"Miss Lv Zhi, Miss Bai’s dicine is ready. If there’s nothing else, we’ll escort the two ladies back to the mansion now," the guard of the Mu Mansion said coldly from behind Lv Zhi.
Lv Zhi quickly collected herself, turned, and smiled at the guard. "Then I’ll trouble you, big brother guard."
"Not at all. I’m rely following Young Lord’s orders," the guard replied woodenly.
Bai Xiyue was taken to the Mu Mansion’s carriage, escorted by the guards from the Mu Mansion, and returned there. anwhile, Mu Qingge escorted Qin Yiyao back to the Princess Mansion. To prevent any accidents, the mont they entered the Princess Mansion, Mu Qingge had soone give Qin Yiyao a cold bath and left her alone in the room to rest.
Mu Qingge herself instructed the maiden of the Princess Mansion to bring a rocking chair and prepare tea and refreshnts, placing them in the courtyard outside Qin Yiyao’s room.
As soon as she returned to the Mu Mansion and lay on her bed, Bai Xiyue slowly regained consciousness.
The familiar surroundings were different from when she lost consciousness, giving her a start, and she instinctively clutched at her collar. Seeing Lv Zhi bustling about busily in the room, she relaxed a little.
"Lv Zhi," Bai Xiyue called softly.
The pain in her chest slowly brought back the fearful mories she had before.
The voice behind her made Lv Zhi quickly turn around.
Seeing Bai Xiyue already awake, she rushed to her side, joyfully saying, "Miss, you’re awake?"
Bai Xiyue pressed her lips together and nodded, asking, "How did I get back?" Vaguely, she rembered being carried by Mu Qingge onto the Princess Mansion’s carriage, and then her mories were in chaos. Even now, her head was still foggy.
"Naturally, it was I who went to bring you back," Lv Zhi said, holding her head high.
Then, she added with so exaggeration, "Miss, you have no idea. The Young Lord knew you were hurt, yet he left you on the roadside clinic while he went off to dally with that Princess. It was I who fetched you from the clinic."
A coldness slipped into Bai Xiyue’s eyes as the anger in her heart overshadowed the pain due to Lv Zhi’s words.
She was just left casually in a roadside clinic by Mu Qingge?!
No, sothing was off!
Suddenly, in her chaotic mories from the carriage, Bai Xiyue seed to rember Princess Changle leaning uncharacteristically on Mu Qingge, while she...
All at once, Bai Xiyue’s cheeks flushed hotly.
She dared to let Mu Qingge see her in such an ungracious state, even if she was under the influence of the dicine. Yet, as a woman, she behaved that way in his presence, and he still discarded her, opting to embrace Princess Changle?
Suddenly, her flushed cheeks turned pale and gloomy.
He saw her body, he saw... Shouldn’t he be responsible?
In her cold eyes, a fla of anger ignited.
"Miss, what’s wrong? Are you still uncomfortable sowhere? Why is your face turning red and then pale? Shall I go and call a doctor for you?" Lv Zhi imdiately turned to leave.
"Stop right there!" Bai Xiyue’s cold voice halted Lv Zhi in her tracks.
"Miss?" Lv Zhi turned around in confusion to look at Bai Xiyue, who was lying on the bed, emitting a cold aura.
Bai Xiyue looked at her with chilling eyes, gritting her teeth as she said, "You will recount every detail of what you saw when you went to fetch , without any omission."
Lv Zhi was startled, fearing that her previous concealnt was discovered by her mistress, and quickly knelt down, saying, "Miss, please quell your anger. Lv Zhi didn’t an to conceal anything. Lv Zhi was just too indignant that the Young Lord, knowing you were hurt, still found ti to have fun outside that I... that I..."
Bai Xiyue listened, frowning, but she had already guessed that Lv Zhi misunderstood.
Seeing her mistress frown, Lv Zhi felt a shiver and hurriedly said, "It was... it was the Young Lord who sent you to the clinic for treatnt. He sent soone to the mansion to call guards and to the clinic. After your treatnt, he instructed to take good care of you, had the guards fetch the dicine, and then brought you back."
"That’s not what I want to hear." Bai Xiyue interrupted Lv Zhi directly. She didn’t care how thoughtfully Mu Qingge arranged things, the fact remained that he abandoned her.
"Then... then what does Miss want to hear?" Lv Zhi asked, bewildered.
Bai Xiyue narrowed her eyes and asked in a deep voice, "Did you see Princess Changle when you arrived at the clinic?"
Uh...
Lv Zhi was stunned, seemingly unable to keep up with her mistress’s train of thought. However, she answered truthfully, "I didn’t see the Princess, but I saw the Princess Mansion’s carriage parked outside the clinic, with maidservants and guards from the Princess Mansion around it."
"Mu Qingge left the clinic and got into the Princess Mansion’s carriage?" Bai Xiyue asked again.
Lv Zhi nodded emphatically, "I witnessed the Young Lord get onto the Princess Mansion’s carriage. As soon as he boarded, the carriage drove away."
Bai Xiyue’s face turned thoroughly dark, unable to hold back the hatred in her heart.
’Mu Qingge, how dare you treat like this? Back then, my father died on the battlefield to save your grandfather. My mother’s despair over my father’s death led her to take her own life, and I, who should have been a noble daughter of Heaven, beca a dependant orphan. The Mu Family owes a lot already. And now, Princess Changle and I are both poisoned, I am also injured, and even my poison is more severe. Yet you abandoned , unwilling to save , only thinking of rescuing that noble Princess, is that it?’
Suddenly, a wicked fire arose in Bai Xiyue’s abdon, rendering her weak. The agitation she experienced twice before now assaulted her again, and her eyes filled with despair.
"Ha ha ha..." Bai Xiyue let out a plaintive, cold laugh. She knew that the poison was not cured.
This kind of poison, without... how could it be resolved? If left unchecked, when her rationality was destroyed, would she explode and die, or randomly find soone to cure the poison?
The grief and despair in her heart suffused Bai Xiyue’s entire being with a terrifying aura, causing Lv Zhi to involuntarily step back two paces.
In reality, Bai Xiyue had no idea that the strange sensation in her body at this mont was rely the final fluctuating wave of the dicinal power dissipating. If she persevered, there would be no issue.
She, however, single-mindedly assud that the poison in her was a ruthless and domineering one, and that the final outco would either be death or losing her chastity. Only such an outco would match the Crown Prince Qin Jinxiu’s vicious and terrifying character.
No! She did not want to die!
Without reclaiming everything that rightfully belonged to her, how could she die?
Bai Xiyue’s eyes flared with defiance.
But—
If she didn’t want to die, who should she find to cure the poison?
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