The General is Pregnant: His Majesty Abstinence and Sexual Devotion Every Night

Chapter 263 Guilt

Could it be that she knew there would be an epidemic in Nanyu City, so she acted like this?

Before Qi Yunjin could think about it, the person in his arms suddenly woke up. The two looked at each other, Qi Yunjin's eyebrows did not move, and the emotion in his eyes was unclear.

When Gu Junqing found himself in the emperor's arms, his eyebrows twitched and he almost jumped up.

Then looking at the emperor's expression, Gu Junqing's face froze, knowing that his current reaction must be extremely suspicious to them.

Now the emperor must be waiting for my explanation.

There is no way I could tell the emperor about my rebirth, Gu Junqing thought to himself as he looked at the emperor. While the people here were still thinking about how to explain, Qi Yunjin put his hands that had just been holding Gu Junqing's waist behind his back, and after admiring Gu Junqing's pretending to be calm, he spoke first:

"General Gu has been wanting to know the news about Nanyu City these days. Could it be that he is waiting for this incident to happen?"

This statement has a profound meaning.

Gu Junqing's expression froze.

She was afraid that the emperor would overthink and think that she was the one who deliberately waited for the epidemic to wreak havoc in Nanyu City while she stood by and watched, which made her look like she had ulterior motives.

She opened her mouth. Although she expected the emperor to ask Zhang Jiajie this question, when she actually started asking, she didn't know how to answer for a moment.

When she saw the emperor's peach blossom eyes narrowed and looked at her with inquiry, Gu Junqing's eyelids trembled, and then she thought of something, and her drooping eyes slightly lit up. Then she half-knelt on the ground, pretending to be extremely terrified. Although she didn't cry out in misery like some ministers in the court, it was almost the same. Anyway, she just pretended to be miserable and told the emperor the story she had just thought of.

"At this point, I dare not hide it from the emperor anymore, even if I am regarded as a mad monster..."

After Gu Junqing finished his prelude, he paused and continued:

"...These past few days, I have been unable to sleep at night and have been troubled by the same dream. At first, I didn't know it was Nanyu City, and I didn't take this dream seriously. But the more I dreamed recently, the more uneasy I felt. It was not until Qi Anyi was demoted to a commoner and exiled to Nanyu City that I vaguely glimpsed it from the dream and learned that the place was Nanyu City. At the beginning of the dream, Nanyu City was dead silent, like a dead city. The impression was too deep, so I had to pay attention to it, but I was not sure of its authenticity. In addition, the news I have been asking the emperor for recently did not match any of the dreams. I should not have taken it to heart, but the dreams have been too frequent recently, so..."

So she asked frequently about matters concerning Nanyu City.

This is what she didn't finish saying, of course they just made it up in their imaginations.

After all, this whole paragraph was made up by myself half-truthfully.

After she finished speaking, she was still kneeling on the ground. The emperor, who was standing, did not react at all, and it was unknown whether he believed what she said or not.

However, although she knew in advance that something would happen in Nanyu City, the things that happened in her previous life did not happen. She subconsciously thought that the plague would not come, so she asked this question frequently. Although the words were different, the actual meaning was the same. She just replaced rebirth with a dream.

I don’t know what the emperor thinks and whether he will believe her words.

Gu Junqing lowered her eyes, stunned for a long time, and then her mind was distracted for a moment. She actually expected the emperor to believe her in this matter. But Zhang Jiajie felt that what she said just now was nonsense, and the emperor would definitely not believe her.

After thinking about this, Gu Junqing thought again, if the emperor began to doubt her, then she would take the initiative to tell the emperor that she was going to Nanyu City and would not return to the capital until the plague was resolved.

Gu Junqing suddenly realized that this idea was a good one and he no longer expected the emperor to trust him.

She raised her eyes slightly and focused on Qi Yunjin's movement as he slightly raised his foot and took a few steps towards her.

What is this for?

Gu Junqing's thoughts were a little interrupted for a moment, and all his attention was focused on Qi Yunjin's footsteps slowly walking towards him.

Then she felt someone patting her head gently. It didn't hurt, but rather it caused a tingling sensation.

She could feel that the person who patted her head was doing it very lightly, with a kind of indescribable tenderness.

She was stunned. Her eyebrows were lowered, and her sullen expression was gone, replaced by a confused look. Her lips, which were pursed just now, were now slightly opened, her long eyelashes were trembling, and her eyes were wide open, looking innocent and cute.

Qi Yunjin looked at Gu Junqing's expression and felt his heart soften. He leaned over slightly and helped Gu Junqing, who was kneeling on the ground, up.

Gu Junqing didn't understand. If the emperor didn't let her kneel, she wouldn't kneel. But she felt confused about the emperor's current attitude.

She has already planned what to do next to regain the emperor's trust.

But now that she was being supported so gently by the emperor, she didn't know how to react, and these words kept flashing through her mind.

The emperor actually trusts me.

This trust really made Gu Junqing confused. She didn't say anything, waiting for the emperor to say something. "I believe everything you say, why are you so anxious?"

The emperor's soothing words were ringing in his ears. Gu Junqing's eyes flickered and he didn't know where to start to say the original words.

So he could only thank her in a low voice: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

When Qi Yunjin saw her standing and heard her thanks, he responded to her, but his eyes were on Gu Junqing's face.

The expression on that face changed from expectation and tension to calmness, and then he was confused by his own words, and now he still looked a little confused.

However, the only thing that remained unchanged was that Gu Junqing looked at him with red eyes, as if she had been crying.

He sighed silently, and warned himself in his heart that this was the last time he would do this for being soft-hearted.

If Gu Junqing hides something again next time, I will never be soft-hearted again.

Gu Junqing was relieved to see that the emperor did not pursue the truth of her words just now, but the matter of Nanyu City had not been resolved yet, and she still felt unspeakable guilt and self-blame in her heart.

If I had told the emperor earlier, or reminded the emperor, then the people in the east of Nanyu City would not have been infected with the plague and would still be fine.