Poisonous Goddess: I'm just lazing around in the mortal realm.

Zhou Jinghuai acted as if he had really been taken advantage of by Thirteen. The smile that spread across his eyes and brows made Thirteen feel even more that this man was shameless.

"I took off your clothes so I could apply medicine to you!"

Thirteen lowered her voice, her small face flushed red. Not to mention that she was still a boy, there were very few people who could look at naked men so openly.

"Even so, I still caught a cold. Why don't you apologize to me?"

Zhou Jinghuai smiled slyly, leaned down slightly, and met Thirteen's resentful gaze. His face still wore a nonchalant and lazy smile. He found the blushing boy in front of him increasingly amusing.

Thirteen suddenly felt a tightness in her chest, and she glared at him.

"What am I supposed to apologize for? Why don't you pay back yesterday's consultation fee?"

"Shut up!"

Before she could finish speaking, Zhou Jinghuai suddenly pulled her into his arms with his long arm, his wide robe enveloping her completely. The two of them took advantage of the situation and hid behind a group of bamboo poles, which barely blocked their way.

"Don't make a sound!"

His serious voice silenced Thirteen.

Immediately afterwards, the voices of the people from the pharmacy came from behind.

"Did you see where Mr. Thirteen went?"

"Look in that direction?"

"Walk"

Upon hearing this, Thirteen dared not move. She raised her head and met Zhou Jinghuai's reddened eyes. He stared straight at her, his breathing unsteady, his dark eyes churning, which made her panic for a moment.

Although she was a man in front of Zhou Jinghuai, she still considered herself a girl. Looking at Zhou Jinghuai's devilishly handsome face, her cheeks flushed even redder. But a strange thought arose in her heart.

She wondered if Zhou Jinghuai was a womanizer! After all, no one in Nanyang knew her true identity!

Once the noise behind them subsided, the two turned around to look, only to find that the guests were no longer there.

"But you owe me one more time, sir."

Zhou Jinghuai loosened his grip, letting go of Thirteen, whose face was flushed. While teasing her, he looked for a suitable place outside to hide for a while, and then he saw Fengya Zhai not far away.

"Then let's choose a different day. I'll treat you to drinks today as payment for your consultation."

Without giving Thirteen a chance to refuse, Zhou Jinghuai pulled her towards Fengya Zhai. Thirteen felt that this man's temper could change faster than turning the pages of a book.

"Shopkeeper, bring me all your well-known dishes."

As soon as Zhou Jinghuai stepped into Fengya Zhai, he tossed a gold ingot into the shopkeeper's arms. The shopkeeper chuckled and had a waiter lead the two of them upstairs to the Emperor's Room No. 1.

Thirteen, who was following behind Zhou Jinghuai, looked at the gold in the shopkeeper's hand and couldn't help but sigh, "No wonder he's from a wealthy family!"

Thirteen noticed that Fengya Zhai was not as magnificent as she had imagined; instead, it was simply furnished, simple and elegant. The most exquisite items were the dozens of mahogany tables in the building. Following the waiter's lead, the two entered Fengya Zhai's No. 1 room.

As soon as Zhou Jinghuai entered the room, he quickly went to the window, opened the shutter, and looked down. It seemed that the guests who had been looking for them earlier were no longer on the street. However, his movement was a little too agitated, and he aggravated his wound.

"Hiss—" Zhou Jinghuai frowned and looked down to check if his wound was bleeding.

Seeing this, Thirteen frowned. She hated disobedient patients like this the most. She slowly stepped forward and said...

Take your hand away, let me see.

She slapped Zhou Jinghuai's hand away, squatted down to check his wound from yesterday, and thankfully it wasn't bleeding anymore. What a pity, that shameless guy didn't die from the pain!

"Have someone make another dose of that medicine later. Also, remember to avoid certain foods; you can't eat anything greasy or meaty."

She noticed paper and pen on the desk beside her and wrote a new prescription. After all, given their current situation, they couldn't go back to that pharmacy for the time being.

She was focused on writing the prescription with her head down and didn't notice Zhou Jinghuai's suddenly cold expression and the fierce anger surging in his eyes.

Zhou Jinghuai couldn't help but smile as he looked at the prescription that Thirteen had just written.

"Your handwriting... Hasn't your family ever hired a tutor to teach you?"

He couldn't help but laugh; he rarely saw such ugly handwriting.

He had initially doubted whether the prescription on the cloth strip last night was written by Thirteen, but seeing such ugly handwriting, he thought it was indeed her; no one else could write so badly.

"Why does the handwriting have to be so beautiful? As long as you can understand it, that's enough."

Thirteen couldn't help but feel guilty. She didn't know calligraphy to begin with, and since there were no pens in this era, her work was naturally a bit ugly.

As long as the words are legible, that's fine.

At that moment, the door was pushed open.

"Thirteen, I've been chasing you for ages, and I've finally found you!"

Pei Suisui pushed open the door and entered. Upon seeing the two people inside, she didn't even bother to greet them before sitting down on a round stool, breathing heavily.

Zhou Jinghuai saw Pei Suisui enter, coughed awkwardly a few times, and turned around, pretending to look at the scenery outside the window. Thirteen, seeing it was Pei Suisui, then remembered that he had almost forgotten about her in his haste to run away.

How did you know we were here?

Thirteen walked to the table, poured a cup of tea, and handed it to Pei Suisui.

"How could I possibly catch up with you all? You were running so fast. I was following behind those people who were chasing you, but I was too slow and ended up bumping into you as you entered Fengya Zhai."

Pei Suisui drank the tea in one gulp but still felt unsatisfied, so she quickly asked Thirteen to pour her another cup.

"Drink slowly, you must have been running too fast. You don't need to drink so fast."

"Thirteen, I'm thirsty! Have you forgotten about me just now?!"

"Nothing."

Zhou Jinghuai turned his head to look at Thirteen, who was chatting happily with Pei Suisui. He couldn't help but look down at the prescription in his hand. Such ugly handwriting was clearly not hers! But her every smile and frown, including the expression between her brows, was so similar to that person. Zhou Jinghuai was increasingly unsure of the answer in his heart.

Especially when he thought of the fact that Thirteen could cure the poison in his body, since the poison was clearly not caused by an ordinary person, the person who could find the antidote must also be no ordinary person.

"Bam—"

A sudden loud noise interrupted the three people in the room.

The three of them saw the wooden door separating them from the Emperor's Room No. 2 crack open and be knocked to the ground.

Thirteen instinctively shielded Pei Suisui behind him, while Zhou Jinghuai, who was nearby, staggered back two steps in fright. His eyes narrowed, filled with coldness. He looked closely and saw that the man who had just knocked over the wooden door was lying on the ground, already dead.

The three men in black who had just killed him did not expect that the man would knock down the door. When they saw that Zhou Jinghuai and the others had discovered them, they exchanged glances and immediately drew their swords and stabbed at them.

"Guards! Protect the Second Miss!"

Thirteen decisively called in the Pei family guards who were standing outside the door, but unexpectedly, Pei Suisui didn't want to leave alone.

"I'm not leaving! Come with me!"

Pei Suisui grabbed Thirteen's sleeve, trying to pull her away. However, Thirteen pried her hand away and urged the guards...

"Take the second young lady away quickly!"

Thirteen knew that if the two of them left, Zhou Jinghuai, who was injured, would definitely not be able to fight three people at once. It would be better for him to stay and fight three people at once, which might buy some time and give Pei Suisui more time to escape.