At the door, Huo Dan could hear the sound and immediately pushed the door in.

Gu Yun was about to go crazy. He stood up too abruptly, causing the view in front of him to turn black for a moment. He grabbed the edge of the table; his arm won't stop trembling.

"Ready the horse, I must go back to the capital," Gu Yun took a deep breath, "You lead... cough..."

His voice broke when he got there; no sound could come out. He cleared his throat: "Take a few Light Armors and go ahead first, we must stop Tan Hong Fei."

Huo Dan gave him a deep look: "Yes!"

Gu Yun turned to take out his own attire and Light Armor, but Chang Geng had grabbed his wrist.

Chang Geng: "Is it true?"

Gu Yun looked down at him. Inside his eyes were surging clouds and raging winds, appearing very complicated.

After a pause, Gu Yun whispered: "Of course it isn't, magic is only nonsense without evidence, and Imperial Uncle is only..."

Only a servant under the throne, acting as he was ordered to. The Northern Barbarian sisters were only two pitiful people who had lost their home and country, straying far away to a distant land.

Everyone knew the truth, but no one dared to say it aloud.

Gu Yun pulled his hand away: "It's about to turn chaotic very soon, you shouldn't go back to the capital, stay here for a few days..."

Chang Geng refused to let him go: "Then does it mean, except for the parts regarding magic and Wang Guo, everything else was the truth? You knew, you have always known?"

Gu Yun was running out of patience: "What time is it already? You are still standing there and causing more trouble, step aside!"

Chang Geng almost opened his mouth at the same time as him, his voice low: "Why are you still willing to pour all your heart and strength into guarding this broken country for him? Why are you still enduring countless compromises, condescending to their demands time and time again? Why did you take me in? Raising and caring for me for so many years?"

Compared to Gu Yun's angry shout, his whisper was as light as falling snow, yet there was no telling how, but the moment the sentences left his mouth, the person who was meant to hear it was able to catch every word without fail.

Gu Yun's heart tightened.

Chang Geng's lips were completely pale, his gaze piercing through him: "Yifu, why?"

Gu Yun's throat jumped. He was at a loss for where, and how, to start.

Truth to be told, he wasn't aware of what was going on inside either; he had always assumed his injury was only an accident. He always thought that he himself wasn't able to protect A Yan carefully enough and could only watch the boy die from the battle of the Inner Palace.