The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 1024 - 1024 488 Scheming Jiaojiao (First Update)

Chapter 1024: 488 Scheming Jiaojiao (First Update) Chapter 1024: 488 Scheming Jiaojiao (First Update) Gu Jiao had never expected to encounter Tang Yueshan, who had been missing for many days, here.

So, was Tang Yueshan actually the owner of that room? Was the reason Zhan Country’s remnants and Chen Country’s army failed to find him because he was hiding in these deep mountains and ancient forests?

In just a moment, countless doubts flashed in Gu Jiao’s eyes, including whether Tang Yueshan had recognized her.

Gu Jiao was still wearing the nocturnal clothes from the day before, with a mask on her face. Due to riding hard on her horse, the peacock feathers on the mask had been blown away by the cold wind, leaving only a bare silver mask.

Tang Yueshan stared at the mask for nearly ten seconds, at least that was how long Gu Jiao had counted in her heart.

Gu Jiao’s first reaction was, he has recognized me.

And what she thought next was, it would be better if he hadn’t recognized me.

Indeed, Tang Yueshan had not recognized Gu Jiao as the beloved daughter of the Marquis Residence, treasured by Empress Dowager Zhuang. Instead, he thought of that little assassin who had brazenly broken into the Marshal Residence and left Tang Ming crippled!

Tang Yueshan had never formally crossed hands with that little assassin, but when Gu Jiao appeared before him like this, his first instinct was to think of that night when Tang Ming was tortured!

This was a father’s intuition when encountering a murderer.

Gu Jiao asked herself if she had indeed not had such a close encounter with Tang Yueshan since she took revenge on Tang Ming in the Marshal Residence.

They might have seen each other from a distance, but she was dressed as a woman then, revealing her left face marked with a birthmark. It was difficult to associate her with the assassin from that night, let alone with the fact that she, as the assassin, and Gu Chengfeng, who went to the Marshal Residence to retrieve her, both “died” at the hands of Empress Dowager Zhuang.

With this, Tang Yueshan had even less reason to suspect her.

But a lie is a lie, after all, and it cannot withstand a father’s instinct.

Just by looking into Tang Yueshan’s eyes, Gu Jiao understood he had recognized her as the assassin from that night.

That’s why Gu Jiao said, it would have been better if he hadn’t recognized her. If he recognized her as the daughter of the Marquis Residence, it meant he lacked that intuition towards the murderer.

The atmosphere between the two became stiff all of a sudden.

In that instant, countless thoughts raced through Gu Jiao’s mind, just as Tang Yueshan pondered many things.

He had personally seen Eunuch Qin, Empress Dowager Zhuang’s confidant, take the two assassins into the forest for execution. Afterwards, Eunuch Qin reported back, claiming the assassins had been executed.

He hadn’t inspected the bodies because he trusted Empress Dowager Zhuang. He didn’t believe she would cover for two assassins who had caused trouble at the Marshal Residence.

After all, he was Empress Dowager Zhuang’s trusted minister. Why would she need to protect two mere assassins from him?

But now, this little assassin was alive and well before his eyes!

Aside from the mask, she was exactly the same in every way!

Silhouette, demeanor, eyes, clothing…

Gu Jiao: It’s also fuck my life, just happening to wear nocturnal clothes again…

Tang Yueshan understood everything.

That night, Empress Dowager Zhuang didn’t actually kill those two assassins. She had deliberately instructed Eunuch Qin to take people into the grove for a “execution,” the purpose was simply to make a show for him to see! After all, he didn’t know what they looked like, and they could continue to live openly in this world in the future.

Poor Mingming was so horribly abused, and yet the murderer was still at large in the world!

Why?

Why did the Empress Dowager deceive him?

If this was a deception, then what about all those things the Empress Dowager had told him… how many of them were not deceiving him!

The Empress Dowager said that someone wanted to create a rift between the Marshal Residence and the Marquis Changqing Residence, so they drugged Gu Changqing and Tang Ming separately, resulting in Tang Ming assaulting Gu Yan and also resulting in Gu Changqing seriously injuring Tang Ming.

The Empress Dowager also said that the person behind the scenes was the Quiet Empress and that the Quiet Empress was a remnant of the previous dynasty.

In order not to give satisfaction to friends and foes alike, he spared Gu Changqing, he reconciled with Gu Chao, he led ten thousand troops and a thousand archers to avenge Tang Ming, but what was the outcome?

The liar turned out to be the Empress Dowager!

Before him stood a murderer who was supposedly executed by the Empress Dowager!

Empress Dowager Zhuang indeed had lied to Tang Yueshan, but only about a part. For instance, neither Tang Ming nor Gu Changqing had been drugged; Tang Ming did indeed intend to assault Gu Yan, and Gu Changqing did truly want to cripple Tang Ming in the arena.

But as for the claim about the Quiet Empress being a remnant of the previous dynasty and trying to pit Tang Yueshan against the Marquis Changqing Residence, the Empress Dowager was utterly sincere and had not lied.

But once a person tells a lie, all their words become untrustworthy.

Numerous doubts and fury flashed through Tang Yueshan’s mind. Although he did not personally witness the event of Tang Ming assaulting Gu Yan—he only had the confession of Tang Ming’s servant, what if the servant was bought off by the Empress Dowager?

On the contrary, the facts that Gu Changqing injured Tang Ming on the arena in the Military Camp and this little assassin brutally crippled Tang Ming were truths he had witnessed with his own eyes!

And Empress Dowager Zhuang had protected them!

Empress Dowager Zhuang… she was in collusion with them!

They were all murderers who had harmed Mingming!!!

“Who the hell are you!”

A devastating murderous intent suddenly burst from Tang Yueshan’s eyes!

In his hands, he originally held prey, but now he didn’t care for the prey anymore and coldly threw it away. Then he reached out his hand, aiming straight for Gu Jiao’s throat!

Gu Jiao wouldn’t surrender without a fight. She used a dry branch to block his hand, but to her surprise, this fellow actually had a pair of iron hands, which pierced straight through the dry branch.

Tang Yueshan could become the Grand Marshal of the entire Zhan Country’s military forces not only because of Empress Dowager Zhang’s support and favoritism; he himself possessed considerable martial arts skills. His inner strength was extremely profound, not a bit weaker than the Emperor’s Dragon Shadow Guard.

Gu Jiao had been busy for a whole day and night, her physical strength already overdrawn. How could she withstand his strike?

However, just at this critical moment of life and death, the sound of soldiers talking suddenly came from the woods.

“Boss! There’s a small wooden hut over there!”

“Let’s go! Check it out!”

It was the army of remnants from the former dynasty!

Tang Yueshan, who was also a target of the remnants of the former dynasty, immediately changed his expression, “You’re a remnant of the former dynasty?!”

“I’m not,” Gu Jiao said.

“You’re a girl?!” After hearing Gu Jiao’s female voice, Tang Yueshan was even more astonished than when he saw the army of remnants from the former dynasty.

No wonder he hadn’t encountered much of the world. It was truly unbelievable… How could those torturous methods she used on Tang Ming possibly be the work of a girl?

Could she be so shameless?

Gu Jiao was already unlucky enough to bump into Tang Yueshan while picking up firewood, but now that she saw the former dynasty’s army she had led here, she felt Tang Yueshan was the truly unfortunate one.

He could have hidden quietly in the deep forest, possibly for a year or half.

But now—

Oops, exposed.

Tang Yueshan also realized the crux of the situation, he gritted his teeth and looked at Gu Jiao, “It was you who led the former dynasty’s army here.”

Gu Jiao shook her head like a rattle drum.

It was—we.

One must be precise in speech.

Tang Yueshan was furious!

Where did this girl come from, harming Tang Ming first, and now coming to harm him!

“Don’t kill me, I’ll help you fight them together.”

A twitch flickered at the corner of Tang Yueshan’s mouth. Help? As if you had a choice? You talk as if they would spare you if you just stood by and watched, don’t you know who led the army here?

Could you possibly be any more shameless?

Gu Jiao waved her hand towards the former dynasty’s army that was still searching for their path, “We’re over here!”

Tang Yueshan trembled like a tiger’s body had been struck!

Whiz, whiz, whiz!

A dozen arrows, imbued with murderous intent, shot towards them swiftly. In one second, Gu Jiao darted behind Tang Yueshan!

Tang Yueshan: “…!!”

The opposing force had sent two squads in total, amounting to over fifty soldiers. These soldiers were somewhat more skilled in martial arts than the patrolling soldiers; naturally, they were the elite and strong, given the command by their lord to capture prisoners alive.

The group hadn’t recognized Tang Yueshan at first, but Gu Jiao pointed directly at him, “He is the Grand Marshal Tang you’re looking for.”

And just like that, Tang Yueshan was sold out…

The group swung their swords toward Tang Yueshan with a whoosh!

After all, the order was to capture the little assassins alive, and they didn’t say to spare this Tang Yueshan either.

Tang Yueshan was the Grand Marshal of Zhan Country; his head was of great value. Whoever cut it off, their king would surely give a great reward!

Then Tang Yueshan witnessed a bizarre scene: when the assailants slashed at Gu Jiao, they used only fifty percent of their strength and struck with the flat of their blades, but when it came to him, they aimed to kill…

Tang Yueshan was so angry he twitched violently!

In this minor battle between the two sides, Tang Yueshan was the absolute main force of our side, nearly single-handedly killing forty soldiers of the former dynasty’s remnants.

Gu Jiao was severely slacking off, only taking action formally after Tang Yueshan was nearly spent.

By the time Gu Jiao went to deal with the remaining soldiers, Tang Yueshan, with his chest covered, sat gasping for breath in the snowfield. Watching Gu Jiao’s martial arts, his expression grew increasingly solemn.

The night Gu Jiao went to sneak attack the Marshal Residence, even though he himself hadn’t crossed hands with her, he had seen her chased by the Tang Family’s archers, so he could gauge her weight.

Clearly, in the few months they hadn’t seen each other, this girl had improved her skills by leaps and bounds.

If she wasn’t eliminated now, she would become a major threat to him in the future!

Gu Jiao was in the process of killing the last three soldiers, her back exposed under Tang Yueshan’s watchful eyes.

Just as Gu Jiao was about to finish her last move, Tang Yueshan quietly concentrated his inner strength into his palm and fiercely struck towards Gu Jiao’s back!

However, just as he raised his hand, he felt a tremendous pain in his chest, followed by vomiting a mouthful of black blood, and his vision turned dark. He collapsed in the snowfield.

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