Chapter 506: Why don’t you leave? (1/2)
Chapter 506: Why don’t you leave?
Refusing to return even in the face of death?
Han Yunxi was just thinking how familiar the voice sounded when Long Feiye exclaimed, “It’s her again!”
That’s right, it was her again. Mu Linger. Judging from Long Feiye’s tone, he didn’t even want to bother with the girl, but Han Yunxi couldn’t help but worry. Perhaps some connection or another kept bringing them together. Moreover, Mu Linger was a genius pharmacist, exactly the type of talent that Pill Fiend Pharmacy needed.
She grinned and said, “Long Feiye, shall we climb the wall for a look?”
Climb the wall…
Since when have I, Long Feiye, ever climbed any walls?
He pulled Han Yunxi into his arms and flew up into the tree of the neighboring courtyard instead, picking a random branch to alight on. From their position, they could see everything in the courtyard clearly. Han Yunxi suddenly felt that things would be so much easier if she had a personal bodyguard with Long Feiye’s skills!
Then again, I already do, don’t I?
It really was Mu Linger in the courtyard. Currently, she was holding a dagger against her throat. Standing before her was a young man dressed in the resplendent silk robes of a rich family and his ten sword-wielding guards. He and his men gave off a fierce, overbearing aura.
“Stinkin’ girl, you think this young master will be helpless once you hold your own life hostage?” the insufferable young man was absolutely arrogant. One could say he was figuratively sticking his nose in the air.
“I’m not joking with you. If I die, do you think father will let you off easily?” Mu Linger retorted in a loud voice.
Hearing this, Han Yunxi had a sense of what was going on. Mu Linger had offended the entire Medicine City thanks to her actions at the empress dowager’s birthday banquet. She had to be on the run for at least a year by now. Her father, Mu Yingdong, probably helped her block her share of troubles, but Han Yunxi had also heard that Mu Linger’s silver supply was running low. If that was the case, then it was a no-brainer that Mu Linger would be forced to head home under all the pressure.
Han Yunxi could guess that Mu Yingdong might have even faked news of Mu Linger’s death just so he could secretly keep her confined for a lifetime as a loyal servant to the Mu Clan. She couldn’t help but sigh with feeling in her heart. If you’re born to a powerful clan, you’re either discriminated against because you’re too useless, or a magnet for attention because you’re too dazzling.
“Hahaha, you think this young master will let father find out?” the young man’s laughter broke through Han Yunxi’s thoughts. She saw Mu Linger move to slice her neck, only for a guard to cry out.
“Ninth Young Miss!”
Unfortunately, the young man only kicked the guard aside with an irritable snip. “Why are you trying to stop her? If you want to seek death, go die with her!” Then he dragged out the guard and kicked him to Mu Linger’s side. The guard didn’t dare voice his displeasure and ended up standing quietly by Mu Linger’s side.
“Mu Chaoran, you’re too much!” Mu Linger raged.
Mu Chaoran? Han Yunxi gave a start before she nearly burst into laughter. Really, what a coincidence!
They had just arranged to meet with the three great clans of Medicine City regarding Pill Fiend Pharmacy and its medicine trade. Now this young man had shown up right next door. The truth was, most of the deals between Medicine City and Sky Domain Black Market went through the eldest young master of the Mu Clan, Mu Chaoran! If it was a matter of talking deals with Medicine City, especially its Mu Clan, then they naturally had to…have a good talk with this young master.
“Your Highness, should we…”
“We’re definitely getting involved!” Long Feiye finished coldly in her place.
“Come, everyone rush her at once!” Mu Chaoran made a grand sweeping gesture. But Mu Linger raised her head high and actually sliced at her own neck, revealing a trail of blood. Everyone froze at the sight while Han Yunxi exclaimed in alarm, “Damned girl! Mu Chaoran might be stupid, but you’re even stupider than he is! Pigheaded fool, ah!”
Even without ‘Mu Linger,’ the Mu Clan could still use her prescriptions and drugs to fabricate a ‘genius’ of their own. If Mu Yingdong couldn’t lock up his daughter for the rest of her days, he’d definitely make his first son born of the legal wife the Mu Clan’s second pharmacy genius! But if Mu Linger died, Mu Chaoran would suffer the heaviest losses!
Mu Chaoran was incapable of considering such fine details. He had wished nothing more than for Mu Linger to die ever since he was young, because no one could fight him for the position of clan head then. As long as Mu Linger was gone, he could search through her things as he pleased and get his hands on her 38 volumes of personal notes and research.
“What are you all spacing out for? You don’t want to work for the Mu Clan anymore?” he hollered.
In the end, the guards still listened to Mu Chaoran. Even though Mu Linger had the dagger at her throat, they still ran forward to apprehend her. Mu Linger suddenly broke into an utterly hopeless smile. She really did want to die. If she went back to the Mu Clan, she’d live a life worse than death, and as for Qi gege…
When she regain consciousness in the inn and realized it was Qi gege who drugged her to sleep, she finally realized how much the man disliked her. The story of her life could be summed up with two things: making medicine for the Mu Clan and the man named Gu Qishao!
But now, she had nothing left.
As the guards approached, she was faced with the choice of killing herself or getting captured. Mu Linger squeezed her eyes shut and braced herself for death when her dagger was abruptly knocked to the ground with a clang.
“Who’s there!” Mu Chaoran was the first to react.
Two of the quicker guards moved to grab Mu Linger, but suddenly toppled to the ground with bloody welts on their necks. They caused the rest of the guards to retreat in fear. Mu Chaoran was more frightened than any of them, and hid behind one guard as he shouted, “Do you want to die? You’re provoking Medicine City’s Mu Clan!”
“Who’s there! Show yourself!”