The Prime Minister’s Darling - Chapter 665

Chapter 665: 314 Overbearing Jiaojiao! (First update)_3 Chapter 665: 314 Overbearing Jiaojiao! (First update)_3 Prince Rui angrily scolded, “Those people are really outrageous. They dared to commit murder under the Emperor’s own feet and scared Miss.”

Prince Rui clearly thought that the assassins were after his wife. After all, Gu Jiao was just a little healer, who would have a problem with her?

“Excuse me.” Gu Jiao turned to leave.

“Miss Gu, please wait.” Prince Rui called after Gu Jiao.

“Do you need anything?” Gu Jiao looked at him.

Prince Rui didn’t behave like a prince. This was due to his upbringing as well as his own demeanor. He gave Gu Jiao a sincere look, “Thank you, Miss Gu.”

For a prince of a country to thank a healer was indeed admirable.

“Don’t worry about today’s affairs,” Gu Jiao responded. Maybe the repercussions fell on Princess Rui through her.

Prince Rui gave a sorrowful smile, “Even without today’s incident, I wanted to thank Miss Gu. Qianqian is very outspoken and tends to offend people. She doesn’t have many friends and is actually quite lonely in the residence. Miss Gu, you are her most precious friend. I hope you can visit us often when you’re free.”

A friend?

The word was unfamiliar to her.

Just as she once had no family, she also didn’t really have friends.

“Okay,” Gu Jiao agreed.

Prince Rui laughed happily at her response.

Prince Rui’s carriage was ready to take Gu Jiao home.

Gu Jiao went to the Medical Hall.

She had a small injury on her hand. There were pieces of wood and grit embedded in her flesh that needed to be cleaned out.

Just as she was getting off the carriage, she ran into Liu Yisheng who had come to the Medical Hall to buy medicine.

Liu Yisheng had come to buy medicine for Anu, who had a cough.

He noticed Gu Jiao’s injured hand at once and asked, “What happened to your hand?”

Gu Jiao replied, “Just a minor injury, nothing serious.”

“Just now, I saw guards from Jingzhao Residence being dispatched. They said there was an attempted assassination in the suburb, and the complaint was lodged by Prince Rui,” said Liu Yisheng.

There was no surprise in Gu Jiao’s eyes.

Liu Yisheng looked at her intently, “Did you know? Were you… also there?”

“Mmm,” Gu Jiao responded briefly and didn’t elaborate further. She headed back to the Courtyard to apply medicine to her wound.

Looking at her retreating figure, Liu Yisheng frowned.

At night.

Yuan Tang sneaked into Liu Yisheng’s Courtyard, and while watching him weave a bamboo basket, joked, “It’s so late, cousin, did you miss me?”

“Did you do it?” Liu Yisheng blurted out.

“What have I done?” Yuan Tang was confused.

Liu Yisheng stared at him hard, his gaze sharp, “Don’t play dumb.”

Yuan Tang knits his brow, “I really don’t understand what you’re talking about.”

Liu Yisheng’s cold gaze fell on Yuan Tang’s waist, “Where’s the tassel on your jade pendant?”

Yuan Tang coughed lightly and said, “It broke off. I kept it separately.”

Liu Yisheng remarked casually, “Did it break while you were doing something bad and someone else picked it up?”

“Who did something bad… wait a minute, wait a minute!” Yuan Tang suddenly realized something and his eyes widened, “Did that girl come to you? Did she ask you about the tassel? I knew there was something off when she suddenly accused me! Cousin, how could you betray me!”

Liu Yisheng didn’t mention that he hadn’t betrayed him and that everything was Gu Jiao’s own speculation. Moreover, Yuan Tang hadn’t given him a heads up, telling him not to casually reveal his tassel.

He coldly stared at Yuan Tang, “If you don’t want others to know, you shouldn’t do it.”

Yuan Tang clutched his heart, “I’m hurt, my heart’s hurt.”

Liu Yisheng was far from sympathetic, “So you wanted to kill her to silence her because she discovered your misdeeds?”

He didn’t ask Yuan Tang what he’d done exactly, but it wasn’t difficult to guess that it was related to the Emperor’s assassination attempt a few days ago.

Yuan Tang was totally clueless, “What do you mean? Did something happen to that girl?”

Liu Yisheng spoke sternly, “I told you, stop acting in front of me.”

Yuan Tang felt completely wronged, “I didn’t! I swear, she is someone important to you, cousin, how could I harm her?”

Liu Yisheng knit his brows, looked down and continued weaving his basket, “My relationship with her is not what you think it is.”

Yuan Tang laughed, “Okay, okay, whatever you say, cousin.”

Liu Yisheng looked at him again, “So it really wasn’t you?”

Yuan Tang raised two fingers, “I swear to God, it wasn’t me! I would never hurt her!”

Liu Yisheng stated seriously, “You better remember what you’ve said today.”

Yuan Tang sighed, looking towards the sky, “I’ll remember, it’s a promise to you, cousin. But when will you ever take me seriously?”

Liu Yisheng threw him a glance: “Are you short of people who care about you?”

Yuan Tang: “…I’m not.”

His mother is the favourite in the Imperial Harem and has only him as her son. She loves him dearly, and the king respects him. The position of Chen’s queen has been vacant for many years, waiting for his triumphant return after completing his mission. Then, the king will appoint him as the crown prince and his mother as the queen.

It can be said that he has everything a prince can have.

“But they’re not my cousin.” Yuan Tang sighed, “Why can’t my cousin just treat me a little better?”

…

Gu Jiao quickly took care of her hand injury, which she dismissed as a minor scratch, and went about her usual tasks when she got home as if nothing had happened.

But there was someone who noticed that something was off with her.

As soon as she carried the clothes folded by Yu Yaya into the room, Xiao Liulang followed her in.

He rarely took the initiative to enter her room, let alone stand at her doorstep like he was doing now.

Gu Jiao turned her head and blinked at him: “What’s the matter?”

Xiao Liulang didn’t answer, but instead took a step forward and closed the door behind him.

Seeing his actions of entering her room in broad daylight and then closing the door, her eyes instantly sparkled at the thought that he might be up to some mischief!

From the look in her eyes, Xiao Liulang knew that she’d misunderstood, he was taken aback for a moment, and then opened the door slightly, leaving a crack.

“Oh.”

Gu Jiao was disappointed.

Xiao Liulang: “…”

Gu Jiao sat at the head of the bed, burying her head to fiddle with her clothes.

Xiao Liulang came to her side.

“What happened to your hand?” he asked.

“It’s nothing.” Gu Jiao replied.

She had this habit of pretending to moan and groan asking him to look at her or massage her when there’s nothing wrong, but when she really was injured, she would try to hide it.

This time, Xiao Liulang didn’t let her brush him off easily. He firmly took hold of her wrist, an action that came with an undeniable dominance and warmth unique to him.

Her icy wrist instantly turned hot.

Gu Jiao turned to stare at him, her eyes wide with surprise.

Xiao Liulang sat next to her, turned her hand over, and carefully opened her fingers to reveal her palm full of wounds.

These wounds weren’t treated very diligently.

“You treat other people’s wounds so well, why are you so …” Xiao Liulang was so furious he didn’t know how to continue.

A healer shouldn’t treat her own wounds with such negligence.

Gu Jiao said: “It’s fine, no need for treatment.”

“Where’s the medicine?” Xiao Liulang asked sternly.

Gu Jiao glanced towards the small first aid kit on the table.

It’s there, go get it yourself if you can.

See if you can open it!

Xiao Liulang reached out for it and popped it open with a snap.

Gu Jiao: “…?!”

Okay, she forgot to lock it just now.

“Which one is the wound healing medicine?” Xiao Liulang asked, bewildered.

“It’s…” As Gu Jiao was speaking, she swept her eyes over the contents and almost popped her eyes out of surprise!

Where’s her disinfectant? Where’s her antibacterial ointment? How come they’ve all turned into … they’ve all turned into …

Unbelieving, she grabbed the first aid kit and dumped its contents on the bed, revealing a pile of Little Dudus!

Super Thin Mirage, Classic Zero Feel, Moisture 3-in-1 …

Gu Jiao: “???”

Gu Jiao: “!!!”

What on earth happened to the first aid kit? Where’s her medicine? Where is it? Where is it!

“Is this the medicine?” Xiao Liulang, who was accustomed to her using medicines he had never seen before, asked as he picked up one and tore it open.

Gu Jiao felt as if a string in her head had snapped…

Xiao Liulang made a curious sound: “It’s so slippery.”

Stop talking, there’s a visual in her head now!!!