As soon as Yan Xiao finished speaking, a white light appeared before her eyes. When she could see again, she found herself holding a sword and slashing at Jiang Xinrui's neck.
Yan Xiao's heart tightened, and she quickly rotated her wrist to change direction.
Fortunately, she pulled back quickly enough that when she stopped, Jiang Xinrui's head was still hanging steadily on her neck, with only a bloody gash.
Jiang Xinrui had already closed her eyes and waited for death, but after a while she found that her neck did not seem to have fallen off.
She opened her eyes in confusion and saw that Yan Xiao had suddenly stopped and instead reached out to touch the top of her head.
She moved back a little with difficulty, glared at Yan Xiao, and shouted while trying to appear calm:
"What trick are you trying to pull now? Didn't you want to kill me? Come on then!"
Yan Xiao found her words annoying. He paused for a moment, then with a flash of his eyes and a few twists of his wrist, he severed Jiang Xinrui's tendons in her hands and feet.
She didn't have any sadistic tendencies; she just didn't want to follow in Shen Muzhi's footsteps. Who knew what strange poisons Jiang Xinrui might have? It was better to be cautious.
Jiang Xinrui was unaware of Yan Xiao's thoughts, only believing that Yan Xiao wanted to torture her, and looked at Yan Xiao with a mixture of fear and hatred.
"You wretch, you'll die a horrible death! You'd better kill me right now, or I'll grind you to dust if I ever get the slightest chance."
Yan Xiao chuckled softly upon hearing this and said calmly:
"Don't worry, I will do as you wish, but before you die, I need to ask you for something."
As she spoke, she placed her hand on Jiang Xinrui's head. Jiang Xinrui wanted to dodge, but with her tendons in her hands and feet severed and her arm missing, she was unable to move and could only let Yan Xiao place her hand on her head.
"What...what are you doing?"
Almost the instant Yan Xiao's hand touched her head, she inexplicably felt flustered and palpitated.
It felt like something extremely important was slipping away from me.
And as time went on, this feeling grew stronger and stronger.
When Yan Xiao removed her hand, she felt as if all her energy had been drained away. She could no longer hold on and collapsed to the ground.
Yan Xiao glanced at her once, then raised the sword in her hand again.
Just as she was about to strike, Jiang Xinrui suddenly turned her head to look at Shen Muzhi, whose face was flushed and who was trying hard to suppress the desire within him.
"Heh~, you schemed and plotted, neglecting sleep and meals, risking your life countless times, only to have it all go to someone else. Hahaha, you're so high and mighty, what gives you the right? What's wrong with me being unwilling to accept this? What did I do wrong?"
She laughed and cried at the same time, her tone filled with hatred and resentment, but mostly with unwillingness. She then abruptly turned and glared at Yan Xiao, continuing:
"Yanxiao, do you think you've won? Hehe~, let me tell you, you can't win. In the end, it'll all be for nothing."
My today is your tomorrow, you can't win, hahaha~, you can't win.
Looking at her hysterical state of crying and laughing, and listening to what she said, Yan Xiao roughly guessed the reason why she betrayed Shen Muzhi.
However, she didn't care much about any of that. She glanced at Shen Muzhi, who was already approaching her, and knew that she couldn't delay any longer. Without saying a word, she killed the still-crazy Jiang Xinrui with a single sword strike, which was a quick and painless end for her.
When Jiang Xinrui died, she seemed to hear her guardian spirit sigh, but she didn't pay attention because at that moment Shen Muzhi was already pressed against her, and his hands and feet had begun to get restless.
Yan Xiao froze for a moment, then without saying a word, she directly stabbed Shen Muzhi in the head with a needle. Almost the instant the needle entered his brain, Shen Muzhi collapsed to the ground.
Yan Xiao cursed Shen Muzhi under her breath for being so spineless, falling for this trick. Although she was resentful, her hands did not stop for a second.
She quickly caught Shen Muzhi, who was about to slip, and then helped the unconscious man into the inner room. She didn't even glance at the corpse on the ground.
Once inside the room, Yan Xiao didn't dare to delay and quickly began to expel the poison from Shen Muzhi.
The medicine Jiang Xinrui gave Shen Mu was extremely potent, and it also contained a poison that could cause mental confusion. The combination of the two poisons made it even more difficult to cure.
If it weren't for the fact that her current ability level was about to break through to level three, Shen Muzhi would probably be in serious trouble if this happened.
Even so, curing him of the poison was not an easy task.
After an unknown amount of time, just as Yan Xiao was about to collapse from exhaustion, Shen Muzhi finally spat out a mouthful of dark red blood.
Yan Xiao breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this. Before she could even wipe the sweat from her brow, she quickly and carefully checked Shen Muzhi's current physical condition.
But after she finished reading it, her expression became somewhat indescribable.
"Damn it, it was too easy for Jiang Xinrui to die."
Yan Xiao cursed through gritted teeth, her anger rising at the sight of the unconscious person on the bed.
The reason is simply that although this person's poison has been neutralized, the toxicity was so potent that while the poison itself was neutralized, the medicinal effects were not completely neutralized.
Although the effects of this medicine won't kill anyone, it could completely prevent Shen Muzhi from ever being a man again.
Yan Xiao had just realized her own thoughts; neither for public nor private reasons could she allow Shen Muzhi to become a eunuch.
She gritted her teeth, took off her shoes, climbed onto the bed, and then reached for the belt of Shen Muzhi's clothes.
She stopped as soon as her hand touched the belt.
It wasn't that she was being coy or regretful, but rather that she was almost completely exhausted. If she were to move on her own, she probably would collapse after only a couple of moves, leaving her in a limbo.
Moreover, such matters require mutual consent. What if the other person has other feelings and would rather be a eunuch than consummate the marriage?
Thinking this, she reached out and touched the silver needle on Shen Muzhi's head, then pulled it out.
The needle had just been removed, and before Yan Xiao could even put her smile away, Shen Muzhi's eyes had already opened.
He then reached out and grabbed Yan Xiao's arm, flipping her over and subduing her beneath him.
"Hiss~"
He laughed, then winced in pain, glaring at her angrily: "Do you have some serious illness?"
Shen Muzhi, who had just woken up, was still a little groggy. But when he heard Yan Xiao's voice and saw her face clearly, he immediately softened his grip and the wariness in his eyes disappeared. However, he showed no intention of getting up.
"Madam, I, I~"
Because of the movement just now, Yan Xiao's collar was slightly open, and Shen Muzhi stared at that fair skin with wide eyes.
He couldn't help but swallow hard, but the words he was about to say were swallowed back down.
He had already remembered what was going on, although some parts were blurry and he couldn't remember how he got to the bed. But the little rationality he had left made him remember that Yan Xiao had residual poison in her body and that he couldn't consummate the marriage with her.
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