Chapter 440: Chapter 440

The silver instrument, with its dark open end, was aimed at Xia Xi’s mouth.

Gu Tong raised an eyebrow expressionlessly, taking on a ’say one more word and see what happens’ stance.

Xia Xi shrank her neck and instinctively made a motion of sealing her mouth, then spread her hands, indicating, ’All right, I won’t say anything more.’

Gu Tong glared at her, retracted the laser, and turned again to walk up the mountain.

A mountain cave, dark enough to swallow everything.

The only remaining candlelight was the burning dry reeds.

Reeds are also known as rushlights, once the wicks in oil lamps.

As long as they soak in oil, they can burn for a long time.

Xia Xi had all sorts of miscellaneous things on her, including calming essential oil, which she readily offered up.

The essential oil bottle could serve as a lamp stand, only lighting part of the reeds, like a candle.

Moreover, it could avoid producing dense smoke.

After doing all this, she had a look of asking for praise, but in the next second, her lips twitched, and she pouted again...

Gu Tong, that rascal, leaned against the cave wall, resting with eyes closed, not giving her a glance.

Xia Xi poked her fingers, feeling wronged...

The entire cave fell into dead silence again. Gu Tong didn’t speak, and Xia Xi didn’t dare say another word.

She cautiously leaned forward, observing Gu Tong’s actions, afraid she might suddenly get beaten... she couldn’t run away...

"Is your family’s Gong reliable?"

Who knows how much time passed before Gu Tong finally spoke, spreading her hand, looking at the stinging spot in her palm, with a blood thorn lodged there, she forcefully plucked it out.

Xia Xi watched and felt the pain herself, swallowed, and said, "Ahem... should be reliable... anyway, every time I’m in danger, he shows up on time, without fail..."

"When you drank the poisonous love wine, he clearly didn’t show up!" Gu Tong teased.

"..." Poisonous love wine... what the hell...

Xia Xi nearly spit blood; the poison she drank clearly didn’t have that name...

Yet she couldn’t help but remember her state before dying...

Ahem... quite similar...

"Life is full of surprises, always unexpected..."

Xia Xi forced a smile to cover her embarrassment, saying, "Uh... if he doesn’t come this time... I’ll never be Gong’s wife in this life..."

In her heart, she silently prayed that the Gong must come, never letting her embarrass herself in front of Xue Tong, that would be utterly disgraceful.

"The most important person to you is Gong Chenli!" Gu Tong captured the key point, yet it was also something she had long suspected.

Judging from Xia Xi’s relationship with Gong Chenli, it wasn’t hard for her to guess the critical aspect.

They were obviously in a romantic relationship...

Xia Xi pursed her lips, unsure what to say for a while, her words seemed swallowed, entirely drained of strength...

"Yes..." She answered so faintly that even she could barely hear it.

However, Gu Tong caught it! Her eyes never left her palm, but her mind never stopped pondering.

Before this mission, Gu Tong never dreamed that Xia Xi would have a connection with Gong Chenli.

Moreover, Gong Chenli was also an important link in Li Yan’s death in the past life!

Everything interconnected, intertwined with layers, some of which even intersected.

Gu Tong found it hard to detect a pattern from it. Latest content publıshed on 𝖓𝖔𝖛𝖊𝖑~𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖾~𝖓𝖊𝖙

But Xia Xi spoke, "You are the widow of Prince Li, aren’t you..."