Seeing that she still didn't react, Fu Huaijin decided to tease her.
He reached out and gently pinched Qingqing's leg. The moment he touched her leg, the body on the bed stiffened reflexively.
This reaction made him even more convinced that the person in the bed was pretending to be asleep.
He released her, tugged at the blanket, and said calmly, "When someone is truly asleep, their muscles are completely relaxed. If they're pretending to be asleep, although their posture may look the same as a normal person sleeping..."
"But she will always be on high alert, and will subconsciously tense up if she is provoked."
"When I pinched your leg just now, you subconsciously wanted to lift your leg to kick me, didn't you?"
The person on the bed started rolling their eyes even faster.
"Still not awake?"
Knowing she couldn't keep up the act any longer, Su Yuxi pretended to pull the blanket with her small hand, shifted her body a couple of times, and then slowly opened her eyes.
She had hoped to make herself less embarrassed, but when she opened her eyes, she was met with the man's insightful gaze, and all her little thoughts were laid bare.
Even the thickest skin couldn't help but feel a little warm; her face was like a pink and white flower bud about to bloom under the first rays of dawn, shy and charming.
Su Yuxi shifted her gaze to the source of the stench on the bedside table, clutched her forehead with her small hand, and groaned a few times, "Is the medicine ready? I... I had a bit of a headache just now, so I fell asleep."
"Hmm." Fu Huaijin didn't want to expose her little trick. He turned around and pulled open all the heavy curtains, letting in bright light and exposing the woman who was trying to hide.
He glanced at her sideways and rested his chin on the bowl of medicine: "The medicine is getting cold, drink it."
Su Yuxi's face scrunched up as she turned to look at the bowl of medicine, which was as black as the bottom of a pot. The fear of being controlled by medicine in the past surged into her heart, making her instinctively want to resist.
And is that medicine?
It was even more poisonous than the poison on her face.
She forced a bitter smile, pulled the blanket up a bit, buried half her face in it, her eyes timid and filled with a pitiful light: "Maybe I shouldn't drink it. I think I'm fine."
Before I could even drink it, my stomach was already churning, and I felt like I was going to throw up any second.
Fu Huaijin guessed that it was because she was afraid of taking medicine, so when Chu Juan said that he was going to brew medicine, her first thought was to run away immediately and try to avoid drinking the medicine.
The medicine was hard to come by, so naturally we couldn't let her escape so easily.
He walked to the bedside and sat down, picked up the medicine bowl from the bedside table. He had been taking medicine for more than ten years and was completely immune to these bitter and smelly tastes.
However, this bowl does look a bit smelly.
"No, you have to drink it."
Su Yuxi moved further away from the other side of the bed, her alarm bells ringing in her mind, and her resistance was no longer concealed: "I won't drink, I won't drink."
Drinking this is tantamount to taking her life. If she doesn't drink it, she'll at most have an ugly face, but if she drinks it, she'll die immediately. Compared to her face, her life is more important.
She would rather die than drink it, and even if she were beaten to death, she still wouldn't drink it.
"This medicine can detoxify you, drink it." Fu Huaijin had never coaxed anyone to drink medicine before, so he could only order her to drink it in a harsh tone.
However, Su Yuxi was not so easily persuaded: "I can detoxify without drinking it."
"Are you sure?" Fu Huaijin never believed that any poison could be absorbed by her own body. Chu Juan had mentioned that in addition to the deadly poison, her body also contained highly corrosive substances. Even if there were no problems now, there was no guarantee that there wouldn't be problems in the future.
The best course of action is to detoxify as soon as possible.
He furrowed his brows, his eyes darkened, his handsome face tense, and he unconsciously exuded an aura of authority that brooked no refusal. He personally picked up a ladle, scooped up a spoonful, and slowly placed it in front of her: "Drink."
Su Yuxi's long eyelashes trembled slightly. She wrapped herself in the blanket and rolled around a few times, moving as far away from him as possible. Her tone was very firm: "I won't drink."
Fu Huaijin frowned even more deeply, glancing at the medicine in the bowl. He couldn't understand why Su Yuxi was so resistant. No matter how bitter or smelly it was, it was just a bowl of medicine. If she was afraid, she could just close her eyes and drink it down.
"come over."
Su Yu shook her head violently, her eyes filled with an unprecedented determination.
Seeing that he couldn't persuade her, Fu Huaijin had no choice but to use his trump card: "Drink this bowl and I'll reward you with 100,000 yuan."
However, when faced with taking medicine, money seems to lose its power.
"I won't drink it." She shook her head vigorously, her mind made up.
Two hundred thousand?
Shake head.
"Five hundred thousand."
The person on the bed swayed slightly, slowed down the shaking of their head, and a hint of hesitation flashed in their eyes.
Fu Huaijin pressed his advantage: "One million. If you don't drink it, I'll have someone come in, hold you down, and force you down the throat, spoonful by spoonful."
These words, a mix of threats, inducements, and soft tactics, made Su Yuxi's mind go blank, and her thoughts couldn't help but drift back to the past. In the past, when she was sick, she didn't want to drink that smelly and bitter medicine, and it was always her grandfather who would restrain her and force-feed it to her by pinching her mouth.
Although he understands pharmacology, he said that his body is special and it is difficult to control the dosage. Every time, either too much medicine causes her to have diarrhea, or too little medicine has no effect, leaving her neither dead nor well, suffering in vain.
For her, taking the medicine was no different from being tortured.
Although this man couldn't hold her in place, he had plenty of men.
She was a little scared.
I don't want to be forced to drink.
After much deliberation, she finally gave in, shakily putting down the blanket and sitting up in bed.
"One million?"
"Mm." Fu Huaijin nodded.
"How about... we call Chu Juan over? In case something really happens from drinking, he can be of help."
"He just fell asleep. He hasn't slept for days. This was made especially for you. It's alright."
"Go ahead and drink. He's upstairs. I'll call him if there's any problem."
Having said that, Su Yuxi seemed to have no reason to refuse.
Seeing the medicine so close to her mouth, she decided to give up, pinched her nose, and swallowed it whole.
Although she had put the medicine in her mouth, she couldn't swallow it and looked at the man in front of her with innocent eyes.
Fu Huaijin put down the ladle in his hand, reached out, and touched her throat with his slender fingertips.
Su Yuxi's throat was irritated, and she swallowed the medicine with a gulp.
A burning sensation rose in my stomach; although I didn't vomit, I felt terrible.
She exaggeratedly covered her mouth, uttering indistinct words: "Poison, poison."
"You want to poison me so you can inherit my estate, don't you?"
Fu Huaijin ignored her pretense and put the second bite to her lips: "You still have the energy to talk, it's okay."
"One million, drink or not?"
Su Yuxi reluctantly lowered her hand, her eyes filled with sorrow and despair. After taking a sip, her spirit had already been greatly damaged. What difference did it make?
She closed her eyes, snatched the bowl from her hand, and drank the entire bowl of medicine in one gulp with a death-defying resolve.
After taking the medicine, she lay stiffly on the bed, clutching her stomach, quietly waiting for the abdominal pain to begin.
Fu Huaijin's face also showed a rare hint of tension, his eyes fixed on her, not missing a single change in her expression.
Gradually, Su Yuxi moved her hand from her stomach to her bottom... This medicine felt a bit strange; it used to cause stomach aches, but now it felt warm in her lower back...
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