Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 246 I’m selfish

Lin Qingping could sense his guilt and pressed down on the back of his hand.

She's someone who's died once...

Now that I've calmed down and thought about it, I'm not so scared anymore.

I was just in a dangerous situation before and panicked.

Thinking about it quietly now, if she really did die, she wouldn't be afraid of anything; she would just miss Gu Juncheng.

Instinctively, she gripped his hand tightly.

"Gu Juncheng..." she choked up, "I feel like I can't live without you..."

She wasn't too saddened by Gu Juncheng's sacrifice in her previous life.

We never spent time together, nor did we ever love each other. In the decades that followed, I would occasionally think of him, but only with a sense of regret.

But this life is different. She can't imagine what she would do without him. The meaning of her rebirth seems to lie in every moment she spends with him.

If she doesn't have him, what's the point of letting her live the same life as in her previous life again?

Gu Juncheng picked her up and held her close in his arms, his voice trembling slightly, "Lin Qingping, do you know, I've never been afraid before, but today..."

He held her tightly in his arms.

She was so tight, as if she would disappear if she were to loosen her grip even slightly.

"Gu Juncheng," she whispered in his arms, "I'll be careful from now on, I'll protect myself, and you will too, okay? We both need to be okay, okay?"

"Yes." His promise was brief and firm, but he could never forget the words "I'm sorry," "I'm sorry, Lin Qingping, following me always makes you suffer."

What does "always" mean?

Lin Qingping felt that this person was talking strangely.

"Lin Qingping," he called her softly.

"Ok?"

He was silent for a moment, then said in a low voice, "This time I was selfish."

Lin Qingping was increasingly confused. She looked up from his embrace and asked, "What are you talking about, Gu Juncheng?"

He gazed at her, his eyes darkening slightly, his fingers brushing the hair from her forehead. "Do you remember I gave you two chances to change your mind?"

"You remember... right?" She remembered that she did.

“I can’t bear to give you a third chance, otherwise you wouldn’t be in this danger.” He frowned, and his fingers, which were lightly touching her cheek, trembled slightly.

Lin Qingping had truly recovered. She pushed his hand away, glared at him, and asked, "Gu Juncheng, I'll tell you a secret."

Gu Juncheng's eyes flashed, and his brows furrowed even more.

“I’m going to die, you know that?” she said in a serious tone.

Gu Juncheng suddenly grabbed her shoulders tightly.

"Maybe seventy years from now, maybe eighty years from now..." She shook her head.

Gu Juncheng's tense body relaxed, and his gaze towards her became both amused and annoyed.

"Should I just lie down in my coffin right now and not live out the rest of my days?" she scoffed.

"Don't talk nonsense..." He felt exhausted, as if he had endured too much and couldn't bear this conversation any longer.

“Gu Juncheng.” She looked at him, her expression turning serious. “How can a person stop living just because of the unknown?”

He chuckled at this, "I'm not as insightful as you."

However, he was genuinely terrified; even with a gun pointed at his head, he wasn't afraid...

Only then did the two of them gradually calm down.

Gu Juncheng began to recount the whole story.

It turns out that Gu Juncheng suspected Wen Xiao, the man from the port city, of smuggling cultural relics, and had been assisting the public security authorities in their investigation for some time.

Lin Qingping broke out in a cold sweat and exclaimed, "That... we shouldn't have let Zhiyuan go to the Wen family! What a close call!"

“Yes! It’s a pity I suspected it too late, otherwise I would never have let him go.” Gu Juncheng said, “It was when I was chatting with Elder Wu at the Wu family that night that Elder Wu mentioned that recently a group of people have been smuggling cultural relics very rampantly. They have collected cultural relics from various places, especially the capital, and sold them all over the world through the port city.”

"How can you be so sure it's him?" Lin Qingping remembered that Gu Juncheng had only met this person once.

“Suspicion, intuition,” Gu Juncheng said. “You have to trust my intuition. Also, didn’t you say he was all gold-plated? I didn’t notice it when you said that, but when Old Wu mentioned it, I suddenly remembered that the thumb ring he wore was quite different in craftsmanship. I can’t just talk to Old Wu about things I’m not sure about. I only mentioned it to Wu Tianping, and he provided clues to the police. We assisted the police in the investigation, and after half a month, we were pretty much certain. Only then did Wu Tianping tell his father that because we found the clues, Old Wu told us to follow it to the end.”

"I see..." Lin Qingping recalled the conversation between the three people, "You were already about to arrest them, but they had nowhere else to go. They couldn't get to the airport or the train station, so they drove down a back road and took me hostage, hoping to use me as a bargaining chip at a crucial moment?"

"Yes, that should be it." Gu Juncheng's eyes showed regret again. "Lin Qingping, it's my fault for not protecting you properly."

here we go again……

"But I was in the car at the time, and you didn't recognize me and let the car go, right? How did you suddenly appear out of nowhere?" Lin Qingping had always been curious about this question.

“How could I not recognize you?” He gazed at her hair, his fingers running through the strands. “How many times have I dried your hair? I’m an old friend to every single strand of your hair. I knew it was you just by looking at the top of your head. But at the time, I was worried that there was a weapon threatening you, so I didn’t dare to act rashly.”

Lin Qingping was stunned. How could they know that? And they even estimated it so clearly! "Then... how did you get there later? They all saw that there were no cars chasing us."

He pinched her stunned face. "I've been here all along."

Lin Qingping was stunned again, "All this time?"

"Hmm," he said casually, "I went under the car while you guys were refueling."

"What!" Lin Qingping exclaimed in shock, sitting bolt upright in his arms. "That's so dangerous!"

“It’s not dangerous for me,” he said casually. “I was only worried about you in the car. Luckily, my guess was right.”

At that time, he was standing outside the car and saw Lin Qingping being controlled. He also saw two people on either side of Lin Qingping. The man on his side had one hand pressing down on Lin Qingping and the other hand on his thigh, which proved that the man from Hong Kong on Lin Qingping's other side had a weapon in his hand.

That's right, he recognized at a glance that the man wearing a hat and with his collar turned up to cover his face was Wen Xiao's man, but he didn't say anything.

Therefore, his attack on the car roof started from the man from Hong Kong. His judgment was correct; a dagger flew out of the car along with the man from Hong Kong.

I see……

"But why were you waiting at that gas station? What a coincidence!" You see, at that moment, she was incredibly excited to hear his voice!