Pampered Poisonous Royal Wife (WN)

Chapter 2348: Chapter 662: The Playboy Disappears, Heading to Country Zi

"Miss An?" Seeing An Yiqing all of a sudden, Guh Siqi was a little surprised. "Why are you here?"

An Yiqing walked in and closed the door, then put the herbal medicine that An Zhifeng had just brought in on the bedside table.

"You really don’t remember anything?" she asked.

Guh Siqi shook his head in confusion. Wasn’t he sleeping at home?

An Yiqing showed an expression of "just as I thought." She dragged a chair over and sat by the bed, giving Guh Siqi a cool glance. "You were poisoned. I’m the one who got you out of the Guh Family. This is one of my houses, and you’ve been unconscious for two days."

"Poisoned?!" Guh Siqi cried out and abruptly sat up in bed. Because he got up too fast, and his body was weak, his vision went black and he swayed, collapsing back down again.

An Yiqing picked up the bowl of medicine and handed it to him. "I just dragged you back from the Hall of Yama King. Your body’s still very weak. This is a tonic, drink it."

Guh Siqi stared blankly as he took the bowl, and without thinking, downed the medicine in one go. An Yiqing raised her brows, a bit surprised by how much he trusted her.

"How come I don’t remember any of it?" After drinking the medicine, Guh Siqi swallowed the bitter liquid left in his mouth, his brows tightly knitted.

"That night when you left Prosperous Haoting, I was worried something might happen to you, so I put a bug on your clothes. The next day my people sensed something was wrong. When I rushed to the Guh Family Mansion, you were basically about to kick the bucket. Young Master Guh, think carefully about what you ate and drank after you got home that night."

Guh Siqi’s brows twisted into a knot. "That night after I left Prosperous Haoting, I went to a friend’s place and didn’t go back until the early hours. Once I got back I went straight to my room and didn’t eat anything. Then I drank a bowl of sobering soup and went to sleep."

"Sobering soup?" An Yiqing cut him off. "Who made it?"

Guh Siqi froze. "I don’t know who made it, but it was the Butler who delivered..." His voice halted, and his expression suddenly darkened. "Could it be that he poisoned me?!"

"The poison you took is relatively mild. It makes people die gradually in their sleep. And after death, the toxin disperses on its own, leaving no trace of poisoning at all. Young Master Guh, you didn’t finish that sobering soup, did you?"

Guh Siqi nodded. "Right, I had some red wine with my friend and didn’t feel that drunk, so I only took a few sips of that sobering soup."

"No wonder." An Yiqing gave him a strange look. "I don’t know whether to call you lucky or unlucky. If you’d finished that bowl, even a Daluo Golden Immortal wouldn’t have been able to save you."

Guh Siqi tugged at the corner of his mouth, forcing out a smile uglier than crying. He was the dignified Third Young Master of the Guh Family—how would a mere butler dare poison him? Unless he had higher-level approval.

He pinched his face hard, but still couldn’t wrap his head around the fact that his own grandfather had actually wanted him dead by poison.

"Young Master Guh, maybe it wasn’t the Patriarch Guh who did the poisoning. It could well be someone else." An Yiqing suddenly said.

Guh Siqi was stunned, then looked up at An Yiqing, his expression indecipherable.

"Miss An, do you know something?"

An Yiqing smiled but didn’t answer. She put the bowl back on the tray and slowly stood up. "I don’t know all that much about your Guh Family affairs, but I do know this: your death wouldn’t benefit Guh Tian in the slightest. Guh Siyi’s whereabouts are currently unknown; Guh Tian wouldn’t possibly want you dead. Think carefully—who else is there in the Guh Family?"

An Yiqing carried the tray out of the room and pulled the door shut behind her. Guh Siqi leaned against the headboard, maintaining the same posture, his brows locked together.

Who else is there in the Guh Family? He turned that question over and over in his mind, and gradually, a figure surfaced in his thoughts.

Second Grandpa? Could it be him?

After returning the bowl to the kitchen, An Yiqing headed to the front hall. Zhang Yufeng had been waiting there a while; when he saw An Yiqing coming, he immediately went up to her.

"How’s that old fox Guh Tian?" An Yiqing walked straight to the main seat and sat down, asking softly.

A hint of oddness flashed in Zhang Yufeng’s eyes. "Miss, Guh Tian’s reaction is very strange, as if Guh Siqi’s disappearance has nothing to do with him at all. It’s Yu Hai instead—once he heard that Guh Siqi hadn’t come home for three days, he made a show of sending people out to look for him."

An Yiqing narrowed her clear eyes slightly and touched her chin. "Logically speaking, with his only grandson missing, no matter how power-hungry Guh Tian is, he couldn’t possibly have no reaction at all. Unless... he knows Guh Siqi is with me—or he has no idea Guh Siqi is missing in the first place?"