Qiu Lu nodded vigorously, "Completely certain! No need to think about it."
Zhan Tianye's dark eyes shifted slightly.
"Your Highness, what about the marriage to the eldest Miss Li?" Qiu Lu inquired.
"Break the engagement and compensate the Li family," Zhan Tianye said gravely.
Qiu Lu was taken aback. "Then, who will you replace her with? Your Highness's Western Border strange poison needs to be detoxified quickly."
He began to search his mind for eligible young ladies in the capital.
It seemed there wasn't enough time to choose someone urgently.
Under the night sky, Zhan Tianye's eyes were exceptionally deep. "This matter is not urgent for now."
"Ah? Not urgent?" Qiu Lu was full of questions.
For the past five years, they had been searching everywhere for a divine physician, devising numerous methods to suppress the Western Border strange poison.
They had caught one snow spirit snake after another.
All the while, they were focused on detoxification.
And now, His Highness said it wasn't urgent!
"Return to the manor," Zhan Tianye ordered in a deep voice.
"Yes!"
Though Qiu Lu was full of doubts, he didn't know how to ask.
He truly, truly, truly never expected that His Highness's poison was cured by the second Miss Yun!
Miss Yun's medical skills were truly formidable! Terribly formidable!
Qiu Lu couldn't help but marvel inwardly.
However, he was still puzzled as to why His Highness suddenly said it wasn't urgent.
...
After Yun Shu got into the carriage, Jing Heng informed her that something had happened at Ruan Mansion.
They immediately rushed to Ruan Mansion.
Before they even entered, they could hear sounds from inside the room.
The soft, delicate voice of a woman, her tearful cries.
"Is Young Master still feeling unwell? Your concubine will rub and soothe Young Master. Your concubine truly wishes it were she who was in pain, not Young Master!" the delicate concubine sobbed, her tears flowing like rain.
Ruan Xi thought to himself, he wished it were her too! He was sweating profusely from the pain.
"Wipe the sweat for this Young Master!" Ruan Xi commanded.
The concubine quickly took a fragrant handkerchief and wiped Ruan Xi's sweat. "Young Master is sweating so much, your concubine is so worried!"
"Don't worry, your Young Master won't die! Stop crying, you're making your Young Master's heart ache." Ruan Xi really couldn't stand the crying anymore.
Why hadn't Yun Shu arrived yet?
Wasn't she supposed to be seeing Old Master Qin?
She should be here to see him soon!
The concubine was so moved by Ruan Xi's words that tears welled up in her eyes. "Your concubine is truly fortunate beyond measure to have met Young Master. I only pray to heaven not to let Young Master suffer any more hardship."
Yun Shu, standing outside the door, couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth.
It had to be said that Ruan Xi had a way of making countless women fall deeply in love with him.
An ordinary man could never achieve this.
It was either a profusion of blooming flowers, or none at all.
Yun Shu glanced at Jing Heng. "Learn from him."
Jing Heng’s face was full of disdain, and it was clear that he didn't need women.
He didn't want to listen anymore. He found it disgusting. He raised his foot and kicked open the closed door.
The frail concubine shrieked in fright, "What happened? What happened? Who is so rude? They kicked the door open?! You've scared your concubine to death! Woo woo woo woo!"
While saying she was scared, she clung to Ruan Xi.
Ruan Xi, who was always affectionate, hugged the startled concubine and glared at the rude Jing Heng. "My door is expensive!"
"My ears are also expensive," Jing Heng retorted coldly, raising an eyebrow.
Ruan Xi, ignoring his pain, glared fiercely at Jing Heng. His gaze swept past Yun Shu, who was about to enter. He immediately pushed the concubine away and said to her, "You can go. You're not needed here anymore."
"Your concubine is worried about Young Master. May your concubine stay and take care of Young Master? Otherwise, even if your concubine leaves, she won't be at ease." The concubine was somewhat bewildered. She had been needed for comfort just moments ago, and now she was being asked to leave?
She thought she was special in Young Master's heart, that Young Master loved her, and that no other concubine in the mansion could compare.
Young Master was so gentle to her, gave her so many good things, each one something she had never seen before entering the mansion, something she had never even dared to imagine. Wasn't this love?
Seeing the concubine who was so devoted to him, Ruan Xi began to lose patience, his expression turning slightly cold. "Go out."
The concubine's face turned pale. Although she believed herself to be unique, she could see that Young Master was unhappy and showing signs of anger. She could only bite her lip and leave with great reluctance.
After the concubine left, Jing Heng scoffed, "You love so many people."
Ruan Xi wiped the sweat from his forehead and cast a slightly guilty glance at Yun Shu by the door. "Those concubines merely like me; they don't love me. I love Yun Shu the most; no one can compare."
He had given up all pretense now!
Regardless of his character, Yun Shu knew him well. In front of them, he could be completely shameless.
Although he couldn't have only one woman in his heart, and there would be many, many women, he also knew that there was one woman he would never be able to have in this life, but one woman he would remember forever: Yun Shu.
"Disgusting," Jing Heng snorted.
In his opinion, any love that Ruan Xi spoke of was cheap.
Ruan Xi cried out, "Yun Shu, I'm in pain!"
"Does it hurt so much you won't take medicine?" Jing Heng asked.
A bead of sweat as large as a pea slid down Ruan Xi's forehead. "Taking medicine is useless."
Moreover, he had taken medicine today and had still doted on the concubine just now, yet the pain was severe.
Yun Shu walked in, sat to the side, and took Ruan Xi's wrist to feel his pulse.
She immediately took out silver needles.
"Lie down," Yun Shu commanded coldly.
Ruan Xi immediately lay down, obediently. Before Yun Shu could speak again, he had already lifted his own clothes, revealing his abdomen with its perfect abs.
Practice makes perfect.
He had no reason to be shy or ashamed with Yun Shu.
After Yun Shu inserted a few silver needles, Ruan Xi's complexion visibly improved.
He stopped sweating on his forehead.
Yun Shu frowned slightly.
Seeing Yun Shu's serious expression, Ruan Xi sensed something was amiss.
"Is there a problem?" Ruan Xi asked gravely.
At this moment, Ruan Xi's face was completely devoid of its usual jesting or flippancy.
"Today, I was detoxifying someone, and I found some similarities in your poisons. Have the people you sent to the Northern Borders found the medicine?" Yun Shu asked.
She had never heard of these poisons appearing in places other than the Northern Borders before.
In her years of traveling the martial world, she had never encountered them.
The poison Ruan Xi had ingested contained herbs from the Northern Borders, and the poison Zhan Tianye had suffered from was concocted using herbs from the Northern Borders.
People from the Northern Borders were leaving the Northern Borders.
Yun Shu sensed a hint of conspiracy.
Ruan Xi nodded. "It's already on its way back."
"Have him ride at top speed to the capital. You can't hold on for much longer. Abstain from sex during this period," Yun Shu said.
Having said that, she stood up.
She extended her hand to Jing Heng. "Take out your Qing Huo Pills and give him a few to last him a few days."
"If he's a man, he'll endure it. Why take fire-clearing medicine?" Jing Heng said coldly.