Chapter 2621: Scraped Skin

She stuck close to the wall, taking one step, two steps, three steps. She opened her eyes, eager to take a few more steps to reach the stairway. As long as she reached the stairs, she could escape easily. The more Gu Lingqiao thought about it, the happier she became.

Unfortunately, things didn’t go as she wished.

At that moment, perhaps due to excessive joy, her foot slipped. After a dizzying swirl, she landed flat on her back on the ground.

"Oh my! Why am I so unlucky?" she cursed under her breath, not daring to shout loudly, fearing the guards would notice.

Her knee, she wasn’t sure if it was scraped, hurt so much that cold sweat broke out, yet she dared not utter a sound.

Just as she was about to quietly get up and continue her escape, she saw a pair of boots standing before her.

Gu Lingqiao carefully looked up along the boots, eyes suddenly brightening when Lin Kong appeared, having descended from the roof.

"Oh my goodness! Brother Kong, they’re killing me; those people want to kill Tingting. Hurry and help Tingting kill them to avenge her."

"Really?"

Lin Kong’s voice was icily cold.

"Yes! Look, my knee is bleeding. Luckily, our Xiao Bao is strong and unharmed." Gu Lingqiao quickly got up, hugged Lin Kong’s waist tightly, as if certain this man would take her away.

At that moment, Long Rui shouted from below: "National Adviser Lin, what’s wrong with you? Trying to steal my woman, are you? I don’t mind giving up the woman, as I have plenty, but leave the child in her belly for me."

Gu Lingqiao was bewildered: "Brother Kong, what is he saying?"

Lin Kong growled through gritted teeth: "That question is for you. Clearly carrying the War Prince’s child, yet blaming it on the State Preceptor. The old maid was right, you are indeed a cunning person. Back then, the State Preceptor pitied you, gave you ten taels of silver to buy a coffin for your father, but unexpectedly rescued a cunning person instead. How foolish I was to save you, only to end up like this today."

Gu Lingqiao was dumbfounded and quickly said: "No, no, Brother Kong, please don’t believe that ugly creature’s nonsense. Tingting truly has nothing with him."

"At this moment, you’re still trying to deceive me?" Lin Kong shouted furiously.

If it weren’t for this woman’s betrayal, how could Long Rui bring so many people to capture him?

"Brother Kong!"

"Get lost!"

Standing at the stairway entrance, Gu Lingqiao faced Lin Kong’s extreme anger, who kicked her hard...

His martial power was already profound, and with stimulated acupoints, his power surged threefold. The force in his leg was immense, this kick directly sent Gu Lingqiao from the second-floor stairway to the opposite wall in the hall.

Gu Lingqiao howled, spitting blood as she fell to the floor.

Seeing this, everyone sighed involuntarily.

No one expected the usually arrogant Gu Lingqiao to end up like that.

What exactly happened between her and the Prince? How did she end up secretly meeting Lin Kong at Qinger Building?

Moreover, hadn’t the Prince and Princess Consort had a falling out, with one going back home and the other unwilling to fetch her? How come the two seemed so close now?

And unitedly besieged Lin Kong.

The master’s mind, the guards admitted they didn’t understand.

Lovers turned merciless, unreliable now. Gu Lingqiao turned her gaze to Long Rui, extended a trembling hand, and cried out: "Brother Rui, save me!"

The once fully compliant Long Rui, now didn’t even glance at her.

If it hadn’t been for his and his wife’s plan to use this woman to lure Lin Kong out, she’d have been sent to Western Heaven with one strike, no residues remaining for her to stir trouble at the War Prince’s Mansion, almost making his wife suspect his infidelity.