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The Unstoppable Lady: Fortune Meets Power (Web Novel) - Chapter 1605: 773 Super Sister Complex 3
Chapter 1605: 773 Super Sister Complex 3
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Ye Qing couldn’t help but glance at the National Master again.“What should we do? The door won’t budge—huh? It’s open! It’s open!”
Of course, it opened. Xiao Hen had activated the secret mechanism.
He did it very carefully, making it appear as though Ya He had simply pried the iron door open to the untrained eye.
But Ye Qing knew very well that this iron door couldn’t be pried open with tools.
The Crown Prince Changsun and Xiao Liulang thought locking it from the inside would prevent others from breaking in, but in fact, there was a main mechanism outside the iron door that could easily cause it to collapse instantly with a gentle pull.
This main mechanism was known only to Ye Qing and the National Master.
Ye Qing really wanted to ask his master why he didn’t open the door.
But he ultimately asked nothing.
He was the master’s disciple; he only needed to trust and follow his master.
After everyone entered the Secret Room, Gu Jiao calmly said, “You all go out. She can’t be moved easily. I need to sew her wound here. Your Highness Changsun, please go to my room and fetch my first aid kit.”
“Alright,” Xiao Hen replied.
“National Master,” the Emperor turned towards the National Master.
Gu Jiao was really worried this guy would say, “Let me take a look.” That would expose the whole plan.
But the National Master said, “Your Majesty, let us step aside.”
The Emperor seeing him say that, didn’t insist on letting the National Master treat her, after all, last time it was Xiao Liulang who pulled Shangguan Yun back from the gates of death.
It seemed Xiao Liulang’s medical skills indeed surpassed those of the National Master.
Everyone left the Secret Room.
Xiao Hen fetched Gu Jiao’s small first aid kit and then left the Secret Room himself.
He had reasons to stay inside, but staying outside was safer. First, to prevent others from breaking in, and second, to deal with Gu Chengfeng’s “body.”
The Emperor’s eyes were bloodshot, his headache flaring up again.
Xiao Hen supported him, saying with concern, “Grandfather, please rest in the adjacent room. Leave the matters here to me.”
The Emperor nodded and went to the room opposite.
Xiao Hen called his driver and asked him to find a place to bury the “body.”
Inside the Secret Room, Shangguan Yun was asleep.
To achieve the effect of excessive blood loss, Shangguan Yun had taken some medication to lower her body temperature and weaken her pulse, the side effect being drowsiness.
Gu Jiao hadn’t expected she would actually fall asleep.
How carefree could one be?
Shangguan Yun: Hmph, doesn’t it take no effort to shed tears?
Gu Jiao first removed the blood packs and pork prop from Shangguan Yun’s body, changed her into clean clothes, and then took out the small first aid kit, placing it into the recessed niche in the wall.
Today’s events were a setup from beginning to end.
From the moment Gu Changqing was seriously injured and came to find Gu Jiao, he had decided to use his wound to do one last thing for her.
He intended to fake an assassination attempt on the Princess and frame the Crown Prince.
Everyone knew he was the Crown Prince’s close advisor and had participated in the selection process under the Han Family’s guise.
Even if the Crown Prince wanted to claim he was a spy, it was unlikely anyone would believe it.
But after rehearsing a few scenes, they realized this method had flaws. Gu Changqing had frequented the National Master Hall, where the disciples recognized him, and Pang Hai also knew Gu Changqing had saved “Xiao Liulang.”
Gu Changqing had befriended “Xiao Liulang” first before joining the Crown Prince, which clearly made it seem that they had planted Gu Changqing in the Crown Prince’s mansion as a spy.
With a shift in thoughts, Xiao Hen devised a new plan. He had Xiaojiu send a message to bring Gu Chengfeng over.
Gu Chengfeng had to be fast, arriving before the Crown Prince could forcibly search the National Master Hall, disguised as Gu Changqing.
He was originally Gu Changqing’s younger brother, with similar facial features, and with Gu Jiao’s superb makeup skills, unfamiliar people would never notice the difference.
Apart from Gu Chengfeng, the success of the entire plan hinged on two other critical points.
The first was to distract the death warriors guarding the Secret Room. Although Xiao Hen knew no martial arts, he could easily mislead two National Master Hall death warriors with his status as Grandson Prince.
The old brewing master’s disciples were that capable.
Once the death warriors were misled, Gu Jiao brought Gu Chengfeng and Gu Changqing into the Secret Room. She took out her small first aid kit and had Gu Changqing lie in the Operating Room.
Which was actually a different dimensional space; after taking the first aid kit, it would be unreachable to others.
As for Gu Chengfeng, he would be left in the Secret Room.
Time was tight, and Gu Jiao didn’t have the chance to properly lock the copper lock.
She genuinely worried the National Master might detect something odd, guess it was her doing, and deceive the Emperor to clean up her mess.
Why did she feel the National Master would cover for her? Even she couldn’t explain. Clearly, he was cunning, yet she feared he would help her.
It was a peculiar worry.
Fortunately, the National Master didn’t ask Ye Qing to shelter her.
Allowing the rest of the plan to proceed smoothly.
The second key to success was the Emperor.
In the original plan, they intended to stir up uncontrollable chaos with the Crown Prince in Qilin Palace, alarming the Emperor, but unexpectedly, the Emperor came on his own.
At least half an hour ahead of schedule.
Don’t underestimate this half-hour; the sooner the plan was completed, the sooner Gu Jiao could enter the Operating Room to rescue Gu Changqing.
They were racing against Lord King Yama; the Little Princess granted them the hope of saving Gu Changqing by chance.
Beep, beep, beep…
Cold mechanical sounds came from the instruments.
Gu Jiao walked over.
Gu Changqing, already changed into patient attire, lay weakly on the operating table.
His injuries were severe, his consciousness already blurry, but as Gu Jiao approached in surgical attire, he seemed to sense something, slowly opening his heavy eyelids.
He wore an oxygen mask, unable to speak.
“Don’t speak,” Gu Jiao noticed his breathing, “Save your strength. Also, I’m about to perform surgery.”
After speaking, she prepared to administer the anesthetic but found no anesthetic in the medicine cabinet.
She suddenly recalled that Gu Changqing had a rare resistance to anesthetics.
The small first aid kit had already assessed him, so it hadn’t prepared anesthesia for him; the last time at the border pass, she had performed live suturing on him.
But it wasn’t as severe last time; he could endure it.
Gu Jiao suddenly felt the surgical knife in her hand grow heavy, as if it weighed a thousand pounds.
She took a deep breath to calm herself.
Gu Changqing’s heart rate and blood pressure began to plummet, and red lines appeared on the instruments, sounding alarms.
Gu Jiao frowned, realizing Gu Changqing’s injuries were more serious than her earlier diagnosis.
Gu Changqing… had been using his last bit of inner strength to stabilize his injuries, making them appear less severe!
He didn’t have an hour to wait; he couldn’t even hold on for half an hour!
Gu Jiao gripped the surgical knife tightly: “Why would you do this?”
If she had known his injuries were this grave, she wouldn’t have agreed to the plan to topple the Crown Prince. She would have performed surgery right here, as the Crown Prince couldn’t find them anyway!
Gu Changqing weakly looked at his sister, his bloodless lips slightly curling.
I want to send Xiao Jingkong home, and I also want to send you home.
Even if I fall, I want to fall as your stepping stone, paving another stretch of road for you back home.
