CH 35

Sheng Feiguang heard that Fu Yongsi was about to fight against the person who framed him in Qingchuan Valley (青川谷), and rushed over out of fear.

He saw Fu Yongsi’s blood wash his grievances, and Yu Xiaoliu was by his side, accompanying him to seek justice from those who framed him.

However, the opponent was crowded and not long after, the two parties fought.

Sheng Feiguang watched, anxious, and joined the battlefield.

He was afraid that Fu Yongsi would recognize himself, so he wore a hat outside the mask. He could feel the power in his body slowly beyond his tolerance. He could hear the heart demon stop him, but he didn’t stop. He wanted to protect Fu Yongsi the same way that Fu Yongsi protected him when he was a child.

At the critical moment, Sheng Feiguang blocked a deadly sword for Fu Yongsi.

Sheng Feiguang felt that the power in his body seemed to spread out along the wound for a moment.

Fu Yongsi was shocked and asked him concerned, “Are you…?”

Sheng Feiguang changed his tone and said calmly, “It’s all right.”

He felt that his body was about to be unable to hold it. He wanted to leave, but Fu Yongsi was anxious to see his face clearly. Sheng Feiguang had to use the last strength of his body to fly away.

“Be careful, I just passed by and watched a lively show. Now that I have finished watching, I’m leaving.” He said with an unfamiliar tone to Fu Yongsi.

He moved very quickly. He lost a lot of weight. Fu Yongsi looked at his back and whispered softly, “Xiao Guang.”

But he wasn’t sure whether this was his Xiao Guang.

Sheng Feiguang felt the weakness of his body. He stopped at the entrance of the cliff not far away and leaned against the stone.

He took off his hat and mask, looking at the sky in front of him with a calm and expressionless face.

“You are dying.” The heart demon appeared in front of him and stated.

Sheng Feiguang felt it. He responded softly and said to him, “Thank you.”

The heart demon didn’t understand, “What are you thanking me for?”

“Thank you for giving me strength.” Sheng Feiguang said.

“Unfortunately, you didn’t do anything.”

“I avenged my revenge, helped my master, and lived so many more days, it was enough.”

He looked at the man in front of him and asked for the first and last time, “Can you help me?”

“What?”

“When I die, burn me and scatter my ashes between heaven and earth (骨灰撒在天地间). Don’t let my master know that I’m gone.”

“You really care about him.”

Sheng Feiguang smiled and said nothing.

The heart demon stretched out his hand and pressed it to his heart, where there should be love, hatred, greed, anger, and ignorance, but now only love was left.

“I promise you.” He said.

“Thank you.” Sheng Feiguang said in a warm voice.

“Are we friends?” He asked the heart demon in front of him.

The heart demon sneered, thinking that his question was really ridiculous. He didn’t answer, but quietly looked at the boy in front of him and closed his eyes.

“Doesn’t it count?”

“No,” the heart demon replied.

Sheng Feiguang was a little regretful. He thought that he had been with him for so long. They were friends.

It was a pity that it didn’t count.

“Then I hope that we will meet again in the future and we can be friends…” He said the last word and there was no more voice.

He was dead.

The heart demon raised his hand and the flame jumped between his fingers.

With a light wave, the fire ignited beside Sheng Feiguang.

He approached Sheng Feiguang and stretched out his hand to stroke his face. The pattern slowly disappeared wherever he passed.

He watched the boy in front of him regain his handsome face. Only then did he satisfactorily let the fire engulf his body.

However, instead of scattering his ashes in the world as he wished, he threw it into his body with a palm.

“You are the first and probably the last one who wants to be friends with me.”

He smiled and stood between the cliffs, slowly disappearing.

When Sheng Feiguang died, his heart demon naturally ceased to exist. The heart demon, who was awakened by him, fell asleep again.

After this scene was filmed, Gu Jiuci was officially finished.

Director Wang asked him to prepare a banquet for him. As the only actor who played with him, Director Wang told him to go.

“It’s better for yourself to know more people.”

Tang Ziyou couldn’t tell him that he and Gu Jiuci knew each other, so he had to go with him.

When the banquet was over, Tang Ziyou returned to the room. Only then he silently wondered, would Gu Jiuci leave?

He had finished, so it stood to reason that he should leave.

But was he willing to leave?

Tang Ziyou felt that he wasn’t being sentimental (自作多情, more like to imagine that one’s love is reciprocated or to shower affection on an uninterested party, here). After all, he personally told himself that he stayed here and played this role because of him. Now the relationship between them hadn’t changed, would Gu Jiuci really leave?

Tang Ziyou wasn’t sure.

Just like him at this moment, he didn’t even dare to ask himself whether he wanted him to leave or if he didn’t want him to leave.

It seemed that he was really affected by Gu Jiuci’s words. He also felt that if he really left like this, then maybe he didn’t like himself much.

I just liked him briefly, so I redeemed him briefly.

Tang Ziyou fell asleep in this inexplicable mood. The next morning, he went to the set with some anxiety.

Gu Jiuci didn’t come. He had already finished. It was normal if he didn’t come.

Tang Ziyou thought so, reading the script quietly, but when he raised his head again, he unconsciously looked at ​​Gu Jiuci’s rest area.

To his surprise, Gu Jiuci sat there, chatting with Shan Qikun.

They seemed to have talked about something interesting. Gu Jiuci’s face was smiling, looking handsome and gentle that reflected the morning sun.

Tang Ziyou only glanced, then retracted his gaze and looked at the script again.

In order to match Gu Jiuci’s time, the crew first filmed the plot of Sheng Feiguang being possessed by the heart demon. Now that Gu Jiuci had finished, he had also fallen back and resumed filming the plot when Sheng Feiguang wasn’t possessed by the heart demon.

Tang Ziyou shot for two days. On the third night, Gu Jiuci came to Tang Ziyou and said, “I’m leaving.”

Tang Ziyou suddenly felt that way.

He nodded, “You should have left long ago.”

Gu Jiuci smiled and said warmly, “In order to be able to show up in front of you more and chase you more, I asked my agent to push back many arrangements. That’s why I spared this time. Now, I’m going to be busy with work. The contracts are signed long ago and I can’t breach the contract.”

“En.”

“But that’s not the point.” Gu Jiuci said, “The point is, I have to tell you that I’m leaving not because I don’t like you, or I don’t like you enough, let alone I abandon you, but I have to go to do something.”

“But it’s good. In this way, you will have the space you have always wanted without me, you can better think about the affairs between us. Xiao You, when I’m done, I will still come to find you. Even during my busy work period, I will also send you WeChat. You can ignore me without replying, but I will always insist, just like you used to insist on me. I hope you can believe that I really like you.”

Tang Ziyou blinked, wanted to nod habitually, and felt that he shouldn’t nod after this sentence.

“I wish you success in filming. If there is anything, you can tell me at any time.” Gu Jiuci continued.

Tang Ziyou looked at Gu Jiuci without speaking.

Gu Jiuci didn’t stubbornly wait for an answer from him either. He just wanted to tell Tang Ziyou his feelings. Tang Ziyou had the right not to respond.

“That’s it first, see you.” He said finally.

“See you.” Tang Ziyou whispered.

He watched Gu Jiuci walk out and sit on the sofa silently.

He felt that Gu Jiuci had changed. He seemed to be more like the man he first met when he was an adult. He restrained his childishness and tried to face himself with the most mature side.

This kind of Gu Jiuci was reliable and made his heart pound.

Tang Ziyou unconsciously held his hand and reminded himself that he had already moved once, so he couldn’t move a second time.

He got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower then lay down on the bed.

A night without a dream.

* * *

At noon the next day, Liu Xu told Tang Ziyou, “Gu Jiuci is gone.”

Tang Ziyou nodded, “I know.”

“You two…” Liu Xu hesitated and advised, “I think he still likes you. Do you really not think about giving him another chance?”

Tang Ziyou smiled and said, “It’s not that I don’t give him a chance, I just don’t want to give me a chance.”

Liu Xu wondered, “Why?”

Because of fear.

Tang Ziyou answered her in his heart because he was afraid that he would become what he didn’t like again.

He finally restrained his feelings, returned to his original appearance, and was even able to see his previous selfishness and ugliness from an objective and fair perspective. Therefore, he didn’t want to give himself a chance to get lost.

Who could guarantee that a person who got drunk once wouldn’t get drunk again when he encountered alcohol for the second time?

Tang Ziyou felt he couldn’t, so he chose to refuse.

It wasn’t that he didn’t give Gu Jiuci a chance. He just didn’t want to give himself a chance.

“Change the subject.” He said to Liu Xu.

Liu Xu had no choice but to re-talk about work.

Gu Jiuci did what he said. Even though he left, but WeChat had never been stopped. He sent him in a different way every day.

Tang Ziyou looked at it but didn’t reply.

* * *

At the beginning of January, his filming was finally over. The crew prepared a final banquet for him. Tang Ziyou earnestly thanked Director Wang, Cheng Feng, Qu Wenyi, and Shan Qikun.

Shan Qikun patted him on the shoulder, “When this movie comes out, you will be popular.”

“I hope.”

Qu Wenyi gave him a book called 《The Barefoot Boy》 (光脚的少年). Tang Ziyou put it away and thanked her.

As the New Year approached, there were many activities in the entertainment industry. Liu Xu took him to a few places to thank the blessings of 《Spring Festival》, Tang Ziyou’s popularity wasn’t bad. The host asked, “This is your first time to cooperate with Teacher Shan Qikun, how do you feel?”

Tang Ziyou replied politely, “Very good, Brother Shan takes care of me very much. He has good acting skills and treats juniors like us very gently. I’m very grateful to him.”

Gu Jiuci looked at his mobile phone, but he didn’t feel uncomfortable. It was a pity that the crew of 《Spring Festival》 kept it secret and was bound to save him shortly before the release to play the last card. Therefore, even if Gu Jiuci was upset, he couldn’t let the host ask Tang Ziyou, “How do you feel working with Teacher Gu?”

Gu Jiuci felt that he was really miserable. For half a year, he didn’t have a name in Tang Ziyou’s news. He was still a former fiancé. Those who heard it were sad and those who saw him wept.

Gu Jiuxing came back and saw him frowning, “What’s the matter? Thinking something?”

“No.” Gu Jiuci said.

He turned his head to look at Gu Jiuxing, “Well, this year our New Year’s Eve, we must also call Xiao You, or he will be alone, which is not good.”

Gu Jiuxing raised his eyebrows, “You’re really worried about Xiao You. The question is, is he willing to come?”

“It depends on who told him. If I told him, he probably wouldn’t want it, but if it was you or Grandma, he would definitely be willing.”

Gu Jiuci sighed, feeling more miserable.

“Then let me talk about it.” Gu Jiuxing said, “It just so happens I haven’t seen him for a long time.”

After Gu Jiuci left 《Spring Festival》, he visited the crew twice, but he was in a special status and met Director Wang for the second time.

Director Wang asked Tang Ziyou with sharp eyes, “Is that…?”

Tang Ziyou was afraid that his relationship with Gu Jiuci would be exposed, so he told Gu Jiuxing the next day, “Brother, you’d better don’t come to visit the class, or I will be exposed.”

After hearing this, Gu Jiuxing didn’t go. The Chinese New Year was almost here now. He felt that it was time for him to visit Tang Ziyou.