Chapter 708 Can you kill Gu Qianhan for me?
Hua Yi, who was standing to the side, had been looking at Xiao Qingyuan with tender eyes ever since he got into the carriage, and she had been quietly moving closer to him little by little.
Finally, she even reached out and deliberately touched Xiao Qingyuan's hand while pouring him tea.
Xiao Qingyuan was preoccupied with Chu Yanluo and didn't even notice that Huayi had touched his hand.
Liu Nanshi noticed it.
Her disgust for Huayi deepened. She dared to flirt with men right in front of her, and who knew what disgusting things she would do behind her back!
But she didn't show the slightest disgust on her face. Instead, she said in a very polite and gentle voice, "Huayi, you don't need to serve here anymore. I have something important to tell the young master. You can go down now and guard the carriage outside. Don't let anyone else get close."
Hua Yi bit her lip, ultimately not daring to refute: "Yes, Miss."
She responded softly, and as she got off the carriage, she deliberately touched Xiao Qingyuan's face with her sleeve.
Unfortunately, Xiao Qingyuan still didn't take it seriously, thinking that Huayi had just accidentally gotten some ink on his face from her sleeve.
"Xiao Qingyuan, there's a possibility, I don't know if you've considered it?"
Xiao Qingyuan snapped out of his daze: "What's possible?"
"Perhaps Chu Yanluo faked her death."
"impossible!"
Xiao Qingyuan categorically denied it: "I saw Chu Yanluo's body with my own eyes. She was dead beyond any doubt! I'm certain she's dead!"
"She stopped breathing? Is it possible that she just took a drug that could hold her breath, and that's how she fooled you? I heard Huayi say that Chu Yanluo seems to know some basic medical skills."
"Do you think I'm stupid? You think I can be fooled by something like this? You can't even tell if she's dead or not? I checked, she's really dead!"
"Really? I don't believe it."
Xiao Qingyuan: "..."
"Believe it or not! Fine, I'm not talking to you anymore, I'm leaving!"
"etc!"
"Is there anything else?"
"I heard that you're currently competing with Gu Qianhan for Shen Wantang?"
"So what if it is?"
"It's not that great. I just think that you alone can't compete with Gu Qianhan. Besides, they're already married. If you try to take her now, it won't be legitimate and you'll just be laughed at."
Xiao Qingyuan's face turned ugly: "If you're deliberately trying to mock me, I suggest you save your breath! You have time to worry about whether I'm being laughed at? Haven't you made enough of a fool of yourself? Your reputation isn't much better than mine these days!"
"Xiao Qingyuan, I didn't mean to be sarcastic or mock you. I just wanted to help you."
"Help me? You'd be that kind?"
"Don't worry about whether I mean well or badly, as long as I can help you, isn't that enough?"
"How are you going to help me? Can you kill Gu Qianhan for me?"
Liu Nanshi glanced at him, a cold smile playing on her lips: "Of course I can't kill him, but someone else can!"
Xiao Qingyuan was stunned: "Who?"
"Naturally—it is the imperial family!"
"What did you say?!"
"Doesn't Your Highness know? His Majesty has long harbored the intention to kill the Gu family, but he is wary of the military power held by the Duke of Zhenguo, which is why he has been adopting a policy of appeasement."
Xiao Qingyuan knew that the emperor was wary of the Gu family, but he felt that the emperor would not go so far as to kill the entire Gu clan. After all, the Empress was the younger sister of the Duke of Zhenguo, and even the Crown Prince had to respectfully call the Duke of Zhenguo "uncle".
"Nonsense! Liu Nanshi, how dare you, a mere woman, speak ill of the imperial family and state affairs here! Be careful, or I'll report you to the palace and make you regret it!"
Liu Nanshi wasn't afraid of him at all: "So what if I'm a woman? I know more about politics than you do. My father is the Grand Secretary whom the Emperor trusts most. He holds a high position and great power. Isn't he much better than your father, who is just an idle prince with a title but no real power?"
"you!!!"
"Besides, when I said that the Emperor had murderous intentions toward the Gu family, I wasn't lying. In my past life, I overheard my father talking to his advisors. They had all received the Emperor's hints that they should try to frame the Gu family! It's just that my father is an upright and honest man and refused to do such a thing as framing someone."
"That's impossible! I don't believe it! The Emperor is not the kind of person who would falsely accuse someone! He is a good emperor, a wise ruler of Dafeng!"
Liu Nanshi sneered again: "Is that so? Then why did the Emperor not only not reprimand you when you kidnapped Shen Wantang on her homecoming day, but instead summoned Gu Qianhan and Shen Wantang to the palace to be punished? Isn't this blatant favoritism without any regard for right or wrong?"
How did you know about this?! Who told you?
"Xiao Qingyuan, you don't think you've covered this up perfectly, do you? Everyone in the palace has spies around! Besides me, quite a few other people know about it! And I also know that the Emperor forged a letter, claiming it was written to you by Shen Wantang, with the aim of seducing you."
"This is a misunderstanding! That letter wasn't written by Shen Wantang; His Majesty has been deceived!"
"Nonsense, of course I know that letter wasn't written by Shen Wantang. Someone as cunning as her wouldn't leave such a big handle! Besides, she's already married into the Duke's mansion, which is a high-status marriage. She should be secretly happy about it, why would she go out of her way to seduce someone like you..." idiot!
Xiao Qingyuan raised an eyebrow: "What about me? What's wrong with me? I'm completely devoted to Tang'er! I'm the man who loves her the most in this world. My Ning Prince's Mansion isn't low-class either. It's a thousand times better for her to marry me than to marry Gu Qianhan!"
Liu Nanshi almost rolled her eyes at him: "Yes, yes, yes, marrying you will definitely bring happiness, so what are you waiting for? Snatch Shen Wantang away!"
Xiao Qingyuan said sullenly, "Isn't it because we couldn't compete with Gu Qianhan?"
"That's why I said I'd help you!"
"So how exactly are you going to help me? Just tell me!"
"You know I'm good at imitating other people's handwriting, right?"
"I know, so what?"
"Unfortunately, I happened to have seen the Duke of Zhenguo's calligraphy at my father's place."
Xiao Qingyuan was taken aback: "What do you mean? You want to imitate the Duke of Zhenguo's calligraphy? What's the point of that?"
"Of course it's useful! I can imitate his handwriting and write a letter."
"What letter?"
"Don't worry about the letter itself. All you have to do is deliver it quietly into the Duke of Zhenguo's study."
Xiao Qingyuan glared at her irritably: "Do you think the Duke's mansion is as easy to enter as your Grand Secretary's mansion? The Liu family are civil officials, but the Duke of Zhenguo is a military general! The entire Duke's mansion is heavily guarded. Trying to sneak into the Duke of Zhenguo's study without anyone noticing is a pipe dream! I'm not going! Otherwise, Gu Qianhan will definitely beat me to death!"
My ribs haven't healed yet because Gu Qianhan broke them last time!
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