She raised her palm, unleashing the demonic power within her.
Several black threads instantly shot towards Han Xuan.
Han Xuan smashed the tabletop with a palm strike. He stood up abruptly, and as he retreated, he flipped his hand, and an invisible sword imbued with spiritual energy landed in his palm.
The wind rose.
The windowpanes in the room were rattled by the wind.
The door to the room was slammed shut by a powerful force from within.
Lu Zhu, who was guarding outside the room, saw this and wanted to draw her sword and rush in, but Gu Qianying stopped her: "Don't come in!"
Inside the room at this moment.
Gu Qianying and Han Xuan had already engaged in a fierce battle.
All the furnishings in the room were sparsely falling.
Several black threads, like myriad black snakes, coiled around Han Xuan and the sword in his hand.
They were very tight.
Veins bulged on the back of Han Xuan's hand as he gripped the sword.
He was struggling to break free.
Almost instantly, the black threads seemed to expand and burst, snapping one by one.
Seeing this, Gu Qianying's gaze sharpened.
She lightly touched the ground, and several silver needles appeared in her hand. Holding the needles, she attacked Han Xuan.
"Swish... swish..."
Several silver needles were flicked out in unison.
After dodging two needles, Han Xuan was finally pierced by one.
With a "clatter!"
The sword in Han Xuan's hand immediately dropped.
His body swayed, and he stumbled backward, collapsing onto a chair.
His acupoints felt as if they had been dosed with a bone-loosening powder.
Gu Qianying walked closer and flicked her sleeve.
The black threads scattered on the floor and the messy signs of the fight instantly turned to dust.
As Gu Qianying approached, Han Xuan's true feelings towards her were revealed.
"Miss Gu, killing me will bring you no benefit. Not only will Yu'er be heartbroken, but you will also watch the Baili Su you care about slowly die."
Gu Qianying frowned: "What are you talking about?"
"Actually, Baili Su is not suffering from illness and weakness, Miss Gu, you know this better than I do. The real reason is that he has been poisoned with a slow-acting toxin. This poison seems incurable, but there is a way. Miss Gu, I wish to cooperate with you. From the beginning of this plan, I will also show my sincerity."
"Yu'er's pregnancy is fake. I have never touched her."
"What?"
Gu Qianying's eyes widened in surprise.
She flicked her sleeve.
The silver needle stuck in Han Xuan's shoulder was instantly pulled out.
His boneless body recovered slightly after a moment.
Han Xuan flexed his wrist and sat down again.
At this moment, the table that was in front of him was gone.
Gu Qianying: "Lu Zhu."
Lu Zhu entered and arranged a new set of tea and snacks.
After closing the door, Han Xuan finally spoke the truth to Gu Qianying: "Miss Gu, since things have come to this, I will no longer hide anything from you. I admit that I approached Song Yu'er to successfully infiltrate the Song family ancestral hall and find the Charm Tiger Token."
"This was a mission given to me by my father, but I don't want to be used by my father forever. My father's use of me is merely to pave the way for my second brother."
"I am just a pawn in their hands, so I want to change my destiny. I don't want to be anyone's pawn anymore."
Actually, when I was planning to use Song Yu'er, I didn't care about what happened to her. But looking at Song Yu'er's innocent eyes, I wavered. Making Song Yu'er pregnant was also a task given to me by my father. My father wanted me to use the child in Song Yu'er's womb as a bargaining chip to threaten the Song family.
"The secret of the Song family ancestral hall, in fact... besides Old Madam Baili, only Song Wuji knows it best. But he might have some fuzzy memories of the true secret of the Song family ancestral hall. I heard from my father that the Song family patriarch took him to the Song family ancestral hall once when Song Wuji was born."
"Later, I also heard from my father that he speculated that the Old City Lord must have hidden all the secrets on Song Wuji, and Song Wuji is the most important person in terms of kinship. If my identity in the Han family is exposed in the future, and I threaten him with his nephew's life, my father said that Song Wuji would definitely reveal the true secrets of the Song family ancestral hall."
But I didn't do that. When I was with Song Yu'er, I restrained myself as much as possible. Her pregnancy was caused by me using medicine. That day, she drank alcohol and thought she was with me, but in fact, I was just acting out a play she didn't know about.
After speaking.
Han Xuan looked at Gu Qianying: "Miss Gu, I am not an irredeemable person, nor am I a ruthless person. I just want to live the life I want. In this Western Regions country, for many years, the Song family and the Baili family have been competing. The common people seem to have not suffered any harm."
But you haven't truly seen the suffering people living in poverty, who cannot eat enough and are always cold. For us, the hot summer is nothing more than a few more pieces of ice in the room. Whether it is winter or summer, we always have ways to solve our hunger and cold.
"But they don't. They suffer from the cold in winter and the heat in summer. On rainy days, they have nowhere to go. Leaky roofs are common in their living places, and it is also their happiest day. Rain, for them, is the water that allows them to survive."
But all of this, the Song family and my father, they have never paid attention to it. The people there are the most affected by the plague. It is precisely because those people have no conditions to improve their living standards that they have no solutions in many aspects, thus becoming victims of the plague that occurs every few years."
At this point.
Han Xuan paused.
He changed the subject and said, "Miss Gu, this Ghost Army is also experimenting with living people. Miss Gu, whether it's my father or Lord Baili, all they want is those exceptionally powerful Ghost Armies. But once the Ghost Army is born, it symbolizes the death of living people. Miss Gu, I believe that without the Ghost Army, the Western Regions country can truly regain peace, and the people can live and work in peace and contentment. Even if the six kingdoms are not unified, so what?"
Listening to Han Xuan's words, Gu Qianying's expression towards him changed.
"It seems I have misunderstood the eldest son of the Han family."
Since the eldest son has "cleansed himself so thoroughly," to prove his sincerity, could the eldest son also inform me where Baili Jingxuan is being held by your Han family?"
Gu Qianying's words were clearly a test.
"Han Yu Manor. He is at Han Yu Manor."
Han Yu Manor?
Gu Qianying's delicate eyebrows furrowed.
This was the first time she had heard of this place.
Han Yu Manor, Han Yu Army.
So that's how it is!
After extracting the information she wanted from Han Xuan, Gu Qianying had Han Xuan appear before Song Yu'er with the "appearance" of being injured and having just been brought back to the Juesha Gate.
To make the act more convincing, Gu Qianying also had her subordinates beat him up. At this moment, Han Xuan was bruised and swollen.
There was no way to tell that he had actually been here all along...