Her head felt heavy and dizzy. Before she lost consciousness, Su Mingyu only managed to make out the faces of the two maids. They were indeed from the Yu Prince's Mansion. But why were these people targeting her?
Then everything went black. When Su Mingyu opened her eyes again, she was tied to a pillar. The water below her waist was ice-cold.
Su Mingyu shook her throbbing head, and the heavy iron chains on her hands clanged as she moved.
This crisp sound was like a clear message to Su Mingyu that the person who had locked her up had used really good materials to imprison her.
She swallowed hard to moisten her dry and chapped lips, then shouted, "You went through so much trouble to capture me. It can't be just to lock me up, right?"
"Are you still so calm at this moment?" A clear and melodious female voice came from behind the door. With a creak, the heavy door opened, and a tall figure walked in.
Su Mingyu stared coldly at the woman walking in and whistled mockingly. "So it's Miss Mei Qing. It's only been a few days, and you miss me so much that you even resorted to kidnapping?"
"Miss you?" Mei Qing snorted. She casually picked up a whip from the side and lashed it hard at Su Mingyu.
A searing pain immediately washed over Su Mingyu, and she couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.
Mei Qing seemed to enjoy seeing Su Mingyu in such pain. She curled her lips, and her voice was chillingly cold. "I do miss you. I wish I could kill you. Su Mingyu, what makes you so special that Gu Ruobai would fall for you?"
The pain made Su Mingyu more alert. She raised her eyebrows and sneered at Mei Qing. "You should call him my lord. How dare you address him by his name directly? You, this incompetent secret guard, must have had the thought of betrayal for a long time. You can even mobilize the people from the Yu Prince's Mansion. You're really good at scheming."
Seeing that Su Mingyu was still so calm, Mei Qing flew into a rage and lashed the whip at Su Mingyu's body again.
This time, Su Mingyu gritted her teeth and didn't make a sound.
When the pain subsided a bit, Su Mingyu looked at Mei Qing with a half-smile. "The people from the Yu Prince's Mansion are the secret guards that Gu Ruobai planted there, right? You actually dared to touch Gu Ruobai's pawns. It seems that you're really ready to go to war with Gu Ruobai?"
"That's right." Since Su Mingyu had already seen through her, Mei Qing didn't try to hide it anymore. She nodded. "Those people were indeed the ones that Gu Ruobai asked me to plant in the Yu Prince's Mansion before. Although they're just some insignificant servants, they can still keep track of the Yu Prince's movements to some extent."
Su Mingyu raised her eyebrows and snorted disdainfully. "In the end, you still relied on what Gu Ruobai gave you to capture me."
Then Su Mingyu suddenly let out a long "oh." "I understand why you like Gu Ruobai so much. Is it because you're nothing without him? You can't do anything without him?"
"Bullshit!" Mei Qing's face turned pale with anger from Su Mingyu's provocation. "I could have captured you without Gu Ruobai. At least the place where you're locked up now is a place that Gu Ruobai will never find!"
Su Mingyu curled her lips and continued to provoke her. "It's nothing more than an empty house on the outskirts or a basement under a mansion. Mei Qing, do you really think you can outsmart Gu Ruobai with such a small trick?"
"This is the lowest level of the weapons factory!" Mei Qing glared at Su Mingyu with gritted teeth and almost shouted, "Gu Ruobai will never expect that I've hidden you here. If he wants to search for you on a large scale, he'll surely expose this place."
As she spoke, a confident and proud look flashed across Mei Qing's eyes. "You, this woman, have no idea how important this weapons factory is to Gu Ruobai. So Gu Ruobai will never expose this place."
As she was talking, Mei Qing pretended to frown in distress. "Oh, why am I telling you all this? You probably don't even know that Gu Ruobai has a weapons factory, let alone understand its significance."
Seeing her so arrogant, Su Mingyu rolled her eyes at her directly. "Miss Mei Qing, I think it's you who knows nothing."
Mei Qing looked at her suspiciously. "What do you mean?"
"This weapons factory will definitely be the first place that Gu Ruobai will search. The tactic of hiding in the most obvious place might work on others, but it will never work on someone like Gu Ruobai who has been through battles."
There was a mocking look in Su Mingyu's eyes. "Oh, by the way, there's one more thing I think I should tell you."
"What is it?" Looking at Su Mingyu's eyes, for some reason, Mei Qing felt a chill run down her back, and there was even a faint sense of fear in her heart.
Su Mingyu squinted her shrewd eyes, then curled her lips and said to Mei Qing word by word, "Every weapon in this weapons factory was designed by me."
Before Mei Qing could react, Su Mingyu slowly dropped another bombshell. "I guess Miss Mei Qing doesn't know how to use these weapons, right?"
Then, Su Mingyu sneered. "But Miss Mei Qing, don't be too disappointed. Gu Ruobai doesn't want you secret guards to have access to these things. If you ask why, I guess it's because Gu Ruobai doesn't trust you enough."
Su Mingyu's words were like a stone thrown into a calm lake, instantly enraging Mei Qing.
Mei Qing raised her hand, and the whip lashed at Su Mingyu's body as if it were free.
Although Su Mingyu was in great pain, she still gritted her teeth and sneered. "You're just a dog he raised, and you even dare to dream of sleeping with your lord!"
Mei Qing's face turned ashen with anger. She lashed the whip again and again until she was too tired to swing it anymore. Then she put her hand on her hip and gasped for breath. "I don't believe it! I don't believe it!"
"Someone! Tie her up and take her out!"
Su Mingyu was beaten until her skin was broken and her flesh was torn. The pain almost made her lose her mind. Fortunately, she finally heard what she wanted to hear from Mei Qing before she fainted.
Actually, Mei Qing was right. Gu Ruobai might search everywhere, but not this weapons factory.
First of all, this place was very hidden. Secondly, with Gu Ruobai's pride, he might not think that someone would dare to detain her in the most heavily guarded weapons factory of his.
So Mingyu deliberately said those words to provoke Mei Qing in order to make Mei Qing take her out of here.
As long as she got out of here, it didn't matter where she went. Su Mingyu was confident that Gu Ruobai would find her.