Chapter 598 A Fond Dream
Her delicate eyes were as gentle and fluid as water.
Even without wearing exquisite makeup, the woman still looked so charming that other women even found it difficult to be jealous of her.
After taking a glance at her, the woman lowered her head and burst into laughter probably because of Long Tianyu’s words.
However, Gu Die somehow felt hopeless.
She had thought that she could be one of the most beautiful women in the world.
However, when she saw Lin Mengya, she realized that she was just a person of narrow view.
“Doctor Gu offers to do that out of kindness. Your Highness, why don’t you allow her?”
Her gentle voice made Gu Die feel a little embarra.s.sed.
In fact, Gu Die, who had never fallen in love with anyone, had a crush on Long Tianyu, who had always been cold to her, during the past few days.
She had thought that he was indifferent because she was disguised as a man.
Now it seemed that it was because of his wife.
“Okay.”
Long Tianyu immediately agreed with Lin Mengya. However, he, who had looked at his wife with tenderness just now, immediately became indifferent when looking at Gu Die.
“Then I’ll have to trouble you, Doctor Gu. My wife has just returned and needs to rest. Mr. Gu, please leave now.”
He expressionlessly asked Gu Die to leave, without even being slightly moved by the reluctance in Gu Die’s eyes.
Biting her lip, Gu Die turned around and walked out of Long Tianyu’s tent swiftly.
Watching Gu Die leaving, Lin Mengya showed a sneer.
“This Doctor Gu is quite different from what I imagined.”
The fact that she was disguised as a man was beyond Lin Mengya’s expectation.
Now she even had a crush on Long Tianyu.
However, Long Tianyu didn’t seem to have noticed it at all.
“Well, he’s proficient in medical skills.”
When mentioning Gu Die, Long Tianyu wasn’t even slightly moved.
However, Lin Mengya was clear about what he was thinking.
Long Tianyu probably just considered Gu Die a stranger who could help him.
Since Gu Die was just a stranger, he certainly would not waste any effort thinking about her affection for him.
“You must be tired. Take a rest here, and I’ll come back to see you in the evening.”
He gently settled Lin Mengya on his bed alongside the baby, who had fallen asleep.
After putting away his coldness, Long Tianyu was indeed the most charming man in the world.
“Well, go ahead.”
Lin Mengya nodded with a smile. She didn’t intend to expose Gu Die’s clumsy disguise.
She had seen plenty of rivals in love, but at the first glance, she knew that Gu Die was unqualified to be a threat to the relationship between her and Long Tianyu.
Since Gu Die was an insignificant pa.s.ser-by, it was unnecessary for either she or Long Tianyu to spend time thinking about Gu Die’s problem.
Lin Mengya closed her eyes to have a nap, while beginning to leaf through the part about the Venomous Armored Insects in the Qingzheng Dispensatory.
The emperor might prevail over all dissenting views and send her and Long Tianyu here so that Long Tianyu could win popular support.
If Long Tianyu did not handle it properly, it would be even more difficult for him to get such an opportunity again.
In addition, before she left the capital city, she had secretly sent a letter to her brother.
She didn’t know how much progress her brother had made.
Although the emperor did not like the Crown Prince, considering the power of the empress’s parents’ family, he could not easily dethrone the Crown Prince.
This time Long Tianyu might be able to shake the foundation of the Crown Prince.
When the time came, the confrontation between them and the empress’s party would be out in the open.
Both she and the Lin family were walking on a knife-edge, and the slightest carelessness could lead them to everlasting perdition.
Therefore, no matter whether Madam Wu had told the truth or not, she had to verify it only if she could make sure of her safety.
A deep sigh came from the tent, where only she and the baby remained.
Something seemed to be much more complicated than she had imagined.
After staggering out of Long Tianyu’s tent, Gu Die felt as if all her strength had been drained.
There was a combination of disappointment and envy on her pretty face.
She even couldn’t remember how she returned to her tent and lay on her bed in dismay.
She kept thinking of the scene where Long Tianyu and his wife were on intimate terms inside his tent.
It seemed to be what she had longed for, but she could never be a part of it.
At the thought that her crush, which had just sprouted in her heart, was strangled like this, she felt a hint of reluctance.
…
“Senior sister apprentice, what’s wrong with you? Did that guy annoy you again?”
Gu Xing, who had been severely lectured by Gu Die after she learned the truth, was looking at his senior sister apprentice flatteringly at the moment.
At home, his senior sister apprentice was his master’s beloved daughter.
Even he and his brother apprentices couldn’t be considered respectful in front of her, but at least they were very kind and modest to her.
However, he didn’t know what his senior sister apprentice was thinking and didn’t expect that she would have a crush on the man who had always treated her harshly.
Thinking of this, Gu Xing showed a hint of jealousy in his eyes.
He had thought that he could have a chance to spend some time alone with his senior sister apprentice during this journey.
Now, he knew his senior sister apprentice’s thoughts better than anyone else.
“He… will never belong to me.”
Gu Die, who had always been strong and confident, felt sad and burst into tears.
At that moment, Gu Xing panicked. He was about to wipe her tears with his hand, but Gu Die pushed him away with her hand.
Gu Xing stopped moving his hand in the air with a hint of anger on his face.
“Senior sister apprentice, isn’t he just a prince? When we return to our sect, you can ask Master for help. With his fame, Master can make any member of the royal family or n.o.bles ask to marry you!”
Hearing Gu Xing’s words, Gu Die froze on the spot.
She turned around and almost looked at Gu Xing pleadingly with her slightly red eyes.
“Brother Xing, do you think he will marry me as long as my father asks him to do so?”
Gu Xing immediately nodded, looking even more arrogant and majestic than a prince.
“That’s right. With my father’s help, he will definitely belong to me. But his princess… I’m afraid that Long Tianyu won’t fall in love with me with her around.”
In fact, Gu Die did not know why she liked Long Tianyu.
Perhaps it was because when they talked over the plague that night, Long Tianyu’s delicate and serious profile moved her.
Perhaps it was because when they gave treatment to the victims that time, Long Tianyu’s command with composure aroused her admiration of him.
Or perhaps it was because she gradually fell in love with him as she got to know about his brilliance, his flawlessness, and his talents.
However, after Princess Yu showed up, everything seemed to have turned into her unattainable desire.
He looked at Lin Mengya with more sincerity and pa.s.sion in his eyes than that in her eyes when she looked at him.
With Lin Mengya beside him, he probably would not show her any sincerity in his lifetime.
Looking at his senior sister apprentice, who suddenly became extremely upset again, Gu Xing showed a hint of viciousness in his eyes.
“If she’s a hindrance, why don’t we…”
This thought flashed across Gu Die’s mind.
However, she soon suppressed this idea.
She shook her head like a rattle. No, she heard that Princess Yu was also a master of medical skills.
Apart from that, if Long Tianyu found out about it, both she and Brother Xing probably would not be able to get out of the tent alive, not to mention to win Long Tianyu’s favor.
…
“Don’t worry. I know your concerns. A few days ago, those people came again. I know you are so kind-hearted that you let go of those babies. Nevertheless, if we could accomplish what they asked us to do, they may have a way to get rid of the person in the way without being noticed!”
Gu Xing’s deep voice was like a devil’s temptation, leading to a sign of the collapse of the bottom line in Gu Die’s heart.
He saw everything and knew that his senior sister apprentice was about to be convinced.
With a hint of joy flashing across his eyes, he involuntarily increased the chips.
“I’ve told them that you will never do anything too outrageous. So they put forward a mission we can accomplish easily.”
Gu Xing’s words made Gu Die fall into a whirlpool of temptation.
Conscience and desire battled in her clear eyes, and one of them gradually gained the upper hand.
“What did they ask us to do?”
Watching Gu Die hesitating, Gu Xing showed a smug smile.
They came out to heal the wounded and rescue the dying, but they got nothing from it.
How could anyone in the world do such a stupid thing?
He lowered his head and whispered a few words in Gu Die’s ear.
Gu Die just hesitated for a moment, and then nodded heavily.
Lin Mengya, who was looking through the Qingzheng Dispensatory in the tent at this moment, had no idea what a vicious flower of conspiracies could come out of a woman’s desire.
The job of settling the victims was being carried out in an orderly manner.
Lin Mengya couldn’t fall asleep, so she sneaked out of the tent alone after looking through the Qingzheng Dispensatory.
According to the report of Long Tianyu’s guards, there were more than 20 camps like this of various sizes in Yunzhou.
The imperial court’s supplies for disaster relief came in time. As a result, after the sudden outbreak, the plague had been gradually suppressed.
In fact, in the past few days in the isolated camp, she had been occupied with studying the samples sent by Long Tianyu’s guards from various places with her teacher.
…
She found that, in fact, the so-called therapeutic drugs developed by Gu Die and Gu Xing only delayed the attack of the plague.
Those patients, thought to have been cured by her, would definitely have another attack at most three or five years later, or at least a few months later.
Moreover, not only the attack of the plague was delayed, but also the pain would last longer.