Xue Zhiyi stayed in Huo Wuyou's house all night, and before he knew it, it was almost dawn.
Before there was an antidote, Sui Yunlang could only consider giving him medicine based on past experience, at least to suppress the spread of the poison.
"Sui Yunlang." She said hoarsely, "Tell me the truth, what will happen if there is no antidote?"
Sui Yunlang paused while holding the scales, his eyes lowered. After a moment of silence, he said, "Wuyou once caught a wild rabbit for me to test the medicine on. I want to try it too. If someone gets poisoned like him, is there an antidote? But no matter how hard I try, the poisoned rabbit will die within half a month."
Xue Zhiyi's heart trembled with the weight of the balance scale. Unwilling to give up, she pressed on, "What about that common method you mentioned? Slowly administering the medicine, slowly clearing the poison from the body over time, wouldn't that work?"
There was only expectation in her eyes, and she was eager to get a positive answer from Sui Yunlang.
But all he got was a sigh. "Wuyou's brother and I grew up together, and we're close friends. Wuyou's a few years younger than me, but to me, he's like a brother. Miss Xue, my hope for his recovery is no less than yours. If there's a way, I'll give it my all... Now, we can only hope he's lucky enough, and Jiang Xu and the others can get the antidote."
Xue Zhiyi lowered his eyes to hide the moisture in them, and looked at Huo Wuyou lying on the couch. The face that always had a casual smile on it seemed to have faded in color at this moment.
All of this happened so suddenly, so suddenly that they were caught off guard. Xue Zhiyi himself hadn't expected that seeing him in trouble would make his heart ache so much...
Huo Wuyou's palm stretched slightly at his side, and Xue Zhiyi's fingertips fell on his palm. His hand seemed a little colder than usual. Xue Zhiyi's hand slowly moved until he reluctantly held his hand.
She felt so upset that she closed her eyes and frowned hard to hold back her tears.
At this moment, there was a slight movement of her fingertips... Xue Zhiyi opened her eyes and saw Huo Wuyou's hand moving. That hand held her back, making the blue glass flowers at the base of their knuckles merge into one again.
Xue Zhiyi raised his eyes and saw Huo Wuyou's eyelids tremble slightly and he slowly opened his eyes.
"Are you awake?" Xue Zhiyi was delighted, but his eyes unconsciously turned red.
Sui Yunlang also hurried forward to check: "Wuyou, how do you feel?"
His Adam's apple rose and fell, his breathing became heavy, and his dark eyes took a long time to focus, finally landing on Xue Zhiyi's face: "...What happened?"
Sui Yunlang's voice was choked with sobs. After he finished explaining, the confusion in Huo Wuyou's eyes gradually dissipated: "I remember you said that there is no antidote for the poison."
Sui Yunlang quickly denied: "My medical skills are limited, so there is no solution. If we can find the antidote, everything will be fine. Jiang Xu and the others have already gone to get it."
Huo Wuyou coughed a few times, "Did the poison enter my brain? How dare you say that your medical skills are shallow in my lifetime?"
Seeing that he still had the mind to joke, Sui Yunlang wanted to push him, but fortunately he still had medical ethics and did not attack.
After provoking Sui Yunlang, his gaze wandered to Xue Zhiyi's face, and his eyes gradually softened: "Crying?"
It would have been fine if he hadn't said that. After he said that, Xue Zhiyi really wanted to cry. She sniffed, avoided his gaze, and tried hard not to let the tears fall.
Huo Wuyou tightened his grip on her hand, a smile lingering in his weak voice: "It's rare to see you cry in front of me, but I've seen it twice today. It's even rarer to see you cry for me. What luck did I have today?"
As he spoke, he gently shook Xue Zhiyi's hand: "Don't worry, I won't die that easily."
Sui Yunlang listened, feeling both like crying and cursing: "Could you please save your energy and stop talking sourly for a moment?"
Huo Wuyou started to act like a spoiled brat: "You said I was full of sour words, but it's obviously you who are sour."
Sui Yunlang raised his fist almost enough to break through the constraints of medical ethics and hit Huo Wuyou, but then he heard the door open. The three of them looked and saw that it was Yan Gui who had returned.
As soon as they saw him coming, Xue Zhiyi and Sui Yunlang almost surrounded him at the same time.
Sui Yunlang hurriedly asked, "What happened?"
However, Yan Gui's face was gloomy. "We've used all the necessary tortures, but...but Chai Xun insisted that there's no antidote for this poison. He said it's called the Seven-Day Recipe for Ending Hate, and that poisoned people will die within seven days. Since the poison was first created, there's never been an antidote..."
Xue Zhiyi felt her body sway. This was the first time she had tasted despair since her rebirth...
"No..." Sui Yunlang's voice was a little hoarse with excitement. "If someone who doesn't understand pharmacology tells a lie, they will inevitably leave many loopholes. That old man lied about the antidote, he could fool others, but he couldn't fool me!"
He pulled Yan Gui and said, "Take me to see him!"
Xue Zhiyi remained silent. At this moment, besides being in despair, she also felt an uncontrollable anger... It was as if she wanted to get rid of every enemy in the past, and she wished she could grind these people into ashes and send them to hell!
You're not going to hand over the antidote, are you? It must be because torture wasn't enough! I don't believe that even if the entire Chai family were to be chopped into pieces in front of Chai Xun, he would still be so stubborn as to refuse to hand over the antidote!
Just as she was about to follow Yan Gui to see Chai Xun, Huo Wuyou's voice came from behind her: "Zhi Yi..."
Xue Zhiyi paused.
"Zhiyi, stay with me, don't leave me."
Her heart softened and tears fell uncontrollably.
In fact, she herself knew that both she and Sui Yunlang were just deceiving themselves.
They just want the antidote, not the lives of the Chai family, nor do they want Chai Xun to betray King Sheng. If he still refuses to give in despite all the torture, it is most likely that there is no antidote. If they are pushed too far and the antidote is forced out of them, will they dare to use it?
She turned her head and looked at Huo Wuyou lying on the sickbed. She felt the pain in her heart almost spread to every part of her body.
Sitting down in front of his bed, she could no longer bear it and just looked at him, tears streaming down her face.
Huo Wuyou raised his hand and gently stroked her hair: "Don't cry, I won't die in seven days. Sui Yunlang has tried, and he has a way to extend it to half a month. Maybe, if I delay it, I won't have to die."
"It's because of me." Her voice became hoarse again: "If you hadn't come to save me, this wouldn't have happened..."
Hearing this, Huo Wuyou felt a little hurt: "So you were crying because of guilt, I thought..."
He suddenly smiled: "I thought it was because he had me in his heart and couldn't bear to leave me."
Xue Zhiyi choked up, and amidst his low sobs, he said two words with great certainty: "I have you."
It was these two words that made Huo Wuyou's eyelashes tremble slightly: "You, say it again."
"Huo Wuyou, I have you in my heart. You are the only person I love in this life."
Not just in this life, but in both of her lives, it was the only heartbeat she had ever experienced... Her two lives were like an eternal night, but a beam of light had intruded into her without reason, making her unconscious, from being unable to control herself to being unable to extricate herself, silently and deeply engraved in her bones...
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