C11

In the dead of night, Gu Qingli quietly slipped into the kitchen and put the dried herbs from before into the claypot.

"Your highness, recently Miss Li Yue always enters the kitchen in the middle of the night. Her movements are secretive, so strange …"

"This King promised not to interfere with her freedom."

"Yes."

Xiao Yi Xiu rolled on the bed a few times, but still couldn't fall asleep. After thinking for a while, he decided to go for a walk.

The night was as dark as ink, and the stars and moon were dim. Unknowingly, Xiao Yi Xiu still walked to the entrance of the kitchen. Only then did he realize that his subconscious was worried.

After all, ever since he had been poisoned, he had been on guard against anyone. He no longer had the same attitude as before. In this world, if someone close to him could betray him and harm him, how many people could be trusted?

A medicinal fragrance drifted out, the kitchen was boiling, and the mysterious Ghost Doctor, Li Yue, was pounding the medicine pestle, blowing on the barrel from time to time to smell the aroma, seemingly trying to judge the temperature of the fire.

After an unknown period of time, Xiao Yi Xiu, who was standing in the shadows outside the window, felt his legs go numb. The medicine inside had finally been fried.

Li Yue poured out the medicine that she had fried, gently blew on it, lifted a corner of her veil, and took a sip.

What was she doing? Xiao Yi Xiu was puzzled.

Under the corner of her veil, her skin that was like jade could be vaguely seen. Her red lips that were like water chestnuts parted slightly, and a bit of the bitter medicinal juice stained her lips.

She licked the juice with the tip of her tongue, sighed, and said to herself, "I hope this medicine doesn't go too far."

She seemed to hesitate for a moment. Finally, she slowly drank all the medicine in the bowl.

Xiao Yixiu became even more confused as he watched her quietly sitting there for a while. He frowned, and a pained look appeared in his eyes. He sat down on the edge of the table, his left hand covering his lower abdomen while his right hand wrote on a piece of paper with a pen.

Subconsciously, he leaned closer to take a look. He could faintly make out the words "clashing against each other …" Colic... "Chilling …" Words.

She seemed to be in more and more pain. Finally, she was unable to maintain her normal sitting posture, and even the pen in her hand fell off powerlessly, falling to the ground with a thud. Her slim body curled up into a ball, and she reluctantly put a pill in her mouth.

Xiao Yi moved a bit to ease his numb legs. He accidentally let out a soft sound, but Li Yue, who was inside, didn't notice it. It was obvious that her mind was completely controlled by pain.

It took her a while to recover. She lifted her sleeves to test the sweat on her forehead and said softly, "This pill isn't good either. The medicinal properties can suppress the poison in his body, but he has been sick for a long time and is too weak. This prescription is no different from the Tiger Wolf's Medicine …"

Xiao Yi Xiu was shocked. She was actually testing the medicine by herself! After all, those drugs were harmful to her body. She didn't care about her own safety and endured such pain just to reduce the damage done to him by the prescription?

Of course, Gu Qingli didn't know that Xiao Yixiu had been watching her for so long. She wasn't thinking of sacrificing herself to save him, she was just being competitive. Her goal was to cure the poison and achieve perfection.

Besides, she had her own pill, which could cure 100 poisons. Even though drinking those medicines would cause her pain, it would not harm her body.

Outside the window, Xiao Yixiu had left without a word. He had slept soundly the entire night, thinking about the corner of his red lips under the red veil and falling asleep in a trance.

"Did you change the recipe?" Although Xiao Yi Xiu wasn't as proficient with the Hundred Herbs as Gu Qing Li, he had a keen tongue when taking medicine over the years. He quickly felt that the formula for the medicine was different from the last few days.

"Yes." Gu Qingli was also surprised at his keen senses. She inadvertently glanced at him, thinking that this person was so vigilant. Luckily, she didn't have any thoughts of poisoning him with the medicine, otherwise she would definitely have been discovered.

What she didn't know was that his sense of smell had developed after taking countless amounts of medicines over the years. If he had had such a sense of smell back then, he wouldn't have been harmed.

"Will this be better than before?" He actually knew the answer in his heart, but he still wanted to know how she would answer it.

"There are a few medicinal herbs that are increasing in quantity. The medicinal effects are stacking up, but the damage to your body will be lesser."

"Why is it that with the increase in the dosage, the damage is less?"

Weird, why is this King Mo's tone softer than usual today? Gu Qing Li suspiciously looked at him. He saw a faint warmth on his brows, and the warmth in his eyes seemed different from before.

"That's none of your business. You just need to take your medicine on time." Her tone was even more distant than usual as she pointed at the bed. "Lie down and take off your clothes."

Xiao Yi was a proud and aloof person to begin with. He would occasionally express his goodwill, but when he met her cold gaze, he was somewhat displeased. He silently laid down on the bed, feeling a little bit more grateful.

Gu Qingli twisted the end of the needle and dropped it on the floor. She felt a little tired, so she sat down on the edge of the bed and closed her eyes without realizing it.

She hadn't been able to stay up all night. She was tired and dozed off while waiting for the acupuncture point to burn.

As Xiao Yi Xiu watched the incense burn to its end, the Ghost Doctor leaned against the end of the bed without moving, as if she were … Did she fall asleep?

Although he could not use force, his hearing was still different from that of an ordinary person. Listening to her long and gentle breathing, he concluded that it was most likely due to her painstaking efforts in trying out the medicine.

He struggled to lift his arm and pulled out the silver needles one by one. After so many years of being treated as a doctor, he had some knowledge about this, but he knew how to pull out the needles.

When all the silver needles had been removed, he draped himself over the bed and put the needles into her needle bag.

He then returned to the bed and lightly covered Gu Qingli with a thin blanket.

Gu Qingli was extremely vigilant. No matter how light his movements were, she had already noticed them in an instant. However, her eyes remained closed and she felt someone was covering him with a thin blanket. Her fingers moved slightly under the blanket.

She and Xiao Yi Xiu were the only two people in the room. Could it be that the person who did this was the cold looking Mo Wang?

What was this Mo King trying to do? To her? Did he think he could impress her with his masculinity and his gentle seduction?

She secretly sneered in her heart as she thought about how she had no reason to be attentive, whether it was cheering or stealing. He gradually began to develop trust in her medical skills, and he wanted to use this method to tie her to his side?

After a while, there was no response. She quietly opened her eyes and looked around, only to discover that Xiao Yixiu was lying on his side on the bed. It seemed as if he had fallen asleep again.

She got up and saw that there were not many silver needles inside the needle bag. She quickly took the needle bag and left.

After exiting the room, she bumped into Luo Yun. She was too lazy to bother with him, so she turned to leave.

The door closed behind her. She heard Luo Yun's surprised voice come from inside, "Prince, you …"

"What are you doing here?" Xiao Yi Xiu reprimanded. As expected, he was just pretending to be asleep.

After the door was opened with a bang, Luo Yun backed out. Her flushed face was filled with shock, anger, and embarrassment as she glared fiercely at Gu Qing Li.

Gu Qing Li understood immediately. Xiao Yi Xiu had just been lying down in his clothes. He was probably changing his clothes when Luo Yun rammed him against the door.

"You … "Shameless!"

Gu Qingli said coldly, "Actually, you should have known earlier. Weren't things like this the first time I gave him the acupuncture?" Why don't you tell me how you are going to insert the needle across a few layers of clothes? "

He then squinted his eyes, slightly mocking, "Or are you saying that you intentionally barged in to see the prince change his clothes?"

Luo Yun was so angry that she couldn't speak, but Gu Qingli just walked away.