The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 1016

Chapter 1016: 483 Success (first update)_2

Gu Jiao didn’t utter a word, didn’t even lift her eyelids, as if such an act wasn’t out of the ordinary or of any concern.

This silently relieved Gu Chengfeng.

After that, he unconsciously did a few similar things, and she always accepted them indifferently, and if he didn’t do them, she wouldn’t ask why not.

Gu Chengfeng felt that this girl wasn’t too difficult to get along with.

Or to put it more precisely, she was very easy to get along with.

Even Gu Jinyu of the Gu Family wasn’t this easy to get along with, Jinyu was too fragile, needing constant care, or else she would be sad, she would cry.

Gu Jiao wasn’t like that, she only made others cry.

After dinner, Gu Chengfeng said to Gu Jiao, "I’m going to Ye City tomorrow to save my grandfather, what are your plans?"

The remnants of the fallen dynasty were stationed in the midst of Ye City, and his grandfather and Princess Ning An had been captured and taken there too.

Ye City, being the most heavily guarded among the three cities, wasn’t just occupied by remnants of the former dynasty but also by the vast army of the Chen state, making it easy to defend but hard to attack. He wanted to rescue his grandfather by himself, yet the prospects of success were incredibly slim.

But he had no choice, as it was his grandfather, and even if Ye City were a mountain of blades or a sea of flames, he had to make the attempt.

Suddenly, Gu Chengfeng remembered the purpose of Gu Jiao’s journey to the borderlands and asked her, "You said your brother was also captured; he’s not in Ye City, is he?"

"Not there," Gu Jiao replied.

Gu Chengfeng visibly relaxed, "It’s good he’s not in Ye City. The situation there is the most complex. Don’t act recklessly on your own, wait for me to rescue my grandfather from Ye City, then I’ll go with you to save your brother."

Gu Jiao drank a mouthful of sandy water and said leisurely, "Alright."

Princess Ning An and the old marquis had long been secretly relocated and were no longer inside Ye City at that time; Ye City was nothing but an empty trap awaiting Gu Chengfeng’s doomed effort.

After Gu Chengfeng returned to his room, Gu Jiao also lay down to rest.

In the middle of the night, she heard a very slight noise coming from the roof, her ears twitched, and she coldly opened her eyes.

In that dream, Gu Chengfeng was staying at an inn, and on the first night, he was drugged, resulting in the loss of his power during the rescue mission in Ye City the next day, and he fell into the enemy’s trap.

It seemed the defenses of the Governor’s Mansion were ineffective, and the expected visitors had still arrived.

Three of them in total.

Gu Jiao looked towards the roof, lifted the blanket, and sat up, she heard them go next door, and she waited for them to come to her side to meet their end after coming out, but they just directly left!

Wait a minute.

She and Gu Chengfeng had come together; weren’t they going to drug her as well?

Or was it that they had only ever been after Gu Chengfeng from the start?

That wasn’t right.

Gu Chengfeng and the old marquis were decapitated, Gu Changqing’s legs were severed, and the Gu Family’s troops were annihilated... This wasn’t targeting Gu Chengfeng, it was targeting the Gu Family members and their troops.

She’d hidden her identity, not revealing the fact that she was a young lady of the Gu Family, so the enemy had excluded her from their plans.

Gu Jiao’s eyes grew colder, she pushed open her room door and walked out to Gu Chengfeng’s room, kicked open the door, entered, and snuffed out the incense on the windowsill.

Gu Chengfeng woke with a start from the loud noise, sitting up with a dagger in hand: "Who is it!"

He looked towards Gu Jiao, his forehead furrowed, "You?"

"Gone," Gu Jiao said flatly.

"Doing what?" Gu Chengfeng asked.

Gu Jiao tossed the extinguished incense from the windowsill out the window, "Weren’t we going to save someone?"

Gu Chengfeng followed her movements and looked, "What did you just throw away?"

Gu Jiao took out a handkerchief and wiped her hands, "Incense."

Gu Chengfeng frowned, "You drugged me with incense?"

Gu Jiao stated coolly, "Yeah, I was thinking of killing you."