The Prime Minister’s Darling

Gu Chengfeng, wearing a mask, laughed and said, "Scared you, didn't I?"

Gu Yan, still shaken, rubbed his wildly beating heart and glared, "Childish! You're not allowed to walk behind me!"

Gu Chengfeng snorted, "I don't have some twin sense with your sister, how should I know where to go?"

Gu Yan said angrily, "Go forward!"

Gu Chengfeng adjusted the mask on his face, then touched the Black Iron Sword with peacock plume at his waist, and said to Gu Yan, "Give me the torch."

Gu Yan handed it to him coldly.

He walked forward with his head held high.

"With such a small courage, I told you not to come along earlier!"

"You say you and your sister came from the same womb, how come your personalities are so vastly different?"

"Ah, right, she's not you... cough cough, I mean, she didn't grow up with you."

"Hey, after all I've said, can't you at least respond?"

Gu Chengfeng turned around in bewilderment, but there was no sign of Gu Yan anywhere.

"Gu Yan!"

His face changed as he walked back, having just turned a corner when a dark figure came up close and knocked him out with a palm.

...

"Long Yi, is the poison master formidable?" In the passage, Gu Jiao continued the earlier topic.

Long Yi thought for a moment and replied cautiously, "Not good at fighting, but skilled at using poisons."

Poison masters need to raise poisons, and generally their bodies are weak. They specialize in using poisons to enhance their skills, appearing to be masters, but in reality, it's all the work of poisons.

Hearing this, Gu Jiao understood, "So if that guy gets into a melee fight, he doesn't stand much chance."

Long Yi paused, then said while looking down, "But poison masters can control people."

Gu Jiao asked, "Was it the poison master who erased your memory?"

Long Yi: "Yes."

Not only did he erase his memory, but he also turned him into a tool for killing, murdering those who shouldn't have been harmed, destroying what he was supposed to protect.

"Someone's here!" Xiao Hen said.

At the end of the passageway, a stone door slowly opened, and faint light emanated from within.

Long Yi stepped forward to protect the two of them, his eyes cold as he approached the stone door.

When he reached the entrance, he found that inside was a spacious secret room, and someone had been waiting for a long time — Master Rong sitting on a chair, fiddling with a bronze fang mask.

Beside him stood a black-robed poison master, and Gu Yan and Gu Chengfeng, held by the poison master.

The weapons on Master Rong had been removed, his wounds appeared to have been simply treated but were still bleeding non-stop, and he was extremely weak. Without immediate surgery, he wouldn't survive.

Gu Jiao and Xiao Hen stepped out from behind Long Yi, looking at the unconscious Gu Chengfeng and Gu Yan, then at the poison master and Master Rong.

"What exactly do you want?" Xiao Hen asked.

Though Master Rong was physically weak, his aura was strong. He looked at Xiao Hen and said, "You are the eldest grandson of the emperor of Dayan? I've seen your portrait. I know about your and Shangguan Qing's backgrounds, and I know that Emishi has been by your side all these years. I was careless back then, and you picked up a great advantage."

Xiao Hen said solemnly, "Twenty-one years ago, Long Yi abandoned the mission to assassinate Xuanyuan Qi, and then Long Yi lost his memory. Was that your doing?"

Master Rong scoffed, "He dared to betray me, of course, he has to pay the price. Unfortunately, even after his memory was wiped clean, he still managed to escape."

Long Yi must have escaped Master Rong driven by sheer obsession and ended up by mistake in the Princess Residence.

Xiao Hen looked at Master Rong, "Why did you do this?"

Master Rong said, "I actually did it for his own good. What's so unhappy about being the personal disciple of the Sword Forge Pavilion? Alright, let the past be past."

As he spoke, he glanced at Gu Chengfeng lying next to him and smiled faintly, "These two are your friends, aren't they? If you want to save them, have this girl hand over the Immortality Pill!"

Xiao Hen frowned, "What Immortality Pill?"

Master Rong said sharply, "The elixir for eternal life!"

Gu Jiao was bewildered, "Do I have an Immortality Pill? Why don't I know about it?"

Master Rong was on the verge of death; if he didn't get the Immortality Pill soon, he'd die.

His face darkened, "I'll say it one last time, hand over the Immortality Pill! Or I'll take you all with me to the grave today!"

Gu Jiao said earnestly, "I really don't have an Immortality Pill. If I did, I'd have taken it myself already!"

Master Rong, enraged, "You!"