Playing Dumb

"Xiao San, are you sure this is fine?" Zhao Xuan asked with a pale face, looking with some dread at the poisonous herb hovering right in front of him.

The poisonous herb Tang San handed over was called Seven Day Drunk. It was pitch-black all over, with only four forearm-length leaves, serrated edges, and dark yellow roots.

According to Tang San's description, after ingesting this poisonous herb, its toxins would gradually invade a person's blood, skin, tendons, bones, and internal organs, a process lasting about seven days.

Over the seven days, the pain would gradually intensify each day, and by the seventh day, a person might even faint from the agony and then die in a coma.

The intoxication here was actually more accurately described as a coma.

Tang San assured him, "Definitely no problem. Look, I've already prepared the antidote!"

Tang San shook the herb held in his other hand. Compared to the Seven Day Drunk, that herb looked entirely unremarkable, feeling no different from roadside weeds.

Zhao Xuan felt a bit apprehensive inside. No matter how he looked at it, that herb looked like a roadside weed. Xiao San, you really mustn't mess this up!

"Xiao San, how about we try a herb with milder toxicity instead?" Zhao Xuan made a final struggle, putting on a pitiful expression.

Tang San sighed helplessly, "Why won't you trust me?"

With a mournful face, Zhao Xuan weakly asked, "Can't we just take it step by step?"

"Those low-toxicity poisonous herbs are useless to you!"

Seeing that he could not sway Tang San, Zhao Xuan had no choice but to resign himself to fate. He took the Seven Day Drunk handed over by Tang San, hesitated for a moment, and swallowed it with gritted teeth.

"Blech! It's so bitter!"

Zhao Xuan's nose,