Chapter 827: The first step to exposure (2/2)

“Han Yunxi isn’t in my hands!” Ning Cheng refused to budge. “If you want to slaughter my palace, then ask the sword in my hands first!”

Gu Qishao laughed coldly. “Your little sister Ning Jing personally admitted it. You were the one who brought Han Yunxi out of Medical City!”

Ning An grew alarmed. “What have you guys done to Jing’er?”

Ning Cheng was startled as well. He had left Ning Jing while she was still in the middle of a cold war with Tang Li. What happened between them afterwards? Gu Qishao simply ignored Ning An’s question. He didn’t care what kind of relationship existed between Long Feiye and the Tang Clan or Ning Jing and Tang Li. All he wanted was Han Yunxi.

A thorny thistle seed shot out from his sword to land at Ning Cheng’s feet. Ning Cheng didn’t even have time to escape before he was trapped within the wildly growing vines. Gu Qishao’s wide red robes billowed about him in the wind as he shot seeds left and right, dancing in the air.

“Hand over Han Yunxi or else this old man will tear you to pieces!” Gu Qishao warned. The sinister light from his eyes was more horrific than the time he’d faced Gu Yuntian.

Ning Cheng stood in place but didn’t panic. As before, he remained imposing and threatening. “Gu Qishao,” he said icily, “Long Feiye will be laughing by the time you kill me! Haven’t you thought of how Long Feiye could have left Han Yunxi by her side before finding out her identity?”

“This old man doesn’t care! This old man just wants Han Yunxi!” Gu Qishao raged.

“I don’t have her! Kill me or scrape me, do as you like!” Ning Cheng said frostily.

Throughout the whole process, Bai Yanqing’s eyes never left Ning Cheng’s face.

“Uncle Bai, it looks like he really doesn’t have her,” Bai Yuqiao murmured.

“Mm,” Bai Yanqing muttered back.

“Then who kidnapped her?” Bai Yuqiao asked.

“It’s strange. For now, the situation is uncertain,” Bai Yanqing replied.

Gu Qishao did as he promised. Under his control, the thorny vines quickly tightened around Ning Cheng, making Ning An’s heart ache. She quickly issued orders. “Someone come, bring over the Pear Blossom Rain Needle!”

Ning Cheng had exerted massive amounts of efforts to figure out how to use the weapon, but he hadn’t tried it once because he was saving the weapon to kill Long Feiye personally on the battlefield.

“You can’t!” Ning Cheng forbade her.

“You’ll die”! Ning An was getting desperate.

Ning Cheng laughed out loud. “Gu Qishao, think it over carefully! Even you’re going to be used by Long Feiye?”

It wasn’t clear what Gu Qishao thought, but he was looking at Ning Cheng like a madman. At this moment, the guards arrived with Mu Linger in custody. As it turned out, she didn’t manage to catch up with Gu Qishao after entering the palace and ended up looking for him. But how could her trifling martial arts skills keep her undiscovered?

Ning An rejoiced. Without hesitation, she pulled out one of the guards’ swords and pointed it at Mu Linger’s heart. “Gu Qishao, release Ning Cheng or else I’ll kill her this instant,” she threatened.

Mu Linger wanted to speak, but grew stiff and silent at her words. She stared straight at her Qi gege, mute. Originally, Mu Linger feared Long Feiye. But now she hated him to the core! In her eyes, Qi gege had been used by Long Feiye! Long Feiye was clearly guarding Medical City himself, but goaded Gu Qishao into action with a single line until he rushed here sleepless and restless.

Why didn’t Qi gege listen to her words?

Han Yunxi was the West Qin princess, which made her Ning Cheng’s master. How could she be in danger here? Why didn’t Qi gege find out the truth first before taking a stand?

Love turned people blind.

Hadn’t she been blind the same way? Although she lost track of Qi gege, she stupidly searched for him all over the palace instead of leaving first, hoping that she could help him find his person.

Qi gege, Linger’s life or death has finally fallen to a single thought from you.

She waited for him to decide whether she’d live or die.

Gu Qishao ignored Ning An’s warning completely to fixate on Ning Cheng. It wasn’t that he was stupid enough to listen to Long Feiye, but that Ning Cheng was the most likely culprit to kidnap Han Yunxi in this world. He even exposed himself intentionally. If Han Yunxi really was in his hands, she should have ran out long ago to meet him, right?

There were only two possibilities remaining. Either Han Yunxi really wasn’t here, or she was under house arrest. Like the Nether Clan, the Di Clan must have motives of their own!

Everyone assumed that Gu Qishao had gone insane, but he was clearer than any of them here. He was sounding Ning Cheng out!

Blood poured from the thorny vines--that of Ning Cheng’s own. Ning An couldn’t take it anymore. “Gu Qishao, you better not regret it!”

As she spoke, she aimed the sword viciously towards Mu Linger’s stomach. Mu Linger had forced herself to be brave to the point of tears, so she ignored the incoming weapon to stare lovingly at her Qi gege…