Water Reflects Peach Blossoms

"If Sister Ayun were here, she certainly wouldn't want to implicate innocent people, right?"

Gong Ziyu looked into Gong Yunzheng's clear eyes, eager to seek her approval, but when he saw that she just smiled at him without saying anything, he suddenly realized something.

So, the reason she didn't see me last night was because she agreed with her father...

Gong Ziyu tightened his hands hidden in his sleeves and forced himself to calm down.

"Of course I don't want to kill innocent people," Gong Yunzheng said softly, comforting Gong Ziyu when he saw his grim expression, "I also don't want the palace to fall into danger."

Gong Ziyu said dejectedly: "I know."

He suddenly felt embarrassed. Sister Ayun saw through his lie but did not expose him.

...Sister Ayun has always been such a gentle person.

"Brother Zi Yu, aren't you going to get your mask back?" Gong Yunzheng said gently, "Go quickly. The women's quarters are occupied by brides-to-be. Come back once you've gotten the mask. Staying too long might affect the girls' reputations."

"I understand." Gong Ziyu glanced at Gong Yunzheng twice. Seeing that she was really not angry, he felt relieved: "Sister Yun, then I will go?"

"Hurry up." It was such an eyesore here, Gong Yuanzheng impatiently drove him away.

Reciting in his mind that a good brother doesn't fight with a bad brother, Gong Ziyu rolled his eyes at Gong Yuanzheng and turned away.

After Gong Ziyu walked away, Gong Yuanzheng asked, "Sister, Gong Ziyu lied to you, aren't you angry?"

Gong Yunzheng stared at Gong Ziyu's back, not knowing what to think. "I was angry, but then I thought about his naturally kind and gentle heart, and I couldn't get angry anymore."

"..."

The smile that had just appeared on Gong Yuanzheng's lips disappeared immediately.

What kind and tender heart? In his eyes, it was just stupid and gullible. Gong Ziyu, that loser, always used this to make his sister soft-hearted!

The boy mumbled a little emotionally, but he didn't show it on his face: "I'll take my sister's pulse to see how effective the Baizhi Jincao tea is."

Upon hearing this, Gong Yunzheng pulled up his sleeves, revealing his wrists as slender as jade.

Although he was feeling a little emotional, Gong Yuanzheng was very serious about taking her pulse. After a moment, he withdrew his hand and said happily, "The medicine is taking effect steadily. Sister can move back home now."

"I have to go see Zheng Nanyiyi." Gong Yunzheng looked towards the women's guest house, where the assassin without a sharp edge was hiding.

Gong Yuanzheng said without hesitation: "I'll accompany my sister."

……

Deep in the dripping dungeon, the damp and cold environment made Gong Yunzheng shrink his body involuntarily.

Her health was not good to begin with, and she naturally couldn't stand the temperature in the dungeon, which was even colder than the outside world.

Noticing her strangeness immediately, Gong Yuanzheng stopped and hesitated, "Sister..."

"It's nothing, I just feel a little cold." Gong Yunzheng insisted on seeing Zheng Nanyiyi.

Unable to persuade his sister, Gong Yuanzheng could only say, "Then let's move faster."

Zheng Nanyiyi was imprisoned in the lowest level of the dungeon, in the center of the water prison. She was shackled to the rack, and her wrists were stained with blood from the cold iron. The carefully applied red nail polish and the expensive red wedding dress with intricate patterns looked extremely ironic compared to her weak and pale but still bright face.

Zheng Nanyiyi is very beautiful. Her beauty is majestic and aggressive. There is a crimson glow in the corners of her gentle eyes, which is the pain after being tortured.

Hearing the sound, the woman tortured on the rack slowly raised her head, her bloodless lips trembling, but her eyes were fierce.

Seeing the young man in gray-blue clothes walking towards her, who looked like a nobleman, Zheng Nanyi was stunned for a moment, a sarcastic smile escaping his lips: "What? A new trick so soon?"

"I advise you to give up as soon as possible. I won't say anything."

"Whether you tell the truth or not is not determined by your mouth, but by whether your body can withstand the poison that is coming." Gong Yuanzheng said in a soft voice.

He rarely spoke in such a gentle voice, and the gentle tone coupled with his innocent expression was particularly divisive in the bloody dungeon.

Zheng Nanyi sneered disdainfully: "What other tricks do you have? Feel free to use them."

"You're lucky. I'm not here to torture you." Gong Yuanzheng moved aside and said, "Someone wants to see you."

As the young man stepped aside, Zheng Nanyiyi saw the woman standing behind him. She was as radiant as light and as elegant as orchid. Such a peerless woman like a pearl should not appear in such a dirty and bloody place.

The woman was petite, and because the boy was so tall, Zheng Nanyiyi didn't even notice that there was actually someone standing behind Gong Yuanzheng.

It is also possible that she has become unconscious due to the torture of poison.

Looking at the woman in front of him, Zheng Nanyi said weakly and coldly: "I don't know you."

"I don't know you either," Gong Yunzheng walked forward. She smelled the stench of rotting blood. "I came to see you because of Wu Feng."

Hearing Wu Feng, Zheng Nanyi was stunned for a moment, then became impeccable again: "Then I'm afraid you've come here in vain. I have nothing to say about Wu Feng."

Gong Yunzheng looked at the extremely miserable woman in front of him. When he saw the burnt area and festering area under her slightly open collar, revealing her bloody skin, his gaze froze for a moment.

This poison once made Yuanzheng's interrogation invincible. Few people could endure this burning and heart-wrenching pain, but I didn't expect that she could actually make it through it.

"I heard you're the daughter of the Hunyuan Zheng family. The Zheng family has always been on good terms with the palace. Why are you an assassin without a sharp edge?" Gong Yunzheng stared at Zheng Nanyi's face, not missing any of her subtle expressions. "Or should I ask, are you an imposter, or the real Second Miss Zheng?"

Zheng Nanyiyi still had the same expression and said nothing.

Seeing this, Gong Yunzheng continued in a steady voice, "If you really are the daughter of the Zheng family, have you ever considered what kind of disaster your actions will bring to the entire family?"

"If you weren't, I'm afraid the real Zheng family would have been wiped out by Wu Feng long ago, right?"

Sensitively catching the quick sneer in Zheng Nanyi's eyes, Gong Yunzheng continued to attack her psychological defenses: "There is another possibility. The Zheng family has secretly surrendered to Wufeng, and Wufeng will protect the Zheng family."

"But you and I both know that Wufeng is best at killing. They don't bother to protect anyone. You are already Wufeng's abandoned child. Not to mention that you are no longer useful to Wufeng after being abandoned. If you are interrogated by the palace, it may expose Wufeng's Zheng family."

After hearing these words, the expression on Zheng Nanyiyi's face finally changed. Her eyes turned red with pain and despair as if she had figured out something. She clenched her teeth and her whole body exuded a deep sorrow. The moment she closed her eyes, tears fell and her whole face wrinkled.

The beauty of misery and despair.

However, when she opened her eyes again, only determination remained in those eyes that were filled with grief and anger, worse than death.

She looked at Gong Yunzheng stubbornly, the red corners of her eyes like her heart which was extremely sad but still wanted to protect something. Then, she lowered her head, and her eyelashes slowly fell to cover everything in her eyes, expressing with her actions her attitude of waiting to die.

Gong Yunzheng stared at her, not understanding why Zheng Nanyiyi still didn't intend to say anything even though she had broken down his psychological defenses.

After a moment, her eyes moved slightly, and she was incredulous: "Are you doing this for love?"