An individual conversation

edited by shay

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The moment General Gu Nan appeared, the live broadcast of the optical network was cut off urgently.

The Gu Nan who showed up kept his most lively appearance when he was young. Standing there with Chu Shengyun, you couldn’t tell that they were husband and wife at all.

It seems that only Chu Shengyun was eroded by time.

As Chu Shengyun recovered from the shock, he staggered a few steps and opened his arms, hugging Gu Nan violently, but the projection was only a projection after all, and he passed through in one go, kneeling down on the ground again.

“A-Nan, I didn’t expect that even after I did so many wrong things… You still have me in your heart.”

A halo of data in Gu Nan’s eyes continued to flow, and he matched the information he knew with this alpha’s crying appearance several times, and felt that the alpha in front of him was a bit embarrassing.

“I didn’t appear because of you.”

“Our relationship has long since returned to ashes.”

Breaking Chu Shengyun’s hopes one by one, Gu Nan ignored the person kneeling in front of him, and looked directly at the alpha with short blond hair standing diagonally to him.

“Xing…it must be Xinglin!”

“Xinglin, my God, you’ve grown so big.”

“Mother.”

Looking at the projection that appeared, Chu Xinglin had a voice full of tears.

Gu Nan posed as if he was patting Chu Xinglin’s shoulders.

“What are you doing, are you not happy to see your mother?”

Chu Xinglin was speechless.

Gu Nan turned his head to look at the situation in the cemetery.

“That’s right, that’s right. It’s really not a good thing to see me in this situation.”

Gu Huan looked at Empress Gu Nan who seemed to have been resurrected in front of him, and turned his eyes slightly, looking at the chip embedded on the tombstone behind the projection.

That chip is the main body of the optical brain, and it is by that chip that this image is projected.

Although this “Gu Nan” is not the real Gu Nan, his personality and way of thinking are all copies of the original “Gu Nan”.

Because he had been hearing other people say how miserable the fate of Empress Gu Nan was, he never thought that Empress Gu Nan was actually a very lively person.

Gu Huan lowered his eyes slightly, feeling a little regretful in his heart. Before he felt sorry for too long, he heard the Empress mentioning him.

“You……”

Gu Huan moved his fingers by his side slightly, turned his gaze, and looked at Empress Gu Nan. He had no idea what the Empress wanted to say to him.

“Your golden eyes are so beautiful.”

Gu Nan floated directly towards the young general, looking around at the black-haired beauty in front of him.

“I told my father at the time that if he loses me one day, he must raise a beautiful child with golden eyes.”

A smile of expectation appeared on Gu Nan’s handsome face. “Are you my father’s adopted child?”

Gu Huan nodded.

He knew that the Empress did it on purpose, deliberately pretending not to know him in front of people who didn’t know, but neither he nor the Old Marshal would take the initiative to expose this matter.

“That’s really great. You are exactly as I expected.”

“Xinglin, you have to get along well with Xiao Huan. He can be regarded as your elder brother, so you should respect your elder brother, do you understand?”

Chu Xinglin: “…Mom, this…”

“Why are you still not convinced?”

“I’m not unconvinced.” Chu Xinglin lowered his head.

Gu Huan is no longer the adopted grandson of the old marshal.

He really didn’t make a move on his elder brother, he likes Gu Huan according to human relations.

Seeing his mother so happy, Chu Xinglin didn’t know how to speak, so he could only accept it.

Gu Nan reached out to pinch Gu Huan’s cheek very naturally, but because he was only a projection, and because his index finger and thumb passed through together, he withdrew his fingers in great annoyance and shook his hands.

“Why does he always have a pretty face on ice?”

“Don’t worry, I will never come back to life again, you won’t be kicked out of the house.” Gu Nan teased, and patted Gu Huan’s shoulder. When he patted his shoulder, he noticed the military rank on Gu Huan’s shoulder.

“General?”

“Are you going to be a general soon?”

Gu Zehai coughed heavily and blamed him.

“What nonsense are you talking about?”

“Xiao Huan is much more successful than you, you are unworthy.”

“If you had survived, it’s uncertain who would be kicked out of the house.”

The words were clearly nagging, but the old man’s voice was a little choked up.

Gu Nan pursed his lips.

“At that time, wasn’t it that my brain heated and I got on the pirate ship?”

He did like Chu Shengyun.

Although it was an accident to be marked by Chu Shengyun, he was not completely unwilling. His situation and crisis at that time had reached the point where he had to be marked. Chu Shengyun marked him, and he reluctantly accepted it.

But the last thing Chu Shengyun should do is to go back on his word.

They obviously had a deal.

As long as they have met the hard target of the Empress Dowager requiring them to reproduce as soon as possible, the Emperor would let him do what he wants and give him complete freedom after the Empress Dowager’s death.

He did his part of the deal, but Chu Shengyun didn’t. He not only broke his promise, but also became a person he didn’t know more and more, gradually losing himself in power, and even their goal that could be called a dream at the beginning had changed.

Gu Nan scratched his hair lightly, looked at the Emperor kneeling in front of him whose tears had soaked the entire soil, and sighed.

“I want to ask you.”

Chu Shengyun raised his head a little bit.

“The Zergs…have you wiped them out?”

“…No.” Chu Shengyun’s voice was difficult.

“I knew it.” Gu Nan’s lips twitched. “If you defeated the Zergs, you wouldn’t need the outer energy shield.”

The already dusky sky obscured the energy shield, but the pattern of the honeycomb-shaped energy shield could still be seen from some angles.

Gu Nan murmured,

“I’m dead, why am I still locked in a cage?”

“This… This is just to protect the royal family’s cemetery from infringement.”

Gu Nan scoffed at his statement.

If there were no Zergs, would these protections still be needed?

Stretching out his thin white fingers, Gu Nan pointed directly at the outer energy protection cover.

“Just apologizing is useless.”

“Break the outer shell. If you break it, I will forgive you.”

Chu Shengyun clenched his fist tightly and lowered his head.

“Good.”

The picture in front of him is not very beautiful, at least in Chu Xinglin’s eyes, it is quite ironic.

Who has been protecting that shield all these years?

 

Now in front of his mother, he agreed with him.

If his mother hadn’t bluntly said that the conditions for his appearance were not because of Chu Shengyun’s apology, he really wanted to beat up this stubborn man again.

After talking to all those who came to pay homage, Gu Nan’s projection had gradually become unstable, and he finally made a request.

“Can you give me and my father’s adopted grandson some time?”

“I have something to say to him alone.”

The others didn’t have much doubt as to why it was Gu Huan and not someone else.

Because they felt that in Gu Nan’s eyes, Gu Huan was still the adopted grandson of the old Marshal.

Maybe there is something to explain.

After all, Gu Huan is one year older than Chu Xinglin, and he is the grandson of Old Marshal Gu, so he can take care of both of them.

There is not much time left. In order not to delay the time for Gu Nan and Gu Huan to talk, Chu Xinglin pulled up Chu Shengyun, who was kneeling on the ground, and left the grave. Finally, he turned his head to see his mother’s appearance, and then left decisively.

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Gu Huan, who was left alone, was a little embarrassed.

He didn’t know how to chat with this Empress.

Because his own memory is also intermittent, and he can’t connect it at all.

“Xiao Huan.”

Seeing that everyone else had left, Gu Nan changed his tone and called out a more intimate nickname.

Gu Huan guessed correctly.

It is true that Empress Gu Nan’s appearance conditions have always been about him.

Because there was only one chance to meet, the Empress set the condition for the meeting to be when Chu Xinglin, Gu Zehai, and Gu Huan appeared at the same time. As for Chu Shengyun, his mental state at that time did not allow others to even mention this person’s name, let alone for him himself to bring it up of his own initiative, so there was no Chu Shengyun condition at all.

“Xiao Huan, how are you doing recently? Is your mental power still spreading?”

“It has stabilized.”

What does spreading mean?

Before, it would continue to face collapse due to the estrus period, but recently it has been very stable.

“Then I’m relieved. You told me back then that you had found a way, but I still didn’t believe it. Now that your mental state is so stable, I feel relieved.”

“As long as you don’t suffer any pain, I think it’s a kind of redemption.”

Pain?

The delicate eyebrows were slightly raised, the General raised his eyelids, looking directly at the relieved Empress, and said bluntly:

“Empress Gu Nan.”

“Can you tell me what I was like before, and what kind of secrets I had in my past?”

“I had an accidental memory loss before, and I can’t remember many things.”