The next second, a soft and boneless hand was placed under hers. Clearly, the maidservant wanted Su Mingyu to rest her hand on it.
Su Mingyu wasn't being coy. She readily placed her hand on it and followed the maidservant. Soon, she felt a wooden object blocking her way.
Sure enough, the next second, Kang Zeyan's displeased voice rang out, "We'll go there by carriage."
Su Mingyu nodded. "Can I take off the ribbon after I get in the carriage?"
Su Mingyu really found this thing a bit uncomfortable.
But the other person refused without a second thought. "No!"
After saying that, a pair of big hands grabbed her and tossed her into the carriage.
Feeling the soft cushions of the carriage, she could tell they were of good quality. Since she couldn't see anyway, Su Mingyu started to doze off.
When she woke up again, she could clearly feel that the air seemed a bit damper. So she subconsciously asked, "Are we almost there?"
"Are your eyes really covered? Or do you have an abnormally sensitive sense of smell and hearing?" Kang Zeyan had clearly seen Su Mingyu sleeping just now. How did she know they were almost there as soon as she opened her eyes?
Even without looking at Kang Zeyan's face, Su Mingyu could imagine his expression at the moment. She curled her lips. "Maybe I have a third eye. So, can you take off the thing on my eyes now?"
Making up such a lie about a third eye, Kang Zeyan disdainfully clicked his tongue but still reached out to remove the ribbon from Su Mingyu's eyes.
After Su Mingyu got used to the dim light inside the carriage, she pointed at the carriage curtain. "Can I open it and take a look?"
Although Kang Zeyan didn't look happy, he still nodded. "Look. We're already here anyway."
Only then did Su Mingyu lift the carriage curtain. There were many people by the lake outside, looking very lively.
Su Mingyu looked far away and finally found a boat on the lake that clearly cost a fortune.
"Is that the boat Gu Ruobai will take today?" Su Mingyu called out to Kang Zeyan.
Kang Zeyan replied impatiently with a grunt. "But we'll wait a while before getting off. Otherwise, we'll miss the good show."
Su Mingyu nodded obediently. "Since you brought me here, of course it's up to you."
Kang Zeyan seemed surprised that Su Mingyu was so obedient. He was stunned for a moment. "What are you up to again?"
"I'm not up to anything!" Su Mingyu pouted. "I just want to show my sincerity."
"Do you think I'll believe your nonsense?" Kang Zeyan had learned a lot about Su Mingyu these days.
This woman could be extremely focused when she was serious. But when she didn't want you to know what she was thinking, her glib talk was really hard to handle.
"Fine, don't believe me then." Su Mingyu didn't indulge him. She just rolled her eyes.
Seeing that she really wasn't going to cause any trouble, Kang Zeyan's expression softened a bit. "Although I know you're not a stupid person, I still have to tell you that there are basically our people around this riverside. If you have any thoughts of running away, don't even think about it."
Su Mingyu didn't plan to leave anyway. The mastermind behind Kang Zeyan hadn't been caught yet. How could she leave?
So Su Mingyu nodded readily. But then she turned to Kang Zeyan. "If what you said is true and I see Gu Ruobai having an affair with someone else, I definitely won't want this man. Gu Ruobai also knows that I won't want to live with him anymore. Then what's the point of keeping me here?"
"I have my own uses." Kang Zeyan was too lazy to talk to Su Mingyu. Instead, he focused his gaze in the distance.
A carriage that looked simple and plain but was made of very fine materials slowly stopped by the lake. Almost as soon as the carriage stopped, several people on the lakeside went to greet the passenger.
Although there was no ostentation, this undisguised way somehow seemed rather arrogant.
"I remember that the Prince Ruixian is known for being low - key, but recently he seems a bit too showy?" Kang Zeyan looked at Su Mingyu sideways, with obvious probing in his eyes.
Su Mingyu pouted. "You can never really know a person. It's true that he was very low - key when I was with him. But I've been away from him for so long. How would I know his current personality has changed like this?"
The perfunctory in Su Mingyu's words was very obvious.
Kang Zeyan looked at her and slightly curled his lips. "Really? Let's go and take a look later and we'll know."
Su Mingyu also nodded. "Yes. Let's go and take a look and we'll know."
After waiting for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, listening to the music and drums outside, Su Mingyu tapped her finger. "We've waited for quite a while. Can we get out now?"
"Of course." As Kang Zeyan said this, he took out a medicine bottle and handed it to Su Mingyu. "Although you promised me not to wander around, just to be on the safe side, you have to take this."
Su Mingyu nodded. "Poison?"
Kang Zeyan snorted. "Aren't you not even afraid of Qingming? Why are you afraid to take this now?"
"I should at least know what kind of poison you're giving me, right?" Su Mingyu pouted. Although she said so, she still took the medicine bottle, opened it, and took a pill.
After swallowing it, Su Mingyu looked at Kang Zeyan. "Now can you tell me what's in this bottle?"
"A medicine to suppress your inner strength." Kang Zeyan said in a deep voice. "I know you're very skilled. To prevent you from causing me any headaches during the chaos, this is necessary."
Su Mingyu nodded in understanding. "Okay. Can we get off now?"
Kang Zeyan got out of the carriage first and then spread out his hand. "After you, Miss Su."
Su Mingyu naturally placed her hand on Kang Zeyan's and got out of the carriage.
By the bustling lake, Gu Ruobai's boat was the most eye - catching and lively.
Su Mingyu had a veil on her face. As soon as she and Kang Zeyan appeared on the boat's deck, there was a stir.
Although Kang Zeyan only showed half of his face, his stunning looks still amazed everyone. Although Su Mingyu was wearing a veil, her graceful figure and overall aura clearly showed that she wasn't an ugly woman.
Kang Zeyan didn't go directly to find Gu Ruobai. Instead, he took Su Mingyu to the second floor to overlook the excitement on the first floor from a high place.
There were indeed several women sitting beside the fake Gu Ruobai, but they all behaved very properly. At most, they just poured water for him. There didn't seem to be anything else.