Chapter 593: A certain man and woman team up (1/2)
Chapter 593: A certain man and woman team up
Lady Lianxin’s voice was low and flirtatious. “Head Elder, Lianxin thinks this is just all hearsay spread by that Wang Clan! For the sake of collaborating with Pill Fiend Pharmacy, they cut off contracts with Cloud Realm Trade Consortium on purpose. Now they’re even denouncing them on false charges. Hmph, they must have gotten some benefits from Pill Fiend Pharmacy!”
Lady Lianxin never stopped thinking about the welfare of the Mu Clan! In order to have them rise again, the best way was to knock down the current Council of Elders in Medicine City, because they were nothing more than a tool for the Wang Clan to rule the city now. Once she had hinted as much to Head Elder Ling, but as a woman with no backing behind her name, she couldn’t just hint and whisper things for the rest of her life and expect to get results.
Head Elder Ling silently broke free of her hand, his focus completely on Chu Qingge. Or to be more precise, the baby she was holding in her arms. He had his own motives for agreeing to the early labor and looking after the baby during its first month. Chu Qingge had told the rest of the world that she had her baby early because of an unfortunate stumble. Fortunately, a nameless divine doctor had been on hand to save her and the baby. Thus, Head Elder Ling and Lady Lianxin had a perfectly justified excuse for hanging around. They had remained incognito despite it all to avoid attracting unnecessary attention. Everyday after taking care of the child, he had to go back and write reports and send them off the same day to the medical academy head. That was because the academy head was in the midst of research and needed updates regarding the status of the patient.
Lady Lianxin was quite unhappy when Head Elder Ling shook her off. She had agreed to help the Chu Clan invite Head Elder Ling here, because the Chu could help her fulfill her revenge against Han Yunxi and the rest while she could speak to Head Elder Ling in private for the sake of the Mu Clan. After all, they used to be old friends, so the man should give her some face. But who knew that he simply ignored her outright!
Lady Lianxin wanted to take Head Elder Ling’s hand again, but he just walked out the door and turned the corner, forcing her to chase him all the way to his rooms. It seemed like the man was absorbed in some problem, his heart vexed by his thoughts. Today, he’d used a certain medicine on the crown prince that should have showed effects by now, but nothing about the baby had changed. Without a choice, he could only write a letter to the medical academy head to report the situation.
But before he could shut the door, Lady Lianxin stopped it with her hand, finally getting his attention.
“What do you want?” he asked impatiently.
“Head Elder, it’s still early. Aren’t you going to invite me in for a cup of tea?” Lady Lianxin asked seductively.
Head Elder Ling naturally knew what she was aiming at, but he was much more interested in medicine than women. Moreover, he’d played with the one in front of his door already.
“Why aren’t you going to look after the crown prince? If anything happens to him, you’ll be the one at fault!” he scolded sternly.
Lady Lianxin felt disgruntled, but hid her feelings as her hand on the door slowly moved to grasped Head Elder Ling’s own hand instead. “Head Elder, Lianxin has things to discuss with you.”
Head Elder Ling was out of patience. He slapped her hand away and reprimanded, “What kind of wiles are you trying on me at your age? Why aren’t you leaving yet?”
Stunned, Lady Lianxin could only stand blankly by the door as Head Elder Ling slammed it in her face. When they were sleeping together in the past, Head Elder Ling had often pleaded at her very door! But now…
Feeling aggrieved, Lady Lianxin’s eyes grew red before she quietly cursed. “Old dog! You better not have a day when you’re begging me for favors!”
Lady Lianxin was assisting Head Elder Ling in his treatments this time, so of course she knew he was doing experiments on the premature crown prince. She decided to wait a few days before bringing up Medicine City to him again. If he refused to chat, she didn’t mind threatening him with knowledge of his experiments! In any case, she had already risked everything. Now that she’d lost favor with the ‘old dogs’ of the medical academy, she’d be nothing in her position unless she revived the Mu Clan again. After all, her medical skills were that of a trifling Divine Doctor at best. To get a spot in Medical City’s Council of Elders, she’d offended no end of people!
There were plenty of them waiting to see her become a laughingstock or throw rocks at her in the well, still others who were eager to cut off connections or stomp on her instead. Lady Lianxin silently made her decision before slipping away. She had no idea that Gu Qishao was staring at her from a nearby rooftop, or that he’d witnessed the entire exchange between her and Head Elder Ling just then.
“Old dog? Heheh!” Gu Qishao’s unruly gaze flickered evilly. He had been in hiding for days now, and was determined to keep on the prowl as he broke into a cold chuckle. Like a hunter, he seemed to be waiting for something…
As the night grew darker, silence settled over the imperial palace. At this moment, a dark figure darted past the walls and vanished behind Chu Qingge’s palace. Lady Lianxin was already there, looking after the crown prince. Chu Qingge herself had dragged her tired body to soak in the hot springs, where she sat resting against a wall. The torments of her body couldn’t be compared to the anguish in her mind. As the time for revenge drew closer, her heart grew more and more disordered. Over the past few days, she needed nightly soaks in the hot springs just to calm herself down.
Suddenly, a dark figure landed on the ground—that of a tall man dressed in black robes that outlined his excellent physique. He stood in the shadows like a lord of darkness, mysterious and aloof. Chu Qingge knew martial arts as well, so she naturally sensed his presence. As she glanced hazily at the figure, she suddenly grew excited and stood up in the water with a cry. “Feiye!”
At the same second, the man kicked up a spray of water. It wasn’t clear whether he was trying to cover her naked form or block his own view of the sight. In a cold voice, he said, “Restrain your romantic fancies. Don’t sully the eyes of this clan head!”
His voice was very similar to Long Feiye’s but Chu Qingge had already regained her senses and plopped back into the water. When she looked up at the man towering above her, then at the bronze gauze mask covering his nose and face, she saw a pair of handsome eyes staring haughtily back as if no woman could ever enter his eyes. She wasn’t interested in him anyways since he was hardly worthy of her tastes. Chu Qingge only sighed lightly and said, “I mistook you again. In the end, you’re still not him.”
This man and Long Feiye were truly very similar—both proud, cold types. But this was an extremely frivolous man, while Long Feiye was more restrained. He didn’t seem to like being compared to Long Feiye, because he kicked up a second spray of water that formed themselves into arrows to shoot past Chu Qingge.