For more than half a year after my death, my soul actually did not disperse. I was floating above the Hou Mansion, watching how Shen Yunzhi used the excuse of "missing her sister" to go to her grandmother's house to attend to her illness every day. I finally understood what her tears and soup were. She took advantage of her grandmother's serious illness to get a little bit of the middle money from the Hou family, and used the Gu family's name cards to buy the shops outside, forcibly carving out a piece of the Hou family to support herself. On my grandmother's last day, I floated in front of her bed and watched her reach for the medicine bowl on the bedside with her withered hands, but because her hands were shaking, she spilled the medicine all over the quilt. Shen Yunzhi stood at the door and did not go in. He only told the maid, "Grandma won't eat anything, just save some medicinal materials." I heard a very soft sigh from my grandmother's throat, and she said, "Qichi, my grandmother knows that you are... Unwilling to die."
My lips were pressed against the rim of the glass as these memories flooded into my mind.
The lobby was brightly lit with candles. Grandma was sitting at the top, turning her head to talk to a lady next to her. Her hair was gray at the temples, and the wrinkles on her face were lined by candlelight. Gu Mingxiu sat opposite me, half a table away, with a smile on his lips and a glass of wine in his hand. Seeing that I was still not drinking, he reminded me softly: "Qichi, the wine is getting cold." His voice was so gentle that it could penetrate into people's hearts.
He also used this voice when he lied to me for ten years in his previous life.
I moved the wine cup away slightly, lowered my eyes, and looked at the candle shadow reflected in the cup. The clear wine contained a faint hint of purple. Purple. When I swallowed it in my previous life, I also saw this purple color. At that time, I thought it was the color of grape wine. Later I found out that the wine Gu Mingxiu brought was never grape wine.
