"Why?"
Hearing Wang Yuan'e's words, Old Bai could not help asking again.
Before, he had asked why the food was inedible. This time, he was asking why the food had been drugged.
"Well..." Wang Yuan'e said timidly, "I actually still held a grudge over what happened back then, and I was a little angry with you. Everyone I put at your table was an old enemy of mine. I was going to make you all suffer a little..."
"Enemies?" Old Bai seemed not to understand what she was saying. "How could we be enemies?"
"Aren't we?" Wang Yuan'e smiled awkwardly. "Maybe you forgot what happened long ago. I was being a little petty, but I definitely won't hold a grudge anymore. From now on, I'll feel nothing but gratitude toward you! I hope you won't hold a grudge against me anymore either."
"A grudge? What do you hold against me, and what do I hold against you?" Old Bai asked, utterly taken aback.
"Just those little things from back then..." Wang Yuan'e said. "That time you rushed out shirtless and startled me, I punched you out of fright, and the school even made me pay you compensation. I felt so wronged then, but all the school administrators said you were a promising future immortal who would be applying to the Medicine King Institute. They all pressured me. I thought they were ganging up on me with you..."
"Later, when you said you only wanted half the compensation, I wondered if I'd misunderstood you. Then, when I couldn't afford food and you said you could make medicinal meals for me every day, I almost thought you were a good person... but you deliberately made them taste so awful. That was when I realized you wanted to take revenge on me for