Chapter 773: Abandon everything, including myself (2/2)

“Be careful,” the servant girl had a very nice voice. Han Yunxi glanced over and saw she was about sixteen to seventeen years old, with a pair of large, bright eyes. The sight reminded her of Su Xiaoyu, except Su Xiaoyu’s eyes were even prettier.

“Many thanks,” she straightened up.

“It was no trouble,” the servant girl said before resuming her position. Nazha Delin glanced at Han Yunxi briefly, but didn’t take her to note.

Gu Beiyue quickly caught up to her side and murmured, “Is your foot alright?”

Before Han Yunxi could answer, Gu Qishao appeared on her other side, his voice low. “Poison lass, did you twist your ankle? Shall I massage it for you?”

Instead of speaking, Han Yunxi was staring fixedly at a point on her right. The two men followed her gaze and spotted a familiar figure nearby.

“Clan Head Xiao!” Han Yunxi gritted her teeth. Clan Head Xiao was the leader of the five most prominent clans in the south central regions. He represented all of the major families, but his presence here today was like a slap to the commander-in-chief estate’s face and Long Feiye!

So did he come to Medical City to seek foreign aid since he couldn’t best General Baili’s forces?

“What gall,” Gu Beiyue was astonished as well.

“Indeed.”

Han Yunxi could be considered calm as she continued looking for their seats. By the time they sat down, the trio couldn’t help exchanging surprised glances as well. That was because sitting next to them was none other than the Tang Clan couple, Tang Li and Ning Jing.

Neither of the duo could recognize them thanks to their disguises, but Han Yunxi spotted Tang Li’s uncommonly celestial mien at a glance. Ning Jing was sitting up straight and looking expressionlessly forward while Tang Li, like a henpecked husband, was holding her hand with a flattering expression and whispering into her ear. It didn’t seem like he was muttering sweet nothings, but seeking forgiveness for some wrong. Judging from their seating, the Ouyang trade consortium must have received an invitation as well, and Ning Jing had brought Tang Li with her to participate.

Han Yunxi sat down next to Tang Li while hiding laughter in her eyes, not batting an eyelid. But from here she could hear Tang Li’s indistinct coaxing. There were all kinds of nauseating, thinly-veiled lover’s prattle that soon made her seat unbearable. In the end, she switched seats with Gu Qishao so that she was sitting between him and Gu Beiyue.

Long Feiye and Tang Li can count as blood related, but why are they so different? I don’t think Long Feiye could ever say some of those things in his lifetime.

Long Feiye might not be able to say them, but Gu Qishao had no problems. He listened in on the couple before scotting over to report, “Poison lass, guess what he just said?”

Han Yunxi wanted to say she wasn’t interested, but Gu Qishao had long started to murmur by her ear. “You definitely don’t know how much I love you. For you, I’m willing to abandon everything, including myself. Do you believe me?”

Tang Li’s original words were, “Jing’er, you definitely don’t know how much I love you. For you, I’m willing to abandon everything in the Tang Clan, including myself. Do you believe me?”

But Gu Qishao had removed “Jing’er” and “Tang Clan” from his quote; perhaps on purpose, perhaps inadvertently. Han Yunxi only found listening to the words awkward because it sounded like Gu Qishao was confessing to her! She decided to switch seats with Gu Beiyue next, but Gu Qishao pressed down her hand before she could stand up.

“Do you believe it? Just what will make you trust me? I’m not fooling or joking with you. From the moment I met you, every word I spoke was truth except for the part where I concealed my identity. I was always devoted to you utterly. Do you believe it? Answer me.”

Han Yunxi gave a start as her heart beat fast. How could she not know Gu Qishao’s feelings? She didn’t like his lack of decency and his tendency to joke, but when he stopped fooling around to speak intimate words with such a soft and earnest voice, she couldn’t ward him off and was left at a loss.

Gu Qishao, if you joke forever, we’ll be friends forever. But--but if the day comes when your jokes become real, how I am supposed to keep treating you as a friend?

Han Yunxi’s face had turned somewhat ashen when Gu Qishao suddenly started to chuckle. Lowering his voice, he said, “Poison lass, what are you doing? Did Tang Li’s words disgust you that much?”

Han Yunxi’s heart suddenly relaxed. Indeed, Tang Li had truly lied to Ning Jing about his identity when they first met. When Gu Qishao said those words, she thought he was referring to his time as Gu Qi Sha. How could she scare herself like that?

“I was disgusted by you. Can you just shut your mouth?” Han Yunxi said unhappily.

Gu Qishao grinned broadly. “Poison lass, do you believe words like that?”

Before Han Yunxi could answer, Gu Qishao’s bright and sparkling smile abruptly turned cold and vicious! This was the first time Han Yunxi had a fright from him. She never thought such laughing eyes could turn so terrifying when he was angry. Following his gaze, she saw that Academy Head Gu Yuntian was already standing on stage….

1.As the foster son of the medical academy’s head elder - It’s been a few hundred chapters since we’ve visited GQS’s past, but a reminder that the “public story” said that the “fiendish genius” of the medical academy was Academy Head Ling’s adopted son. This is what HYX assumes here as well. For a refresher course, you can read “Midnight dreams of little Qi” from Chapters 568-560.

2.杏林春暖 xinglin chunnuan - “spring warmth of the apricot woods” and 誉满杏林 yuman xinglin - “fame fills the apricot woods.”