Listening to Gu Gaoxu, Lu Yuan blinked.
'Hey, you know what?'
'He actually had a point.'
'With Gu Gaoxu around, he was basically a safety net.'
'As long as he was there, the Da Xingzi absolutely couldn't harm anyone.'
'Forget him—even the Officials in Taiping City made the Da Xingzi wary.'
'And who was Gu Gaoxu?'
'He was a bona fide imperial grandson—a Legitimate Imperial Grandson, at that!'
'In all the days they'd spent together, the kid had never put on airs.'
'At times, Lu Yuan really did forget the kid's identity.'
'So, let the kid go?'
'But the original problem remained: Lu Yuan really didn't want to get involved with him.'
'Things would just become a tangled mess, impossible to sort out.'
'But... even though he said he didn't want to get involved...'
'...given the current situation...'
'...how could he possibly avoid it entirely?'
'Things had already come to this; it was too late to get out of it.'
Lu Yuan was simply resigned.
