This made Gu Jiuque instinctively think of his previous life—of his short yet utterly tragic existence. He had liked Bai Yuesheng and trusted Bai Yuesheng, only for it to end with his entire family dead. He had struggled in despair for ten years before finally dying at the hands of one of Bai Yuesheng's fanatical admirers. Only after death did he learn that the world he lived in was merely a wish-fulfillment novel starring Bai Yuesheng and Jin Weixie. Everything he had gone through had only served to plausibly hand everything the Gu family possessed over to Bai Yuesheng, paving the way for the male lead's brilliant life.
In that book, the countless debts of blood had become pale, silent lines of text, but the pain Gu Jiuque had endured was real.
The two great fires he had experienced in his life had not only reduced the Gu Family Ancestral Residence to ruins; they had also burned his body and soul to ashes. Every moment, he endured the pain and terror of flames inch by inch licking at his skin and devouring his flesh. His flesh, bones, and organs were all consumed by an endless blaze. When awake, the pain was like ants gnawing at him; once asleep, terror returned again and again in his nightmares.
He had endured that torment for a full ten years, until he once again watched helplessly as he burned into a pile of charred bones.
The instant he opened his eyes again and saw Bai Yuesheng, Gu Jiuque did not even know whether those ten years had been a dream or a horrifying reality.
The book said Gu Jiuque was Bai Yuesheng's admirer, that he had willingly given everything for Bai Yuesheng. But from Gu Jiuque's perspective, he had long forgotten what it felt