Chapter 94: Trading Lives

For a moment, he could not speak.

He had heard of medicines made through trading life for life, but he always believed they were only legends.

He never thought he would face something so real.

He did look down on this kind of method, but when he thought of Sui He, he clenched his teeth. “I can trade with you. But I have one condition. Miss Fang must come herself to exchange the medicine with me.”

He wanted to see for himself what kind of woman could use a life taking method to grow such a medicine.

When the eunuch heard that Yue Mingxuan agreed, he could not hide his joy.

“Since Your Highness is so straightforward, then tomorrow at midnight, we will bring the medicine to your courtyard.”

After saying that, he slipped away and disappeared.

So he was also trained in martial arts.

Yue Mingxuan frowned with worry.

Even a small eunuch in this place had fighting skills.

Just how many secrets were still hidden inside the Beirong Palace?

Yue Mingxuan slowly walked into the room and leaned over Sui He’s bedside.

The rotten wounds on Sui He’s face had already spread to her cheeks.

He held Sui He’s hand and said softly, “Sui He, I will definitely cure you.”

The single lamp was as small as a pea.

Sui He still lay unconscious on the sickbed.

At the same time, Shang Qinghua was in his study, dealing with the information collected today, when he saw his personal hidden guard dragging a eunuch inside.

“Master, we caught this man outside Fift Prince’s courtyard today.”

The hidden guard knelt down on one knee to give his report.

He was one of Shang Qinghua’s closest people and one of the rare hidden guards by his side.

He originally disliked being ordered to protect a prince from another country, but he had to obey his master.

So all his anger had been taken out on this eunuch.

Eight major acupoints on the eunuch’s body were sealed.

His whole body was limp and soft, like a boneless stray dog.

Shang Qinghua glanced at the eunuch lying on the ground and said lightly, “A spy from the Fang family, isn’t it? Tell me clearly why you went to look for Yue Mingxuan. Maybe then I will leave you a whole body.”

The eunuch knew that being caught meant he had no way to live.

But with his acupoints sealed, he did not even have the strength to bite his tongue and kill himself.

He could only lie on the ground without saying a word.

Shang Qinghua had already expected this result. He let out a cold laugh. “If you want the girl from Jiaren Village to stay alive, you had better talk.”

When he heard Shang Qinghua say this, the eunuch’s eyes suddenly opened wide, then slowly closed again as if accepting his fate.

He had always heard others call Shang Qinghua the ruthless prince, but he thought it was just something people in the underworld said to flatter or scare each other.

Yet after meeting him only once, this man had already found his weakness so clearly.

Based on that ability alone, he truly deserved the name ruthless prince.

Yue Mingxuan finally let his sense of duty win over his desire to watch a joke.

The hidden guard floated down from the roof and by the time Yue Mingxuan reacted, he only saw that a note had appeared on the table.

He knew it must be the hidden guard who always stayed close to Shang Qinghua.

Thinking of the angry words he had just said earlier, he wondered if they had all been heard and he did not know if they would be reported to that perverted men.

Yue Mingxuan picked up the paper on the table.

There were only four bold words on it.

[ Juice and swallow. ]

The strokes were sharp and strong and just by looking at the handwriting he could feel the arrogance of the person who wrote it.

It truly was a case of the writing matches the man.

He curled his lip in disdain.

What was the use of being handsome, having presence, or looking noble?

A man who loved money too much was still a failure.

Thinking of how the courtyard he lived in, even though it was part of the imperial palace, seemed to be treated like an open space where anyone could walk in and out, whether it was Miss Fang’s trusted people, or Shang Qinghua’s hidden guards, or even that perverted men himself, none of them ever placed him, the actual owner, in their eyes.

“You all think this place is a public toilet, coming and going as you please.”

Yue Mingxuan complained, but his hands never stopped moving.

He placed the Crimson Heart Orchid into a jade bowl and used a tiny jade grinder to crush the whole flower bit by bit into juice.

The air filled with the clean fragrance of the Crimson Heart Orchid mixed with the bitter smell of blood and the two blended together in a way that made him feel slightly sick.

Very soon, Yue Mingxuan had ground the entire Crimson Heart Orchid into a bowl of liquid.

He carefully carried the bowl to the bedside and fed the juice into Sui He’s mouth little by little.

Not long after the Crimson Heart Orchid juice went down, an unusual flush rose across Sui He’s face.

The spreading rot on her skin stopped at her cheek and went no further.

Yue Mingxuan let out a long breath of relief.

It seemed the Crimson Heart Orchid truly did restrain the Flower Blossom though he did not know how long it could hold it back.

After putting the bowl down, Yue Mingxuan continued to sit beside Sui He’s bed.

Although the poison was suppressed, he still feared Sui He might not be able to accept the fact that her face had been ruined.

The night passed very quickly.

When the first beam of sunlight entered the courtyard, Sui He woke up.

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