After Nangong Xuanning was sent away by Lu Zhu, Gu Qianying specifically instructed Lu Zhu to stay and guard Nangong Xuanning, and not to return.
Although Lu Zhu was very worried about her young lady, she was still obeying her young lady's orders. She dared not disobey her young lady's command.
During this period, Gu Qianying asked Lu Zhu to keep an eye on the maidservant Huan Bi while guarding Nangong Xuanning.
Upon hearing this, Lu Zhu became more vigilant. She checked all the tea and food that Huan Bi brought.
Indeed, a problem was discovered during this inspection: several of Princess Xuanning's favorite pastries were poisoned.
Lu Zhu did not know what kind of poison it was. She needed to take it back to her young lady, who could test for poison. Huan Bi was being watched by Lu Zhu, but to avoid alerting her, Lu Zhu did not tell Nangong Xuanning that her pastries were poisoned. Instead, after Huan Bi brought them over, Lu Zhu did not let Nangong Xuanning eat them and prepared other pastries for her.
At this moment, inside Jiuhua Palace.
Gu Qianying sat on a chaise lounge. The door of the room was open. A few plum trees outside had not yet bloomed, but a few green leaves had fallen in the courtyard. At sunset, she, within the palace walls, naturally could not see the beauty of the setting sun.
The tea in her hand had long gone cold. She looked outside with cold eyes. If it weren't for the poisoned silver needles hidden beneath her sleeves, she would have looked like a wife waiting for her husband to return.
At this hour, Nangong Qi had not yet left the court, so he would not come here now. She could take this opportunity to think about the path ahead. Her grandfather and brother had been exonerated, and the Gu family could now return.
However, what she did not expect was that Nangong Qi, that scumbag, would ascend the throne so quickly.
According to her informants, the old emperor was not dead but had been imprisoned by that scumbag Nangong Qi. No one knew where he was imprisoned.
Furthermore, Bai Qi, Shi Momo, and others had all been arrested by that scumbag Nangong Qi.
These were all people close to Nangong Mo. With her here, these people would surely be saved!
Besides these, her primary objective was to enter the palace and reclaim everything that belonged to Nangong Mo.
And all of this also included making the scumbag Nangong Qi taste what it was like to fall from the clouds to the bottom of a lake.
The scumbag Gu Mingyue was already dead. Among the remaining people, she would send them all to the guillotine step by step.
"Little lady, are you waiting for me?"
The figure that suddenly hung upside down outside the window interrupted Gu Qianying's thoughts.
Gu Qianying came back to her senses and saw Nangong Mo, dressed in white, appear before her.
He was still in the guise of "Little Linzi."
Gu Qianying was a little surprised to see him, "Little Linzi, why are you here?"
As she asked this, she suddenly remembered the time she had played a trick on Little Linzi.
Her mood was no longer so melancholic.
Gu Qianying did not respond to Nangong Mo's question.
Nangong Mo also did not respond to Gu Qianying's question. He only said, "I missed you, so I came."
...
Gu Qianying just listened to these words.
For some reason, this time, she surprisingly did not drive away this glib Little Linzi!
As Nangong Mo walked to Gu Qianying's side, he handed her a strikingly beautiful rose.
He said, "I know you like it, so I'm giving it to you."
Gu Qianying looked up at Nangong Mo with suspicion, "Are you sure I like this flower?"
"You will like anything I give you."
Gu Qianying: "..."
Gu Qianying reluctantly accepted the flower from Nangong Mo.
"Speak, what is the matter that brings you here?"
This Little Linzi was bold and reckless. He had even fought with her that day. How could such behavior be that of a mere medicinal boy?
For some reason, even though this Little Linzi had overstepped his bounds in front of her, she still had no intention of punishing him or driving him away.
Naturally, she also knew that Little Linzi would not have risked coming to the palace to find her just to give her flowers.
"Who sent it?"
Nangong Mo, who had just walked in, immediately noticed the dress in the box. It was so revealing, so disgusting, which made him furious. His voice was low and dark.
Following his gaze, Gu Qianying smiled, "What? Do you want to try it on?"
Suddenly, Nangong Mo turned around, strode to Gu Qianying, grabbed her wrist, leaned forward, and pressed down on her from above her head.
She looked up and met his gaze.
She suddenly realized that his eyes were very familiar.
"Who exactly are you..."
She wanted to ask, but Nangong Mo interrupted her words, "If you like it, I can wear it for you alone. Do you want to see it?"
His voice was no longer so deep, but magnetic, as if it had some magical power, making her only able to stare at him.
Nangong Mo saw that Gu Qianying was stunned. He thought Gu Qianying had fallen for his sweet talk.
He decided to "pursue relentlessly" and added, "If you want to see it now, I'll let you see it. However, before that, this is for you."
It was a letter, which he had snatched from Duan Xifeng.
Gu Qianying took the letter and opened it. After reading its contents, her gaze deepened slightly. She looked up at Nangong Mo's affectionate eyes and asked, "Have you read the contents of the letter?"
Gu Qianying was smiling when she asked this.
But her smile had a strange feeling.
Nangong Mo looked into her eyes, shifted back slightly, but his voice remained as seductive as ever, "No, letters are not important to me. What's important is your heart."
"Is that so?"
Supporting herself on the table with one hand, she suddenly circled behind the man and raised her palm, intending to knock him out. However, Nangong Mo reacted quickly, turned around, and casually pulled her. Her palm did not land on the back of his neck but on his chest. With little force, he grasped her hand, which was about to retract, and fell to the ground with her.
Gu Qianying was pulled by him abruptly and could not exert her strength.
"Mmm!
She was lying on him, her hand still held by him. The two of them were in an ambiguous posture, and her lips landed on his.
Gu Qianying's body stiffened. She instinctively wanted to get up, but the man turned over the next moment, with her below him.
"What? Do you want to spend the night with me?"
Gu Qianying: "..." Spend the night with your father!
When she used her internal energy to counterattack, the man unexpectedly let go of her. As he got up, he also pulled her up from the ground and tidied her messy clothes and hair. Then, he offered her hot tea, "If you don't like it, just destroy it. Why is the sect leader so conflicted?"
It was clear that Nangong Mo had seen through Gu Qianying's current concerns.
Gu Qianying narrowed her eyes and looked at him, "Little Linzi, you know too much! You should shut up!"
Beneath her sleeves, the silver needles were about to be deployed.
"Knowing a lot is not wrong. Being able to serve the sect leader is the most important thing."
Nangong Mo looked at Gu Qianying with a straightforward gaze.
Gu Qianying stared at him for a moment, then finally picked up the dress from the box and threw it in front of Nangong Mo, "Wear it, and you can stay."
Nangong Mo's expression turned slightly cold. He glanced at the revealing dress in front of him, and his thin lips curved into a smile, "Even if the sect leader wants to see it, I will wear it."
...
A moment later, the palace doors of Jiuhua Palace were pushed open from the outside, and several eunuchs filed in like fish.
Nangong Qi, dressed in court attire, sat in a palanquin and slowly approached. As the palanquin was carried into the hall, Nangong Qi stepped down from the palanquin by stepping on the backs of the eunuchs...