Just then, Green Bamboo walked in carrying a bowl of medicine. She lowered her head cautiously, still looking anxious.
Green Bamboo placed the porcelain bowl on the bedside table and bowed in greeting.
But Ruan Qing'an didn't speak. He just frowned and looked at her, his eyes narrowing slightly: "Green Bamboo, how did I become congenitally deficient?"
"This...I don't know either, Miss..."
Green Bamboo was startled and immediately knelt on the ground, trembling slightly, but Ruan Qing'an ignored her and just lowered his eyes to think about something.
She chuckled softly, "I don't actually see anything wrong with it, Green Bamboo, but why did you come to deliver the medicine to me separately when His Highness the Ninth Prince had already gone to the kitchen to wait for the medicine to be brewed?"
"I need an explanation."
Green Bamboo was startled, but replied, "His Highness sent me to deliver it."
Green Bamboo was genuinely surprised that Ji Wuyu actually went to the kitchen just to brew some medicine for Ruan Qing'an. It was simply unbelievable, which is why Green Bamboo didn't take it to heart when she heard about it.
At this moment, Ruan Qing'an tapped his fingertips on the table: "If His Highness is really waiting for the medicine to be brewed, he will deliver it personally."
Ruan Qing'an was confident that Ji Wuyu would definitely try to take advantage of him.
Unbeknownst to Green Bamboo, her whole body was trembling slightly, as if she wanted to explain but didn't know how to say it.
Ruan Qing'an looked down at her and said, "You've been quite something all these years, Green Bamboo. You've been using herbal medicine to harm me without being discovered. If you hadn't revealed your weakness today, I wouldn't have noticed."
037: [Wow, ancestor, you're amazing! How did you do that?]
At the same time, Green Bamboo, who had been kneeling on the ground, finally stopped trembling. She raised her head and stared at Ruan Qing'an: "How did you know?"
Ruan Qingan narrowed his eyes and suddenly laughed.
"Actually, I was just suspicious, but you look so guilty, like you've done something wrong, so I'm trying to trick you. It seems you really have."
Green Bamboo: ...
037: ...
037 nearly exploded: 【Wait, why were you so confident just now, ancestor?!】
Ruan Qingan slowly uttered two words: "By guessing."
"Actually, I originally just thought that the original owner's health was too poor and his mood was not good. I thought I would look for the original owner's memories to see where the problem was and whether it could be treated."
"I didn't expect Green Bamboo to come in so suddenly, and there was something suspicious about it, so I just guessed randomly, and I didn't expect to be right."
Ruan Qing'an paused, her smile undiminished. To be honest, even if she hadn't guessed correctly, it wouldn't have affected her at all; in fact, she had even managed to catch a big fish.
Green Bamboo clearly hadn't expected that her exposure would be because of this. Her face turned ashen, and she stared intently at Ruan Qing'an.
Ruan Qing'an lowered his eyes: "I didn't notice. It must be because I've been taking medicine since I was a child. I even said before that I always beat and scold you, so how could you be so loyal to me? It turns out it was all a lie."
To be precise, the original owner did treat Green Bamboo very badly, which was actually the original owner's fault, but now Ruan Qing'an is taking the blame.
Snap—
The next moment, the porcelain bowl shattered on the ground, and the medicine was scattered all over the ground. Seeing this, Ruan Qing'an couldn't help but frown, and a sudden sense of unease arose.
Green Bamboo looked at her with resentment: "Go to hell!"
Sensing something amiss, Ruan Qing'an, forcing herself to stand up despite her frail body, unleashed her excessively powerful soul to its fullest extent. She flipped herself over and picked up the shards of the porcelain bowl from the ground.
She arrived in front of Green Bamboo almost instantly. After a flash of her sharp, cold light, Ruan Qing'an's eyes showed only an almost icy expression.
This startled Green Bamboo quite a bit.
When did this frail young lady of the Marquis's mansion become so formidable?!
But Green Bamboo reacted quickly. Just as Ruan Qing'an was stabbing a shard of porcelain into her throat, she opened the medicine packet in her hand and sprinkled the powder directly at Ruan Qing'an!
Ruan Qing'an's pupils suddenly contracted, but she still couldn't help but inhale some of the powder. The next moment, her body stopped moving, and she bent over, vomiting large amounts of black blood.
As if poisoned, his face turned deathly pale instantly!
Immediately afterwards, her body stiffened completely, and she fell straight to the ground. She was in so much pain that she almost lost consciousness in an instant. Ruan Qing'an's last sight was of Green Bamboo escaping from the room and the half-open door.
Her fingertips trembled as if she were lying in a pool of blood.
037: [Oh my god, this is all the original owner's fault!]
Even 037 didn't expect that the deadly danger that the original owner hadn't discovered would be discovered by Ruan Qing'an, which would actually drive Green Bamboo to desperate measures. Most importantly, it directly stimulated the slow-acting poison that had been stored in the original owner's body for a long time.
This wasn't even a question of whether Ruan Qing'an was on guard; it was the seeds of disaster sown by the original owner that had suddenly erupted at this moment!
Ruan Qing'an felt excruciating pain all over her body, as if her bones were being shattered. She vomited a mouthful of blood and collapsed to the ground.
Just then, Green Bamboo ran out of the courtyard and bumped into Ji Wuyu, who was carrying medicine. She instinctively trembled and bowed, saying, "Your Highness, Ninth Prince."
"Um."
Ji Wuyu responded coldly.
Green Bamboo finally breathed a sigh of relief after he walked past her. She knew she had to escape as quickly as possible, or she would surely die!
But just as Green Bamboo took one step out—
A large hand gripped her neck tightly from behind, making it almost impossible for Green Bamboo to breathe. Standing behind her was Ji Wuyu, who had just walked past, his dark eyes fixed on her.
Green Bamboo felt that even breathing was a luxury. She subconsciously clutched her neck with her hands, "Your Highness..."
But Ji Wuyu, standing behind her, had one hand around Lüzhu's neck and the other holding a bowl of medicine, looking at her coldly: "You seem very nervous, and... you smell of medicine."
As if struck by a sudden thought, Ji Wuyu frowned. He abruptly tossed the green bamboo onto a plate and coldly ordered the guards, "Take her into custody immediately, and quickly!"
"Your Highness, what is this?"
The guards were taken aback, but the bowl of medicine was placed directly on the ground, and Ji Wuyu quickly ran towards Ruan Qing'an's courtyard. A sense of unease arose, and they immediately obeyed the order to control Lüzhu.
At this moment, Ji Wuyu had already run into the courtyard. Looking at the half-open door, his heart sank to the bottom. He could only rush forward and push the door open. He saw Ruan Qing'an lying in a pool of blood, her life hanging in the balance!
Ji Wuyu immediately stepped forward, checked that Ruan Qing'an was still breathing, then picked her up and rushed out of the courtyard.
The entire Yongle Marquis's residence was in complete chaos. No one expected that Ruan Qing'an would have an accident. Upon hearing the news, Ruan Changhong rushed back immediately, bringing a doctor with him. It took half a day to get everything sorted out.
Ruan Qing'an did stop vomiting blood, but remained in a coma, while Lü Zhu was locked in a secret room.
Her condition deteriorated rapidly. Ji Wuyu stayed up all night, sitting by Ruan Qing'an's bedside, not daring to close his eyes for even a moment, for fear that her condition would deteriorate again.
Upon hearing Ruan Changhong enter, Ji Wuyu turned to look at him, his eyes slightly dark: "Lord Marquis, what exactly happened? You have to give me an explanation."
"..."
Ruan Changhong remained silent, sitting to the side, looking at Ruan Qing'an with heartache. But suddenly he sensed a strong, sinister killing intent, like a ferocious beast that had completely shed its disguise.
He instinctively looked at Ji Wuyu, meeting those almost inhuman eyes. Ji Wuyu hadn't lost his mind, but rather...
For Ruan Qingan, he no longer cared what he had to do.
Noticing Ruan Changhong's silence, Ji Wuyu spoke slowly and deliberately: "It seems that the Marquis does indeed know something."
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