Thinking of this, Gao Yao secretly made up his mind. Once he got the chance, he would repay Qian Xunji for this kindness.
Martial Soul Hall Pope: "No need to thank me. We're all fellow countrymen, so helping each other is only right. By the way, speaking of which, something just occurred to me. Have you run into Yi Xiaochuan yet? @I Want to be Zhao Gao."
I Want to be Zhao Gao: "I have, but Xiaochuan's caught the plague. Big bro, do you know any way to cure him?"
Though Gao Yao didn't know why Qian Xunji was asking about his friend, he still answered honestly.
He trusted Qian Xunji's character and believed he wouldn't hurt his good friend. Besides, he hoped Qian Xunji might know a way to cure Yi Xiaochuan. After all, Yi Xiaochuan was now the only family he had left in this world.
Martial Soul Hall Pope: "Sorry, I'm no doctor. I can't cure something like the plague. And even if I could, I wouldn't save a scumbag as faithless and dishonorable as Yi Xiaochuan."
The three greatest tragedies in The Myth: 1. Becoming Yi Xiaochuan's friend. 2. Swearing brotherhood with Yi Xiaochuan. 3. Becoming Yi Xiaochuan's woman.
As a friend, all Yi Xiaochuan knew how to do was take. How had Gao Yao treated him? He'd looked after him with great care, risking infection, and gone through untold hardships to find a miracle doctor who could cure him.
Even later, when the two fell out for various reasons, Gao Yao was still willing to risk his life to save Yi Xiaochuan when he needed help.
For example, when Yi Xiaochuan needed a Night Pearl from the palace to treat Princess Yushu, Gao Yao risked his life to steal one for him.
Honestly, even family members would struggle to risk their lives for someone else. Gao Yao and Yi Xiaochuan had no relation at all, yet Gao Yao was willing to do so much for him. He had truly regarded Yi Xiaochuan as family, from the bottom of his heart.
But how had Yi Xiaochuan repaid Gao Yao?
He hadn't even said thank you. He'd never shown him the slightest concern!
Liu Bang had gotten Gao Yao and Yi Xiaochuan into trouble together. (Come to think of it, Gao Yao had only been dragged into it because Yi Xiaochuan wanted to suck up to Liu Bang.) Yet after escaping and returning to Xianyang, Yi Xiaochuan hadn't even thought to look for Gao Yao and see if he could get him out!
Even so, when Gao Yao first came into power, the first person he thought of was his "good brother," Yi Xiaochuan. But Yi Xiaochuan had immediately taken the moral high ground and given him a vicious tongue-lashing.
He'd completely forgotten all the help Gao Yao had given him. He'd completely forgotten that if it weren't for him, Gao Yao would never have traveled back to the Qin Dynasty, been seized and castrated in the palace, and turned into a eunuch.
Perhaps Yi Xiaochuan had never considered Gao Yao a friend in the first place. He'd probably always looked down on him, which was why he could act so shamelessly without a second thought.
As a sworn brother, Yi Xiaochuan had no loyalty. He swore brotherhood with Xiang Yu and got along wonderfully with him. Xiang Yu, who was always so proud, even set aside his pride and deliberately lost to Yi Xiaochuan because he couldn't bear to see him die.
And what did Yi Xiaochuan do? He turned around and groveled before Xiang Yu's future enemy, Liu Bang. He never once considered his brother Xiang Yu, or what he'd do when Xiang Yu and Liu Bang eventually crossed swords! Even when he met Xiang Yu again later, it never occurred to him to warn him to watch out for Liu Bang!
And as a man, Yi Xiaochuan was an absolute scumbag. Before traveling back in time, his goal had been to date ninety-nine women, and Gao Lan was number twenty-seven! Even when he was with Gao Lan, he didn't stop chasing other women.
When he first arrived in ancient times and met the two Lu sisters, he kissed the elder sister on the head despite having just met her. Honestly, if Gao Yao hadn't known that men and women in ancient times weren't supposed to touch, Qian Xunji could have understood.
But Yi Xiaochuan was a university student and the son of a renowned archaeology professor. To claim he didn't know better was practically an insult to the field of archaeology.
The truth was, Yi Xiaochuan knew exactly what he was doing. He was pretending to be clueless while deliberately stirring the heart of the Lu Family's eldest daughter.
That kiss made the eldest Lu sister hate Yi Xiaochuan for the rest of her life, and ruined her life as well.
But Lu Su was the most pitiful of all. To care for Yi Xiaochuan, she ultimately chose to sacrifice herself and lost her life for him. She'd loved him with all her heart.
Yet not long after Su Su paid with her life for his thoughtlessness, he completely forgot her lesson and devotion. He fell in love with Yushu, the princess from beyond the frontier, and cast his past love aside. He even stood at Su Su's grave and said he'd never loved her.
It was the same with Xiaoyue. He knew perfectly well that Xiaoyue liked him, but he played dumb and took advantage of her feelings, getting her to pass love letters between him and Yushu.
In the end, after his secret correspondence with Princess Yushu came to light, Xiaoyue bore every punishment alone. Yi Xiaochuan said nothing and made no move to save her. In the end, it was Gao Yao who rushed forward to plead for her.
Honestly, Qian Xunji had no desire whatsoever to help a sanctimonious hypocrite like Yi Xiaochuan, who had no sense of responsibility, no loyalty, and no fidelity in love. He even wished the man would die as soon as possible.
I Want to be Zhao Gao: "Faithless and dishonorable? A scumbag? Big bro, have you got the wrong idea about Xiaochuan? He can be a bit of a playboy, sure, but he can't be as awful as you say, can he?"
Gao Yao had known Yi Xiaochuan for years. As the man who would one day become his brother-in-law, he felt he knew him fairly well.
Yi Xiaochuan might have been rich, but he wasn't a bad person at heart, and he didn't have the usual bad habits of spoiled rich kids. Overall, Gao Yao had a pretty good impression of his future brother-in-law.
Especially after traveling to this world and enduring so many hardships, Gao Yao had come to care even more about Yi Xiaochuan, the only other person from his own time here. He'd even come to regard him as the only family he had in this world.
So even knowing that Qian Xunji had probably seen something, Gao Yao still found it hard to accept his judgment of Yi Xiaochuan.
Seeing that Gao Yao didn't believe him, Qian Xunji didn't get angry.
He knew Gao Yao was just that loyal. Otherwise, he wouldn't still be risking his life to help his "good brother" Yi Xiaochuan after the man had gotten him castrated!
Martial Soul Hall Pope: "You can know a person's face but not his heart. The truth is, you don't know Yi Xiaochuan at all!"
Without waiting for Gao Yao to argue, Qian Xunji continued typing.
Martial Soul Hall Pope: "Let me start with Yi Xiaochuan's disloyalty. You and Yi Xiaochuan traveled back to the Qin Dynasty two years ago, right? These past two years must have been hard and miserable for you, haven't they?"
I Want to be Zhao Gao: "Mm."
Hard and miserable didn't even begin to describe it!
Because of the language barrier and his identity, he'd spent nearly all that time being bullied.
Looking back, he could hardly believe he'd spent the past two years living a life that wasn't fit for a human being.
Thankfully, he'd now found Yi Xiaochuan, a good brother who'd traveled through time just like him, and gained the Myriad Worlds Chat Group, such a powerful tool. Surely his life would only get better from here on out.
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