Finally, under Qi Jiu's burning gaze, she looked up somewhat embarrassedly, "Why don't you go out first? I'll drink my medicine myself in a little while."

Qi Jiu shook her head. "You should drink it now. The temperature is just right. I brought this soup in, so I'll take it out too. Someone will be washing it later."

Qi Jiu, who had been observing the middle-aged man's expression, had a deep look in her dark eyes.

What she said was something the man simply couldn't refuse.

"All right."

As soon as those two words came out of his mouth, he drank the medicine in his hand without hesitation.

The smile on Qi Jiu's lips slowly faded as he tilted his head back to drink the medicine, his dark eyes turning cold as he carefully scrutinized the man opposite him.

The smile returned only after he finished drinking the medicine.

"Thank you."

The girl smiled gently as the middle-aged man handed her the bowl. "You're too kind."

She slowly left the room, handing the bowl in her hand to Butler He beside her. She didn't leave immediately, but waited at the door for a while, her movements light and graceful.

A short while later, footsteps could be heard coming from inside. The sound shifted and changed, suggesting someone was walking back and forth…

He seemed to be searching for something, but in the end, only a sigh could be heard, and then the footsteps disappeared.

These actions took about ten minutes, and it was around this time that Qi Jiu left.

"Butler He, have you done everything I asked you to do this morning?"

Butler He smiled and said, "Miss Qi, don't worry. As soon as you finished speaking, I immediately and quietly withdrew all the guards near the lounge. Now only the guards hidden deep inside have not left."

Hearing this, Qi Jiu thought of the middle-aged man looking out the window when she brought the medicine in earlier, and nodded.

"thank you."

She returned to the main building, looked at the empty hall, and immediately turned and walked upstairs to the study.

Upon entering the study, she saw the person inside looking at her with burning eyes. "Qiqi, how is it?"

Old Master He was more anxious about this than anyone else. It concerned the safety of the entire He family, and the thought of someone trying to frame them made him worried.

"Just as I thought, this person is probably just a scapegoat."

She was pulled to the sofa by Grandpa He. He Qingfeng, who was in front of her, took a new teacup from the table, poured tea into it, and pushed it in front of the girl.

Qi Jiu looked at the grandfather and grandson in front of her and smiled.

"take it easy."

Then she spoke again.

"Based on my observation just now, this person shouldn't be able to fight or use martial arts. Although he used a drug to fool the security guards at the gate yesterday, he doesn't understand pharmacology. The drug must have been given to him by someone else, who may have even taught him how to use it."

Grandpa He pursed his lips. "How did you figure out he didn't understand pharmacology?"

Although this person may have ulterior motives, yesterday was a pharmaceutical seminar. Isn't it a wonder that someone who doesn't understand pharmacology is here and afraid of being exposed?

What if something gets exposed?

Qi Jiu smiled and said, "Before I went inside, I asked Butler He to brew me a bowl of herbal soup. I told him it was for treating an illness, but it was actually just to cool down my body. I watched him drink it quite happily. There was nothing wrong with it."

Grandpa He nodded as if he understood, but before he could say anything, He Qingfeng spoke up.

"What if he's faking it?"

The girl waved her hand. "I'm good at reading people. At first, he really didn't want to drink the medicine, and he even told me to get out."

Jiang Xin tilted her head, somewhat puzzled. "Why? You said he doesn't understand pharmacology, so why doesn't he want to drink it? For him, this is medicine to cure his illness. What could be more important than his life?"

Qi Jiu pursed her lips. "What if his goal yesterday was to die at the He family's house? He seems... a little anxious. He wants to leave. The first question I asked him when I entered the door was, 'When can he leave?'"

She paused as she spoke.

"It's obvious he seems a little... eager to die?"

Now, recalling the expression on the man's face in the room, he didn't seem to question the medicine in his hand, but he just didn't want to drink the medicine that could save his life.

Her eyes kept glancing out the window, and her expression visibly changed after she explained that the outside world knew about the current situation.

"What?"

Chu Cangyu couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "Why are there still people in such a hurry to die? Although there are still people who commit suicide in today's society, they are all people who have suffered some kind of blow in their lives."

But now everything is fine, which doesn't seem normal at all.

Seeing that the other people around her also had the same expression, the girl sighed.

She knew how absurd her words sounded, but it was the truth.

Every movement and expression of that middle-aged man didn't suggest he wanted to live. In fact… he seemed somewhat frustrated that he hadn't died?

Did this person escape from a mental hospital before?

No, I didn't see anything wrong with your words and actions just now. You can't lie with your eyes.

Wait... if he desperately wants to die...

Her mind raced as she closed her eyes and tried to recall the room she had just been in, only breathing a sigh of relief when she couldn't think of anything dangerous.

Even if this person is desperate to die, they can't die now, because it concerns the He family.

"Knock knock!"

Suddenly, there was a knock on the study door. When the door was opened, there was Butler He with a somewhat serious face.

"Sir, the man in the lounge is making a scene and wants to leave. I had someone stop him, but... he's threatening to kill himself! He's completely insane! I'm at my wit's end, so I came to you."

As she finished speaking, Qi Jiu's eyes showed a slight determination.

Now that things have developed to this point, she has come to understand some things.

"No way, has this guy gone mad? What's going on outside that's making him threaten suicide?" Zhu Luoxing's brows furrowed tightly, her face filled with utter bewilderment.

The people around her didn't look too good either, but Qi Jiu remained calm.

"A person who knows no martial arts, no pharmacology, and whose identity is fake appears at a pharmacology seminar and is now threatening suicide to leave. It's not that he has sensed anything, but rather that there are things or people he cares about outside."

The sudden words stunned He Qingfeng and the others, while Old Master He looked as if he had just realized something.

Qi Jiu continued speaking.

“Yesterday, he came here with the intention of dying, probably because he was coerced. That’s why he took poison himself. But things have taken a turn for the worse. He’s not stupid. Now he knows that the He family won’t lay a hand on him, much less let him die here, so he’s threatening to kill himself.”