Since that minor conflict, the two have stopped speaking to each other. Occasionally, their eyes would meet, but it would only be a fleeting glance before they went back to doing their own things.

Their life together continued like this for a few days.

After taking the medicine for a few days, Su Yuxi woke up early in the morning and found that the marks on her face had faded a lot.

She looked at herself in the mirror, lightly touched her face with her fingertips, and revealed an adorable silly smile. She had to admit that the medicine Chu Juan prescribed was indeed very effective. As long as she persisted, she believed that her face would be completely restored soon.

She looked away, changed her clothes, and prepared to go get something to eat.

As soon as she opened the door, she heard a series of heavy coughs coming from downstairs.

The sound made her heart tremble. She quickly walked to the outside of the corridor, peeked down, and saw Fu Huaijin's slightly disheveled figure.

He crouched on the ground, his back hunched, one hand clutching his abdomen as if trying to ease the throbbing pain; the other hand covered his incessant coughing mouth, struggling to suppress it, but the more he tried, the more violently he coughed.

Those rapid, labored breaths sounded suffocating.

Su Yuxi couldn't help but feel puzzled. Fu Huaijin's condition had clearly improved these past few days, so why had he started coughing again?

Confused, she quickly ran downstairs, ignoring her earlier anger with him, and reached out to help him up, as if to signal to him that she wanted to make peace.

Unless it's a deep-seated grudge, people will find a way to back down gracefully.

But just as her hand touched his arm, the man suddenly swung his arm away with a force that exceeded her expectations.

Caught off guard, Su Yuxi was thrown back a few steps, swaying like a roly-poly toy. If she hadn't had excellent balance, she would have been thrown away.

Once she regained her footing, Su Yuxi's eyes flashed with anger as she shouted at him, "Fu Huaijin..."

She hesitated for a long time, unsure of what to say to him, and finally could only angrily yell, "You're annoying."

This time she was really angry. She turned around and ran upstairs, her back view resolute, showing that she didn't want to talk to him at all.

Su Yuxi stayed upstairs for a few minutes. When she came downstairs again, she was carrying her bag and phone. She didn't even glance at the man on the ground before leaving without looking back.

She went out of her heart to help him, but the man didn't appreciate her kindness and even dared to dump her.

Su Yuxi, who had left home, stopped her car halfway and called Wan Qianqian to try to find her. This time the call went through, but it seemed like Wan Qianqian was arguing with someone.

"Xixi, is something wrong?" I had just asked her when I heard her arguing loudly on the other end of the line.

"Play by yourself for a while, I'll call you back later."

Before Su Yuxi could say a word, the other end of the phone hung up.

Fortunately, she still had her older sister with her. She then called Hu Chichi, who answered quickly. Hu Chichi was also about to call her and ask her to come over.

The two agreed to meet at the mall and spend some money to relax, otherwise they would not be able to get rid of their resentment.

Half an hour later, Hu Chichi, wearing high heels and a sexy tank top, found Su Yuxi, who was wearing sunglasses and a mask, in a milk tea shop in the mall.

The little girl seemed to have encountered something; she was propping up half her face with her hand, shrouded in a gloomy aura, staring blankly in one direction.

She slowly walked forward, sat down, stared at her for a long while, and then waved her five fingers in front of her eyes: "Xi Xi..."

Su Yuxi was startled, but quickly came to her senses and saw that it was Hu Chichi. She forced a slight smile and said, "Sister Chichi, you're here."

Hu Chichi placed his limited-edition bag on the table, pulled out a small box from it, and pushed it in front of her: "Take this, it contains antidote pills."

Su Yuxi was startled for a moment, then straightened her expression, took the medicine and opened it. Inside was a small black pill with a faint smell of Chinese medicine and a strong floral fragrance.

This medicine... seems familiar.

Suddenly, as if she had thought of something, her mind jolted, and she stared intently at the person in front of her, because only one person would add a sweet floral scent to her medicine to mask the unpleasant smell of Chinese medicine: "Sister Chichi, where did you get the medicine?"

Hu Chichi raised an eyebrow, knowing he couldn't hide it from her, and told her the truth: "It was given by the Ancestor."

Upon hearing this, Su Yuxi's emotions were instantly ignited. She stood up excitedly, placing her hands on the glass table: "Is Azu here? Where is he?"

She got up from her seat, walked to Hu Chichi's side, and took her arm: "Sister Chichi, will you take me to find him?"

Hu Chichi's eyes darted away slightly. He patted her arm, signaling her to calm down: "It's not that I don't want to take you, he's not here."

Su Yuxi's smile froze: "He's not here."

She didn't believe it.

"Then how did you get the medicine? Why didn't you tell me when he came?"

"Give me her contact information."

Hu Chichi shrugged: "It's not that I don't want to give it to you, I just really don't have it."

“I left behind a message talisman before. I contacted the ancestor a couple of days ago because of your matter, asked about your situation, and told him about your poisoning. Then he asked someone to send these medicines over.”

"That's why I came to find you as soon as the medicine arrived."

Seeing that she didn't seem to be lying, Su Yuxi's excitement vanished instantly, replaced by a sense of loss and depression.

Hu Chichi couldn't bear to see the girl so dejected, so he reached out and rubbed her head: "Good girl, finish the task he set for you, and you can go home soon."

Su Yuxi sighed, her shoulders drooping helplessly. What could she do? She could only leave it at that for now.

~

As the moon sank in the west, Su Yuxi finished washing up and eagerly jumped back onto the bed, sat cross-legged, picked up a small box from the bedside table, opened it, and took out the small, dark-colored pill.

The pills shimmered with iridescent black under the bright incandescent light.

This tiny pill, no bigger than a fingernail, was enough to cure the poison that had been bothering her for so long.

She parted her lips slightly, put it in her mouth without hesitation, and swallowed it with warm water.

Compared to that bitter medicine, taking these pills is obviously much more bearable.

After taking the medicine, she patiently sensed it and found nothing unusual. She could only conclude that Azu's alchemy skills were improving.

She scrolled through her phone for another half hour, and after confirming that everything was alright, she pulled the blanket up to cover herself, lay down peacefully, closed her eyes, and thought to herself that when she opened her eyes tomorrow, she would be back to being a beautiful young lady.

However, her ideal was far from reality. In the middle of the night, her stomach started rumbling, not from hunger, but from a sharp pain...

She sprang up from the bed and was surprised to see Fu Huaijin lying on one side of the bed. But at that moment, her mind was completely occupied by her stomach pain, and she had no intention of arguing with him. She lightly jumped off the bed and ran into the bathroom.

Fu Huaijin, who was a light sleeper, also woke up. He vaguely saw a blur pass by his eyes, and when he looked back at the empty bedside, he knew what had just passed by.

Then a series of unpleasant sounds made him frown slightly.