“Yes, people have tried to intercept the Madam with this arrow on the road, but the Madam has dodged them all,” said Huai'an respectfully as he stood outside the carriage, pondering for a while before asking the question that had been on his mind all along, “Master, how did our Madam know about the Luyi Courtyard?”
Princess Yueyan's residence here was still quite hidden, with few nobles in Bianjing knowing that the Princess had a private property here.
If it wasn't for Young Master Su's Fu Yun Building that searched for news and held the most information in the world, no one would have known that an honorable Princess also had an additional courtyard here.
However, the Madam was not very old and was an inner court lady who seldom went out when there was no business.
How did she know about these things?
“Also, when the Master's whereabouts were unknown at first, the Madam went to Princess Yueyan's Furong Hall with Ning Shen and Ning Nv right away. After finding out that the Heir Apparent was not in the palace, the Madam acted even faster, directly asking Prince Duan for horses and coming to the Luyi Courtyard. To tell the truth, I didn't think of the Luyi Courtyard matter at first, but the Madam... seemed to have expected early on that Princess Yueyan would have ideas about the Master."
There was silence in the carriage for a long time.
Huai'an had too many doubts in his mind, but he couldn't guess what his master was thinking.
After a while, a clear and cold voice came from inside, "Well, I know."
Zhao Changdu lowered his eyes and took a look at the little girl sleeping soundly in his arms.
During the days she stayed at the Duke’s residence, the little girl had become a little rounder, looking much more plump on her face than when she was at the Earl’s residence before.
As she slept, her lips closed slightly. Her red lips were stained like rouge, crystal clear and lovely. Especially that pair of long, thick and curly black eyelashes under her eyelids outlined two beautiful shadows, making her look extremely pitiful.
He lowered his head and touched the tip of her straight little nose, and said lightly, "Go and tie up Jiang Yin."
Huai'an gritted his teeth, "Yes, I will go do it now."
In the lonely night, Zhao Changdu held the soft body of Gu Ying. His dark eyes were lonely and ruthless, with turbulent undercurrents.
He had of course noticed that something was wrong with the little girl.
It was just that he didn't dare think too deeply about it.
Just let time stop in this tender moment, even if... it was just to let him hold her like this for a while.
He asked for nothing more.
...
After the carriage left Luyi Courtyard.
A black figure quietly walked out from the corner.
In the dark night, looking at the carriage going away, anger gradually and slowly emerged on Jiang Yin’s handsome and calm face.
The anger broke through the thick ice layer sealed in the bottom of his heart, surging up hotly and violently.
This oncoming anger almost made him unable to control the killing intent in the depths of his heart, rushing in to hack Zhao Changdu and her to death.
"Gu Ying!"
"How could you!"
"How could you!"
"How could you give yourself to him!"
"It should be me who owns you, how can Zhao Changdu deserve to have you!"
He almost gnashed his teeth, angrily grasping the dagger in his hand, thinking of their passionate moans when they made love to each other. And thinking that Gu Ying was now Zhao Changdu’s wife, maybe the two enjoyed pleasure every day in the Duke’s residence, while he was just an outsider!
The more he thought about it, the more jealous he became. He fiercely stabbed the blade into the wall, and the blood split his palm and flowed down along the blade.
But he seemed to feel no pain at all. He cracked his mouth and pulled up a sinister and terrifying smile.
"So you never loved me at all. From beginning to end, the only person you loved has always been him, right?"
"Hahahahaha..."
"No wonder you guarded your body and refused to give it to me afterwards. So it was for him."
Jiang Yin's face twisted as he laughed loudly, then his expression instantly turned blank as he stopped laughing.
"Huh."
"Since you care so much about him, then I'll just let him die."
His tone was light when he spoke, but it carried silent, invisible murderous spirit.
No matter what, he still had to snatch her back. He wanted to let her know that no matter how hard she struggled, she could not escape from his palm.
A while later, his expression calm, he pulled out the dagger, wiped it clean and put it in his boot, then he turned around and left Luyi Courtyard.
...
Gu Ying didn’t know when she was brought back to Changfeng Pavilion.
When she regained consciousness, she felt that her body had been washed by someone already and changed into the tea white luo yi with winding lotus pattern that she often wore at home.
The familiar incense, the warm charcoal fire, and the unique heavy sweet water fragrance belonging to that person around her nose.
Gu Ying no longer had the flustered anxiety of her previous life, and closed her eyes peacefully.
She was in a deep sleep. Apparently she was extremely tired from that passionate, thrilling sex.
She moved her body and felt someone caressing her.
With an iron grip around her waist, she couldn’t catch her breath. She opened her eyes slightly to see a pair of deep and dark phoenix eyes. She wanted to push him away, but really had no strength at all, so she could only let him have his way.
Dense lingering kisses fell on her lips and neck. She could feel the relapsed heat from the man.
Gu Ying pushed the man away slightly and struggled to sit up, her cheeks flushed, and her wet eyes looked at the fierce man in front of her.
"A-Du, what's wrong with you?"
Zhao Changdu's thin lips tightened. He rubbed her black hair with his big hand and sneered, "There is still residual poison burning inside me."
Gu Ying saw his endurance and asked worriedly, "Is the efficacy of the drug so powerful? Your Highness, do you know what poison it is?"
Even in her previous life, it wasn’t so vicious.
After that night, he had solved the poison, and when she was in a panic to escape back to Jiang's house, it wasn’t as weak as tonight.
Could it be that this time, Princess Yueyan gave the Heir Apparent a different drug?
"I don't know."
He let Huai'an go to tie up Jiang Yin, but unexpectedly, Jiang Yin had already become Prince Shu's staff member and was now under Prince Shu's protection.
"Then, Your Highness..."
Did they have to do it once again in order to solve the poison?
Gu Ying’s face grew hotter. In order to solve the poison, they had already spent a lot of time at Luyi Courtyard. At the moment, she was a little unable to keep going.
The man's face was full of endurance and restraint. His big hand held the back of her head, and he kissed her between the eyebrows and said, "Your body is weak, don't toss around anymore."
Gu Ying was so embarrassed that her entire face turned red. In fact, it was okay... Together with him was comfortable and pleasurable.
Zhao Changdu stared deeply into her eyes for a moment, then wordlessly got out of bed.
Gu Ying watched in confusion as he walked into the clean room, and soon heard the sound of pouring water from inside.
At this moment she also couldn't sleep. She patted the heat on her face and took a deep breath. Enduring the soreness in her body, she also got out of bed.
The two maids Baiyan and Yilan were guarding outside the door.
Snowflakes floated in the night sky as the north wind blew again. It was so cold outside, yet the two silly maids were sticking it outside guarding the door.
Gu Ying hurriedly told the two to come in and then ordered, "Yilan, go and cook me a prescription for solving various poisons."
Yilan asked, "Is it the prescription that Miss wrote last time?"
“Yes, people have tried to intercept the Madam with this arrow on the road, but the Madam has dodged them all,” said Huai'an respectfully as he stood outside the carriage, pondering for a while before asking the question that had been on his mind all along, “Master, how did our Madam know about the Luyi Courtyard?”
Princess Yueyan's residence here was still quite hidden, with few nobles in Bianjing knowing that the Princess had a private property here.
If it wasn't for Young Master Su's Fu Yun Building that searched for news and held the most information in the world, no one would have known that an honorable Princess also had an additional courtyard here.
However, the Madam was not very old and was an inner court lady who seldom went out when there was no business.
How did she know about these things?
“Also, when the Master's whereabouts were unknown at first, the Madam went to Princess Yueyan's Furong Hall with Ning Shen and Ning Nv right away. After finding out that the Heir Apparent was not in the palace, the Madam acted even faster, directly asking Prince Duan for horses and coming to the Luyi Courtyard. To tell the truth, I didn't think of the Luyi Courtyard matter at first, but the Madam... seemed to have expected early on that Princess Yueyan would have ideas about the Master."
There was silence in the carriage for a long time.
Huai'an had too many doubts in his mind, but he couldn't guess what his master was thinking.
After a while, a clear and cold voice came from inside, "Well, I know."
Zhao Changdu lowered his eyes and took a look at the little girl sleeping soundly in his arms.
During the days she stayed at the Duke’s residence, the little girl had become a little rounder, looking much more plump on her face than when she was at the Earl’s residence before.
As she slept, her lips closed slightly. Her red lips were stained like rouge, crystal clear and lovely. Especially that pair of long, thick and curly black eyelashes under her eyelids outlined two beautiful shadows, making her look extremely pitiful.
He lowered his head and touched the tip of her straight little nose, and said lightly, "Go and tie up Jiang Yin."
Huai'an gritted his teeth, "Yes, I will go do it now."
In the lonely night, Zhao Changdu held the soft body of Gu Ying. His dark eyes were lonely and ruthless, with turbulent undercurrents.
He had of course noticed that something was wrong with the little girl.
It was just that he didn't dare think too deeply about it.
Just let time stop in this tender moment, even if... it was just to let him hold her like this for a while.
He asked for nothing more.
...
After the carriage left Luyi Courtyard.
A black figure quietly walked out from the corner.
In the dark night, looking at the carriage going away, anger gradually and slowly emerged on Jiang Yin’s handsome and calm face.
The anger broke through the thick ice layer sealed in the bottom of his heart, surging up hotly and violently.
This oncoming anger almost made him unable to control the killing intent in the depths of his heart, rushing in to hack Zhao Changdu and her to death.
"Gu Ying!"
"How could you!"
"How could you!"
"How could you give yourself to him!"
"It should be me who owns you, how can Zhao Changdu deserve to have you!"
He almost gnashed his teeth, angrily grasping the dagger in his hand, thinking of their passionate moans when they made love to each other. And thinking that Gu Ying was now Zhao Changdu’s wife, maybe the two enjoyed pleasure every day in the Duke’s residence, while he was just an outsider!
The more he thought about it, the more jealous he became. He fiercely stabbed the blade into the wall, and the blood split his palm and flowed down along the blade.
But he seemed to feel no pain at all. He cracked his mouth and pulled up a sinister and terrifying smile.
"So you never loved me at all. From beginning to end, the only person you loved has always been him, right?"
"Hahahahaha..."
"No wonder you guarded your body and refused to give it to me afterwards. So it was for him."
Jiang Yin's face twisted as he laughed loudly, then his expression instantly turned blank as he stopped laughing.
"Huh."
"Since you care so much about him, then I'll just let him die."
His tone was light when he spoke, but it carried silent, invisible murderous spirit.
No matter what, he still had to snatch her back. He wanted to let her know that no matter how hard she struggled, she could not escape from his palm.
A while later, his expression calm, he pulled out the dagger, wiped it clean and put it in his boot, then he turned around and left Luyi Courtyard.
...
Gu Ying didn’t know when she was brought back to Changfeng Pavilion.
When she regained consciousness, she felt that her body had been washed by someone already and changed into the tea white luo yi with winding lotus pattern that she often wore at home.
The familiar incense, the warm charcoal fire, and the unique heavy sweet water fragrance belonging to that person around her nose.
Gu Ying no longer had the flustered anxiety of her previous life, and closed her eyes peacefully.
She was in a deep sleep. Apparently she was extremely tired from that passionate, thrilling sex.
She moved her body and felt someone caressing her.
With an iron grip around her waist, she couldn’t catch her breath. She opened her eyes slightly to see a pair of deep and dark phoenix eyes. She wanted to push him away, but really had no strength at all, so she could only let him have his way.
Dense lingering kisses fell on her lips and neck. She could feel the relapsed heat from the man.
Gu Ying pushed the man away slightly and struggled to sit up, her cheeks flushed, and her wet eyes looked at the fierce man in front of her.
"A-Du, what's wrong with you?"
Zhao Changdu's thin lips tightened. He rubbed her black hair with his big hand and sneered, "There is still residual poison burning inside me."
Gu Ying saw his endurance and asked worriedly, "Is the efficacy of the drug so powerful? Your Highness, do you know what poison it is?"
Even in her previous life, it wasn’t so vicious.
After that night, he had solved the poison, and when she was in a panic to escape back to Jiang's house, it wasn’t as weak as tonight.
Could it be that this time, Princess Yueyan gave the Heir Apparent a different drug?
"I don't know."
He let Huai'an go to tie up Jiang Yin, but unexpectedly, Jiang Yin had already become Prince Shu's staff member and was now under Prince Shu's protection.
"Then, Your Highness..."
Did they have to do it once again in order to solve the poison?
Gu Ying’s face grew hotter. In order to solve the poison, they had already spent a lot of time at Luyi Courtyard. At the moment, she was a little unable to keep going.
The man's face was full of endurance and restraint. His big hand held the back of her head, and he kissed her between the eyebrows and said, "Your body is weak, don't toss around anymore."
Gu Ying was so embarrassed that her entire face turned red. In fact, it was okay... Together with him was comfortable and pleasurable.
Zhao Changdu stared deeply into her eyes for a moment, then wordlessly got out of bed.
Gu Ying watched in confusion as he walked into the clean room, and soon heard the sound of pouring water from inside.
At this moment she also couldn't sleep. She patted the heat on her face and took a deep breath. Enduring the soreness in her body, she also got out of bed.
The two maids Baiyan and Yilan were guarding outside the door.
Snowflakes floated in the night sky as the north wind blew again. It was so cold outside, yet the two silly maids were sticking it outside guarding the door.
Gu Ying hurriedly told the two to come in and then ordered, "Yilan, go and cook me a prescription for solving various poisons."
Yilan asked, "Is it the prescription that Miss wrote last time?"
