Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

98. Undoing the Death Gu’s Poison

Translator: Flying Lines

“Oh right, aren’t you the Sharp Sword? Why did you eat the dish that I ordered to be poisoned like an idiot when you were at my brother’s residence?” Xiao ShengXian asked.

Hearing this, Zhou Zaiyue, who had been silent all along, was furious. Prince Xian poisoned the crown prince before?

Zhou Zaiyue had been expressionless since a long time ago, so he only clenched the teacup tightly in his hands. He was already considering whether he should give Su Jie some emergency medical pills that could potentially save his life.

Su Jie didn’t answer. About that incident, he still hadn’t settled the score with Prince Xian. Besides, Su Jie didn’t plan on letting bygones be bygones with Xiao ShengXian.

“How many people have you killed before? I heard that the Sharp Sword took on very few missions, but they were all highly difficult ones.” Xiao ShengXian once again tried to start a conversation with Su Jie determinedly.

Xiao ShengXian was skilled in terms of intelligence. Not to mention, he was the one who gathered a lot of his brother’s intelligence reports, so Xiao ShengXian was highly preceptive when it came to things related to intelligence. In addition, he was also curious about Su Jie’s identity, so naturally, he would have a lot to talk about.

Su Jie felt a little impatient when he was asked this. He said, “You want to know how many people I’ve killed?”

Xiao ShengXian nodded.

“A lot. More than the number of times you’ve eaten.”

Xiao ShengXian was somewhat unsatisfied with this answer. He wanted to know the specific details, like Su Jie’s experiences or Prince Qin’s hobbies and weaknesses. But when he saw Su Jie’s unamused look, he knew there wasn’t much he would be able to find out. He simply switched the topic of the conversation. “Since you two are here, where is my brother?”

“Don’t know.” Su Jie shook his head. City Yang was so big, it wouldn’t be possible to find Xiao Shengnian in a short time. Therefore, Su Jie planned to return to Prince Rui’s residence first with Zhou Zaiyue. After all, he couldn’t be apart from herbal baths for long.

“And you still have the mood to sip tea?” Xiao ShengXian didn’t feel good about this. He was kidnapped, and yet, Su Jie came to watch?

Fine, ignore watching, but having the mood to come to a teahouse?

“I am just an ordinary person. I don’t have an intelligence network as big as yours. I couldn’t find you, nor could I find Prince Rui. Other than drinking tea, what else could I do?” Su Jie asked him instead.

“Then you should have just stayed in Prince Rui’s residence.” Xiao ShengXian harrumphed.

Su Jie smiled silently. If he and Elder Zhou hadn’t come to meet Gongsun Yi, Xiao ShengXian wouldn’t be released that easily. After parting with Gongsun Yi, Su Jie and Elder Zhou only came to this teahouse because they specially chose a road that Xiao ShengXian must take to get back to the capital. Otherwise, how else would Xiao ShengXian chance upon them?

Xiao ShengXian still didn’t know the truth. He asked, “Since you have bumped into me, what do you plan to do now?”

“We’ll return to the capital, of course.” Su Jie answered lazily.

“No. Come with me to find my brother, then you can return.” Xiao ShengXian spoke with a commanding tone. He was used to it. Using this tone was already a habit. He didn’t think there was anything wrong with that.

Unprovoked, Su Jie nodded and replied, “Sure.”

When they found Xiao Shengnian, two days had already passed. After the four met up, they traveled back to the capital together.

In the time that followed, Su Jie took a few more herbal baths. A month passed very quickly, and when it was time for the last bath, Zhou Zaiyue’s mood was slightly heavy.

“The process of this bath may be very painful.” Zhou Zaiyue said.

“It’s fine. I can bear it.” Su Jie answered.

“This will be just as painful as the activation of the Death Gu’s poison.”

“It’s fine.” Su Jie smiled, disrobed, and entered the bathtub.

Not long after, Su Jie’s body started to flush red. The veins on his forehead appeared, and he clenched his teeth tightly together. Despite that, he didn’t let a single groan escape his lips.

Zhou Zaiyue couldn’t help but worry about Su Jie. He quickly added the medical concoction into the bathtub and, at the same time, gave Su Jie a bowl of cooled medicine. He said, “Quick, drink this!”

Su Jie’s hand trembled as if he couldn’t control them. He drank the bitter medicine in large gulps and felt the pain in his body lessen a bit. Zhou Zaiyue gave him five bowls of medicine consecutively, and when the last bowl was finished, the pain in Su Jie’s body had already lessened to a small fraction of what it had been before. However, before Su Jie caught his breath, a searing pain formed in his abdomen, and it started to spread out. After a while, Su Jie experienced unbearable pain that was worse than the initial pain throughout his whole body.