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"But you have to let him go. He's my father, after all."

Gu Danyan raised his hand to grasp Duan Cheng Xuan's wrist, then he removed his chin as well.

He had originally thought that Gu Mingyan would speak up for Gu Cheng. After all, Gu Liuyan had always been this tough and soft-spoken, seemingly heartless, a person who was more loyal than anyone in the world.

"I originally thought that you would be hurt, and that's why I wanted to test you. But how could you blame me?" Duan Chengxuan retracted his hand and sighed lightly.

"No wonder. I would only be angry if you were unwilling to remove the tumor for my sake." Gu Danyan subconsciously touched her chin: "You don't need to love me like you did with Su Yuwan. What I want is the bigger picture, not me."

As he listened to Gu Liuyan's words, Duan Chengxuan's heart was filled to the brim with emotions.

However, he had already forgotten how to love someone other than Su Yuwan. Even he was being very careful with Gu Danyan.

"Wan'er has let Gu Zixian down."

"You will treat her better in the future." Gu Danyan turned her head to look at him. She boldly placed her hand on the back of his hand and said in a low voice: "Once she marries into the palace, she will never be able to leave. If you don't like her, then her entire life will be ruined."

"If I treat her well, will you help me in the future?" Duan Chengxuan gripped her hand behind his back and smelled the faintly discernible scent of plum wine on her body.

"Of course, even though father doesn't treasure us, Gu Zixian is still my little sister." Gu Liuyan nodded seriously.

"Alright, I agree." Duan Chengxuan nodded. Seeing another servant running in from outside the courtyard, he stood up and carried Gu Danyan to the screen before placing him on the soft couch.

Gu Danyan smiled at him and tugged his sleeve, "You're still holding me captive at Phoenix Cry Garden. Do you want to imprison me behind this study room now?"

"I'll punish you tonight." Duan Chengxuan flicked her forehead, went around the screen, and sat back on the main seat.

Cheng Shan, who was taking care of him, heaved a sigh of relief – His Highness' mood was finally better.

Hiding behind the screen, Gu Pingyan turned around. He could only hear those ministers talking about the matters of the court, but he had his own thoughts.

There would be a day when she would escape from this manor, and there would no longer be a person in this world like Gu Danyan.

Then, would Duan Chengxuan forget him?

After thinking for a while, she fell into a deep sleep.

After Duan Chengxuan finished settling all his matters, he saw that she was sleeping soundly and could only silently bring her back to Phoenix Cry Garden before falling into a deep slumber as well. However, he was also thinking about other matters in his heart.

If it was back then, the first person he would have met would be Gu Tinyan and not Su Yuwan.

Does he not care about the throne?

He fell asleep with his mind full of thoughts, yet Duan Chengxuan had a rare good night's sleep.

For the next few days, Duan Chengxuan brought Gu Daxuan along with him, and Gu Danyan practically didn't even touch the ground as he was even used to Duan Chengxuan's embrace. But today, Liu'er and Zi Ming wanted to enter under the guise of discussing business, so she could only send Duan Chengxuan away at dawn and wait by himself.

During breakfast, Liu'er and Zi Ming slowly walked in with a lot of rouge, cosmetic powder, good tea leaves and bamboo leaves in their hands.

Ghosts waved at her, indicating that no one was listening to the foot of the wall.

Gu Danyan waved at them, while Ziming was quite lively. He playfully placed the items on the stone table and sat down. Liu'er didn't stop her. She only bowed slightly and sat down.

"Miss Liu'er, I'm really curious as to who your master is. You know that I was taken away by the Zhu siblings earlier, and now you know about my mother as well. I'm extremely curious." Gu Liuyan was rubbing the back of her white peony. The jujube was fattened up a little, and was rolling around on her foot.

Lady Liu'er held onto the catalpa beside her and smiled helplessly. "If you were to tell me the name of my master, there will be even more trouble. You only need to know that we won't harm you."

"Indeed, it didn't harm me. Then I believe it." Gu Danyan smiled. Bai Dai's big cat eyes opened as he tilted his head to look at Zi Ming. Just as he was lost in thought, Gu Danyan's words also came, "My father still doesn't have anything to do with him. Did he solve it that day?"

At this point, Liu'er frowned. However, Ziming sneered, "We've already dealt with it. It's just that no one knows."

Liu'er glared at her, but Ziming just rolled his eyes and continued, "He sent back the coffin on that day, but as the prime minister, he hid it from us. However, our goal was achieved."

"Didn't you want to pull him down?" Gu Liuyan was curious.

"We are just commoners, how can we push the Prime Minister down? What we need to do is to make him feel uneasy for the rest of his life. That coffin is the exact same empty coffin that we forged before, according to his personality, he will definitely open it and take a look. If he doesn't see Yun Lun's corpse, he will never be able to rest in peace for the rest of his life."

"I was wrong." Gu Danyan was helpless. She had thought that the man in white had made such a big commotion just to pull him down from the stage. After all this time, he had deliberately come to take revenge.

"Ziming only said half of it." Liu'er's expression turned cold, and she quickly explained, "Not only that, we have to thank you for spreading the rumors and bringing the suicidal string back to you."

"What exactly did you do?"

"The emperor of your Pill Country has spent a huge sum of money for us to kill Gu Cheng." "We said we couldn't do it, so we had to take a step back and try our best to make him unhappy. Emperor Dan isn't a good man, but he prepared many things to put your father to death."

Gu Danyan was stunned for a moment. Could it be that this Emperor Erdan was extremely infatuated with Yun Tong?

"As for how exactly we are going to do it, the Emperor also hasn't said it clearly. Our mission should be over by now." With that, Liu'er took out three thousand taels of silver from her pocket. "To put it crudely, our Wind Listening Pavilion is involved in the killing of people. You should also know about this matter. Just treat this three thousand taels as a fee."

"Then I'll accept it." Gu Danyan knew that he shouldn't reject them for free.

In the end, it was still Emperor Erdan and Gu Cheng who were at odds. It was just that she still felt a little uneasy about how an Emperor like him had to force Gu Cheng off his feet.

"So you guys paid attention to me because someone gave you money to do this?" Gu Daiyan asked her.

"Of course not. My master and Madam Yun are old friends. He only ordered us to watch him. If anything happens to my master, you only need to help him." Liu'er gave a slight smile, "Other than you being a good friend of Master's, our Listening Wind Pavilion is full of business people."

Gu Liuyan laughed: "Since that's the case, why don't you help me do a business? I'll pay three thousand taels."

With that, she slapped the three thousand silver taels in front of them.