Chapter 102: A Very Dangerous One

"Take that woman to the police!" Huang Ying shrieked when she saw Lyca, her face was pale, eyebags apparent in her eyes. She wanted to approach Lyca, but the man next to her held her arm. "Father was poisoned. If someone is capable of poisoning him, it should be this woman."

"Huang Ying! How dare you say something like that to my daughter?"

"Stop it, Sheng Hong! I always knew that you spoil your daughter so much. But this…. Our father…." Huang Ying started sobbing.

Lyca calmly looked at Huang Ying as she was comforted by his fourth uncle, Huang Qingyun. This man is the most low-key member of the Huang Family, who didn't show any interest in the family business. He was having his own retail business, and even his son that was about the same age as Lyca was not close to any of their other cousins. 

"Huang Ying… tell us what happened. Weren't you the one who met father before he became like this?" Huang Li Duo sternly asked, his face dark as he looked at Huang Ying.

"We were talking… that's all. Then he just… he just… suddenly collapsed."

"Do you think we are going to believe that? What did you do to our father?" Huang Li Duo barked. He knew that Huang Ying was already an ally of the Long Family. How could he believe her silly words? "Tell us the truth!"

"I told you! We were drinking tea. And… he just collapsed! So I thought… I thought someone poisoned him. And all of us here know who loves to play with poison, right?"

"So, you think Lyca poisoned father?" Huang Sheng Hong's face turned ugly. He knew that Lyca would never do something that would make her work harder. If the old man dies, the person that would become the head will be Lyca. He knew how much she hated that. "My daughter would never do that."

"Of course, you will defend her! She is your daughter!"

"Huang Ying! Why would you push the blame to Lyca? You are the one who had a talk with our father before he collapsed!"

"If I want to poison our father, why would I do it when we were talking and make myself and prime suspect?" Huang Ying countered.

Seeing all this, Lyca sat on the bench next to her stood Shen Qui. Someone was trying to use this incident and frame her. Lyca was very aware of that. However, she couldn't really tell who it was. For now, her guess was Huang Ying. But how could she just merely guess base on instincts?

"First, let's all calm down." His fourth uncle, Huang Qingyun uttered. "We are not sure if our father was indeed poisoned. There was no way that the doctors wouldn't be able to tell if something like that happened. All we needed now is to wait. Stop this argument. Father will be alright." As the youngest, Huang Qingyun was surprisingly the calmest. He continued consoling his older sister as he sighed. 

"We all know that Lyca did it." Huang Ying continued. "Once our father dies… she would be the next person that would lead the family. She had the motive and the means."

Lyca nodded. That made sense. Indeed, she had the motive and the means to kill the old man. But… if she was the killer, she won't poison the old man as that was akin to telling everyone that it was her who did it. She would probably slit the old man's throat on his way home. A clean hit.

Then she would make everyone think that it was the Long Family who did it.

Lyca shook the thoughts out of her head. She was certain that Huang Ying had something to do with it. Was she planning to file a criminal case against her? Slowly, Lyca's gaze turned towards her parents. This scenario wouldn't only affect her but also her parents. 

Then she dragged her gaze back to Huang Ying.

"What are you staring at?"

Lyca's lips thinned into a straight line, but she said nothing. She continued staring at the sobbing Huang Ying.

"You— Why are you looking at me like that?"

"You seemed so certain that I was the one who poisoned grandfather. If I wanted him dead, did you think I would use poison?" She asked.

"You— "

"Huang Ying… stop it." Huang Li Duo stood next to Shen Qui, a clear indication that he also believed Lyca's words. He had seen her act against Huang Xiaoxuan, and he knew she was capable of killing someone without using poison. "She had a point. If she wanted to kill someone, she wouldn't use something that would easily say she did it."

Huang Li Duo was always someone who valued the Huang Family more than he would value any relationships. He was a proud Huang, and he would do everything to maintain the status of the Huang Family. He knew the type of things that Lyca could bring to the table, and he wanted her to lead the Huang Family. Even if that meant hurting his daughter, Huang Xiaoxuan's feelings.

This conversation was halted when a doctor went out of the emergency room. He immediately approached everyone, his face grim. "Old Man Huang's condition is stable." He started without waiting for anyone to ask a question. "However, we are not sure if he will wake up again, and if he will, we can't really assure that he can move his body."

"What do you mean?" Huang Ying asked as tears flowed in her cheeks like a stream.

"A poison damaged most of his internal organs. We were able to stop it in time but… the damage has been done."

"What kind of poison could do something like that?" Huang Li Duo asked.

"A very dangerous one. We are still doing tests to determined what was use to create the poison. We have never seen anything like it. The effects were too quick… Old Man Huang's arms were already black when he got here. It was like a fast-acting bacteria that ate most of the cells in his body. He was lucky that he was still alive."

Lyca frowned, her mind in shambles. If she was right, a poison like that was very popular in her previous world. But not in this world….