On the carriage back to the Su Mansion, Gu Ruobai handed Su Mingyu a medicine bottle.
The sight of his well - defined fingers holding a translucent ceramic bottle somehow exuded a strange charm. Su Mingyu was dazed for a moment before asking, "What's this?"
Gu Ruobai said in a flat voice, "Medicine that can make you look extremely weak."
Su Mingyu: …
"You've really thought of everything," she quipped.
Despite her sarcasm, Su Mingyu gratefully took the medicine bottle from Gu Ruobai's hand. "Thank you."
Saying so, she poured out the medicine and swallowed it in one gulp.
A sudden heat welled up in her abdomen. After a brief sour sensation, there was no more reaction.
She looked up at Gu Ruobai. "That's it?"
Gu Ruobai nodded. "Your complexion is very poor. This is enough."
Su Mingyu let out an "oh" and curiously frowned. "Why do you look so strange? It seems like you're very happy?"
This girl was quite perceptive.
Gu Ruobai slightly curled his lips. "You were so quick to take the medicine I gave you. Aren't you afraid it's fake?"
Only then did Su Mingyu suddenly realize that as a special agent, she had so easily taken something from someone else.
In the 21st century, this would have cost her life countless times.
Su Mingyu cleared her throat and pretended to be calm. "Isn't it because I trust you? Does His Highness, the Prince of Ruixian, have some special fetish and can't stand being trusted?"
Looking at Su Mingyu's upturned peach - blossom eyes, Gu Ruobai felt a softness in his heart. "Of course not. I'm very happy that you trust me so much."
Su Mingyu had just said it casually, but Gu Ruobai took it so seriously that her face flushed.
She turned her face away and touched her nose. "After all, we've been through thick and thin together. One has to trust one's comrades - in - arms."
The more she spoke, the redder the tips of her ears became, while the smile on Gu Ruobai's lips grew more prominent.
However, this ambiguous atmosphere didn't last long before the carriage came to a stop.
Zhizhu lifted the curtain and was so shocked that her eyes instantly turned red. "Miss... What's wrong with you? Your complexion is so terrible!"
Seeing her reaction, Su Mingyu glanced at Gu Ruobai. "Your medicine works quite well."
Gu Ruobai squinted his eyes. "Nothing of mine is subpar."
Su Mingyu: …
This guy was really annoyingly arrogant.
Looking at Zhizhu, Su Mingyu said softly, "Zhizhu, remember that I was seriously injured. It was His Highness, the Prince of Ruixian, who found me by the lake that night. I was in a coma for a long time and just woke up."
Although she didn't understand why, Zhizhu still nodded. "I remember."
When Zhizhu supported the frail - looking Su Mingyu and appeared at the main gate of the Su Mansion, one of the guards almost fainted from shock.
The other, calmer guard pointed his long sword at Su Mingyu. "Wrongdoers should be held accountable. It's no use coming to us!"
Su Mingyu rolled her eyes mentally. If it weren't for the need to play the role of a weak person, she really wanted to go up and grab their necks to show them whether she was alive or dead.
Normally timid Zhizhu was the first to speak up this time. "Open your dog eyes and see. Does our miss look like a dead person?"
Roared at like this, the two guards mustered up the courage to get a bit closer.
"What... What on earth is going on?"
One guard scratched his head. "Miss Su... Isn't she dead?"
Su Mingyu nodded with difficulty. "Thankfully, I was saved by His Highness, the Prince of Ruixian. Please inform my father that I'm back."
Hearing Su Mingyu speak, the two guards finally felt relieved and quickly nodded. "Yes, yes, yes! I'll go right away."
Watching their departing backs, Su Mingyu let out a silent sigh.
She turned around and glared at Gu Ruobai. "Your Highness, the Prince of Ruixian, is keeping silent at this moment. Are you waiting for me to prove my innocence?"
Gu Ruobai smiled faintly. "I just want to see how Miss Su will handle this."
Su Mingyu rolled her eyes again. This man was really hopeless.
By the time Su Zhengyi, Su Yueyue and the others arrived at the main hall, Su Mingyu had already found a seat and sat down.
At a glance, Su Zhengyi saw Gu Ruobai sitting next to Su Mingyu. He frowned. "Are you really Mingyu?"
Su Mingyu slowly replied, "When I was young, Father and Mother took me out of the mansion to play on the Qixi Festival. I got lost and cried for a long time. Finally, Father found me in front of a mask stall."
Although what she said was true, Su Zhengyi still couldn't quite believe it. "It really is Mingyu. Weren't you shot by an assassin's arrow and drowned in the lake?"
After all, he had even seen the body. Suddenly being told that the body was fake and the one in front of him was the real one was a bit hard to accept.
Just as Su Mingyu was about to explain, Su Yueyue stepped forward. "Even if you've said some correct details of our life, it doesn't prove that you're my sister!"
"I saw my sister fall into the lake with my own eyes and then watched as the fisherman fished her out. Can you just claim to be my sister like that?"
Saying so, Su Yueyue snorted. "Our Su family is a prominent family. There are plenty of people who want to take advantage of us."
"Now that they know a legitimate daughter of our family has died, any Tom, Dick and Harry dares to claim to be our eldest miss!"
Noticing that the Prince of Ruixian's complexion was getting worse and worse, Su Zhengyi quickly interrupted Su Yueyue. "Yue'er!"
Su Yueyue shut up, but she was obviously still very unconvinced. "Father! Although this woman looks exactly like my sister, who knows who she really is? What if she's a bad person with ill intentions?"
"The position you're in now is being watched by many people!"
Su Mingyu had been listening to Su Yueyue without defending herself.
She wanted to see just how far Su Yueyue would go to prevent her from coming back.
Su Zhengyi was also a bit hesitant. Although Su Mingyu had said some unknown details correctly.
But Su Yueyue had seen Su Mingyu's body being fished out with her own eyes.
Just when he was hesitating and didn't know what to do, Gu Ruobai on the side finally spoke up slowly. "Lord Su, how about listening to my opinion?"
Hearing Gu Ruobai's voice, Su Zhengyi just remembered to ask the most important question. "Why is His Highness, the Prince of Ruixian, with Mingyu?"
"Lord Su is indeed a smart man. You've hit the nail on the head," Gu Ruobai raised his eyebrows. "Do you still remember that Miss Su Mingyu had been staying at my mansion for some time recently?"
"What?" Su Zhengyi's face turned as black as coal. "Didn't Wang Manwen say that Mingyu had gone to take care of a distant relative of her mother for a few days?"
He didn't expect Wang Manwen to conceal something that was known to many.
A hint of sarcasm flashed in Su Mingyu's eyes, but her tone was so weak that it seemed as if she was about to die at any moment. "Daughter was stimulated and wasn't in a good mental state. It was His Highness, the Prince of Ruixian, who kindly took me in."