Chapter 572 Counterattack
Xu Ruoyun nodded and said with a smile, "Good habit, sweet dreams."
Wen Luoyun responded, smiled, and went out the door. As soon as the door closed, the upturned corners of her lips disappeared, and she cast a sinister glance at Xu Ruoyun's room.
It was late at night, two hours after dinner, and the lights in Wen Luoyun's room were already off.
The courtyard was quiet; not even the wind could be heard.
Xu Ruoyun moved nimbly, holding a sharp knife in her hand, and quietly pushed open the door to Wen Luoyun's room.
The room was even quieter than the outside.
A person was lying on the bed with a bulge, and she quietly approached the bed step by step.
Standing by the bed, she lifted the blanket, covered Wen Luoyun's mouth with one hand, and stabbed her hard in the chest with the other.
However, the moment she made the movement, she realized something was wrong.
The sensation under my hand wasn't that of a person, but rather... a pillow?
In a flash, an ominous premonition arose in her heart, but by the time she realized she had fallen into a trap, it was too late.
Suddenly, the lights came on.
She and the knife in her hand vanished without a trace.
Wen Luoyun stood at the door, wearing a veil, looking at her expressionlessly.
Realizing she had been completely exposed, Xu Ruoyun narrowed her eyes, too lazy to continue the pretense, and said directly, "You knew all along that I was going to kill you?"
Wen Luoyun nodded: "I heard your secret, I know what shady things you did, how can I live? Aren't you just eager to kill me?"
"You know that, so why aren't you running away?" Xu Ruoyun raised her eyebrows.
Wen Luoyun curled her lips slightly: "Run? This is my home, why would I run?"
Xu Ruoyun was puzzled by her words, and her eyes turned cold: "You are ignorant of your own limitations. You asked for this. Today you deserve to die."
As soon as she finished speaking, she rushed towards her with the knife in hand.
Having followed Tang Zhi for years, she had learned some martial arts. While she couldn't handle several strong men, dealing with a weak woman was a piece of cake for her.
The moment Wen Luoyun rushed over, she tried to run away, but she was kicked to the ground by the side.
Xu Ruoyun looked at Wen Luoyun, who was struggling on the ground, and sneered: "Little Rou, don't worry, I will remember your kindness after you leave."
Wen Luoyun didn't struggle at all, but quietly looked at her with a sarcastic look in her eyes: "You really think you've won?"
Xu Ruoyun was slightly taken aback: "What do you mean..."
Before she could finish speaking, a surge of blood rushed to her head, and she suddenly felt a metallic taste in her throat, followed by a mouthful of blood.
A sharp pain shot through her abdomen, and she gasped for breath, looking at Wen Luoyun in disbelief: "You poisoned me?!"
Then she immediately denied it: "No, that's impossible. I only ate porridge and that dish last night. I smelled both the porridge and the dish, and there was no strange smell. Besides, you ate the dish too, and the porridge... that bowl of porridge was yours, so it couldn't possibly be poisoned!"
Looking at her weak appearance, Wen Luoyun smiled and pushed her away. Then she stood up and looked down at her, saying, "You've outsmarted yourself. How can you be so sure that porridge was mine and not something I prepared especially for you?"
Xu Ruoyun froze, looking at her incredulously: "Your bowl of porridge was poisoned?! You knew I would switch your porridge?"
Wen Luoyun calmly replied, "It's hard to say that we foresaw it in advance; we can only say that we made preparations."
"Are you crazy!" Xu Ruoyun gasped through the sharp pain, "What if I don't change it? Are you going to eat that poisoned porridge yourself?"
"Let's eat it then," Wen Luoyun squatted down and looked at Xu Ruoyun with a good mood: "Anyway, I'm the one who poisoned her, so why should we worry about not having an antidote?"
"You're insane!" Xu Ruoyun gritted her teeth and said, "That's poison! Even if you get the antidote, the damage to your body will be irreversible!"
Wen Luoyun nodded: "I know, but as the old saying goes, you can't catch a wolf without risking your cub. If I'm not ruthless to myself, how can I bring myself to do it to you? To be honest, the worst thing about this poison is that you waste your energy. If you hadn't been moving around with the knife, the poison might not have taken effect so quickly."
Xu Ruoyun breathed heavily: "What kind of poison did you use...?"
She had read extensively, yet she had never known that a poison could cause such suffering.
At first, she had lower abdominal pain, which then gradually spread to all parts of her body. Now, her eyes are blurry, and she can feel warm blood flowing from her nose and ears...
Wen Luoyun smiled and said, "I researched the Five Poisons Powder myself when I had nothing to do. It is colorless and odorless. To be honest, this is the first time I have used it on a person. I didn't expect it to be so effective."
"Antidote...give me the antidote..." Feeling her life slipping away bit by bit, Xu Ruoyun panicked completely and spoke in a trembling voice.
Wen Luoyun brushed her hand away and sneered, "Antidote? Do you think that's possible?"
"Give me the antidote, and I promise I will never have any more thoughts about you. I... I am the personal physician of Tang Zhi, the head of the Tang family. As long as you let me go back alive, I will make him fulfill any desire you have. Please, give me a way out..." Xu Ruoyun said weakly.
The resentment in Wen Luoyun's eyes was finally undisguised: "A way out? Did you ever give me a way out? When my uncle was stabbed in the heart and died at your hands, did you ever give him a way out?!"
Xu Ruoyun's pupils widened instantly: "Who...who exactly are you?"
Wen Luoyun's lips curled into a wicked smile as she removed her veil: "Can you still see who I am?"
Xu Ruoyun stared at her blankly: "Wen... Luoyun, you are Wen Luoyun of the Wen family! You did this on purpose, you knew my identity all along, you wanted to take revenge on me all along!"
Wen Luoyun calmly stood up and said, "I did know your identity a long time ago, but if you hadn't harbored murderous intent towards me first, I might not have gone this far. At least..."
She sneered, "I can choose a way to die that will make you feel more comfortable."
Xu Ruoyun looked at her, her voice trembling: "You...you're so vicious..."
"Ha, in terms of viciousness, am I even a tenth as bad as you? For some inexplicable jade pendant, you didn't hesitate to take my uncle's life. What's a mere Five Poisons Powder? Kong Wange, Tang Zhi, every single one of you, I wish I could grind you all to dust!"
Xu Ruoyun tried to speak in fear, but found herself unable to utter a word.
Just then, her cell phone rang.
Xu Ruoyun seemed to have grasped at a straw, her hands trembling as she tried to take it, but Wen Luoyun ruthlessly kicked her arm away and pulled the phone out of her arms.
The caller was Qianliu.
Wen Luoyun sneered, answered the call directly, and even pressed the speakerphone button.
She glanced at Xu Ruoyun, who was clutching her neck and writhing wildly on the ground, and curled her lips into a smile: "Hey."
Her voice was already seven or eight parts similar to Xu Ruoyun's, and now that she was deliberately mimicking her voice, it was almost impossible to tell the difference.
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