Gu Yu knew that once he answered, he would consume the last bit of Junze's sincerity.
But she had to answer, Gu Jiajun's blood feud could not be wiped out just because of her personal affair.
She bears not only the hatred of her father, but also the hatred of thousands of families.
After Gu's battle at Sunset Pass, how many mothers lost their sons, how many wives lost their husbands, and how many children lost their fathers.
They are struggling with the pain of bereavement, but they don't know that the culprit is the person they are trying to protect with all their lives.
To this day, the children of the Gu family are still taught to be like their fathers, like Gu Junyi, the Duke of Laozhen, who protects the family and the country, even if they are buried in horse leather.
They didn't know the truth, but Gu Yu couldn't pretend that they didn't know.
As the head of the Gu family, if she did not avenge her, there would be no one to seek justice for those Gu family soldiers who died in mass graves.
Under Junze's gaze, she thought of the red flaming eyes in the ancestral hall that represented the Gu family army.
It witnessed the rise of Gu Jiajun in battle after battle, and also witnessed the fall of Gu Jiajun in mass graves.
Now, I am witnessing her choice invisibly.
Gu Yu's tears fell silently. As Junze looked forward to it, she said: "I am the only male in the Gu family. I have an unshirkable responsibility. I cannot take a wrong step."
There was no need to give a clear answer, Junze already knew the answer from her tears.
Junze suppressed his emotions and said cruelly: "You will marry Ji Miaoxian in three days. I will come. I will also marry in two days. Do you want to come?"
Gu Yu felt like a thousand arrows had pierced her heart, and she was in pain, but she still said: "If this is what you want, I will go."
Seeing him crowded with friends, seeing him in red clothes like fire, seeing him holding another person's hand, running in the opposite direction from her, drifting away.
Junze knelt half on the ground, raised her face, wiped the tears on her face, and said, "Gu Yu, do you also know the pain?"
Gu Yu raised his head in surprise.
Junze took her hand, put it on his heart, and said: "Watching your wives and concubines come in, watching you push me away again and again, I will only feel more pain here than you."
Gu Yu felt his heartbeat in the palm of her hand and said with tears: "I'm sorry."
Junze sighed, finally unable to be cruel to Gu Yu.
When he was hurt by Gu Yu, he had many moments when love turned hate, and he wished he could return the humiliation and pain he had experienced to Gu Yu a thousand times.
But when he saw the big cloak, he was just overjoyed. It turned out that all the words Gu Yu said were lies to him, and he was not the only one who couldn't love her.
He forced Gu Yu to make a choice, and when he saw Gu Yu, who had always been sober and self-aware, burst into tears because of him, there was no joy in revenge in her heart, only endless sorrow.
Junze's hands were wet and he said: "Don't cry. I lied to you. There is no little girl, and I will not delay another woman before I let go of you."
Gu Yu blinked, her long and narrow eyelashes filled with tears, and said: "If there is such a woman, I will not stop you, nor will I do anything to her."
Jun Zedao: "No need to explain, I believe in your character. Now that I am honest with each other, you must also be honest with me. The relationship between us should not end like this. You answer whatever I ask. You can remain silent,
But you can’t cheat.”
Gu Yu opened her mouth, but no words came out.
How could she not deceive Junze? Her biggest deception was her own identity.
Junze said: "Do you like your wives and concubines?"
Gu Yu sat paralyzed on the ground, leaning against the door, while Jun Ze half-knelt beside her, very close to her.
When he said this, his voice was low, like a whisper between lovers.
Gu Yu shook her head, unable to resist his tenderness, and said: "They and I are not in a relationship between men and women."
Junze said: "Have you ever touched them?"
Gu Yu didn't dare to say too much, and just said: "I haven't before."
Junze shook Gu Yu's hand.
He knew that Gu Yu was not the kind of man who separated love and desire.
Junze said: "Where is Ji Miaoxian? Why do you want to marry her?"
Gu Yu said: "The Duke's mansion cannot be without its mistress."
Junze nodded, Gu Yu was different from him, it could be seen from the palace banquet.
He could ruin his reputation and make those noble ladies in Kyoto give up the idea of becoming the Xiaoyao Princess, just because he has the support of the Holy Emperor and the eldest princess behind him.
But Gu Yu couldn't do it. Her elder sister was in the harem and her younger sister was still unmarried. Gu Yu couldn't let her reputation harm her older sisters.
Moreover, Gu Yu is bound to embark on the path of becoming a powerful minister, so the position of the Duke's wife will be coveted by countless people, and it is not impossible that another Sun Caiwei will appear.
Then Ji Miaoxian, a cousin who is both an all-powerful and an orphan, is very suitable.
Junze said quietly: "Now the Zhenguo Palace has no mistress, what will happen in the future? Will it become that the Zhenguo Palace cannot have an heir? You will fall into the dusty net of the world step by step, and you will be unable to escape."
Gu Yu lowered her head. If she were really a man, she would indeed do what Junze said.
Junze said: "Is it really just because the world doesn't tolerate you that you don't want to be with me?"
He knew Gu Yu very well.
If Gu Yu was the kind of person who was afraid of the secular world, he would not have suggested that women join the army, nor would he have wanted to destroy the chastity arch.
Even when he learned about the fifth prince and the young eunuch Derong, he felt numb and it was difficult to accept it, but Gu Yu's eyes when looking at the fifth prince and Derong were still clear.
But Gu Yu still said: "I am the only male in the Gu family, and I have an unshirkable responsibility. I cannot make a wrong step."
Jun Ze said: "If you take a wrong step on the impossible path, what is there in the path you want to take that you can't tell me and walk with me?"
Gu Yu knew that if Junze was by her side, it would be a great help to her on the road to revenge.
But her enemy is not someone else, but Junze's uncle.
She already owed Junze enough, so how could she use him despicably to take revenge on his relatives?
Gu Yu calmed down and said, "The person you stopped to assassinate me at the lantern festival must have been sent by the eldest princess."
She later searched hard for the truth, but found nothing, and there was no movement from Junze, so the person behind it could only be someone who Junze was also afraid of.
After much deliberation, only the eldest princess who had figured out the mystery could do such a thing, allowing Junze to help cover up the situation even when she was injured.
Junze smiled bitterly and said, "So you're afraid of this? Do you think I can't protect you?"
Gu Yu still chose to deceive him, and suppressed her grief and said: "In addition to the eldest princess, there is also the Jun family, and the Holy Master. I can't follow you in knowing that it is a wrong path, and I don't want to hide behind you and bear these unreasonable disasters."
Junze's lips curved into a sarcastic smile and said, "What a good reason."
Regardless of whether it is true or not, it has reached this point. Gu Yu told him about the assassination and blocked his mouth, which can only explain one thing:
Gu Yu loved him, but this love was not enough to surpass her unspeakable secrets. No matter how much he said, he could not make Gu Yu change her mind.
He stood up and said: "Then I wish Mr. Gu a harmonious marriage and a happy family with children and grandchildren."
Junze dusted off the dust on his clothes, as if dusting away the traces of his visit.
He opened the door and left completely.
Gu Yu was still slumped on the ground, and the world was dark.