Gu Junshi had also accumulated enough strength. With a surge of her inner power, the airwaves broke free from the Heavenly Dao’s confinement.
“For her, you actually developed a heart demon, and you coexist peacefully with it. Liujiang Fusheng, you’re utterly mad!” The Heavenly Dao was so enraged it felt like it was suffocating.
It was like a doting father whose meticulously raised elite son suddenly became rebellious and wanted to elope with a punk rocker, leaving the father with a heart attack.
The heart demon let out a sinister chuckle, narrowed its eyes, and spat, “It’s none of your concern!”
The Heavenly Dao wished it could strike down the heart demon with a palm, but it knew well that a heart demon was formless and intangible. Only by severing the root of the heart demon could it be eradicated. Otherwise, the two were mutually dependent; one injured, both suffered; one destroyed, both perished.
“What kind of poison did she feed you? Besides deceiving you, bullying you, humiliating you, and trampling on you, what good deeds has she ever done for you? She has never even truly loved you!”
The Heavenly Dao truly couldn’t understand. Some people felt admiration, some felt pity, some desired beauty, some sought warmth. There were always a thousand reasons and connections for liking someone. Yet, Gu Junshi’s treatment of him was entirely feigned. Even if he was momentarily deceived, why did he still cling to her stubbornly after discovering the truth? What was he after?
The heart demon, Li Sheng, paused, a strange expression appearing on its face. Then it said, “If he could know, I wouldn’t have been born.”
The Heavenly Dao could only curse angrily, “Bewitched!”
“Have you said enough?” At this point, Gu Junshi, who had been listening to the Heavenly Dao belittle her completely, finally interjected.
Seeing that she had escaped his confining formation, and thinking that she was the culprit, the Heavenly Dao’s eyes reddened with fury. “A beauty that brings disaster! He was supposed to be a pure and immaculate being, with shallow desires and emotions. Yet, for you, he generated a heart demon, and will eventually go mad, lose his mind, and his soul will depart to become a demon!”
By daytime, the Heavenly Dao’s son, painstakingly cultivated, was effectively ruined.
Everyone harbored greed, anger, and delusion. When these became sufficiently strong, the heart demon would seize the opportunity to invade and occupy a person’s body. Now, it had replaced the original body and possessed the strength to contend with the Heavenly Dao for it.
Gu Junshi naturally knew where the heart demon originated. She looked at the heart demon, Li Sheng, and was also somewhat puzzled why Liujiang Fusheng had allowed the heart demon to grow so formidable.
The Heavenly Dao knew at a glance why the heart demon was born, and Gu Junshi knew it too.
When the heart demon, disguised as Li Sheng, approached her in the past, his inexplicable affection and closeness had made Gu Junshi suspect his intentions. It wasn’t until she learned that Li Sheng was actually Liujiang Fusheng’s heart demon that she finally understood everything.
Gu Junshi ignored the Heavenly Dao’s accusations and scolding. Although she was reserved and not good at expressing her emotions, she was someone who was honest about her inner thoughts.
In her mind, there had once been a vague, indistinct shadow. She had painstakingly sketched it into clarity, and he, bit by bit, had etched it deeper.
Thus, that shadow finally took on a concrete form.
That form was Liujiang Fusheng.
Some say that people who are indifferent in life have a common characteristic in their emotional expression: laziness.
Lazy to fall for someone.
Lazy to nurture a relationship.
Lazy to put in effort.
Lazy to cherish someone.
But such a lazy person, if truly attracted to someone, tempted and moved by someone, and taught about feelings by someone, would also be too lazy to start a new relationship.
She would, and only, be devoted to him.
“Liujiang Fusheng, I am not indifferent to you. I have been moved, no…” She weighed the inclinations in her heart and corrected her previous statement: “I should have fallen in love with you.”
Upon suddenly hearing Gu Junshi’s public confession, both the heart demon and the Heavenly Dao looked as if their expressions had been completely drained.
They turned their heads in astonishment, staring at her with vacant eyes.
Gu Junshi took a step towards him. “Liujiang Fusheng, did you hear me?”
She called out Liujiang Fusheng’s name with absolute certainty. While the Heavenly Dao and the heart demon were stunned, they suddenly felt a powerful, swirling suction. Afterwards, they felt as if they were trapped inside a glass house, unable to touch the outside world, yet able to see what was happening beyond.
When Liujiang Fusheng opened his eyes again, he was no longer the Heavenly Dao, nor the heart demon, but the true Liujiang Fusheng.
Because he heard Gu Junshi’s call, because of that phrase, “love,” he felt that even if he fell into the abyss or was trapped in hell, he would crawl back to her side.
He lowered his eyes and stood stiffly for a moment, then relaxed his body.
He turned his head, looking at Gu Junshi, his gaze involuntarily chasing the light in her eyes. “To awaken me, you’ll really say anything, won’t you.”
He didn’t believe her.
She didn’t say anything further.
Liujiang Fusheng, however, seemed provoked. His composure, restrained beneath an icy facade, seemed to vanish as if it never existed. He flashed in front of her, grabbing her shoulders and pulling her closer.
“What you just said, is it true?”
Gu Junshi met his urgent, even desperate anger, or more accurately, his pitiable and endearing look. She then let out a light laugh. “I have no reason to lie to you.”
He was somewhat disbelieving, but desperately wanted to believe, so he became somewhat conflicted, starting to search for evidence. “Do you truly like me? Then why did you still agree to marry someone else?”
Gu Junshi’s expression remained unchanged. “Didn’t that not happen?”
“Then repeat your marriage vows to the Human Emperor to me, but they cannot be the same,” he demanded.
She was momentarily speechless, thus failing to react in time.
Liujiang Fusheng, however, seemed to have caught her off guard, revealing a self-mocking smile. “You say you like me, yet you spoke such solemn words to another man, but I have never received a formal promise from you.”
Although Gu Junshi knew this was a provocation, she remembered that she really had never spoken a heartfelt word to him. While she didn’t regret or feel guilt about killing her husband in those years, the situation was different now. He wanted to hear it, and she was willing to tell him.
“Liujiang Fusheng, listen.” Once Gu Junshi became serious, she didn’t concern herself with the beauty or technique of her words; instead, they were the most simple and sincere. “In this small world, in this lifetime, I, Gu Junshi, only love you…”
As Liujiang Fusheng’s breathing seemed to stagnate, he heard her say, “Let heaven and earth bear witness to these words, let the sun and moon be my guide.”
The moment Gu Junshi’s words fell, Liujiang Fusheng felt his mind go blank. Everything before him seemed to blur into an unreal sensation. Everything was only the person before him.
She was rendered in exquisite detail, occupying his entire vision and dominating his every thought.
The Human Emperor forced himself to stand, his face now pale. He stared expressionlessly at the two of them.
As for the others, they were completely stunned by the series of unexpected events and had no idea what was going on.
Those who had come to Fengdu City to witness the wedding today probably never imagined that such a grand ceremony would involve such a significant turn of events.
And they had all become witnesses to this marital upheaval.
As the immense marriage contract array reappeared, the Affinity Stone emitted a purplish-pink light that shot straight into the sky. The red light outlined the overcast clouds with a glowing edge, and then the sky exploded with scattered dazzling light that drifted down. The swaying halos were clear and pure, the gentle breeze welcoming. It seemed as if this wedding had only officially begun at this moment.