It wasn't just Tao Zhiyan. Everyone present was a little dumbfounded.
Wait a second...
It felt as though an entirely unprecedented idea had been injected into their brains.
Oh no. We're actually going to start thinking.
"Ah... don't talk nonsense. You'll scare Mr. Gu." Lin Yimu interrupted the Ren Family brothers' conversation.
The Ren Family brothers laughed and fell silent.
Lin Yimu looked at Gu Shengzhou and finally steered the conversation back on track. "In any case, Mr. Gu, I hope you'll keep living, and live well."
"You've already died once."
Gu Shengzhou had been stunned by what the Ren Family brothers had said. It took him quite a while to barely recover his senses.
Their eyes met. As though he'd made some sort of decision, Lin Yimu said, "I've died once too."
Looking at Lin Yimu before him, Gu Shengzhou suddenly felt that he was both familiar and a stranger.
Their shared past surfaced in his mind, every memory vivid, from childhood to secondary school, and finally to their engagement.
Lin Yimu was right in front of him, yet he felt so far away.
"Mr. Gu, I can feel how much you love the person I used to be." At this point, Lin Yimu's voice trembled, and he could barely get the rest of his words out.
He didn't remember Gu Shengzhou. He didn't even have any feelings for him. Yet saying these words hurt so terribly.
How strange...
Could it hurt even when you didn't know someone?
Lin Yimu didn't remember what he'd been like before.
He simply felt that the Lin Yimu whom Gu Shengzhou loved enough to give his life for must have been a very, very good person.
But that person was no longer him.
"You..." Lin Yimu took a deep breath, his nose stinging.