Chapter 177: 117 Confession (second update)

It was her first time calling him this way, in the past she always called him her husband, but that was not an intimate term for a spouse. It was more like she was hesitant to call him by his name, and so she used his “title” in the household.

It was no different than when she called for Gu Lizheng or Luo Lizheng.

“Hmm?” Xiao Liulang sat next to her.

Gu Jiao gazed at the limitless starry night: “Do you know why the stars in the sky don’t fall?”

Xiao Liulang looked at her: “Why?”

Gu Jiao giggled foolishly: “Because they are too far away. They all have their own positions, their own orbits.”

This was the first time Xiao Liulang heard such an explanation. It was quite interesting: “If they really are that far away, then why can we still see them?”

“Because they are big!” Gu Jiao lifted her hand, the effects of the alcohol slowing her movements. “They might seem small, but in reality, they are incredibly large! Do you know what that star is?”

“Which one?” Xiao Liulang asked.

“That one!” Gu Jiao pointing out the stars to him, to make it easier for him to see, she gestured in front of his face, causing her soft little body to lean against his shoulder.

Xiao Liulang stiffened!

“Did you see it?” Gu Jiao asked, her words slurred with intoxication.

“Hmm.” Xiao Liulang responded disoriented, the girl’s sweet scent infiltrated his senses, disrupting his thoughts.

The initiator, Gu, at three years old, completely unaware, whispered in his ear: “Do you know what that star is? I will tell only you, you mustn’t tell anyone else. It’s Venus! The people here call it Hesperus!”

Her breath with its warm waves fell wholly on his ear.

He hadn’t heard a word she said, all he felt was his ear burning hot.

Gu, three years old, pinched his ear, “Eh? What happened to your ear? It’s really red! Is it hot?”

Saying so, she puckered up her little mouth and blew on his ear.

Her fingertip was cold, the minute she touched Xiao Liulang, he shivered. Initially, he thought this was already enough to suffer, but she didn’t stop.

“Gu Jiao!” Xiao Liulang grabbed her hand, forcing her to sit upright, “Stop fooling around! I am a man!”

“I know, no, you are not yet, you are not even eighteen yet, you are not a real man, you’re still a child.” Gu Jiao waved her hands, slurring her words.

Xiao Liulang looked at her warningly, “Are you asking me to prove whether I am a man?”

This sentence carried a threatening tone, but Gu, at three years old was not scared, actually looking at him, and said earnestly, “Liulang, you are so handsome.”

Xiao Liulang took a deep breath, “… You’ve had too much to drink, let me take you back.”

Gu Jiao grumbled, “The bowl hasn’t been washed yet.”

Xiao Liulang said, “I will wash it.”

Gu Jiao: “Oh.”

Xiao Liulang helped Gu Jiao up, supporting her arm with one hand, his crutches in the other, and led her back to her room.

She laid on the soft bedchamber, kicking off her shoes, staring up at him wide-eyed: “Liulang, I really want to go out and see.”

Xiao Liulang was about to say ‘where can you go in your condition,’ but upon reaching his lips his realized that by ‘out’, she probably didn’t mean the front door.

“Where do you want to go?” He asked, looking at her.

Gu Jiao gave a bitter smile, letting her gaze drop down, then looking up at the distant stars, “I don’t know, I’ve been here for so long, the furthest I’ve been is to the hot spring villa.”

Here? Did she really forget? Forget that she was born and raised in Qingquan Village?

Gu Jiao, propped on her elbow, asked: “What is outside the county?”n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Xiao Liulang thought for a moment, and said: “Big county cities, prefecture cities, provincial cities, and the capital city.”

Gu Jiao chuckled, “Then, I want to go to the big county, prefecture city, provincial city.”

“Don’t you want to go to the capital city?” Xiao Liulang looked at her intently.

Gu, at three years old, held on to her last shred of sanity, remembering his unwillingness to step foot in the capital city. She giggled, waving her hand and said, “No, no, what’s so good about the capital city? Going to other places is enough, if someday I go back, I can brag about it to others.”

Xiao Liulang looked at her puzzled, waiting for an explanation for these strange words, but her head tilted to one side and holding his hand, she started to snore lightly.

The feeling of a hangover wasn’t pleasant. Gu Jiao woke up the next day when the sun was already high in the sky. Her head still hurt and the moment she sat up, it felt like her head was going to explode.

In her previous life, she could easily hold her liquor, even thousands of cups wouldn’t knock her over. This body was too weak, even a cup of liquor could render it incapacitated.