'Rebirth Of Cannon Fodder' • TK Adaptation •

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Gu Bai took the cup of tea from the cart, poured two cups of tea and smiled, “I am willing to listen to you.”
With Taehyung’s seemingly natural and unhindered tea pouring, Fu Junli felt at ease, and the young man’s light smile could even soothe the pain in his heart.

Taehyung’s words seemed to be a fuse for his long-held injury, burning into his heart and causing an explosion of confusion to vent it all out.
He took a sip of tea and sighed slowly.

“His name was Rong Lianzhi. Although he was born to a prostitute, he was an elegant and peerless young master. I met him on Yangzhou Lake eight years ago. It was the happiest day of my life. I never knew that there were people who could be friends with me. We said that we should drink wine and be harmonious together. I plays the guqin and the he guse, harmoniously and happily together.”

Rong Lianzhi was born to a prostitute? Taehyung's spirit was startled, and his ears perked up to listen attentively.

This was not mentioned in the original plot. In the original plot, Fu Junli never told the original owner about Lianzhi’s matter. The original owner didn’t know that he was the substitute in Fu Junli’s heart until this noble white lotus appeared.

Since Rong Lianzhi was born to a prostitute, why did he still say that Du Taehyung was a filthy thing?
Taehyung’s chest filled with anger again with the original owner’s inexplicable emotion.

Fu Junli fell back into his memories.
“At that time, I wanted to redeem him and take him home, but the brothel’s madam greedily asked me to give him thousands of liangs of gold to let Lianzhi leave with me. At that time, I had not yet taken over the property, and my mother was not favored by my father. Thousands of liangs of gold was a difficult thing for me, so I couldn’t pay. The madam even asked someone to beat me out of the attic!”

Speaking of this, Fu Junli’s face was cold. Before he took over the Fu family, he was a legitimate son who was not favored and had been despised by many.

During his trip to Yangzhou, he didn’t let people know he was the legitimate son of the rich house of Fu. The brothel madam only regarded him as an ordinary scholar. When he ran out of money, she had turned around and refused to recognize him.

“But Lianzhi was deeply in love with me. He met me in the middle of the night and brought a doctor and some silver. He told me not to tire myself out for him while rushing to Beijing for the exam. He would wait for me to come back, but who knew that…”
The expression on Fu Junli’s face grew pained.

“Who knew that when I went back to the manor to get enough money to go back, Lianzhi had been beaten half to death by the madam’s pimp and been forcefully sold off, leaving only a small note to my letter: If you entered my deep longing, you would understand why I yearn and suffer. Long yearning recalls distant memories, a short yearning is boundless. Taehyung, do you understand? ..”

Fu Junli finished talking, and his throat was dry, and there was a kind of sadness of not crying but still having tears. This was why he hadn’t wanted to take the exam all his life. Lianzhi had made him focus on his future, but the core of his heart was occupied by a beauty.

“I… understand. ”
Taehyung breathed a long sigh of relief and showed a moved face.

Lianzhi was your youth’s first love. Did you think that this first love was a white lotus that came out of mud unstained? Did you think that this white lotus understood that you couldn’t extricate yourself? Did you think that he didn’t know your identity and still loved you, and how rare that was? Did you think it was more valuable for him to send charcoal in the snow when you had fallen down? Did you think it was so sad that he couldn’t help being sold off, only leaving you a letter that would last forever in your heart, making you think such beautiful love couldn’t be forgotten.

But brother, don’t you think such a beautiful love story is a little strange?