The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 1499

Chapter 1499: 731 Second Watch

Wang Xu was completely floored.

He lay there dazed on the cool floor, staring straight up at the roof beams as if he had been struck by lightning a hundred thousand times.

Gu Jiao stood up with a bowl in her hands, gestured with her lips to Gu Chengfeng, and said indifferently, "Untie him, he’s one of us now."

Gu Chengfeng was utterly confused. That was it?

No, with so many people here, why order only me around?

Hmph, at least you know I am the most reliable!

Gu Chengfeng, bearing the mark of a rolling pin, strided over confidently and untied the ropes binding Wang Xu.

How could Wang Xu fail to recognize that this was the "commoner woman" who had trailed him all the way in the Avenue?

With an Adam’s apple... It was a man.

Wang Xu was filled with confusion.

Who were all these people appearing beside His Highness Changsun?

One was a terrifying expert who could knock him down with just a rolling pin, another was a master of lightness skill who had dressed in disguise and driven him to a desperate escape, and then there was Xiao Liulang, whom he did recognize as the doctor summoned by the sovereign for the deposed Princess.

It was he who had brought Xiao Liulang from the Imperial Palace Gate into the palace.

"No, why were you following me just now?" Wang Xu asked Gu Chengfeng.

Since the girl had said he was one of them, Gu Chengfeng had no intention of continuing his disguise as a woman.

His eyes flickered, and in his own male voice he said, "I wasn’t following you. I was following the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince met with the old Master of the Han Family, and I trailed him wanting to see what trick he was playing next, but then you showed up. Isn’t it suspicious for you to meet secretly with the old Master Han?"

Indeed, a man, Wang Xu thought.

Wang Xu considered the likelihood of this explanation for a moment.

The discord between the Crown Prince and the deposed Princess was indeed not a recent development; it dated back to when the Princess was deposed and the Crown Prince became the heir apparent. Anyone would think that the Crown Prince had taken away what rightfully belonged to the Princess.

More recently, there had been an altercation in the Imperial Harem between the Crown Prince and the deposed Princess, and the Crown Prince’s guards had even injured the deposed Princess.

Now that the deposed Princess had been persecuted once again, it made sense for His Highness Changsun to be the first to suspect the Crown Prince and have someone watch him.

After freeing him from his bindings, Gu Chengfeng stood up and extended a hand to Wang Xu.

Wang Xu took Gu Chengfeng’s hand and stood up.

"Hiss—"