Chapter 1845 - 1443: Even a Drop in the Bucket Is Still Something!

"Seeing them so sweet together, are you envious? Jealous?"

The dim voice came from the darkness; all around, there wasn’t a single human figure.

Almost the instant that voice sounded, Shi Wujue’s whole body went taut!

By now, Zhou Mu was already holding Gu Changsheng as he walked up the winding staircase. The two of them, their backs overlapping into one, were so dazzling it hurt to look at.

Envious?

Jealous?

He had always been envious and jealous, but that was something only he needed to know. There was no need for it to be spoken aloud by someone else—especially when that person was someone who wanted Gu Changsheng dead!

"What’s wrong? Unwilling to admit it? You fell in love with your friend’s woman. A friend’s wife is not to be toyed with..." Lige’s voice came again from the dark.

"Shut up!" He might not know where Lige was, but Shi Wujue knew very clearly that this woman was the same one who had tried and failed to ambush Gu Changsheng on the first floor of the Star Innate Tower, and had been seen through by her!

A woman infatuated with Zhou Mu?

"Heh... If I shut up, can you pretend you don’t see your own heart? Master of Linyuan City, Shi Wujue—who startles the world, outrageously unrivaled—actually has something he cannot obtain, a woman he cannot have!" At his words, Lige let out a low laugh and said faintly, "Let’s work together. You take Gu Changsheng away, I’ll kill Zhou Mu!"

At that, Shi Wujue’s eyes narrowed dangerously to slits. The corner of his mouth hooked into a mocking arc as he said, "Kill Zhou Mu? I, the City Lord, thought the one you wanted to kill was Gu Changsheng, so you could have Zhou Mu."

Hidden in the dark, when Lige heard this, her brows twitched almost imperceptibly, and she chose to fall silent.

If Zhou Mu died, there was absolutely no way Gu Changsheng could survive alone. As long as she managed to kill either one of them, once they got out of the Star Innate Tower, she could give her Elder Sister an answer!

But what Lige hadn’t expected was that Gu Changsheng and Zhou Mu’s vigilance would be so high. Even with their Inner Strength crippled, she had been concealed around them for so long and still hadn’t found the slightest chance to make a move.

As for Shi Wujue’s feelings toward Gu Changsheng, Lige saw them crystal clear. Yet she hadn’t expected that, even while trapped in the whirlpool of unrequited love, this man could remain so rational—he was not easy to use at all!

While Lige was silent, Shi Wujue spoke again, full of ridicule. "Even you know the two of them live and die as one; they would never abandon each other, right? Since that’s the case, what makes you think you can use me, the City Lord?"

What a ridiculous truth— even a woman who had come to kill Gu Changsheng could see that Gu Changsheng and Zhou Mu were of one mind, that in their eyes there was only each other. Only he, knowing all of this, still wanted to follow humbly by their side, forcing himself to watch it all with his eyes wide open...

As long as he could be where she was, that was enough!

What he asked for was that simple, so how could he let others use him?

The one who would hurt her the most would ultimately be himself; how could Shi Wujue allow himself to become the steel blade in someone else’s hand?

He would not!

He would never!

In the seemingly empty air all around, it was as if there came the sound of someone sucking in a cold breath. Lige, hearing Shi Wujue’s words, would be lying if she said she wasn’t shocked. She hadn’t thought that even her little scheme could not escape Shi Wujue’s eyes. In that case, she could only act alone and kill Gu Changsheng herself. That was truly a daunting task!

But if she didn’t complete it, how was she supposed to face her Elder Sister?

"Get lost! Don’t appear around me again. This City Lord is nowhere near as kind-hearted as Changsheng!" With a low curse, Shi Wujue didn’t linger any longer. Stepping over a corpse at his feet, he strode quickly up the winding staircase in pursuit.

Sure enough, Lige’s voice did not sound again.

On the winding staircase, Gu Changsheng nestled in Zhou Mu’s arms. Sensing that Shi Wujue’s aura as he caught up was somewhat chaotic, she blinked her big eyes and asked in puzzlement, "Shi Wujue, what’s wrong with you?"

"Someone wanted me to snatch you away," Shi Wujue replied, voice careless.

"Uh..." Gu Changsheng’s face stiffened at that.

Just now she had felt Shi Wujue pause below, but hadn’t thought much of it. She hadn’t expected that a casual question would get such a blunt answer from him— and he even said it so calmly...

Shi Wujue’s matter-of-fact tone only made Gu Changsheng blush a fiery red...

As for who had been talking to Shi Wujue, Gu Changsheng didn’t even have to think about it. It had to be that woman hiding in the dark—the Peach Blossom that Zhou Mu had attracted!

Gu Changsheng shot her own evildoer a glare, awkwardly letting her gaze wander around, trying to think of something to say to break the embarrassment. Should she say the weather was nice today?

Damn it, you can’t even see sun or moon inside the Star Innate Tower, what bullshit "weather" is there to talk about?

But if she didn’t say anything, with Shi Wujue declaring he wanted to snatch her away, it wouldn’t just be her feeling awkward—her own evildoer would be awkward, and Shi Wujue would be even more awkward, right?

Gu Changsheng’s gaze swept up and down, her worry level maxing out, and suddenly her eyes were flashed by a glint of light on the stairs. Her eyes instantly lit up. She slapped the Zhou Mu who was holding her and spoke anxiously, "Evildoer, evildoer, put me down!"

"What’s wrong? Are you about to be stolen away?" Zhou Mu’s voice was as low and seductive as always, like aged wine.

"Pa!" Gu Changsheng slapped Zhou Mu in irritation and snapped, "Steal your damn Ghost. That pile of white corpses isn’t at our feet anymore, so why are you still holding me? Put me down, I see treasure!"

Hearing this, the face of Zhou Mu, who was like a Divine Residence, was full of helplessness. Urged on by Gu Changsheng, he still bent down and set Gu Changsheng on the stairs.

The spiral staircase, just like on the first floor, was so narrow that only one person could pass. As soon as Gu Changsheng was put down, she bent over and sprawled onto the ground, staring at the pearls inlaid in the stair planks, her eyes shining. "Hey, you guys come here and look. These are Luminous Pearls, right?"

Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue exchanged a glance when they heard this, then both lowered their heads to look at the pearls embedded in the stairs.

With how well-informed they were, of course they knew these were Luminous Pearls. Otherwise, Ta You wouldn’t have embedded them into the wooden steps of the stairs, purely for lighting.

"They’re Luminous Pearls." Zhou Mu’s voice sounded faintly, and the look in his eyes as he gazed at his little woman was obscure and unreadable. He suddenly kind of understood why his little woman was in such a rush...

"Luminous Pearls! They’re really Luminous Pearls! That bastard Ta You is way too flashy, way too wasteful! So many Luminous Pearls, and he actually embedded them in the floor to use as streetlights? This is just... so damn delightful for me!" Gu Changsheng stroked the two fist-sized Luminous Pearls set into each stair plank, her eyes shining even brighter than the pearls. "We’re rich! We’re rich!"

"Miss... you... what are you planning to do?" The round and jade-like Yuan Bao twitched at the corners of his mouth, staring in disbelief as he asked.

Surely his Miss wasn’t thinking what he thought she was thinking, right?

Cleaning out all the burial goods on the second floor of the Star Innate Tower was one thing, but was his Miss really not going to spare even the lights on the stairs?

"What do you think I’m going to do? These are Luminous Pearls! So many Luminous Pearls, and this big too. These are really precious, worth a lot of Silver!" At Yuan Bao’s words, Gu Changsheng immediately turned her head to look at him with a face that clearly said, "How can you be this blind?"

Yuan Bao was stared at by his Miss until he was about to cry. "I know these are Luminous Pearls, I know they’re really valuable... But Miss, you’re not actually planning to go after these Luminous Pearls, are you?"

"If I wasn’t going after these Luminous Pearls, what would I have stopped for? Because I’m bored out of my damn mind? You think I’m stupid!" Gu Changsheng rolled her eyes on the spot.

Hearing this, Zhou Mu quickly raised a hand to rub his forehead, then backed down a few steps along the stairs.

Shi Wujue, who was the last one up the stairs, very much understood how Zhou Mu felt at this moment. His steps paused, and he didn’t continue going up.

Meanwhile, the Holy Envoy Child looked like he’d been struck by lightning. He pointed at Gu Changsheng with one hand, mouth hanging open, completely at a loss for words...

This woman!

This woman!

This woman had cleaned out all the burial items on the second floor of the Star Innate Tower and still wasn’t done—she actually had her eye on the Luminous Pearls used to light the stairs?

"These are just some Luminous Pearls. Compared to those burial goods, they’re not even a drop in the bucket!" The Holy Envoy Child struggled internally several times, but still felt he should speak up and try to stop her.

He hadn’t stopped Gu Changsheng from looting the burial goods, but if he still didn’t step in now and these Luminous Pearls also got stripped away by Gu Changsheng, then this second floor of the Star Innate Tower would truly be ruined!

"A drop in the bucket is still a drop! A mosquito’s leg is still meat! You can’t look down on these Luminous Pearls like that!" Gu Changsheng shot the Holy Envoy Child a sidelong glance and said with great enthusiasm, "Even if we don’t sell them for Silver, keeping them to decorate the house or to throw around for my little Meat Bun to play with is pretty great too!"

What, did they really think she couldn’t recognize good stuff?

These Luminous Pearls were clearly worth a fortune, okay?

What was even rarer was that all these lighting Luminous Pearls were the same size. That made them even more precious!

Gu Changsheng felt that using such good Luminous Pearls as road lamps was simply an outrageous waste.

Luckily, these Luminous Pearls had met her. She would definitely treat them well and absolutely would not let them be squandered like this!

"Mm, giving them to Xiao Gu Ze to toss around and play with is indeed not bad." Hearing Gu Changsheng’s words, Zhou Mu pondered for a moment, then nodded in full agreement.

Gu Changsheng broke into a grin at that.

She knew it—her evildoer spoiling the little Meat Bun was definitely not inferior to her at all. If she said that, he’d absolutely back her up. See, didn’t she call it?

Now that Zhou Mu had spoken, it basically meant these Luminous Pearls had almost zero chance of escaping their fate...