Chapter 239: Does your husband know? (1/2)

Chapter 239: Does your husband know?

“Esteemed wangfei, you…” Gu Beiyue caught up after her, unsure of what to say.

“I was forced until I had no choice, after all, sigh…” Han Yunxi shrugged her shoulders, her head drooping.

Gu Beiyue didn’t know whether to laugh or rage at her current state. He’d always felt that this woman’s skills in poisons were unsurpassed, and that she treated patients with 100 percent seriousness, conscientious and meticulous. But who knew that she could act shamelessly as well? She’d fooled the two directors and Third Elder of medical academy with something so important. As a doctor himself, Gu Beiyue had always hated those who gained fame by deceiving the public with lies, but looking at Han Yunxi’s quiet self, his eyes forgave her and took on a doting light.

“Fortunately, I bought two days’ time,” Han Yunxi’s voice was firm despite bowing her head. Gu Beiyue’s doting gaze deepened as he helplessly shook his head. Unconsciously, he reached out a hand to rub her head–but stopped in mid-air. While Han Yunxi was still looking down, he quickly withdrew that hand until it vanished. Such speeds weren’t possible for even ordinary experts, but his had surpassed them to the point that it left no sound, making it impossible to sense. As he clasped those hands behind his back, Gu Beiyue silently sighed again, feeling the heavy weight of the situation and yet helpless against it. This sort of Gu Beiyue seemed to become another person entirely, one that lacked his usual calm and scholarly, refined air. In its place was a serious and steady man. Han Yunxi didn’t notice any of this, but the Long Feiye who’d been on her tail the entire time saw it all too clearly.

“Gu Beiyue…” he muttered to himself, his icy eyes fixated on Gu Beiyue’s arm as if he’d discovered something.

“What do you plan to do in two days?” Gu Beiyue asked mildly.

“Do you have any ideas? If the crown prince can’t be saved, we’ll both have to die,” Han Yunxi said seriously. Though she’d shown off on purpose in front of Third Elder and the rest just then, she hadn’t spared any effort to expel as much poison as possible from Long Tianmo’s joints. Unfortunately, she couldn’t expel it all. Only by applying an antidote could she fully get rid of the toxin. Otherwise, she’d be evicted from Medical City in two days’ time. That wasn’t even the most important part–it was that Long Tianmo wouldn’t survive much longer after that, either. Emperor Tianhui wouldn’t do anything to the medical academy if Long Tianmo died there, but she and Gu Beiyue wouldn’t be able to escape a death sentence. It’d also give Emperor Tianhui full reason to pin the crime on the Duke of Qin’s estate.

Gu Beiyue shook his head. “None, but…”

What he wanted to say was, ‘None, but we can run away together.’

Unfortunately, Han Yunxi was preoccupied with her thoughts and didn’t even hear his ‘but.’ She’d only asked him in passing at most, but was busy thinking over her own ideas already. Her intelligent eyes spun in their sockets before they revealed a hint of mirth. Han Yunxi shuffled closely as she lowered her voice, “I do. Wait for my good news! This matter definitely won’t get anyone into trouble!”

In order to win against Third Elder and, more than that, preserve the lives of her and Gu Beiyue, Han Yunxi knew she had to use any methods to get her hands on an antidote! So after some thought, her solution lay in that name: Gu Qishao! At this critical juncture, finding that fellow Gu Qishao was the best choice. It was harder to climb to Heaven for a person like her with no connections to track down such a mysterious, errant man whose origins were unclear. Fortunately, Han Yunxi could find at least one other person instead. That very night, she find the person in question, Luo Zuishan.

Previously, Luo Zuishan hadn’t even spared her a glance; now his gaze on her resembled a searchlight, bright and shining. “Qin Wangfei must have important business to pay a call here so late,” Luo Zuishan greeted with a smile.

“Very important, and I must trouble Senior Luo with this matter,” Han Yunxi smiled back. Hearing this, Luo Zuishan felt amused. He remembered Han Yunxi and Third Elder’s bet from today. Not only did she have to cure Long Tianmo’s poison, but uncover the truth about his previous chronic ailment resurfacing as well. He thought that Han Yunxi must have come to talk with him about that very ailment. Long Tianmo had been planted with Gu before. Even if Han Yunxi had Heavenly skills, she’d never be able to tell. In order to win against Third Elder, she’d still have to beg him for help in the end.

As long as she had a favor to ask him, he could take advantage of the situation and ask how she found those acupoints with her skills. Things such as the identities of those unknown acupoints and those disposable needles were a source of great temptation for a doctor.

“There’s no harm telling me what you need!” Luo Zuishan smoothed out his beard, looking the picture of respectability when he was actually secretly delighted.

But Han Yunxi wasn’t here to ask about Long Tianmo’s old ailment at all. She came straight to the point and said, “Where’s Gu Qishao?”

As soon as he heard ‘Gu Qishao,’ Luo Zuishan’s hand shook, and he narrowly avoided pulling out his beard.

Gu Qishao? Han Yunxi came to him to find Gu Qishao?

Since when had she discovered the connection between him and Gu Qishao?

Although Gu Qishao was the one to save him from bandits on the journey here, he had been wearing a facemask then. Moreover, Han Yunxi had been kidnapped around the same time as he, so she wasn’t around when he came back. Seeing Luo Zuishan’s reaction, Han Yunxi knew she’d come to the right person. She picked up her teacup and leisurely tasted its contents.

“Gu…” Luo Zuishan ignored the pain from his chin and feigned ignorance. “Qin Wangfei, what Gu were you talking about? Imperial Physician Gu? What’s happened to him?”

Pretending?

Even without the kidnapping incidents, Han Yunxi could guess that Gu Qishao and Luo Zuishan had a strong connection based on the former’s boast to get her out of jail. “Not Imperial Physician Gu, but Gu…..Qishao,” Han Yunxi purposely drew out her words.

“Gu Qishao? This old man’s never heard of such a person. I don’t know what Qin Wangfei could…possibly mean?” Luo Zuishan was a type who wouldn’t admit things even if he was beaten to death.

Han Yunxi was tired. She didn’t have much time to haggle, but maintained her smile and said, “Senior Luo, I’d like to trouble you to bring these words to Gu Qishao. Just say that I want to see him before daybreak, or else…” Han Yunxi paused. She didn’t really have anything to threaten him with, much less tempt him.

Or else what?