Chapter 754: I Am Not Gu Yuena!

"What is the final step?"

"And who is the final person... uh..."

Gu Yue suddenly paused, her expression slowly turning strange: "The final person Na'er predicted, does she actually exist?"

"Na'er?"

Qin Jian had just seen Na'er's consciousness, so he was no longer as worried as before that Na'er would disappear.

"What did she predict?" he asked.

Gu Yue glanced at him, her meaning unclear: "In Na'er's memories, she discovered that your first martial soul came with its first Soul Ring, which is why the ninth person could just happen to become a god, but the second martial soul did not..."

"In other words, you fell in love with Ning Rongrong and obtained the first Soul Ring of your second martial soul, but breaking up with her resulted in the second Soul Ring of your first martial soul..."

"This way, after nine people, the first martial soul has ten Soul Rings, but the second martial soul only has nine, so she judged that there must be one more person for your second martial soul to make up ten rings."

Gu Yue looked up at him: "However, she didn't expect that those Soul Rings on your first martial soul were actually traps; it turns out you were always meant to become a god through your body martial soul, and it was always ten people."

"Then who exactly is the last person..."

Her expression changed: "It wouldn't be what Na'er thought, would it?"

A hint of a smile appeared in Qin Jian's eyes: "What did Na'er think?"

Gu Yue turned to look at him, her expression guarded: "Na'er guessed that the tenth person is herself; this isn't true, is it?"

"Of course not."

Qin Jian shook his head decisively.

Gu Yue breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, that's good."

But for some reason, she felt a little disappointed inside...

She tried hard to perk up, smiling as she patted Qin Jian on the shoulder: "Little one, who is the last person?"

Below, Ning Rongrong, Bibi Dong, and the others, who had heard their entire conversation, also pricked up their ears.

They had originally thought it was just an internal dispute among nine people, but they hadn't expected a god-sent reinforcement.

Why is it so hard to get a man?

But as long as it wasn't the person who had protected Qin Jian for ten thousand years, at least the threat would be much lower...

"As for that last person..."

Qin Jian had no idea what these women were thinking.

He just looked at Gu Yue and slowly raised the corners of his mouth: "Her name is... Gu, Yue, Na."

"Wh... what?!"

Gu Yue felt a moment of surprise, but immediately knitted her willow brows: "I am Gu Yue, not Gu Yuena."

The women below looked blank: "Gu Yue and Gu Yuena?"

"I know you aren't Gu Yuena..."

Qin Jian smiled nonchalantly: "Because only Gu Yue, who has fused with Na'er's consciousness, is Gu Yuena."

"Fusing with Na'er's consciousness..."

Gu Yue frowned: "I think I'm fine as I am now; I don't need to fuse with Na'er's consciousness. Besides, she has already disappeared and cannot be found."

"Really?"

Qin Jian reached out to grab her hand: "Then why did you act like Na'er just now?"

"I did not!"

Gu Yue brushed his hand away irritably: "That was your imagination."

Qin Jian pulled his hand back without a care, but then gently touched her long hair: "If that's the case, then why did you let me kiss you before?"

Gu Yue turned her head away awkwardly, not letting him touch her.

She had a feeling that the sentiment she felt when she first woke up—treating him as her own flesh and blood—was slowly fading.

Replacing it was a feeling that made her heart flutter, yet one she couldn't help but yearn for.

"Gu Yue..."

Qin Jian's pleasant voice rang in her ear, very soft and intoxicating: "You are not my elder relative; you are my Gu Yue, and you are also my Gu Yuena."

Gu Yue pushed him away gently, moving his mouth away from her ear: "I am not Gu Yuena; I am just Gu Yue."

"No, Gu Yue is Gu Yuena, and Na'er is also Gu Yuena," Qin Jian looked into her eyes earnestly: "You are one person; you are simply Gu Yuena."

"Are you always expecting your Na'er to come back?" Gu Yue asked sullenly.

Qin Jian smiled and reached out, pulling her into his arms: "No, I am just looking forward to that complete Gu Yuena. Whether it's Gu Yue or Na'er, both are incomplete."

Gu Yue struggled a little, but finding she couldn't break free, she complied.

She lay quietly in Qin Jian's arms and sighed: "Actually, my consciousness is a bit jealous of Na'er's half of the consciousness."

"Jealous?"

Qin Jian was caught between laughter and tears: "Jealous of yourself?"

"Mm..." Gu Yue said in a muffled voice: "Who told her to happily chat with you, watch you grow, and later go out with you? As a result, I could only stay alone at the bottom of the Life Lake, watching you two be happy..."

Qin Jian was laughing at first, but slowly, he couldn't laugh anymore: "Were you and Na'er completely split into two consciousnesses at that time?"

"Not exactly, it was just that one was awake while the other was always in a deep sleep," Gu Yue said softly: "Originally, the moment I woke up, my consciousness and hers should have fused..."

"But because of the countless years of loneliness and healing, I held too much resentment. When I received Na'er's memories and saw her so happy and joyful with you, I suddenly became extremely jealous, so the consciousness couldn't fuse and was buried by me just like that."

Qin Jian was silent for a long while before he finally sorted out the cause of the matter: "So, one really can be jealous of oneself... one set of memories jealous of another set, so you simply refused to acknowledge that part and sealed it away directly..."

"Actually, she is you. All the happiness I experienced with her was originally yours as well," he hugged Gu Yue tightly and whispered: "You were always Gu Yuena; why must you insist on splitting yourself apart?"

"It's not that simple..."

Gu Yue curled her lip: "Just like the personality split you mentioned, half is happy and beautiful memories, and half is a lonely and unbearable past. These two segments are too different; I couldn't fuse them easily. Not to mention, you were caught in the middle."

She raised her head and stared into Qin Jian's eyes: "You like her, not me, so I am jealous of her, and it's even more impossible for me to let her come out."

Qin Jian's head swelled three times its size: "You and her are fundamentally the same person; if I like her, doesn't that mean I like you? You possess the same body, the same Spirit, and the same heart that treats me well, so what difference does that make?"

"Is there really no difference?" Gu Yue repeated with a smile.

"Of course there's no..."

Qin Jian suddenly froze.

"It seems you have already realized..."

Gu Yue said in a somewhat low voice: "The memories Na'er has with you are not mine; your feelings, the affection you have for each other, all stem from those memories, but those simply do not belong to me..."

"What you like is the Na'er who has those memories, not me, who lacks them."

She seemed to see right through Qin Jian's heart: "Therefore, I am not Na'er, because those memories are not mine."

(End of chapter)