Xiao Yunjing turned and left after he finished speaking.
"Wait a moment," Gu Qingli called out to him.
Xiao Yunjing turned back. "What else do you need?"
Gu Qingli pursed her lips, her expression melancholic. "It's just... if I'm truly gone in the future, please treat Brother Erlang kindly. No matter what he has done, please spare his life."
"You are certainly devoted to him," Xiao Yunjing remarked. "As long as you can fulfill your promise, this will be a trivial matter for me."
Gu Qingli breathed a sigh of relief. "Good. Then I can rest assured."
Watching the cold, indifferent man depart, Gu Qingli turned to go back inside. She had entreated him for this boon for Brother Erlang; it was the last thing she would do for him.
She hoped he would have a smooth life ahead and that her affection for him would not have been in vain.
Tomorrow, I'll finally meet my birth parents! Gu Qingli grew inexplicably excited at the thought. Unable to sleep, she paced around the palace.
