Chapter 3110 — The Eldest Miss's Confession
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"Th-this... in reply to the Palace Master, yes!" The black-clad elder broke into a sweat and answered hastily. He too had come to see that Gu Mengyao was no one to be trifled with. Even the Grand Elder dared not provoke her too far; she was utterly unlike the old Ye Rou'er. So the black-clad elder did not dare be negligent either.
"Oh. I don't like the look of him. Starting tomorrow, have him clean the toilets of the Dark Night Palace," Gu Mengyao said.
"This..." The black-clad elder had still thought highly of Zhao Qibing, and had once intended to make the boy his own successor. To send him off to scrub toilets now—he was rather unwilling.
"Black-clad, so you're unwilling?" The eldest miss's face turned cold.
"Black-clad, do you no longer wish to be an elder? If he won't scrub, then you'll scrub alongside him!" The Grand Elder grew anxious at once. She had finally managed to talk Gu Mengyao around, and now she was about to return to the Dark Night Palace—and here you were, stirring up trouble again. Do you have a death wish?
"Yes... then let Qibing go scrub the toilets..." the black-clad elder said in a great fright.
"Mm." Gu Mengyao nodded, her expression softening a little. She had long found Zhao Qibing an eyesore, but she had not raised him as a bargaining chip with the Grand Elder, because dealing with Zhao Qibing was, for the eldest miss who had become Palace Master of the Dark Night Palace, a matter of lifting a finger. Why bother to make it a condition?
Her condition was just that one. The Grand Elder could agree or refuse, but agree she must. Had there been more conditions, the Grand Elder could have picked one or two to grant and rejected the rest, and Gu Mengyao would have been helpless. This was the eldest miss's cleverness.
Of course, the eldest miss had not driven Zhao Qibing out of the Dark Night Palace either. The brat was far too sly and vicious; Gu Mengyao wanted him kept right under her nose, so that at the slightest rash move she could catch him at once—and so that she could keep tormenting him in fresh ways. It counted as venting a little of her pent-up anger.
"Then may we go now?" the Grand Elder asked.
"Mm..." The eldest miss nodded. With some reluctance she lifted her head and looked at the villa again, one last look, then smiled at Wei Zhao, Xiaoshu, and Xu Shilan, turned, and walked out of the villa with resolve.
Goodbye... Gu Mengyao said in her heart. But I will soon cultivate to the great perfection of the peak late Heaven Rank, and when that time comes, the Dark Night Palace will truly be mine to command. Then no one will be able to stop me. I will come back...
"Yao Yao..." Shen Yushu's eyes were red-rimmed, and she could not help calling out.
Gu Mengyao's steps faltered slightly as she left the villa. She stopped, turned back, and looked at Xiaoshu. "Xiaoshu, be good... I'm leaving, but I can still come back! From now on, no more mischief. At home, you listen to Wei Zhao, understand?"
"Oh..." Shen Yushu nodded obediently.
"Wei Zhao, goodbye... Take good care of Xiaoshu for me... I'm leaving her in your hands." Gu Mengyao had meant to walk away without looking back, but Xiaoshu's call had stopped her. She turned her head and looked at Wei Zhao, her heart full of reluctance.
This was the ache of parting from one's dearest. In that moment, the eldest miss realized how deeply she clung to Wei Zhao, how little she wished to be parted from him.
I like him? Yes... I like him!
In an instant, Gu Mengyao finally confirmed her own heart.
So often, only after losing something do we learn how much it mattered.
So it was true—I like him...
"Don't worry," Wei Zhao nodded.
"Wei Zhao..." Gu Mengyao bit her lip. Now that she understood her own heart, she did not want to leave with any regret. She wanted to tell Wei Zhao how she felt, yet the words would not come out.