After traveling through time, the four best friends were all targeted by the boss

Dingying Tower was some distance away from the Soul-Devouring Palace. Gu Ling was injured, and the residual poison had not yet been cleared. He knelt on one knee without loosening his grip.

Meng Yin quickly broke free from his arms, handed him the umbrella, took his hand and helped him up.

Gu Ling coughed a few times and was about to speak, but Meng Yin simply interrupted him and said, "I won't talk to you tomorrow if you say so."

Gu Ling shut up, and they supported each other and walked very slowly.

There was the sound of horse hooves coming from the front, mixed with rain, and they heard Lu Yun's voice.

As expected, Lu Yun, Qiao Yi and Duan Ran rode over on horseback, and when they saw the two men, they hurried forward to help.

Back in the palace, Meng Yin thought about Gu Huai.

She took out the key from her arms and understood why Gu Huai said some strange things.

So he doesn't have much time left, so he wants me to marry him? Meng Yin thought.

She didn't think too much about it when she left tonight and planned to ask him again tomorrow.

-

After the two left, Ayou hurriedly took people to take Gu Huai back.

When Gu Huai left, he picked up the hairpin that Meng Yin had left behind.

Back at the mansion, Ah You sighed, "Sir, this wedding banquet..."

Gu Huai sat back on the couch, his face pale and his lips bloodless.

"It doesn't count."

Ayou had no choice but to go out to boil medicine.

Gu Huai picked up the hairpin and his eyes drifted to the letter he had written.

Gu Huai couldn't help but smile bitterly. His vision gradually became blurred. He sighed and looked up at the painting.

The content of the painting was his delusion. He had had such a dream countless nights. He dreamed that he was not angry because of the token, and that their relationship was not alienated. She was not attracted to Gu Ling, and he was always by her side.

"Ayin, I'm so stupid. Ever since you came to me, I've developed different feelings for you, but I didn't have the courage to face it."

"I have always felt that Gu Ling does not deserve all this. Now it seems that I am just jealous of him. I am jealous that he does everything better than me, and even you are attracted to him."

"I wonder if everything would turn around if I could do it all over again?"

He talked to himself, his vision becoming increasingly blurred, but in his mind, Meng Yin's appearance became clearer and clearer.

Her smile, her tears, her hatred, were all deeply imprinted in his heart. Before he knew he was terminally ill, he had thought about keeping her by his side when he got everything back.

He was in trouble later and didn't have much time left. He originally wanted to take care of his businesses and then return to Qilin City to wait for death. He didn't expect Meng Yin to come to him and persuade him to leave Yi An and the others.

He still remembers the scene when Meng Yin came. She was wearing a goose yellow dress, just like when she was in Zhaoding City, but the expression on her face told him that now was not the same as before.

Was she persuading herself because she didn't want him to delay Gu Ling, or because she was worried that he would be plotted against? Or was it both - did it matter? While he was waiting to die, her sudden appearance awakened the long-dormant friendship in his heart.

Since she didn't want him to associate with Yi'an and the others, he should just agree. This way, they wouldn't be on opposite sides. Could they go back to the past when she would call him Master Gu with a smile?

The embrace between her and Gu Ling shattered his fantasy, and he had to see clearly that Gu Ling was the one who could always accompany her, and he, a sickly man, would die quietly in the near future.

Die...the body and emotions are buried in the soil, never to see the light of day again.

But he was unwilling to give up. In his last days, he had only one obsession, which was to let Meng Yin marry him once.

Regardless of his illness, he studied poison all night long. While helping her, he secretly planned to poison Gu Ling so that A Yin would compromise and marry him.

Whether she hated him or never knew the truth for her entire life, he didn't dare to expect Meng Yin to shed a single tear after his death.

Everything tonight was still stopped by Gu Ling, his wedding banquet with A Yin. A Yin didn't marry him after all, between Gu Ling and him, she would swing the hairpin in her hand towards herself without hesitation.

Gu Huai couldn't help but touch the wound on his shoulder and his eyes fell on the engagement letter on the table.

He stood up, barely supported himself to the side, and touched the word "Meng" with his finger. After a long time, he picked up the pen, completed Meng Yin's name, and added his own name.

He thought for a while and wrote a few words in the letter to my wife Ayin.

On second thought, how could she read the letter he wrote if she hated him so much?

Sitting back on the couch, the wind made the candle flame flicker constantly, carrying his shadow and the letter that was burned to ashes.

His vision became increasingly blurry, but Gu Huai looked at the painting on the screen, and it seemed more and more real.

He suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, leaned on the couch, and pulled up the corners of his mouth weakly.

When his thoughts returned to Zhaoding City, Meng Yin appeared out of nowhere and fell on him, begging him to help her.

Gu Huai closed his eyes and said in a faint and weak voice: "Ayin, marry me in the next life, okay?"

-

Late at night, Ayou saw that the light in the study was still on, and thought that Gu Huai had not yet rested, so he hurried forward and knocked on the door.

There was no response. He pushed the door open and saw Gu Huai lying on the couch with his eyes closed.

Ah You was shocked and shouted, "Young Master, Young Master!"

Gu Huai still did not respond. His frighteningly pale arms hung by the side of the couch, motionless.

Ah You stepped forward and covered him with the quilt. He knew that the young master was gone.

On the desk next to him were the marriage agreement and the will.

Ayou wiped away his tears, put away the engagement letter, and read the will carefully.

The funeral was simple, and all his property in the Gu family was handed over to Meng Yin.

Ayou looked back at him and thought: Giving it to Miss Meng is just giving it to Lord Gu, and then returning to the Gu family.

He also thought of another aspect: the Gu family's more than ten-year-long dispute over who would become the head of the family had finally ended with Gu Huai's death.

-

The next day, Meng Yin quietly closed the door. Gu Ling was still resting and she didn't want to disturb him.

Meng Yin pinched the key in her palm, feeling that she had missed something.

He called Qiao Yi and they went to Gu's house together.

It rained yesterday, so the air is exceptionally clear today, but also a bit colder.

As they were almost at Gu's house, Meng Yin, who was sitting in the sedan chair, suddenly shivered.

She drew aside the curtain and saw white cloth flowers hanging on the huge gate of Gu Mansion!

Meng Yin opened her eyes wide, knowing clearly that Gu Huai was dead.

After getting off the carriage, she saw Ayou standing at the door.

"Ayou, your young master..." Meng Yin stepped forward and asked directly.

Ah You nodded and said, "The young master is gone."

Meng Yin looked inside and asked, "Why are there so few people?"

Ah You said, "The Master said to keep everything simple and not to exaggerate."

Meng Yin didn't know what to say, so she followed Ayou in.

Ayou led her to the room where Gu Huai lived before his death and said, "Miss Meng, the young master said in his will that all his properties will belong to you." He pointed to the box on the table.

Meng Yin walked forward in a daze, took out the key and compared it, and it was this box.

"Did he say anything else?" Meng Yin asked, and then thought of something he had missed. "Or did he leave a letter?"

Ah You shook his head and said, "No, young lady. Our master knew that he had a terminal illness when he went to Taoyuan City. He didn't have much time left."

Meng Yin lowered her head and understood why he had so readily agreed to not associate with Han Lao and the others.

When leaving, Meng Yin looked back at the house. In a trance, she seemed to see a person in a blue shirt walking out from inside, and in the blink of an eye, there was nothing there.

Meng Yin's eyes became a little hot unconsciously. The reason why Gu Huai poisoned Gu Ling was really just to get her to marry him.

After leaving the mansion, Qiao Yi asked, "Madam...are you sad?"

Meng Yin shook her head, looked up at the cold white sky, and said, "From his perspective, it is indeed a pity. And he has helped us."

She lowered her head and tears fell.

Meng Yin didn't know about the letter, and Gu Huai didn't know that Meng Yin had shed tears for him.