"What... do you mean?" Mei Qing was a bit confused.
Su Mingyu didn't explain either. She just twitched the corners of her mouth at Mei Qing.
Watching Mei Qing's departing back, Su Mingyu rubbed the space between her eyebrows. Kang Zeyan actually went to look for King Yu, which meant that the spy beside Gu Ruobai was indeed not arranged by King Yu.
In the end, Mei Qing was carried out.
Kang Zeyan looked at the badly - wounded Mei Qing and frowned: "You're really ruthless."
Su Mingyu snorted: "She dared to covet my man. I didn't kill her just because I wanted to torture her slowly."
Then, Su Mingyu bowed to Kang Zeyan: "I can insult Mei Qing like this all thanks to you, Young Master Kang. I'll never forget your kindness."
Hearing the sarcasm in Su Mingyu's words, Kang Zeyan's eyelid twitched: "If you really want to thank me, then tell me all of Gu Ruobai's weaknesses."
"I'm his weakness." Su Mingyu's shameless look made Kang Zeyan's face turn livid.
Su Mingyu squinted and smiled: "You've already caught me, so you've also caught Gu Ruobai's weakness. Now, what are you going to do to him?"
"Are you trying to get information from me?" Kang Zeyan looked at Su Mingyu with a stern look in his eyes: "Do you think too highly of yourself?"
Su Mingyu looked at him in confusion: "I don't understand what you mean, Young Master Kang."
"If you're really that important to Gu Ruobai, why hasn't he shown up since you disappeared?" Kang Zeyan's eyes were full of disdain as he looked at Su Mingyu.
Su Mingyu rolled her eyes at him and pretended to be haughty: "You don't understand. Mei Qing had been with Gu Ruobai for so long. She knew him very well, so she could hide me in a place where Gu Ruobai couldn't find me. It's not that Gu Ruobai didn't look for me. He just couldn't find me."
Seeing Su Mingyu so self - satisfied, Kang Zeyan rolled his eyes: "Let's hope so."
After saying that, he suddenly leaned towards Su Mingyu.
Su Mingyu was startled and took a step back subconsciously.
Kang Zeyan looked at Su Mingyu sideways, and a hint of teasing flashed in his eyes: "So you're also afraid."
Su Mingyu raised her head: "Why can't I be afraid?"
"You're not weak at all. You've almost figured out all the mechanisms in my mansion these days, haven't you?" Kang Zeyan wasn't stupid. Su Mingyu ate here one day, fished there the next day, and enjoyed the flowers in another place the day after. It was obvious that she was observing the mechanisms here.
Su Mingyu never thought she could hide it from Kang Zeyan. As long as Gu Ruobai wasn't exposed, that was fine.
"You said yourself, Young Master Kang, that I could go anywhere in this yard. The subtext is that I could observe the mechanisms at will, right? Why, are you reluctant now?" Su Mingyu looked at Kang Zeyan without a trace of guilt.
"Miss Su is not only well - versed in literature but also has a good eloquence and a thick skin. Such a person is really rare." After saying that, Kang Zeyan reached out and took off Su Mingyu's hairpin.
Su Mingyu's inky black hair instantly cascaded down like a waterfall, making her fair and porcelain - like skin look even more delicate and beautiful.
Her delicate and petite facial features looked even better against the black hair. Kang Zeyan's impatient eyes froze for a moment. It took him a long time to look away: "I've seen you wearing this hairpin all the time. Did Gu Ruobai give it to you?"
Su Mingyu nodded: "Yes. Are you going to use this to threaten Gu Ruobai?"
Kang Zeyan snorted: "You seem quite smart."
Su Mingyu raised her eyebrows but didn't say a word.
Seeing her unhappy look, Kang Zeyan asked suspiciously: "What? Do you want to grab it?"
"I can't grab it from you." Su Mingyu pouted: "But didn't you say that Gu Ruobai doesn't care about me? Will a hairpin be useful?"
"You don't need to worry about that." After saying that, Kang Zeyan turned around and left, leaving behind a helpless - looking Su Mingyu.
After Kang Zeyan left, Gu Ruobai jumped down from the roof beam.
"Is he gone?" Gu Ruobai's face was gloomy: "He actually made advances towards you."
Su Mingyu touched her nose: "He just took something. With your big reaction, people who don't know might think something bad happened to me."
"Kang Zeyan was right about one thing." Gu Ruobai looked down at Su Mingyu.
Su Mingyu tilted her head and looked at Gu Ruobai half - smiling: "Are you jealous? There's no need. He didn't even touch me."
Then Su Mingyu pulled Gu Ruobai to sit down and told him everything that had happened that day.
Gu Ruobai frowned: "We still can't fully trust Mei Qing."
Su Mingyu nodded: "By the way, how's your research on the Five Elements and the Eight Trigrams under this mansion?"
"In the theory of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, there's a saying that for a man's fate, if it's Yang Qian, his fortune will surely be calculated in a forward direction, and if it's Yin Qian, it will be calculated in a reverse direction; for a woman, it's the opposite. In the Parasitic Twelve Palaces, for Yang stems, it's forward - calculated, and for Yin stems, it's reverse - calculated. These also follow the principle of Yang forward and Yin reverse."
As Gu Ruobai was talking, he dipped his finger in water and drew on the table: "Although it seems that Kang Zeyan's Five - Element formation is in a reverse order, it still follows the rules of the Five Elements."
"So I searched in the north of his mansion and found a rockery. There was clearly no one watering it, but there was moss on it and the vegetation was lush. I tapped around and found that the rockery was hollow, and there was a stream of water like a spring under it."
"Similarly." Su Mingyu took over Gu Ruobai's words: "The south belongs to the element of fire, but it's almost surrounded by a lake. However, in the middle of the lake in the South Courtyard, there's a pavilion. The inside of the pavilion is always dry. Although it's in the water, there's not a trace of moss on the pillars."
"Right." Gu Ruobai nodded: "So I also went into the pavilion to check. Then, at the top of the pavilion, I found that the pavilion cap was movable. When it moved, the water flow behind the rockery in the north would stop. Then, I found a chain inside, but due to the time constraint, I haven't had the chance to swim along the chain to see."
"Okay." Su Mingyu nodded: "But don't be in a hurry now. We need to prepare. If the chain is far from the exit, it will be troublesome."
Hearing Su Mingyu's words, Gu Ruobai raised his eyebrows: "Do you have a plan?"
Su Mingyu nodded: "But it's not a very smart one. Anyway, we have to wait a bit longer."
Seeing that Su Mingyu was so insistent, Gu Ruobai could only nod.
Unexpectedly, Gu Ruobai could be so obedient. Su Mingyu curled the corners of her lips: "Mu Yi is quite smart, but the information he brought is not very useful."