"Madam Han, it's time to stop pretending."
A bloody head rolled to Madam Han's feet.
It was dripping with blood.
Madam Han screamed in terror.
When she saw what had rolled to her feet, she collapsed onto the ground.
"Bi Lian has been exposed. You know everything now, don't you?"
It was a severed head, its long hair obscuring its face.
Although the features of the head were unclear, the earrings on its ears were a gift she had given to Bi Lian, so that Bi Lian would serve her well.
"What is your purpose?"
Gu Qianying glanced at the dilapidated state of the room, her gaze falling on Madam Han's bent legs.
Her right leg was clearly more bent than her left.
It looked like she had suffered unusual abuse.
Observing Madam Han further, her eyes were dark, her lips pale, her complexion sallow, her figure thin, and her mouth trembled.
This suggested she was enduring something.
"Are you taking opium?"
Gu Qianying's words made Madam Han's body tremble. She avoided answering.
"Hahaha!"
Bi Lian was dead, and Madam Han knew that her pretense was useless. She decided to drop it.
After laughing a few times, she glared with malice, "What purpose could I have? It's nothing more than wanting you to die with me. Oh, I remember, in two days, it will be Gu Ye Feng's wedding day. If my plan goes smoothly, by then, Nangong Xuan Ning's child might be lost, and Gu Ye Feng, you will also offend the royal family because of it."
As she spoke, Madam Han tidied her appearance.
"When you fall, the Gu family will be ruined. Then you'll have to die with me, hahaha."
"Slap!"
Gu Ye Feng punched Madam Han in the face, his voice grim, "You are truly despicable!"
If what Madam Han said was true, then his relationship with Xuan Ning would be completely ruined.
At the time, he had promised not to take concubines, not to keep mistresses, and to only dote on Xuan Ning for the rest of his life.
And this poisonous woman, Madam Han, had clearly made his vow come to naught.
That day, when he killed Bi Lian, he found a packet of aphrodisiac on her.
If Bi Lian's plan had succeeded, wouldn't he have failed Xuan Ning!
As if not feeling much pain, Madam Han wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and looked at Gu Qianying.
Her smile was like that of a madwoman, "Gu Qianying, oh no, I should call you Ninth Princess Consort. Ninth Princess Consort, you have now become someone of high status and are living a good life. But while you are living a good life, have you ever remembered your father, Gu Kun? How is he now? Hahaha."
Gu Qianying's face was cold, and she remained silent.
Gu Ye Feng grabbed Madam Han's collar, his eyes terrifyingly grim, "Where is he?"
He knew his father, Gu Kun, was not dead.
Madam Han had bribed Bi Lian, wanting Bi Lian to cause trouble by his side.
He didn't believe his father, Gu Kun, was unaware of this.
Mentioning Gu Kun, Madam Han seemed to recall something very happy.
Her laughter grew louder, "Him? Hahaha, he's dead. Don't you know?"
Madam Han looked at Gu Ye Feng and the other two, the blood flowing from her mouth becoming more pronounced, "I ate him, bite by bite, hahaha."
As if she had said something nonsensical like a madwoman, she then hid in a corner of the wall and cried.
"Bang!"
Suddenly, there was a sound from the bed board.
Gu Qianying and the other two looked towards the bed.
Madam Han, who was crying in the corner, seemed to have gone mad. She picked up a stool from the ground and threw it towards Gu Qianying.
"Get out, all of you! I don't want to see you, all of you leave!"
A heavy object was suddenly thrown at them.
Gu Qianying and the other two were startled.
Nangong Mo instinctively hugged Gu Qianying.
"Crack!"
Gu Ye Feng, holding his sword, cut the thrown stool in half with a single strike.
Facing Madam Han's abnormal and frenzied behavior, Gu Qianying found it very strange.
"There's someone under the bed!"
This was the most logical explanation she could think of.
"Go and check."
Nangong Mo, holding Gu Qianying, took a few steps back. He ordered Gu Ye Feng to investigate.
His wife was pregnant, and it was not advisable for her to come into contact with any poisonous insects or the like.
However... as soon as Gu Ye Feng approached, Madam Han lunged at him.
Gu Ye Feng, caught off guard, was bitten on the arm by Madam Han.
"Brother!"
Gu Qianying cried out in alarm. Just as she was about to act, Nangong Mo, who was holding her, waved his sleeve.
"Bang!"
Madam Han flew backward like a rag doll.
She hit the wall behind her hard, landed heavily, coughed up blood, tilted her head, and ceased to breathe.
Gu Qianying was worried about Gu Ye Feng's bite wound.
She took out a handkerchief and stepped forward.
"It's nothing, just a small injury."
Seeing the cold eyes of someone behind him.
Gu Ye Feng took the handkerchief Gu Qianying handed him and bandaged it himself.
His sister had become someone else's wife, so the elder brother had to keep his distance!
The bite was not serious, so Gu Qianying was relieved.
At this moment, there seemed to be movement under the bed board again.
The three of them looked in that direction.
A head suddenly emerged from under the bed board, followed by half of a body.
It was a person with messy hair, not a single clean spot on their body, and emitting a nauseating odor. No one knew who it was.
Gu Ye Feng stepped forward and used his long sword to lift the person's hair that covered their face.
"It's you?"
Gu Ye Feng was shocked.
It was his father, Gu Kun, who had colluded with outsiders to harm his own family!
Gu Kun, who had finally managed to crawl out from under the bed, had not expected to see Gu Ye Feng and the other two here.
"...Son...Son...my good son, quickly take your father back. Father...don't be here...it's so...so cold here."
Gu Kun, with half his tongue remaining, spoke indistinctly and intermittently.
As the half-tongue, covered with several white maggots, was dragged out from under the bed, it also picked up some dirt.
The room where he was housed was damp, and there were often water stains on the ground.
His wet half-leg had become even more severely infected.
"Take you back? Heh! Father, where is your face?"
Gu Ye Feng sounded as if he had heard a great joke, his words full of sarcasm.
A father who wanted to kill him, and yet he fantasized about his son taking him home?
Heh! Dream on!
"Daughter, my dear daughter, as long as you take... me home... I will tell you... a secret, about your... daughter... Come here quickly... I can only tell you."
Gu Ye Feng was heartless, so Gu Kun stopped wasting his breath on him.
He dragged his robes against the ground, crawling inch by inch towards Gu Qianying.
The skin and flesh all over his body experienced new friction.
The old scars broke open, oozing blood.
"Okay."
Gu Qianying stood in place, not moving.
Yet, she had agreed.
"Little sister!"
"Qianying!"
Gu Ye Feng and Nangong Mo both looked at Gu Qianying simultaneously.
Everyone knew how cunning Gu Kun was.
What was the point of taking such a person back?
To let him linger on, barely alive?
Or to wait for this person to recover from his injuries and continue to cause trouble in the Gu mansion?
"It's alright, you two go out first. I have something to ask him."
Gu Qianying herself didn't know why she so desperately wanted to know the secret Gu Kun mentioned.
She couldn't explain it.
She felt a kind of magical pull, making her curious about what Gu Kun had to say.
No one could change Gu Qianying's decision.
As they went out, Nangong Mo was still somewhat worried.
"I'll be outside. If you need anything, just call, and I'll come in immediately."
He was already accustomed to treating his pregnant wife as someone he needed to constantly look after.
Nangong Mo reminded her.
"Okay, I know."
Gu Qianying smiled at Nangong Mo.
After Nangong Mo and Gu Ye Feng left, Gu Qianying closed the door as Gu Kun had requested.
Moments later.
When it was just Gu Qianying and Gu Kun in the room.
Gu Qianying got straight to the point, asking coldly, "What secret?"
"I want to... go back to the mansion..."
Gu Kun's voice was hoarse. Having not eaten for many days, his voice was clearly weak.
"Alright."
Gu Qianying agreed.
"I... I... I don't believe you."
Gu Kun trembled and raised a finger, pointing at the maggots remaining on the wound of his half-leg.
"Eat... these... and then... I will... tell you."