Third Bowl of Dog Food: Tangerine Flavored Shadow Guard Attack
Gou Liang was a bit curious about how the original owner died, because — —
It really hurt … …
【Ding, scanning host's basic data is complete!】
【System: Master, the host's physical condition is very bad. Not only is he seriously injured, both his legs are broken, and he is suffering from excessive blood loss. He is also poisoned. Do you need — — Wait! Master, master, master!! On my initial map, there's — —】
【Gou Liang: Xiao Si, block my pain first … … What's wrong?】
【Ding! The adaptation process has been triggered. The map covers the current city. Starting adaptation search!】
【Ding!! Mission target has been locked! Soul compatibility rate: 99.99%! Now scanning the target's soul!】
It was unprecedentedly efficient. After these two emergency announcements, the system finally finished what it wanted to say.
【System: Master! I saw a big blind spot!!】
It was as shocked as if it had never seen a big blind spot before.
Gou Liang was not to be outdone. He was so shocked that he almost forgot about the pain in his body, but it was only by a little. Closing his eyes weakly, Gou Liang told the System to put aside all the important matters and focus on blocking his sense of pain first. After the pain was cut off, Gou Liang finally felt his curled up body relax. His eyebrows relaxed, but then they tightened again. He carefully maintained his painful expression.
【Gou Liang: Xiao Si, you're saying that the target is near us?】
【System: The target's soul scan is still in progress. However, there is a big blind spot approaching you. It's absolutely true!】
【Gou Liang: … … I haven't tasted good food in ten years. I'm coming!!! ✪ ω ✪】
The surging excitement in his heart almost made the expression on his face break, but the sound of approaching footsteps made him choke off his surging joy in time.
The person's footsteps were hurried. The first thing he did when he got close was to check his breathing. Then he let out a sigh of relief. He lifted him up and placed him on his chest to feed him medicine.
"Master, it's time to take your medicine."
The person said.
【Gou Liang: He, he called me master … … human? (/ω\)】
[System: Ding! Target's basic information scan complete!]
Name: Zhong Quan
Sex: Male
Age: 29
Height: 194cm
Appearance coefficient: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Intelligence coefficient: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Physical fitness coefficient: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Health coefficient: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Potential: S class
Current favorability: 80.
Zhong Quan, an orphaned child beggar, was adopted by the Zhong Family at the age of five and trained as a shadow guard. Due to his outstanding aptitude, he was now the leader of the Zhong Family's shadow guards, Canine Fang, and was extremely loyal to the Zhong Family.
Zhong Quan's information was very simple, or rather, his life had always been so simple. Other than serving his master and repaying his debt of gratitude, his life had no other meaning.
However …
【80 favorability was like a bucket of cold water pouring down, extinguishing the joy of meeting each other. Gou Liang's brows furrowed tightly: … He likes the original owner?】
[Pursing his lips, Gou Liang said in a low voice, "Xiao Si, extract the original owner's soul."]
[System: Yes, master!]
This was the life of a counselor, a pitiful and lamentable life.
The original owner's surname was Zhong, his name was Gu, and his courtesy name was Chang Qing. At the age of 26, he was born in the capital of Daliang.
The Zhong Family was originally a large family that did not come into contact with the outside world. The direct descendants learned astronomy and geography from a young age. If it were not for the ancestral teachings of not participating in national politics and not entering the imperial court, the Zhong Family would not have settled down in the countryside and established themselves on the path of inaction.
The reason for the existence of the Zhong Family in Shangjing was that Zhong Gu's great grandfather was once saved by the founding emperor of Daliang. When the other party was building his empire, he predicted that the other party would face a life and death crisis, so he broke his oath and helped him. He paid the price for this — his name was removed from the Zhong Family's genealogy, and he was expelled from the family.
His benefactor relied on his strength to not only preserve his life, but he also rose to power and became the ruler of the Central Plains, establishing Daliang.
The Zhong Family in Shangjing enjoyed the credit of succeeding the Emperor and inherited the position of Imperial Tutor. After six generations, their status was respected.
Until 15 years ago, when Emperor Wu succeeded the throne.
When Emperor Wu was young, he fought on the battlefield and did not believe in ghosts and gods. He did not love and trust the Zhong Family as much as the previous nine Emperors. The Zhong Family's status was on the verge of collapse. However, Emperor Wu still followed the rules and did not seize power from the Zhong Family. There was a twist in the Zhong Family's path to destruction.
When Emperor Wu was born, Zhong Gu's grandfather predicted that he had the fate of the Emperor, but his fate was entangled with that of the Zhong Family — when his Emperor Star lit up, the Zhong Family's Fated Star dimmed a lot. It was an ominous sign that they could not coexist!
Therefore, when the previous Emperor wanted to make him the Crown Prince, out of selfishness, he advised against it.
Even if Emperor Wu was born from the person he loved, even if Emperor Wu was smart and had the style of his father, the Emperor was still determined to banish him to the edge of power.
However, the ambition of a Martial Emperor was not something that could be satisfied by his father's favor. He was unwilling to accept his fate like this. Therefore, when he reached the age of fifteen and was able to participate in politics, he chose to fight outside to earn merits and fame. When the previous Emperor died of illness, the Crown Prince he planned to ascend to the throne was assassinated, and he took over the country.
Although only he and the previous Emperor knew the inside story, Zhong Gu's grandfather had always been uneasy.
Sure enough, what was supposed to happen happened in the end.
It was not known if it was because of the many years of killing and the heavy sin of killing that the Emperor Wu's children were hindered. In the third year of his ascension, good news came from the harem.
Imperial Concubine Gao was pregnant, and the Emperor was overjoyed. He revealed many times that as long as Lin was born, he would make him the Crown Prince — he needed a son too much!
Originally, the Emperor's name was not legitimate, and there was no one to inherit the throne, so he was under a lot of pressure.
The Gao Family's thoughts became active. Even if Imperial Concubine Gao gave birth to a daughter, they had already prepared a grandson to replace the Crown Prince. The Emperor was overjoyed, and on the day of the Eldest Prince's one-month birthday, he wrote an edict to make the child the Crown Prince.
However, it was during the one-month birthday that Zhong Gu's grandfather felt strange. After careful calculation, he found out that the royal blood was tainted!
This was not a small matter, so he immediately reported it to the Emperor.
Usually, such an important matter would be reported to the Emperor by the State Preceptor. However, because of Emperor Wu's rejection of the Zhong Family, it was difficult for the Zhong Family to see him except for the annual national ceremony.
Zhong Gu's grandfather had no choice but to ask for an audience, which led to the subsequent incident.
The Gao Family had done such a rebellious thing, so they were naturally frightened. When they heard the news, they guessed that the State Preceptor had calculated the beginning and the end, so they made the first move.
First, they ordered someone to copy the State Preceptor's handwriting and seal, and wrote a memorial that said, "Emperor Wu's sin of killing is too heavy, and his children will not live long. He needs to adopt the Crown Prince's orphan as his son to preserve the throne."
Then, they instigated the Crown Prince, who was the Crown Prince of the Emperor's brother who was killed by Emperor Wu, to say that the world should be his. As long as there was no Crown Prince, he would be made the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince had heard from the Crown Princess that his father's death was related to Emperor Wu. In a moment of impulse, the seven-year-old child fell for it and almost strangled the Crown Prince to death.
Emperor Wu was furious and immediately removed the State Preceptor from his position. He ordered the Zhong Family to leave the capital to guard the coffin of Emperor Wu and not return to the capital without an imperial order.
On the night that the Zhong Family left the capital, they were all assassinated by the Gao Family's assassins. If Zhong Gu's grandfather had not been vigilant and sent the Shadow Guards secretly trained by the Zhong Family to send his youngest grandson away, the original Zhong Family and the original Zhong Family would not have survived.
The eleven-year-old Zhong Gu was determined to take revenge and redress the injustice of the Zhong Family. After that, he studied hard and did not return to the capital until he was twenty years old.
After having the Crown Prince, Emperor Wu seemed to have removed some kind of curse. Although he did not have many children, he still had two sons and five daughters. The person Zhong Gu chose to work with was the ambitious Second Prince, Li Yan, who had the power to compete with the Crown Prince in the imperial court.
Li Yan was indeed a good helper.
The original Zhong Gu joined him and became his blade. He helped him get rid of dissidents and did all kinds of dirty things. The two of them worked together to get rid of the Crown Prince and the Gao Family's henchmen.
Seven months ago, Li Yan finally grasped a third of the real power of the six ministries of the imperial court. The heavens were on his side, and the Emperor's old illness relapsed. Seeing that he was about to pass away, the patient Li Yan finally revealed the fact that the Crown Prince's bloodline was not pure.
Emperor Wu was furious.
Compared to the aggressive Second Prince, he obviously preferred the obedient and docile Crown Prince. Even if the Crown Prince was mediocre and not very capable, and his reputation was declining day by day compared to the Second Prince, he had no intention of changing the crown prince.
But now, he was told that the Crown Prince was not his biological son!
The Imperial Concubine and the Gao Family were sent to the death row and interrogated separately for one night. The Imperial Concubine's younger brother, the Crown Prince's biological father, could not help but tell the truth.
In one day, the capital changed.
The Emperor naturally would not spread his family's dirty linen. He planned to poison his medicine and all the evidence pointed to the Crown Prince.
Even if the Gao Family and the Crown Prince were exterminated, the Emperor Wu's hatred could not be quenched. So he issued an imperial edict to reprimand the Crown Prince for committing treason in order to ascend the throne ahead of time. He accused the Crown Prince of being unfilial and disloyal and announced it to the world! After that, the Gao Family was beheaded and the Imperial Concubine was sentenced to death. Even his eldest daughter, who was raised in the Gao Family and was always doted on by him, did not survive.
The Crown Prince was stripped of his position and imprisoned. The Emperor could not kill his son, but presumably in a few years, the Crown Prince would quietly die of illness in his residence.
The Second Prince, Li Yan, was appointed as the new Crown Prince as he wished.
He and the original Zhong Gu thought that after this disaster, the Emperor Wu's condition would worsen and the Crown Prince would soon become the new Emperor. They did not expect that the Emperor Wu's condition would improve day by day. Although Li Yan felt that it was a pity, he had always been a patient person. He was able to hold back for two years after getting hold of the Crown Prince and the Gao Family's fatal weakness. Now, he was even more patient. Not only did he hide his strength and bide his time, but he also learned the Crown Prince's respectful and docile ways and wholeheartedly became filial to the Emperor Wu.
Li Yan was not in a hurry, but the original Zhong Gu was.
He urged Li Yan to report to the Emperor the role the Zhong Family played in the case of "replacing the Crown Prince with a raccoon" and the grievances of that year. He wanted to redress the Zhong Family's name.
But Li Yan said that the Emperor Wu hated the State Preceptor's family and that redress could not be rushed. If he was not careful, he might even be disliked by the Emperor and lose his position as Crown Prince. He also promised that if the Emperor Wu did not get what he wanted during his reign, when he ascended the throne, the first thing he would do would be to rebel for the Zhong Family. He would bring Zhong Gu back to the State Preceptor and restore the Zhong Family's glory.
Zhong Gu believed him.
The original Zhong Gu was not a person who trusted others so easily, let alone this kind of oath without any guarantee. But to him, Li Yan was not an ordinary person.
Li Yan was not only the Emperor that he wholeheartedly supported and helped for these six years, but also his lover.
Yes, the original Zhong Gu was not only Li Yan's counselor, but also had another entanglement.
Li Yan liked men. Although he would increase his bargaining chips in the fight for the Crown Prince's wife and concubines, he had never stopped being a boy toy.
The original Zhong Gu was well aware of this. In the beginning, in order to gain his trust as soon as possible, he used the beauty trap to get close to him. Li Yan really fell into the trap. How could he have foreseen that things would change? He was no match for the Moon Breeze expert Li Yan. After feigning civility for less than a year, the original owner of the body lost his sincerity. Later, no one could tell whether the original owner had used his appearance to confuse Li Yan, or Li Yan had used his feelings to take advantage of him.
Seeing that the original Zhong Gu's lifelong wish was about to be realized, he did not want unforeseen events to happen.
Five months ago, Li Yan went to Jiangnan to relieve the flood, but one day, he encountered a flood and was separated from the original Zhong Gu.
After the original Zhong Gu was rescued by the shadow guards, it took a whole month to find Li Yan. But at that time, Li Yan already had someone by his side and was very close to that person.
That person was called Zhong Yue. He was born handsome and was not more than 18 years old. He was arrogant and naive.
When the original Zhong Gu saw him, he had a bad feeling. This was Li Yan's favorite appearance. But this person was somewhat similar to him, but younger. His temperament was arrogant and slow, but clean and thorough.
What was even more unfortunate was that he was a member of the Zhong Family.
The reason why he appeared here was because he was young and rebellious. He wanted to see the world below the mountain, so he secretly ran down the mountain behind his family's elders.
He looked down on the original Zhong Gu because he was a rebellious descendant of the Zhong Family. He was even more skilled in metaphysics. Several times, he overthrew the original Zhong Gu's speculation, but he was always right or even more accurate, so the original Zhong Gu's prestige suddenly fell. But Li Yan fell in love with his benefactor at first sight and expressed his goodwill to Zhong Yue.
Just like the original Zhong Gu, in a short four months, Zhong Yue was subdued by him and was madly in love with him.
When Gou Liang saw this, he couldn't help but think that it was as expected.
In his opinion, Zhong Yue was just a fuse. Even if there was no Zhong Yue, there was still Wu Yue and Wang Yue. The original Zhong Gu and Li Yan would be finished sooner or later.
Not to mention that Li Yan was afraid of Zhong Yue and was on guard against him, more importantly, the original Zhong Gu had rejected his proposal. For a person who coveted his beauty, if he didn't give him some benefits and satisfy his appetite, how could he tie down the heart of a stallion?
The original Zhong Gu also had his own choice. The Zhong Family's inheritors were taught by their ancestors that they couldn't lose their virginity before the age of 30. Only when they were 30 years old could they really touch the mysterious and mysterious power of heaven and earth. It would not be easily taken back by heaven. Zhong Gu was very insistent on this, so he knew that Li Yan was seeking pleasure with others. He could only turn a blind eye and endure the pain of believing that Li Yan only had him in his heart.
When Gou Liang saw this, he knew that in this "war", the original Zhong Gu was in a position where he would lose.
Sure enough, when Zhong Yue was in love with Li Yan, Li Yan plotted to let the other know that the original Zhong Gu had a relationship with Li Yan. Now, he was still pestering Li Yan. How could Zhong Yue bear it?
Love makes people blind and also makes people crazy.
Whether it was Zhong Gu or Zhong Yue, it was the same.
Li Yan was caught in the middle of the struggle between the two. In the end, he couldn't resist Zhong Yue's obsession and said that he would break off his relationship with the original Zhong Gu.
Their vows of eternal love were shattered, and Li Yan said that he only had the relationship of master and servant. He would always remember the original owner's kindness in helping him all these years. He promised to fulfill his wish, and promised him wealth and glory. But the two of them had nothing but friends, monarch, and minister. The original Zhong Gu really loved him and naturally couldn't accept such a result. He used all means to redeem himself and even broke the rules of his ancestors. He tried to use his body to keep Li Yan.
This happened just two days ago.
Unfortunately, it was broken by Zhong Yue.
Li Yan's heart fell on Zhong Yue. He couldn't bear to see him suffer. In front of the original Zhong Yue, he hurriedly explained that he was drunk and mistook the original Zhong Yue for him.
Zhong Yue looked at the original Zhong Gu's face which was similar to his own. Then he looked at his clothes which were similar to his style. He was sure that it was the original Zhong Gu's fault. In a rage, he drew his sword and slashed the original Zhong Gu's face. The shadow guards appeared and wanted to take Zhong Yue's life. Li Yan protected him with his body and begged the original Zhong Gu to stop the shadow guards. But the original Zhong Gu didn't give up. Li Yan was no longer passive. Not only did he kill several shadow guards, he also captured the original Zhong Gu and locked him up.
After being imprisoned for a day and a night, the original Zhong Gu realized how ridiculous his feelings for Li Yan were.
He claimed to be a smart person, but in the end, he was blinded by his own cleverness. He was actually blinded by Li Yan's false feelings. For him, he committed all kinds of evil deeds. For him, he poured out his heart and soul. But in return, he only received one sentence:
"Zhong Gu, he's not as scheming as you. Sometimes, you make me afraid just by being by my side. I wonder if one day I will lose my life in your hands. You tell me, how can I indulge you? "
Perhaps Li Yan was a bit interested in him, but he was more interested in the original Zhong Gu's intelligence and his shadow guards. That was why he pretended to be affectionate for so many years.
Today's scene was because Li Yan used Zhong Yue to provoke the original Zhong Gu. He wanted him to submit to him as soon as possible. Whether it was the body he hadn't tasted for a long time or the shadow guards. But compared to Zhong Gu and his power, Li Yan was more unwilling to give up on Zhong Yue.
Who didn't know the name of the Zhong Family? Who didn't know the Zhong Family's protection?
If Zhong Yue died in his house, the Zhong Family would not let him have an easy time, even if he was the Crown Prince of Da Liang.
What's more, compared to Zhong Gu who didn't have any family backing him, even if Li Yan couldn't establish relations with the Zhong Family through Zhong Yue, Zhong Yue's own ability was more advantageous to him.
In fact, Li Yan didn't want things to develop to this point, but since soft methods didn't work, he could only use hard methods.
The original Zhong Gu's current injuries were because he refused to hand over the shadow guards. In the end, Zhong Yue found him and poisoned him. He wanted to throw him to the lowest Nan Feng Restaurant. Zhong Quan, who was sent out by the original Zhong Gu, arrived in time with the shadow guards to save him from Zhong Yue. They were chased by Li Yan's people and paid a great price to bring the original Zhong Gu out of the Eastern Palace.
But the original Zhong Gu's injuries were too serious and he died with hatred.
After seeing the original Zhong Gu's soul, Gou Liang's depressed heart finally dissipated.
It had to be known that when the favorability exceeded 80, even if it was only 81, it was still love and not liking. At this level, there was no pure friendship between people. Other than family affection, there was only love.
And Zhong Quan, who risked his life to protect the original Zhong Gu, didn't have any feelings for the original Zhong Gu. Rather, he was a shadow guard in this era with no human rights. He was 100% loyal and valued his master.
But soon, Gou Liang had to face another serious problem. The soul connection between the original Zhong Gu and the target was too strong!
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