flstandardbreds Chapter 120: Before the New Year, she dug up a grave and opened a coffin to save Gu Huaizhou.
Chapter 120: Before the New Year, she dug up a grave and opened a coffin to save Gu Huaizhou.
The sofa in the ward is for two people.
Li Xi patted the empty seat next to her, gesturing for Gu Huaizhou to sit down and talk, "Sit down and talk."
"Then help me up." Gu Huaizhou pretended to be innocent and weak. "The nurse told me not to get up suddenly, as it can make me dizzy."
This wasn't exactly an act; after all, a patient who had been bedridden and unconscious for three days was weak and malnourished, so suddenly getting up would indeed cause dizziness and nausea.
Knowing full well that Gu Huaizhou was feigning helplessness, Li Xi still reached out and grabbed the hand Gu Huaizhou offered, helping him to sit down beside her.
Once the other person was seated, Li Xi made a move to pull her fingers away, only to find that the other person was still holding her fingers tightly and had no intention of letting go.
"Gu Huaizhou."
Li Xi's face turned cold as she reminded Gu Huaizhou, "You're no longer my boyfriend, so don't just hold my hand like that."
Gu Huaizhou looked pained, but he could hear the seriousness in Li Xi's voice, so he could only reluctantly let go.
Li Xi's complexion improved somewhat.
When Li Xi sat down next to him, Gu Huaizhou secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that Li Xi would find it disgusting to even sit next to him.
"...Do you remember what I said to you before I fell into a coma?"
Li Xi nodded hesitantly, then asked, "Are you referring to the fact that you dare not tell me the truth about your identity, or is it that your memory of the kidnapping case 12 years ago is vague?"
“It was indeed my fault for hiding the truth about my identity from you. In fact, I would have preferred to get closer to you under my real identity, but we never expected that our first reunion would be at that hotel, where I happened to be Gu Zhen at the time.”
“The more we got to know each other, the more I thought about how to tell you my true identity the day you agreed to let me be your boyfriend.”
“To say it directly would feel abrupt and presumptuous.”
“Actually, I’ve given you hints several times, but…” Gu Huaizhou looked puzzled and said, somewhat perplexed, “I don’t know why, but you always manage to avoid the right answer.”
"For example, the last time I was on a business trip, the day you and I unexpectedly met on the island, I was representing the Gu Group. Even though my subordinates were all standing behind me, you didn't suspect my identity."
When we arrived at the aquarium, you asked me where I lived, and I said it was on Xiangyang Mountain.
"Logically speaking, you should have guessed my identity back then. But instead, you avoided the correct answer and asked me if Gu Huaizhou and I were related?"
"..." Li Xi's face flushed.
Looking back on the details of that night, Li Xi now feels confused.
"Because I like you, I trust you unconditionally. I never even considered that my boyfriend's name might be fake." Li Xi's voice was chilling.
Upon hearing this, Gu Huaizhou felt a pang of shame.
Yes.
If he didn't like and trust her, Li Xi would have already uncovered his true identity with her intelligence.
"Besides, I witnessed you rejecting Xie Jiaoyue at the Gu Family Manor, and I've heard your voice."
"Your voice is completely different now."
Therefore, Li Xi didn't even think in that direction.
Gu Zhen asked with a smile, "What's the difference between our voices?"
"To put it simply, both are cool and clear voices, but your voice is pleasant to listen to, refreshing and soothing, like a small pond in the forest that suddenly appears on a hot summer day."
"And that sound that day was more like an ancient ice cellar. Even in summer, you would shiver if you went in, and in winter it could freeze you to death."
Gu Huaizhou: "...Really? That was a cool, domineering CEO voice that I deliberately imitated."
Li Xi: "..."
Her expression was somewhat incredulous. "You can change your voice?"
"Ah."
"Then why don't you imitate a 12-year-old girl's voice for me?"
Gu Huaizhou: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, I can only imitate men's voices."
"Then how about imitating the deep, heavy breathing sound of a mature, domineering CEO?"
Gu Huaizhou asked intriguingly, "What kind of panting?"
Li Xi didn't elaborate, but her flushed ears betrayed her little quirk. "So, Xi Xi likes the deep breathing of a mature, domineering CEO..."
Li Xi: "You don't know how."
"How do you know I can't?"
But you can't breathe in the ward.
"Anyway, I was misled by your voice, which is why I didn't connect you with Gu Huaizhou." Can you blame her for that?
Gu Huaizhou nodded slightly, "If it were me, I might also have some reservations."
"Is that your own voice now?"
"of course."
That's good.
"You just said you were willing to tell me about what happened 12 years ago." Li Xi glanced at Gu Huaizhou suspiciously, her tone hesitant: "You remember now?"
"Ah."
Gu Huaizhou smiled wryly, "I guess you could say it was a blessing in disguise. The moment I fainted at your doorstep that day and you pulled me into your arms, I suddenly remembered everything."
With his gaze lowered to the two distinctive moles on Li Xi's left middle finger, Gu Huaizhou said, "After I was rescued back then, I was in a daze and always had nightmares, which gradually made me confuse reality with dreams."
"But no matter how terrifying or bizarre the nightmare is, in the end, I am always awakened by a hand."
"That hand was very thin and small, it was a girl's hand, and there were two small moles, one black and one red, on the back of the middle finger."
“Every time that hand appears, my consciousness urges me to wake up.”
"So on the day Xie Xingyun and Jiang Qingkong had their engagement banquet, I recognized you when you stretched out your bleeding left hand to me."
Listen carefully to Gu Huaizhou finish speaking.
Li Xi carefully recalled the details of the day they first met.
Some of the questions that had puzzled her were answered in an instant.
"So you recognized me so early on."
"Yes." Gu Huaizhou added, "My condition was very bad at the time. Later, Master Li took me under his wing to cultivate. I lived in Longyang Taoist Temple for a few months, and my mental state stabilized a bit."
“But I was still afraid of humans and the dark, so my grandfather sent me to live on Wuyai Island. Dr. Ying was my psychologist and my psychiatrist. He stayed with me on the island for two years.”
"After my condition stabilized completely, my grandfather asked me if I wanted to meet the person who saved my life back then."
At this point, Gu Huaizhou's eyelashes trembled slightly. He opened his dark eyes and looked at Li Xi tenderly, saying softly, "I feel that my mental state is normal now, and I won't scare that child anymore, so I agreed to Grandpa's suggestion."
"Then, I met Xie Jiaoyue."
Li Xi still remembered this incident. She said, "I remember this. Xie Jiaoyue was probably 15 years old at the time?"
"The Xie family was very lively that day. To make a good impression on you, they even spent a lot of money to buy a white princess dress for Xie Jiaoyue and hired a makeup artist to come to the house to do her makeup and hair..."
Thinking of something, Li Xi's beautiful eyes widened slightly, and she covered her red lips, saying, "I remember you said the day before you fainted that you were afraid of women wearing white dresses..."
"Then when she first met you, didn't she precisely step on your landmine?"
Gu Huaizhou hummed in agreement.
He said, "The day she went to the Gu family, I was practicing shooting at the lakeside pavilion. I saw a girl in a white dress sitting in the car from afar, and I felt really bad at that time."
“But I wanted to see you so much that I went to see you despite feeling unwell. My grandfather and Dr. Ying were worried that I would have a relapse, so they brought over a screen to separate us.”
"Then..."
Recalling the first time he met Xie Jiaoyue, Gu Huaizhou's expression was gloomy. He said, "She was incredibly talkative, always calling me 'Brother Huaizhou' nonstop..."
"That day, I forced myself to talk to her for half an hour despite feeling uncomfortable, and then had someone send her home. Later, I checked the surveillance footage and studied her carefully for a long time."
“I told my grandfather that Xie Jiaoyue was not the person I was looking for, but he said that the Xie family only had one daughter, Xie Jiaoyue.”
"That situation was very dangerous and terrifying. I couldn't find anyone in the whole city willing to play games with the terrifying killer to save me."
“Under those circumstances, no daughter would be willing to save me in Xie Jiaoyue’s place.”
The situation back then was indeed terrible.
Gu Huaizhou's parents were brutally murdered. The killers cut off their flesh and blood and even sent some of it to the Gu family manor, which frightened the old lady of the Gu family so much that she fainted on the spot.
Just ask.
Faced with a terrifying killer who dared to kidnap the Gu family and murder and dismember Gu Wentao's only son and daughter-in-law, who would dare to send their child to participate in that terrifying missing persons game?
Don't tell me they wouldn't dare.
Even if they dared, they would be afraid of being gossiped about behind their backs.
If someone knowingly sends their children to a mountain teeming with tigers in exchange for wealth and status, isn't that selling one's children for personal gain?
Therefore, when the terrorist killer proposed to play this game, no one in Dongzhou City responded.
On the very last day, Xie Mingzong braved the heavy rain to secretly send his daughter to the Gu family...
Therefore, both Old Master Gu and Ying Chengfeng felt that Gu Huaizhou's intuition was wrong.
After all, he had already been kidnapped and taken away for more than ten days. During this time, he was forced to witness his parents being murdered, his brother's body being destroyed, and he was imprisoned alone in a deserted place for seven days and seven nights.
He had a high fever and was on a mental breakdown, so his feelings were not reliable.
“They all say it’s my imagination, that the person who saved me was Xie Jiaoyue, but I just don’t want to believe it.”
"Because my intuition tells me that the little girl is not Xie Jiaoyue."
"The person who saved me should have two small moles on her left middle finger, one red and one black, so unique and distinct."
So on the day of the engagement banquet, when he saw Li Xi's bleeding left hand, he felt a chill run down his spine.
That day he was certain that his intuition was right.
The little girl who saved him was named Li Xi, who was the adopted daughter that the Xie family later took back from the orphanage.
“I had Butler Gu Han thoroughly investigate your identity.”
"I just found out that your father, Li Chang'an, was the Xie family's driver and died in a car accident 12 years ago."
"After he died, the Xie family abandoned you in an orphanage."
"It was a long time before they adopted you and brought you home."
"...How could that be?" Li Xi blurted out instinctively, "After my father passed away, I lived with the Xie family, I..."
“Your memory is wrong!” Gu Huaizhou interrupted Li Xi loudly: “Li Xi, after your father passed away, you were sent to an orphanage in your hometown.”
“Until I got into trouble, Xie Mingzong, in order to get involved with the Gu family, secretly sent someone to the rural orphanage to bring you back.”
"They disguised you as Xie Jiaoyue, and then, as the terrorist killer demanded, made you wear a cat mask and sent you to the designated game location."
"Once you completed your mission, they immediately hid you in the countryside and had Xie Jiaoyue pretend to have a fever so that she could take your credit and become the Gu family's savior!"
"After the hype died down, they took you back to the Xie family under the guise of adoption, keeping a close eye on you."
"...These are the results that Butler Gu Han came up with through extensive investigation and analysis, and they may deviate from the facts."
But the truth won't deviate too much from their analysis.
"That's why, on Xie Jiaoyue's birthday, Butler Gu Han personally went to the Xie family to deliver an invitation to you."
Because Gu Han felt indignant on behalf of Li Xi.
Li Xi was extremely surprised. "So you knew so long ago that I was the one who saved you? Then why didn't your family expose the Xie family's true colors?"
Gu Huaizhou was quite puzzled. He said, "I thought you wanted to slowly torment them to death..."
So his thinking was wrong?
Hearing this, Li Xi laughed again, "You're right. Killing the Xie family is just a matter of nodding to you, there's no sense of accomplishment in it."
“But I’m different. The Xie family has bullied me too much over the years, and I really want to take revenge myself.”
"Then I'll leave those sisters alone for now. I'll come over when you've had your fun." People should know how to be modest, so Gu Huaizhou decided to give this opportunity to Li Xi first.
Li Xi smiled inscrutablely, "Don't panic."
She said, "Whether Xie Jiaoyue's marriage to Zhou Yaoguang goes through or not, the fact that she was abandoned by the Gu family and had an affair with Zhou Yaoguang can no longer be hidden."
As for Xie Xingyun...
Thinking of Jiang Qingkong, who lost a child and almost lost her life, Li Xi said, "Jiang Qingkong will definitely give me a big surprise."
Once the Xie family has fought each other to the point of exhaustion, she will deliver a fatal blow to Xie Jiaoyue and Xie Xingyun.
"Besides these, can you think of anything else?"
Do you remember what the killer looked like?
Gu Huaizhou didn't hide anything from Li Xi. He said frankly, "The murderer is a woman wearing a white dress and with long, straight black hair."
"...So that's why you're afraid of crowds and women in white dresses?"
"should be."
It turns out that what he feared was all traceable.
"By the way," Li Xi licked her lips, observing Gu Huaizhou's reaction as she cautiously asked, "Where exactly were you hidden for those seven days?"
When this was mentioned, Gu Huaizhou remained silent for a long time.
Just when Li Xi thought Gu Huaizhou was unwilling to answer the question, she heard Gu Huaizhou say, "Actually, you've never forgotten that place."
Ok?
Li Xi seemed to understand but not quite, "What do you mean?"
"You once said that 'Seven Days of Nightmare' was inspired by your dreams." Gu Huaizhou asked Li Xi, "What was your inspiration?"
Li Xi blurted out instinctively, "It's a coffin..."
Li Xi's eyes widened in surprise.
She exclaimed, "You were hidden in a coffin?"
"Ah."
"I was hidden beneath a tombstone, in a coffin custom-made for me. The person inside left me just enough oxygen for seven days..."
At that time.
Gu Huaizhou used up all the oxygen and could only survive on the few remaining coffins in the sealed space of the coffin.
Just when he thought he was going to die, he heard the sound of the soil loosening and the sound of a little girl crying.
He held on and on until the coffin lid was finally opened, and then a hand mixed with dirt and blood grabbed him.
Then, she lost her strength and collapsed into the coffin.
So, Li Xi kept having dreams where she was walking and walking in an endless, dense forest...
Then I saw a coffin.
In fact, what Li Xi saw was a mass grave. The little girl wandered through the mass grave by the moonlight, found the tombstone with the newest soil color, and dug up the grave to open the coffin!