Gu Ruobai nodded almost without thinking. "Yes!"
Since Gu Ruobai had already agreed, Su Mingyu didn't feel it appropriate to decline any further. She pursed her lips. "Then let's go."
When Su Mingyu and Gu Ruobai appeared in front of Mei Qing and Mu Yi again, Mei Qing's attitude was obviously less irritable than before. She raised an eyebrow and looked at Su Mingyu. "Have you decided whether to kill me or torture me?"
Su Mingyu walked up to her, looking down at Mei Qing with drooping eyes. "Do you want to live?"
"If the price is to betray the person behind me." Mei Qing looked at Su Mingyu and snorted. "Don't think I don't know what you're up to. I'll never take you to see the person behind me."
Su Mingyu nodded. "I guessed as much."
As she said this, she gave Gu Ruobai a look. Gu Ruobai immediately understood and sealed Mei Qing's acupoints. Then he pried open her mouth and stuffed a pill into it.
Gu Ruobai looked at Mei Qing and said coldly, "This is an iron chestnut seed. You should know that its effect is not just to make you suffer."
"An iron chestnut seed?" Mei Qing was shocked, then sneered. "You actually use this on me. This is what our Dark Department uses to control people's minds."
Gu Ruobai stared at her with cold eyes. "Compared to the poison you gave Mingyu, this is nothing."
"It's really nothing." Mei Qing let out a bitter laugh. "It will just make me more and more obedient to you until I finally become a puppet."
Su Mingyu raised an eyebrow. She didn't expect Gu Ruobai to use such a cruel poison.
But Su Mingyu wasn't so naive as to try to stop Gu Ruobai. So she just calmly asked, "Take me to see that person?"
Mei Qing gritted her teeth. "I won't!"
Su Mingyu looked at Mei Qing with a half - smile, then asked again, "Are you sure?"
Mei Qing nodded firmly. "Kill me if you want."
Su Mingyu let out a long breath. "You've clearly betrayed Gu Ruobai who has trained you for so many years, but now you're so loyal to this person?"
As she said this, Su Mingyu waved to Mu Yi.
Mu Yi lowered his head and walked up to Su Mingyu. Su Mingyu kicked him, and Mu Yi knelt straight on the ground.
Watching Mu Yi kneel down, Su Mingyu stepped on Mu Yi's shoulder, then drew a knife and put it against Mu Yi's neck. She looked coldly at Mei Qing. "You don't have to take us there, but Mu Yi might not survive."
"How could you do this to Mu Yi! He's done so many things for you! How could you be so heartless?" Mei Qing looked at Su Mingyu, her eyes full of anger.
Su Mingyu raised an eyebrow and looked at her. "Angry? Furious? Wish you could tear me apart?"
Although Mei Qing didn't say a word, her eyes said it all.
Su Mingyu curled her lips. "It's right to hate me, Mei Qing. You'll remember for the rest of your life that Mu Yi was killed by me because of your stupidity."
As she said this, Su Mingyu pressed harder on the knife, and a bloodstain appeared on Mu Yi's neck.
Mei Qing watched Mu Yi with his eyes closed. She gritted her teeth. "I'll tell you whatever you want to know!"
Su Mingyu patted Mu Yi's shoulder. "Okay, you can go."
Then she walked up to Mei Qing and snorted. "Then take us there."
Mei Qing gritted her teeth, her face ashen. "Su Mingyu! You're really heartless. Mu Yi has served you like a beast of burden, and you still do this to him."
Su Mingyu shrugged, not caring. "Yes, it's all thanks to me, this heartless Su Mingyu, that Mu Yi was able to live to see you again. Mei Qing, you should know better than anyone that Gu Ruobai has never been soft on traitors. Mu Yi let you go but wasn't punished. It was already Gu Ruobai showing mercy."
Hearing what Su Mingyu said, Mei Qing turned to look at Gu Ruobai. Gu Ruobai's face was still as cold and calm as ever. Mei Qing twitched the corner of her mouth. "So you guys knew all along that it was Mu Yi who let me go that day."
Su Mingyu shrugged. "Okay, stop talking nonsense. Hurry up and take us there."
Since things had come to this, Mei Qing had nothing more to say. She stood up. "I've never actually seen the true face of that person. But he's very cautious. So since we've been delayed here for so long, he will surely get suspicious."
Hearing this, Su Mingyu raised her hand and made a cut on Mei Qing's arm. Mei Qing frowned in pain. "You really make full use of me."
"This is just a little interest. I still remember all the whippings you gave me." Su Mingyu raised an eyebrow at Mei Qing, then got into the carriage.
Seeing Su Mingyu get in, Gu Ruobai also got in. "Mu Yi, call the Dark Guards and follow us from a distance."
The mark on Mu Yi's neck looked quite scary, but the wound wasn't that deep. So after hearing the order, he gave Mei Qing a disappointed look before turning to leave.
Mei Qing could bear Gu Ruobai's cold looks, but she couldn't stand Mu Yi looking at her like this.
Mei Qing's eyes turned red. "Mu Yi... I'm sorry."
Mu Yi just looked at her without saying a word, but the alienation in his eyes was obvious.
Mei Qing felt a pang in her heart. She knew that Mu Yi had helped her again and again because he believed she wouldn't do anything dangerous to Gu Ruobai. Now she had not only kidnapped Su Mingyu but also poisoned her.
In Mu Yi's heart, she was already a traitor.
He had exhausted Gu Ruobai's trust in him, only to be betrayed by her. This must be very painful for Mu Yi.
Mei Qing was full of guilt, but she couldn't say a word under Mu Yi's gaze. So she could only look at Mu Yi hesitantly, pursing her lips, her face full of apology.
Mu Yi looked at Mei Qing. After a long time, he finally said his first words today. "It doesn't matter. Your choice just now settles our score. Mei Qing, don't ever appear in front of me again. Don't call my name. You're not worthy."
After saying this, Mu Yi tapped his toe and his elegant figure disappeared into the thick bushes.
Mei Qing bowed deeply in the direction where Mu Yi left. "I'm sorry..."
When Mei Qing got into the carriage again, her eyes were still very red.
Su Mingyu glanced at her but didn't say a word. She just leaned quietly on Gu Ruobai's shoulder, who was in disguise, and closed her eyes.
The carriage jolted all the way. It finally stopped after about half an hour.
Su Mingyu looked at the scenery outside and was a little surprised.
Outside was a not - so - small pond. The lotus leaves in the pond had withered to brown. In the middle of the pond was a magnificent building. The red walls and green tiles made it look extremely imposing no matter how you looked at it.