I failed again

An Jingcheng recalled what happened that night. Because of this incident, the image of him in Gu Ruiwen's mind is now that of a simple boy with a fragile heart who cries easily.

As a result, I can only helplessly maintain this character in front of Gu Ruiwen.

Thinking of this, An Jingcheng glared at Gu Ruiwen in dissatisfaction and said aggrievedly, "Of course I remember. You were mean to me at that time."

Gu Ruiwen: ...

He quickly held the person in his arms and comforted him, fearing that he would cause trouble again because of this matter the next second.

An Jingcheng pushed him and asked, "Why are you asking about this suddenly?"

Because of the bracelet incident, he had asked Gu Ruiwen a lot of questions indirectly these days, but he didn't know if Gu Ruiwen had discovered something and didn't reveal anything.

Why did you suddenly bring up this matter tonight?

Hearing this, Gu Ruiwen rubbed his brows in distress and said, "Actually..., how should I put it?"

"When I was six years old, there was a turmoil in the power transition in my family, and my father's people sent me to the countryside. However, because of a rebellion, I was separated from my father's people."

"It was two years later when my father found me, but I had no memory of those two years. I didn't even know how my father found me."

"I only know that I was in the hospital when I woke up. I was covered in wounds, and the most fatal wound was the one on my heart, which almost took my life."

"As for this bracelet..."

As he spoke, Gu Ruiwen raised his hand and looked at the bracelet on his left hand. He said calmly, "I was wearing it when I woke up in the hospital."

"But to be honest, I really don't know where this bracelet came from. I just can't bear to take it off and throw it away. Because there is a voice in my subconscious that keeps telling me that this bracelet is very important and I can't lose it. I have to protect it well."

“So I just kept wearing it.”

An Jingcheng had been listening quietly to Gu Ruiwen's story. When he heard Gu Ruiwen say, "The most fatal wound was the knife in the heart," his breathing became a little disordered.

The scenes that had often appeared in his dreams over the years emerged in his mind.

The room was littered with corpses, the smell of blood filled the entire room, and the countdown on the wall was decreasing little by little.

They were forced into a corner. The boy, covered in blood, stood in front of him. The fat man in the lead glanced at the time and said to the boy, "Three minutes left. As long as one more person dies, the fight will be over."

If they didn't kill enough people to keep the number specified by that group before the countdown reached zero, they would all die.

The little fat man looked disdainfully at Xiao An Jingcheng, who had been well protected from beginning to end, and said to the boy standing in front of him, "You have reached your limit now. Let's not even talk about killing him. Even killing you is a very easy thing."

"Now we give you a choice. Kill that loser before the countdown reaches one minute. If you insist on protecting him, we will have no choice but to kill you."

"As for your death, I think he is a useless person who can only hide behind others. When the next fight starts, he will be the first to be eliminated. It would be better for you to send him off yourself."

Hearing this, the boy didn't react at all, but An Jingcheng, who was protected behind him, had tears in his eyes. He reached out and pulled the boy, and the boy turned around to look at him.

"Brother Ruiwen, just kill me. He is right, I am just a burden." An Jingcheng's tears fell down. If it wasn't for protecting him, brother Ruiwen wouldn't have been injured so badly.

"You are so strong. Without me as a burden, you will definitely be able to hold on to the end."

Gu Ruiwen's eyes turned red as he looked at An Jingcheng who was dropping golden beans in front of him. He had really reached his limit now. If the fat guy wanted to attack him, he would not be able to resist at all.

But he couldn't bear to do anything to An Jingcheng.

When there was one and a half minutes left in the countdown, Gu Ruiwen moved the hand holding the knife. An Jingcheng saw his action and closed his eyes with a sense of relief.

If he dies, Brother Ruiwen can live.

Unexpectedly, Gu Ruiwen stuffed the knife into An Jingcheng's hand, then held An Jingcheng's hand and stabbed the knife into his own heart.

An Jingcheng opened his eyes suddenly, looked at the scene in front of him, and tried to retract his knife with trembling hands, but Gu Ruiwen held on tightly and stabbed him deeper.

An Jingcheng couldn't stop tears from falling.

A smile slowly emerged on Gu Ruiwen's bloodstained face. He looked at him and said, "What are you thinking about, Jingcheng? How could I bear to kill you?"

"Now that I'm no longer around to protect you, you can't be so willful anymore. You have to start killing people on your own. Promise me that you'll live well, okay?"

An Jingcheng looked at him blankly and nodded mechanically. At the same time, Gu Ruiwen loosened his grip on his hand and fell down.

Almost as soon as Gu Ruiwen fell down, the door of the room opened, and a group of men in black came in and began to drive them out.

An Jingcheng was stunned. He hadn't recovered from Gu Ruiwen's sudden death yet, and he was driven out.

After going out, the next room had been opened. Qi Anyan and the others walked out. Seeing An Jingcheng looking absent-minded, they walked over nervously.

Before she could open her mouth to ask him what happened, she saw men in black carrying the bodies out, and Gu Ruiwen was among them.

An Jingcheng looked at Gu Ruiwen who was about to be carried away, and his senses returned at this moment. He looked at the man in black and pounced on him without thinking.

His action scared Qi Anyan and Jiang Yuan, and they quickly pulled him back. If he had really rushed forward, An Jingcheng would probably have been beaten to death on the spot by the group of men in black.

An Jingcheng struggled frantically, trying to break free from their restraints, but he was held down by them. As soon as he opened his mouth, Qi Anyan quickly covered it.

An Jingcheng could only helplessly watch Gu Ruiwen being carried away, his tears falling even more violently.

He was dragged back to the dormitory by Qi Anyan and others.

……

Gu Ruiwen looked at An Jingcheng who suddenly burst into tears, confused, and tried to comfort him in a panic, "What's wrong? Why are you crying all of a sudden?"

Gu Ruiwen picked up a tissue to wipe his tears. After An Jingcheng sobbed twice, he suddenly reached out and hugged Gu Ruiwen tightly, burying his head in his chest.

Gu Ruiwen was completely at a loss as to what to do. What happened? Why did he suddenly cry?

Gu Ruiwen felt like he was taking care of a child, whose temper was just like the summer weather: cloudless one second and pouring rain the next.

When will Jing Cheng change his personality of crying easily? Even if he can't change it, at least he should know why he is crying, right?

He was talking peacefully but suddenly started crying. When I asked him why he was crying, he wouldn't say anything. I could only comfort him first and then ask him why he was crying again.

Gu Ruiwen thought helplessly and patted An Jingcheng's back gently. It took a while for him to stop crying.

Before he could ask him why he was crying, he heard An Jingcheng sobbing and asking him, "Can I see the scar on your heart?"

Gu Ruiwen was stunned for a moment, so the reason why he suddenly burst into tears was because he felt sorry for himself?

Facing An Jingcheng's red eyes, Gu Ruiwen gently wiped away his tears and said softly, "He is gone. After the wound healed completely, my father arranged for me to have a scar removal surgery. Now I don't have any scars on my body."

An Jingcheng could only give up. He pursed his lips, letting Gu Ruiwen wipe away his tears, and said, "I'm fine, please continue."

Gu Ruiwen looked at him in silence. He told him that he was fine with a face that had just been crying? This was not credible at all.

"Are you sure everything is okay? Jingcheng, lying is not a good thing." Gu Ruiwen treated An Jingcheng completely like a child.

An Jingcheng pouted and pushed him, saying, "It's really okay. Go on, you haven't answered my question yet after talking so much!"

Gu Ruiwen heaved a sigh of relief after confirming that An Jingcheng was really fine. He looked at him and continued, "I don't know the origin of the bracelet. My father sent people to investigate, but they didn't find anything, so the matter was dropped."

"It wasn't until I was in high school that I accidentally saw the same bracelet on the hand of the person next to me while getting food in the cafeteria."

When An Jingcheng heard this, his eyelids twitched and he had a bad feeling.

This bracelet was specially custom-made by his parents when he was three years old and had it blessed by a master. He and An Jinghe each got one. The style is exactly the same, except for the words on the red agate.

His was the character "Cheng" and An Jinghe's was the character "He".

Thinking about Gu Ruiwen's current support for the An family, An Jingcheng found it hard not to wonder if Gu Ruiwen had seen the bracelet on An Jinghe's hand and simply assumed that it was a gift from him, and had therefore supported the An family for so many years?

Thinking of this, An Jingcheng asked. Gu Ruiwen knocked on An Jingcheng's forehead with a speechless look. In his eyes, was he a brainless person who could only recognize people by a bracelet?

An Jingcheng rubbed his forehead aggrievedly, and listened to Gu Ruiwen saying, "Do I think I would do such a stupid thing?"

Watching An Jingcheng's movements, Gu Ruiwen reached out and rubbed his head, and continued, "I asked him at the time, and he told me that he had worn this bracelet for more than ten years. When his parents saw that he was weak when he was very young, they specially customized this bracelet and asked a master to consecrate it for him to wear, saying that it would keep him safe."

An Jingcheng lowered his eyes and thought to himself, no, he is the one who is weak, and the bracelet was specially made for him by his parents.

But An Jinghe found out about it and clamored for it too. His parents couldn't persuade him, so they had no choice but to prepare one for him as well.

"Then after I returned, I asked someone to check the truth of the matter. My subordinates told me that it was indeed true and An Jinghe did not lie to me. Only then did I believe it."

"The intuition bracelet is related to the An family, so I went to the An family to ask An's father and mother about the bracelet. However, their expressions were very strange when they saw the bracelet on my hand."

Gu Ruiwen thought for a moment before continuing, "When they saw the bracelet, their expressions were disgusted as if they had seen something dirty."

"She kept asking me where I got the bracelet. I just said I found it and put it on because I thought it looked pretty. Now that I saw An Jinghe also had one, I came over to ask."

"But after they heard me, they kept telling me to throw the bracelet away, saying it was brought by an unlucky star and asked me to throw it away quickly to avoid bad luck."

Hearing this, An Jingcheng's heart felt like it was pricked by a needle and began to hurt.

He had no expression and continued to listen to Gu Ruiwen.

"I asked them who the jinx was and where he was now. They changed their tune and said there was no jinx. They just thought it was not nice to wear the things they found, so they advised me to throw them away."

"The conversation was confusing and full of loopholes, so I just ignored them and left."

"Then why are you still supporting the An family?" An Jingcheng asked puzzledly. Since he knew there were many loopholes in their words, why are they still vigorously supporting the An family?

Not only that, he also spread rumors with An Jinghe, causing An Jinghe to do evil things outside under his name.

"I thought that since An Jinghe had an identical bracelet in his hand, it meant that the original owner of the bracelet should be related to the An family, so I supported them." Gu Ruiwen said.

"As for the scandal with An Jinghe, it was spread by my friends who saw that I suddenly supported the An family and was wearing a bracelet that was exactly the same as An Jinghe's, so they made random guesses."

"I explained it to them, but when they asked me where the bracelet came from, I couldn't tell them, which made them more convinced that it was related to An Jinghe. They even suspected that An Jinghe gave it to me, but I didn't admit it because I was embarrassed."

"I thought that I couldn't explain the origin of the bracelet, so I might as well not explain it. Rumors can spread as they please. It's not like I'll lose a piece of flesh anyway."

He also knew that the An family was definitely behind the spread of rumors, but for some reason, perhaps because of this bracelet, he became a little more tolerant of the An family.

As long as they don't do anything to harm the interests of the Gu family, Gu Ruiwen is too lazy to deal with them.

Fortunately, although An's father and mother were somewhat sycophantic, they were still clear-headed and would occasionally discipline the arrogant An Jinghe and tell him not to make trouble in front of them. Otherwise, he would not have tolerated them until now.

"Then why did you suddenly clarify it tonight? Aren't you afraid that you won't be able to explain it clearly?" An Jingcheng asked.

Gu Ruiwen looked at him tenderly, "Don't we have you now? Those groundless rumors should be resolved. Otherwise, if those who want to please An Jinghe use this to bully you, won't I cry to death?"

An Jingcheng blushed a little when he looked at him, and silently looked away, thinking, if they really came, who knows who would bully who.