The "Traitor" Dai Mubai: Tang San Becomes Everyone's Target

Dai Mubai looked at everyone poisoned in the dining hall.

Then at Flender's ashen face.

He said, "Dean, I'll tell you."

Dai Mubai spilled everything at once.

"Tang San wanted to poison Qin Yun."

"Xiao Wu was poisoned by Qin Yun, and she still hasn't recovered. Tang San couldn't cure her, so he came up with this."

"He poisoned the pork rib soup. Once Qin Yun was poisoned, he planned to trade the antidote for Xiao Wu's."

"He told me the water he brought you just now contained the antidote... I don't know why it didn't work."

After saying all that, he felt the tension leave his chest.

Tang San hadn't expected Dai Mubai to betray him so quickly.

But from Dai Mubai's point of view,

Tang San had administered the poison and now wasn't providing an antidote. There was no reason for Dai Mubai to stand firm alongside him.

"Tang San." Flender looked at Tang San again.

"Cure the poison first."

"We'll deal with the rest later." His tone was restrained.

If he hadn't known Tang Hao stood behind Tang San, he would have punished him severely.

After a moment of silence, Tang San said, "I admit I wanted to poison Qin Yun."

"But he was the only one I wanted to poison."

"I never meant to involve anyone else..."

Yu Xiaogang propped himself up on his arms and leaned against the wall. His cracked lips moved.

"Xiao San..."

"Stop arguing and cure the poison."

Tang San turned toward Yu Xiaogang's pale face.

"Teacher, you don't believe me either?"

"Everything I said is true."

"What I gave you really was the antidote. I didn't administer the poison you're suffering from now."

Yu Xiaogang went on, "I believe you... but the poison is still in my body."

"Take a look at me!"

Yu Xiaogang's martial soul and Soul Power were the weakest overall, so his symptoms were the most pronounced.

"I'll try."

Tang San stepped forward, crouched, and took Yu Xiaogang's pulse.

The poison in Yu Xiaogang's body had a completely different structure from the one Tang San had prepared last night. It was another poison he had never seen before.

He released Yu Xiaogang's wrist and whipped his head around.

His gaze fell on the white-clad figure sitting cross-legged on the other side of the dining hall.

"Qin Yun—"

"Did you tamper with it?"

Qin Yun's eyes were still closed. He sat upright on the floor beside Ning Rongrong, hands folded before his knees, breathing slow and even. He looked as though he was "channeling his power to force out the poison."

He heard Tang San's accusation but ignored him.

Flender spoke first. "Tang San, you're still trying to frame Qin Yun?"

"Mubai made it perfectly clear. What are you still arguing about?"

Dai Mubai's "betrayal" had already confirmed that Tang San had administered the poison.

Whatever he said now, all anyone would hear was "a man caught red-handed making excuses."

He stood there with his fists clenched, knuckles white. He wanted to defend himself but had no idea where to begin.

Just then, Qin Yun moved.

He slowly exhaled, opened his eyes, and stood, brushing nonexistent dust from his clothes.

He neither looked at Tang San nor answered his accusation. Instead, he said,

"Tang San, since you won't cure everyone,"

"I'll do it."

With that, he walked toward Ning Rongrong.

The few people still whispering in the dining hall fell silent at once.

Qin Yun was skilled with poisons, so it was no surprise that he could cure them.

But Tang San was dumbfounded.

He had gone to all that trouble and staged this whole affair just to poison Qin Yun.

Yet Qin Yun had somehow cured his poison.

All that effort had come to nothing, and everyone was blaming him to boot.

Qin Yun stopped behind Ning Rongrong.

He extended his right hand and gently placed his palm against her back, between her shoulder blades.

His Soul Power slowly traveled up her spine, precisely locating the enzyme-protein poison chains hidden between the protein molecules.

Then, with elemental precision, he dismantled them one by one, broke them apart, and reduced them to harmless amino acid residues.

The entire process took only a few breaths.

Ning Rongrong gave a slight shudder, then coughed twice.

The tight, swollen feeling in her throat vanished instantly.

Color returned to her face, replacing its earlier pallor with a healthy flush.

She turned to look at Qin Yun, her eyes shining.

She opened her mouth as if to speak, but in the end managed only two words.

"Thank you."

Then she turned and wrapped her arms around Qin Yun.

Qin Yun made her feel completely safe, and Ning Rongrong found herself falling for him even harder.

Ma Hongjun lay sprawled across the table, his round face buried in the crook of his arm, his eyes drifting toward them.

"Could you two stop showing off your romance...? I'm still waiting for someone to save my life..."

Before he finished speaking, he curled up again, tormented by the burning in his stomach.

After Ning Rongrong let go, a blush rose to her cheeks.

Qin Yun gave her a pat and said, "I'll cure the others first!"

He walked toward Zhu Zhuqing.

Zhu Zhuqing sat near the wall, her face pale and a fine sheen of sweat on her forehead. She had not made a sound from beginning to end, merely holding the edge of the table as she waited quietly.

Qin Yun crouched behind her and placed his palm against the center of her back.

Once again, he sent his Soul Power inward along her meridians and stripped away the layers of poison.

Oscar came next, then Ma Hongjun. Yu Xiaogang was last.

Yu Xiaogang had already passed out.

Qin Yun reached out and touched a point between the side of his neck and his collarbone, drawing the remaining fluorine poison to the surface bit by bit.

For him, the process of expelling the poison was more painful than it had been for the others.

Yu Xiaogang woke with a start and cried out at the top of his lungs.

Ma Hongjun muttered, "Seriously? A grown man making that much fuss?"

There was nothing more to it. Qin Yun simply had a personal grudge against him.

If not for Flender, Qin Yun wouldn't have bothered curing him at all.

Only after confirming that everyone had recovered did Flender turn to Tang San.

Tang San still stood where he had been.

"Tang San, what you did today went too far."

"Whatever your reasons, poisoning food in the academy dining hall crosses a line."

"You'll be confined for a week. Reflect on what you've done, and you can come out once you've thought it through."

Tang San's clenched fists trembled slightly inside his sleeves.

He raised his head to meet Flender's gaze and said,

"What about Xiao Wu? She still hasn't recovered..."

Qin Yun said, "Xiao Wu was never poisoned."

"She's only having intermittent reactions from inhaling chlorine gas. Her body is adjusting on its own. She'll recover naturally in three days."

"You mean she has to suffer for two more days?"

Qin Yun shrugged and ignored him.

Flender went on,

"Someone will look after Xiao Wu. Just worry about yourself."

Then he gave Zhao Wuji, who stood by the door, a look.

"Zhao Wuji, take him away."

Tang San knew nothing he said now would make a difference.

He lowered his hands, turned, and followed Zhao Wuji out the door.

Resentment burned in his heart.

Qin Yun, just you wait. I'll kill you!