The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 1024

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. _{freёwebnoѵel.com}

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!