He is from the Great Sea of ​​Stars [Quick Travel] Chapter 30



Because last time, the Stars of Time and Space were dissed for so long by the Overseer, they obediently learned their lesson.

This time, Overlord Xing didn’t foolishly spin randomly in the time-space tunnel.

He had just finished proposing marriage and hadn’t even heard the young lady’s reply yet when a crisp voice suddenly rang in his mind:

“Oh, 100 percent!”

—Then everything went dark, and the entire star lost consciousness.

“Ugh, you bunch of stupid groundhog stars!!”

When he woke up again, Huo Xingchao felt a sharp sting as water irritated the wound on his arm.

He was lying on a long couch beside the desk. There weren’t many people in the room. One was a simply dressed maid with a modest and obedient demeanor. The other was a young man in military uniform.

There was also a beautiful young woman in a cheongsam, her head lowered as she carefully cleaned his wound.

Her brows furrowed slightly, and her sigh carried a trace of worry. Her tone was slow.
“Why do you always end up like this?”

Huo Xingchao closed his eyes, seemingly unfazed by the pain in his arm, and replied lightly,
“I didn’t hurt my bones, it’s just a scratch. I’ll be fine in two or three days.”

“But after two or three days, you’ll have new injuries, and those new injuries will take another two or three days to heal. Two or three days, two or three days, you’re always like this. At this rate, even two or three years won’t be enough for you to recover.”

The man raised his head, his lips pressed together. The line of his chin was youthful and sharp, with a faint bluish stubble along it.

“Don’t worry about me. Go to sleep, and take care of the child in your belly.”

The young woman stood up, handed the handkerchief to the subordinate beside her, and gazed at him with a look of sorrow in her eyes.

“The heavens are vast, and life is fleeting, but the most important thing is peace and stability. Qinglin, I only ask you to give me and the child peace of mind.”

“Night has fallen, so rest early and give me peace of mind. Only when I feel at ease can I give you peace of mind, and only then will the world remain in order.”

The young woman was momentarily stunned. She hadn’t expected the man to match her rhyme so perfectly this time. Letting out an “Oh,” she took the maid’s hand for support and began walking out of the room.

But as she reached the door, she paused as if remembering something. She turned her head and blinked.

“What would you like to eat tomorrow morning?”

The man, allowing his subordinates to bandage his arm, replied lightly, with a hint of helplessness.
“Just prepare whatever you usually make. I’m not picky.”

“Then I’ll ask Sister Gui to steam some soup dumplings and prepare shredded chicken porridge. Oh, and her shredded radish cakes! Sister Gui’s shredded radish cakes are absolutely delicious…”

“No matter how delicious it is, you should go to bed.”

Huo Xingchao raised his head, motioned for his subordinates to move the documents to the desk, then walked over to her and gently patted her head with his uninjured hand.

“Rest well tonight. After breakfast tomorrow, I’ll take you out to have some fun.”

The girl’s eyes lit up, and she nodded obediently.

“Then don’t work too late. Get some rest early. I’ve been sleeping so deeply recently that I’m not worried about you waking me.”

Huo Xingchao nodded, watching her slender figure grow smaller and smaller as she walked farther away from the study, eventually disappearing into the night.

This was Gu Zhi.

She was also the little star that Huo Xingchao had to save this time.

Gu Zhi was an ordinary girl from the Republic of China. Her family ran a small rice shop. It was a family of five. Her parents, grandmother, and her younger brother.

Before she turned eighteen, the only thing remarkable about her life was her aunt, who had married into a wealthy family, and her fiancé, who came from a scholarly household.

Then one day, her fiancé began a romantic relationship with her aunt’s daughter and, without her knowing, married her.

Just as she found out, Gu Zhi’s father ran into trouble and was arrested.

Desperate, Gu Zhi had no choice but to turn to Huo Xingchao, the young marshal of the Anhui warlords, pleading for his help to save her father.

Huo Xingchao readily agreed and sheltered under his protection, Gu Zhi soon became pregnant.

However, due to the tense political climate and the fact that he was in a precarious position, the young marshal didn’t want anyone to know about the child before it was born.

So, he hid Gu Zhi away, allowing her to peacefully raise the baby until she could officially marry him after the birth.

But when Gu Zhi was eight months pregnant, the young marshal suddenly went missing.

Her father fell gravely ill, and their shop had been seized to pay off debts. Unable to stay idle, she rushed back home to see her family.

She had originally returned home in secret, but due to her cousin’s deliberate gossip, everyone soon knew that she was pregnant out of wedlock and had a child with someone improper.

Her former fiancé also came forward, claiming that this was the reason he had been forced to break off the engagement. Out of respect for the long-standing relationship between their two families, he said, he had kept this disgraceful matter hidden for the Gu family’s sake.

Rumors spread. The family owed a huge debt, her younger brother mysteriously disappeared, and even their basic survival became a struggle. Gu Zhi took out the gold and silver jewelry that Huo Xingchao had given her, and after paying off the debts, the family barely managed to scrape by.

At that time, Gu Zhi’s only thought was to quietly focus on her pregnancy and wait for Huo Xingchao to return.

But unfortunately, others didn’t want her life to go so smoothly.

In the days leading up to her delivery, her cousin, who was also pregnant, came to visit her every day. By sheer coincidence—or perhaps not—they ended up giving birth on the same day.

And then, her cousin stole her child.

It turned out that her cousin had been faking her pregnancy all along.

She secretly swapped Gu Zhi’s child and, when Gu Zhi found out, used her younger brother to threaten her.

She said, “Gu Zhi, I can’t have children. I’ll never be able to have children in my entire life, so I’ll treat your child well, I promise.”

Gu Zhi had no choice but to watch with tears streaming down her face as her cousin carried her child away.

She narrowly survived a difficult labor, but she lost her child. She remained bedridden for a long time, weeping day after day.

Her younger brother’s life was still being held hostage, and her family needed her to stay strong for them. Life was unbearably difficult.

Fortunately, she heard that the He family cherished the child deeply, which made her feel slightly less heartbroken.

But less than a year later, the cousin who once believed she could never have children suddenly became pregnant.

This time, it was a real pregnancy, and she gave birth to the He family’s legitimate grandson.

So how awkward must the situation have been for the “fake” child in the “mother’s” heart?

On the day of the He family grandson’s full moon banquet, Gu Zhi had a premonition that her time was running out. Forcing herself out of bed, she wanted to see her child one last time.

As soon as she entered the He household, she saw a little boy sitting in the courtyard, crying. When his sleeve was rolled up, his arm was covered in bruises.

Her cousin came out in a panic. Seeing that Gu Zhi had discovered this, she was startled and immediately accused her of pinching the child, then called for the servants to throw the crazy woman out.

At that time, Gu Zhi was already exhausted and at the end of her life.

She leaned against the doorway, being dragged away, watching her child cry fearfully in her cousin’s arms. As his small figure grew farther and farther away, her entire body trembled, and she coughed up blood in anguish.

On a bright and sunny day, her heart was cold as ice.

She no longer had the strength to take even one more step.

She thought, this was truly the coldest sunlight she had ever seen in her life.

This was Gu Zhi’s story.

But in truth, her story should never have been this way.

She should have quietly given birth to her child, waited for the young marshal to return, and then married him, living a peaceful and happy life.

Her life was later adapted into a television drama, becoming the most popular primetime series during the summer evenings.

It was hailed as a romantic idol drama set in the Republic of China.

But the turning point of her life was caused by a single girl who entered this TV drama world.

Lu Shuyuan.

Lu Shuyuan was also Gu Zhi’s cousin, but she was the other daughter of Gu Zhi’s aunt and had been living in Shanghai.

At the age of sixteen, she accidentally drowned after being bullied by her older sister.

The Lu Shuyuan who transmigrated, however, was a modern office worker who had happened to watch this TV drama. Upon realizing she had become the tragic supporting character in the story, she made up her mind to avenge the original owner.

She knew the entire storyline. When the young marshal was injured, she stepped in ahead of time to save him, hid him in her boudoir to evade his enemies, and then secretly burned the letters he had entrusted her to send to Gu Zhi.

She also gave advice to her sister, helping her carry out a series of actions to harm Gu Zhi.

At first, Lu Shuyuan didn’t plan on taking Gu Zhi’s life. She simply wanted to set a trap for her sister, believing that once the young marshal returned and discovered her actions, he would inevitably take action against her sister.

But what she didn’t expect was that, during this process, she fell in love with this man.

She no longer wanted to return him to Gu Zhi.

She wanted to fight for her love.

And so, she fought and fought.

In the end, she caused the deaths of both Gu Zhi and her child.

Later, the young marshal never married, and neither did she. Yet in the eyes of historians in later generations, the relationship between the two of them always seemed ambiguous. They were often referred to as “a pair of soulmates during a turbulent era.”

To be honest, no one in this story had a happy ending.

But while others could be said to have brought their tragedies upon themselves, Gu Zhi was the only truly innocent victim.

She didn’t even have the chance to muster her last breath for her child.

At this moment, it happened to be shortly after Gu Zhi had become pregnant.

Huo Xingchao walked to the desk, and as soon as he sat down, he saw the subordinate beside him respectfully present a letter.

There was no signature, but the stamp on the envelope looked familiar.

It was the private seal that Gu Zhi had once playfully asked him to make for her.

Because his hand was injured and it was difficult for him to open it, he gestured for his subordinate to open it instead.

The subordinate lowered his head, carefully opened the envelope, and placed the letter in front of him.

There were two sheets of paper in total.

The first sheet contained only a short and concise sentence. The handwriting was elegant, and the wording was extremely polite:

“Could you please pass on this poem to Mr. Meng Lin for his review?”

Oh, the tone was quite proper.

In Gu Zhi’s playful eyes, it might have read as:

“Could you please help me show this poem to Mr. Meng Lin?”

Then he looked at the second sheet.

“Oh, the showers! The winds!
That faint flash, that hurried, swift strike,
Descending suddenly upon the world—it is lightning.
Night, moonless night,
…”

The man closed his eyes and stopped reading.

He waved his hand, his tone resigned.
“Take it to Jiang Zhuang’an.”

“Yes.”

…Yes.

In fact, Gu Zhi was not just a gentle and virtuous lady.

—She was also a modern poetess with dreams.



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