Chapter 277: Su Youyu Has Come Too

Chapter 277: Su Youyu Has Come Too

"Come in."

Qin Xuan glanced at Shangguan Ying under the bed and spoke slowly.

Su Youyu tiptoed inside, closed the door bolt, placed a minor Restriction, then walked to the table and sat down beside Qin Xuan, her skin brushing against his.

She leaned into Qin Xuan's ear, exhaled a breath of clear air, and whispered, her voice as faint as a mosquito's buzzing, "Qin Xuan..."

Qin Xuan felt an itch at his ear and turned his head away. He glared at Su Youyu and retorted, "If you're worried about eavesdroppers, just use voice transmission."

Su Youyu shook her head, her beautiful eyes full of seriousness. "Voice transmission is what makes one seem guilty; it's easy for those old monsters with profound Realms to intercept it. On the contrary, this most primitive method is the safest. It's the same principle as the most dangerous place being the safest."

Qin Xuan rolled his eyes and said, "Speak."

Su Youyu cupped Qin Xuan's ear with her hands, pressing against the gap between her palms like a second mouth, and whispered, "Don't you think it's too dangerous for us to stay in this Mingyue Imperial Dynasty?"

"First it was Wangqing Palace, then Prince Zijing, and now even King Zhou Wu, that old monster from ten thousand years ago, has appeared! If it weren't for you, a Prodigy, holding out until Big Sister returned at her Peak, we would have already been crushed into dust by King Zhou Wu this time."

Qin Xuan gave a disinterested grunt. Seeing him unconcerned, Su Youyu nervously got straight to the point, "Don't you think my Big Sister is too heartless? She clearly possessed powerful strength, yet she only struck at the very last moment, causing heavy casualties in Mingyue Imperial City. Our Yaochi Sacred Land also lost quite a few Prodigy Disciples."

"Furthermore, she didn't even investigate clearly before locking me in the dungeon, leaving me with King Zhou Wu's confidants. Fortunately, my Dao Heart is firm; otherwise, I really would have been beguiled by that group of rebels."

"I'll be blunt. Continuing to stay in the Mingyue Imperial Household is not a long-term solution. Great Emperor Ziyang suffered a loss this time, and he will inevitably seek to regain his face in the future. When the two great nations go to war, we will be the ones charging at the forefront. How about we just run away?"

"Isn't there a place to stay anywhere in the world? Wherever we go, we sleep. A wandering life is still better than living with our heads hanging by our waistbands."

Su Youyu understood the danger of the current situation well.

There were some things she didn't say explicitly.

She knew her Big Sister's character well; she was not someone who disregarded the common people.

To outsiders, it seemed Big Sister was delayed by something, but in reality, she knew clearly that the strength Big Sister showed to force back Great Emperor Ziyang was definitely not permanent.

She must have used some trump card.

At this moment, she might be curled up alone in the imperial palace, lonely, licking her wounds.

She knew she had no way to persuade Big Sister, no way to make her give up the Mingyue Imperial Dynasty.

Likewise, she had no ability to play a crucial role in the national war, so why throw her life away senselessly?

Qin Xuan was even less burdened; he wasn't even from the Mingyue Imperial Dynasty to begin with!

"After we leave, we can secretly accumulate strength. When the Mingyue Imperial Dynasty is on the verge of collapse, we can intervene covertly. If possible, it would be best to knock Big Sister unconscious and take her away. If that's not possible, taking Zhou Chen, the core of the Mingyue Imperial Dynasty's future restoration, would also be enough to let Big Sister rest in peace."

Qin Xuan looked with interest at Su Youyu, who seemed to be looking far into the future, and asked suspiciously, "Your Big Sister, she doesn't seem to be dead yet?"

Su Youyu waved her hand dismissively. "No need to dwell on that; it's only a matter of time."

She wasn't surprised that Qin Xuan didn't know the inside story.

As one of the Seven Pearls of Mingyue, she knew some secrets.

Even a Prodigy as strong as Qin Xuan could not ascend to Great Emperor in a single night.

Let alone crossing two major Realms.

She knew her Big Sister was just a paper tiger, strong on the outside but weak on the inside; it was only a matter of time before Great Emperor Ziyang killed her.

Qin Xuan patted Su Youyu's shoulder and sighed earnestly, "It is truly a blessing for Empress Mingyue to have a sworn sister like you."

Su Youyu lowered her head and sighed helplessly, rarely revealing her true feelings, "As a double agent, it's wishful thinking to want to gain anyone's trust. I am destined not to be loyal material; I can only survive in the cracks, trying my best not to harm anyone who has shown me kindness, and trying my best not to become a great villain."

Bang! Bang!

It happened a third time; the sound of knocking on the door rose again outside.

Gulp!

Su Youyu hurriedly pushed away the arm Qin Xuan had draped over her shoulder, swallowed hard, and looked at Qin Xuan with wide, beautiful eyes, whispering, "It wouldn't be Third Sister, would it?"

Qin Xuan shook his head. "No."

"How do you know it's not Third Sister! The more you deny it, the more suspicious it looks."

At the thought of Third Sister's cold gaze, cold sweat broke out on Su Youyu's back.

She pinched a spell formula, wanting to tear through space and leave.

But she was worried that Third Sister would sense the aura of space shattering, catch up, and without asking any questions, skewer her like one of King Zhou Wu's remnants.

She pulled up the tablecloth, and before crawling under the table, she earnestly instructed Qin Xuan, "I haven't been here tonight, and I haven't said anything."

After speaking, she lowered her head and crawled under the table.

With half of her backside still sticking out, Su Youyu saw Wu Bingqing hiding under the table and was scared out of her wits.

She scrambled out from under the table as if crawling for her life.

Su Youyu was scared out of her mind.

Oh, heavens!

Why was Third Sister under the table?

Fortunately, she wasn't speaking ill of Third Sister; otherwise, her life would be over!

Hearing the increasingly urgent knocking on the door, Su Youyu didn't think twice and crawled under the ten-thousand-year-old Yuan wood bed.

"Yo, you're here too?"

Seeing Shangguan Ying hiding under the bed, Su Youyu greeted her familiarly.

She had no fear of Shangguan Ying at all, only thinking of her as a young girl who hadn't even grown her fur yet; what was there to be afraid of?

Shangguan Ying stared at Su Youyu with a half-smile and said coldly, "They say the Seven Pearls of Mingyue are sworn sisters, sharing honor and disgrace together, not asking to be born in the same year, month, and day, but asking to die in the same year, month, and day. Does the nonsense you said outside violate that original oath?"

"You little brat who hasn't even grown her fur, do you understand what social pleasantries are? A woman who has lived for hundreds of years and a teenage girl asking to die in the same year, month, and day—if she dares to say it, do you dare to believe it?"

Old woman...

The harsh address resonated particularly painfully in Shangguan Ying's ears.

Her voice grew even colder. "If I tell others that you want to be a deserter, guess how Empress Mingyue will deal with you?"

If not for the fact that Su Youyu still had more to say, Shangguan Ying would have wanted to slap Su Youyu to death right then and there.

Double agent!

And she had the nerve to say it out loud!

"Why do you talk so much? Shut up, don't talk nonsense. If you annoy Third Sister under the table, neither of us will survive!"

In the narrow space, Su Youyu twisted her body and reached out to cover Shangguan Ying's lips tightly, preventing her from speaking again.

Shangguan Ying wanted to resist, but when she raised her hand, she realized she couldn't move at all.

Looking down, Shangguan Ying felt bitter in her heart.

Even though Shangguan Ying's original figure had changed slightly, it still couldn't hide her proud chest, which was stuck in this narrow space, unable to move.

A tiger fallen to the plains is bullied by dogs.

She could only let Su Youyu be reckless with her.

Su Youyu tightly blocked Shangguan Ying's mouth, listening quietly to the footsteps outside the room.

But when she heard the person speak, she realized that the one who had arrived was Second Sister Ning Waner.

Listening to Ning Waner's monologue, she deeply agreed. She transmitted to Shangguan Ying, "You heard it too. My Big Sister is Empress Mingyue. The imperial family is the most heartless. It's not just me; even a confidant like Second Sister has developed disloyalty toward Big Sister. You, a Young Palace Master of the Double-Pupil Palace, haven't even met Big Sister, yet you're acting as a die-hard loyalist here?"

"It can't be that just because your Shangguan Family suffered a setback in the Ziyang Empire, you're now eager to pledge allegiance to my Big Sister, right?"

Shangguan Ying turned a deaf ear, only listening to Ning Waner talking in the room, feeling bitterness in her heart that she couldn't express.

These past few days, Ning Waner should have been busy with disaster relief, and because of the heavy casualties among the Aristocratic Families and the imperial clan, she should have been swamped with government affairs.

She should have been unable to get away!

As a result, Ning Waner, the tool who took all the heavy government affairs upon her shoulders for Qin Xuan, not only didn't complain about Qin Xuan slacking off, but even in her busy schedule, she found time to come over specifically to badmouth her?!

Was she truly that unbearable?

Or was it that Qin Xuan had subtly changed the hearts of her sworn sisters from the core?

Su Youyu was one thing, but how could even Ning Waner be like this?

What kind of love potion did this guy Qin Xuan feed them?

Making Wu Bingqing, that bloodthirsty Soul-Devouring Body, turn into a fool who only knows love, and making Ning Waner, the most dutiful and disciplined Inner Attendant, start revealing her secrets?