After being sentenced to death, she came to her senses.

"Is that so?" Fang Xiaoran's eyes flickered slightly, but she had no intention of withdrawing her hand. Instead, she said, "Give me your hand and let me see it."

The woman was surprised but also somewhat relieved. She then extended her hand, and Fang Xiaoran gently held the woman's wrist to carefully examine the pustules on her hand.

Fang Xiaoran asked, "Besides the limbs, there should be some on the face and underarms, right?"

"Yes, I have both. The itching is unbearable at night, and I've tried many folk remedies without success. It gets a little better in the morning, but occasionally there's a stinging sensation, especially when the pus oozes out, my skin feels like it's burning, which is very uncomfortable." The woman's expression was serious as she described her symptoms one by one, afraid of omitting any crucial details to avoid misdiagnosis.

Upon hearing this, Fang Xiaoran took his pulse, her expression growing increasingly somber. This was the first time He Chunming had ever seen her so furrowed brows while treating a patient, indicating that the illness was quite complex.

"How many months pregnant are you?" Fang Xiaoran stood up, walked to the woman's side, and gently stroked her abdomen to check on the fetus.

The woman hesitated for a moment, then said, "More than seven months."

"Seven months..." Fang Xiaoran murmured softly, her eyes showing a slight change.

How could she look seven months pregnant? Her abdomen was only slightly protruding, and by the naked eye, she was at most five months along.

Seeing Fang Xiaoran's strange expression, the woman panicked and stammered, "W-what's wrong? The child..."

Fang Xiaoran did not answer her question immediately. Instead, she sat back down on the cushion and asked with a serious expression, "When did you get these pustules on your body? How long have they been there?"

"The time... I forgot, but if I count the days, it's roughly..."

"The symptoms only started appearing three months ago."

"Yes, it was three months ago, Dr. Qi. Can this illness still be cured?"

The woman clenched her hands tightly, staring at Fang Xiaoran with a solemn expression. She longed to know the outcome, yet she was also afraid to face it. At this moment, her heart was filled with contradictions.

"This is not an illness, but a deadly poison called Yin-Yang Cold Spring Cocoon. This poison does not kill immediately, but gradually erodes the body. Judging from your current condition, you have been poisoned for more than eight months. It is hard to predict how much longer your body can hold on, and it is almost impossible for you to give birth to the baby in your womb smoothly."

After speaking, Fang Xiaoran paused briefly before continuing, "Only one of you and the child can survive, and the detoxification process is extremely difficult. Even if I can save your life, you may not be able to make it through."

Upon hearing this, the woman's face turned extremely pale. She stared at Fang Xiaoran in shock, her voice trembling as she asked, "Only one can survive? How could this happen..."

Seeing her in so much pain, Fang Xiaoran couldn't offer any comfort. This kind of poison was rare, so her poisoning was clearly not an accident.

After a long while, the woman seemed to have made a decision, her eyes unusually firm, and she said, "I want to keep this child."

Hearing this, He Chunming couldn't help but dissuade him, saying, "You can have another child, but once you die, you have nothing left. You are still young, why seek your own death?"

"Because this is my child with him, I want to give birth to the child. It's proof that we're together." The woman's eyes softened, and she gave off a completely different vibe than before.

However, Fang Xiaoran was greatly puzzled by these words. Thinking of her own experience in her previous life, she couldn't help but feel sorry for this woman. So she said to her, "But what about after you give birth to the child? Does the person you care about know? How will the young child survive?"

“I don’t know, but without this child, I have nothing. This is the only thing he left me. I can’t, I can’t give up…” The woman shook her head in anguish, her mental state becoming extremely depressed.

Fang Xiaoran sighed and asked, "You're not a local, are you? Did you come to Yancheng specifically to look for someone?"

Judging from her clothes, she was not from an ordinary family, but she was not from a wealthy family either. She also had a strong smell of perfume on her body and a seductive look between her brows. She was probably not an ordinary person.

The woman lowered her eyes and did not answer Fang Xiaoran's question. Instead, she gritted her teeth and asked, "Can you save the child in my womb?"

“He’ll be fine. I can prescribe some medicine to help you maintain the pregnancy. But you need to think this through. If he gives birth to you, you will die. The poison hasn’t spread to your heart yet, so I can still save you. If it’s delayed any longer, even a god couldn’t save you.” Fang Xiaoran asked repeatedly, but the woman’s attitude was firm, and she refused to give up on the child.

She chuckled softly, "It's good that the child is alright, then I can rest assured."

"When you say 'everything's fine, do you simply hope he'll be born at full term, or do you want him to be safe and healthy?"

"It doesn't matter. I will grant whatever he asks. Thank you, Physician Qi, for clearing up my doubts."

The woman stood up, bowed slightly to Fang Xiaoran, and staggered away. Seeing this, He Chunming quickly followed and asked about the pregnancy-preserving medicine, but the woman shook her head and said, "No need, we always keep pregnancy-preserving medicine at home. We can't finish it for now. Thank you for your concern."

As she spoke, she handed a silver ingot to He Chunming. He Chunming wanted to refuse, but the woman refused to take it back. Not wanting to be pulled away in the pharmacy, He Chunming had no choice but to give up and watch the woman leave.

After watching her walk away, He Chunming returned to the inner hall and asked with some helplessness, "Boss, if she doesn't want to live, why does she insist on seeing you?"

Fang Xiaoran was almost taken aback by the title "Big Boss". He Chunming was really quick to change his tune. But it was precisely because of this that Fang Xiaoran was willing to stay at Danxi Pharmacy.

Fang Xiaoran said calmly, "It's not that we don't want to survive, but that we have no other choice but to leave ourselves with no other options."

"That poison is so potent that anyone who comes into contact with it will be infected. Isn't that extremely dangerous?" He Chunming couldn't help but ask.

"There is a chance of getting infected when pus and blood ooze out, but generally there will be no problem."

"I've never heard of such a potent poison before. What kind of grudge could drive someone to such a cruel act against a woman?"

He Chunming couldn't help but sigh, mainly because he felt the woman was truly pitiful.

"One of the top ten poison kings in the northern frontier, she is naturally powerful, but she was probably poisoned by this poison not because of a feud."

"That is……?"

"It's because I misjudged the person."

Fang Xiaoran's eyes narrowed slightly, a cold glint appearing in them.

She had seen this poison in her past life. Rather than calling it a poison, it was more like a kind of Gu poison, which relied on the mother's body to nourish the poisonous person. After the child was born, it became the most powerful poisonous person, regarded as a deadly weapon on the battlefield in the southern border region, capable of fighting against a hundred people.

In his previous life, after the Duan Prince's coup failed, Zhao Jin found a large number of poisoners in the basement of his mansion, and these poisoners were later used by Zhao Jin.

It can be said that Prince Duan only mastered the method of creating poisonous people, but did not know how to control them, so they remained idle and had no opportunity to be used, which benefited Zhao Jin instead.

It's unclear whether the poison that woman was poisoned was related to Prince Duan. Logically speaking, Prince Duan's poisoners should have been fully developed by now, so it shouldn't be him.

"It's not time for your rounds yet, why have you come all of a sudden?" He Chunming suddenly asked.