Jiang Xinrui never understood why her senior brother Chu Heng was obsessed with making poisons. She felt that poisons were harmful and went against the traditions of their Medicine King Valley.

She tried to persuade Chu Heng several times, hoping he could get back on the right path, but the results were not as she wished. Instead, it caused a rift between them, and they couldn't stand each other. Gradually, Jiang Xinrui stopped asking about Chu Heng's affairs.

She only knew that Chu Heng was researching poisons, but she didn't know that Chu Heng had gone so far as to test poisons on himself.

The old doctor only told her that she should not use the divine medicine unless absolutely necessary, and he never mentioned anything else to her. She never imagined that this was a backup plan left by the old doctor.

So when her junior sister Su Yuanyuan brought Chu Heng to her door, she was completely dumbfounded.

The miraculous medicine had already been used to save Lou Guyu, and she couldn't make a second one.

When she told Su Yuanyuan and Chu Heng that she had already used the miraculous medicine, Chu Heng didn't say much. He just gave her a cold look and then gestured for Su Yuanyuan to take him away.

Su Yuanyuan simply did not believe that Jiang Xinrui would so casually hand over the miraculous medicine to a complete stranger, and she did not believe it even when Lou Guyu came out to testify.

She felt that Jiang Xinrui was unwilling to help Chu Heng and was reluctant to part with the miraculous medicine, so she insisted that Jiang Xinrui hand over the medicine to save Chu Heng's life.

Although they didn't get along, they had grown up together, and Jiang Xinrui didn't want to see Chu Heng die. She offered to treat him herself, but Chu Heng coldly refused, saying:

"Junior sister, do you really think that you were able to become the successor of Medicine King Valley because your medical skills are better than mine?"

Jiang Xinrui fell silent upon hearing this. Everyone in Medicine King Valley knew that their eldest brother, Chu Heng, was their master's most talented disciple.

Everyone felt that if it weren't for the fact that the eldest brother was obsessed with making poison, the successor of Medicine King Valley would definitely be the eldest brother, Chu Heng. Although Jiang Xinrui was somewhat unconvinced by this statement, she never directly refuted it.

The eldest brother in the book naturally dies, and it seems that the main purpose of his appearance is to cause trouble for the female lead.

As a successor of Medicine King Valley, Jiang Xinrui delayed her return after leaving the mountain for a man named Chen Muzhi, which already displeased many of her fellow disciples in Medicine King Valley.

Now, with Chu Heng's death, the discontent has reached its peak, and many people are suggesting that Jiang Xinrui hand over the inheritance of Medicine King Valley and voluntarily relinquish it.

Jiang Xinrui was naturally unwilling, but even if she was unwilling, the successor of Medicine King Valley who could not convince the public was already unworthy of the title.

Not only that, after her senior brother Chu Heng died, her junior sister Su Yuanyuan immediately hated Jiang Xinrui, feeling that it was all Jiang Xinrui's fault. She believed that if Jiang Xinrui hadn't refused to help her senior brother, he wouldn't have died.

So Su Yuanyuan took the Thousand Autumn Fruit directly to the capital of Qing Kingdom and presented it to the Imperial Noble Consort who had fallen out of favor due to old age and fading beauty.

When she was young, the Imperial Noble Consort was the most beautiful woman in the capital. In addition, her maternal family held great military power. After obtaining the Thousand Autumn Fruit, she directly controlled the lecherous Prince Qing.

Although the Qing Kingdom has fallen apart, even a weakened camel is bigger than a horse; a century-old foundation cannot collapse overnight.

The Imperial Noble Consort was an ambitious person to begin with. After falling out of favor, she had seen through Prince Qing, that lecherous old man.

She harbored ambitions to usurp the throne and began to rely on Prince Qing's favor and inaction, as well as the power of her maternal clan, to slowly seize control of the court and heavily rely on Su Yuanyuan, who was skilled in both medicine and poison.

Su Yuanyuan, who was given an important position, did everything she could to target Shen Muzhi, whom Jiang Xinrui was helping, and caused him a lot of trouble.

After Yan Xiao recalled the story of the two senior and junior siblings, her gaze towards Su Yuanyuan changed somewhat.

Who would have thought that this adorable, seemingly harmless and cheerful little girl would become a major villain in the book?

However, Yan Xiao is objective and doesn't target people. He quite likes this junior sister's personality. Although she acts somewhat recklessly, she is someone who dares to love and hate and dares to take action. There are very few women like her in this era.

After Su Yuanyuan took out the Thousand Autumn Fruit, she originally thought Yan Xiao would be very happy, because in her opinion, no woman could resist the temptation of the Thousand Autumn Fruit.

But now it seems that's not the case. After the general's wife found out what she had brought out, she was only surprised for a moment before falling silent, neither agreeing nor refusing.

This made her a little anxious, so she quickly continued:

"Madam, if you have any other requests or concerns, please feel free to mention them. I will do my best to fulfill them as long as it is within my power."

Yan Xiao glanced at the senior brother upon hearing this, thought for a moment, and asked:

Have you looked for Jiang Xinrui?

The two were not surprised that Yan Xiao knew they knew Jiang Xinrui. After all, they had brought out the treasures of Medicine King Valley, and anyone with a brain could make the connection between them and Jiang Xinrui.

Chu Heng was already weak from traveling for several days straight, so he didn't speak and just nodded.

The junior sister then directly took over the conversation, explaining:

"We arrived in Jiangbei City before dawn, but the city gates were not open yet, so we waited at the city gate for a while."

At this point, the junior sister's tone clearly showed a lot more dissatisfaction:

"I don't know if there really are such coincidences in this world. When we found Jiang Xinrui's residence, we heard that she had offended you yesterday and ran away overnight. Now she is wanted by you, Madam."

"Given Madam's influence in Jiangbei City, if they don't even know where she went, we'd have absolutely no clue how to find her."

The junior sister clearly had a lot of opinions about Jiang Xinrui; her dissatisfaction was palpable in her words.

Yan Xiao, upon hearing this, didn't know what expression to make, because such coincidences really do exist in this world.

Because of him, Jiang Xinrui still had the miraculous medicine in her hands, but after that incident with him yesterday, he inexplicably ran away overnight.

It's unclear whether the eldest brother was destined to be unlucky with that divine medicine, or whether the junior sister was born to be Jiang Xinrui's enemy. In any case, the three siblings were not given any chance to reconcile.

Thinking of this, Yan Xiao asked with some curiosity:

"Since you've already heard some things about me and Jiang Xinrui, don't you suspect that her sudden disappearance is related to me? Is the wanted notice just a smokescreen? Aren't you afraid that I'll hold a grudge against you because of her?"

The junior sister seemed surprised that Yan Xiao would ask such a direct question, and instead of answering Yan Xiao's question directly, she replied:

"For us now, we have no choice."

"Too."

Yan Xiao nodded understandingly. People are about to die and really have no choice. This junior sister is really going all out for Chu Heng. I don't know what Chu Heng has done to deserve this.

Moreover, she felt that it was his own fault for waiting until he was almost dead to come to Jiang Xinrui to change his medicine. He was just being stubborn, unwilling to bow down to Jiang Xinrui, and unwilling to admit that he had failed. Why did he have to endure it until now for the sake of saving face?

One shouldn't be too concerned about saving face, or one might accidentally kick the bucket.