CHAPTER 1054: 1131: COURTING DEATH, COURTING DEATH, COURTING IT UNTIL YOU DIE.

Dong Huiying and Shu Yu followed the tomb passage back to South City. During this journey, Dong Huiying was preoccupied. Shu Yu occasionally glanced at her, and finally, when they were about to return to the Blue mansion, he suddenly gently pulled her.

"Hmm?"

She looked at him drowsily. Shu Yu sighed lightly, "What are you worried about again? Look how furrowed your brows are, they’re about to trap a fly."

She instinctively touched her brow, and then belatedly realized, "Trap a fly? You’re exaggerating."

Shu Yu asked, "Earlier at Elder Sun’s place outside the city, he took a book out of the secret compartment, but what was written in that book?"

Dong Huiying shrugged: "I have some leads on the subterfuge on Zhi Chen. To lift this subterfuge, first, we use witchcraft, where one’s witchcraft skills are higher than that of the wizard who cast it, but I can’t wait. Even if I start learning now, it would take far too long. Just like when I taught myself the Poison Gu Art to cure myself, I spent a long time, almost about half a year."

"We can’t afford the delay, and since that’s the case, we can only choose the second path." She suddenly became brutal: "Kill! Find that wizard and kill her! As long as she’s dead, we seize the medium she used for the subterfuge and burn it, then naturally Zhi Chen will return to normal."

Shu Yu gently but firmly held her hand: "I’ll go with you."

Dong Huiying suddenly smiled, "Yes, you’re quite reliable."

However, her earlier preoccupations weren’t only about this. "Actually, I’m considering two other things. First, from Chris’s incident, it’s deducible that the Seventh Princess is behind it. She’s already targeting the Blue mansion, and this is just a test—soon there might be a tough battle to fight. Second, back in the Golden Triangle, she had her people plant a Mind-Bewitching Gu inside Zhi Chen. Without this Mind-Bewitching Gu, none of the subsequent mess would have occurred."

"The Mind-Bewitching Gu, from Yi Ran, we have learned, is also known as the Life-Death Gu. Before being used as a Love Gu to control unruly married women, it was used by Masters to control servants’ lives and deaths. Moreover, from Yi Ran’s words, once afflicted by this Gu, one must prioritize the Master’s will and cannot betray; whatever the Master wants, they must comply."

"And that’s not even the end of it. Judging by Uncle Jiang’s state, if it flares up a few more times, he’s certainly doomed. In other words, regardless of the Seventh Princess’s intentions, she’s never considered sparing Zhi Chen’s life—she might have harbored murder from the start, or perhaps she simply doesn’t care about Zhi Chen’s life or death."

Given someone of the Seventh Princess’s status, she’d undoubtedly know the side effects of Mind-Bewitching Gu.

Shu Yu’s eyes darkened with shadows: "She’s too reckless."

Dong Huiying night laughed, "Isn’t she?"

Yet after all this scheming, the end result only leaves one inevitable path. With all this reckless harm, she’ll eventually hurt herself and then die.

She curled her lips and then gently pulled Shu Yu: "Let’s go, we’re going home."

She planned to act tonight; this matter shouldn’t be delayed. She hoped Zhi Chen would recover soon.

Her man.

Such disaster and distress indeed.

***

After returning to the mansion, they learned one thing. Apparently, Chris’s incident enraged Lan Gu, and Lan Gu made some arrangements, secretly gathering many people today, just waiting for dawn to begin action.