Before he could finish speaking, a scream rang out, but before the scream could even be heard, Xie Li swiftly and decisively dislocated his jaw.

Xie Li blinked: "Oh, sorry, I don't like strangers getting too close, it's just a stress reaction."

Is this what you call a stress response? A stress response so severe that it dislocated a person's wrist and jaw?

Assistant Huo suddenly broke out in a cold sweat on the back of his neck and instinctively took a few steps back to create a safe distance.

Pharmacist Chen's face darkened; he was already furious from the two men's repeated provocations. "Get out of here!"

The commotion was quite loud, and people around looked over, especially Xie Li. Their eyes were filled with accusation as they looked at Assistant Huo and Xie Zhendong.

Some people even came up to ask Pharmacist Chen if he needed help.

Assistant Huo could only pull Xie Zhendong away dejectedly.

When they arrived at the private room upstairs, Xie Zhendong was drooling and looked disheveled. He had been surrounded by onlookers the whole way, and he had never been so humiliated in his life.

Xie Ziyuan was startled when she saw this. "What happened?"

However, he still rushed forward to help Xie Zhendong reattach his chin and wrist.

Assistant Huo embellished the story, recounting what happened downstairs: "We were just concerned about her and invited her upstairs, but we didn't expect her to get so angry that she attacked Pharmacist Xie."

Huo Yuntang's eyes were somewhat gloomy. He was in a rare good mood today and wanted to keep Xie Ziyuan company, but he was repeatedly interrupted by that village girl.

"Since she doesn't appreciate it, then just ignore her." This kind of person is simply ungrateful; she won't even take advantage of a chance, she's utterly foolish.

Xie Ziyuan frowned slightly. "There's probably some misunderstanding here. It's my fault for not thinking things through; I should have gone down to invite them myself."

But it's no use saying anything now, the auction is about to start, and she doesn't have time to worry about these things.

“They must be here hoping to find a suitable medicinal herb to treat Grandpa,” Xie Ziyuan said softly. “I can share the herbs I photograph with them, and we can study them together. It’s better than me working on it all by myself.”

Xie Zhendong immediately disagreed: "Miss Ziyuan, this is all something you painstakingly researched. Now, besides you, who else in the Xie family has the ability to save the old man?"

Giving the medicinal herbs to Xie Li and sharing all the research results from this period of time is not acceptable.

Xie Ziyuan is willing to be selfless, but others cannot, especially Xie Zhendong, who rose to prominence thanks to Xie Ziyuan and whose status now subtly surpasses that of other pharmacists in the Xie family.

Huo Yuntang gave his assistant a look, and the assistant understood and quietly went downstairs.

Assistant Huo went directly to the on-site security supervisor of the auction, "Pharmacist Chen and Xie Li over there have offended our young master and his fiancée. Just kick them out."

He held the land number plate in his hand and generously handed the security supervisor a check.

The security supervisor nodded and immediately made the arrangements.

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Downstairs, Pharmacist Chen looked at Xie Li with some concern: "Miss, please don't take those things said online to heart."

Although he has been confined to the alchemy room to refine medicine all these years, he is not ignorant of human relationships.

As the saying goes, "public opinion is a fearsome thing," and "three men can make a tiger." The vicious words on the internet are something that a young girl like Xie Li cannot withstand.

He couldn't help but get angry when he saw those insults, let alone Xie Li, the person involved.

Xie Li's eyes sparkled. She refreshed the interface, then suddenly stood up and walked outside.

"I'm going out for a bit."