The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 39

Chapter 39: Ritual Wine

Editor: Atlas Studios

Perhaps it was the piercing power of her gaze that penetrated through the crowd, striking the pickpocket’s eyes like a blade.

The pickpocket instinctively sensed danger and scrambled up to run!

Oh… No one had ever escaped from Gu Jiao before!

Gu Jiao chased him into a side alley.

The pickpocket summoned all his strength, but Gu Jiao kept gaining on him, and in his panic, he seemed to have chosen a dead-end street. There was no way out ahead!

The pickpocket panicked and pulled out a dagger hidden in his sleeve as his blood surged.

“Stay back! Or I’ll kill you!” He roared in anger.

Gu Jiao didn’t even blink. With one foot on the wall, she sprang up and in a flash kicked the dagger from the pickpocket’s hand, sending it flying off.

The pickpocket’s eyes widened. In the next second, Gu Jiao landed a kick on his chest before he could even cry out, sending him sprawling on the ground.

Gu Jiao walked over coldly, used her foot to turn him over, and picked up the purse that had fallen from his sleeve.

Xiao Liulang was still waiting in the ox-cart, so she didn’t have time to waste on the thief. She didn’t intend to report to the officials and was about to leave when the thief quietly grabbed the dagger from the ground. _{free𝑤ebnovel.com}

However, before he could attack, Gu Jiao stepped on his wrist, instantly breaking his bones.

“Ahh—” The pickpocket screamed miserably. He didn’t understand how she had done it. She hadn’t even looked back – did she have eyes in the back of her head?

“Catch him!”

Suddenly, several men rushed in from the end of the alley. After giving Gu Jiao a cursory glance, they dashed towards the pickpocket.

“Did you find it?”

A panting young master arrived at that moment.

Perhaps he had run too fast and was now out of energy. He leaned against the wall, gasping for air.

Gu Jiao walked past him.

He suddenly spoke, “Miss Gu?”

Gu Jiao stopped and looked at him, “Young Master Xiaoqin?”

The town was so small that she could bump into him even while catching a thief?

On the other side, the wardens who had seized the pickpocket came back. One of them handed a scroll to Young Master Xiaoqin, saying, “Young Master, we’ve found it!”

“That quickly? Wasn’t it said that habitual thieves are hard to catch?” Young Master Xiaoqin took the scroll.

The warden glanced at Gu Jiao and said, “She caught him.”

After the last incident, Young Master Xiaoqin’s impression of Gu Jiao had changed. Although Gu Jiao had extorted him a hundred taels of silver, he preferred her money-minded side to being beaten up by her.

“Thank you again,” Young Master Xiaoqin politely said.

Gu Jiao glanced at him, “Why do you keep getting robbed?”

Young Master Xiaoqin embarrassingly answered, “I suppose the news leaked, and I was targeted by the rival.”

He didn’t specify what news, and Gu Jiao didn’t ask.

Gu Jiao simply wanted to retrieve her purse and didn’t care about anything else. She ignored Young Master Xiaoqin and left without showing any emotion.

Watching her unhesitant figure, Young Master Xiaoqin furrowed his brows in confusion. Was she… truly not interested in him anymore?

“Young Master.” Another guard ran up, “I found a handkerchief on the ground, could it belong to the young lady just now?”

Young Master Xiaoqin immediately took the handkerchief and chased after Gu Jiao.

When he finally found Gu Jiao, she had already bought green onion pancakes and was back in the ox-cart.