A dowry of one billion, and I'll marry him!

"No need! It's just participating in a variety show, it won't hurt you. Besides, we're going to a deserted island, just treat it as a trip. But don't worry, it won't delay your treatment."

"Besides, I said I'd guarantee you wouldn't die within a month, and I mean it." Shi Yanxia said, picking up her medicine box and turning to walk upstairs.

Zhan Jinglin stood there, watching her graceful figure leave with her medicine box.

After a long while, Zhan Jinglin finally looked away.

"Young Master Zhan, I've already spoken to Shen Zhinan about the projects he's been working on recently. I guarantee he'll be extremely busy lately." Gu Qing said respectfully as he approached him, holding an iPad.

"Hmm," Zhan Jinglin replied in a hoarse voice.

He raised his wrist and glanced at the time.

The time for his daily poisoning to take effect had arrived, but he did not experience any physical pain or skin ulceration. He held his breath, put his hands behind his back, and turned to walk into the courtyard.

Seeing this, Gu Qing quickly followed behind him.

"Any other things you've found out?" Zhan Jinglin asked in a hoarse voice.

Gu Qing quickly responded, saying, "I checked. The young mistress was only brought back to the capital by the Shen family seven months ago. She had never been here before."

"After she got lost, she was picked up and taken in by someone at a Taoist temple. Before returning to the Shen family, she never went down the mountain," Gu Qing reported in a low voice.

According to the information obtained from the investigation, Yan Xia's poison had nothing to do with Zhan Jinglin's at that time.

But she saw through him at a glance and even managed to control him.

Is it really because of her exceptional medical skills? Or is there something else going on?

"Should we continue the investigation?" Gu Qing asked somewhat nervously.

After all, now that Shi Yanxia has married into the family, even though the two haven't registered their marriage or held a wedding banquet, their relationship is very delicate. If she finds out that Zhan Jinglin is investigating her past, it will be difficult to handle the situation.

"There's no need to investigate further for now. If I'm truly dead, it's my fate. But anyone who dared to lay a hand on my Zhan family will be brought to justice before I die," Zhan Jinglin said coldly.

"Yes." Gu Qing listened, her heart heavy.

Zhan Jinglin possesses exceptional intelligence, having graduated with two doctorates by the age of 15 and taken over the Zhan family at 16! He has overcome numerous obstacles, leading the Zhan family to new heights.

He is a business genius! At the age of 20, he was already the world's richest man. Now at the age of 28, he has taken control of everything. Such a shrewd and resourceful person is suffering from a strange poison.

Clearly, someone wanted him dead.

"Young Master Zhan, what if the Shen family finds out that we are the ones secretly suppressing them and think that the Zhan family has turned its back on us? Will that affect the old man?" Gu Qing hesitated for a long time before finally asking.

As expected, Zhan Jinglin stopped in his tracks.

He slowly turned his head, his deep black eyes unfathomable, making it impossible for anyone to see through his thoughts.

"Six months ago, Grandpa mentioned a marriage to bring good luck, and the Shen family took the opportunity to ask for a project worth over 100 million. Now they've gone back on their word! They've even sent their recently found but unloved daughter. Does the Shen family think that my Zhan family has no one left to rely on?"

"Do you still think that Shi Yanxia didn't make it back alive after marrying into the family?"

"No matter what the Shen family's intentions are, now that Shi Yanxia has married into the Zhan family, regardless of whether I live or die, and regardless of whether she can cure my illness, I, Zhan Jinglin, will never allow anyone associated with my Zhan family to be bullied, not even the Shen family," Zhan Jinglin said coldly.

The Zhan family has always been protective of its own, and Zhan Jinglin is no exception.

"It seems the Shen family's wishful thinking has backfired," Gu Qing chuckled softly.

As for the matter of the substitute marriage, the Shen family believed that since the Zhan family had brought back Shi Yanxia, ​​they would swallow this bitter pill and be too ashamed to bring it up again.

After all, it wasn't stipulated that the marriage alliance had to involve someone with the surname Shen! The key point is that Shi Yanxia is indeed a biological child of the Shen family.

So what if they bully others by abusing their power?

They insisted that even if Shi Yanxia was pushed out, the Zhan family would never stand up for her.

Upstairs, in the bedroom.

Shi Yanxia put down her medicine box, took out the precious medicinal herbs, and prepared them separately until night fell and the room was plunged into darkness.

"Hiss." She groaned and rubbed her neck.

I got up from the carpet and found my legs were a little numb. I lost my balance and fell back onto the carpet.

She simply lay down, and the smell of medicine in the air calmed her restlessness considerably. She turned her head to look at her phone and found that Shen Zhinan had called her three times.

Shi Yanxia didn't reply, but instead looked through her contacts and discovered that she didn't have a single friend in the capital.

"Hehe, Shi Yanxia, ​​you're really quite naive." Shi Yanxia laughed self-deprecatingly.

When she returned to the capital, she tried to please everyone in the Shen family for the sake of that meager kinship, but forgot about herself, which led to her current miserable state.

I've been back for seven months and haven't made a single friend. I wonder if that counts as a failure.

Just then, her phone vibrated.

She looked at the number flashing on the screen and hung up immediately.

Leng Chengshen's message popped up immediately: "Why didn't you answer my call? Call me back right now."

"..." Shi Yanxia felt extremely disgusted when she saw his message.

When she didn't reply, the other person continued, "Answer the phone, I need to talk to you."

Shi Yanxia rubbed her temples, glanced at her phone, and saw Leng Chengshen's number calling again. Without thinking, she blocked it.

A moment later, the blacklist information popped up, but she didn't scroll in to look at it.

"Knock knock knock," just then, there was a knock on the door.

Shi Yanxia glanced to the side, got up from the carpet, grabbed the prepared medicine and headed outside. As soon as she opened the door, she saw the butler standing respectfully outside.

"Young Madam, it's time for dinner," the butler said in a low voice.

Shi Yanxia smelled the aroma wafting over, and when she looked up, she saw a sumptuous feast laid out in the side hall on the second floor.

"Young Master instructed me not to disturb you! I was just thinking that it's already 7 o'clock and you must be hungry, so I took the liberty of bringing the food up. Young Madam, would you like to eat first?" the butler said in a low but respectful voice.

Shi Yanxia was somewhat surprised.

Throughout the Zhan residence, everyone, from the housekeeper to the servants, was very polite to her. Even though she was brought in as a bride to bring good luck, they didn't show her any contempt.

“Okay, I’m hungry too,” Shi Yanxia said in a low voice.

She handed the prepared medicine packet to the housekeeper.

"This is the medicine I prepared. Have Zhan Jinglin soak in it for half an hour every night. Remember, it must be done before nightfall every night. If he forgets, the suppressed toxins in his body will rebound."

"The suppressed toxins will double in size, which could potentially lead to death," Shi Yanxia whispered a warning.

Upon hearing this, the butler's expression changed drastically, and he quickly clutched the medicine packet as if afraid of dropping it.

"Young Madam, what should we do if the poison unexpectedly takes effect?" The butler asked cautiously, following her anxiously.