Chapter 271: The Filter of Memory (Part II)
The beautiful memories that originally existed in childhood were suddenly ruthlessly torn open by the canvas painted by the owner of the memories himself, revealing its original hideous face.
And this one who tears open the canvas is another protagonist in the canvas.
How sad should the owner of the memories be?
It is difficult for Bian Ruoxuan to empathize with this kind of emotion, and when she counts, there are no good memories of her real childhood.
There is not even a little room for beautification, so naturally it will not be able to encounter this kind of beautified memories when their true faces are abruptly revealed.
In Guo Jitong's opinion, the reason why he and Mu Xiuqi played was very simple.
As the sole heir of the Guo family, Guo Ji Tong's actual situation is not so good.
When he was a child, he was too naughty, and those children of the same generation couldn't stand his pranks, but they had to put up with it.
People always have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, even if they know that this is the future head of the family that they can't offend, it doesn't prevent these peers from being respectful to Ji Tong on face.
Besides, Ji Tong can distinguish whether these people are true or false, and even if that kind of grooming and fear is well concealed, it will still be noticed.
Besides, the people of the family can only have face left, so the people of the Mu family are even more, they are not a family, what can they do if they are not willing to play with you.
Moreover, for the elders of the Mu family, it is obvious that they are investing in the future of their own family, and it is more worthwhile to build a good relationship and become a descendant.
Who would be willing to let their children be bullied when there were better options.
For the two different reasons, Mu Xiuqi and Guo Jitong were isolated at the same time.
It's just that one is overt isolation and the other is implicit isolation.
It was Guo Jitong who took the initiative to contact him, and he couldn't stand this isolation even more than Mu Xiuqi.
Mu Xiuqi was enough to deal with the occasional difficulties of his family at that time, so he didn't find out the real reason why Ji Tong was close to him.
Therefore, he always felt that Guo Jitong, who took the initiative to reach out to him, was the one who saved him.
Therefore, even as the two grew up, he realized that Guo Jitong's purpose was not pure, but he also chose to ignore it, and painted a better scene on the canvas one stroke at a time.
In fact, he had many opportunities to perceive the truth, but he himself carefully covered up the little pony feet that he really wanted to expose, and replaced it with a more beautiful 'illusion'.
There are enough unhappy things, and rare happiness does not allow a single blemish to be defiled.
Ji Tong has never been a friend of Mu Xiuqi.
When Mu Xiuqi was still in the middle, he was just a follower, even if he took the initiative to contact Mu Xiuqi, he just wanted to accept a follower.
Of course, perhaps because of the previous lesson, pranks will not be excessive, and Mu Xiuqi, who has been bullied by everyone in the Mu family, does not feel that it is too much in the face of those pranks of Ji Tong.
And those resources that will be given to Mu Xiuqi from time to time are the part that 'followers deserve'.
In the process of grooming, Ji Tong himself described this part even more cruelly: "I also reflected on it later, you have to feed often to raise a spirit pet, and the follower is a person." β
"A slap needs to give a sweet date, this is the way of the emperor, just slap, even if he can endure the pain again, there will be a day when he runs away. β
Bian Ruoxuan glanced back at Mu Xiuqi, there seemed to be something else besides the pain.
"Those who follow your path are not particular about 'taking the earth as a plate, taking people as a chess, and playing against the sky'?"
Mu Xiuqi knew what she wanted to say: "I'm not a qualified opponent after all. β
"And you persuade me like this, aren't you afraid that one day I will become a pawn in my hands? It is better for a chess piece to be in the hands of an emotional opponent than in the hands of an emotionless opponent. β
When it comes to these issues, Bian Ruoxuan is rarely serious.
"Do you really think so?"
"At that time, I advised you to communicate with Yuan Mingyue, you should listen to my advice. The path that the Yuan family has been taking may be more suitable for you than the one you choose now. β
Mu Xiuqi beat his spirit: "What's the solution?"
"If I'm not mistaken, the players are actually divided into two ways, one is to stay out of the chess game, look at the overall situation, and become the layout. This requires the player to abandon their own emotional influence in order to achieve ultimate victory. β
"The other is to go deep into the chess game, to become a chess player, and everything about oneself becomes an inseparable part of the center. β
"This kind of path is extremely demanding for the opponent, because you can't look at the whole picture, so you can only take it step by step. However, after leaving the original plate, how can the original layout remain stable?"
The pause was not to require Mu Xiuqi to answer, but to allow him to focus more on what she was going to say next.
"Interests, exchanges, vows, these will not be eternal guarantees, but emotions can be done. β
"What you are walking now is the former, and the Yuan family has always taken the latter. β
Bian Ruoxuan looked at Mu Xiuqi's eyes seriously, but did not use any inducement techniques: "Do you think you can meet the requirements of the former?"
"Can you do that, let go of the influence of your own emotions?"
Bian Ruoxuan's words seemed to have a sense of demagogy, and at this moment she was more like an evangelist: "Heaven and earth, whether it is affectionate or ruthless, actually depends on yourself. If you think it has affection, it does. You think it's merciless, it's none. β
"If you can't get rid of it, why not try it and make it the sharpest weapon in your hands?"
Mu Xiuqi seemed to be struggling: "You haven't answered my question just now, for chess pieces, what kind of opponent is better?"
Bian Ruoxuan couldn't help laughing: "As I said, I'm not interested in chess at all. β
"Even though I knew that I had been on this vast chessboard since I was born, I had no interest in this game at all. β
"I only want to be the chess piece with autonomy, and follow me. Is the opponent affectionate or ruthless, and has a relationship with me?"
"That's a bit naΓ―ve. Mu Xiuqi frowned: "How do you know if the step you want to take will be what others are eager for you to take?"
Bian Ruoxuan glanced back at Ji Tong, who had already talked about what happened later, and calmly refuted Mu Xiuqi.
"Even if someone longs for it, or even calculates that I can only take this step, what if he is satisfied, and thinks that I am nothing more than this, and that I am under control, there will always be something to tell him, that I will not take this step because I am constrained by him, but because I want to take this step, I will take this step. β
"One step, two steps or even more than one step is satisfactory, but it doesn't mean that I will always be satisfied. β
In the same way, if anyone thinks that I will do the opposite when I know that I am being calculated, he will be miscalculated. β
"At the end of the day, the reason why I'm here is because my preferences tell me it's a good way to go. And not because my preferences were expected to die, so I walked into this planned step. β
"You opponents, sometimes you can't even see your own preferences clearly, why can you be so confident that you can see through other people's preferences?"
Not ready to interrupt Mu Xiuqi's thinking, Bian Ruoxuan turned around and continued to read Ji Tong's self-report.
Mu Xiuqi has not always been inferior to Guo Jitong, and Guo Jitong has also felt the crisis from Mu Xiuqi.
Once was when I met Ge Yunyan.
As a sword cultivator, Ge Yunyan's perception of emotions is more sensitive than ordinary people think, and after discovering that Ji Tong's feelings for her have deteriorated, she gradually drew a line with him.
There are only friends, not up to the above.
Moreover, Ge Yunyan sometimes treats Mu Xiuqi who has always had only friendship.
This is the beginning of injustice, but it is not the main cause of injustice.
Although Ji Tong will also be dissatisfied with Ge Yunyan's differential attitude, he will not be too angry with Mu Xiuqi, and he still knows the reason.
The other, and most important, was Mu Xiuqi's marriage.
In Ji Tong's memory, Mu Xiuqi has always been the person whose cultivation talent is not very good, and the family does not pay enough attention to it, so he can only rely on his help to survive.
Such a person who has always been inferior to him is the most suitable person as a follower.
However, this follower has actually changed under his nose, not to mention that the baby is not many years slower than him, and his status in the Mu family is still gradually improving.
And Guo Jitong seems to have a stable position in the Guo family, but in fact, those who only had face with him when he was a child, after growing up, they still only have face love.
In this case, he was actually afraid in his heart that after the actual status of the two was reversed, Mu Xiuqi had a tendency to reverse the dominance of the 'friendship' between the two.
After discovering that Mu Xiuqi did not have this trend, Guo Jitong was first relieved, and then resentful.
Resentful that Mu Xiuqi was not as despicable as he thought, and he was inferior to him in this aspect.
The most unacceptable thing is not failure, but that people who were originally inferior to you have become stronger than you when you don't know it.
Mu Xiuqi gradually mastered the Mu family, and it was hard for Ji Tong to believe that this was Mu Xiuqi's gradual rise with his own efforts, and he blamed everything on external factors.
This external factor, the only variable he can find, is Bian Ruoxuan.
Bian Ruoxuan was quite aggrieved, such a big black cauldron actually fell on her head for a long time?
"Am I so capable? How could I not know?"
Guo Jitong felt that he couldn't be preempted by Mu Xiuqi, so he thought he had vaguely thrown an olive branch to Bian Ruoxuan several times, wanting to increase his income to the Guo family, so as to enhance his own status in the Guo family.
Bian Ruoxuan only accepted him once, it was an invitation to explore the secret realm together, and to give some formation map that was easy to sell, this kind of request he explicitly hinted at many times, Bian Ruoxuan just didn't understand, and didn't react at all.
Bian Ruoxuan didn't deliberately hide a lot of things in Tantra, she always had to take out those things and use them.
Therefore, Guo Ji hated Bian Ruoxuan, who could give Mu Xiuqi one recipe after another, but didn't give him a single formation map.
Of course, what he hates the most is Mu Xiuqi, obviously the three of them know Bian Ruoxuan at the same time, why does Bian Ruoxuan only treat him as the most alienated.
It must have been Mu Xiuqi who said something about him behind his back that would lead to such a result, Ge Yunyan is like this, and Bian Ruoxuan is also like this. Mu Xiuqi said that he was the best brother with him, paralyzing his attention, but in fact, he stabbed him in the heart.
Could it be that Bian Ruoxuan would give him a few array diagrams and would have any hindrance to the Mu family? Obviously, it is because the array business and the elixir business are the farthest apart that the two families will have a good cooperative relationship.
Mu Xiuqi targeted him like this, which was fundamentally harmful to others and himself, and he just couldn't see him well.
The reason for such thoughts to intensify is after a change between Ji Tong's parents.
The younger brother, who was only a dozen years younger than him, was about to take everything from him.
He heard more than once that someone in the family was secretly discussing, and he was originally decided, not only because he was the only son of the head of the family, but also because his mother's family was strong, and choosing such a family head would strengthen the relationship between the two families.
However, now that the two families have almost torn their faces, in this way, even if he is still the only son of the head of the family, he cannot be elected as the next head of the family, who can guarantee that after he ascends the throne, he will be close to his mother's family?
What's more, he is no longer the only son of the head of the family. There is a person who is cleaner than him, more talented than him, and more capable of handling things than him, and he has not directly canceled his title, but there is no suitable reason yet.
His situation is gradually getting worse, and Mu Xiuqi, who was originally far inferior to him, is thriving, and such a gap makes him unacceptable.
He hates Mu Xiuqi, hates his thriving, hates him for being cold on the side, as a follower, shouldn't he give away everything he has when he is in need?
He hated his mother, hated her for being selfish and only thinking about herself, and couldn't think more about his only son, there were so many people in the backyard of the head of the Mu family, did the mother of the Mu family shout and kill so much? If she hadn't torn her face with her father, how good would this so-called 'younger brother' who suddenly appeared, no matter how good he was, worthy of him who connected the bloodlines of the two families?
He hated his father, hated him for having this younger brother behind his mother's back, and actually took it back and admitted it, which caused him to fall into the embarrassing situation he is in today.
He hated this brother who appeared inexplicably, he shouldn't have existed in the first place.
He hated Bian Ruoxuan, hated her stinginess, and was not even willing to do the work of handing over a few formations.
He also hated Ge Yunyan.
hated Ge Yunyan for not accepting his show of love, but keeping a distance from him.
If Ge Yunyan can accept him, then he is still in the two families, and the Ge family is no worse than his mother's family.
Moreover, Ge Yunyan's situation in the Ge family is not so good, even if there are any changes in the future, Ge Yunyan can't make the alliance between the two families almost break like his mother.
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