Chapter 200: Chapter 200: Poisoned by Lovesickness
Zhan Hanjue questioned coldly, and Mrs. Leng’s face turned blue with anger.
"Zhan Hanjue, is this how you talk to me?"
"Haven’t you always known my attitude?" Zhan Hanjue retorted unceremoniously.
Mrs. Leng was trembling with rage and looked towards Old Mrs. Zhan to question her, "He treats me so disrespectfully, and you don’t care?"
Old Mrs. Zhan said nothing.
She was indifferent to how Mrs. Leng treated her, but the thought that she wanted to harm her great-grandson was something she couldn’t tolerate.
"Fine, Zhan Hanjue, just you wait." Mrs. Leng left angrily with her entourage.
"Are you alright?"
After Mrs. Leng left, Zhan Hanjue immediately asked Ningwan in a low voice.
Ningwan shook her head.
Actually, even if he hadn’t come, she could have handled the situation today.
However, seeing him so concerned about her made her feel quite happy inside.
"It’s my fault. I didn’t know there would be radiation. If I had known, I wouldn’t have agreed to have you called back," Old Mrs. Zhan apologized.
Ningwan quickly said, "Grandmother, please don’t say that. You were only thinking of me and Jue, not wanting us to be gossiped about."
"As long as you understand, that’s good. Go back and rest quickly!" Old Mrs. Zhan said with relief.
Indeed, she truly was the granddaughter-in-law she was satisfied with, except for what happened back then. Other than that, she was genuinely pleased with her.
Never mind, as long as she could give birth to a great-grandson for the Zhan Family, she would forgive her.
After all, back then, she was just a child and didn’t really do anything wrong.
Ningwan left with Zhan Hanjue.
However, on the way back, she kept her brows furrowed, deep in thought.
"What’s wrong?"
The man frowned and reached out to touch her brow.
Ningwan snapped out of it and quickly said, "It’s nothing, just thinking... Grandmother is too good, and I feel bad for deceiving her like this."
"If you don’t want to deceive her, we just need to try harder," the man said with an ambiguous smile in her ear.
Ningwan gave a wry smile.
As if trying harder would solve it.
However, something did come to her mind, making her feel uneasy.
Mrs. Leng’s outburst resulted in nothing and left her both furious and helpless.
But soon, she didn’t have the mind to deal with Ningwan.
Because her son, Leng Ziqing, fell ill.
Since that banquet, he had been listless.
Before the holidays, he had only been to school once.
But after that one visit, he fell ill.
At first, he just looked unwell and couldn’t eat.
Later, he couldn’t even get out of bed, his face pale as paper, rapidly losing weight.
Mrs. Leng was worried sick and hurriedly sent him to the hospital.
However, after running all the tests, nothing could be found.
Seeing his spirits waning day by day, at this rate, she feared he would die.
Zhang Meimei cried and said, "Auntie, just go see Ningwan. Isn’t she the Divine Doctor Bai Zhi? She must have a way to save Ziqing."
Mrs. Leng remained stony-faced and silent.
Zhang Meimei, seeing she wouldn’t relent, angrily went to the Zhan Family to find Ningwan herself.
When Housekeeper Wu informed Ningwan that Zhang Meimei had arrived, she raised an eyebrow in surprise.
"Invite her in."
After Zhang Meimei came in, she said to Ningwan, "You must go to the Leng Family and save Leng Ziqing. He’s dying."
Ningwan was surprised, "How could that be? Wasn’t he full of life just days ago? How could he be dying now?"
Zhang Meimei, eager and in tears, said, "Do you think I’m joking? He’s really dying. If there was any other way, do you think I’d be willing to come to you?"
Ningwan thought for a moment and understood.
Zhang Meimei always treated her like a mortal enemy.
If it wasn’t an emergency, judging by her proud nature, she certainly wouldn’t have come to her.
"How could he be dying? Explain the situation first," Ningwan said solemnly.
Seeing that she believed her, Zhang Meimei wiped her tears and told Ningwan about Leng Ziqing’s condition.
"The hospital did all the tests, with all kinds of instruments, but nothing was found."
Ningwan thought to herself, these symptoms indicated poisoning, how could they possibly detect it?
"Did you do a blood test?" Ningwan asked again.
Zhang Meimei nodded, "Of course, it’s a basic procedure. There was an anomaly in the blood, but no specific illness could be identified."
As expected.
Ningwan said, "Did Mrs. Leng know you came to find me?"
"Yes, I asked her to come, but she refused, so I had no choice but to come. I can’t just watch him die," Zhang Meimei said.
Ningwan said, "You seem very attached to Leng Ziqing."
"Attached? If it weren’t for... for what happened between us, I wouldn’t care about him at all. Even unconscious, he was calling out Wu Taotao’s name. Did he ever have me in his heart?" Zhang Meimei complained angrily.
Ningwan was speechless, realizing that this was why Leng Ziqing felt unworthy of Wu Taotao and had to break up with her.
Never mind.
Since Leng Ziqing wouldn’t reveal the reason, she wouldn’t tell Wu Taotao either.
Since there’s no possibility between them, why complicate things further?
"Are you going or not?" Zhang Meimei urged when she saw Ningwan hadn’t indicated her stance.
Ningwan said, "I need to consider it. I can’t give you an answer now."
"What? With a life at stake, you still need to consider?" Zhang Meimei fumed.
Ningwan replied, "Why shouldn’t I consider? Mrs. Leng treats me like this, Leng Ziqing wronged my best friend. In a way, there’s no affection between us, right? Do you think saving a life is easy? Just by opening and closing your mouth?"
Zhang Meimei was speechless because what she said was true.
However...
"No matter what, Leng Ziqing is Zhan Hanjue’s cousin. You might be able to ignore him, but Zhan Hanjue can’t. If you don’t save him, I’ll go find Zhan Hanjue."
With that, Zhang Meimei ran off.
But she couldn’t possibly meet Zhan Hanjue.
Even if she went to Zhan Hanjue’s company, she would be stopped.
At a loss, she returned to the Zhan Family to find Old Mrs. Zhan.
Old Mrs. Zhan, upon hearing that Leng Ziqing was sick, became very anxious.
Regardless, he was Mrs. Leng’s only son and a part of the Zhan family’s bloodline.
If anything were to happen to him, she would be very saddened.
So, she asked Mrs. Chen to call Ningwan over to discuss the matter with her.
"Ningwan, I know you have a conflict with Changxin. But no matter how serious the conflict is, with a life at stake, I still hope you can go check on Ziqing and make sure nothing goes wrong."
Actually, after Zhang Meimei left, Ningwan had carefully thought about Leng Ziqing’s symptoms.
The more she thought about it, the more it seemed like he was poisoned with "Longing."
This "Longing" wasn’t that kind of longing.
It’s a poison, made from several toxic herbs.
The poisoned person becomes listless, sentimental, and unable to eat, very much like someone who’s pining over another.
Hence the name.
This poison, Longing, is not particularly difficult to cure.
But the troublesome part is, one of the toxic herbs is somewhat special, pregnant women shouldn’t get close to it.
Otherwise, it could easily cause a miscarriage.
She’s not pregnant, so she isn’t afraid of miscarriage.
However, it would expose the fact that she’s not pregnant.