Gu Ruobai spoke these words without a firm tone. He was very calm, as if things were just meant to be this way.
Seeing his unwavering conviction, Leng Ziyue suddenly felt a bit irritated. "What on earth makes you so confident in her?"
"If one can't even trust the person they love the most, wouldn't life be extremely tiring?" Gu Ruobai curved his lips into a smile. After saying that, he got up and was about to leave again.
"You're really annoyingly stubborn." Leng Ziyue frowned. "All of you are so annoying. All this talk of love and affection is nothing but a pipe dream, so illusory. It's ridiculous that you all believe in it so wholeheartedly."
Hearing Leng Ziyue's words, Gu Ruobai, who had already taken several steps, suddenly paused. Then he turned around, his thin lips slightly curving up into an extremely gentle arc. "It's really a pity that you, sir, haven't met someone who can make you let down all your defenses."
After saying that, he struggled to move his legs and was about to walk forward again.
But just as he lifted his leg, a familiar figure suddenly flashed by the door. Gu Ruobai suddenly looked up. Then, in surprise, he stared at the woman dressed in men's clothing in front of him and suddenly broke into a grin.
"Where have you been?"
At this moment, Su Mingyu was holding a rabbit in each hand. Her face was dirty from catching the rabbits, and her long black hair was simply tied up casually at the back of her head in a messy bunch. She looked extremely disheveled.
Seeing Gu Ruobai's slightly pale face, she looked at him in surprise, disbelief written all over her face. "You... you... you're awake?"
Gu Ruobai curved his lips into a smile at her. "Yes, I'm awake."
Su Mingyu jogged a few steps in front of Leng Ziyue and handed the rabbits in her hands to him. Then she turned around and ran to Gu Ruobai's side. Reaching out, she buried herself in his embrace.
A smile rippled in Gu Ruobai's eyes. He raised his hand and hugged the petite Su Mingyu in his arms. Slightly lowering his head, he rested his chin on top of Su Mingyu's head and let out a long sigh of relief.
Just then, meeting Leng Ziyue's gaze, Gu Ruobai gave him a faint smile. The meaning in his dark eyes was simple and clear - I told you she wouldn't leave me.
Seeing the two embracing, a flash of disdain crossed Leng Ziyue's eyes. He turned around with the rabbits in hand and left without the slightest intention of staying to watch the two being affectionate.
After hugging for a long time, Su Mingyu finally looked up at Gu Ruobai as if satisfied. "Do you know you've been sleeping for a long time?"
Gu Ruobai nodded. "Sorry for making you worry."
Su Mingyu pouted. "Do you know how tired I was carrying you all the way down the mountain?"
Gu Ruobai continued to nod. "I'll make it up to you when we get back."
Su Mingyu continued to pout. "Do you know I changed your clothes and wiped your body?"
Gu Ruobai continued to nod. "I know. When we get back..."
The words were on the tip of his tongue when Gu Ruobai suddenly realized something. He stared at Su Mingyu's eyes in shock. "What did you say?"
Seeing that there was finally a reaction on his face, Su Mingyu curved her lips and squinted her eyes with a smile. "Now I've seen all of your body, so you have to be responsible for me."
"You've seen me naked, and yet you still want me to be responsible for you?" Gu Ruobai raised his eyebrows and looked at Su Mingyu, a smile in his dark eyes.
"So what?" Su Mingyu raised her head and looked at him. "Are you not willing?"
Gu Ruobai quickly nodded. "Of course I'm overjoyed. Why wouldn't I be willing?"
Seeing the curve of his lips, Su Mingyu grinned. "That's more like it."
"However, you just woke up. Why did you come here? Do you want to go out?" Su Mingyu supported Gu Ruobai back to the bedside to sit down and then asked him suspiciously.
Gu Ruobai thought for a while and finally told Su Mingyu everything that had happened between him and Leng Ziyue before.
After listening, Su Mingyu just frowned. "After all, he saved you. So are you going to let go of the fact that he lied to you?"
"I didn't really plan to argue with him about it." Gu Ruobai fixed his gaze. "But what do you mean by this? Do you know he has some hard - to - tell secret?"
Su Mingyu pursed her lips and told Gu Ruobai about her conversation with Leng Ziyue in the hot spring before.
"I think he may have suffered some emotional trauma, which is why he doesn't trust others like this." Su Mingyu said as she poured a glass of plain water for Gu Ruobai. "We've been away from the capital for several days. I'm afraid the people in the capital are going crazy with worry. Do you have any way to inform them?"
"Yes." Gu Ruobai took out a bamboo tube from his bosom. "Sprinkle this on a flat high - ground. A pigeon will fly over soon. You just need to catch it and stuff the letter into the bamboo tube on its leg."
Su Mingyu played with the bamboo tube in her hand, her eyes full of interest. "I thought you guys would use something like signal flares."
Gu Ruobai found it a bit funny. "Signal flares are only suitable for short - distance message transmission. In a place this far away, it might just attract the enemy."
Hearing him say this, Su Mingyu nodded. "It seems to make sense. Then I'll go out to send the message first. You should rest more."
Watching Su Mingyu leave with light steps, Gu Ruobai couldn't help but frown tightly.
Shi Minglong's wine was originally meant for Su Mingyu. It seemed that those people's target wasn't him. But who could it be? Who wanted to kill Su Mingyu? They even got Shi Minglong involved, and that guy was a real opportunist.
Not long after, Su Mingyu walked in clapping her hands. Noticing Gu Ruobai's ugly expression, she asked, "What's wrong?"
"You've had a hard time these days." Gu Ruobai raised his hand and motioned for Su Mingyu to come over.
Su Mingyu held his hand tightly in return. "It's not about hard work. I was just really worried. What if you never woke up?"
"Don't worry. I will definitely wake up for you." Gu Ruobai raised his hand to tidy up the messy hair beside Su Mingyu's ear. "I suspect their real target this time was you. Do you have any ideas?"
"I was thinking the same thing. But if I had to say who I've offended so much that they want me dead, there's only one candidate in my mind." Su Mingyu looked at Gu Ruobai seriously. "That's Su Yueyue."
"But where did Su Yueyue get the chance to get in touch with someone like Shi Minglong?"
Su Yueyue was just a young lady from the Su family. Although she was already engaged to the Prince of Yu, she hadn't really married into the Prince of Yu's Mansion yet.
With such a status, would someone really take the risk of beheading to help her openly poison someone at the autumn hunting banquet?
Obviously, Gu Ruobai thought the same way, which was why he asked her.
Su Mingyu sighed. "Let's not think about this for now. It's more important for you to recover. After we get back, we'll ask Old Ye to help us investigate."