The General Who Only Knows How to Spoil His Beloved and Write Stories 50

Chapter 50: Unbelievable

In the early morning, as the sun began to rise, the leaves were still adorned with the crystal-clear dew from the previous night.

“Awooo—”

Fu Yunzhi was awakened by a commotion outside the tent. After tidying his clothes and hair and stepping outside, he saw a woman chasing a wolf. The woman, like him, was dressed in red, but while his was a languid dark red, hers was a passionate, fiery red that contrasted with her fair skin and exquisite features. With thick, arched eyebrows, a high-bridged nose, and sharp phoenix eyes, she looked brisk and heroic.

“Little cub, stop! Don’t be afraid, Mother will protect you!”

The woman kept waving the raw meat in her hand, shouting, “Look! Mother has meat here!”

Behind her were Mu Linglong and Shen Linye. “Linye,” Mu Linglong said as she ran, “you go left, I’ll go right. We’ll surround this wolf!”

Fu Yunzhi: “…”

What is going on?

“You’re awake?” Qi Xiao, who had followed them, saw him standing to the side and walked over.

“…” Fu Yunzhi turned his head and ignored him.

“Wifey…” Qi Xiao said pitifully, burying his head in his neck and nuzzling him. “I know I was wrong. I promise I won’t do it again next time! I couldn’t sleep a wink last night. Why are you still ignoring me?”

Fu Yunzhi helplessly pushed his head away. “What are you all doing?”

“That woman is the master of the Autumn Saber Sect, Gu Sanqiu,” Qi Xiao said. “She’s a Jianghu friend of mine and Cult Leader Mu. It seems she came this time because her wolf is sick and she wanted to ask him for help. But her wolf accidentally wandered into the open space where Luori and the others were practicing fighting with the living dead and seems to have been stimulated by them…”

Fu Yunzhi thought of the wolf that had flashed past him, so lively that not even Mu Linglong and the others could catch it, and asked speechlessly, “Is it really sick?”

“So I’ve heard, but I don’t know the details. Why don’t we go to Cult Leader Mu’s tent and see? The three of them are highly skilled. They only let the wolf escape just now because they were caught off guard. It shouldn’t be too difficult to catch it. They should have it by now.”

The two went to Mu Linglong’s tent and, sure enough, the three of them were already inside. The wolf, for some reason, was lying motionless on a platform, as if Mu Linglong had done something to it.

“Brother Qi.” Seeing him, Gu Sanqiu strode over and smiled. “Brother Qi, I came this time not only to ask Cult Leader Mu for help, but also to catch up with you. It’s been a long time since we drank and talked all night.”

Qi Xiao’s eyebrow twitched, and he subconsciously glanced at Fu Yunzhi.

Fu Yunzhi’s face was expressionless, his eyes showing no emotion.

Brother Qi? Catch up? Drink and talk all night? Heh heh.

Seeing him looking at Fu Yunzhi, Gu Sanqiu asked casually, “And this is?”

Still expressionless, Fu Yunzhi reached out and linked his arm with Qi Xiao’s. “Your Brother Qi’s husband.”

Gu Sanqiu: “…”

What?

“Am I not?” Fu Yunzhi looked at Qi Xiao with a brilliant smile.

Qi Xiao: “…”

“Mm,” he said.

“You must be joking, Brother Qi,” Gu Sanqiu said with a dry laugh.

“General Qi isn’t joking,” Mu Linglong interjected. “Master Fu and General Qi are indeed planning to get married after the war.”

Hearing this, Gu Sanqiu’s face went blank, as if she were extremely surprised.

“Haha… congratulations to you both.” She looked away from Qi Xiao, at a loss for a moment. A hint of disappointment also flashed in her eyes.

Fu Yunzhi sneered.

Does she really think I don’t know? At the martial arts conference two years ago, although Qi Xiao was not from the Jianghu, he had participated in the competition, or rather, crashed it. According to the lottery results, he was up against the leader of the Twin Rivers Gang. The gang leader had cheated, and most people had seen it, but no one had pointed it out.

So, Qi Xiao had sneered, thrown down his sword, and beaten the gang leader to a pulp with his bare hands, showing no mercy. This act had won Gu Sanqiu’s heart. She had publicly declared her love for him, but he had rejected her, saying he was always away on campaigns and his military duties were his priority.

Gu Sanqiu was a beauty, and also a powerful gang leader, so this matter had caused quite a stir in the Jianghu at the time.

Gu Sanqiu twisted the corner of her clothes, trying to compose herself, and turned to Mu Linglong. “Is there any way for my wolf?”

“Cult Leader Mu, what’s wrong with this wolf?” Fu Yunzhi asked.

“It’s been poisoned, and its body is abnormal,” Mu Linglong said. “Sometimes it’s energetic, sometimes it’s weak. When it’s energetic, it’s hard to control, like just now. If we let it go on like this, it might even attack Sanqiu. And when it’s weak, it falls into a long sleep. Because it sleeps for so long, it can’t eat or drink and gets weaker and weaker.”

“Its condition has been getting worse lately,” Gu Sanqiu frowned. “It’s sleeping for longer and longer. I’m worried it will die because of this… Linglong, can you fix it?”

“I’m sorry.” Mu Linglong shook his head and looked down. “There is no cure for this poison. There are no legends or records of how to cure it.”

Even a divine physician says there’s no cure. What other way is there… Gu Sanqiu reached out and stroked the black wolf’s thin body, her eyes filled with sorrow.

She had raised this wolf since she was ten. It had grown up with her. Now that it was like this, how could she bear it?

“There is one way…” Mu Linglong said cautiously after a moment of thought, “but it’s too risky.”

A spark of hope ignited in Gu Sanqiu’s eyes. “Any way is fine! Anyway… it doesn’t have long to live. It’s better to try.”

“Recently, because of certain things, I have been diligently studying unorthodox solutions for incurable poisons and Gu,” Mu Linglong said. “And I did find a way, but it’s more like witchcraft than medicine. It sounds like a fantasy, and in reality, I don’t know if it can be practiced…”

Qi Xiao and Fu Yunzhi exchanged a look. The “certain things” he was talking about must be the Flower Moon Gu in Fu Yunzhi’s body. From what he was saying, it seemed he had found a clue.

“What is the way?” Qi Xiao also became nervous.

“Don’t get your hopes up. This method is really quite bizarre…” Mu Linglong swallowed. “It’s called blood exchange, literally. For example, we drain all the blood from this wolf, because the poison is in the blood. Clearing the blood is equivalent to clearing the poison. After draining it, we then transfuse fresh blood into it.”

Everyone was silent.

Not only did it sound bizarre, but it also sounded terrifying…

I would rather have a short life with Fu Yunzhi than let his blood be drained! Qi Xiao thought.

“Alright.”

Mu Linglong was stunned and looked at Gu Sanqiu in surprise. “What did you say?”

“I said, it’s fine,” Gu Sanqiu said, taking a deep breath. “Go ahead and do it. I have no objections. Whether it’s drained or it dies, as long as there’s a chance for it to live again, no matter how faint, I want to try.”

“You need to think this through,” Mu Linglong said. “If it succeeds, that’s good. But if it fails, it will die in pain, and its body will be… a tragic sight.”

“My wolf would be willing to take this risk…” Gu Sanqiu said firmly, rubbing the black wolf’s head. “It’s very brave. It would never be afraid! It would rather fight for a chance to survive than run away.”

The original dislike gradually dissipated. This woman is really extraordinary… Fu Yunzhi thought. If it were him, he might not have such courage, to be able to make such a decision in an instant.

Everything was settled. Gu Sanqiu entrusted the wolf to Mu Linglong, with no complaints no matter the outcome. And to allow him to prepare better, everyone tactfully dispersed.

After leaving the tent, Gu Sanqiu said to Qi Xiao, “I will be staying here for a while. If you need anything, just ask. I can also help with the war.”

“Thank you.” Qi Xiao nodded politely, walking on eggshells, afraid of doing something wrong and angering his wifey. Although the wifey in the storybooks would cry for comfort and sex when she was jealous, his wifey was a mountain storm!

Gu Sanqiu paused and asked awkwardly, “Tonight… shall we get together? Just to chat…”

Fu Yunzhi: “…”

He decided to take back his thought that this woman had courage!

Qi Xiao looked at him, asking with his eyes.

Fu Yunzhi smiled, his eyes crinkling, his tone unprecedentedly kind and gentle.

“It would be good to get together.”

Qi Xiao: “…”

However, before he could refuse, Fu Yunzhi flicked his sleeve and left. If he also left now, it would be too rude. Besides, Gu Sanqiu hadn’t done anything wrong.

“I’m sorry, Yunzhi is always like this.”

Gu Sanqiu shook her head to show it was fine, her heart already having the answer. But she still couldn’t help but wonder, Why him, and not me…

“Then I’ll be on my way.”

After Qi Xiao left, she watched his retreating back, feeling a sense of desolation.

Rustle—

How sharp was she? She immediately threw her sword hilt backhanded. After the hilt disappeared into the bushes behind her, a man’s grunt was heard.

“Who’s there?!” she drew her sword and walked towards the bushes.

“Miss Gu! It’s me!”

She was stunned and saw that the man who had been hit by her sword hilt and was now kneeling on the ground in pain was none other than the general of Xianju City, Wang Zhou!

“General Wang? Why are you…”

“I was coming to find you, Miss Gu, but seeing you talking so happily with General Qi, I didn’t want to disturb you…”

“Talking so happily?” she sneered. “Are you mocking me?”

“No! Absolutely not!” he said anxiously. “I just… I just didn’t expect you to be so in love with General Qi, just like the rumors say…”

“You know me?”

“We’ve met before,” he said. “Many years ago, although you may have forgotten… Can I tell you in detail tonight? Since General Qi has something to do, why don’t you drink and chat with me instead?”

Gu Sanqiu was in a low mood. There was no cure for her black wolf’s poison, and her years of longing had come to nothing. She felt that nothing was going right, and she didn’t want to do anything, let alone drink and chat with someone. The thing she wanted to do most right now was to find a deserted place and get drunk by herself.

“No. Please find someone else, General Wang.” With that, she didn’t wait for his reply and used her lightness skill to leap onto a tree branch and hurry away.

Wang Zhou clenched his fists, making a crackling sound. His life had really become so terrible because of Qi Xiao…