Wu Tongyue thought for a moment, then continued:
"Once you recover, I'm sure your family won't keep you locked up anymore.
That will make us even."
With that, Wu Tongyue turned to leave, but Sun Yawei called her back. Looking embarrassed, he said:
"Miss Wu, thank you for saving me.
I have another presumptuous request."
"Go ahead."
"Well, when someone contracts consumption, whether they survive is entirely in Heaven's hands.
They have to weather it on their own. If they can't, death is their only road.
But you saved me with your Witch Tribe's witchcraft, and it has sparked a keen interest in it.
Would you be willing to take me as your disciple?"
"There's no need for that."
Wu Tongyue thought for a moment, then took a booklet from inside her robe and said:
"Isn't everyone here forbidden from using witchcraft?
But I heard the Imperial Medical Academy has a Zhu You Department. I have no idea how you distinguish what counts as witchcraft and what doesn't.
I can't make sense of it either!
As for what's in this booklet, how much you learn will depend on your own ability.
Still, I must warn you: keep it somewhere safe and don't let anyone discover it, lest it bring a fatal calamity down on your head."
Sun Yawei accepted the booklet with great care and said:
"Thank you for the warning. I'll keep it safe."
Wu Tongyue nodded, then left.
Song Yaoyao: [Sun Yawei's family really was heartless!]
Guagua: [Only in the face of life and death do people reveal their true hearts.]
Song Yaoyao: [By the way, did Wu Tongyue just leave like that?]
Guagua: [Yes. She happened to be in the Heavenly Phoenix Kingdom's Capital on business at the time.
She wanted to see how the man who