The prince loves me like his life, but I force him to rebel

"What? You don't like me telling the truth?"

"Everyone will die at birth, but no one tells this to a child when they are just born. Everyone knows that lanterns that drift with the crowd cannot fulfill people's wishes, but people still enjoy releasing lanterns. As long as people are alive, there must always be some hope."

"Are you not saying that the world is stupid?"

Cen Yu smiled. His smile was very nice, but it was full of sarcasm.

"No, I'm saying that we have no right to destroy other people's hopes." Gu Nianzhi paused and added seriously, "That would be cruel."

"Cruel?" Cen Yu chuckled. "Is this what you call cruel?"

Ignoring Gu Nianzhi's puzzled look, Cen Yu even laughed to the point of tears.

"I hope you will never know what true cruelty is."

Cen Yu's hands stopped exerting force, and Gu Nianzhi gradually loosened his grip.

Cen Yu threw the stone in his hand aside and stared at the increasing number of lanterns on the river.

"Brother Gu, did you let go of the lanterns?"

"No."

"Is it because Brother Gu doesn't have those unattainable wishes in his heart?"

"Not really."

"Brother Gu, do you not believe in making wishes come true like me?"

Gu Nianzhi was really stumped by the question.

She has been a staunch materialist since she was a child and believes in science above all else, but the experience of time travel made her realize that there are things in this world that cannot be explained by science.

Perhaps it is the same with human wishes. Making a wish sincerely may also be an invisible energy that helps realize the wish?

"I think a wish is a kind of goal. Only with a goal can we have a direction to strive for. Everything is planned in advance, otherwise it will be abandoned. Making a wish may really be useful."

"Brother Gu has a good insight."

Cen Yu turned his head slightly and looked at Gu Nianzhi.

"If you could make a wish right now and it would come true, what would you wish for, Brother Gu?"

"I hope to go home soon and live my old life again."

"Oh? Where is Brother Gu's home?"

"A place very, very far away, so far away that even Brother Cen has never heard of it."

Since their last encounter, Cen Yu sent people to secretly investigate Gu Nianzhi, but strangely, Gu Nianzhi seemed to have fallen from the sky, and no one could find out her origins.

Now that Gu Nianzhi mentioned his hometown, Cen Yu naturally wanted to dig deeper.

"What's the direction?"

"I don't know. I have a poor sense of direction."

Gu Nianzhi smiled a little awkwardly and simply sat down on the stone next to Cen Yu. This way, Cen Yu didn't have to look up at her.

"Is Mr. Gu's hometown in a foreign country?"

"I guess so. We are rich in resources and cash, and there are many miracles that Brother Cen cannot imagine."

"Miracle? If it's in your hometown, can a miracle happen to my legs?"

Gu Nianzhi had always been inconvenient to ask about the condition of Cen Yu's leg, but now that Cen Yu took the initiative to talk about it, she asked with concern.

"Brother Cen's legs?"

"Injured by an assassin."

Cen Yu gently lifted up his outer shirt, revealing the stump of his leg that was broken right from the middle of his calf.

"With legs like these, will any miracle happen in your hometown?"

"A miracle is a miracle because it doesn't happen easily."

"I knew it."

Cen Yu smiled faintly.

Gu Nianzhi saw sadness on his face.

"Brother Cen, I would like to ask, who did this to you?"

Cen Yu turned around and looked at Gu Nianzhi. Just as he was about to answer, a loud noise resounded through the sky.

Gu Nianzhi looked in the direction of the sound and saw a red patch of sky in the direction of Duanmen.

The explosion finally happened.

She stood up anxiously.

"exploded?"

There were several more explosions.

Gradually, the noisy voices in the city also reached my ears.

In the end, nothing could be changed and the explosion still happened.

Could something have happened to Shu Huaiyuan?

"Brother Cen, please let the guards take you back. I'm afraid today will not be peaceful."

"how about you?"

"I want to go and see, several of my friends are in the city..."

If the explosion happened at Duanmen, the Third Prince, Shu Huaiyuan, Lin Heng... would probably be in great danger.

Gu Nianzhi was about to return to Duanmen, but Cen Yu grabbed her wrist.

"You can't leave. It's very dangerous in there now."

"I have to find them."

Gu Nianzhi felt a little regretful. If he had not told Shu Huaiyuan about the explosion, he should have stayed by the emperor's side the entire time, and the explosion on Suzaku Street would not have been able to hurt him at all.

But because of what I said to him, he would definitely keep checking for explosives and suspicious persons at the scene, so it is very likely that he was at the scene of the explosion when it happened...

"You can't go."

Cen Yu's eyes were determined and he increased the strength in his hands.

"You are the only person in this world who still cares about my life or death. I can't let you put yourself in danger."

Gu Nian was stunned.

I just mistakenly thought that Cen Yu was going to commit suicide, and I stopped him out of common sense. I didn't expect that this action would be so significant to him.

"so……"

Gu Nianzhi thought about the strangeness of being brought here by a half-grown child today, and thought about Cen Yudong chatting with her and leaving her here. All signs seemed to point to one fact.

"So... you tried every means to bring me here today because you knew that there would be an explosion on Suzaku Street today? And you didn't want me to die?"

Cen Yu's expression changed slightly.

During his investigation, he already knew about the life and death experiences between Gu Nianzhi and the Crown Prince and the Third Prince, and he was also aware of all the advice Gu Nianzhi gave to the Crown Prince.

But he really didn't expect Gu Nianzhi to be so smart.

"If Master Cen knew about this, he could have told me the danger and asked me to stop it. But you didn't. You just tricked me here and let the explosion happen. So, this explosion is what you want to see? Are you the one who caused it?"

With just a few simple words, Gu Nianzhi had already discovered the truth.

Cen Yu was really at a loss.

If such a smart person cannot be used for one's own benefit, he will become a big problem in time.

Cen Yu did not answer Gu Nianzhi's question.

The two of them just kept staring at each other.

Finally, Gu Nianzhi spoke again.

"Mr. Cen, who are you?"