Chapter 51: Antidote

"Do you know what this is?" Xin Hongying placed the porcelain white teacup in front of her, not missing a single change in her facial expression.

Concubine Yu looked at the teacup with a puzzled look, and when she saw the blood-red poisonous insect on it, she was suddenly shocked, but her face showed no sign of it.

How could it be the Soul-Eating Gu...!

Could it be that His Majesty already knows everything... Impossible!

"Your Majesty, this is a bug!" Concubine Yu said calmly, "The palace servants here are too lazy. The rooms are full of bugs. Your Majesty, we should get out quickly."

Concubine Yu felt a little guilty. Was this the reason why His Majesty didn't see her, but met her at the same time?

"You still won't tell me?" Xin Hongying said coldly, "You should be very clear about my methods. I will give you a chance because of our past friendship."

"explain!"

How much does Your Majesty know?

Her face turned pale instantly, and Concubine Yu became more and more panicked. Her fingertips moved slightly, as if she was thinking about what to do, but before she could come up with a solution.

Under the shadow, Xin Hongying looked down with disdain. With an expressionless face, he pinched Concubine Yu's chin, forcing her to look at him, his eyes flickering, "My patience is limited. How does the Dali Temple feel?"

When Concubine Yu heard the word "Dali Temple", her body trembled. She didn't want to go through that kind of life again, but... she couldn't say it!

Concubine Yu tilted her head back, silently shedding tears. The expression on her face was completely exposed, and her eyes were empty, revealing a trace of sorrow and determination: "Your Majesty... I wonder what you will say next?"

The last bit of soft-hearted expectation in her heart disappeared, and he suddenly sneered, and pushed her chin with his violent hand, leaving a bright red fingerprint.

"I know it even if you don't tell me."

Concubine Yu was heartbroken and remained silent until Xin Hongying uttered three cold words: "It's the Queen Mother!"

She looked up in disbelief, her expression more terrifying than seeing a ghost, "Your Majesty, how did you know that?"

After realizing what was happening, Concubine Yu couldn't help but bite her lower lip. She had been fooled!

Concubine Yu bent her back weakly and sat limply on the ground, her eyes dim and lifeless. Everything was over.

Xin Hongying sneered: "Do you think I'm deceiving you?"

Concubine Yu lowered her head and said nothing, watching the shadow on the ground suddenly stand up and move slowly.

Xin Hongying's cold voice was heard saying, "I've already discovered it. I'm just giving you a chance to see if you're a victim like me or an insider. It's obviously the latter."

Xin Hongying's eyes were filled with indifference: "What a pity..."

His Majesty obviously knew more than she expected.

Concubine Yu opened her red lips slightly, supported herself with her hands and stood up from the ground. A little hope suddenly ignited in her heart. His Majesty still had her in his heart, otherwise he would not have brought her here today and given her a chance.

She is special! She wants to live...

Xin Hongying stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the waning moon by the window, wondering what he was thinking.

She mustered up the courage to continue, her soft body pressed against his broad back, and she said softly, "I was wrong..."

Xin Hongying turned around in disgust, grabbed her neck, and pushed her further away. "I spared your life only because you must know something. Tell me! How can I cure the Soul Devouring Gu?"

Concubine Yu felt suffocated, her eyes suddenly reddened, her face grim. She kept slapping Xin Hongying's arm, which was covered in veins. "Your Majesty..."

"Hurry up and tell me!" Xin Hongying turned a deaf ear and acted like a demon, attacking without mercy.

Shen Tingyu covered his ears, but the sounds outside were still audible, just like covering his ears to steal the bell.

She heard Yu Fei's voice gradually weakening, and the strength of her hands clapping gradually weakened, even one hand hanging down at her side, and she noticed that something was wrong with Xin Hongying.

Concubine Yu cannot die yet!

Shen Tingyu slapped his arm with her small hands and pulled his sleeve, but the tyrant didn’t react at all.

Seeing that Concubine Yu was about to be strangled to death by him, she took out the silver needle that had made her unconscious and gently pricked her arm. The needle was not inserted deeply, so the effect of the medicine was not strong.

Xin Hongying suddenly came to his senses with a slight pain in his arm like a needle prick, and suddenly loosened his five fingers.

"call--!!!"

Concubine Yu collapsed to the ground, her breath choked, and she gasped for air in a completely ungraceful manner. She was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat, as if she had really died. She kept backing away in fear.

"I have already given you a chance, but you didn't cherish it. Listen carefully, I will ask you one last time, how to get rid of the soul-devouring insect?" Xin Hongying's blood-red eyes suddenly raised and stared straight at Concubine Yu.

He slowly approached her step by step, straightening his robe with his slender hands in disgust, and his violent and disgusted eyes seemed as if he could take her life at any time.

"Your Majesty... no... don't come over." Concubine Yu was frightened by him and burst into tears. She kicked her legs and kept backing away in the room until her soaked back touched the cold and hard wall.

Her pupils suddenly shrank, she closed her eyes, and shouted, "No... Your Majesty, you can't kill me. The Soul Devouring Gu has no antidote! I am your only antidote!"

Not only did she clearly know that this was a soul-eating insect, she also knew the antidote.

No solution!

He doesn't believe it!

Xin Hongying's violent eyes narrowed, and he stopped and continued to question her: "Why? Tell me clearly."

"Because..." Concubine Yu's eyes, filled with fear, moved slightly and narrowed quietly, "Because I have a clone of the mother Soul-Eating Gu in my body. My blood can suppress the child Gu in your body and slow down its growth."

Xin Hongying murmured, then raised his head and laughed coldly, "So that's how it is. The cakes you sent me were tainted with your blood. No wonder I particularly like the food you cook."

He said coldly: "That bloody shirt of Lady Gu was also your work."

What bloody clothes!

Concubine Yu was stunned. Lady Gu had indeed asked her for a piece of clothing, but it was definitely not a blood-stained one. What was going on? What had happened?

Her tearful eyes fell on the teacup on the distant table, then quickly retracted. Her fingers suddenly clenched, pinching into the flesh tightly, her eyes extremely complicated.

That was also a clone of the soul-devouring mother Gu, which was brighter red and of a higher level than the one in her body.

Her premonition was right, she was really abandoned, and a trace of resentment flashed in her eyes.

Concubine Yu wept and shook her head, "I knew nothing about the blood-stained robe. Lady Gu asked me for a reward, and seeing how sweet she was, I gave it to her."

Xin Hongying didn't completely believe what she said, "I will find out for myself."

He took out a dagger from his bosom. The dagger reflected bright light under the moonlight. His cold eyes stared at her with murderous intent.

Concubine Yu stared at it in a daze, her whole body shuddering, as if she were a prey being targeted by a hunter.

She shouted in fear: "Your Majesty, I am not lying, everything I said is true."

Xin Hongying's movements were so fast that Concubine Yu had no time to dodge. In a hurry, she said anxiously, "Except..."

In an instant, she felt a pain in her neck. She raised her hand and touched a pool of wet blood. Her pupils contracted violently and her face turned pale.