Gu Ruobai let out a soft hum. "Are you feeling better?"
Su Mingyu nodded weakly. "Yes. You go out first. Otherwise, Kang Zeyan will come to gloat over me soon."
Although Gu Ruobai was very reluctant, he still nodded and left the room.
Sure enough, not long after, Kang Zeyan pushed open the door and walked in.
Kang Zeyan saw Su Mingyu's pale face at a glance. With a gloomy look on his face, he asked, "How are you? Did you sleep well last night?"
Su Mingyu forced a smile at him. "Thank you for your concern, Young Master Kang. I'm naturally fine."
Kang Zeyan sneered. "You probably don't know how awful your face looks, do you?"
"I won't trouble you to worry about it." As Su Mingyu said, she propped herself up and sat up. Staring at Kang Zeyan without blinking, she said, "Young Master Kang, I'm going to change my clothes. It might be inconvenient for you to stay here, right?"
Seeing Su Mingyu's calm look, Kang Zeyan snorted coldly. "I'd like to see how long you can hold on."
Without even looking at him, Su Mingyu simply started to take off her clothes.
Unexpectedly, Su Mingyu dared to undress in front of him. Kang Zeyan turned his face away. "Don't you have any reserve that a woman should have?"
Su Mingyu grinned weakly. "I'm already married. What reserve do I need?"
Then Su Mingyu continued to undress. Seeing that Su Mingyu was so unyielding, Kang Zeyan couldn't bear it any longer. He turned around and left the room.
Hearing the sound of the door closing, Su Mingyu let out a long sigh. Then she slumped on the bed, her pale face covered with sweat.
After lying in bed and resting for a while, Su Mingyu put on her clothes again. Then she called the maid. "I'll have breakfast in the southern courtyard today."
The maid nodded. "I'll go and arrange it right away."
When Su Mingyu arrived at the southern courtyard, Kang Zeyan was already sitting there.
He glanced at Su Mingyu obliquely. "Miss Su still has the mood to have breakfast?"
Su Mingyu lowered her eyes and looked at him. She showed a weak but firm smile. "Young Master Kang has the mind to eat and sleep after worrying all night. Why can't I?"
Then Su Mingyu gracefully sat down opposite Kang Zeyan. Then she naturally picked up her bowl and started to eat.
Kang Zeyan just couldn't stand her calm personality. He got up and turned away.
Su Mingyu clicked her tongue. "He doesn't even have this much self - control?"
Then she turned to the maid beside her. "Alright, you can go down first."
After everyone left, Su Mingyu put down the bowls and chopsticks. She squatted on the ground and carefully studied the bricks in the center of the courtyard.
Those bricks looked the same, but after careful observation, Su Mingyu still noticed a little clue.
The edge of a brick in the center was obviously cleaner than the others.
Su Mingyu knocked on it with her hand. Sure enough, it was hollow.
The position of this brick was different from that in the northern courtyard. It seemed to be an array arranged according to the Five - Element and Eight - Trigram theory?
What should she do? Although Su Mingyu was proficient in mechanisms, she knew very little about the Five - Element and Eight - Trigram theory.
Just as she was thinking, Su Mingyu suddenly heard footsteps in the distance. She quickly looked up. It was Gu Ruobai.
She let out a puff of air. "What are you doing here? Did I call you?"
Gu Ruobai lowered his head. "I've sent away the people around. Why did you suddenly come here for breakfast?"
Looking around, there were no extra people. Su Mingyu told Gu Ruobai what she had discovered. "Do you still remember the mechanism diagram I drew for you?"
Combining what Su Mingyu said now with the previous diagram, Gu Ruobai immediately guessed. "This is an array arranged according to the positions of the Eight Trigrams."
"The south belongs to fire, but there is water both below and around here." Gu Ruobai frowned. "The north is Kan, and Kan represents water. But the northern courtyard is very dry. There is only a lake below, and there is no water around. How on earth did Kang Zeyan arrange this courtyard?"
Couldn't even Gu Ruobai, an experienced person in arranging troops and formations, see anything?
Su Mingyu propped her chin with her hand and thought for a long time, but she didn't come up with a good idea. She could only sigh. "By the way, both you and I have been locked up here for two or three days. Has there been any change outside?"
"My people can't get in at all. So my information is very limited now." Gu Ruobai said with a rather ugly look on his face.
Su Mingyu knew that he must have thought that she was a burden to him again. So she quickly comforted him. "I have a way."
Then she leaned close to Gu Ruobai's ear and whispered something.
Gu Ruobai frowned. "Are you sure? This is very risky."
Su Mingyu shrugged. "Do you have a better way now?"
Gu Ruobai pursed his lips. Finally, he nodded and agreed. "I understand."
Seeing that he compromised so quickly, Su Mingyu patted him on the shoulder. "Now, I'll give you a very glorious and arduous task. Go and figure out this Five - Element array. My intuition tells me that if we can figure out the order of the Five - Element arrangement, we can find a way to get out."
"Yes, Your Royal Highness!" Gu Ruobai nodded. He pinched Su Mingyu's nose tip before turning around and leaving.
Not long after Gu Ruobai left, Su Mingyu tidied up her clothes. Then she walked straight into Kang Zeyan's study.
Seeing her come, Kang Zeyan immediately put away the letter paper in his hand.
"Miss Su, do you want to see me?"
Su Mingyu nodded. "I have a grudge in my heart. If I don't let it out, I might feel suffocated. When I feel suffocated, I tend to do some irrational things, like burning the house or not eating..."
Before Su Mingyu could finish speaking, Kang Zeyan stopped her. "Alright, alright. What on earth do you want to say?"
Su Mingyu squinted her eyes. "I just like to talk to straightforward people."
Then Su Mingyu leaned in front of Kang Zeyan. "I'm already in your hands and under your control. So Mei Qing is useless to you now, right? I want Mei Qing."
"You just ask for it and I should give it to you?" There was a hint of mockery in Kang Zeyan's tone. "Mei Qing is one of our people now. Considering your feud with her, can she still be alive if she falls into your hands?"
"You underestimate me too much." As Su Mingyu said, she plopped down on the stool opposite Kang Zeyan. Then she casually crossed her legs. "Although I hate Mei Qing, she was once Gu Ruobai's subordinate. Moreover, she is the person that Mu Yi, Gu Ruobai's capable subordinate, likes. Even for Gu Ruobai's sake, I won't kill her."
"Mu Yi likes her?" A look of real surprise flashed across Kang Zeyan's eyes.
Su Mingyu quickly added fuel to the fire. "Haven't you ever heard Mei Qing say how she escaped from Gu Ruobai's subordinates?"