Chapter 811: She wants to ask him a question (2/2)
Inside the room, Han Yunxi was staring fixedly at the last message she’d received in the pale purple envelope.
Han Yunxi, do you still believe me?
“Long Feiye, what should I believe from you?” she muttered to herself.
She’d replied him with a blank letter to imitate what he’d done with hers. She was telling him that her heart towards him was the same as his heart towards her. On the night of Gu Beiyue’s assassination, Lil Thing had bitten the dark-robed man’s shoulder. Although its teeth had yet to recover, she had long smeared the hypertoxic “Blood Upon Dawn” poison onto its teeth, hoping that it’d help her out during times of danger.
Blood Upon Dawn would only take a single night to react. It was a toxin she’d cultivated in the poison pond and quite similar to the Sealed Throat Upon Dawn found in the poison circles. Unless one examined it closely, they’d never be able to tell the difference. But treatment varied widely between the two types of poisons!
The only antidote for Blood Upon Dawn was in her hands, while Throat Sealing Upon Dawn had multiple cures in the market. If the dark-robed man was Long Feiye, he would quickly discovered that the latter antidote couldn’t cure his poison. If he didn’t find her for the antidote, he’d die; if the assassin was someone else, he’d come find her for antidote too. Who didn’t fear death?
Even now, there were no signs from the assassin. The most formidable expert would find it impossible to create an antidote for a new poison overnight, right? Moreover, she paid especial attention to the dark-robed man’s shoulder that night, but didn’t sense any signs of poisoning in his flesh.
Han Yunxi already harbored suspicions regarding the identity of the assassin and how he’d cured her poison instantaneously. She was also certain that this suspect had used the Celestial Mountain swordplay style in an effort to drive a wedge between her and Long Feiye with Gu Beiyue’s death. She hadn’t voiced her thoughts because she was planning to beat him at his own game and lure the snake out of its hole; furthermore, she was too angry at Long Feiye. She couldn’t accept that he’d reveal his identity to the world without telling his wife a word beforehand!
She had been waiting this whole time for him to give her a personal explanation. But who knew that something terrifying would arise instead: her status as West Qin heir!
She dearly wished this was false news, but how could anyone else know of the secret phoenix birthmark on her back? They must have ascertained her identity first, then grew definite that the birthmark existed. She forced herself to remain calm and quiet as she waited for the truth, but Chu Xifeng tossed it to her in one sentence.
If no one had exposed her identity, would Chu Xifeng and Xu Donglin kept trying to explain on behalf of Long Feiye and help him keep up his act?
Even...even if Gu Beiyue’s assassin wasn’t Long Feiye, how could he, as the East Qin crown prince, lie to Gu Beiyue and her like this? What were his intentions?
If it wasn’t to use them, then what else was there?
She had once stood by the windows of the Leisurely Cloud Pavilion and pondered multiple times, what kind of woman in this world could gain his true heart and tender affections?
She had once believed that fortuante woman to be herself.
But wasn’t he just using her all this time?!
Fool!
The West Qin princess was already fated to never gain his heart or affections, right?
Han Yunxi lightly rolled up her sleeves and stared at the cinnabar gecko mark on her arm. She suddenly seemed to understand something and revealed a bitter smile. After four years of marriage, this mark was probably the sole witness of how he treated her true affections.
He truly rejected and refused her!
Her heart almost broke from sadness, but Han Yunxi didn’t cry or rage. Besides bitterness, all she felt was self-mocking. When it came to love, she possessed a strong stubborness in her bones. She placed all of those purple envelopes beneath a teapot before going to open the door, only to find that it’d been locked from the outside.
“Chu Xifeng, open the door!”
“Chu Xifeng!”
There were clearly people outside, but none of them paid her any attention even as she knocked furiously against the exist.
Forget it.
She’d wait!
Even if she’d been lied to and used, she still wanted to ask Long Feiye a single question to his face. Even if her world was falling apart, she had to wait until he answered before she fell apart herself and destroyed herself!
In truth, keeping rational was much harder than falling apart. Sometimes a breakdown was a source of release, but Han Yunxi only sat in bitter vigil in the room, refusing to cry or make a fuss. This was the greatest suffering she’d experienced in this life. Still, that was the kind of girl she was. Even in desperate straits, she remained calm.
What would this woman look like after she finally broke apart?
While Han Yunxi was waiting for Long Feiye, so was Chu Xifeng. Luo Zuishan desperately tried to think of ways to hire someone who could avoid the shadow guards on the cliff and enter the abyss to inform Gu Qishao and Mu Linger of everything. The two fo them were seizing the time to hunt for the missing Gu Beiyue, so they had no idea of the new revelations rocking Cloud Realm Continent.
As night fell, firecrackers rose outside the medical academy, dying the skies in beautiful fireworks. It wasn’t clear which family was celebrating. Chu Xifeng and Xu Donglin sat silently by the door, feeling lost and disappointed. Neither of them realized that the firecrackers were hiding the sound of someone removing the roof tiles to slip into the house behind them…