After the imperial banquet, Gao Ran waited until she and You Song returned to Gao's house, returned to their own courtyard, and made sure that there were no secret agents lurking around, and then took the initiative to ask You Song a question that she had been brewing for a long time: "Dad, I will leave in the next few days." Would you like to come with me?"

It wasn't until the end of the day, when she really had to deal with the last obstacle she had to deal with before leaving, that Gao Ran realized that she had to ask You Song about her wishes before she went to negotiate with Gao Lan. Unless he himself was willing to go with her, even if she persuaded Gao Lan to let them go and made sure that she would not be angry with Yousong's own family (said to be a family in a small country adjacent to Yunxiang), she could not take anyone who was unwilling to leave with her in the first place.

But You Song didn't seem surprised by Gao Ran's sudden inquiry, but looked at her again with the same eyes that he looked at Gao Ran when he suddenly said that emotion to Gao Ran when he set off this morning, and politely refused: "Ran'er, everyone lives in this world, and he has his own life, and he can't ask for it. If you want to go, go. You should go too......"

"Daddy?"

Looking at Gao Ran's puzzled look, You Song smiled lightly, and revealed the secret for the first time: "From the first time you called me 'Dad', I knew that you were not my Ran'er. But no matter who you are, I thank you for cherishing Ran'er's body so much. Perhaps, this is the fate between you. Now, this body is yours. If you want to go, let's go. ”

"Dad, you, you know, you always know?"

Gao Ran didn't intend to deny it. You Song looked at her eyes, and her understanding of his usual character, she knew that what he said was indeed his sincere words, and he did know that she was not the original Gao Ran—his daughter Gao Ran.

For some reason, Gao Ran suddenly felt a little guilty for no reason, feeling guilty for hiding his identity from You Song for so long, and ashamed of his kindness to her. - Even now that he knew it, he had also hidden from her the fact that he had known it for a long time......

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hide it from you. You're the first person I've ever met here, and the first person I've ever felt 'warm' in my life. I can't bear to hurt you, I care about your feelings, so I'd rather be a stand-in for 'Gao Ran' and live in this world as your daughter...... At least, that's what I always thought until you debunked it......"

The implication of Gao Ran's words is: If it weren't for caring about You Song's feelings, then with her temperament, once she knew that her identity was a burden to her, then she would definitely get rid of this identity completely even if she faked her death as soon as possible, and would not bother to live as "Gao Ran" as she does now, and let You Song and Qiao'er also get rid of the Gao family openly and live the life they want to live.

Although Gao Ran does not deny that her painstaking planning in the past few years and several negotiations with those parties in recent days are more to create a relatively stable environment for the life she wants in her lifetime. But if she can not care about this identity from the beginning, if she gets rid of this identity from the beginning, then Gao Ran may not be able to achieve the life she wants with another identity such as a nobody: even if she can't enter the Yuju Academy with the identity of "Miss Gao", even if she can't worship Zhao Yi as a teacher, she believes that she can survive in the rivers and lakes, and then follow the "gathering of like" Even if she takes a step back, even if she doesn't have the opportunity to worship under the Medicine Valley Sect, so that she can't even live to her current age, she also believes that she can let every day of her life be true, sincere, and live according to her heart. - That's what she wants. And this basically has little to do with what she is.

Besides, if she had given up her identity as "Miss Gao" from the beginning, then she would not have a Qiao'er who followed her all the way from the beginning; and later, she might not have met Dong Tianyi and Yun Zhen; then she would not have been entangled by Yun Zhen, nor would she have made a private marriage contract with Dong Tianyi out of the original ignorant selfishness...... And now, he will not still owe Dong Tianyi a clear explanation, and Yu Qiwen will not take the initiative to find her because of Yun Zhen's relationship......

Furthermore, if she hadn't left the academy to avoid Yun Zhen, then she wouldn't have just in time for the poetry meeting held by the Heavenly Pavilion that day, and if she hadn't gone to the poetry meeting to win the reward, she wouldn't have let him see her just in time when Qiu Yueze was still hesitating to seize the true dominion of the land covered by his forces at the time...... If he hadn't noticed her at that time, then he wouldn't have completely lost the opportunity to re-elect because of a choice of thoughts, and it would have completely changed the direction of his future life, and it would be difficult to turn back, and he would have completely lost his relationship with Yunxiang's country from then on......

As for Gao Ran himself, if he hadn't known Qiu Yueze at the beginning, he wouldn't have known Gao Xi because of him, and he wouldn't have had the experiences with him later, nor would he owe him so many personal debts over time because of those experiences......

Moreover, if there was no interaction with Qiu Yueze, then when she passed through Li Lin's place later, Gao Ran would not have stayed in the Tiange Inn, let alone met Li Lin again because of this, and later, she would not have negotiated a well-paid business with Li Lin, and she would not have gone to Qianzhuang because she felt inconvenient with a large amount of silver tickets, and if she hadn't went, then she would not have happened to bump into Yun Jie who was trying to escape from Qin Tower on the road......

If he hadn't bumped into Yun Jie, and hadn't seen that he looked almost exactly like Yun Zhen, then Gao Ran would not have "kindly" saved his life, let alone the marriage contract that the two of them had made privately out of their own calculations......

Also, when Gao Ran later passed through Chunli Town, if it weren't for the requirements of her identity and the threat that Yun Zhen might have to her, she would not have taken the initiative to visit the Fu family and the An family. And if she hadn't visited at the beginning, she wouldn't have met Fu Tong, Fu Wenxuan, An Lu, An Yujie, and An Qi, the new head of the An family who later had a relationship with her in Jiaoguo. And when she was about to leave Yunxiang, she didn't have to leave "Seven" in order to settle Qiao'er, which provoked "Seven", and he took the opportunity to frame her, which attracted the attention of her second uncle Ye Yu, and then she reluctantly helped her deal with the aftermath......

If it weren't for the aftermath of Ye Yu, Gao Ran would not have known Zuo Yi, let alone have to take the same heart Gu with Ji Muqing, and formed a relationship with him that had to share life and death......

There are also Gao Liwen, Gao Qi, Amu, Gao Yu...... If it weren't for the various resources that Gao Ran's identity brought to Gao Ran and the various responsibilities that she was required to bear, which limited the range of options she could take, this made the path she would inevitably embark on in order to follow her own heart, and if it weren't for the precipitation of the choices she would inevitably make on this road, then these people would not have found her......

Similarly, it was also because of this identity that Gao Ran had to return to Yunxiang, and he had to bother to maintain the balance of the Fu family, the Gao family, the Yun family, and the Heavenly Pavilion.

If it weren't for the sake of maintaining such a balance, Gao Ran would not have needed to use the various resources he had to reach an agreement with the four parties with different specific contents, but all of them pointed to the common purpose of temporarily holding the army.

You must know that in order to reach an agreement, she exchanged not only her blood, but also a part of her most inviolable "freedom": she promised that she would take Qiu Yueze away after the deed, and that Dong Tianyi ...... Since she really had no defensible reason to refuse him, she still couldn't refuse him to follow him if he chased him after him in the future, and Gao Xi, who owed him so much that she couldn't refuse any of his requests. Presumably, he would have asked to go with her...... And that Yun Jie, who was always a hidden danger to her until she reached an agreement with him to break the engagement......

For Gao Ran, no matter what the reason for choosing to live as "Gao Ran" in the first place, but such a life is not much different from - if she chooses to give up this identity and start over again - another completely different life, in essence, these two lives can bring her: she will not feel how good all the benefits of her original choice will be, nor how bad will she feel about the various disadvantages that this identity has brought her.

In her opinion, no matter how you choose, each choice has its own good and bad. But as long as she always lives according to her true heart and never loses what she really wants, then no matter what kind of identity she is, what different joys, sorrows, and sorrows she experiences, in essence, it is the same meaning for her life: no matter how different the content of the experience is, the essential soul is still the same person.

Therefore, no matter how he lives, for Gao Ran, there is nothing to regret, unwillingness, and nothing to cherish and remember. - All the same.

It's just that at this moment, Gao Ran's mind did flash a trace of such an imagination: if she knew that You Song had already known that she was not really "Gao Ran" when she first opened her mouth to call him "Dad", then maybe things would have been much simpler...... Even if she will inevitably change her choice, it may not necessarily make her live longer than now, but it will definitely be easier than now.

But even so, she can't blame anyone. A past like this is just a well-intentioned misunderstanding between them. It's just that none of them expected that such kindness would make them stumble with each other for more than seven years before they were finally able to completely get rid of the shackles of the same secret in their hearts......

"Well, since everything is said and done, then I won't hide it. Although I can't tell you my true origin, I can tell you that in fact, my name is Gao Ran, and in your language, it happens to be the same name and surname as your daughter. Not only that, but we all look almost identical. - She looks exactly like when I was a child. So, in fact, I have always had a suspicion: your daughter is probably me, and she and I are probably the same person, but our 'time' is a little different...... So, it's not wrong for you to take me for her......"

"But you're not her after all. ”

"But you like my daughter too, don't you?"

Yusong stopped talking, but smiled by default.

"Dad, don't you really want to come with me?" but Gao Ran put away the joke and asked seriously one last time.

When You Song heard this, he also became serious, looked at Gao Ran, and repeated again seriously: "Everyone has their own destiny, and they can't force it...... Let's go. ”