I became the God Brother of the Regent King after Transmigration!-Chapter 373 - 289: Dropped

The man’s name is Sai Guang, originally a confidant of the Empress Dowager Su, he is now under the Crown Prince.

The plan of the Empress Dowager Su and the Crown Prince was to use the people of the Empress Dowager to assassinate Gu Lan, with the Crown Prince responsible for framing others for the death.

However, Sai Guang did not expect that Zhao Cheng would turn and attack Rong Heng, and Little Xu would suddenly betray them, resulting in Gu Lan being unharmed and the Empress Dowager dead.

"Wait, how do you know Little Xu is a person of the Crown Prince?"

Gu Lan leaned against the tree trunk and asked, she wanted to sit down, but sitting would touch her wound, and the sash securing her belt seemed tangled, making her feel quite uncomfortable.

Sai Guang lowered his head and said in a deep voice:

"The Empress Dowager... the Empress Dowager liked to collect people who resembled Xie Xu of that year. The previous Little Xu was discovered by me to be a spy sent by the Emperor, so I killed him, but this Little Xu does not know martial arts and was originally a low-ranking eunuch in the Eastern Palace, but he resembled Xie Xu even more. Once, when the Crown Prince came to Yongshou Palace to meet the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager discovered him.

The Crown Prince, seeing that the Empress Dowager liked him, presented him to her. Now it seems that Little Xu was a spy the Crown Prince planted by the Empress Dowager’s side. The Empress Dowager ended up trusting the wrong person, pampering the wrong person."

It could be seen that Su Xinyu really liked Xie Xu. After all, not only did she collect so many of his similar figurines, but Little Xu was also the only one without any use still chosen by her to accompany to Lu State.

Sai Guang was still kneeling, his legs had been cut off by Gu Lan, continuing to bleed and staining the ground red.

Gu Lan said: "The Empress Dowager died at the hands of the Crown Prince she trusted most, no one else to blame. As for the Crown Prince... his position as Crown Prince was already unstable, yet he likes to keep courting death."

Sai Guang spat out a mouthful of blood, saying sorrowfully, "I intended to help the Empress Dowager kill you, but I couldn’t defeat you... it seems I can only go after the Empress Dowager. However, I hate that the Empress Dowager trusted the wrong person, Young Master, I hope one day you can bring Rong Qichun the punishment he deserves."

Gu Lan recalled Rong Qichun’s weeping at the palace gates, then thought of his cold and sinister look in Taihe Palace earlier.

Even after the Empress Dowager had given her power to him, he was still unsatisfied, even using Little Xu to murder her.

Perhaps in his mind, only with the Empress Dowager’s death would those powers truly belong to him.

Cold-hearted and ruthless, but lacking intelligence.

Gu Lan looked at Sai Guang, thoughtfully saying: "Even if you return alive, Rong Qichun won’t believe someone who fought me, got injured, yet survived... but if you really don’t want to die, if you want to return for revenge for the Empress Dowager, I can save you."

Sai Guang’s expression stuck for a moment, shaking his head helplessly, eyes reddening:

"No need, I’m just a crippled Death Warrior, even if I betray him, I can’t do anything to Rong Qichun, besides, I want to accompany the Empress Dowager, I’m afraid if I’m too late, the Empress Dowager will be lonely on her journey."

Gu Lan could tell there was a story between Sai Guang and Empress Dowager Su that she didn’t know, but she didn’t want to hear it, nor did she tell him that Empress Dowager Su wasn’t dead yet.

Since they’re colleagues, let him die without any regrets.

"By the way," Sai Guang added, "Rong Qichun seems to be plotting against the Second Prince as well, but I don’t know how he plans to do it."

Gu Lan: "It has nothing to do with me, nor with you."

"Indeed."

Sai Guang picked up the knife on the ground, intending to stab himself in the back. He looked at Gu Lan one last time, seriously saying:

"Young Master Gu, you are the second person who doesn’t mind that I’m a eunuch. I came to kill you, but was killed by you. Consider it a worthy death, farewell."

Gu Lan wanted to say something to amplify the sad atmosphere of the moment, but just then, the belt that had been desperately holding up on her body suddenly snapped with a "crack" sound, the silk completely breaking.

This awkward feeling was like pants suddenly falling, Gu Lan’s expression changed, quickly lowering her head, only to see the belt slipping with her clothing down to the area above her right knee, forming a bulge.

"Um... do you want to hear my explanation?" Gu Lan asked, pressing the bulge to prevent it from completely falling off.

This scene made Sai Guang’s previously dim eyes widen somewhat.

"Turns out... you’re like me."

Sai Guang’s face displayed a bewildering expression; he showed an enlightened smile and then slashed his own throat with the knife.

"Like me?"

Gu Lan twitched the corner of her mouth, realizing that Sai Guang must have misunderstood her as a eunuch, a perverted eunuch who likes to wear fake belts!

"Who the hell is like you, listen to my explanation, damn it... dead?"

Sai Guang couldn’t hear her explanation anymore, his neck-slitting was so quick that she couldn’t stop it, spraying a shower of blood and then collapsing with a "plop," his eyes instantly becoming lifeless, even Rong Heng couldn’t save him like this. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Gu Lan, enduring her throbbing temple, closed Sai Guang’s unpeaceful eyes, then dragged him to the foot of the tree and placed him there.

With Sai Guang dead, the forest was completely safe. She needed to tidy up and quickly get back.

Gu Lan looked around nervously, ensuring the distant firelight was still a few miles away, before taking out the medicinal powder she just found, intending to apply medicine to herself.

She was about to untie her belt when her heart skipped a beat, her hand paused on the belt, and she looked at Sai Guang’s corpse.

There was always a feeling that doing anything in front of a corpse seemed odd.

Gu Lan led Hong, listened carefully in the forest, and found a little stream not far away.

The gurgling stream sparkled under the moonlight, like a glowing Milky Way. Hong broke free from the reins and happily ran to the shore to drink water.

Gu Lan looked at it, then at her own blood-stained self, finally abandoning the idea of bathing.

She only had one set of clothes, and bathing in the wild would easily lead to unexpected misfortunes, a conclusion Young Master Gu drew from extensive reading.

Gu Lan touched the belt stuck at her knee, took a deep breath, and untied the belt.

Since she had already removed her outer robe, untying it left only her inner garments and breast band, but at least she could see the injury more clearly.

Sure enough, that arrow had cut through the silk fixing her belt, the strap broke, and blood had soaked the hem of her inner garment, the night wind blew, chilling her with a sneeze.

Since it was broken, Gu Lan simply pulled the belt off completely, seeing it was covered with filthy blood, she really didn’t even want to look at it.

Forget it, she would wash it later.

If it hadn’t been with her for so long, carrying emotional value, she definitely would have thrown it away.

She had to admit, the moment she untied the belt, she felt a long-lost relief.

Just when Gu Lan planned to set aside the dirty belt and apply medicine to her wound, footsteps sounded from behind, and she swiftly turned around.

Rong Heng, her good brother, was standing a few meters away.

He wasn’t on horseback, controlling his breathing, his face flushed, clearly having run all the way.

Gu Lan’s mind went blank, her body froze like a hard statue, the thing in her hand dripping blood, the ribbon floating up in the wind.

In the silence, Gu Lan only heard a few crows cawing in the woods.

"Caw, caw, caw—"

As if mocking her.

She... telling Rong Heng now that he was dreaming, would he believe it?

A long time passed,

Rong Heng extended his hand, pointing at the bloody belt in Gu Lan’s hand, calmly saying:

"Hold it still, I’ll mend it for you."