But before he could finish speaking, his outstretched hand was fiercely slapped away by Mo Xue with a "smack".
"…"
The smile on Gu Mang's face faded. His blue eyes seemed to flash with a subtle light, but it only lasted for a moment before he resumed his cold smile.
"Are you angry?"
Mo Xi did not say anything. He just suppressed some kind of emotion that was about to overflow as he stared at Gu Mang.
At this moment, the expression on his face was like a dog whose heart had been broken by its owner, but also like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. Sadness and self-esteem gathered on his pale face at the same time. His eyes were watery, but he still held on proudly. He gritted his white teeth and stared fiercely and conceitedly at Gu Mang.
After a while, he suppressed the trembling in his voice and said softly, "I will believe you. I'm not like you, who can take anything casually. "
"…" Gu Mang was silent for a moment before he sneered, "Look, you're still laughing at Wuyan. Aren't you the same? She wants to force you, but you still believe her. "
The veins on the back of Mo Xi's white hand were slightly bulging.
Gu Mang acted as if he did not see it and only said, "So you're actually not that different from her. You both feel that you're not getting anything in return for your efforts, so you've been resentful for so many years."
"Do you think I've been resentful towards you all these years just because I feel that I'm not getting anything in return for my efforts?"
Gu Mang looked at the light in Mo Xi's eyes and almost felt pity for him.
But he was silent for a while before he said, "What else?"
Mo Xi suddenly closed his eyes. His eyelashes trembled, and the emotions that he had been suppressing suddenly burst out. He exploded, "If I'm really just unwilling to accept this, would you still be standing in front of me and saying these things to me?! If I was only unwilling to accept this, I would have many ways to make up for my unwillingness. Taking you by force, humiliating you, poisoning you … I won't do any of these, but do you really think that I don't know?! Gu Mang! I treat you as my companion, as my best friend, as my … "
My lover. My god.
What I hate is your betrayal and change. You didn't just abandon me. You also abandoned your brothers, your dreams, and your past glory.
And who you used to be.
"Change your path. Even if you have nothing to do with me for the rest of your life, I won't blame you."
"…"
"Gu Mang. Back then, you almost dug my heart out. "
Gu Mang's fingertips trembled slightly.
Mo Xi's voice was hoarse. He raised his head and looked at him. His eyes were dark like the stars in the sky. "You still don't understand it?"
"…"
Gu Mang was speechless for a moment. Those black eyes were too unbearable.
Gu Mang still remembered that they were not like this when he first saw them. The first time he saw Mo Xi, Mo Xi was standing under the osmanthus tree in the academy. He was wearing a black robe embroidered with a serpent embroidered with gold edges. His blonde hair was tied up in a high ponytail. He was holding a jade waist bow in his arm and looking at the bull's eye in the distance.
The wind was blowing and his wide sleeves were fluttering. Feeling the gaze behind him, Mo Xi brushed the stray hair on the side of his face and turned around to look at Gu Mang.
His eyes were still and deep, clear and bright like a lake that had not been immersed in the secular world. There was no emotion in his eyes. He calmly looked away from Gu Mang.
Later on, Gu Mang saw him a few more times in the academy. One time, he saw him sitting alone by the stone steps reading a book. Another time, he saw him leaning against a tree and eating alone. Another time, he saw him walking out of the training dummy field in the academy. As he walked, he bit on his hair tie and tied his hair into a ponytail. His fair and slender neck poked out from the edge of his wide black robe and was sweating.
He was always alone.
"The young master of the Mo family is really arrogant."
"Spiritual power is a good thing, but it's not necessarily so strong that it's abnormal. Who knows if he's practicing some unknown evil technique."
"Don't talk nonsense. Young Master Mo relies on hard work. Didn't you hear the Palace Master praising him every day? I heard that ever since he entered the academy, he's been practicing at the shooting range until nine o 'clock every day. Hehe, I wonder who he's trying to impress by being so hardworking. "
Gu Mang had actually heard a lot of such conversations in the past. Before Mo Xi knew who "Gu Mang" was, Gu Mang had already heard of the name Mo Xi. From the discussions in the academy and the Murong Lian's sarcasm, he inadvertently learned a lot about this person.
Among these princes and young masters, there were those who were perverse, those who did not live up to their names, those who were ambitious … There were too many of them. At that time, Gu Mang also felt that Mo Xi was probably asking for it and did not have a good impression of this person.
Until that day.
That day, he happened to pass by the drill ground and saw two palace slaves kneeling in front of Mo Quench. Mo Quench's hands were shining brightly. Mo Quench thought that this young master was using his power to bully the palace slaves. Just as he was about to speak up for him, he heard one of the slaves kowtowing repeatedly with tears and snot running down his face.
"Young Master Mo! Young Master Mo, we're really wrong! We, we didn't mean to steal your money, it's just … it's just … "
A yellow-faced and emaciated servant beside him said in a trembling voice, "It's just that we're really hungry. A few days ago, we offended Young Master Murong, and the Head Steward punished us by not having enough to eat … We were starving, and when we saw that you were always alone … we gathered our courage and wanted to … steal … steal your money pouch. "
"Wuwu, I'm sorry … Young Master, please have mercy on us. My sister hasn't eaten for three days … she's still so young … I'm really afraid that she won't be able to live. If you want to punish someone, punish me. Please spare my sister …"
"Brother, wuwuwu …"
"…" Mo Xi stared at the pair of siblings and was silent for a while. The red light in his hands gradually extinguished.
He didn't say anything. He lowered his head and took out his money pouch from his Qiankun Bag. He took it off and silently placed it on the stone steps. Then he turned and left.
His actions stunned Gu Mang who was standing far away. Because of Hua Po An's old history, other than the young masters' servants, the academy disciples were not allowed to have any contact with ordinary servants, let alone help them. That was a big taboo in the academy.
But Mo Xi did it without hesitation and without asking for anything in return. It was as if it was a natural thing to do.
Gu Mang looked at the young master's side profile with his sleeves fluttering in the wind. He suddenly had an inexplicable feeling in his heart.
But if that was the case, Gu Mang wouldn't have paid as much attention to Mo Xi as he did later. What really surprised him was that a few days later, a piece of news suddenly broke out in the academy.
Mo Xi, the son of Fu Ling Jun, was punished with whipping because he violated the rules.
"Oh, Beauty Mo also has a time when his boat capsizes in a ditch?"
"He's been high and mighty for so long. This whipping finally broke his prestige!"
"I heard that he gave his money pouch to a pair of servant siblings and violated the rules. He usually pretends to be hardworking, but now he's pretending to be pure and kind. If you ask me, he's really a hypocrite. "
At this time, Gu Mang had a completely different feeling in his heart as he listened to the crowd's discussion about him. When he returned to his residence, he suddenly heard the Murong Lian's unbridled laughter coming from the courtyard.
"That Mo guy is really a fool. It was just a trick of self-injury. He took the bait so easily. What a surprise, hahahaha!"
"My Lord is wise beyond compare. How can Mo Mie be your opponent?"
"Hmph! He violated the academy's taboo. No matter how strong his techniques are, he can't be promoted as a talent of the academy. Compete with me? "The Murong Lian sneered." He's still too inexperienced. "
Gu Mang finally understood that the so-called "servant siblings' case" was deliberately designed by the Murong Lian to trap his opponent. The pair of servant siblings took Mo Xi's money pouch and obediently handed it over to the Murong Lian. The Murong Lian directly sent a complaint to the academy's disciplinary elder, saying that Mo Xi had openly violated the academy's rules and privately had sex with the servants.
As the only son of the Murong Lian, although Mo Xi wasn't severely punished, this was still a taboo in the academy. In addition, the disciplinary elder had been friends with the Lord Wangshu's family for generations. Naturally, he would side with the Murong Lian, so Mo Xi was still reprimanded.
At that time, Gu Mang was a Murong Lian and didn't have any interactions with Mo Xi. Even if he felt uneasy, he couldn't say anything to Mo Xi, let alone visit Mo Xi. He also couldn't announce it to the public.
However, from that time onwards, Mo Xi had already planted a seed in Gu Mang's heart. In the future, everything would be fated with this seed.
As the saying goes, everything is predetermined. Once the fate is written, it's destined that you can't escape it.
A few days later, Gu Mang walked along the green path of the academy. There was no one else on the jade-green lawn except for a youth sitting alone against a white birch tree.
Mo Xi sat quietly under the shade of the tree. He was eating white glutinous rice dumplings in small bites while looking down at the bamboo slips spread out on his knees. There was still a whip mark on his fair face, but it didn't affect anything. Mo Xi's drooping eyelashes were still so thick and deep. His gaze was still so clean, without any resentment.
Gu Mang stood behind the tree and looked at the lonely and beautiful silhouette for a while until Mo Xi finally noticed his overly focused gaze. He raised his head from the book and looked into Gu Mang's eyes.
Gu Mang: "…"
Mo Xi: "?"
This was the first time Gu Mang looked directly into this pair of black eyes. His palms were sweating. He had always been a cheerful and bright person, but he had become clumsy.
He licked his lips nervously. He wanted to smile at Mo Xi, but he didn't know what to do. At this time, Lu Zhanxing happened to be walking over from afar. He saw him and waved at him, shouting, "Mang 'er! What are you standing there for? "
Gu Mang hurriedly stuttered in response. He turned his gaze away in a flurry, and the tips of his ears turned red as he fled into the distance.
The noble Master Mo didn't know a nobody like him at that time. He probably didn't remember the first time they looked at each other on the tree-lined road.
However, Gu Mang remembered it.
Those black jade-like eyes …
In his memory, it was a pure land that he wanted to protect wholeheartedly.
Gu Mang sighed and looked at the pair of eyes within the thatched hut that were now just inches away from him. There was hatred, resentment, pain, and unwillingness in them. In the depths of those eyes, there was even a stubborn and ruthless luster. However, Gu Mang clearly remembered that when he first saw Mo Xi, those eyes were only filled with calmness and righteousness.
In the end, they were still like this.
Gu Mang looked away.
He was afraid that if he continued to look at those eyes, he wouldn't be able to hide some things anymore. His heart, which had its spirit core shattered, was starting to ache.
The thatched hut was quiet. It was quiet all around. Gu Mang didn't say anything else. He sat down on the haystack. The haystack sank softly. He lay down in the middle of the soft rice stalks and stared blankly at the sky.
He knew that he should draw a clear line between himself and Mo Xi. Mo Xi was his poison. It was fatal and there was no cure. He tried his best to build a wall between himself and Mo Xi. However, when he saw the pair of eyes on the other side of the wall, which were filled with anxiety and sadness, his hands trembled.
He actually wanted to leave this narrow thatched hut. Other than the smell of straw, he could only smell the faint fragrance of Mo Xi's body.
He had a cold mask, but he didn't know how long this mask could last beside Mo Xi.
"…" The two of them didn't say anything else. The atmosphere was extremely tense. Gu Mang finally couldn't help but stand up. He patted the grass off his body and walked to the door of the hut. He looked out through the gap.
Those bat demons were still looking for a mate. It was a mess. It wasn't a good time to go out.
Gu Mang could only return to Mo Xi's side and sit down. He rested his chin on his hand and stared blankly. He didn't want to make Mo Xi sad anymore. The result of making Mo Xi sad was that he wouldn't feel good either.
The two of them sat there for a while. Gu Mang glanced at Mo Xi.
Mo Xi lowered his head and lowered his eyelashes.
After a while, he stole another glance at Mo Xi.
Mo Xi still didn't say anything and ignored him. He didn't know if he noticed Gu Mang's wandering eyes. In fact, after his emotional outburst just now, he had fallen into this kind of silence, unwilling to speak much.
Gu Mang knew that he had really hurt him.
In fact, Gu Mang knew that Mo Xi wasn't the same as Wu Yan.
After all, they had been so passionately entangled before. He had willingly slept with Mo Xi, but now he was accusing Mo Xi of being unreasonable. He had clearly seen Mo Xi's protection, Mo Xi's despair, and Mo Xi's willingness to risk his life in exchange for his willingness to turn back …
But in their current situation, other than making Mo Xi hate him and stay away from him, what other choice was there?
Mo Xi's heart was soft and he was upright. He seemed ruthless, but Gu Mang knew that he was kinder than anyone else. This kind of kindness was like the help he gave to the servants in the academy. In the end, it was easy for others to use it against him.
So, since Gu Mang had already chosen this path, he only needed Mo Xi to hate him. He didn't need "pity", "injustice", or "unwillingness", and he didn't need even a little bit of love.
However, being so close to him and smelling the familiar scent on his body, Gu Mang's heart was still as unsettled as it was yesterday. No matter how clear she was about what she should do, she could not help but have that tiny bit of pitiful thoughts.
If everything could be changed, if he could still approach him like a moth darting into a flame, if he could still hold him, if he could still say "I love you" without any scruples, if he could still say "I love you" one more time under the guise of passion.
How good would that be?
After a long silence, Gu Mang finally broke the stifling silence, even though he deliberately changed the topic, "Cough … I suddenly remembered, where's the life crystal from Yue Chenqing?"
Mo Xi still didn't look at him, "It's in my Qiankun bag."
"Take it out and let me see."
The stone with the agate pearl was taken out. The stone was full of luster and was becoming more and more moist. Gu Mang looked at it in his hand for a while, and then returned it to Mo Xi.
"It seems that everything is going well on Brother Jiang's side. We don't have to rush out too quickly. Let's wait until those bat demons are almost in the hut. "
"… Okay."
Both of them had their own thoughts as they sat in the straw pile, lost in thought, waiting for the bats outside to disperse.
There was silence for a while.
Suddenly, a pair of bat demons walked past their door, entangling with each other, and broke the silence. Through the bamboo curtain, they could see their side profile kissing like glue, and they could also hear the flirting and laughter between the two demons.
"Don't rush."
"We are accumulating Primordial Spirit for the king. How can we not rush?"
The female bat giggled, accompanied by vague kissing sounds from time to time, "Well … you only know how to talk about the king. Don't you want to …"
The rest of the conversation was drowned out by the sound of their kisses.
"…" Gu Mang couldn't help but glance at Mo Xi. Mo Xi felt his gaze and turned his face away. Just when Gu Mang thought that Mo Xi was going to pretend to be deaf, he suddenly heard him ask —
"What do you mean by accumulating Primordial Spirit for the king?"
"Oh." Gu Mang said, "The fog swallows seem to be able to absorb the spiritual current produced when the bat demons below are mating. This is the characteristic of the fire bats."
Mo Xi didn't say anything, but looking at his side profile, it seemed that he was saying, "This is ridiculous."
"Fire bats are lascivious. There's nothing strange about it." Gu Mang said, "When they all enter the nest, we'll leave."
The pair of bat demons in front of their door were kissing hungrily. Just by looking at their shadows, they could feel the passionate atmosphere between them. Seeing that they were about to push the door open, the male bat suddenly stopped. "Oh, this room is already occupied."
The female bat demon's voice was so soft that it sounded like water could be squeezed out of it.
"The room next door is still empty. Let's go next door."
The bird couple went next door. Just as Mo Mie was about to heave a sigh of relief, he suddenly heard a dull thud from the wall not far away from him. Immediately after, the voices of the bird couple could be heard even more clearly from the wall and into their straw hut.
"Baby, let me kiss you again …"
"Don't be in such a hurry …"
"…"
At this moment, Gu Mang sneaked a glance at Mo Xi — and found that Mo Xi's face had already darkened.
The author had something to say:
"Xi Mang, Xue Yi, the first line, giving out sugar … they are all a sweet couple!"
Vast: I'll give you a mango.
Sister Extinguish: Do you want to eat it?
Vast: No, I'll let you hold it in your arms. This way, we will be a delicious watermelon and mango couple! Xi Mang couple is sweet!
Jiang Yexue: I'll give you a white shirt.
Chu Yi: Wear it?
Jiang Yexue: Hang it outside the window. This way, we will be pure white snowflakes and pure white clothes. Xue Yi couple is sweet.
Hua Poan: I'll give you a hair.
Chen Tang: Wear it on my head?
Hua Poan: Hahaha, no, I'll plant it in your heart. This way, we will be a sugar couple. Sugar couple is sweet.
Jun Shang: I'll give you a couplet.
Ah Lian: Stick it on the door?
Jun Shang: Ah, no, I'll let you throw away the second line. This way, we will be a couplet couple. Shanglian couple is sweet.
Vegetable Bun: Except for Xi Mang, the rest of the couplets haven't been hammered yet. The small theater isn't responsible for blindly making up couplets. Don't believe the small theater …
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