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Gu Xiaoxi closed her eyes, letting her body plummet rapidly.

She arrived with flair, and now she would leave the same way.

She was never Gu Xiaoxi of this world, so why should she fret over her life here?

At this moment, she only felt regret.

She hadn’t been able to say goodbye to Quan Shaoqing.

If there was a next life, she hoped to be unbound by marriage, to have a proper romance with him.

Just as she braced herself to welcome the reaper,

suddenly someone grabbed her shoulder and she fell into a cold embrace.

When she saw who it was, she couldn’t help but be startled, "What are you doing?"

Her words were intermittent, almost inaudible due to the speed of their fall.

Bai Yaxuan heard her, but he didn’t answer her question.

He also knew she wouldn’t be able to hear him clearly even if he spoke.

The speed of their fall grew faster, beneath them, a desolate forest awaited.

Gu Xiaoxi hadn’t expected Bai Yaxuan to jump with her.

Why did he do it?

To save her?

One thousand meters from the ground, five hundred meters, two hundred meters...

There was a loud "bang!"

The mountains and forests startled countless birds into flight.

Gu Xiaoxi clenched her eyes shut, thinking she would die.

But then, there was no pain at all for quite a while.

She wasn’t dead?

The wind blew as she slowly opened her eyes, realizing she had been saved.

The forest was dense, the smell of rotting leaves mixed with a faint scent of blood.

Gu Xiaoxi blinked, hastily sitting up from the ground. Incredibly, she didn’t feel the slightest discomfort. She was completely unharmed.

Instinctively, she looked around for Bai Yaxuan.

"Cough, cough!" A deep, weak coughing sound came from behind her in the bushes.

The bushes surrounded by thorns, she struggled to make her way into them. Her face and arms were scratched.

Now, there was a huge hole where the bushes had been.

Bai Yaxuan lay in the pit, his complexion deathly pale, his normally clean hair a complete mess. His white clothes were now stained with fresh blood.

"Bai Yaxuan!" Gu Xiaoxi couldn’t afford to think too much at that moment; she rushed and knelt by his side, at a loss what to do.

"Cough, cough!" Bai Yaxuan coughed violently again, with a trickle of fresh blood at the corner of his mouth, "I’m fine!"

His voice was so weak it was almost nonexistent, more blood spilling from his mouth.

At this moment, her eyes were terribly sore. She had so much to say, but she couldn’t utter a single word.

Her being unscathed had to be because Bai Yaxuan had saved her with his methods.

In the face of life and death, he had chosen to save her, at the cost of severe injury to himself.

"What should I do?" Gu Xiaoxi’s fingers shook, the sight of all the blood terrifying her.

"You don’t have to do anything, just stay with me," Bai Yaxuan tried to move his fingers, wanting to get up, but his body was drained of strength.

He knew his end was near.

As they descended, he had given all his Special Ability powers to Gu Xiaoxi, and now he could say he was shattered to pieces.

The only reason he could still speak was that he had to clear the air with her.

"Why did you do this?" Gu Xiaoxi knelt by his side, her long lashes wet with tears.

The thing more agonizing than death had still happened.

Bai Yaxuan turned his head to look at Gu Xiaoxi, his cheeks filled with pain, and managed a faint, deathly smile, "Help me up!"

She quickly cradled him, allowing him to lean against her. "Is it better now?"

"Yes!" Bai Yaxuan’s distinct face contorted, from pain. He knew he didn’t have much time left and bore the pain, wishing only to die in her arms.

Even this felt like a form of happiness.

"Hang in there; Jue Qi will definitely bring help," Gu Xiaoxi didn’t know if she was comforting him or herself, but her inner turmoil didn’t lessen in the slightest.

"Xiao Xi, if I were to say that we knew each other in our past lives, would you believe me?" Bai Yaxuan’s breathing gradually became labored.

"Why?" She didn’t understand what he meant.

"Actually, I’ve liked you since the last life, or maybe even before that.

That’s why I wanted to keep you by my side.

I hope you can give me a chance, even if it’s only the fate of this lifetime.

I’d be very happy." Bai Yaxuan smiled, his amber eyes reflecting the specks of light in the forest, as beautiful as a starry sky.

Gu Xiaoxi held him, feeling a throbbing pain in her chest, and some fragments of memory jumped out in her mind.

A young man in white, holding a jade flute, standing on a tree branch, smiling gently at her...

"Ya!"

All she could hear around her was his name.

But the memory was just a broken fragment.

"After reincarnating, even though my memories of the past life are very vague, I still retained a little bit. That’s why I spent my childhood working so hard, seizing power, and getting engaged to you. It’s all because of my last life!"

Gu Xiaoxi bit her lip; she didn’t remember anything of the past life.

But at this moment, she really didn’t want to watch him die.

"Don’t talk, conserve your strength. I’ll go find some herbs; you’re going to be okay." Gu Xiaoxi said, preparing to let go of him to look for medicine.

But before she could let go, Bai Yaxuan grabbed her wrist.

"Medicine is no use, let me finish speaking." Bai Yaxuan gasped for air, but still insisted, "If I’m not here, take good care of yourself. Even if you like Young Master Quan, you can’t just marry him carelessly. The situation in the Quan Clan is very complicated, and if not handled well, even Quan Shaoqing might be in danger. Don’t marry him until he has sorted out his own matters. "

"What are you talking about?" Gu Xiaoxi shouted angrily, tears falling uncontrollably. Even though she didn’t love him, she had never imagined watching him die with her eyes wide open.

"I never said I would marry him. And you, why did you save me? The person who should have died was me. It’s I who tired of this world. "

"Cough cough cough..." Bai Yaxuan immediately coughed up blood again, the red stain spreading across the front of his shirt from the corner of his mouth.

Gu Xiaoxi was so frightened that she immediately dared not speak loudly again.

"You’re not tired of life, you’re just tired of me," Bai Yaxuan said weakly, sounding truly exhausted.

The words he spoke were intermittent, "If you were to leave... I would... have no reason to live. In this life, I... was born for you. If you insist on leaving me, I can’t bear to see you hurt.

Then only my death can set you free and fulfill you! "

"Enough! Stop talking!" Gu Xiaoxi was extremely confused, as if thorns were growing in her heart, mercilessly cutting into her flesh and blood.

She merely didn’t like him; why did he have to do this?

She hated owing favors to people!

"Lie down, I’ll find the medicine." Gu Xiaoxi put Bai Yaxuan on the ground, fought her way out of the thorns, and began frantically searching the forest for the Hemostatic Medicine.

Her legs and hands were shaking; in any case, she didn’t want Bai Yaxuan to die, nor did she want to owe him anything.

Finally, she found the herb Sanqi under a tree, and without tools to dig, she used her bare hands.

By the time she brought the dug-up Sanqi back, Bai Yaxuan was lying in the thorns, his eyes already closed.

He looked as if he was asleep, his skin pale and translucent, his delicate lashes fluttering gently with the mountain breeze.

At that moment, the medicine in Gu Xiaoxi’s hands fell to the ground.

Time stood still, and a melodious flute sound echoed in her ears.

Some more memories appeared in her mind: the sound of the flute at night, following it, she saw his picturesque features.

He saw her, put down the flute in his hands, and smiled at her.

He smiled sweetly, warmly.

And her emotions at the time seemed to like him very much, a liking filled with admiration.

But now, he was lying in a pool of blood, completely lifeless.

He died because she wanted to leave him...

Bai Yaxuan said, without her, he would be lonely.

She felt that staying by his side, there was no meaning to continue living.

And without her, he found no meaning to go on living.

He died to set her free, to let her go!

Gu Xiaoxi squatted beside Bai Yaxuan, her hair disheveled, her clothes dirty, her fingers cut.

She didn’t want to cry, but tears kept streaming down her cheeks.

Ever since she came to this world, she had always lived in a haze.

She married Bai Yaxuan in confusion, and in confusion, she fell for Quan Shaoqing.

It was as if someone else was controlling her life.

She cried for a long time, but the man lying on the ground never woke up.

Gradually, the sun set behind the hills.

"Roar!"

The terrifying roar of a beast shocked her back to reality.