Chapter 421 The poison takes effect, and all the men are about to die!

Duan Rongshi: "My heart was originally yours."

As he spoke, he lowered his head and gently touched the corner of her lips.

Just then, a familiar voice came from Li Qingluo: "Your Highness, news has arrived from the Northern Army."

Li Qingluo was turned around and pulled into Duan Rongshi's arms, completely hidden away.

Her rosy, glowing face was a springtime sight he didn't want anyone to see.

Even people Li Qingluo knew in the past were unwilling.

"explain!"

The voice said, "The Crown Prince has dispatched his trusted subordinate Jiang Ruiqi with the tiger tally of the Northern Army. The Northern Army has been counted and assembled. At most tomorrow, they will lead their troops straight to Qishan."

Li Qingluo's heart skipped a beat.

That bastard Crown Prince only sent his trusted confidants and didn't dare to show himself.

In the end, he left himself a way out.

Fortunately, they had already anticipated his move.

After the man left, Li Qingluo pulled off the robe from Duan Rongshi's arm and looked at the figure that had quickly left and was about to disappear.

"Pei Qinghong?"

"He's back?"

After the death of the late Duke Pei, Pei Sanlang was given a secret mission by Duan Rongshi and disappeared completely.

Duan Rongshi: "You seem interested in him."

"I remember you called him cousin?"

Li Qingluo: ……

Why are you here again?

The jealous prince!

She mumbled a complaint, but Duan Rongshi, with his narrow eyes, didn't hear her clearly: "What did you say?"

Li Qingluo immediately took off running: "I said, Your Highness, you smell sour!"

Duan Rongshi gritted his teeth, turned around, and chased after her: "Li Qingluo! Are you getting cocky?!"

Li Qingluo cried out in surprise when she saw him chasing after her.

Moreover, within ten steps, she was firmly held by Duan Rongshi like a little chick.

"Well, you dare to mock me?"

He was so angry that he slapped her on the butt.

For a moment, they were both stunned.

"You...you!"

She was filled with shame and indignation.

He clenched his fists tightly in an instant.

No matter how bold she is, she is still a young woman who is not yet married. How can she let a young man pat her on the butt?

Even if he were her future husband, they wouldn't have reached that intimate level yet.

Li Qingluo's ears turned a deep red, and she instantly turned her head to run away.

Duan Rongshi quickly hugged her: "No."

"Luo'er, I was wrong, please don't be angry."

"You can punish me however you want, just don't ignore me."

"I truly know I was wrong... I was impolite, and all the blame lies with me."

"Luo'er..."

"Luo'er?"

His tone was filled with embarrassment, frustration, regret, and utter panic.

Li Qingluo couldn't lift her head.

However, Duan Rongshi's predicament at this moment was not much better than hers.

Li Qingluo suddenly found it funny.

But she dared not laugh out loud.

He said sullenly, "Then...then let me hit it too."

Duan Rongshi: ?

"What did you say?"

He thought he had misheard.

Li Qinglu suppressed the panic that was about to leap out of her chest and forced herself to remain calm as she repeated herself.

"If you let me spank you too... then we'll call it even."

Duan Rongshi: "..."

"Are you serious?"

Although he found it hard to believe, considering her usual audacity, it no longer seemed so outrageous.

However, not only his ears, but even his neck had quietly turned red.

"and you……"

As he spoke, he actually pulled Li Qingluo's soft hand and touched her waist.

Li Qingluo burst out laughing.

She broke free and ran away again.

"Consider it a debt His Highness owes."

"I'll get it back from you next time!"

After saying that, she didn't linger and ran away completely.

This time, Duan Rongshi did not chase after them again.

Watching her departing figure, he breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

It seems the wedding date can't be postponed any longer.

He wanted to marry her and bring her to the Prince Su's mansion before the first snowfall of the year!

Li Qinglu ran to a secluded spot, leaned against the wall to catch her breath, and just as she straightened up, she saw Pei Qinghong.

It looks like he's waiting for her.

"Congratulations... Princess Yaoguang, on your wonderful marriage to His Highness Prince Su."

Li Qingluo realized that he had caused Nan Jia's death.

Thinking about how he helped the old Duke commit tyranny and kill so many people, and how he helped Zuliya torture the butterflies for so many years, if it weren't for his inaction, so many things wouldn't have happened after Zuliya created the Butterfly Gu.

For the sake of the Pei family, he lost all sense of right and wrong, and even lost his moral compass.

Li Qingluo couldn't help but show disgust on her face.

"We have nothing to say."

"Get out of the way!"

Pei Qinghong silently stopped her.

He would block Li Qingluo from whichever direction he went.

She knew she was no match for him.

But he still revealed the hidden dart on his wrist.

Don't force me to take action against you!

Her fierce expression caused a flicker of disappointment to cross Pei Qinghong's eyes.

Without hesitation, he knelt down.

“I know that the murders I committed in the past are unforgivable, and it is understandable that Princess Yaoguang despises such a sinner as me.”

"But I beg Princess Yaoguang to show leniency and save my Pei clan one last time!"

Li Qingluo: "What do you mean?"

What could possibly make him kneel down and beg for my help?

But Li Qing really didn't know what she could do for the Pei family.

Pei Qinghong: "The poison of the 'Pulling Silk' technique has not yet been cured."

So that's what it was about.

“Zulya did indeed only give one antidote back then.”

"And she also said that taking only one dose of the antidote would be useless."

"To truly cure the poison of the 'Pulling Silk' poison, you need to put an antidote pill into your Pei family well every seven days, repeating this process seven times to completely cure the poison."

"However, perhaps she was determined to drag your Pei family down with her, so no matter how severely we tortured her, she didn't reveal a single thing about the antidote."

"Perhaps this is the fate of your Pei family?"

"Just like you think, those women who died in your Pei family's dungeon, that was their fate too!"

After saying that, she turned to leave again.

Pei Qinghong lay on the ground and shouted, "But if we wait another year, Twelfth Sister's father won't survive either!"

In the past year, several more male members of the Pei family have died.

They were both just over thirty years old when they suddenly died at home.

This was an incredibly heavy blow to the entire Pei family.

In addition, Pei Zixuan also died at Nanshan Villa.

Lady Pei, unable to withstand the blow, has become somewhat insane.

The Pei family seemed to be shrouded in a gloom.

Everyone realized that the Pei family was trapped in an inescapable curse.

Everyone became trembling with fear, oppressed by the eerie poison, their breath heavy and heavy with yin energy.

If this continues, all the men in the Pei family will die out within a few years.

Pei Jingzhe has even been trying to change the entire Pei State Duke's Mansion.

But it was all too late...

"Please save the Pei family!"

"I deserve to die."

"But our Pei family also has many innocent lives like those young women."

"Brother Chen is only six years old!"

"And my elder brother, the Crown Prince, he is indeed a good person!"

"Don't you also possess your great-grandfather's Night-Killing Gate?"

"But the butterfly is dead. You couldn't protect her. Shouldn't you find someone else to protect?"

Li Qingluo raised her hand and slapped him across the face.

"Have you no shame?"

"For whom did the butterfly die?"

"She's your cousin!"

Li Qinglu glared at him resentfully: "If you hadn't helped Zuliya torture and abuse her, she wouldn't have died such a painful life."

"The people who have the least right to mention her name are you members of the Pei family! It's you, Pei Sanlang!"

"Get out of my way!"

After saying that, Li Qingluo kicked him away and strode away.

Pei Qinghong could only watch her retreating figure, a faint trace of sorrow passing through his eyes...

Li Qingluo returned to the front yard, and Sha Yi immediately found her.

"Miss, everything has been arranged in the city."

Li Qingluo looked at Sha Yi and fell into deep thought.

Duke Pei had given the Night-Slaying Sect to him alone in order to have him restrain the Free and Unfettered Sect under Duan Rongshi's control.

They want both of them to inherit the Pei family's assets, and they won't really sit idly by and watch the entire Pei family perish.

But the Pei family wanted her to help cure the poison of the Pulse-Binding Silk, but she wasn't a witch, so what could she do?

Pei Qinghong is now working for Prince Su.

If he were to ask Duan Rongshi for help, how could Duan Rongshi not have a solution?

Jin Hua is still in Jinling. Isn't this a great opportunity to ask a real witch for help?

Unless, Jinhua... is unwilling.

Just as Li Qinglu was thinking, Sha San arrived in a hurry.

"Miss, this is a letter from the Pan family. The old lady was worried it was urgent, so she ordered me to deliver it as quickly as possible."

Li Qingluo opened it and saw that it really was Twelfth Sister's handwriting.

The letter stated that Pei Yuan was critically ill and requested Li Qingluo's assistance.

Pei Yuan, isn't he Twelve Sister's biological father?

Li Qinglu thought of what Pei Qinghong had just said.

Then I remembered that Zaina once said that the poison was drawn by the silk thread, and that the male members of the Pei family after the age of thirty could only live for a maximum of seven years.

At most, but never did they say that everyone had to live to the seventh year!

And this year marks the sixth year!

Is it Pei Yuan's turn?

Anyway, I'm going back to Nanjing soon.

Li Qingluo immediately decided to take the first step.

She only left a message for Duan Rongshi before hurriedly leaving Qishan with Sha Yi and Sha San.

Upon returning to Jinling, Li Qingluo immediately took Doctor Luo to the new house that Pei Yuan and his wife had bought in the south of the city after leaving the Pei family.

However, a whole day had passed since Pan Li delivered the letter to General Xiuli's residence.

At this moment, Pei Yuan's residence was pitch black and deathly silent.

Li Qingluo's heart skipped a beat, and she called out, "Pan Li?"

Sure enough, Pan Lizhen was here.

She ran out of the house and, seeing Li Qingluo, immediately broke down in tears, crying out, "Luo'er—"

Li Qingluo quickly went over and hugged her.

"It's okay, don't be afraid, I'm here."

However, the situation is not optimistic.

Pei Yuan's face had turned pale.

He was completely out of his mind...