Chapter 615: Concealing the facts, a big misunderstanding (1/2)
Chapter 615: Concealing the facts, a big misunderstanding
Gu Beiyue didn’t need anyone’s sympathy for his injuries. Being neither haughty nor humble, he persisted in his views with an ashen face. “Your Highness Duke of Qin, the Nether Clan’s Chu Family is overwhelmingly ambitious. Their claims to revive the West Qin Dynasty are only a pretense to fulfill their own desires for power. My Shadow Clan is much different from such savage wolves! Moreover, there’s only one member of the clan left, so even if we wanted to, we couldn’t do a thing.”
Long Feiye’s lips curved up in a mocking lilt as he stared coldly at Gu Beiyue’s outright lies. But the other only maintained his sincerity and replied, “Your Highness Duke of Qin, although the West Qin imperial clan did leave a heir in the past, there’s no guarantee that heir still lives now, much less whether anyone’s found them. They might not even want to revive the dynasty and take revenge. This one may be a member of the Noble Families, but I have no desire nor strength to assist my masters in reviving a nation. I only ask to live my days treating illnesses and healing injuries, living a quiet and peaceful life. If it wasn’t because I had to, I would never have used my shadow arts or revealed my identity.”
Long Feiye was unmoved by his words. His reaction left Gu Beiyue secretly flustered, because this was the first time he was at a loss for what to do. That cold expression made him even more uncertain, but he persisted in his course. Because his explanations all came from the heart–the truest lies that ever were.
“Your Highness isn’t curious about why the Chu Clan’s arrows injured me?” he asked.
Long Feiye couldn’t figure it out either. Even though he was the one to sow discord, Chu Yunyi and Gu Beiyue shouldn’t have been out for each other’s blood at the Thousand Buddha Cave.
“Why?” Long Feiye finally asked.
“Because Chu Yunyi ordered you and wangfei to be killed at Thousand Buddha Cave and I refused him,” Gu Beiyue said simply. His lips rose in a self-mocking grin. “I wanted to take the chance to save you and esteemed wangfei, hehe. But as it turned out, I overestimated my abilities…”
If he had long figured out that the two masked figures in the procession were fakes of Long Feiye and Han Yunxi, he wouldn’t have refused Chu Yunyi’s request at all, much less risk his life to save them. Then he would have avoided becoming the man’s hostage and everything else afterwards. He’d paid a massive sacrifice in a moment of worry and impulse, but he’d never tell Long Feiye such things.
Hearing his words, Long Feiye finally set down his last misgivings. There were too many reasons to show that Gu Beiyue didn’t know Han Yunxi’s identity, but none to prove that he did. Despite all of his suspicions, Long Feiye believed Gu Beiyue’s words this time. Actually, the best way to get rid of his troubles would be to kill Gu Beiyue directly, but he had Han Yunxi to worry about. One dead Mute Granny was already weighing on his heart and mind. If Gu Beiyue died as well, how much more work would he have to do?
He hated hiding things like that!
It was better to keep Gu Beiyue for the time being. He could be an asset to Han Yunxi at Pill Fiend Pharmacy. Without a word, Long Feiye nodded and turned, only for Gu Beiyue to call him back. “Your Highness Duke of Qin, please wait. There’s one that this one doesn’t understand. I don’t know if I can ask for your guidance.”
“Speak,” Long Feiye spoke from by the door.
“How did Your Highness find out that esteemed wangfei was part of the Poison Sect?” Gu Beiyue’s biggest question laid here.
“Lady Lianxin said so. Tianxin was Mu Xin, you should know that already!” Long Feiye shot back.
“So that was it..” Most likely, Lady Lianxin had been backed into a corner at the Grand Medicine Testing Convention and forced to tell Mu Xin’s secret. But neither she nor Mu Yingdong knew of the West Qin imperial clan.
“Your Highness, can you…not tell esteemed wangfei about my matters?” Gu Beiyue knew that Long Feiye trusted him now, so this was simply something extra to set his mind at ease.
“These are your personal matters. They have nothing to do with your lordship,” Long Feiye tossed back a reply before leaving the room. He knew that Gu Beiyue wouldn’t tell her, so he was letting him take the burden for hiding the truth.
So it looks like Long Feiye’s afraid of Han Yunxi too! Gu Beiyue couldn’t help but smile, the warm expression making his ashen face beautiful. He’d never felt so light and free since revealing his shadow arts. He knew that, as long as Long Feiye trusted him, he would be able to stay by Han Yunxi’s side as long as he lived.
His shadow arts were already shot and his leg crippled. No one else knew how he had made it through Ning Cheng’s imprisonment, even he himself. Perhaps he’d forgotten the whole ordeal, or his subconscious had rejected it because of all the suffering he’d endured. He only knew that his chest stopped aching as soon as he saw Han Yunxi’s small and worried face. Without the shadow arts and his legs, she…still had Long Feiye. That should be enough? And I’ll do my best to help her expand Pill Fiend Pharmacy as much as possible…
Just like that, the two men with the clearest knowledge about Han Yunxi’s double origins hid the truth from each other under mutual misunderstandings. But how long could they keep hiding them? And how long would the misunderstanding last? Han Yunxi disliked liars, so how could she show mercy for their white lies, either? A day would come when she realized how much of an idiot she’d been. Not only was she tricked by Long Feiye, but Gu Beiyue and Gu Qishao as well!
Right now, she was still searching medicine for Gu Beiyue’s sake. It was hard to procure materials in the middle of a war and she had limited supplies on her person, so she could only tell Medicine City to deliver the goods. Fortunately, the Wang Clan had everything Gu Beiyue wrote down. The items arrived that very day along with Mu Linger’s reply. She’d given her a miracle ingredient called White Peak Oil. Only Gu Qishao was silent. It was unclear whether he’d missed the flying hawk message or hadn’t bothered to reply. Gu Qishao knew many more miracle drugs than Mu Linger, so he could give suggestions even if he didn’t have any on hand. Han Yunxi gave orders to keep on contacting him.