Forced love, an inescapable fate

Chapter 111 The poison strikes again

It was really cold today, as if it could freeze people from the inside out. She looked in the direction where the two people left, and the tears in her eyes finally flowed uncontrollably.

If she still held out a glimmer of hope that she might have heard wrongly, then Wan Yue and Bai Yu's guilty behavior just now completely shattered that hope.

Thinking about the past, I just felt that I was stupid and ridiculous. There were so many clues, why did I only know all the truth today? If I hadn't heard what they said today, how long would I have been deceived? Is it like Wanyue said, that he still wants to use my marriage as a bargaining chip to pave the way for him?

Mu Qingli cried and laughed, looking at the white world in despair.

I originally thought that meeting him was my salvation in this world, but I never expected that it was an elaborate scam from beginning to end.

The heavy snow fell "rustlingly", and soon, it had covered up the footprints of Wanyue and Baiyu, as if it could cover up all the filth in the world. She stumbled to the center of the yard, raised her head and let the snowflakes fall on her face. The ground under her feet was freezing, and it also froze her crumbling heart.

Looking back on the past, all those things that seemed unreasonable at the time now make sense.

She stood in the yard for a long time, until her body was almost numb from the cold, and then she dragged her almost frozen body back to the room.

This night is destined to be sleepless and difficult.

The pain from her heart reached its peak. She rolled over and over on the bed in pain, but she insisted on not taking the pain-relieving medicine that Su Minsheng had prescribed for her. In this heart-wrenching pain, she recalled everything that had happened in the past over and over again in her mind.

The kind-hearted old man in Dongli Town, the accidentally rescued Wanyue, the injured Jiang Ci, and Bai Yu, the so-called kind-hearted man in the martial arts world, it turned out that he was the only one who was kept in the dark from beginning to end.

She arrogantly regarded him as her family member and Wanyue and Baiyu as her friends, but now she was told that it was all just a scam. How could she accept it?

Mu Qingli was sweating all over from the pain. In the end, she could only bite her arm tightly to relieve the pain. She didn't let go until her arm bled. However, how could this pain compare to the pain in her heart?

The night felt exceptionally long, and she finally couldn't hold on any longer and fainted from the pain.

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Jiang Ci felt extremely irritable today. Although the wound on his back had already scabbed over, he still needed to apply medicine. After his servant Jiu Yue applied the medicine for him and left, he stood up and walked to the window. Seeing that the snow outside was getting heavier, he couldn't help but frown.

He originally wanted to go to the Princess's Mansion today, but he was afraid that the smell of medicine on his body would make Mu Qingli worry, so he endured the anxiety in his heart and did not go.

He went to Xinzhou some time ago. In recent years, there has been a bandit problem in Xinzhou. At the beginning, it did not attract the attention of the court. Later, it showed a trend of intensifying. Although the news had reached the court, it was suppressed and few people knew about it. Finally, he found a way to let Emperor Jing entrust this task to him.

Despite the perilous journey, everything went smoothly, and he quelled the banditry in Xinzhou. Partly, he needed this opportunity; after all, the first person sent to suppress the bandits was the eldest prince, but they had returned unsuccessful. Therefore, if he could resolve the Xinzhou bandit problem, the city defense forces promised by Emperor Jing would be at his disposal. However, quelling the banditry was only part of his motivation for heading to Xinzhou; another part was Mu Qingli's health.

Jiang Ci knew what his blood meant. In order to save her, he had no choice but to feed her his blood. At the same time, the poison in his body also entered Mu Qingli's body through the blood. Although it was not fatal, it would cause people to suffer.

This Gu has been with him for many years. Although he has secretly visited many famous doctors over the years, he is still helpless. Although he has the pills prepared by Su Minsheng, they are still only a temporary solution and not a cure for the disease.

This Gu comes from Southern Xinjiang, and only the Gu Masters in Southern Xinjiang may be able to detoxify it, but the possibility is only one in ten thousand. The Gu Masters in Southern Xinjiang are mysterious and extremely difficult to meet. At the beginning, he learned that the "miracle doctor" who could bring people back to life had a close relationship with the Gu Master in Southern Xinjiang. He wanted to find the person with a glimmer of hope, but learned in Dongli Town that Su Minsheng was actually the disciple of the miracle doctor. However, the miracle doctor had passed away, and although Su Minsheng was his disciple, he could not do anything about this Gu.

That day, Mu Qingli's life was hanging by a thread, and he had no choice but to feed her his blood. Although Su Minsheng knew that his blood could save people, he did not know that the poison in his blood would enter the body of the person being fed blood. So on the day he fed his blood to Mu Qingli, he sent people to look for the poison master in southern Xinjiang.

Finally, he got the news that there were traces of the Southern Xinjiang Gu Master coming in and out of Xinzhou, so he took great pains to take on the task of suppressing bandits in Xinzhou, but the most important purpose was to personally find the legendary Southern Xinjiang Gu Master.

However, when he arrived in Xinzhou, although he met the Gu Master, the Gu Master was powerless to do anything about the Gu in his body, so he had to return home disappointed. This also caused him to lose focus when suppressing bandits later, and he was chopped on the back by the bandits who were defeated.

According to the Gu Master, the blood he fed Mu Qingli, while tainted with Gu poison, wouldn't take effect for a short time, with at least a year's worth of buffering time. He knew how painful it would be when the poison took effect. As a man, he could endure the pain, but Mu Qingli couldn't. So, even though there was still time, he was still worried. He could only send more people and, as the Gu Master had said, desperately search for a Gu Master who could cure his poison.

But he had no idea that Mu Qingli's poison had already taken effect, and he was suffering from heart-wrenching pain at this moment.

Today he always felt uneasy, as if something unknown was going to happen, which made him feel even more panicked. Although he sent people to the Princess's Mansion, the news he got was that everything was normal. But he was still worried and paced back and forth in the room, but the sudden pain made him stop.

In the past few years, thanks to Su Minsheng's pills, his poison rarely broke out. But today, for some reason, it suddenly broke out. He covered his chest, and the gradually increasing pain made his heart panic.

Jiu Yue, who was outside the door, heard the noise and rushed in. Seeing his painful face, she realized that it was the poison that had taken effect. She quickly found a pill to suppress the poison and gave it to him to take.

In the past, the symptoms would be relieved immediately after taking the pills, but today it was of no use. Beads of sweat the size of beans dripped from his forehead, and his face instantly turned as pale as paper.

This time the pain was more intense than ever before. Seeing this situation, Jiu Yue wanted to go find Su Minsheng.

"Your Highness, please hold on for a while. I'll go find Doctor Su."

But Jiang Ci reluctantly called out to Jiu Yue, who was about to walk out the door, "Go to the Princess's Mansion right now, I'm fine."

Jiu Yue looked embarrassed, but he also knew how much his master valued the princess, so he did not dare to delay. He helped the man lie down on the bed, took out another pill and fed him another one. Only then did he see the pain on his face ease a little, so he hurried to the princess's mansion.