Tang Yuan grabbed Yuan Xi by the collar and woke him up. Yuan Xi's face was deathly pale, and he looked half-dead.
"What happened?" he asked.
Yuan Xi said he'd just opened the door when someone attacked him. He didn't know anything else.
Hearing that, Tang Yuan became even more convinced that everything that had happened tonight was part of a calculated plot against them, and that their enemy was watching their every move from the shadows.
But the enemy was hidden while he stood in the open. Now wasn't the time to search for them; they first had to get through the crisis before them.
"Bring out whatever medicine you have that can treat Five Elements Rebellion," Tang Yuan ordered Yuan Xi. At the same time, he told the other Xuan Kui members to search the city for physicians who could treat Five Elements Rebellion. No matter what it took, they had to bring them to the young lady.
Ever since Zhang Xiangyun had told Chu Jin his suspicions about the Listening Wind Ruler, Xuan Kui's people had stopped using it to carry out missions and pass along messages.
In a private residence in the city, Chu Jin endured the pain as she treated herself with acupuncture, but she fainted several times.
Whenever she came around, Tang Yingxiu couldn't help urging her, "Miss, why don't we tell the Prince..."
"Silence," Chu Jin said, her eyes bloodshot and her voice cold. "I won't allow anyone to go to the Prince over what happened tonight."
She couldn't disappoint Father King again!
Especially with Nangong Sui's high-profile return to the mansion, she couldn't let herself lose to Nangong Sui, or suffer the humiliation of losing her dignity and pride.
Chu Jin closed her eyes, enduring the pain of Five Elements Rebellion as