【Five years ago.】

The residence of the staff in the western border.

Li Bailin held the Intelligence Department case file and looked at the guy who had been "disfigured" in front of him.

The third prince twisted the stack of case files, and the paper swayed in the wind, swaying without dispersing. The case files hovered in front of Gongsun Yue's palm and never fell down.

Gongsun Yue was not in a hurry either.

The two of them looked at each other quietly for a long time.

Li Bailin smiled and said, "Remember, this palace can save your life, or you can take it back. The "investigation order" about Ning Yi among the three departments has been withdrawn, and there are still ants who are not aware of their lives and deaths investigating... It has attracted the attention of the Jianxing Hou Mansion. This is the case file of the Intelligence Department."

Only then was Gongsun Yue received the case file.

The man with a completely devastated face and only a hideous scar left slowly flipped the file.

"No matter what means you use, don't let the 'investigation' continue." The third prince ordered in a deep voice, "I want you to hide and dig carefully, and find out all the life experiences of Ning and those related to him clearly... Can you do it?"

Gongsun Yue closed the pages of the book and nodded silently.

"Mr. Qingke said you are a very good candidate. Let's go and do it. I'll give you the privilege." Li Bailin nodded with satisfaction and gave his waist order.

...

...

Gongsun Yue looked at the three people recorded on the case file.

Shen Ling, Xu Jin, Gu Qian. The former is one of the nine major heads of the Intelligence Department today, while the latter is two pieces that were highly valued by Shen Ling but hidden... If he remembers correctly, the last guy named "Gu Qian" was the new deputy sent to him by the Law Enforcement Department.

When I was selecting Gu Qian, I checked the files. They were innocent and very clean. Shen Ling was a good method and was also cruel. All the old files of the Intelligence Department were destroyed.

The Third Highness's investigation into the Intelligence Department was obviously earlier than Shen Ling's, and more detailed... In other words, the only one who knows Gu Qian's identity as an "undercover agent" is now known.

Gongsun Yue walked on the road expressionlessly.

Kill them together?

Or stay for a while?

The impression of Gu Qian came to Gongsun Yue's mind at this moment. He was an extremely diligent and studious young man with high investigation efficiency and good memory. He changed so many deputy ones one after another. What he admired the most was this... It turned out to be a "heavy weapon" trained by Shen Ling secretly, and it makes sense now.

Kill it.

Gongsun Yue stood under the eaves and had already made up his attention.

He was a little dazed.

At this time, a dull thunder sounded from the dome of the long night. Billions of tons of heavy rain fell from the sky, and the eaves turned into waterfalls. Gongsun Yue, who was standing alone in the long night, was a little confused and thought that it had been raining for a long time, and he forgot to bring an umbrella.

He frowned and found a thin figure holding a big umbrella appeared in the heavy rain on the street.

At that time, Gongsun Yue's official rank was still very low, and he had no entourage or groom when he was traveling.

The young official in black robe holding an umbrella had a shoulder wet with rain and walked hard every step. He also carried an oil paper umbrella in his hand.

Gu Qian came to Gongsun Yue respectfully and handed over the umbrella.

Gongsun Yue did not reach out to take it, but shrank his hand into his sleeve and tightened the case information.

His first reaction was that the Intelligence Department was secretly supervising himself. This was a spy war. The young man in front of him was an intelligence department envoy who was more thoughtful than he thought.

He asked coldly, "How do you know I'm here?"

"Adults have never had a good memory."

Unexpectedly, Gongsun Yue got such an answer.

The young official stuffed the oil-paper umbrella into his hand and said helplessly: "It was probably because I forgot to write today's itinerary on the table, and I also told myself to bring an umbrella..." After saying that, he stretched out his finger and pointed to the dome, "I sent me to the attic of the Law Enforcement Department to investigate the case file. It was time to come. The lord was not here, so he guessed that he was trapped in the rain."

Gu Qian smiled, smiling cleanly, "I guess the adults are trapped in a corner of the sky, so they came out to look for it with an umbrella."

Gu Qian smiled and said, "Mr. Gongsun can remind me next time, I have a good memory."

Gongsun Yue was a little lost and took the oil paper umbrella.

yes.

After leaving Xiling, his memory became worse and worse. The night and day were turned upside down, and sleep was even more of a luxury. He seemed to have forgotten many things and only remembered the unforgettable hatred in Xiling... In fact, the taste of hatred itself has faded, and he lived just for one thing.

Completely overturn Ning Yi.

The consequence of overcoming yourself to remember one thing is to forget other things.

Gongsun Yue said to himself in his heart... Since we started over, then remember something again.

The young man named Gu could allow him to live for a longer time.

...

...

later.

In the fire in Taiqing Pavilion, he successfully killed Shen Ling and Xu Jin. The night killing plan went smoothly and perfectly. All the guys who were investigating Ning Yi on the surface were cleaned up... The Marquis of Jianxing returned to Ning Jing, and his secret investigation was also carried out smoothly.

The guy who was deceived by himself was even more desperate than himself because of "hatred", probably because he thought that the deaths of "Shen Ling" and "Xu Jin" were given by Ning Yi.

Gongsun Yue did not feel much guilt.

In the past few years when he was hiding Ning Yi and hiding, he had a very happy day. He enjoyed the emotion known as "revenge" to fill his chest, and the imperial power supported him behind his back... He knew that the longer he hiding and the deeper he hiding, the greater the chance of success of revenge.

So in the Lotus Temple, all the pleasures were released at the moment when the truth was revealed—

After that.

It is boundless emptiness.

The most exciting thing in this world is that the end is just around the corner, and you can only get past it by one step.

The most empty thing in this world is to cross the end.

There is no new direction.

The third prince died in the fierce tide, and Gongsun Yue lost all the help behind him.

Then... he got a stronger help than the third prince.

The prince gave him the chance to live again, at the cost of taking over the dirtiest secret institution in Tiandu.

The Fourth Department is specialized in intelligence, assassination, kidnapping, and collecting evidence of rebellion in the East Realm rebel party... All this is destined to be criticized and despised on the day of its announcement. In order to survive, Gongsun Yue had to wear the big red robe that he could never take off.

The moment I put it on.

He realized in a daze that he had changed his life.

He has long lost the meaning of living.

All that is done is simply "live".

He became a lackey of imperial power and an enemy that countless people hate. He was placed in the highest position of the Fourth Division, with an infinite abyss under his body... The meaning of living, looking around, it seemed that he could only find one person to explain.

The "friend" who saved his life and gradually formed a bond.

He began to feel guilty.

The more you understand Gu Qian, the more you know what the Taiqing Pavilion fire meant to Gu Qian... The more Gu Qian trusted Gongsun, the more he felt the "sense of guilt" in Gongsun.

No matter what... he can't let

Gu Qian intervened in the affairs of the Fourth Department.

Not just for protection.

It's even more about protecting yourself.

The last line of defense in oneself...

He could not imagine how Gu Qian would face all this after knowing the truth about Taiqing Pavilion.

Oh.

What a selfish person.

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...

The underground secret room was quiet for a long time.

The woman in green with her face covered was not very good, and the two wisps of her temples were swaying. She stood in the glimmer of light at the exit and listened to Gongsun Yue's long confession.

From five years ago to now.

The ugly guy crawled out of the abyss fell back into the abyss.

This guy didn't have much repentance in his tone. When he "talked" the past, he even forgot the pain and numbly shaking out the secret word by word, but instead he seemed like a kind of relief.

And strangely.

Zhang Junling, who had originally hated Gongsun Yue, had no contempt or hatred in his heart after listening to this "confession", and this feeling was not numb.

It's calm.
To be continued...