Red Tears Hang from the Branches (5)

Chu Shihan seemed rooted to the spot. It took him quite a while to recover from the embarrassment that made him want to dig a hole on the spot and bury himself in it.

He looked at Song Zhiyi, gave a dry cough, and asked hesitantly, still looking somewhat awkward, "What are you doing?"

Song Zhiyi shifted his gaze to Shen Yuxi and rolled the silver needles between his fingers several times before explaining earnestly, "It's like this. Second Senior Brother was drugged with an aphrodisiac, and there's no antidote for it, so I could only try using a method I created to suppress it."

Learning that it had all been a misunderstanding, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Their taut nerves loosened as well, and they all moved to the doorway to look at the two inside.

"What? How did you do that?" Zhu Yaoyao asked, her eyes sparkling with curiosity.

"An aphrodisiac essentially stimulates the human body, throwing many parts of it into an excited state." Song Zhiyi spoke in an orderly manner, his gaze focused. "I coated the needles with cold poison and used a special technique to insert them into the body. The cold poison would inflict an even fiercer, more violent stimulation upon the body.

That way, the body would remember both sensations at once, forming a fixed memory. The next time it was stimulated by the aphrodisiac, it would immediately trigger pain. The brain would realize that the result of the aphrodisiac's stimulation was suffering, and out of self-preservation, the sensation of that stimulation would weaken."

Chu Shihan frowned slightly, seeming to digest Song Zhiyi's words before asking, "This method... won't cause any problems, will it?"

"No. While stimulating the body, the cold poison can also neutralize the aphrodisiac. As long as the dosage