“Jian Xi, are you sure you want to remove the Love Gu? Once it's gone, you won't be able to keep that person alive anymore.”
“Don't you remember how you begged me to place the Gu back then? It nearly cost you half your life. If we remove it now, all that effort will have been for nothing...”
Of course I remembered. My voice was unwavering.
“I’m sure. Please remove it for me.”
My best friend, Jiang Ran, was a Miaojiang saintess, exceptionally skilled at raising and planting Gu.
Back then, to save Pei Jingchuan's life, I went to Jiang Ran myself and begged her to plant the mother Gu in me.
Pei Jingchuan, who had been in a vegetative state, successfully woke up thanks to the offspring Gu inside him.
To keep him alive, he had to make love to me once a month. Later, he went so far as to propose to me.
Everyone thought we were a couple who had weathered hardship together and would smoothly make it to the altar.
Until I saw him holding another woman in his arms, speaking of me with open disdain:
“If it weren't for that damn Love Gu inside me, forcing me to sleep with her once a month, I would never marry her!”
“She was the one who forced me into marriage like this. I'm only marrying her out of pity. You're the one I truly love.”
I watched in silence as they kissed passionately, then turned away and asked my best friend to remove the Love Gu.
Without the Love Gu draining me, I was no longer frail and sickly.
As for Pei Jingchuan, he would probably be back in a vegetative state before long.
