Evil Wife Young Master Lu

Chapter 12: The Cold Poison

Xi Qian was caught off guard when an unknown man picked up his best friend from the ground and rushed inside the pharmacy.

"Wait on! What are you going to do with Feifei?! Restore her! We have to get him to the hospital!" He exclaimed, but Yun Xiang did not stop in his tracks and ignored him.

"Han Zijun's! You better come out and help us!" He called while Mr. Ouyang asked one of the staff to close the door of the apothecary, forbidding others to see what was happening inside the place.

Yun Xiang looked at the young lady in his arms, seeing that he was struggling to keep his consciousness despite his condition. His face was deathly pale, even his lips had lost their original color. He heard her hissing in pain, but he could not muster the strength to say a word.

The man called Han Zijun walked out of the room labeled 'Only For Official Personnel'. This man was only in his late twenties, but it seemed like he was the owner of this shop.

"Mr Ouyang? Young Master Yun? Have you forgotten something?"

However, as soon as his eyes were fixed on Su Xiaofei, his eyes widened in understanding.

"Hurry up and bring him inside. I need to see how bad the wound is!" He said, letting Yun Xiang enter the room he just left. Mister Ouyang and Xi Qian immediately followed them. A partition is then placed, preventing anyone from seeing what is going on behind it.

"Miss, please stay here and allow Mr. Han to take care of your friend's injuries." A woman came and convinced Xi Qian to sit down first. He then convinces her that Han Zijun is a doctor of traditional medicine and one of the best in the country.

Xi Qian could not say a word and cried in silence. One moment, Su Xiaofei smiled at him, told him to hurry, then the next thing he knew, his best friend was bleeding on the ground. Why was it that every time he was with Su Xiaofei, there was always something bad happening to his friend?

Xi Qian did not want to think that her stepmother's words in the past were true. Her stepmother once told her that she was the unlucky bearer in their family, and she would bring trouble to those around her.

When Su Xiaofei heard about this and his problem, he just sneered in annoyance and said that Xi Qian's evil stepmother was just trying to isolate him from everyone, she said, so he'll just depend on them.

'Feifei, please be fine.' Xi Qian clenched his hands together and prayed earnestly in his heart.

The room was large enough to receive VIP guests and patients. Yun Xiang laid Su Xiaofei on the bed, while Han Zijun went to his side, checking his pulse before slightly lifting his shirt to reveal a clean wound on his left side.

Yun Xiang was shocked to see his wound, while Mr. Ouyang's face darkened upon seeing it. The wound was clearly abnormal, as there was a hint of dark color on Su Xiaofei's flesh. Thankfully, his injuries were not deep, but if left for too long, Su Xiaofei's life would be in danger.

Han Zijun had already called his assistant and told him to make a list of the herbs he needed as soon as possible. He then began to clean his wounds and used acupuncture to stop the spread of the poison throughout his body.

When his assistant returned, he immediately removed most of the poison from Su Xiaofei's body through the same wound.

"The girl indirectly saved Mr. Ouyang's life." He muttered next to Yun Xiang as soon as he was done with the treatment. "Fortunately, the wound is not deep, and we can detoxify the toxins left there. What are you doing, leaving Lord Ouyang alone?"

Yun Xiang's jaw hardened. He did not anticipate that something like this would happen. When the Ouyang family asked for his help to look after their elders, he did not think that someone would be brave enough to attack Lord Ouyang in broad daylight.

If not for this young lady, the one who would be stabbed would be Mr. Ouyang. Of course, Yun Xiang knew of Lord Ouyang's condition. If he were to be stabbed today, even if it was just a superficial wound, his heart would not be able to withstand the poison, and it would kill him.

"What about her?" Master Ouyang finally spoke after Su Xiaofei's condition had stabilized.

"His life is out of danger now. I've stitched up the wound, but I estimate he's got a fever tonight because of the amount of cold poison still left in his body, but don't worry. With oral medication, it'll be removed from his system in three days." Han Zijun explained to the old man.

Mr. Ouyang remained silent, but it was clear that he was troubled by Su Xiaofei's condition. He could leave unscathed because of this young lady in front of him. Based on his appearance, he might still be a teenager at the peak of maturity.

If he lost his life today, Ouyang Luo would not be able to bear the guilt, knowing a young woman had lost her future because of him.

If the assailant came to him just as he was planning to see the nearest stall, the old man was not sure he would be able to see the next sunrise again.

"Medicine this child... Xiao Zijun, put it under my tab. Give her everything she needs."

"As you wish, Mr. Ouyang." Han Zijun replied before asking himself to cook the potion that Su Xiaofei needed.

After two hours of waiting, Xi Qian was allowed to see her best friend .. He sat by the bedside and heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that some colors had returned to Su Xiaofei's face.

All of this strangely felt familiar to him. How could he not know? Wasn't this all the symptoms he had experienced in his previous life? Cold poison slowly accumulated in his body, until it was too late for him to realize what was happening to him.

Before marrying Mo Yuchen in his previous life, Su Xiaofei had experienced the early symptoms he was experiencing at this time. At the time of their divorce, Su Xiaofei was suffering from chronic pain, seizures, and vomiting blood caused by cold poison.

As for how he ended up being poisoned, only in the end did he find out that Ye Mingyu was the one who had been slowly feeding his poison for so many years. It was for this reason that when Lu Qingfeng found out, it was too late for him to find a genius doctor who could detoxify the poison from his body.

Su Xiaofei never thought he would experience the same thing again. A minute under the pain felt like an eternity to Su Xiaofei. Even when Yun Xiang lifted him up, his eyes started to blur and lose focus as his body began to react to the poison in his bloodstream.

As she struggled to keep her consciousness, Su Xiaofei wondered about the possibility of Ye Mingyu not actually realizing what was going on. How could the poison that killed him in his previous life be the same poison used in Lord Ouyang's attempted murder?

The more he thought about it, the more Su Xiaofei was likely to believe that Ye Mingyu might be connected to those men. Heh, doesn't this mean that the innocent and well-mannered woman that everyone praised was just a facade of Ye Mingyu?

'Am I dying?' He wondered, hoping that this was not just a sad dream he had. Did he fall into some sort of illusion that he was able to change the course of events in his life, only for him to encounter a red flag in the end?

Su Xiaofei was not sure how long it had been since the attack and why Yun Xiang was holding it back. He struggled to stay sober for the sake of Xi Qian, but he still succumbed to the darkness that was waiting for him. As his consciousness faded, his last thought was about Lu Qingfeng.

He had no idea what happened next, but he was confident that Mr. Ouyang would hold himself responsible for what happened to him. He couldn't possibly ignore the fact that he was injured because of her.

The next time he opened his eyes, the ceiling above him was beyond recognition. Su Xiaofei did not know where he was and what happened to him after he lost consciousness. When he heard the gasping breath next to him, he turned his gaze to the right and saw Xi Qian's teary eyes.

"Qian.." He suddenly thought his voice was a bit hoarse.

Xi Qian shook his head and smiled, even though pearls of tears came out of his eyes.

"It's okay, Feifei. You're fine now. Master Han here has treated your wounds." He told Su Xiaofei.

It was then that Su Xiaofei realized that there was another person standing beside Xi Qian. The man had a gentle smile on his face and was dressed traditionally. He gave Su Xiaofei a polite smile as Xi Qian helped him sit down.

"W-what happened to me?" Su Xiaofei asked the doctor.

"Miss, don't you remember? You were stabbed right outside our door. You're lucky that you're so close to us, because we managed to get the poison out of your body before it even settles."

"I-i'm poisoned?" He stuttered, pretending to be unaware of what had happened before. "Am I going to die?"

Since this man seemed knowledgeable about the cold poison that entered his body, Su Xiaofei decided to look for information about him.

Han Zijun shook his head. "No. The poison is not enough to kill you. However, if more of it gets into your bloodstream, the damage it inflicts on your body will be irreversible. Your internal organs will collapse one after another until your body dies on its own."

Su Xiaofei already knew this because this was the same poison that killed him in his previous life. According to the last doctor who examined him, the poison accumulated in his body was already as deep as a bone and was no longer possible to be expelled. Had he been diagnosed early, he would have had a better chance of survival.

However, from what he heard from the doctor, the cold poison was hard to come by for a normal person. It is also difficult for a normal person to know that they are toxic because they do not have a lingering aroma or taste that can indicate their presence.

Since then, Su Xiaofei wondered how Ye Mingyu could obtain such a poison, even though he could figure out Ye Mingyu's method of poisoning him. Now that he had been poisoned a second time, indirect evidence showed Ye Mingyu's involvement with those who wanted to harm Master Ouyang.

"Then what will happen to me?" He asked Han Zijun, wanting to know how good this doctor was.

"Miss, don't worry. I can extract most of the poison. Although the toxins left in your body are small, it will cause you to feel uncomfortable and have a fever in the next three days. I'll give you some oral medicine to remove the remaining toxins. Just to be sure, please come here, so I can check on you."

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