Chapter 301: Trapped (Part 1)
Chapter 301 Trapped Above
Yes, Gu Dongxing realized he could help Ye Qing as he ought to.
Before, when Ye Qing was in danger, he helped her escape from that pit of fire, and knocking down the Sun Family in order for her to leave smoothly was not a mistake.
He brought her to Mengyu for treatment, and that wasn’t a mistake either.
He did so because he heard Cheng Jiuhe talking about her helping people in Beijing by exorcising demons and treating illnesses, and he knew Mengyu had her miraculous abilities.
He was indebted to Grandpa Ye, and bringing her back to ask for Mengyu’s treatment was not wrong in trying to repay Grandpa Ye’s kindness.
His biggest mistake was agreeing to Father Ye’s request to take care of Ye Qing.
Not to mention that taking care of a woman isn’t something a man like him should be doing. Gu Dongxing brought Ye Qing back for his mom to take care of, which was, in a way, increasing the burden on his own mother.
Most importantly, his engagement to the Ye family had already been annulled, so why should he take the place of her father for her remaining years?
In other words, he wasn’t anyone to Ye Qing, so what right did he have to take care of her in her last few years?
By agreeing to take care of her in her last few years, it’s as if he implicitly agreed for Ye Qing to enter his life, becoming his closest person!
How foolish was Gu Dongxing to agree to something like that?
So, he truly recognized his mistake and wanted to confess this mistake to Mengyu, asking for her forgiveness.
His second mistake was not stopping Ye Qing from recognizing his mother as her godmother, making him her godbrother.
As Cheng Jiuhe said, this brought significant discomfort to Mengyu.
Moreover, he could see that after years of hardships, Ye Qing had changed, even turned dark.
Otherwise, how could she, right after receiving a life-saving grace from Mengyu, immediately take action against her?
Don’t tell him that she didn’t know, that she recognized Hai Xue as her mother and him as her brother just for more family members?
This was like Xiang Zhuang performing a sword dance with a hidden motive. Only, she concealed it too well.
Just because his mother insisted on taking Ye Qing as a goddaughter, he reluctantly accepted.
She had intentions toward him, and he didn’t notice, even thinking he was forthright—as long as everything was clear, she wouldn’t harbor any thoughts, and even if she did, he could just ignore her.
But he forgot that Gu Dongxing’s mother was soft-hearted; what if his mother was persuaded by her eventually?
Why didn’t he think of this at the time?
Suddenly, he remembered an old saying: "Do not tie shoes in a melon field, do not adjust your hat under a plum tree."
His biggest mistake was thinking he was upright and need not fear a crooked shadow, tying his shoes in a melon field and adjusting his hat under a plum tree.
Although he lost Mengyu, Gu Dongxing dared not go back; suppressing the heart-wrenching pain, he searched for Mengyu in the mountains.
Gu Dongxing was regretting, and Mengyu was full of regrets too.
Because, after coming out of the space, she realized she was lost.
Because she didn’t pay attention to the direction when entering the mountain, and just blindly rushed into it, she didn’t know which direction she came from—east, west, south, or north.
She only thought that as long as she kept walking in one direction, she would eventually find a way out of the large mountain valley, but little did she know that she was heading deeper into the mountains instead of out.
Though she possessed the power of a Third-level Martial Artist, she was still just a young girl. Even having been Ah Piao in her previous life by Huaiyu’s side for so many years, she was still a woman and felt frightened when alone.
She didn’t even know that the forest she had rushed into was the infamous "Ghost Valley," where many who ventured into it never came out.
Mengyu walked for a while and then noticed the problem because no matter which direction she went, she was blocked by mountains.
Unless she climbed the mountains and walked from the top, there was no way out of this valley.
So from where had she entered this valley?