Qian Yan's gaze toward Chu Youning also took on respect and gratitude.
His master's condition had been improving by the day, all thanks to the woman before him.
If he had known earlier that she had a way to cure his master's poison...
Whatever her past, never mind making her their mistress someday-even if his master had to suffer a little indignity, Qian Yan would personally drug him, dress him in bridal robes, and shove him into her bed!!!
Seeing Qian Yan look at her with such burning intensity for the first time, Chu Youning unhesitatingly took two steps back.
"Two-Fire, rein in that dog-eyeing-a-bone look. You're scaring me a little."
"Pfft! Hear that, dimwit? Stop staring at the Elder Princess."
Qian Miao and Qian Rui laughed without sparing his feelings.
Qian Yan: "..."
His fists tightened slightly, and he lowered his head without another word.
The Elder Princess had a venomous tongue, but she had saved his master. Let her be venomous.
But those other two had dared to laugh at him. He would find a chance to screw them over one of these days!!!
Inside the stone chamber.
The final night of the detoxification was the hardest for Qing Qianxue to endure.
As the poison coating his meridians was drawn out, excruciating pain wracked his entire body, as though his tendons were being ripped out and his skin flayed off.
At this hour on any other day, he would already have awakened.
Today alone, for the first time, the pain was so great that he could not hold back a cry. He rolled on the bed, sweat pouring relentlessly from his brow.
After an unknown length of time, his snow-white hair began turning black bit by bit from the roots. Wave after wave of sweat seeped from his