Gu Qingzhou had a brief tinnitus, she couldn't hear other sounds, only the mechanical sharpness pierced her eardrum like a needle.

There was wind on her face and wind on her feet.

Her arms were very heavy, she was lying on the trunk of the tree, and her ears couldn't help but listen to the sound of the tree roots breaking.

Maybe it's just her hallucination.

Then, she felt that Cai Changting was dragging her, and supported her on the trunk so that she could mount on it.

The trunk shook and fell a little.

"At...break..." Gu Qingzhou said. When she spoke, she felt the separation so clearly that even she couldn't hear it.

"It's okay." Cai Changting also looked at him.

He saw that a small part of the root of the tree had turned up.

If they delay any longer, the tree will be broken by them.

Cai Changting's people should chase after them to save them, right?

In his heart, he silently calculated something, and tried to hook himself up.

He also sat on the tree trunk, even picked up Gu Qingzhou, and took the initiative to move to the root of the tree.

As soon as he moved, the roots of the tree were more broken than the naked eye could see.

Gu Qingzhou ran too fast before, and then fell too fast. After a while, her tinnitus ended, and she could hear the wind whistling in the valley.

She laughed at herself, clasped the tree trunk with both hands, and let Cai Changting hold her waist tightly: "Two people... I'm afraid they won't be able to hold it. Changting, you should throw me down first."

Cai Changting looked down.

The morning fog had not yet dissipated, so it was impossible to see how deep the canyon was and what was under it.

"Have the strength now?" he asked.

He hugged her arm tightly, and did not relax for a moment.

Seeing this, Gu Qingzhou felt pity for him inexplicably: "Changting, I'm really not your life-saving straw. To this point..."

"I know, I have lost." Cai Changting continued her words.

The moment he fell, his heart was also blank for a moment, and he desperately grabbed blindly, but he caught a vine.

Now sitting on the tree branch, he has boundless fear in his heart: what if he didn't catch anything?

Now, is he going to fall to pieces with Gu Qingzhou?

People are really fragile.

No matter how powerful the mind, life experience, and physique are, they are so helpless on the edge of life and death.

Just like Gu Qingzhou, if it wasn't for Cai Changting, she would not be able to save herself even if she grabbed the vines. Her arms were loose due to the restraint, and she couldn't exert any strength at all.

She is so smart, and now her five steps and one calculation can save her?

Cai Changting was stubborn and refused to admit defeat, thinking that he still had a chance to start all over again.

At this moment, he can finally confess his failure.

He lost.

From the moment when the followers and sponsors of the royalists were grabbed by Gu Qingzhou, they were completely defeated, and the Japanese military could not save them.

"You're right." Cai Changting said slowly, "I was too ambitious when I was young, and I went the wrong way. If I had been down-to-earth from the beginning, I would return to China to work under a certain small warlord, and replace it in a few years.

As of today, as you say, there is one side. When someone else called, he had the strength to fight back, not as passive as he is now. "

Gu Qingzhou smiled.

"Looking back is the shore." Gu Qingzhou said, "You haven't done anything harmful, and you are young and beautiful. If you change your life goals, you will have your own future."

Cai Changting sighed.

Gu Qingzhou said: "The life I want most is to be able to live in seclusion with Si Xingpei in a small place, cook, play the piano, fish and pick lotus, and be free from the world. What about you?"

Cai Changting also thought about it.

His obsession with power is nothing more than because he was discriminated against since he was a child.

His mother also came from a big family, but unfortunately, she did not listen to the family's arrangement and insisted on following his father.

His father, Cai Longtou, had a wife and family at that time, and going to Japan was just a refuge.

His mother was pregnant with him and was not allowed by the family. After Cai Longtou came back, he did not dare to divorce and marry her, so she died in depression shortly after giving birth to Cai Changting.

Since then, Cai Changting has lived with an old servant sent by Cai Longtou.

When he grew up and gradually gained some ability, the grandfather's family would recognize him, of course, it was a very contemptuous attitude.

He is too beautiful, and many people attack him, and the grievances he has suffered are indescribable.

Everyone who fantasizes about reaching the sky in one step has suffered too much pain and grievance. He wants revenge, and his enemies are too many, too strong, and he wants them all to kneel before his feet.

The process of becoming stronger step by step is too slow and the effect is too weak.

These forced him to take this path.

His and Mrs. Ye's goals were the same, and he had prepared the oriole from the very beginning.

His life was planned so neatly, but he never imagined that when his life was on the line, the tree supporting him was crumbling. He left the burden of Gu Qingzhou, the tree would be stronger for a while, but he hugged him tightly. took her.

His arms and his heart all embraced her, and nowhere did he think about leaving her.

If he goes back five years and someone tells Cai Changting that he will hold another person in his heart, or even take his life, he will definitely ridicule him.

He has no feelings for people.

No one is enough to leave a trace in his heart.

He has lived for so many years and has enough intelligence, so when he knew that he would never let go of the arm that was encircling Gu Qingzhou, he conceded defeat.

"I..." He thought seriously.

Thousands of thoughts, like the wind in the valley, passed through his limbs, and what he wanted most floated in his heart, "I want you to live the most."

Gu Qingzhou was startled.

Cai Changting looked up.

After so long, his people hadn't chased after him, and he thought they should have dispersed in a hurry.

Huo Yujing ran away, letting them see an uncertain future. These killers had only ruthlessness and no loyalty, and they abandoned him.

And the tree on the cliff, the trunk has been broken in half, and the remaining half is struggling to support the two of them.

If they delay any longer, before Si Xingpei arrives, they will fall first.

Cai Changting suddenly leaned over and kissed Gu Qingzhou's forehead.

Gu Qingzhou instinctively wanted to step back, but her remaining rationality kept her still.

Once back, she will fall.

"The era of warlord melee is almost over." Cai Changting said, "I no longer have the qualifications to occupy the mountain as king.

Fu low and start from scratch, I can't do it, and no one is qualified to call me. The breath I had endured all my life was completely broken. Qingzhou, I really lost. "

The roots of the tree behind him were broken again, making a sour squeak.

There were no footsteps above.

The rescuers did not come.

If it is delayed any longer, the tree will be completely broken, leading him and Gu Qingzhou to the abyss together.

This woman embellished color in his pale life.

He thought he loved her.

Love gave him a little humanity, which was the only brilliance in his twenty years of life.

He couldn't take this brilliance and fall into the abyss together.

However, with the two of them, the tree may not last for ten minutes.

In ten minutes, Si Xingpei couldn't arrive, and neither could the rescue.

But without him, the tree could last for thirty minutes.

That's when rescue may come.

This is a shallow, insignificant vitality.

a person's vitality.

Cai Changting pulled Gu Qingzhou into his arms and kissed her on the forehead again: "don't forget me."

After all, he loosened his hands and fell down without hesitation, as if he had practiced thousands of times, maintaining the last bit of light in his humanity.

Without his support, Gu Qingzhou almost fell down. She lay on the tree and watched Cai Changting's body quickly disappear into the morning fog. Slowly, she heard an echo.