First annul the engagement, then sever ties with the empress; the empress reigns supreme.

Bai Hui's expression changed as well, her brows furrowing even more: "Tian Jiao, what do you want to do?"

"Naturally, it's about doing what you didn't finish."

After Bai Tianjiao finished speaking, she waved her hand and led her people out of the bamboo house.

Before Gu Junxi and the others could react, the door to the bamboo house had already been closed.

Then a few packets of medicine that smelled of smoke were thrown in through the window, and then the window and door were quickly closed.

"Bai Tianjiao, open the door! Are you trying to betray your master and ancestors?" The smell of smoke was pungent. Before she could even cover her mouth and nose, just smelling the smoke made her hands and feet feel weak and powerless.

Bai Tianjiao ignored Bai Hui's knocking and said rudely, "Master, you've already deceived your master, so why shouldn't I? I learned this from you. You should rest in there. The wedding banquet will proceed as scheduled tomorrow."

After saying that, he had already left with his men.

Bai Hui slumped into a chair, regret flashing in her eyes. She hadn't expected retribution to come so quickly.

Ignoring his own safety, Mu Lingye covered Gu Junxi's mouth and nose and helped her sit down: "Mr. Suxin, do you know what kind of poison this is? If inhaled, it may affect the fetus in Axi's womb."

Mr. Suxin's wounds were still fresh, and he slumped weakly in his chair, glancing at Bai Hui with disappointment.

"This is a poison extracted from the Devil Flower. Besides making people weak in the limbs, it also has a hallucinogenic effect. Whether it is harmful to the fetus is still uncertain. And this Devil Flower is the large patch of fiery red flowers outside the bamboo house."

“This demon is a great scourge. I told you to destroy it long ago, why didn’t you listen?”

“Master…” Baihui moved her lips, her voice dry and hoarse, and after calling out, she rubbed her forehead and gently pounded it with her hand, feeling uncomfortable: “I originally wanted to destroy it, but I don’t know why it started growing again… I really can’t remember. I… why can’t I remember?”

“Master, I can tell that Senior Sister’s expression is indeed a bit off.” Gu Junxi looked at Mr. Suxin upon seeing this.

Mr. Su Xin frowned, placed his index finger on Bai Hui's wrist, and after a moment, said with a somewhat grim expression, "The Devil Flower Poison has entered her body and seeped into her blood. It is incurable by medicine."

"I..." Bai Hui looked at her palms and saw that they were bluish-purple. She said in disbelief, "How could this be? I have never been in contact with that devil flower."

After saying that, she seemed to suddenly remember something and continued, "I know, it must be Bai Tianjiao. She would brew me herbal medicine every day. Why would she do this to me? I treated her sincerely."

If sincerity brings rewards, then the phrase "repaying kindness with enmity" would cease to exist.

Seeing Bai Hui's disbelief, Gu Junxi's doubts lessened considerably.

She looked at Mr. Suxin and said, "Master, I never noticed that Senior Sister's emotions always change so quickly. It turns out that she is affected by the Devil Flower."

Mu Lingye also said, "The fact that Lord Bai is so persistent in his pursuit of you is probably also influenced by this devil flower."

Mr. Suxin nodded, but did not discuss the topic further.

It was ultimately an embarrassing thing for two younger people to have their relationship problems exposed.

"Master, do you have a way to cure the poison of this devil flower?" Gu Junxi asked.

At this moment, Baihui, overwhelmed by the betrayal and further weakened by the Devil Flower Poison, fainted. She was supported by Mr. Suxin.

Bai Hui looked perfectly at ease in Mr. Su Xin's arms; on the contrary, they seemed harmonious and well-matched.

In fact, Mr. Suxin was quite famous and had cultivated renowned figures such as Yao Duzhong and Qingyanzi. Just hearing his name, one might mistakenly think he was an old man in his seventies or eighties with white eyebrows and a white beard.

In fact, he is only a little over fifty years old, in the prime of his life.

Baihui looks to be in her thirties, but she is actually in her forties; the two are not that far apart in age.

Despite his apparent ruthlessness, Mr. Suxin was actually quite affectionate towards Baihui. He picked up the unconscious Baihui and placed her on the bed, saying, "I can cure her, but I don't have any medicine on hand."

“Master, I do have some medicine on hand. Do you think it’s usable?” Gu Junxi took out the purse she carried with her and poured out all the medicine inside.

She had a wide variety of pills in her purse. If a highly skilled physician like Mr. Su Xin could extract the necessary ingredients from these pills and then neutralize them to create the required antidote.

"Let me see." Mr. Suxin did not give a definite answer immediately. Instead, he sat down at the table, picked up the pills one by one, smelled them, and identified their effects.

Put what you can use in a cup, and put what you can't use back into your purse.

Although she was feeling unwell, this was still a good opportunity to learn from Mr. Suxin. Gu Junxi didn't want to miss it, so she dragged her weak body to sit next to Mr. Suxin and watched him explain.

Having such a studious apprentice is a source of great pride for a master. Each time Master Suxin identified a medicinal herb, she would explain its effects to Gu Junxi, and what the combined effects would be when mixed with another herb.

Mr. Suxin spoke earnestly, and Gu Junxi listened intently. When she heard something she didn't understand, she asked repeatedly until she understood it.

Time passed slowly, and before she knew it, Baihui, who was lying in bed, woke up. She didn't make a sound, just quietly watched Mr. Suxin's back.

In a daze, she felt as if she had returned to the happy time when she studied medicine with Mr. Suxin.

When Mr. Suxin taught her, he was just as patient and gentle as he had taught Gu Junxi.

She gradually lost herself in Mr. Suxin's gentleness.

She actually came from a poor background and was indeed abandoned, but the people who abandoned her were not Mr. Suxin, but her parents.

Her family is from Baijia Village, a very ordinary farming household, with a total of seven people including her parents, brothers, and sisters.

She was the third child in her family, with an older sister and an older brother, and a younger brother and a younger sister. She was the most inconspicuous and easily overlooked member of the family.

When she was fourteen, she caught a common cold that winter and was bedridden, but neither her father nor her mother were willing to treat her.

When she was on her last breath, her father said that he had raised her all these years and she was dying like this, without giving the family anything in return. It was really not worth it.

Just then, the mentally challenged son of the landlord in town fell and died. The landlord was heartbroken that his son had died so young and hadn't even found a wife, so he wanted to find a ghost bride for him.

The price offered was a full fifteen taels.

This amount of silver is more than these farmers could ever save up in a lifetime of hard work.

In order not to miss this opportunity to make money, her father wrapped her in a straw mat while she was still alive and took her to the landlord's house to arrange a ghost marriage.

And so, she was nailed alive to the coffin with the dead and buried alive underground.

At that time, she was suffering from illness and pain, her head was dizzy and she wanted to shout but couldn't.

It was her master who dug her out from underground.

To hone his medical skills, Master would choose deceased patients as practice subjects. He had long heard of this landlord's foolish son.

That's why they would dig up the coffin and study it on the first night after the person was buried.

I saved her by accident.

She still remembers the scene when she woke up in the bamboo house in Medicine King Valley and saw her master for the first time.

The master was dressed in a blue robe, with an extraordinary demeanor, like a distant immortal from heaven.

She didn't have a name originally; her parents just called her Er Ya. It was her master who gave her a name.

The master said that she was beautiful, and since she had died once, she should bloom as brightly as a flower, so he named her Hui.

Later, her master taught her to read, identify medicinal herbs, practice medicine, and concoct poisons. He even imparted all his knowledge of the Five Elements and the Eight Trigrams to her.

Besides her master, her fellow disciples also treated her sincerely, making her truly identify with Medicine King Valley as her "home".

By the time she turned eighteen, she had come to know love, and her perfect master naturally entered her dreams. She greedily longed to be with her master day and night, and greedily wanted him to know her feelings.

So after getting drunk that day, she boldly confessed her feelings to her master. After being rejected, she shamelessly drugged her master, almost causing a terrible mistake.

If she hadn't been so greedy back then, and had kept that feeling hidden in her heart, perhaps she wouldn't have been expelled from Medicine King Valley. She could have stayed by her master's side forever.

"Master!"

Bai Hui cried out silently, and a tear rolled down her cheek.

Mr. Su Xin and Gu Junxi were completely unaware that Bai Hui had woken up, but Mu Lingye, being a martial artist, had a stronger sense of perception than the average person. He noticed Bai Hui's peeping gaze, turned around abruptly, and caught her red-handed.

Bai Hui's eyes suddenly trembled, and she cast a pleading look at Mu Lingye.

Mu Lingye frowned, thinking of Bai Hui's obsession with Mr. Suxin, and how she was also a devoted person, albeit in the wrong way. He couldn't bear to expose her.

Just then, Mr. Suxin had finished developing the antidote.

Mu Lingye blinked, helped Gu Junxi up, and asked seemingly casually.

"Mr. Suxin, you foresaw that you would face a calamity and even sent a letter to the Valley Master of Medicine. With your abilities, you should have been able to avoid Lord Bai. Why then are you imprisoned here by Lord Bai?"

Master Suxin glanced at Bai Hui to make sure she hadn't woken up before answering Mu Lingye: "Bai Hui has a tragic past and suffered a lot in her early years. I dug her out of the coffin and took her as my disciple, so I felt a responsibility towards her."

“It’s my fault for not guiding her properly, which led her astray and made her obsession grow deeper and deeper. Of course, I have an obligation to guide her back to the right path. I had already foreseen that if I hadn’t come, she would have died. How could I bear to watch her die?”

"As for Xixi, I've already calculated her fate. She's someone who has died once before. To turn misfortune into good fortune, she must overcome another death ordeal. Only then can she soar to the heavens. Some things are beyond the control of fate. We must follow the will of Heaven."

I see. Mr. Suxin's words cleared up Mu Lingye's doubts.

Behind her, Bai Hui's closed eyebrows twitched almost imperceptibly.

She thought it was a chance encounter, a coincidence that she met her master who had come to Tianfu City, but in reality, her master had come specifically for her.

Before they knew it, dawn was breaking, and Bai Tianjiao and her entourage opened the door of the bamboo house once more.

Bai Tianjiao, dressed in her wedding attire, walked in.