My Highness Hears My Thoughts, And Still Plays Along-Chapter 457 - 437: A Change of Heart

I don’t know if it was Qi Yexue’s pleas that took effect, or if the Green Robe had seen enough of Ye Wushang’s tormented state from the Gu Poison. With a flick of his sleeves, he sent a black pill flying to land beside Ye Wushang’s hand. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

The Green Robe glanced at him with lowered eyelids, his voice cold and eerie like a snake’s hiss, "I’m in a good mood today, so I’ll spare you this once."

"Thank you, Ghost King, for your mercy! Thank you, Ghost King, for granting the medicine!"

Suppressing the excitement in her heart, Qi Yexue thanked the Green Robe, quickly picked up the pill, and wanted to feed it to Ye Wushang.

At that moment, his ten fingers were deeply embedded in the ground from enduring the excruciating bone-eroding pain of the Gu Poison’s attack.

However, he did not open his mouth but instead slowly looked up at Qi Yexue.

Fragments of sunlight streamed through the dilapidated walls, casting down on her, dispelling some of her cold assassin demeanor and evoking a touch of gentleness.

Her fair fingertips held the pill as she gazed at him with worry and urgency, softly saying, "Wushang, quickly take the antidote."

By taking it, you won’t have to endure this inhuman torture any longer!

But Ye Wushang averted his eyes to look at the Green Robe, his icy and indifferent voice devoid of any emotional fluctuation, "Mission failed, willing to accept punishment."

"Wushang?!"

Qi Yexue suddenly turned to look at him; besides shock, there was a trace of tension in her eyes that was hard to detect. She immediately bowed to the Green Robe, urgently saying, "Ghost King, Ye Wushang, he is just..."

The Green Robe, however, raised a hand to stop her, his eyes cold and fixed on Ye Wushang, smiling eerily, "You are very perceptive; I am quite pleased. However, I don’t like it when someone refuses the gifts I bestow."

"Understood."

"Do you know why I am no longer punishing you?"

"I do not know."

The Green Robe’s mood seemed genuinely good, as he claimed, with those cold, wolf-like eyes glimmering with faint strands of excitement.

"How can someone whom Qingqing hates so much die so easily? Wouldn’t that be too dull? I’ve changed my mind now; you all must not kill her, I want her captured alive."

Upon hearing this, Qi Yexue instinctively looked back at Ye Wushang, her eyebrows slightly knitted in an almost imperceptible frown.

Grabbing someone alive? Isn’t that harder than a direct assassination? Over this time, Nangong Mo has proven to be unfathomable, not to be underestimated, and he is almost inseparable from Lin Wanyue.

Moreover, having failed several assassination attempts, they’ve already alerted the target. Nangong Mo might have already taken precautions and deployed numerous experts secretly. How could it be easy to succeed?

Nonetheless, Qi Yexue did not say much else, she turned to the Green Robe, accepting the order without hesitation, "I will follow the Ghost King’s decree, and the subordinates will do their utmost to complete the mission!"

Yun Ran listened to their conversation from the bushes, holding a blade of grass with a thoughtful look on her face.

"Qingqing? Qingyan? Who exactly is she? Why does she hate Lin Wanyue so much? So obsessed with wanting to kill her? But Lin Wanyue doesn’t seem as culpable as this lady would make her out to be! Aside from those in the Lin Family, who else could she have offended?"

"Qing... is it Yu Qingyan? Does she want to kill Lin Wanyue because of Shen Mubai? For love?"

"And to speak, earlier the Green Ghost called Qingqing so intimately, with a tender and entwining sentiment! One would guess there’s a story there!"

Yun Ran really wanted to know who this ’Qingqing’ was, though she guessed it might just be a nickname or term of affection. The quickest and best way to find out who she was, for now, was...

"Follow that Green Ghost!"

Yun Ran was planning to quietly follow the Green Robe after he left to explore further, but unexpectedly, a white ball suddenly darted out of the bushes, charging through a thicket of wild grass with its four short little legs, chattering as it leaped into her arms.

A pair of mysterious and enchanting purple fox eyes gleamed with excited and joyful light, like stars.

Yun Ran immediately recognized it as that fox.

While a brief separation should have brought joy upon reunion, Yun Ran’s feelings were somewhat mixed at the moment: "What a... fateful encounter!"

"Who’s there?"

As expected, the next instant, the Green Robe shouted in a commanding voice, his figure sweeping over like a gust of wind.