After returning to the capital, the eldest daughter saved her entire clan with her medical skills.

"Very serious."

Her full, moist lips parted slightly, and she uttered three light, airy words that nearly made Yueyin faint with anger.

Isn't that obvious? Anyone can see that our master is very ill; does she even need to say it?

"The lips are dark, the pupils are dilated, and the breathing is shallow and rapid, indicating that the toxins have spread to various organs of the body."

"Does the young lady have a way to cure this completely?"

"Of course, but..."

Xue Ruanruan frowned. Murong Xun was indeed deeply poisoned. Not only did he have toxins in his body, but it seemed that he also had Gu worms.

Both are extremely potent poisons, and the slightest carelessness can endanger one's life.

The reason he has survived to this day is that the toxins and the Gu worms in the host's body counterbalance and restrain each other.

"What is it? Please tell us, young lady. We will find a way to get any precious medicinal herbs you need. Just write a prescription."

Yueyin pressed for an answer.

Does this girl even know medicine? What she says is either nonsense or hesitant and unintelligible, driving me crazy with impatience.

"It's just that there are Gu worms causing trouble in the body. If we only use medicine, it may stimulate them to break down faster and multiply into a large number of larvae in the body."

"What! Master has been poisoned by Gu?"

Upon hearing this, Yueyin was greatly shocked and couldn't help but raise her voice to shout.

Gu poison was a terrifying practice in the Chu and Qin dynasties. It was so vicious that once someone was afflicted, there was almost no cure.

Raising Gu poison is not a field that Han Chinese are good at, and treatment is not easy; if one is not careful, one can also become infected.

In reality, once infected by the curse, the quack doctors in the Imperial Hospital would simply run away, fearing they would be infected if they were too slow.

They had been treating him for poisoning, which explains why his condition hadn't improved despite the use of rare and precious herbs; in fact, it had recently become increasingly serious.

What puzzled them was how their master had been poisoned by the Gu, and who was so vicious as to think of using such a despicable trick to harm their master.

Poisoning was already a problem for them, but with the addition of Gu poison, wouldn't their master's body be in serious trouble...?

Unable to bear thinking any further, Yueyin clenched her fists tightly, vowing to find the person behind it all and tear him to pieces!

Murong Xun, however, remained calm and expressionless, a dark glint flashing in his eyes before disappearing quickly, as if the matter had nothing to do with him.

His performance filled Xue Ruanruan with admiration; his extraordinary endurance and temperament were truly admirable.

No wonder he was able to defeat a group of princes and nobles and break through the encirclement without any help or support, and even the emperor could not do anything to him.

If it weren't for the fact that Murong Xun was her benefactor in her past life and had done her a great favor, Xue Ruanruan wouldn't have wanted to get involved.

She knows the art of Gu poison and also raises a dragon Gu, a fact known only to her master.

Contrary to popular belief, Gu worms are not entirely harmful; they have unexpected effects on many difficult and complicated diseases, such as tuberculosis, esophageal obstruction, breast cancer, and malnutrition.

"To be precise, you've been poisoned by a Gu worm. Have you eaten anything recently that might have stimulated the Gu worms in your body?"

Xue Ruanruan stared intently at Murong Xun with her clear, watery eyes, her expression serious and earnest.

Otherwise, Yueyin would suspect that this girl was using her medical skills as a pretext to commit indecent acts against her master.

In the capital, no young lady from a prominent family would stare at a strange man, but Xue Ruanruan was undoubtedly an exception.

Murong Xun felt a little uncomfortable under those seemingly expressive eyes, and the back of his ears turned red.

"No, Yan Xiao and I are in charge of Master's food, clothing and shelter. Every day, the food is carefully selected before it is served to Master."

Yueyin frowned, unable to recall what her master had eaten that could activate the Gu worms in his body.

"I ate a wild fruit in the mountains yesterday, I don't know if that counts."

As Yueyin said, Murong Xun's diet was indeed very strict, and what he ate each day was arranged in advance.

In order to return to the capital as soon as possible, they traveled through the night. Along the way, there were corpses everywhere. To avoid the water source being contaminated by the corpses and causing a plague, they had to run to the remote mountains to fetch spring water each time.

Yesterday, I happened to come across a hot spring. Beside the spring grew a wild fruit tree, whose fruits were large and red, making them especially precious in the cold winter months.

Yan Xiao couldn't resist the temptation and picked a fruit to eat. It tasted incredibly sweet, several times better than the tribute fruit from Persia.

Knowing that her master would suffer for a long time every time he fell ill, Yan Xiao picked a bag of fruit and took it back to eat slowly.

They thought that these delicious wild fruits could relieve their master's pain, stimulate his appetite, and make him eat more.

I never imagined that it would harm my master.

Standing outside the carriage, Yan Xiao was filled with shock and self-reproach. If he had known this would happen, he wouldn't have been so impulsive as to pick wild fruits for his master.

"Yes, any food that is very different from our usual diet can trigger the dormant Gu worms. It's not that eating fruit is bad; it's just that the fruit might happen to be the kind of fruit that the Gu worms like to eat. It's just a coincidence, so there's no need to blame yourself."

Looking at the expressions on the faces of the guards beside Murong Xun, Xue Ruanruan could tell how remorseful they were, and she couldn't help but gently comfort them.

In her past life, Yueyin was poisoned by a hidden weapon while protecting Murong Xun. She endured her last breath and crawled back to the Regent's Palace, where she collapsed outside the gate.

Yan Xiao suffered an even worse fate, willingly risking her life to uncover the truth and the mastermind behind it all.

On the way back to the mansion after collecting all the evidence, he was ambushed by villains. He was pierced by arrows and his body was thrown into a snake pit to be devoured by venomous snakes, ending up with no trace of his remains.

"Does the young lady have a way to cure my master? If you can cure my master, Yueyin can give you her life."

Yueyin was flustered and confused. If she had still held a sliver of hope for the antidote before, that hope was instantly shattered when she learned that her master had been poisoned by both poison and Gu poison.

"Yueyin! You mustn't speak carelessly."

Murong Xun was deeply moved when he heard his subordinate say that he would rather give up his life for his health.

But he would not allow, nor would he trade his subordinates' lives for his own.

"Young lady, please help my master cure the Gu poison."

Yueyin felt as if she were grasping at the last straw, lost and helpless.

“Girl, don’t listen to Yueyin. It would be best if it could be cured, but if it can’t, we won’t force it. Just pretend nothing happened.”

Murong Xun had given up all hope, and his mindset was much calmer than before, with a serene expression.

"Don't worry, young master, it can be cured, but it will take quite a bit of effort."

As doctors, the most important thing is to give patients confidence, reduce their pressure, and encourage them to actively cooperate with treatment. This will make the treatment more effective.

Moreover, what others feared most about Gu poison was merely a troublesome ailment to her, practically an incurable disease.

"That's wonderful, thank you so much, young lady. Please accept my bow."

Yueyin was so happy that tears streamed down her face.