The Xia family's house was actually a Suzhou-style garden, with winding paths, artificial hills, and pavilions. In Beijing, where land is incredibly valuable, their family had such a large villa. It was truly extravagant.

As Lin Zhiluo approached the living room, she heard a hoarse male voice shouting, "Let me out! My Yueyue is waiting for me. I need to go and be with her. She's waiting for me. Let me out!"

“He started shouting as soon as I left to find Master Lin, and I didn’t expect him to still be shouting forty minutes later.” Xia Wenyun scoffed, “His voice is really strong.”

"Ahhh, my heart hurts so much." As Xia Wenlan cried out, his voice changed from agitation to pain. He said his heart was hurting.

Lin Zhiluo rushed in immediately: "It must be that the person who cast the Gu poison used the Gu worms to make your brother go to her, but your brother was controlled, so the other party used the worms to gnaw on your brother's heart. Although it was only a little bit, how could a living flesh and blood body withstand it?"

Xia Wenlan rushed in front of Lin Zhiluo: "Master, please come with me."

Recovering from her daze, Xia Wenyun rushed to the front, as Master Lin was unfamiliar with the terrain of their house.

They soon arrived at the study on the second floor. To make it easier to keep an eye on his younger brother, Xia Wenyun had previously locked him in the study so he could catch a glimpse of him while he worked.

"Please move aside." Lin Zhilu pushed away the people surrounding Xia Wenlan.

"Get out of the way," Xia Wenyun snapped.

Lin Zhiluo took out a talisman from her pocket. It turned out that this talisman could be sold for 50,000 yuan.

She pressed the talisman onto Xia Wenlan's head, and Xia Wenlan, who had been crying out in pain, gradually calmed down. When he opened his eyes again...

Xia Wenyun felt that her former younger brother had returned.

Xia Wenlan looked at her brother in confusion: "Wasn't I at school? When did you come home?"

"Don't ask me that yet, I can explain it to you later."

Lin Zhiluo interrupted his reminiscence. She said to Xia Wenyun, "Go and fetch a brazier and a sterilized knife."

Xia Wenyun immediately ordered people to make preparations.

"I..." Xia Wenlan suddenly looked confused again.

Xia Wenyun knew from his expression that her younger brother was about to revert back to his old self.

Lin Zhilu simply ripped the talisman off his head, rolled it into a small ball, and stuffed it into Xia Wenlan's mouth, forcing him to swallow it.

"Brother!" Xia Wenlan looked at Xia Wenyun with some grievance.

"Just bear with it for now, the master is doing this for your own good," Xia Wenyun reassured her. Although the master's methods were a bit rough, the results were effective.

"My heart hurts so much." He felt like something was gnawing at his heart.

"How does it compare to before?"

Xia Wenlan was a little afraid of this woman. She was a bit rude, but she still obediently answered her, "Much better than before."

Lin Zhilu smiled faintly: "You're lucky to have met me. If you hadn't, you would have been a walking corpse in just one month."

Xia Wenlan couldn't understand, and he looked at his brother and the strange woman with great curiosity.

But they weren't in the mood to answer his questions.

With the brazier and knife ready, Lin Zhiluo asked, "Do you have any fresh meat at home, preferably beef?"

"Yes." Immediately, someone rushed down to get it.

Lin Zhilu looked at the beef in the man's hand, with its beautiful snowflakes. The last time she saw it was at a hot pot restaurant, where a small plate of snowflake beef cost her more than 300 yuan. She only glanced at it and couldn't bear to order it.

Lin Zhiluo nodded: "Hold him down, and it's best to gag him, it might hurt a bit later, so don't let him bite his tongue."

Lin Zhiluo, holding a sterilized knife, said, "Xia Wenlan, you'll be in a lot of pain soon. Try to bear it. If you can't, just faint. Try not to struggle, okay?"

"Mm." Xia Wenlan nodded, the gradually lessening pain in his heart making him trust him involuntarily.

Even if he's slow to realize, he can sense that something's wrong with him now.

Lin Zhiluo looked at the burning charcoal in the brazier, then took a knife and cut his wrist, blood gushing out.

She placed the beef underneath to catch his blood.

Perhaps it was because the beef, soaked in blood, smelled so good that the worms in his chest began to swim toward him.

Xia Wenlan shuddered every time the insect moved. His clothes were soaked with cold sweat, and his face was pale and bloodless. If Xia Wenyun hadn't quickly stuffed a towel into his mouth to stop his tongue from moving, he might have bitten his tongue.

However, Xia Wenyun always paid attention to Xia Wenlan's breathing, and would take out a towel if he had difficulty breathing.

He silently watched his younger brother, already thinking about how to avenge him. When had his brother ever suffered like this?

Two short minutes felt like an eternity to Xia Wenlan.

Just as he was about to give up, Lin Zhiluo's voice came: "The bugs are already sprouting on your wrist. Just bear with it for a bit, it'll be over soon."

Xia Wenyun looked at the wound on Xia Wenlan's wrist and the first thing he noticed was two tentacles.

Lin Zhilu warned everyone present: "No matter what you see later, you are not allowed to make a sound. If the bug shrinks back, you can prepare for its funeral."

The breathing of those present became much lighter.

Slowly, a head emerged from the wound, peering around to check if there were any unfavorable factors outside.

This insect is exceptionally cautious.

Thankfully, Lin Zhiluo gave her a heads-up, and Xia Wenyun held her breath when she saw the thing peek out.

A centipede emerged from his brother's wrist. He had taken his brother to get checked out, so why didn't they find anything about it in his body?

The beef, imbued with Xia Wenlan's blood, was constantly tempting it.

The insect crawled directly onto the beef, and Xia Wenyun watched it nibble at it.

Lin Zhiluo held the plate of beef, then quickly poured the worms onto the charcoal fire, and covered the worms with the beef.

The aroma of roasted beef filled the room, but they had all witnessed the horrifying scene that had just taken place.

"Ugh." Xia Wenlan, who had been quiet, began to vomit, mouthful after mouthful of black blood.

"Master Lin, what happened to my brother?" Then he said to the person next to him, "Quickly call 120."

"No need, being able to vomit blood is a good thing." Lin Zhilu stopped them.

"The insect that just entered the brazier is a Gu worm. You don't think it's harmless, do you? It's vomiting poisonous blood right now. Once the color of the vomit returns to normal, it will be fine. After it recovers, just give it some good food to nourish it."

Xia Wenlan also pulled her brother back: "Ugh! I feel much better, my mind is clearer, I should be fine, it's just that my heart... still hurts."

"My heart has been eaten, how can it not hurt? I still need to go to the hospital to get it checked out," Lin Zhiluo said.