Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times-Chapter 539 - 396: A Shrewd and Calculating Ally

Gu Changsheng retracted his hand from lifting the curtain and turned around, squatting on the shaft of the carriage, leisurely watching Sima Liancheng in front of him, silently laughing.

Sima Liancheng suddenly felt uneasy and cautiously retreated a step.

He always felt that such a laugh from Gu Changsheng was a bit frightening, and it sent a chill down his spine!

Intuition!

Sima Liancheng’s intuition was quite accurate and reliable!

"Ninth Royal Highness, meeting you was fate, but I am powerless to send you back to the city!"

Having said this, Gu Changsheng paused for a moment, his face wickedly continued, "However, hanging you back on the dead branch, I can still manage!"

Sima Liancheng was immediately struck dumb!

Gu Changsheng didn’t even give him time to resist and waved at Si Xi, "Xiao Si Xi, hang him back exactly as he was before, go ahead!"

Si Xi hesitated, his face full of doubt.

"No, no, no! Lady Changsheng, when smart people talk, they don’t need to make everything overly clear, right? You must understand my meaning, right? How can you treat me like this?" Sima Liancheng finally realized and hurriedly gestured with his hands, pleading for mercy.

Was his hint not clear enough? Did Gu Changsheng misunderstand him?

Logically speaking, it shouldn’t be like this. Both were clever people; if things were spoken too clearly, it wouldn’t look good!

He should have conveyed the right message! How could he receive such treatment?

"I, of course, understand your meaning!" Gu Changsheng blinked innocently, his face portraying a look of graciously returning a favor, "It’s precisely because I understand your meaning that I only hung you back onto the dead branch!"

At this point, Gu Changsheng straightened his expression, spoke solemnly, "Sima Liancheng, I don’t like the feeling of being schemed against, not at all. Although I’m glad to meet you, I still don’t like being plotted against!"

"You should be thankful I understood your intention; otherwise, my Soul-capturing Powder would turn you into a memory-less fool. Now, since your goal was achieved, a small punishment for a big lesson, we can still be friends, how nice!" Gu Changsheng said this, no longer glancing at Sima Liancheng, and spoke again to Si Xi, "What are you waiting for? It’s a charming deep autumn night, why not hang the Ninth Royal Highness back up!"

"Yes!" Si Xi, knowing he couldn’t hesitate any longer, quickly bowed and walked towards Sima Liancheng.

"No, no! Gu Changsheng, you can’t do this, is this any way to treat a friend?"

As Si Xi approached, Sima Liancheng retreated in panic, glaring at Gu Changsheng and barking in disapproval.

He didn’t want to be hung back on the dead branch!

Although the night was enchanting with flowers and the autumn moon, it was, after all, deep autumn and it was incredibly cold!

Gu Changsheng did not even glance at him, waved his brocade sleeve, and turned back to the carriage.

Si Xi, seeing this, efficiently stepped forward, grabbed Sima Liancheng, and dragged him towards the spot where he had been previously hung.

"Mom..." Seeing his mother return, Little Meat Bun efficiently crawled over.

Gu Changsheng embraced his precious son, hearing the low roar of Sima Liancheng outside, curled his lips in a smile, and spoke softly, "Flower Peacock, let’s go."

"We’re leaving already?" Yue Xilou disdainfully shook the horsewhip in his hand, his face expressing displeasure.

How dare he flirt with him! Even if he was the Ninth Prince of Southern Chen, so what?

Yue Xilou wasn’t afraid of him!

"Let’s go, we should be gentle with allies. Haven’t I already vented on your behalf by hanging him back on the dead branch?" Gu Changsheng, sitting inside the carriage, looked at the curtain in front of him, bowed his head and chuckled, "Besides, you were born with such a nation-wrecking appearance, it’s your fault. Do you still want others to take the blame?"

"You!"

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It was then Borjigin Nian spoke up, puzzled, "Gu Changsheng, are you really going to just let this Sima Liancheng go? Won’t that allow him to discover your Baili Mountain? And how did he become your ally?"

Gu Changsheng’s lips curled into a smile as he heard this, knowing he had to clarify things clearly, otherwise those accompanying him wouldn’t rest easy!

It just so happened that Si Xi was busy re-hanging Sima Liancheng from the withered branches, so it wouldn’t hurt to take this opportunity to explain!

"Among the numerous progeny of the Imperial Clan of Southern Chen, only Sima Changhao and Sima Liancheng have managed to grow up safely. What do you think that is?" Gu Changsheng lifted the carriage curtain, asking slowly.

Everyone was perplexed upon hearing this.

Seeing this, Gu Changsheng continued, "The princes’ struggles for power are common across dynasties; surviving such killings and intrigues of the imperial harem, could Sima Liancheng be an ordinary man?"

"With no maternal clan to rely on, him being a prince highly favored by the emperor and managing to grow up amidst numerous traps shows how deep and inscrutable his schemes are!"

"The Imperial Family of Southern Chen secretly doesn’t announce his fondness for men; I found it quite odd. His excessive enthusiasm towards the Flower Peacock and Si Xi, yet disregarding me and Nian, had raised my suspicions!"

"A man like that, if it’s not really that he fondness men, showing apathy towards women, there’s only one possibility! He’s accustomed to pretending he fondness men, a disguise that he could even feel natural about to withhold his desire towards women!"

Upon saying this, Gu Changsheng looked up at the crowd, "Now, do you still think he is, as the rumors suggest, a worthless prince who fondness men?"

Borjigin Nian listened to Gu Changsheng’s words with his mouth agape, big enough to stuff an egg into.

Yue Xilou was also deep in thought, remaining silent.

"You worry about our trip up the mountain getting leaked, but you don’t know that he had already deduced our whereabouts cleverly, even including his Imperial Brother in his scheme, to coincidentally meet us on our essential path!" Gu Changsheng continued with a stern face, "I had once secluded myself below Baili Mountain and had also plotted a grand show with Zhou Mu of ridding the mountain of bandits. It’s not difficult to fool the common eye with such a thing, but for a truly cunning person, just a little calculation would reveal the oddity!"

"Invited by the Four Kingdoms, entering their sight during such a time of tension, if there was a way out, I would have surely secured those close to me safely! Sima Liancheng guessed my plan; he even calculated that I wouldn’t delay too long in sending the foster father and the little bun out of the city, hence he specifically waited on the essential path leading to Baili Mountain!" Gu Changsheng spoke decisively, "Such meticulous planning of people’s hearts, such astute tactical thinking, don’t you find it frightening?"

"Terrifying! It’s absolutely terrifying!" Borjigin Nian said in horror, "What you mean is, he saw that you had a way out through Baili Mountain and used a Clean Prostitute as a pawn to scheme against Sima Changhao!"

"Not only did he see through your plans, but he also calculated Sima Changhao’s reaction, giving him a legitimate reason to leave the city as a powerful prince!" Borjigin Nian continued, swallowing nervously, "It’s truly terrifying! To think such a scheming person exists in the world!"

And she had actually wanted to punch him!

Godfather! With how mindless she was, a mere flick of his fingers could end her!

This is truly terrifying!

"Then how did we end up becoming allies with him?" Yue Xilou timingly asked, his brows still tightly knitted.

Gu Changsheng smiled upon hearing this, "It’s simple! Since he has survived the struggle for the throne among the princes, has survived under the very nose of Sima Changhao, it shows how deep he must usually hide, even Sima Changhao being completely unguarded against him!"

"But he told me explicitly, it was Sima Changhao who chased away that Clean Prostitute, allowing us to meet. What does this show you?"

"It shows that he and Sima Changhao are not of one heart. Hiding so deeply, being a prince of Southern Chen but not siding with the Crown Prince, he must also have designs on the Imperial Throne of Southern Chen!"

At this point, Gu Changsheng, regardless of the speechless crowd around him, confidently lay back on the soft couch inside the carriage, slowly speaking, "We are all clever people, no need to spell out everything. He knows my way out through Baili Mountain, I know his disloyal intentions towards the Imperial Throne of Southern Chen, knowing each other’s most lethal weaknesses, only then can we form the strongest alliance!"

"In this way, aligning with me equals aligning with Zhou Mu. He has already seen through that the one evildoer is not Huo Shuixian. In this deal, he’s bound to profit!"

At this point, Gu Changsheng couldn’t help but sneer, damn, not to mention she had brought along a Northern Mongolian Princess!

Sima Liancheng’s triple-win alliance plan was indeed foolproof!

Damn, knowing he was the Ninth Prince of Southern Chen, she couldn’t do anything to him; in an instant, he had formed an alliance with her and Zhou Mu, including Northern Mongolian!

Although Borjigin Nian didn’t care about Northern Mongolian affairs, her identity as a Northern Mongolian Princess was still there!

The depth of Sima Liancheng’s schemes truly made one wary!

But knowing there was a struggle for the crown in Southern Chen, Gu Changsheng’s heart suddenly felt much calmer. Since Sima Liancheng intended to form an alliance, he naturally wouldn’t sit idly by and watch Sima Changhao’s plot succeed, which was also a fortunate event!

"Gu Changsheng, Sima Liancheng is terrifying, but you’re pretty terrifying too. With just a few seemingly trivial words, I couldn’t make head or tail of it, yet you instantly understood his intentions! You’re frighteningly clever!" Borjigin Nian looked at Gu Changsheng and sniffed, "With my little cunning, could it be that you might sell me and still have me count the Silver for you?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng just laughed, "Sell you? Are you worth much? Stop babbling here and be more vigilant in the future. Although honest people don’t speak in riddles, smart people often understand without words. You’re a Northern Mongolian Princess, now schemed against by Sima Liancheng, and yet you’re completely unaware! Right now, it’s not me who’s selling you!"

Upon hearing this, Borjigin Nian’s wide eyes suddenly bulged, unbelievably asking, "Sima Liancheng schemed against me? How come I didn’t know?"

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