"It is you, after all! This poison is colorless, odorless, and hard to detect, and scarcely anyone even knows of it. How on earth does Miss Yun know about it?"
Seeing Xuan Junheng speaking such speechless words with a completely straight face, Yun Feiwan twitched the corner of her mouth in speechlessness:
"With a name that straightforward, even an idiot could guess it! No, wait, that is not the point! The point is—you need me to help detoxify you now? So you want me and you to..."
Her gaze unconsciously drifted downward, her voice dropping to a mosquito's hum:
"Hehehe-shoushou!"
"Hehehe-shoushou?"
Xuan Junheng's eyes held a trace of surprise, his deep voice tinged with confusion:
"Miss Yun, what does that mean?"
"I mean men and women making love, skin-to-skin contact, mouth-to-mouth, fingers intertwined kind of hehe-shoushou!"
Yun Feiwan blurted it out all at once, then immediately crossed her hands over her chest, twisting her two index fingers back and forth, keeping her head lowered so she dared not look at him.
She couldn't be blamed for this; it was simply that the Truth System refused to let her express herself politely...
She could only feel a scorching gaze fixed intently on the top of her head, and her breathing involuntarily grew hurried.
After a moment, the man's crisp, cool voice reached her, a trace of an imperceptible smile tugging at the corner of his lips:
"So Miss Yun wishes to help this Prince detoxify in this manner?"
Nervous dot-jpg...
Her wildly pounding heart refused to obey her brain at all.
This was the second time she had been in such close contact with a handsome man, and it made the heart of Yun Feiwan, who had been single for over twenty years, flutter like a startled fawn.
"If... if it really must be done to help, then... then it's not entirely out of the question... Though I wouldn't be losing out either, I..."
Before she could finish, Xuan Junheng interrupted her with a chuckle:
"I think Miss Yun has misunderstood."
He seemed to be holding back his laughter, his lips pressed tightly together, his chest vibrating slightly as he answered in a deep, husky voice:
"There are actually two ways to cure this poison. The first is for the man and woman to couple within two hours. While this will cure the poisoned person, it will transfer the poison into the woman's body. In other words, one of the two is bound to die from the poison with this method."
"What?! Such a vicious thing!"
Yun Feiwan instantly broke out in goosebumps. She rubbed the gooseflesh on her arms and retreated two small steps along with her chair, looking highly vigilant:
"Retract! I retract what I just said! Xuan Junheng, I am your savior, you wouldn't bite the hand that feeds you, would you?!"
There was no helping it, she couldn't be blamed for leveraging her kindness at a time like this!
"Did I not just mention that there are two ways to cure this poison? Coupling is merely one of them."
Xuan Junheng stretched out a slender finger to gesture a 'two' in the air and continued:
"The second method: the blending of our blood."
"It's over, it's totally over! The second method sounds terrifying too!"
Yun Feiwan muttered her innermost thoughts under her breath, pouting her little lips and sniffing:
"It... it won't require drawing my blood, will it? I am so terrified of pain! I really am! Forget it, forget it, I won't save you after all. Why don't you just go and drop dead..."
"Pfft..."
Xuan Junheng almost choked on his breath. He couldn't help but pat Yun Feiwan's little head:
"What are you thinking? Now you have to save me whether you want to or not, we are out of time."
"Ah? Why? Is this forced buying and selling?! Are you resorting to violence?!"
Seeing Yun Feiwan looking as though facing a formidable enemy, Xuan Junheng explained with good-natured patience:
"Actually, you have also been infected with this poison. Haven't you noticed that your mouth is dry and your whole body is burning with an unbearable heat right now? It is because you bit me just now and drank my blood, which carried the poison."
"What!"
Yun Feiwan's pupils dilated. With trembling fingers, she touched the already dried bloodstain at the corner of her mouth, then pressed her hands to her cheeks—
Sure enough! Her body was burning hot!
She had thought she was just excessively startled earlier, but it turned out she had been poisoned.
"Quickly tell me! What are we supposed to do now?"
Xuan Junheng wiped a bead of sweat from his brow and spoke without haste:
"The second method: the poisoned parties use each other's blood as the medicinal catalyst, twice a month, for twenty-four doses in total to cure the poison. Otherwise, when the poison flares up, the victim's entire body will turn red and hot, and their skin will ulcerate until they die."
Wait, wasn't this supposed to be someone else's plot?
Wasn't this the plot of the supporting female character, Gu Ruoxi!
"Wuwuwu, why am I so unlucky! Every time I run into you, I have bad luck!"
Yun Feiwan clenched her small fists and pounded the air resentfully:
"This wasn't supposed to be my tribulation, but now look—I've been dragged into it with you!"
According to the plot, the supporting male character Xuan Junheng, who was the ultimate mastermind villain, was supposed to encounter the supporting female character Gu Ruoxi in the early stages, forming a bond due to being poisoned during a kidnapping.
The difference was that they had not engaged in skin-to-skin contact, nor had they used each other's blood for detoxification; instead, Gu Ruoxi just happened to have medicinal herbs on her that could cure the poison!
Don't ask why the supporting female character had them on her—if you must ask, blame the magic of the plot.
And it was precisely because of this saving grace that Xuan Junheng ultimately gave up on vying for the imperial throne, disappearing without a trace after his defeat...
At this thought, Yun Feiwan raised her gaze to look at Xuan Junheng, who was already beginning to pant heavily before her, and blurted out:
"If I save you this time, wouldn't I end up as your savior twice over? Since that's the case, you are not allowed to fail me! If I run into trouble in the future, you cannot sit by and do nothing!"
At the thought that her butterfly effect had deprived Gu Ruoxi of a powerful helper, Yun Feiwan's mood didn't feel quite so terrible after all.
"Miss Yun, I am not a person who forgets kindness and turns his back on righteousness. It's just that we don't have much time left. Right now, both of us are facing a life-or-death crisis and have no other choice. Have you... considered it?"
Xuan Junheng struggled to suppress the surging heat within his body. Having been poisoned earlier than Yun Feiwan, his poison naturally flared up a bit sooner.
"Th... then let's do it!"
Yun Feiwan felt her breathing gradually grow rapid, her burning body desperately craving release.
"You go first, Miss. I can still... endure it."
Hot breaths billowed near his ear as Xuan Junheng tore open his long robe, revealing his solid chest.
Though she had seen it once before, such close proximity still left Yun Feiwan flushed from head to toe with embarrassment.
Perhaps noticing her awkwardness, Xuan Junheng didn't hesitate to use a dagger to slice open his shoulder, leaning his body forward a fraction:
"Come, drink."
Beside his sexy collarbone, bright red blood trickled down, tempting her parched mouth until she couldn't help but lick her dry lips.
To hell with it! It's all to stay alive!
With a hardened heart, Yun Feiwan lunged forward, pressing her pink lips against the man's hard arm—
"Slurp!"