Zha Gong's evolutionary path

The imperceptible loneliness in his tone was caught by Gu Jian keenly.

Shadowguard is very unfamiliar with this emotion.

In his impression, the young master Lin Xiao, who was always rebellious and moody, never showed such fragile feelings.It is also difficult for him to imagine that a person like the young master who is so penny-pinching and unscrupulous would have the emotions of normal human beings.

Lin Gongru made him feel strange, but there was also some inexplicable intimacy.

"..." He slightly shifted his gaze away, and focused on Lin Gongru's /naked/exposed/exposed shoulders.

On the right shoulder of the young man, there was a brand mark that had not yet scabbed. The person who did it was quite vicious. It didn't seem like a simple punishment and punishment, but more like a deliberate method of punishment.When he changed the bandage for Lin Gongru before, because the other party was asleep, he was afraid of waking up the young master, so his hands and feet were slow and fast, and he didn't look at the scar carefully.

Now he became suspicious and took a close look at it in detail. At this time, he realized that the injury seemed to have been added recently; and the place on Lin Xiao's body was branded by the master before his death, and it is more than half a year away from now.

This person is not the young master Rin Xiao, so how did he get into this Onmyoji house where Rin's family has the right to enter?

Where did the real Lin Xiao go?

In the shadow guard's usually gentle and calm eyes, killing intent flashed past.

The young man in front of him didn't seem to notice the abnormal look in his eyes, he turned his back towards him generously, submerged his body in the warm water, and let out a comfortable sigh.

He lazily leaned against the edge of the barrel, pointed to the towel on the side and said, "Didn't you say you want to take care of it for me? Come and help wipe your body."

Gu Jian froze, he had just randomly found a reason to lure the king into the urn, but this fake young master was so good-hearted and really ordered him.

He couldn't find an excuse to refuse, at least he couldn't reveal his intentions too early.

The shadow guard lingered for a while, and then responded in an inaudible voice: "Subordinate...obey." Then he picked up the towel and approached the wooden barrel emitting the curling heat.

Lin Gongru didn't defend herself, and let the man hold the handkerchief, and slowly wiped it from his neck, shoulders, and back of his heart as he walked past, squinting a pair of peach blossom eyes, as if enjoying it very much.

He didn't seem to notice at all that Gu Jian's knuckles under the snow-white scarf were tightly twisted together, and his fingertips trembled slightly.His movement of wiping his body was slow and weird, as if he was suppressing some kind of impulse with great perseverance.

Gu Jian was behind him, in a blind spot where Lin Gongru could not notice, his eyes were fixed on Lin Gongru's slender and fair neck.The shadow guard's slender and strong fingers touched the throbbing pulse of the young man's neck through the towel, and crazy thoughts rushed in his heart.

He knew that as long as he tightened his palms, he could immediately crush the fragile neck of this fake young master, and he wouldn't even have the chance to say a word.He only needs to raise his hand and slap his Tianling Cap with a palm, and blood will immediately splatter everywhere.Or, if he pressed the young man's shoulder with one hand, he could drown the young man alive in the hot water.

No matter how handsome the young man he had been guarding for several months, he was as vulnerable as he could be.

He wiped Lin Gongru's skin little by little, with countless deadly thoughts intertwined in his mind.

Behind the landscape screen, only the slight sound of water can be heard, and the people serving and being served are silent.There was a vague and unspeakable emotion floating in the wing room, which was inseparable from the steam that permeated the whole room.

The towel, which was completely soaked in hot water, felt heavy in the hand.Gu Jian silently picked up Lin Gongru's long hair floating on the water, and along the slightly dry ends of the hair, gently stroked it to the end with a handkerchief dipped in water.He did it extremely meticulously, slowly, cleaning him one by one, and his movements were as delicate as performing some kind of ritual.

The hair in the palm of my hand feels very good, like a large piece of black, fine silk.Gu Jian was a little distracted, he thought endlessly, this person is really good-looking, even his hair is soaked with a sense of pampering and nobility.I don't know if there will be someone who will be sad for him and cry for him after he dies?

"Gu Jian." Lin Gongru closed his eyes, and suddenly called out to him.

The action of the shadow guard wiping his long hair paused, but did not stop.He continued to wipe the remaining long hair, only said: "This subordinate is here."

"What do you want to do after leaving this onmyoji house?"

The shadow guard was taken aback for a moment, and almost paused for a long time.

— After going out?

After leaving this onmyoji house...?

That's right, he never considered that after the death of this "young master" of unknown origin, he naturally no longer had the need to stay in the stone house.

He was able to enter and leave the stone house freely, and he was able to obtain food from the secret path, so he could naturally go out without hindrance.

This fake young master is dead, he... his next step...

Gu Jian thought for a long time and reacted slowly, and the movements of his hands were even more procrastinated. It took a long time to wipe off the hair in his palm.He was in a daze, and said to himself, after he died, after I went out, I would naturally go to find the real young master, to find Lin Xiao.What is there to hesitate about?

However, all he could think of was the sinister fox mask that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

What kind of person Lin Xiao looks like, and what other characteristics in him make him never forget, at this moment, he can't even remember a single bit.

He slowly said: "The subordinates naturally follow the young master. Wherever the young master goes, the subordinates will go."

Lin Gongru still closed his eyes, as if he didn't realize that the young master in his words was not referring to himself.He said: "You don't have anything, is it 'yourself', not what the 'shadow guard' wants to do? Gu Jian, after you get out of here, you don't want to be a shadow guard anymore. You live with one person all your life It’s not easy and it’s not worth it.”

Without waiting for Gu Jian to answer, he said slowly, "There are so many people worth making friends with and things worth doing outside. You can see a more beautiful scenery than this stone house. Maybe one day, you You will meet someone who is even better than the best you thought you met, and someone who will cherish you."

"..." Gu Jian lowered his eyes, hung the young man's black hair on the edge of the wooden barrel, watched the man's Adam's apple rolling gently, and said sentences that he couldn't understand.

Lin Gongru said: "When I was young, I did a lot of stupid things and ruined the wishes of many people. Looking back now, I still take myself too seriously and regard others' contributions as what I deserve. Until I also fell in love, hit the south wall, and my head was broken, and I realized that there are so many people in this world, and the most difficult thing to meet is sincerity."

He opened his closed eyes, turned around, and looked straight at Gu Jian with a pair of radiant peach blossom eyes.

The shadow guard caught the young man's sight unexpectedly, and his heart trembled violently. For some unknown reason, he had the illusion that he couldn't breathe.

He wanted to look away in embarrassment, but he couldn't help being attracted by the blue light in Lin Gongru's eyes.

"I've been having a dream over and over in the past few days. There are figures of several people in the dream." The faint blue light is so faint that it's almost hard to tell if you don't look carefully, but it burns with an inexplicable and persistent look in the deepest part.

"I dreamed of a boy in bright yellow clothes, a doctor in black robes with a cold face. I even dreamed of a prince with a heroic face but a cruel heart. Their faces flickered back and forth in my dream, and finally turned into a me People who can’t see facial features clearly. I feel familiar with that person, but at the same time feel unfamiliar so that I feel fear.” Lin Gongru looked at him, and said slowly, “The strange thing is, Gu Jian, I think they also look alike. you."

The shadow guard stared at him blankly, saw the misty smile on the corner of the young man's mouth, and said softly: "Am I, a little crazy again?"

Those subtle lonely emotions came overwhelmingly from Lin Gongru's sad and lonely brows, and from his undisguised painful words; all the emotions suddenly broke out and mixed together, like a strong net, Gu Jian was firmly shrouded in it, with nowhere to escape.

The shadow guard, who had a straight back, felt a little vacant on the soles of his feet for no reason, and his hand holding the handkerchief was unsteady for a moment, and fell into the water with a plop.He hastily stretched out his hand to explore, and just as his fingertips reached the sinking handkerchief, he was firmly grasped by a hand that was submerged in the water.

Lin Gongru grabbed his hand, and met his eyes, the young man's warm temperature spread directly to him along the already slightly cool water, Gu Jian even shivered.

The man's gentle voice was more irresistible than his tightly clenched hand; Gu Jian actually had the illusion that if Lin Gongru refused to let go, he would be restrained by him like this, and there would be no way out. There is nowhere to go, and I will be frozen here for a lifetime.

Lin Gongru said softly: "I think I like you. Gu Jian, after finishing what you want to do, you can leave."

The phrase "I like you" fluttered out, and he saw Yingwei's eyes widen suddenly, like a bird hit by a slingshot, hovering in mid-air precariously for a while, and suddenly fell heavily to the mud.

Gu Jian suddenly withdrew his hand from his tightly clenched palm, he used such force and was so reckless, as if breaking his arm in the palm of Lin Gongru would not hesitate at all.

After he suddenly withdrew his hand, he immediately turned his back, leaving the young man with a wry smile behind him.

Therefore, Lin Gongru couldn't see the struggle, pain and trance that flashed across his face, and naturally he couldn't perceive the turbulent waves rising deep in his heart, which had already destroyed a deep-rooted belief in him since his youth.

For a long time, Lin Gongru stared at the man's back almost in a daze, only to hear Gu Jian utter a word under his throat.

"The water is cold. Young master, get up, it's time to practice the gun."

Lin Gongru: "..."

The young man with a wry smile put on his clothes and got up.

But after a little delay, he turned around from behind the landscape screen, and the shadow guard in pitch black disappeared.

Lin Gongru looked out the door, on the distant training ground, Gu Jian seemed to be standing quietly under the tree, like a silent and introverted shadow.

——corresponding to the door of life in the underground secret passage in the dining room, according to the layout of the house of yin and yang, the wing room where Gu Jian brought him to cleanse and bathe should be the door of death among the three evil doors.

During this period of time, he studied ancient books seriously, and he also knew something about the art of yin and yang and the Qimen of Eight Diagrams. When he saw the seat in this wing room, he guessed Gu Jian's real intention.

He thought this was the end of his deal with Ying Moyan, and he was ready to die in Gu Jian's hands.

He never expected that Gu Jian would let him live in the end.