The Elegant Dancing Years By Huo Li (火狸) | BL

Chapter 33 | The Underground Palace

Mother and child together? It really was a mother-child relationship... Qi Mingyue raised his lips into a sneer. It was a good idea to use this method to save her life. It seemed that she was really frightened about the saying of the alien star. Perhaps, as early as that day, she had grown fearful of the word 'mother' and because of that fear, she did such a thing under the instigation of Han Ziqi.

"Even Ying Ran can't resolve this?" Qi Mingyue asked with a smile, appearing uncaring about the poison in his body.

After hesitating for a while, she replied, "There are a few kinds of mental methods in the world that can suppress the child gu. While you can temporarily break away from the control of the mother gu, it is not easy to completely remove it. The particular thing about Lianxin gu is that if the mother gu's host is injured, the child gu would be implicated. Once the mother gu dies, the child gu would also explode and the person hosting it would die from ulceration and internal bleeding."

After hearing Ying Ran's words, Qi Xutian's expression became even colder. "What do you mean? If she dies, MingEr dies and if she is injured, MingEr would feel a lot more pain than her?"

Ying Ran nodded helplessly and felt anxious inside, "However, as far as I know, Heart gu is not easy to take, both the parties consume an ingredient that can guide gu. Only then would the gu work effectively." Qi Xutian recalled something and ordered Ying Ran to take the food box on the table.

Ying Ran opened it according to his order and saw a few delicious-looking pastries in it. She looked at His Majesty, puzzled, only hear him say, "Look if there is anything unusual in those pastries."

After understanding his meaning, Ying Ran carefully broke a piece off. Firstly, she took out a silver needle to test it. Then she took out a horizontal container from her robe and poured out a strange looking poisonous insect. It had black wings and slowly squirmed its segmented body. It had crimson eyes and looked hideous. It crawled over to the pastry and then came back around, its body had morphed to show several bright red stripes - the abrupt addition of such a colour made it appear a bit more bizarre and fascinating.

Ying Ran looked at its body and put it back in the bottle, then said with a sigh of relief, "Your Majesty, who used this pastry? Fortunately, it isn't poisonous, but there is an impetus drug in it."

"You mean that it can cause harm through poisoning?" Qi Mingyue's expression immediately turned grave. He stared at the small piece of cake in her hand and murderous intent flashed past his eyes.

Although she didn't know who dared to poison His Royal Highness with gu, what she did know was that even upon hearing that he had Heart gu, His Royal Highness didn't appear as angry as he did now. Ying Ran felt surprised but still respectfully replied, "It is indeed as Your Highness said, it is poisonous but only when it reacts with another component can it cause death. This component is also the same as what Lianxin gu needs."

Qi Xutian didn't expect An Ruolan to be so bold that she would want to murder him. She had a reason to punish the child, but there was no reason for her poison him. He did not expect two poisons to have to be mixed to cause harm and continued to ask: "Which component is it?"

"Luo Tong."

The words said by Ying Ran left both Qi Xutian and Qi Mingyue stunned. Thinking about the Luotong flower cakes made by An Ruolan a few days ago, they were shocked by the depth of her plan. Did she have this idea since back then? Did she have such a deep mind to make cakes first and then poison them?

Qi Xutian pondered for a while, glanced at Qi Mingyue, and found his eyes to be the same as his own - full of disbelief. Neither of them believed that An Ruolan would have such a deep and malicious scheme planned. She wasn't a weak woman, but if she really had the patience to implement such a plan, she wouldn't have lost her temper last night. To break the poison, she just had to wait for an appropriate opportunity to deliver the poisonous pastries and wait for Qi Xutian's death. Last night's move of stirring the grass and startling the snake[1] didn't make sense, let alone the move of leaving behind the cakes without any disguise. It was simply an act of digging her own grave.