The silence continues for a long time, and they did not hear anymore sounds, De Yu has also just let out a sigh in comfort, recalling how they found this spot in a moment of panic just before, it can be considered a frightful situation but no danger, a smile slowly climbs his face, he gets up first, before extending his hand to help Gui Wan up. The two of them meet eyes, in face of the current situation, they both find it rather funny, lightly laughing out loud.
Smiles running deep, Gui Wan glances from the corner of her eyes, finding De Yu seemingly looking at her in a daze, gathering her smile, she turns around saying: “Let us quickly leave whilst we can now.”
With her light reminder, his heart receives a shock, nodding his head, he keeps his movement light, making his way to the doors, his hands has just caught the door handles, when sound of footsteps can once again be heard, retracting his hands, he looks back at Gui Wan, Gui Wan also appears grave, with unspoken understanding, the two of them can only choose to go back the usual place, hiding away.
Annoyance rising, Gui Wan laments, could it be that they have hide behind the dragon throne all day today? Matters of the back palace is rapidly changing, wasting half a day of time, don’t even know what other tremendous changes could occur……just when she was deeply thinking this, someone had already entered Yu Gan Hall, the sound of a gentle women’s voice can be heard: “Did you get the job done?”
Gui Wan was suddenly shocked, this voice is clearly Consort Li’s, why would she leave and come back?
“Lady Consort, this servant I have already sent the poisoned wine over. But, ran into Prime Minister Lou along the way, this servant was scared……so……Lady Consort please show some mercy ah……” The one answering seems to be a palace maid, her voice right now actually carrying a crying tone, sobbing for mercy.
Hearing up to here, she can vaguely guess what is going on, Gui Wan busily listens on attentively, but what followed was just silence, only the palace maid’s weeping can be heard, still suppressed, seeming to not dare cry out openly, such sound overflowed the entire space. All of a sudden, the palace maid suppresses a quiet cry, this sound drills into the chest, overwhelmingly shrill, actually sounding even more shocking than that of crying out loud, hearing this also made Gui Wan’s heart jump, not knowing what exactly happened inside the hall, yet the miserable cries of the palace maid, bitterly crying in pain, soundlessly, continuously, tumbles past her ears.
“Cheap servant, can’t even carry out such simple task, what’s the point in keeping you?” Upon hearing Consort Li’s voice right now, it sounds like her tone has turned twisted, the usually gentle voice has actually changed into a sharp tone.
The palace maid’s voice gradually decreases, struggling movements has also decreased, as though all have returned to the usual calm, all of a sudden, an ear-piercing sound can be heard, on contact of a surface, presumably the silent woman’s nails vigorously scratching against the floor, followed by Consort Li’s low cry like that of a being scratched by a cat, screaming out: “Cheap servant, how daring of you……” Carelessly kicking at the palace maid, only then did the large hall once again calm down.
Gui Wan’s heart runs cold, although Gui Wan was able to see this Consort Li is far from gentle as she appears to be at first glance, but she definitely did not think she would be vicious to such extent. Gui Wan herself is not a kind-hearted person, she too also plays with political trickery, at times of need she will also treat human life like grass, but to be directly face this right now, her heart still leaps up in anger.
Consort Li ah Consort Li, wait till I leave this place, I’ll make sure you will suffer this tenfold.
This open and empty grand hall does not restore its previous brightness and extravagant beauty, instead it carries a suppressive gloom, no sound can be heard any more, nor was there the sound of Consort Li leaving. Gui Wan turns to look at De Yu, he also appears doubtful and aghast, seeming to not dare believe the truth he has just heard.
Could it be she need to deal with a corpse? This thought had just leapt over Gui Wan’s heart, when Consort Li’s voice can be heard again, her voice this time, tones down a lot, seeming to lose her composure, her voice trembling, speech incoherent, muttering to herself: “What to do? What to do……he would definitely want me dead……no, no……I don’t want to die……” In the end, she too was actually carrying a weeping tone.
Her panic and helplessness disperses into the air, Gui Wan carefully listens to her disorganised words, suddenly feeling suspicious, didn’t think that behind Consort Li there’s also an accomplice, that’s not right, rather than saying accomplice, it is more like a mastermind. Carefully taking this into consideration, Consort Li may be jealous of Consort Ying, but it has not reached such extent to stri