Phoenix Cries Across the World: The Cold-Hearted Princess is Too Alluring

Chu Yingge was finally at ease about the fruit. After three days of no sign of it, even Mu Zi was getting a little anxious, but Chu Yingge didn't react at all.

"Your Highness, what exactly did you send the fruit to do?"

"secret."

"..." Mu Zi looked troubled.

He and Guozi hadn't made up since their last argument, and now Guozi had disappeared. He really felt terrible.

In fact, Chu Yingge was also a little anxious, after all, Chu Yinnan was still lying in bed with his life hanging in the balance. However, out of trust in Guozi, she did not react excessively.

Mu Zi wanted to say something, but then, as if she had thought of something, she changed her mind and asked another question.

"Your Highness, did you have a fight with the Prince?" Mu Zi asked cautiously.

Chu Yin paused in her singing, looking at Mu Zi with some confusion: "Why are you suddenly saying this?"

"The prince has been sleeping in his study for three days in a row. Doesn't that prove something?" Mu Zi looked at the person in front of her with an expression that said, "I understand everything."

Chu Yingge frowned slightly. She assumed that Mu Ziyuan had important matters to attend to, which was why he stayed overnight in the study, and did not think much about the specific reasons.

She and Mu Ziyuan had only been married for a few days, yet Mu Ziyuan had stayed in her study for three days straight. Anyone would have some doubts about that.

Moreover, Mu Zi is a trusted confidante of Mu Ziyuan, so it's only natural that she would ask such a question.

"Where is the prince?" Chu Yingge asked, looking up.

Mu Zi shook her head, looking bewildered: "They left early this morning without saying what they were going to do."

"Okay, I understand, you go down first."

"Yes, Your Highness." Although she had many questions, Mu Zi didn't ask any more.

Watching Mu Zi's departing figure, Chu Yingge gazed intently, finally shook her head, and turned to walk into the room.

……

In the bamboo forest on the outskirts of the city, a flock of birds took flight with startled cries and circled above the bamboo grove.

This bamboo forest looks no different from an ordinary bamboo forest from the outside, but in reality, it has a hidden mechanism.

It took Guozi a lot of effort to find the small wooden house in front of her. Looking at the people sitting leisurely inside, Guozi couldn't help but twitch her lips.

"Old man, are you just going to sit here and leisurely watch me get bullied by your contraptions?"

"Hmph," the man whom Guozi called an old man dismissed Guozi's accusations with disdain.

With a head full of black lines, Guozi was speechless for a moment.

There's nothing I can do; the person in front of me has the right to be so disdainful. And since she needs my help, I can only swallow my anger and not lash out.

"Divine Doctor, I've come here today because I need your help. Please help me!" Guozi tugged at Mu Huichun's arm and began to whine.

If it were anyone else, they would have softened by the fruit's pleading, but Mu Huichun wouldn't fall for it. She coldly withdrew her arm and went to the side to look at the fish she was raising.

Guozi was met with a cold shoulder and wanted to leave, but she stopped halfway there. She had made a promise to her young lady, so she had no choice but to bite the bullet and go on.

"Divine Doctor, I know I was very offensive with my words before. Please forgive me and let me off the hook. I'll apologize to you, okay?" As she spoke, Guozi raised both hands above her head, obediently admitting her mistake, looking pitiful.

Mu Huichun sneered, a glint of shrewdness flashing in his eyes: "I've already shown you the greatest mercy by letting you stand here unharmed. Don't test my limits!"

"Hey, don't push your luck!" Guozi also has a temper, and she can't control her inner power at the slightest provocation.

"If I didn't need something from you, I wouldn't have come to this lousy place!"

"Is this how you ask for favors?" Mu Huichun raised his voice.

Guozi turned her head away, too lazy to look at Mu Huichun's sinister and cunning face.

Everyone knows that the legendary healer Mu Huichun is a highly skilled physician with miraculous healing abilities, but no one knows that he is actually an eccentric old man in private.

He is treacherous, cunning, and full of tricks; he is clearly a villain and hardly worthy of being called a miracle doctor who saves lives.

"I must be out of my mind to come to you. Just pretend I didn't say anything. I wish you a lonely old age here, and goodbye forever!" With that, Guozi turned to leave.

Mu Huichun, a smile on his face, stood in front of Guozi, blocking her way.

"Now that you're here, don't leave."

"Why should I? Get out of my way!" Guozi felt a chill run down her spine because she was all too familiar with the expression on the person's face.

Mu Huichun would make this face whenever there was a shortage of people to test her medicine.

"Don't even think about it. Let me tell you, you know who I am. If anything happens to me, you won't get away with it either!"

"Oh, really?" Mu Huichun took a step towards the fruit, his smile widening. "Didn't you sever ties with them a long time ago? Hmm?"

"You!" Guozi took a step back, feeling a surge of panic.

Mu Huichun was right. Her current identity had nothing to do with those people anymore, so she had nothing to fear from the person in front of her.

“I have severed ties with them, but I now have a new backer.”

"tell me the story."

"My backer is someone from the imperial court; you can't afford to offend him!"

"Is it that Seventh Princess Consort?" Mu Huichun said with a disdainful look.

He knew this person quite well. Although he never cared about matters of the court, he cared about the fruit, because the fruit's body was the best test for medicine.

"How did you know?" Guozi immediately realized that her question was somewhat redundant, after all, the person in front of her had been coveting her body for a long time.

Mu Huichun pursed his lips, his mustache twitched like a goat: "Let's make a deal."

"What kind of deal?" Guozi asked warily.

"I know why you've come to me. If you agree to be my test subject, I'll give you the antidote, how about it?"

"Am I crazy?" Guozi refused without even thinking. "Do you think I don't know the consequences of drug trials? I only have one life, and I don't want you to waste it!"

"Do you still have a choice?" Mu Huichun said leisurely.

Guozi's heart skipped a beat. Just as she was about to run away, a sudden tingling sensation ran through her neck, and then her legs went weak, causing her to collapse completely to the ground.

That bastard Mu Huichun actually dared to lay a hand on her!

"You better not let me leave here alive, or I will definitely not let you go!"

"That's something that happens after the drug trials." Mu Huichun ignored the threat in Guozi's words.

"There will come a day when you... regret it..." After saying this, Guozi's vision went black and she completely fainted.