Chapter 670: What are the results? (1/2)

Midnight had arrived!

The mountain gale was extremely chilly, so the servant girl shivered in her dress as she waited by the pavilion. Around her was nothing but swaying weeds and grass. Time passed, but Duanmu Yao didn’t show up. Without Han Yunxi’s orders, the servant girl didn’t dare to leave, either.

“I don’t think she’s coming,” Lady Tang murmured.

Han Yunxi only looked at the dim path before them, still confident. “She will, for certain. Even if we suspected the wrong person, she’d still show up.”

“How are you so sure?” Lady Tang didn’t understand. If not for her trust in Han Yunxi, she would have left long ago.

“Lady Tang, have you ever liked someone?” Han Yunxi asked.

“If I didn’t, would I have married that man?” Lady Tang grinned.

“Liking someone means wanting to know all about them! Everything!” Han Yunxi emphasized. Her words stirred the long slumbering girlish heart of Lady Tang, and the woman sighed with emotion.

“That’s true!”

“So that’s why Duanmu Yao will definitely come!” Han Yunxi said earnestly.

Lady Tang looked at her clear, bright eyes and suddenly wanted to ask this remarkable woman how much she liked Long Feiye. How much did Han Yunxi know about him? But in the end, she kept quiet. Those were things between the couple themselves.

After a while, she asked, “Yunxi, what if you love someone? Could you ignore everything about him if you do?”

Han Yunxi shook her head. “Lady Tang, love is selfish. Loving someone makes you want to become their everything. Whatever he’s gone through before then would cease to matter, wouldn’t it?”

Lady Tang stared and Han Yunxi and suddenly didn’t know what to say. She only nodded and liked her all the better. What a candid and straightforward woman! Love was selfish and possessive, to be enjoyed for oneself. But how many people were willing to admit that? If Zijin or Aunt Ru heard those words, they’d probably try to drive Han Yunxi from Feiye no matter what! How could Feiye’s “everything” ever be summed up in just a woman in their eyes? Even if she was a remarkable one, she couldn’t be everything that Feiye was! His duties were too great, and too important to neglect.

“Yunxi, love is sacrificing yourself for others too,” Lady Tang remarked lightly.

“No. At least, I wouldn’t!” Han Yunxi insisted stubbornly.

Lady Tang was about to coax her some more when soft noises came from the grass nearby. They immediately grew alert and soon saw a familiar figure emerge from the darkness: Duanmu Yao!

Han Yunxi’s bet had succeeded once again. Duanmu Yao really came!

She walked step by step towards the pavilion, her faint torchlight illuminating her ashen white face. Her internal injuries hadn’t mended since last time. She’d written multiple letters to her master to insist on having senior brother heal her, but he told her that senior brother had been injured too and was unable to help. He even recommended other experts in the jianghu to do the job instead.

But she only persisted in waiting. She could afford to tarry until senior brother’s own injuries were healed!

A complicated look flickered past Duanmu Yao’s eyes as she spotted the servant girl, but she stayed silent.

“This must be Princess Duan?” the servant girl asked respectfully.

“You weren’t the one who made the appointment with this princess! Where’s Tang Yiru?” Duanmu Yao asked loftily.

What a familiar manner of address! Lady Tang grew tense, but Han Yunxi silenced her with a look before she could speak. Duanmu Yao was still on guard despite her injuries. It would be hard for any surrounding noise to escape her.

“Princess Duan, my mistress is temporarily inconvenienced, so she can’t come in person. I’m here to deliver the goods,” the servant girl replied.

“Then where is it?” Duanmu Yao grew impatient.

“My mistress said that the debt from before has yet to be cleared. That must be done first,” the servant answered.

Hearing this, Han Yunxi grew nervous as well. The snake she was trying to lure wasn’t the traitor herself, but Duanmu Yao! She wanted to hear the girl verify the suspect’s identity with her own lips! Thus, what Duanmu Yao said next would be of monumental importance. Here was the critical moment!

“The debt from before? Does this princess owe her anything?” Duanmu Yao asked coldly.

Lady Tang subconsciously clutched Han Yunxi’s hand and gave her a questioning look, as if to ask, is it really Yiru? Why would she do something like this?

Han Yunxi only gave her a look of certainty. Now Lady Tang was really anxious. She almost crushed Han Yunxi’s fingers in her grip, but Han Yunxi bore the pain to wait. She wanted Duanmu Yao to admit the truth with her own lips so Lady Tang could hear it personally. She wasn’t expecting Aunt Ru to admit her guilt to her or Long Feiye. She only wanted the woman to kowtow to Grandma Kong and confess her sins before Kong Xi’s grave!

“Just the debt regarding the last matter. Princess Duan couldn’t have forgotten it so soon, right?” the servant girl probed further.

Duanmu Yao broke into a cold laugh. “It should be this princess asking her to pay up for it instead! She wounded me quite seriously. There’s no need to discuss other terms. Hand over the info and we’ll cancel all debts.”

“Princess Duan, what’s with that injury? We all know if you hadn’t gotten hurt, you wouldn’t need to find the Duke of Qin for treatment,” the servant girl mocked.

Here comes the truth! Han Yunxi was now gripping Lady Tang’s hands as well. The two women strained their ears to listen, afraid to miss a single word.

Unexpectedly, Duanmu Yao lost her temper. “What are you talking about?”

“Princess Duan should know exactly what this servant girl means. There’s nobody else here, so let’s get to the point. If Princess Duan wants the map, then agree to something for my mistress,” the servant replied.