The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 1076 - 1076 521 Finished (second update)

Chapter 1076: 521 Finished (second update) Chapter 1076: 521 Finished (second update) However, just as Gu Jiao was about to sever Huangfu Zheng’s neck with her spear, on the other side, a soldier seized the Medical Officer and placed a knife at his throat.

“Stop, or I’ll kill him!” the soldier yelled.

Gu Jiao turned her head and looked at him coldly. Her killer-like gaze made the soldier shudder. Before the soldier could utter another threat, Gu Jiao’s Red-Tasseled Spear left her hand and whooshed through the soldier’s head!

The Medical Officer felt a scalding wave splashing onto his cheek. He closed his eyes and stiffened, not daring to think whether it was blood or brain matter!

Huangfu Zheng was clearly shocked by the scene before him.

He knew that the person who could kill the Heavenly Wolf was no ordinary person, but he had not expected someone so resolute and ruthless!

When threatened, there wasn’t a trace of hesitation in her. In that moment, Huangfu Zheng’s blood surged with excitement but also apprehension, and above all, a sense of reverence towards a superior.

Huangfu Zheng looked at Gu Jiao in disbelief.

Gu Jiao’s foot was on his chest, and his ribs instantly broke, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood!

He trembled with the intensity of the pain.

Gu Jiao looked down upon him from above, her eyes void of emotion and filled with nothing but cold indifference.

Killing wasn’t scary; what was terrifying was how calm she could be while doing it.

Huangfu Zheng felt a shudder in his soul.

With just a little more force, Gu Jiao could crush his ribs into his lungs.

And at such a life and death moment, Huangfu Zheng still couldn’t help glancing at Princess Ning An.

Princess Ning An turned her face away.

“Ning An,” he managed through the pain.

Princess Ning An’s throat moved slightly, indicating she might not have heard him, or at least, she didn’t turn to look at him.

Huangfu Zheng suddenly laughed: “My uncle has no sons. He once said that if he ascended the throne, he would make me the Crown Prince. At that time, I thought if I became the Crown Prince, you would be my Empress.”

“Ning An, what’s so bad about being Empress? Why don’t you want it?”

“They killed your mother, they are your enemies, but you’d rather return to them than be my Empress.”

“Ning An.”

“Are you done talking?” Gu Jiao said blandly.

Huangfu Zheng coughed out another mouthful of blood, pulled his gaze from Princess Ning An, and looked at Gu Jiao with mockery: “Do you really think that by killing me, you can leave? Do you know how much thought I put into building this secret passage? If I don’t want you to leave, none of you will!”

“Including the Princess?” Gu Jiao asked.

Huangfu Zheng then discerned that she was a girl, although, at that moment, his attention was not on the timbre of Gu Jiao’s voice. He replied, “Yes, including her.”

Gu Jiao continued, “You’re about to die, yet you don’t let her leave. Is this your way of treating her well?”

Huangfu Zheng gritted his teeth: “As long as you give me the medicine, I don’t have to die, and Ning An won’t lose a husband.”

“Oh, so it’s my fault?” Gu Jiao tilted her head indifferently, looking at him, “The epidemic, it was brought by you all.”

With one sentence, she completely crushed Huangfu Zheng’s confidence.

At the end of the day, it’s harming others but eventually harming oneself.

Huangfu Zheng, severely wounded and in agony, regretted to the core and spat out another mouthful of blood.

“Let him die on his own!” Princess Ning An suddenly turned around, her voice trembling uncontrollably, “After all, he’s contracted the epidemic and he won’t survive anyway.”

Huangfu Zheng’s eyes brightened when he heard Ning An pleading for him!

However, the next second, he heard Princess Ning An say: “Once we cross the bridge, cut it down.”

This was the only secret passage. If the bridge were cut, there would be no way out.

Huangfu Zheng’s expression froze: “Ning An, why are you forcing me?”

“Miss Gu, let’s go!” Princess Ning An left the cave without turning back.

Gu Jiao walked over and pulled out her Red-Tasseled Spear.

Huangfu Zheng watched as Princess Ning An resolutely walked away: “I told you, you won’t escape! This secret passage… only I can leave it! Don’t believe me? Just try and see!”

Princess Ning An had already stepped onto Suo Bridge.

Upon hearing his words, she paused for a moment but didn’t take them seriously and continued walking forward.

Something unbelievable happened.

The moment Suo Bridge swayed, the opposite cliff wall suddenly shook as if something was splitting open from within, and then a stone door appeared.

With a thunderous boom, the stone door opened, and out stepped a death soldier filled with a murderous aura.

The man’s stature was as tall and burly as the Heavenly Wolf, and his aura was almost indistinguishable from that of the Heavenly Wolf himself.