After Recklessly Courting Death, I Caught the Attention of a Yandere - Chapter 84

No matter how much Xiao Yueqing struggled, Mu Lan never let him go, instead confining him in this secret chamber.

Every day, Xiao Yueqing would be placed in a bathtub.

That bathtub was filled with various poisons and toxic substances. Those poisons slowly eroded his body, causing him unbearable pain.

Every day, Xiao Yueqing felt as if the pain was tearing him apart, almost causing him to pass out from the agony.

But obviously, Mu Lan was not the type of person to show mercy easily.

Eventually, Xiao Yueqing could no longer cry out—his voice had gone completely hoarse.

Looking at the poison marks covering his body, he felt for the first time what it meant for death to be preferable to living.

“Mother, please let me go. I beg you, just kill me if you want, but don’t torture me like this anymore.”

Compared to this daily torture, Xiao Yueqing felt he would rather die directly.

At least in death, he wouldn’t feel any pain.

“Mother, it really hurts so much…”

However, Mu Lan would not easily spare Xiao Yueqing just because he begged for mercy.

In her eyes, she only wanted to save Dongfang Wuchen’s life.

Xiao Yueqing’s suffering meant nothing to her.

She continued coldly preparing the poisons.

Only when she heard Xiao Yueqing call her mother did she frown and harshly rebuke him.

“Don’t call me mother. You have no right to call me mother. I never wanted you as a son. If it weren’t for your dead father stopping me back then, I would have strangled you the moment you were born.”

This torture continued relentlessly for over half a month. Finally, one day, Mu Lan successfully prepared the antidote and finally let Xiao Yueqing go.

But she didn’t care whether he lived or died—she simply took the antidote and left directly.

For the past half month, everyone at Tianqing Manor had been worried about Xiao Yueqing’s condition, but Mu Lan had prevented them from inquiring about his whereabouts, claiming he was in seclusion practicing martial arts.

Although the subordinates had doubts in their hearts, they dared not disobey the orders of this former manor mistress.

It wasn’t until Xiao Yueqing stumbled out of the secret chamber that Yue Po finally learned what had happened.

Seeing Xiao Yueqing covered in poison marks and tortured beyond recognition, Yue Po cursed Mu Lan in his heart for a long time.

More than that, he was concerned about Xiao Yueqing.

“Master, what happened to you? The old mistress said you were in seclusion and wouldn’t let us disturb you. So was the old mistress actually harming you?”

Xiao Yueqing didn’t answer him, only uttering one sentence: “From now on, don’t mention Mu Lan in front of me. Even if people from Mingyue Manor come to our Tianqing Manor again, don’t let anyone in. Those so-called righteous sect people are nothing but frauds.”

Although Xiao Yueqing didn’t answer directly, how could Yue Po not see how much Xiao Yueqing hated Mu Lan?

He would always remember how desperate Xiao Yueqing’s eyes looked at that time.

“Master, let me treat your wounds.”

Mu Lan had only taken the antidote to find Dongfang Wuchen, without caring whether Xiao Yueqing lived or died.

There were still many poison residues remaining in his body, which Yue Po alone couldn’t possibly resolve.

Therefore, they had no choice but to seek out the daughter of the Divine Physician Sect’s master.

The Divine Physician Sect’s master had once been close friends with Xiao Yi, so they frequently interacted.

Even after Xiao Yi’s death, the Divine Physician Sect and Tianqing Manor continued to maintain contact.

After all, Xiao Yi had helped the sect master greatly in the past.

Over these years, although the manor master had changed to Xiao Yueqing, he still helped the Divine Physician Sect.

Lian Jiu was the daughter of the Divine Physician Sect’s master. Her miraculous medical skills had made her a renowned female physician far and wide.

After receiving the call for help from Yue Po, Lian Jiu immediately rushed to Tianqing Manor at full speed.

She didn’t know what had happened to Xiao Yueqing, but the Divine Physician Sect couldn’t possibly ignore a call for help from Tianqing Manor.

Therefore, Lian Jiu set out anyway.

However, when Lian Jiu arrived at Tianqing Manor and saw Xiao Yueqing lying on the bed, barely clinging to life, she felt as if struck by lightning.

“How could this be…”

Xiao Yueqing shook his head and asked her in return, “I have many poisons in my body. Can you help me detoxify them? All the materials used to prepare the poisons are in that secret chamber.”

Although Lian Jiu didn’t know exactly what had happened.

She knew that Xiao Yueqing couldn’t possibly have done this to himself. Just how many kinds of poisons had entered his body?

Lian Jiu simply couldn’t imagine how he had survived the ravaging of so many poisons.

When Yue Po led Lian Jiu to that secret chamber, she immediately understood.

It seemed someone had imprisoned Xiao Yueqing in this place and used him for various poison experiments.

Someone wanted to prepare an antidote, but the antidote formula kept failing, so they could only use Xiao Yueqing as an experimental poison tester.

But Lian Jiu couldn’t understand—what kind of person could silently infiltrate Tianqing Manor, kidnap their manor master, and do so without anyone knowing?

Until Xiao Yueqing revealed the truth.

“It was my mother. My younger brother was poisoned and she was helpless, so she remembered she still had me as a son. So she made me her poison tester, administering all sorts of poisons to my body.

She kept poisoning me, detoxifying me, poisoning me, detoxifying me—that’s why I have so many different poisons in my body. But she’s already prepared the antidote and left to save my younger brother, which is why I could get out.

You know what? I always thought I would die in that place. There was no one who could save me there. I never imagined that the person I trusted most would scheme against me, use me like this, and even want to kill me. She said I was her shame, that she wished she could strangle me to death.”

Lian Jiu was many years younger than Xiao Yueqing.

At thirteen or fourteen years old, she didn’t understand much, but she could still sense Xiao Yueqing’s pain.

But at this moment, Lian Jiu could only comfort him by saying, “Although I don’t know exactly what happened to you, Father instructed me that if anyone from Tianqing Manor came to our Divine Physician Sect for help, I must help them.

They’re just some poisons—there’s no poison our Divine Physician Sect can’t cure. Moreover, all the toxic materials used to prepare them are over there. I believe I can prepare the antidote.”

In truth, Xiao Yueqing at that time had already lost hope of surviving.

Because it was simply too painful.

His entire body hurt so much.

He also wanted to ask heaven why it treated him this way, why it arranged such a fate for him.

Why was his birth not blessed?

Why was he born stained with sin?

Fortunately, Lian Jiu eventually prepared the antidote and removed the poisons from Xiao Yueqing’s body.

But his body, which had been eroded by the poisons, had truly consumed his lifespan.

When he learned he might not live past twenty-five years old, Xiao Yueqing wasn’t as panicked as one might expect.

He just felt somewhat unwilling to accept it.