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Gu Xiaoxi paced back and forth in the hospital room when suddenly, an idea struck her.

She could enter Quan Shaoqing’s Sea of Consciousness to see what exactly had happened, causing him to remain comatose.

Thinking this, Gu Xiaoxi did just that.

She locked the hospital room door from within, walked up to Quan Shaoqing’s bedside, and raised her finger.

Gathering Spiritual Energy at her fingertip, she swiftly pressed it into the center of Quan Shaoqing’s brow.

Moments later, Gu Xiaoxi felt darkness envelop her sight as her consciousness rapidly began to plummet.

After the world stopped spinning, Gu Xiaoxi found herself in a place with clearly visible blood vessels and realized it was the location of the heart.

Could this be Quan Shaoqing’s heart?

Gu Xiaoxi looked around and took a step forward.

Gradually, she saw a heart, a strong and vigorously pulsating heart.

The rhythm was her favorite to listen to, the same sound she heard each time she was close to his chest.

Only now, there was a chain bound tightly around that vigorously beating heart.

The chain, like a net, covered most of the heart.

Even from afar, Gu Xiaoxi could feel the terrifying and malevolent power emanating from the chain.

She found herself standing there, realizing her feet were trembling and she couldn’t take another step closer.

A chilling evil aura that could make one’s soul tremble radiated from the chain.

"How could this be?" Gu Xiaoxi struggled, moving her leaden feet to approach the chain.

Only then did she see clearly that the chain displayed every single moment she and Quan Shaoqing had shared.

Including their meeting, their time together, and their union. Every moment was recorded with clarity.

Gu Xiaoxi reached out in astonishment, wanting to touch the chain to see how it was so miraculous—how it could project their past like a movie, so vividly on the chain.

Just as Gu Xiaoxi’s hand was about to touch the chain, she heard Ai Xiang’s voice. The next second, she was pulled back to the real world.

"Gu Xiaoxi, what are you doing!" Ai Xiang had appeared in the hospital room at some point, and it was now broad daylight outside.

Lin Mi and the nurses stood nearby, all of them looking at Gu Xiaoxi with puzzled faces.

Because, they had only seen Gu Xiaoxi standing in front of Quan Shaoqing’s bed, motionless as a wooden stake.

They knocked on the door, but she didn’t answer, and she did not move, appearing extremely strange.

Only Ai Xiang knew what she was doing.

"Everyone leave, I have something to say to Gu Xiaoxi," Ai Xiang said sternly, her tone even colder.

Once the others had left and only Quan Shaoqing, Ai Xiang, and Gu Xiaoxi remained in the room,

Ai Xiang fixed Gu Xiaoxi with a stern gaze, "Do you realize how dangerous that was just now? In the Sea of Consciousness, if you had gone in and couldn’t find your way back, both of you would have been lost in the darkness, never to see each other again.

Also, once a consciousness leaves the body for twenty-four hours, the person will die. "

"What? Why didn’t you tell me earlier!" Gu Xiaoxi had no idea the consequences could be so severe.

"Luckily I came back in time." The way she had called out to her earlier seemed ordinary, but in reality, it was an act of Telekinesis. Using her voice as a guide, Ai Xiang had led Gu Xiaoxi’s consciousness out of Quan Shaoqing’s Sea of Consciousness.

Without time to dwell on the matter, Gu Xiaoxi immediately grabbed Ai Xiang’s arm, "I just saw his heart chained by a black chain, but that chain was peculiar—it chronicled the past I shared with him. Ai Xiang, what is going on?"

Ai Xiang looked at the sleeping Quan Shaoqing, lifted her head to meet Gu Xiaoxi’s gaze, and spoke gravely, "I can no longer keep this from you. But it’s also time that you knew."

With that, Ai Xiang sat down on a chair in front of the sickbed and told Gu Xiaoxi, "Listen carefully!"

Seeing her serious expression, Gu Xiaoxi felt her heart rising to her throat.

"Shaoqing isn’t simply sick; he is affected by a Love-Forbidding Curse.

Many years ago during that great battle, all his comrades died.

He was gravely injured and fell under the Nascent Soul’s Life and Death Curse.

Later, he was on the brink of death, and everyone thought he was gone.

But unexpectedly, he came back to life."

"However, the matter didn’t end there. Breaking the Life and Death Curse, meaning death and then rebirth, was also the trigger for the Love-Forbidding Curse.

The chain you saw is likely the Love-Forbidding Curse sealing the heart.

The memories recorded on it are the taboo of the Love-Forbidding Curse.

If the chain is filled with memories, encompassing the whole heart, that is the final moment when the spell would be triggered. "

"What happens when the spell is triggered?" Gu Xiaoxi found her hands, her entire body, shaking.

She was afraid of Ai Xiang’s answer!

But Ai Xiang’s voice was so merciless.

"He will die!"

"Didn’t you go to find a cure? Did you find it?" Gu Xiaoxi tried to remain calm. Yet her tone betrayed her fear and distress.

"I found it," Ai Xiang said, her face devoid of joy but instead filled with deep concern.

"The only solution now is to use Oblivion Grass to cleanse the memories attached to that chain. That way, even if the spell follows him for life, it won’t cause any more trouble," Ai Xiang said with a grave expression.

At the same time, he took out a jade box from his pocket, which contained a crystal-clear green grass.

Its luminescent glow clearly marked it as no ordinary item.

"To find this, I went deep into the eastern Primitive Forest, a journey fraught with hardships and danger. This is the only way to save him," Ai Xiang knew how cruel this act was. But compared to losing a life,

using Oblivion Grass to wash away his and Gu Xiaoxi’s past was the only chance for survival.

"Does this mean that he won’t remember me anymore?" Gu Xiaoxi didn’t know how much courage it took her to utter these words.

Yet with every word spoken, the pain was like a heart being carved out.

He was so good, so in love with her.

If one day he forgot her entirely...

She never imagined that their story would end this way.

"Three months of separation triggered the spell within him. By the time you came back, it was already very serious. I’ve just examined his body, and the spell has already corroded most of his heart. If a decision is not made soon, even erasing the memories between you and him won’t save him."

"I know!" Gu Xiaoxi turned around, her back to Ai Xiang.

She didn’t want others to see her cry, so she tried to remain calm. But she couldn’t hold back the tears that were threatening to overflow.

The Love-Forbidding Curse! He knew he shouldn’t fall in love with her, but he did it anyway.

Pampering her, loving her, protecting her!

He had objected to her leaving three months ago...

But she left the wedding and chose to leave...

So, heaven decided to punish her, making him completely forget her.

"Ai Xiang, I know what to do! Save him, please! Any further delay is meaningless," Gu Xiaoxi’s hand braced against the table, her back of hand already bulging with veins, her clothes damp with tears.

Compared to his life, what is love worth!

She would rather he lived on.

Ai Xiang looked at Gu Xiaoxi’s trembling shoulders, gripping the jade box tightly in his hand.

Then, with a resolved look and a grave tone, he cautioned, "Also, remember this.

He must not fall in love with you a second time, nor with anyone else.

If he falls in love again, the Love-Forbidding Curse will be fully triggered.

At that point, not even Oblivion Grass can save him. Do you understand?"

Gu Xiaoxi clenched her fists, gritting her teeth so hard that a trace of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.

She nodded with all her strength.

"I understand!"

Ai Xiang looked at Gu Xiaoxi, feeling a pang of pity.

But what could he do?

Originally, as long as Quan Shaoqing didn’t deliberately dwell on her,

The spell wouldn’t have been triggered so quickly, and Gu Xiaoxi’s departure accelerated its spread, aggravating his condition.

Ai Xiang personally mixed the Oblivion Grass with several medicinal herbs and handed it to Gu Xiaoxi, "Feed this to him."

Gu Xiaoxi looked down, her eyes swollen and red, yet a faint smile appeared on her face, a forced smile that looked even more painful than crying.

"Ai Xiang! Do you think he will remember me? Even just a little bit! Even if it’s not love, friendship will do."

"Gu Xiaoxi, do you know the effects of Oblivion Grass? The deeper the memories, the cleaner they are forgotten. If you can’t let go, there is extra medicine here; he can take half, and you can take the other half."

Gu Xiaoxi’s hand holding the medicine bowl trembled, to the point that one could hear the clinking sound of the spoon against the porcelain bowl.

The words of Ai Xiang were so cruel!

Just to let them completely forget each other...

She didn’t want that!

...

Ai Xiang didn’t say more and stepped out of the sickroom.

He stood in the hospital corridor, lighting up a cigarette. He always knew that Gu Xiaoxi was a rational person.

She should be clear about the priorities, so he was also confident in leaving the matter to her.

As for whether or not she wanted to forget Quan Shaoqing, that was her decision to make.