Crossover Anime: Where Did My Male God Go?

Chapter 227 Gong Yuanzheng 14

"I want to know about something that happened, and in exchange, I can tell you."

Yun Weishan didn't know if she could get out, so she could only use the remaining information as a bargaining chip. If she didn't exchange it, she would rather die than utter another word.

Gong Yuanzheng raised an eyebrow. It seemed there were more, but he didn't know who the remaining assassins were.

If it's related to the palace gates, even if he wanted to know, he wouldn't ask her politely; he'd just resort to violence. He might as well torture all the brides; he'd be sure he could find out.

He could kindly answer her questions about matters unrelated to the palace, saving her a lot of trouble.

"you say!"

"Who killed the female assassin who infiltrated the palace gates two years ago?"

Yun Weishan stared intently into Gong Yuanzheng's eyes as she asked the question; she was certain she would detect any lie he was lying.

Gong Yuanzheng frowned: "Two years ago?"

Thinking back, it's true that an assassin did sneak into his palace and was discovered by him.

This was the first time in his life that he had encountered an assassin at the palace gate, which made him extremely excited. He wanted the assassin to try his newly developed medicine.

Unfortunately, someone beat them to it.

"We did manage to catch one back then, but someone took him away, and I don't know who it was."

Gong Yuanzheng still felt somewhat annoyed when he thought about that incident.

"Even you don't know?"

Yun Weishan was somewhat skeptical.

Impossible. The lark's corpse was hung on the palace wall for three days and three nights. How could the palace master, Gong Yuanzheng, not know about such a commotion?

"Why would I lie to you?" Gong Yuanzheng clicked his tongue. "After that assassin was taken away, we thought she was already dead. Unexpectedly, a few months later, her body appeared on the palace wall outside. She looked quite fresh, obviously she had just died recently."

"No one knows who did it. Since it was an assassin, it was a good opportunity to give Wu Feng a warning. Nobody cared. He was hung up like that for three days before he was kidnapped."

Yun Weishan thought of the task Han Yaqi had given her: to draw all the paths in the back mountain. The back mountain had always been closed off, and it was two separate parts from the front mountain.

If what Gong Yuanzheng said is true.

So the person who killed Yun Que must have been someone from the back mountain.

Seeing that Yun Weishan was quite cooperative, Gong Yuanzheng put down the poison: "Now you can tell me who the remaining assassins are, and you can suffer less."

Yun Weishan: "I only know there is one more person. If you want to know who that person is, help me find the person who killed Yun Que, and I will tell you everything."

"You fool me?"

Gong Yuanzheng's face darkened, and he picked up the poison he had put down again and poured it on Yun Weishan once more.

"Ugh—!"

Yun tossed his shirt up, wailing in agony.

"Even if you poison me, I won't tell you who killed Hibari unless you tell me."

"Such a stubborn mouth. Let me see if it's really as stubborn as you say."

Gong Yuanzheng used all the poison on the table on Yun Weishan.

Yun Weishan endured the repeated torment of fainting and waking up in pain. Except for her face, all the clothes underneath her clothes were completely ruined.

Even so, apart from her piercing screams, she didn't utter a single word.

Gong Yuanzheng threw the last bowl behind him.

She's really a tough nut to crack.

"I could guess even without you saying it, it's Song Yueqing!"

The only woman he ever suspected remained a mystery to him. Even with a fairly perfect explanation, he couldn't shake off the doubts that had been lingering in his heart.

Yun Weishan shook her head weakly.

Gong Yuanzheng didn't expect Yun Weishan to shake her head. He thought Yun Weishan should hate Song Yueqing. If it weren't for her exclamation, perhaps Yun Weishan wouldn't have been exposed.

After all, a person without a sharp edge will drag anyone down with them if they can, regardless of whether they are innocent or not.

Even if she said Song Yueqing was a spy, he would investigate carefully to make sure that Yun Weishan wasn't just pointing at a random bride.

"Is she really not, or are you trying to hide her?"

Yun Weishan twitched the corner of her mouth: "Consider it as you just told me things I didn't know. Now I can answer your question: she is not the companion I know."

"I don't know about the rest. Maybe she's very clever, or maybe she's just an ordinary pampered young lady."

"I both hate her for exposing me and am grateful to her for allowing me to investigate the truth at the palace gates without having to live in fear."

"I only ask one thing: whose hand did Yun Que die at the hands of the palace gates?"

Upon hearing this, Gong Yuanzheng's suspicions about Song Yueqing lessened considerably, but he couldn't rule out the possibility that Yun Weishan was deceiving him.

Who is that lark to you?

Yun Weishan was surprised that Gong Yuanzheng would ask this question. She was stunned for a moment, and the scene of her and Yun Que accompanying each other in Wufeng flashed through her mind.

"She is my sister."

"What if I tell you who killed Yun Que?" Gong Yuanzheng was smarter this time: "Will you tell me the assassin's name immediately, or will you ask me to kill him for you first?"

Yun Weishan forced herself to stay awake.

"All I need to know is who it is. I will tell you everything I know and I will never hide anything from you."

She just wanted to know the truth. If Shangguan Qian had successfully let Wufeng in, and she was still alive that day, her Han Yaqi would probably have rescued her, and she would have taken revenge herself.

"Then I'll give you a few more days to survive, but you'd better not try anything funny!"

Gong Yuanzheng's expression turned terrifying by the end of his speech.

Upon hearing his words, Yun Weishan finally couldn't hold on any longer and fainted, her head drooping naturally without support.

This was good news, and Gong Yuanzheng left the dungeon with a sense of satisfaction.

He didn't forget to instruct the guards outside that they should inform anyone who came to the dungeon to see Yun Weishan.

He was careless about Zheng Nanyi's matter. This time, he finally caught a spy alive, so he mustn't lose him halfway through.

Yun Weishan had better tell the truth. With so many things happening in the palace recently, he really didn't have the time to interrogate all the brides.

It's just investigating who killed the assassin.

Even if he doesn't find out, he still has his brother. His brother should be back soon!

...

Lin Manman suggested, "Let's go out for a walk. We're getting so bored staying here all the time."

"Let's go."

Qingyue got up, deciding to investigate as well to see if Xi En was making any moves.

The two greeted the head maid and walked around the women's courtyard a few times. After receiving permission, they stepped out of the gate.

When they went to the main hall to be selected, they passed by a stream, and the scenery there was quite nice.

Lin Manman squatted down and dipped her fingers into the water, dangling them around.

"If this were in the wilderness, I'd probably take off my shoes and stand in the water to give you a good beating."

Qingyue stood on the shore: "I wonder who will end up getting soaked."

"You underestimate me?" Lin Manman looked up at her.

Qingyue smiled and said, "No, it's just that I have absolute confidence in myself."

"You're being so blunt?" Lin Manman stood up. "I thought you would choose to keep it all hidden."