Chapter 89: The Wretched Liu Langzhong

Chapter 89

Gu Ying stuffed a pair of jade earrings into her palm before she swayed her slender waist and left the room.

Gu Ying glanced coldly at her and then went into the room.

Gu Ning was huddled at the head of the bed, gritting his teeth to endure the pain in his legs. He said sourly, "What are you here for again?"

Gu Ying knitted her brows. After stopping his medicine, Gu Ning's legs seemed to be getting worse by the day.

The child didn't know better. He thought she was deliberately making things difficult for him and trying to cripple him like this. So he still had no kind words for her.

She was extremely distressed. She sat at the bedside and sighed, "Ah Ning, just wait a little longer."

Gu Ning turned his cold little face away without saying a word.

It was all his sister's fault. His sister was trying to harm him... His legs were hurting more and more. He probably wouldn't live much longer.

But she was still his favorite sister. If he was going to die, he still wanted to give her all the precious jewelry he had hidden away.

Mother had said it was for his sister's dowry.

He endured the piercing pain in his bones. He thought of what he'd overheard the servants say, that his sister was going to get married, and the man she was marrying was not a good man. He would beat his wife and had many other women. If his sister married without money, she would certainly suffer greatly.

With reddened eyes, a moist heat rose in his eyes. No matter what, he had to hold on until his sister's wedding day before he died...

Gu Ying didn't know what he was thinking. She watched him eat and drink soup, then helped him wash up and change his clothes before she finally relaxed.

Dr. Liu still lived in the small room at the Perfume Pavilion.

Gu Ying glanced over in that direction before leaving.

Dr. Liu was a slender middle-aged man of medium height with a thin face and narrow forehead. He had a long face and thin lips, and always wore a smiling expression that made him look very polite. However, his shrewd eyes often gleamed with a hint of cunning that made people feel uneasy.

These people were all beasts, lower than animals. She had to make them die without a proper burial to quell the hatred in her heart.

But she was still too weak.

She needed someone powerful, someone even her grandmother feared...

Thinking of this, Zhao Changdu's naturally handsome face involuntarily appeared in her mind...

He had bullied her in their past life. That night, he owed her. He had to repay her...

So it wasn't unreasonable of her to negotiate conditions with him through marriage...

Yin Lan and Yanzhi heated up the water and came in to pull back the curtain. Seeing their young miss sitting motionless under the lamp, they exchanged a puzzled glance. They didn't know what was going on with their young lady.

Ever since she had returned from the Perfume Pavilion, she had been sitting at the desk in a daze without eating dinner or reading books. On normal days she would listen for news about Cangwu Pavilion and The Banishment, and analyze things, but today she was distracted.

Yin Lan put the hot water on the wooden stand and called softly, "My lady?"

Gu Ying was startled out of her reverie. Her pair of lost, beautiful eyes were clear and limpid, taking Yin Lan's breath away.

"Yin Lan, what's the matter?"

Their clever and mature young lady seldom revealed such childlike confusion. Yin Lan sighed in wonder and curved her lips. "It's nothing, I just saw you were spacing out for a long time and wanted to ask if you'd like to bathe and wash your face before resting."

Gu Ying licked her dry lips and glanced out at the night sky. She uneasily asked, "Yanzhi, what time is it now?"

Yanzhi quickly replied, "My lady, it's already the hour of hai (9pm-11pm) now."

Gu Ying's heart thumped. Her hands suddenly clenched tightly as she murmured to herself, "It's already hai hour. He's probably left by now..."

Yin Lan sensitively asked, "Who is my lady speaking of?"

Gu Ying swallowed and thought it over. She still felt it would be inappropriate to go see him in the middle of the night. "No one. Just wash my face."