The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 665

Chapter 665: 314 Overbearing Jiaojiao! (First update)_3

Prince Rui angrily scolded, "Those people are really outrageous. They dared to commit murder under the Emperor’s own feet and scared Miss."

Prince Rui clearly thought that the assassins were after his wife. After all, Gu Jiao was just a little healer, who would have a problem with her?

"Excuse me." Gu Jiao turned to leave.

"Miss Gu, please wait." Prince Rui called after Gu Jiao.

"Do you need anything?" Gu Jiao looked at him.

Prince Rui didn’t behave like a prince. This was due to his upbringing as well as his own demeanor. He gave Gu Jiao a sincere look, "Thank you, Miss Gu."

For a prince of a country to thank a healer was indeed admirable.

"Don’t worry about today’s affairs," Gu Jiao responded. Maybe the repercussions fell on Princess Rui through her.

Prince Rui gave a sorrowful smile, "Even without today’s incident, I wanted to thank Miss Gu. Qianqian is very outspoken and tends to offend people. She doesn’t have many friends and is actually quite lonely in the residence. Miss Gu, you are her most precious friend. I hope you can visit us often when you’re free."

A friend?

The word was unfamiliar to her.

Just as she once had no family, she also didn’t really have friends.

"Okay," Gu Jiao agreed.

Prince Rui laughed happily at her response.

Prince Rui’s carriage was ready to take Gu Jiao home.

Gu Jiao went to the Medical Hall.

She had a small injury on her hand. There were pieces of wood and grit embedded in her flesh that needed to be cleaned out.

Just as she was getting off the carriage, she ran into Liu Yisheng who had come to the Medical Hall to buy medicine.

Liu Yisheng had come to buy medicine for Anu, who had a cough.

He noticed Gu Jiao’s injured hand at once and asked, "What happened to your hand?"

Gu Jiao replied, "Just a minor injury, nothing serious."

"Just now, I saw guards from Jingzhao Residence being dispatched. They said there was an attempted assassination in the suburb, and the complaint was lodged by Prince Rui," said Liu Yisheng.

There was no surprise in Gu Jiao’s eyes.

Liu Yisheng looked at her intently, "Did you know? Were you... also there?"

"Mmm," Gu Jiao responded briefly and didn’t elaborate further. She headed back to the Courtyard to apply medicine to her wound.

Looking at her retreating figure, Liu Yisheng frowned.

At night.

Yuan Tang sneaked into Liu Yisheng’s Courtyard, and while watching him weave a bamboo basket, joked, "It’s so late, cousin, did you miss me?"

"Did you do it?" Liu Yisheng blurted out.

"What have I done?" Yuan Tang was confused.

Liu Yisheng stared at him hard, his gaze sharp, "Don’t play dumb."

Yuan Tang knits his brow, "I really don’t understand what you’re talking about."

Liu Yisheng’s cold gaze fell on Yuan Tang’s waist, "Where’s the tassel on your jade pendant?"

Yuan Tang coughed lightly and said, "It broke off. I kept it separately."

Liu Yisheng remarked casually, "Did it break while you were doing something bad and someone else picked it up?"

"Who did something bad... wait a minute, wait a minute!" Yuan Tang suddenly realized something and his eyes widened, "Did that girl come to you? Did she ask you about the tassel? I knew there was something off when she suddenly accused me! Cousin, how could you betray me!"

Liu Yisheng didn’t mention that he hadn’t betrayed him and that everything was Gu Jiao’s own speculation. Moreover, Yuan Tang hadn’t given him a heads up, telling him not to casually reveal his tassel.

He coldly stared at Yuan Tang, "If you don’t want others to know, you shouldn’t do it."

Yuan Tang clutched his heart, "I’m hurt, my heart’s hurt."

Liu Yisheng was far from sympathetic, "So you wanted to kill her to silence her because she discovered your misdeeds?"

He didn’t ask Yuan Tang what he’d done exactly, but it wasn’t difficult to guess that it was related to the Emperor’s assassination attempt a few days ago.

Yuan Tang was totally clueless, "What do you mean? Did something happen to that girl?"

Liu Yisheng spoke sternly, "I told you, stop acting in front of me."

Yuan Tang felt completely wronged, "I didn’t! I swear, she is someone important to you, cousin, how could I harm her?"

Liu Yisheng knit his brows, looked down and continued weaving his basket, "My relationship with her is not what you think it is."

Yuan Tang laughed, "Okay, okay, whatever you say, cousin."

Liu Yisheng looked at him again, "So it really wasn’t you?"

Yuan Tang raised two fingers, "I swear to God, it wasn’t me! I would never hurt her!"