Chapter 839 - 841: Escape from the Wolf’s Den (3)
"Useless!"
Jin Guifei erupted with fury, her phoenix eyes sharply coming to life as a sense of aloof and piercing coldness burst forth from her elegant visage. With a "slap" on the table, she exclaimed angrily, "To think I entrusted you with such faith, and yet you can’t even handle a woman. If that’s the case, why should I keep you around?"
Upon hearing this, Sun Maotai was instantly terrified, his face turning ashen. With a "splash," he knelt down and began kowtowing audibly with "thud thud thud."
"Your Highness, spare my life, please give your servant one more chance, I will surely not fail my mission..."
Gritting her teeth, Jin Guifei said sternly, "Get out, if you are this useless again, I will certainly not keep you!"
Sun Maotai kowtowed once more and scurried away, rolling and crawling. Li Shanggong, seeing Jin Guifei’s anger, hurried forward to pat her chest to calm her, speaking in a gentle and soft voice, "Your Highness, there is no need to worry, we still have a card up our sleeve."
Jin Guifei said, "Counting the days, Mu Caiwei has been gone for twenty days now; she should be close to Lingbei by now, right?"
Li Shanggong said, "Exactly. As long as Mu Caiwei reaches Lingbei, she will definitely find a way to kill King Qin. At that time, no matter how great military merits King Qin has achieved, what good are they if he’s dead?"
"Ah, King Qin is always crafty; it won’t be easy to kill him. Over the years, I can’t remember how many times I’ve sent people to kill him. Each time I believed it would be successful, but in reality, he’s always escaped. Take this northern campaign, for example, I placed more than a dozen spikes close to him, and he pulled every single one out and even sent me their heads... I can’t be certain of success this time either!"