After deceiving the villain, I was forced to love him.

"what!"

"Quick! Stop her!"

"Girl! You can't eat anymore! You can't eat any more!"

"what--"

"Get out...get out of here! Give it to me!"

"Quick! Spit it out!"

"Clang..."

......

In the midst of the struggle, Baili Ce still managed to swallow a handful of pills. Soon after, she became limp and powerless, then curled up and collapsed to the ground.

Upon hearing the news, Lin Yuchuan rushed over and saw the injured Lady Sun standing to the side, then looked at the broken dishes scattered on the ground and the panting Physician Luo. He had a premonition that Baili Ce was not far from completely losing control.

Moreover, His Majesty is also injured; if they continue traveling, what if…? As Lin Yuchuan helped Physician Luo up, other plans began to form in his mind. “How long will this last?”

"Sigh..." Physician Luo shook his head and sighed helplessly, "less than two hours."

Lin Yuchuan was puzzled. "Isn't there medicine..." Before he could finish speaking, he noticed the broken medicine bottle on the ground, the lower half of which was already empty.

He walked to the side and picked up the medicine box. To ensure everyone's safety, he would check these medicinal herbs every day.

Yesterday, there were at least several dozen calming pills left, but now there isn't a single one left.

Such a large dose of medicine would be too much for even an elephant to handle.

"If this continues..." Doctor Luo sighed with regret as he glanced at Baili Ce, who, despite taking so many calming pills, still couldn't fall asleep peacefully.

At the same time, he felt that, "If we cannot determine what kind of poison it is, I think it is better not to let this young lady suffer so much."

The cumulative toxicity from such medication will soon cause Baili Ce's internal organs to fail, leaving him in excruciating pain.

"What nonsense are you spouting!" Sun Niangzi rushed over.

"Doctor Luo, be careful what you say!" Lin Yuchuan exclaimed in surprise.

Baili Ce's influence on the subsequent situation was enormous; he couldn't just die so easily.

Madam Sun's thinking was much simpler. She pushed aside Lin Yuchuan, who tried to stop her, and dragged Physician Luo to Baili Ce's bedside. "Take a good look! She's clearly still alive! As a doctor, how can you abandon your patient!"

Physician Luo, however, remained unfazed. "Does the young lady truly believe this counts as being alive?"

"..." One sentence left Madam Sun speechless.

Bai Li Ce suddenly sat up uncomfortably again, "Ugh..."

Madam Sun quickly grabbed a spittoon to catch it...

After vomiting up blood, the man finally became drowsy and sleepy.

"Phew..." Seeing that Baili Ce had stopped going crazy, everyone in the room breathed a sigh of relief.

After waiting for a while longer, until the room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop, Madam Sun gently covered Baili Ce with the blanket, then got up and followed Lin Yuchuan outside...

After falling a few steps, she finally made up her mind, stopped and asked, "Prefect Lin, may I see His Majesty?"

......

"What? Say it again!" Lu Jian's already aching head throbbed even more after hearing Madam Sun's request.

Lady Sun calmly repeated, "Tell me to go see Wang Qingyan."

Hiss... Lu Jian secretly covered his head, he was about to explode.

He finally understood why Baili Ce had shown no respect for the Ancestral Gu before: "That was foolish."

"What can a blind man with all his bones broken and his martial arts completely ruined do?"

“Wang Qingyan’s martial arts skills have never been the best in the world, and he relies on more than just Chaosheng or Guwei. Before returning to the capital, I do not want to cause any more trouble.”

"He has lost the strength to live," Madam Sun had inquired before.

Wang Qingyan is now being beaten nine times in three days, living worse than a dead dog, so why should she be afraid?

“But he is still Wang Qingyan.” Lu Jian understood Sun Niangzi’s, or rather Zu Gu’s, desire to save Baili Ce, but he also had his own considerations.

"Is Your Majesty worried that this is exactly what Wang Qingyan has been waiting for?"

"This is just one of them."

Even if he could subject Wang Qingyan to all the cruel tortures of the past and present ten or eight times, it would only be a temporary relief and a temporary way to vent his anger.

This person, a source of trouble hidden in the shadows of the nation, is a malignant tumor that must be eradicated even at the cost of severed limbs.

"Besides, have you ever considered that someone like him might not be afraid of any torture at all?"

Wang Qingyan is indeed a complete monster, but what kind of hardship hasn't he endured, what kind of suffering hasn't he suffered?

How could it be threatened by Zu Gu, a creature whose cunning is not even half that of Bai Li Ce?

Lady Sun thought for a moment, "Then Your Majesty, what if I could guarantee that no matter what other schemes he may have, he will never be able to turn the tables?"

“…” Lu Jian’s eyes narrowed slightly.

With a slight twitch of her lips, Madam Sun stepped forward... After a few whispered words, Lu Jian's brows relaxed, and he immediately agreed to let Madam Sun go to see Wang Qingyan.

......

In the stench-filled, damp prison, instruments of torture were carelessly laid out on the ground, tossed and turned, rusty and stained with blood and grime.

"Oh, you've fainted again?"

"Tch, so quiet. I thought you were something special. But you're just like us brothers, all flesh and blood with two arms and two legs."

"Exactly, after those few blows, his bones didn't seem to get any harder."

"Alright, that's enough for today. Let's go eat."

"Then this medicine?"

"Hey, he's still catching his breath. Let's talk when we get back!"

"Yes, yes, let's go eat first."

......

Lu Jian's prediction was correct; Wang Qingyan was indeed not afraid of any torture.

But that doesn't mean he's not afraid of pain.

On the contrary, when he is in extreme pain, he will cry out and tremble.

No one cared before, but later they were only ridiculed, and over time they naturally became "silent and unassuming".

Just like the place in my heart that always held only her, now there's nothing left.

"..." As he thought about it, Wang Qingyan endured the excruciating pain and moved his head, intending to shake it or rub his face against his shoulder.

His eye sockets were unbearably itchy, and rubbing them would provide some relief, but his limited mobility prevented him from successfully rubbing them no matter how hard he tried...

After a while, he was exhausted and had to give up.

The jailers were ordered to keep him alive as long as possible, so they used medicine to treat him, but they were also very experienced in preventing his wound from festering too badly.

Slowly, day after day, new and old wounds piled up one after another, itching and hurting, piercing to the bone, making it difficult for him to have a moment of peace.

But he still didn't want to die.

Torture is nothing, torture is nothing.

So what if we lose our vitality? We can just fall down and get back up.

He had experienced this kind of thing many times before; he was very skilled at it and confident that he could get through it.

"Wow--"

Suddenly, the sound of the cell door opening came from inside.

Lady Sun didn't waste any more words with him. "Let's make a deal."

"..." A smile seemed to appear on Wang Qingyan's face, which was covered in bloodstains.

After a long while, he raised his head with trembling hands and said in a rough and weak voice, "What are you? You dare to make a deal with me?"

"Sizzle—" He picked up the branding iron from the stove next to him and burned him.

One time isn't enough, then two... never mind, ten right away, "Zzz—Zzz—Zzz—Zzz—Zzz—"

"Sizzle—Sizzle—Sizzle—Sizzle—Sizzle—"

"Has it been fitted yet?"

"..." As if he had been burned senseless, Wang Qingyan hung his head and remained silent.

Just as she was about to scoop up a ladle of water and throw it at him, he suddenly spoke again, "You are not Lady Sun."

"..." Forgot, she's currently using Lady Sun's body.

"You..." Large drops of sweat dripped from his chin onto the spot on his chest where the branding iron had just burned him, stinging like chili water before Wang Qingyan could recover. "Who is it?"

"Guess what?" She grabbed Wang Qingyan by the throat. Although the feeling was a bit disgusting, Madam Sun had never felt so good before.

The latter struggled desperately, and yellowish pus and blood flowed from the two holes in his forehead along with the bulging veins. "Ha... I can start my life countless times, what about you?"

"..." After a long while, Madam Sun slowly let go of her hand.

While casually wiping the blood off his hands, he sat down on the bench opposite him, crossed his legs, and said, "Let me formally introduce myself. I am Zu Gu."