I will, Auntie! I will definitely become stronger and more excellent than my mother!"

Gong Yulu showed a slight smile and said, "That’s indeed a very impressive ambition, but because of that, the road you will travel and the effort you must expend will not be imaginable for ordinary people. If you get tired, just think of the promises you made. Although you refused, keep these two slots, you can give them to those who need them..."

"But what about you, Auntie? This won’t do!" Huaixi shook his head without thinking, yet received a faint smile of resignation from Gong Yulu. He paused for a moment, did he say something wrong? Why didn’t this aunt agree?

"Right now, Auntie is a warrior of the Alliance, protecting ordinary people like you is my duty and responsibility. Even if I have special slots in hand, keeping them will only let them go to waste. As a warrior, we naturally stay behind to hold the line! Do you understand what holding the line means? It means we can only leave after you have all evacuated. There’s absolutely no reason for the warriors to leave first and let you ordinary people sacrifice yourselves!"

If it were in the past, Gong Yulu would never have said these things. "Protecting you ordinary people is my duty and responsibility"... For the former puppet Gong Yulu, or rather Wu Su, following the master’s orders was her duty and responsibility.

Just like in that previous rescue mission, Su Jiameng chose to conduct the rescue, while she followed orders and gave up. It’s not that she didn’t want to save them, but the orders forced her to ignore the idea of saving them. And now... She never thought that she, who was once a puppet, would say such things.

Huaixi’s expression wavered for a moment, then hesitantly accepted the document Gong Yulu handed over, whispering, "Thank you... Auntie..."

Gu Ningzhi had been watching from the side all along. Huaixi is his eldest nephew, good-looking, good-natured, well-tempered, and his current performance adds to his appeal, making Gu Ningzhi like and cherish him even more. After all... this child doesn’t yet know that he is an orphan, having lost both parents. Huaixi and Huaifeng are the only remaining bloodline of his third brother—Gu Ningxuan—and must not be neglected in the slightest.

Previously, when he suddenly received the news of Gu Ningxuan’s death from his older brother, both he and the old man felt like a bomb had exploded in their minds. He was completely stunned; Ningxuan was the youngest of the three brothers. Although he wasn’t very close to him, he was still his blood relative brother, and just like that... gone? Completely disappeared from this world?

And the old man, who always verbally despised his embarrassing son, immediately blacked out when he received the news and fainted, scaring a bunch of guards and subordinates who had come for a meeting. It took a long time before the old man came to his senses.

Although he regained consciousness, his expression was still dazed. The son he had raised for more than thirty years, into whom he had poured countless efforts, who he pretended to sternly discipline, yet secretly loved dearly... just like that, he’s gone... After suppressing his emotions, Gu Qidong wildly spurted a mouthful of dark blood and ended up hospitalized, giving the Gu Family a big scare!

After the old man was discharged, his always black hair now faintly tinged with gray, especially at the temples where several strands of white appeared. He dejectedly sent a message to his remaining two sons, "If you’ve had enough of wandering outside, come home... mistakes made during those youthful rebellious years, I won’t hold against you... I’m already over two hundred years old, who knows when my life might end... Dad and Mom are waiting for you to come home."

Gu Qidong’s sons are quite rebellious, with one born every thirty-some years, growing up only to become rebellious and run away, making Gu Qidong and his wife a laughingstock in the high society circle.

However, the old man never cared, with a carefree demeanor that made people suspect he didn’t mind those three sons at all, perhaps even staying the side, watching the show, waiting for the Gu Family’s fourth young master to be born, only to continue [the tradition of the three older brothers] thirty years later.