Chapter 59: Star Fate (Part 2)

  When Gu Huanli woke up, the room was pitch black. She rubbed her sleepy eyes and found that her brother was not by her side. She let out a soft sigh, slowly sat up, and listened to the intermittent music coming from downstairs.

  "Miss, would you like something?"

  Cassidy didn't immediately turn on the main light, but instead gently tapped the glass cup of scented candles and lit a purely white scented candle that was as sweet and delicate as caramel pudding. Suddenly, the intense fragrance of vanilla filled the entire room.

  Looking at the faintly swaying flame, Gu Huanli's mood recovered a bit. She took over Cassidy's freshly brewed stimulating red tea and sipped it lightly.

  "This fragrance......" Gu Huan Lian didn't lift her head, lightly closing her eyes as she spoke, "There isn't such good red tea to drink in Shànjiān City, it seems that I have indeed been spoiled."

  "In the downstairs, we have prepared coconut jelly, honeycomb five-spice durian cake, apricot slice pumpkin mille-feuille, almond oatmeal pudding, dried scallop chicken congee and raw rolled beef congee. Which flavor would you like, miss?" Cassidy bent down to turn on a floor lamp beside him, the dim light suddenly lit up, but instead of making Gu Huanli's eyes hurt, it added a bit of serenity to her heart.

  "Coconut water crystal cake and red tea." Gu Huanli paused for a moment, saying softly, "The medicine for the night is in your hands, right? He said so, those medicines must be taken every day."

  "Yes, I've already prepared a medicinal bath for the young lady." With one hand placed on his chest, he slightly bowed and smiled faintly, speaking in an orderly manner, completely different from the bewildered expression he had shown in front of Su Jinghua.

  Gu Huanli nodded, and after a simple overnight stay, she rested for a while before taking the pink capsule and going to the bathroom to bathe. She didn't need to ask Ye why he would give Cassidy a drug that Tian Li hadn't even developed yet; since she had to take it continuously, Ye couldn't possibly follow her around the world himself.

  It was only when they met Zero in the bathroom that Gu Huanli couldn't help but laugh and say, "Are you changing careers or just temporarily taking on a part-time job?"

  Zero gazed at the bandage on her forehead, his heart surging like a turbulent sea. It had been a long time since he had truly lost his temper, and although he knew that Gu Huan's injury was not severe, he still ordered the makeup artist who had secretly switched props to have their hands broken. After completing the task, Zero finally arrived at the Gu residence, and it was only then that he saw the scene from earlier in the crowd.

  "Do you think I'm suitable to be a nanny?" Ling smiled as she tested the water temperature with her hand, "Moreover, if it's just being someone else's nanny, the only trouble would be dealing with the noise and tantrums of the children; but if it's being your nanny, Miss, I'm afraid the trouble would be whether my hands will get stained with too much blood, and how many twists and turns your reasons for being spoiled have taken."

  Listening to Ling's teasing, Gu Huanli didn't immediately explain, but slowly got into the bathtub. After a while, she said leisurely, "Auntie, can you please advise Ye? After all, our teacher has told us that we should cherish every drop of water. Someone like him who is neither environmentally friendly nor low-carbon will become a bad example in Shanjian City."

  She glared at her, gritting her teeth, this little girl who never admitted defeat, even in front of her mother. Only Gu Tian Xi was the only one who could soften her expression and tone down her language. To be honest, she had siblings at home too. Not to mention everyone's hobbies and occupations were different, even in their childhood, they would fight and quarrel, turning the sky upside down every three days.

  "Auntie, it's really a coincidence that you not only look like my psychologist but also like my head teacher." Gu Huan Lian said thoughtfully, "I don't know if this is just my illusion or if you two are actually related by blood?"

  Cold sweat slowly seeped out from the corners of her forehead, and for the first time, she felt fear towards a child under ten years old. "There are many people in the world who look alike, and superstars' faces are the most boring."

  "Not entirely denying..." Gu Huanli slowly closed her eyes, her body sinking slowly into the bathtub along its curved line, leaving only the swaying flower petals, medicinal herbs and the bandages that had fallen from her head on the water's surface.

  "That's right, if you weren't questioning everything as 'Mei', the organization would probably have to consider you an object that needs to be eliminated." Zero's fingertips trembled slightly, and his face turned somewhat cold under the light. "The Su family has been following the Ye family for many years, I just chose night, while Jinghua chose universal, and as for Lingyu... she chose ordinariness."

  "What about you?" Gu Huanli emerged from the water, lying on the edge of the bathtub, smiling at Ling, "What's your name again?"

  "People who enter the organization mostly abandon their past, and besides, each mission has a new identity and name." Zero sighed, her gaze lingering on the tree shadows outside the window. "Besides, I quite like the name Zero - everything ends with zero, and all things begin with it."

  "If one is to truly live in a cycle, I too will wield the sword of fate and shatter destiny." Gu Huanli stood up, walked out of the water, took the medicine from Ling's hand, and drank it down in one gulp.

  Ling looked at the remaining purplish-blue on her back and said in a low voice, "Ye is waiting for you to return to Shan Jian City. Also, he asked me to tell you that a promise is a promise, don't try to deceive with petty tricks."

  The wound on her forehead still had a faint pink color, and her long eyelashes trembled slightly. The dark, mysterious eyes reflected a silver glow. Transparent water droplets fell along the pointed chin, and her wet hair stuck to the back of her neck. Her beautifully shaped pale pink lips opened and closed as Gu Huanli smiled lightly and said, "The process isn't important, I only care about the result."

  At the same time, the clouds at 70,000 feet hung vertically under the night sky, yet looked down on the earth from high above. The earth was quiet yet noisy beyond endurance. What year was it when I dreamed, what year was it when I woke up, still in the mortal world.

  Cassio, once known as the angel, stood on the rooftop, where the biting wind wove into a dark hue beneath his snow-white wings, bringing forth a profusion of misty vapors. The falling feathers curved like a new moon about to break, then gradually turned black and vanished completely.

  His face was a pale and icy smile, his ash-colored hair had a pale glow, his emerald eyes were less stern, with a hint of hidden gentleness. Although he temporarily gave up his angelic identity and took on the role of soul guardian, he still stood proudly in the long, endless, and hollow life, without fear or despair.

  If it weren't for a tiny mistake, perhaps he would still be somewhere in the clouds, living a dull life, watching the clouds gather and disperse in his long life.

  Archangel Michael once said that humans are the strongest and weakest creatures, even if their hearts are broken, they can still beat non-stop, but their souls have long since dissipated.

  There are people like Michelle who were born angels, and there are those like Cassady who became low-grade angels through their goodness. However, no matter how long he lived, Cassady could never learn the innate coldness and arrogance of the former. But he learned to be indifferent, indifferent to danger, pain, gain or loss.

  The lingering starlight could not shine for a long time, let alone the dark world where there was only a faint crescent moon on top of her head. Cassidy gazed at that window as if she were gazing at that person with many twists and turns in his fate.

  In the world of black lacquer, amidst the flashy noise, a light shoots out, overturning the tilted world and driving away the cold night color. However, the girl's crying voice gradually drowned out the piercing laughter. Nevertheless, the night color became even more intense. A suffocating silence spread quietly, so quiet that every drop of boiling blood in the veins could be heard.

  This should be a night worth celebrating, at least filled with laughter and song, but now, in everyone's eyes, there is suspicion, inheritance disputes, internal strife within the Gu family, and more importantly, which side they should stand on to maximize their own interests.

  The time to make a decision was not long, finding excuses or reasons was not difficult, a apologetic smile, then a wave of the sleeve, turning and leaving, leaving behind a pale-faced Gu Wenjuan, and Chu Liuyou's blood boiling, churning, burning in her body.

  No, from now on, she has thoroughly abandoned her past, abandoned the Chu family that humiliated her, Gu Lian You. Thinking of this new name, she gritted her teeth and let out a loud shout in the empty hall, "I will succeed, I must be more successful than anyone else! I want to make all of you crawl at my feet and pay homage to me!"

  In an instant, the dark world was filled with white feathers, as if it were the end of a dream. A pair of emerald eyes were etched in the darkness, but vanished in the blink of an eye.

  "Ling Yu, have you thought it through? Once you enter that circle, what awaits you is either unparalleled glory or being abandoned by the gods for the rest of your life..." Gu Wenjuan gazed at her daughter with a self-reproaching expression, her voice low and ethereal, as if coming from afar. Originally, she had wanted to give her daughter a happy night, but reality once again brought her back to her senses.

  Even if she let her daughter change back to her maiden name, the Gu family didn't have a place for them either. The Chu family and the Chu Corporation responded to their estrangement with nothing but indifference.

  She didn't hesitate for a moment, she said seriously, "I don't know if God really blesses me, but I know this is my chance, maybe the only one. I don't want to miss it."

  "Ling Yu, you're still young now, playing some roles won't hurt. But if this continues... "

  "Mother, what else can't we lose? I don't want to be abandoned like this again, I don't want to be the laughing stock of others. Believe me, one day, I will fulfill your wishes, I will make the world understand that I, Gu Lianyou, am the pride of the Gu family, the pillar of the Gu family." Gu Lianyou's eyes shone with a fierce light under the crystal lamp.

  The sound ceased, and everything around became still. Cassidy stood on the rooftop, suspended in mid-air as feathers suddenly took to the air, swirling in large masses like clouds, blocking all visibility.

  A white feather floated gently across the gap in front of her eyes, Cassidy quietly landed on the balcony, her pale slender hand lightly tapping on the closed glass window, and smiling at the person inside, she said softly, "Miss, your wish has finally come true."