Qin Chongxue's corpse lay between Geng Hanfu and Wenren Xu. The two men were separated by the body, and by a safe distance.
The island was thick with lush jungle. Wenren Xu lit a small fire, illuminating Geng Hanfu's contemplative face.
Geng Hanfu asked, "You switched out the Orchid Medicine Old Qin was going to give Mei Chengyu ahead of time. So before coming to Taiyi, you knew Old Qin wasn't going to kill Mei Chengyu?"
"Just as Old Qin said, although the young lady hates the Young Master to the core and is ruthless in how she does things, she wouldn't easily lose her reason. If she killed the Young Master at Taiyi, cleaning up afterward wouldn't be easy."
Wenren Xu held out the flame in his palm, illuminating Qin Chongxue's face, his eyes still wide open in death. "Old Qin said he was going to Taiyi to kill the Young Master. That only made me suspicious, so I came to Taiyi with him."
As he spoke, he rubbed his chin with his other hand and smiled inscrutably. "Thanks to Old Qin, this job went very well."
If he had used another method to break the seal inside the Young Master, that old monster or someone else would have noticed. Having Qin Chongxue, an "outsider," do it had saved him a lot of trouble.
"He was the Eldest Princess's son," Geng Hanfu said gravely. "Which means that back then..."
Wenren Xu raised his eyes to look at him and shook his head. With his scarlet eyes and their swaying outer corners, he looked like a venomous snake gazing down at someone.
"If Mu Yong'an had gone to the Young Master first back then, none of this would have happened."
Geng Hanfu could only manage a bitter laugh. "Do you