Chapter 1950: Chapter 973: Reunion on New Year’s Eve (Second Update)
Gu Jiao stayed on Dark Island for seven days.
She told Chang Kun about her origins, and although he had anticipated it, hearing it from her mouth was still incredibly shocking.
Gu Jiao also mentioned the identity of the Lord of Shadows, and after Chang Kun asked which year she arrived and which year she left, he was filled with regret.
Chang Kun sighed, “You all… almost met…”
“What?” Gu Jiao, feeling the cold wind rushing head-on and listening to the roaring sea waves, looked at Chang Kun in amazement.
Chang Kun gazed at the vast ocean, sighed deeply, and said, “There were some things I didn’t understand before, but after hearing you, I think I know what the Island Lord meant back then.”
Back in the Organization, Gu Jiao violated an unforgivable rule, leading to the Organization implementing a hunting plan. To save her, the Godfather intentionally let her obtain the small first and kit during an operation.
“Godfather, this box is so pretty, it’s for you.”
“I’m not interested.”
His cold voice echoed in the empty building. He lifted his long, straight legs, stepped over the body that had not yet turned cold on the ground, and left without looking back.
Later, the small first and kit brought Gu Jiao to this space-time.
The small first and kit depleted its energy, taking ten years to recover, and the first thing it did was bring the Godfather over as well.
However, it didn’t have enough energy, causing a time dimension shift, arriving ten years earlier than Gu Jiao.
At that time, Chang Kun was still a child living in a small fishing village by the sea, where he saw a young man who had fainted on the shore.
The man’s clothes were quite strange, but his face was very handsome, not like a bad person, so he ran home to get his father.
His father brought the man home, and he stayed for several months.
Later, the village was submerged by a tsunami, and the man led the villagers to evacuate to a deserted island, which became what is now known as Dark Island.
“About two years.” Chang Kun said, “One morning, when I opened the door to bring him food, I found he was gone. My father and I searched the entire island but couldn’t find him. Ten years later, he appeared again. By then, I had grown up, and he helped me establish Dark Night Gate. He said he was going out to sea to find someone, hoping to meet them this time. There’s no need for me to say the result; you already know it. He returned without success.”
“The third time he came here, he didn’t mention looking for someone, but began planting purple grass.”
Because by then she had been in a plane crash, leaving no remains, and couldn’t travel in her body again, while soul traveling required an important medium—purple grass.
Gu Jiao summed it up.
She made a mistake in the Organization, had her key memories erased, and was hunted.
She came to a Different World, becoming the first Lord of Shadows, and later returned to the modern times. Due to the influence of the space-time magnetic field, she lost the memories related to traveling.
She returned to the Organization as usual. They pretended nothing had happened and initiated a second hunt on her—the plane crash plan.
But, what mistake did she make? What key memories were erased by the Organization?
…
“Sir, do you take the lady beside you as your wife? Regardless of whether she is rich or poor, healthy or ill in the future, you will always be with her?”
“Yes, I do.”
“Lady, do you take the groom as your husband? Regardless of whether he is rich or poor, healthy or ill in the future, you will always be with him?”
“Mm?”
The bride looked at the man in a daze.
The man lifted his long, jade-like hand, gently stroked her cheek, and looked at her deeply: “Do you?”
“I…”
Bang!
A gunshot rang out.
Gu Jiao awoke with a start, sitting up warily from the bedchamber and reaching under the pillow for a gun.
Realizing she couldn’t find it, she remembered she wasn’t in her previous life, and it was just a dream.
What happened in the dream had actually happened. They received a mission that someone would assassinate the daughter of a certain consortium at a century wedding. Gu Jiao disguised herself as the bride to lure the snake out of the hole.
The original groom was supposed to be himself, but somehow it had turned into the Godfather.
It was fortunate that it changed, as the opponent’s skills were too fast for the snipers ambushed around to react, and he shot at Gu Jiao.
The Godfather took the bullet for her.
If the real groom had been standing in front of Gu Jiao at the time, she would have been dead by then.
“Huh? Where’s Ahen?”
Gu Jiao looked around and noticed Xiao Hen wasn’t there.
She put on her shoes, got out of bed, and, rounding the screen, saw Xiao Hen sitting cross-legged on the carpet in front of the brazier, his face dark, grumbling in frustration.