I became the God Brother of the Regent King after Transmigration!-Chapter 315 - 237: How’s Your Heart?

Could it be that the one secretly colluding with Wei Country and facilitating the Qiangrong is the Empress Dowager?

Gu Lan recalled the plot of the original book, where Empress Dowager Su delayed military orders and sowed confusion while secretly accepting bribes from the Wei people during Rong Heng’s command.

Later, Rong Heng united with the Southern Border’s generals to report and settle accounts, under the guise of purging the emperor’s side, resulting in Rong Jing exiling the Empress Dowager from the palace.

After the Empress Dowager’s downfall, the Su Family gradually declined as well.

And now, if what Li Yuanju said was true and Wei Junzhuo didn’t deceive her, then it proves... the Empress Dowager had started to dig her own grave early.

"I once... heard a rumor that... that the Empress Dowager always disliked the Prince, so I thought that if the Prince was defeated, I, I could take advantage of the situation, with the Empress Dowager’s support, to become the main commander," Li Yuanju said intermittently.

He confessed a few more things, which Gu Lan noted down and prepared to verify one by one.

After a while, Li Yuanju suppressed the blood surging in his chest and looked at Gu Lan’s impassive face with unwillingness and asked:

"Young Master Gu, I still want... still want to know, when exactly did you start suspecting me? Was it... because of the falcon? But... but this falcon is a tradition of my Li Family, used regularly to transmit various military information, there is nothing inappropriate..."

Gu Lan lowered her eyes, her voice calm:

"From the day you returned to Yinzhou with five thousand defeated soldiers, I never believed you."

Li Yuanju’s eyes widened: "Why!?"

"You are valued by Prince Rui, proving you have some ability, yet you were defeated with five thousand soldiers by three thousand Wei troops at Cang Wind Port. If Wei Country was truly that formidable, how did the Southern Border achieve such a great victory half a year ago? Why did Wei Junzhuo have to contrive so many schemes and attack Yinzhou in a roundabout way using time lags?

And when you returned to the city, although Wei Junzhuo was just repelled by Pingnan Army, seeing this piece of meat at his mouth, it was the moment to seize the opportunity to boost morale. I even planned for Su Yi to go out of the city to assist you. However, Wei Junzhuo kept his forces still and let you return to the city easily."

By this point, Li Yuanju had already understood.

"Did you agree to the contest with me just to test me?"

Gu Lan: "You overthink. I just wanted to beat you to assert authority."

"Young Master Gu is quite calculating, never mind, the winner takes it all, it’s just that I’m too foolish.

What I know, I’ve already confessed entirely. It’s me who caused the death of so many generals of Dayan, it’s also me... who harmed Shiqi. Young Master Gu... just give me a quick death!"

After speaking, Li Yuanju closed his eyes, as if bravely facing death.

Gu Lan stared at him and retorted: "Who said that after your confession, you would get a quick death?"

Li Yuanju abruptly opened his eyes: "What!?"

Gu Lan: "I give you a quick death, then who gives a quick death to those innocent soldiers who died because of you? Can those you killed rise from the dead!?"

"No, it’s not what you said—" Li Yuanju yelled in horror.

"I asked you to confess the mastermind behind the scenes, but I never agreed to your terms. Everything is just your wishful thinking." As Gu Lan spoke, she drew the dagger from Li Yuanju’s abdomen.

Accompanied by a burst of blood and a shrill scream, Li Yuanju fainted once more.

Gu Lan threw the dagger to the ground and, to prevent him from crying out when he woke, stuffed a cloth back into his mouth.

"Hang Li Yuanju above the city gate, give him some water, just make sure he doesn’t die yet, keep him hanging for about ten days to half a month."

With martial arts inner strength, Li Yuanju had self-recovery abilities, although the injuries he suffered would not lead to immediate death, left untreated, he would slowly perish.

Xiao An asked: "Young Master, why not just kill him and hang his head at the city gate?"

"Killing him, as he wishes," Gu Lan articulated word by word, "I want him to live through resentment with his ambition and remorse, so that even when he goes to hell, he will be known as a notorious traitor of the country."

"I understand, but... Li Yuanju is still a member of the Li Family."

"All consequences, I’ll bear. It’s not yet determined whether Li Yuanju’s actions have any connection with the Li Family, if not, then Generals Li Qing and Li Bu should be ashamed of having such a disgraceful scandal in the Li Family."

After saying that, Gu Lan pressed her sore eyes: "I’m going to check on Shiqi."

Just as she stepped out of the interrogation room, Rong Heng came face to face.

"Brother Hang, what brings you here? How is Shiqi?"

Rong Heng looked at her: "Her injuries have been dealt with, I came to see you."

Gu Lan was puzzled: "See me for what?"

"Tang Zhan said you hadn’t slept all night," Rong Heng’s gaze swept over Gu Lan’s face with a scrutinizing and assessing look, his expression was extremely cold, "I’m here to see when you will faint."

Gu Lan felt a warmth in her heart, blinked, and with a faint smile replied:

"Now."

In the next moment, she relaxed her long-tensed spirits, closed her eyes, letting her body slump.

In that instant of falling, Young Master Gu successfully fell asleep in Rong Heng’s embrace.

The familiar scent surrounded her. Gu Lan merely intended to nuzzle for a hug. Unexpectedly, upon contact with Rong Heng, her suppressed fatigue suddenly dissipated, and she actually fell asleep.

Before sleeping, Gu Lan thought to herself, having a boyfriend like Rong Heng is indeed wonderful.

Hence, everyone saw the diligent and busy Young Master, who spent the whole morning negotiating with Wei Junzhuo and interrogating Li Yuanju, emotionless and stern, being carried into the tent by the Fifth Prince Rong.

...

Rumor has it that the Young Master Gu is homosexual.

Rumor has it that there is a "white moonlight" guard in Gu Lan’s heart named Nan Shiqi.

Rumor has it that Young Master Gu stayed awake for three days and nights to save his "white moonlight" guard Nan Shiqi, which made the Fifth Prince Rong, who was infatuated with him, cough up three pounds of blood in anger.

Due to the incident of saving Shiqi, various rumors have begun to spread within the military these past two days.

After finding out, Gu Lan laughed and told the newly awakened Shiqi about it.

Nearby, Rong Heng sneered and said, "How come I don’t know that I coughed up three pounds of blood? Ridiculous, even if you marry a hundred concubines, I wouldn’t cough up a drop of blood."

Gu Lan replied, "Then I will go and marry—"

Rong Heng took out a knife and calmly said, "In that case, let’s just kill."

Shiqi, lying in bed, was moved to sit up a bit, looked at the two of them, swallowed her saliva, and slowly spoke:

"Do you two need me to... get you a bed?"

Both of them: "..."

After waking up, Shiqi learned that it was Rong Heng who saved her. She had already turned from being solely a fangirl of Young Master Gu to a fan of the couple of Gu Lan and Rong Heng.

Although there was some indescribable sadness in her heart, it was dispelled by the smile on Gu Lan’s face.

Shiqi had seen Gu Lan when she was young. At that time, the Young Master Gu was just as good-looking as now but appeared quite melancholy.

Later, as a daughter of the Zhou Family, she was told by her father from a young age to protect and be loyal to the Marquis Mansion. And because of her female identity, she could only disguise as a man and become a Hidden Guard. She had long since set life and death aside.

Perhaps, the young master himself didn’t realize that now she is so spirited, and upon seeing the Fifth Prince Rong, she can’t help but smile... Shiqi thought, what does it matter whether the one the young master likes is male or female, as long as she can always smile, that’s already very good.

Her liking for the young master was her own business, not needing others to know, nor needing any response from the young master.

Gu Lan picked up the porridge that had cooled and fed her, speaking warmly, "Shiqi, this is my..."

Shiqi’s eyes widened brightly.

"—specially made by Tang Zhan for you! Here, I’ll feed it to you."

Shiqi blushed, "Alright... thank you, young master."

Well, whether it’s personally made by the young master or not doesn’t really matter, the fact that the young master could personally feed her already made her very moved. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

At this time, Shiqi recalled what had happened when she was on the brink of death and asked, "Previously, the young master said, if I didn’t die... you would tell me something."

Gu Lan’s face flushed, her hands trembled, almost spilling the porridge onto Shiqi.

She turned her head, looked at Rong Heng, "Brother Hang, would you mind stepping out?"

Rong Heng: "???"

"There’s a secret regarding the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion that we cousins need to discuss, and you can’t listen." Gu Lan calmly explained.

Previously, she had already told Rong Heng that Shiqi is the daughter of Zhou Xinhai of the Zhou Family, Zhou Mianmian.

Rong Heng swept his gaze over Gu Lan and Shiqi, face solemn, let out a sneer, and coldly stood up, "Alright, then I’ll leave."

Rong Heng left, sulkily. He could tell Gu Lan everything, yet Gu Lan still kept things from him.

He figured he finally saw through this man.

Once Rong Heng left the room, Gu Lan got up, walked to the door, and after repeatedly ensuring no one else was outside—even checking the rooftop—she closed the door tightly and approached the bedside, her expression inexplicably strange.

"Young master, please go ahead, no matter what it is, Shiqi will surely keep it secret, never letting it slip."

Shiqi sat upright, very seriously gazing at her, thinking that there must be a matter of life and death that the young master intended to tell her.

The Young Master Gu looked at her and carefully asked, "That... Shiqi, is your heart okay?"

Shiqi took a deep breath, feeling heartache.

She was about to cry from nervousness, saying, "Please, do tell quickly."

Gu Lan nodded, gently took Shiqi’s hand, placed it on her own chest:

"Then check, is cousin’s heart okay?"