Gu Shengyin suddenly smiled.
She rarely smiled, and a beauty who seldom smiled often did so for one of two reasons.
One reason is that smiling didnât make her look better.
The other is that she was naturally aloof and didnât like to smile, but when she did, it left people endlessly amazed.
Qu Feiluan was evidently the latter.
When she smiled like this, A Xiu even felt in a daze that the entire dim cave seemed to brighten up because of her smile.
Even though she was also a woman, even if she didnât want to admit it.
But the fact was â Qu Feiluan was a woman so beautiful that you couldnât even muster jealousy.
Yet A Xiuâs mood didnât improve because of her smile, nor did she relax because of her previous assurance that she wouldnât take her life.
She didnât know Qu Feiluan, but she couldnât believe that a woman who fought countless battles undefeated, a woman honored as king, respected by three emperors, would be a person who would forgive her betrayal and let it go like a serene White Lotus.
Seeing her expression without much joy, Gu Shengyin secretly thought, this person isnât as naive as I imagined.
She didnât want to waste too much time on such a woman, so she just said one sentence: "Heavenâs sins can be forgiven; self-inflicted sins cannot be lived."
Then A Xiu felt a darkness before her eyes and lost consciousness.
She was awakened by the noisy clamor of people.
Opening her eyes, she saw she had returned to A Xiuâs home, surrounded by a crowd, as if everyone from the small village had gathered at her house.
"How could such a thing happen?"
"How could she be so vicious?"
"It must be something unclean possessing her, right?"
"..."
She vaguely listened to these words, finally recalling something, her expression suddenly becoming terrified.
What did she remember?
Just last night, before she took Gu Shengyin away, thinking she would never return to this ghost place again, she remembered how A Xiuâs family had insulted and despised her all these days, and a resentment rose in her heart.
She had poured an entire handful of Poisonous Wolfâs Bane ground into powder in the large water jar at home.
Pouring it into the teapot might be discarded, but in the water jar, the family would surely drink it.
She simply didnât want them to live.
If her plan succeeded, she naturally could leave without a trace, this place no longer having anything to do with her.
But despite her failure, nobody expected that Qingluan King would restore his memory so soon.
And unexpectedly for her, Gu Shengyin actually sent her back.
She was tied up by the angry villagers, and her mouth was stuffed.
She wanted to argue, but those people didnât want to listen to her.
Auntie Zhouâs whole family was dead, only she remained unharmed.
They even found some unattended herbs in her room.
The villageâs only doctor scoured his medical books and recognized three as highly poisonous herbs.
The others were unrecognized, but presumably nothing good.
Auntie Zhang looked at her with a sigh: "I watched A Xiu grow up, she was such a sweet girl before, but somehow she ended up like this. I think itâs likely sheâs possessed."
Grandma Wang got excited hearing this: "Exactly, I noticed something wrong with her long ago. She must have been touched by something unclean."