After Recklessly Courting Death, I Caught the Attention of a Yandere - Chapter 85

“I’ve already helped you eliminate much of the poison in your body. What remains isn’t lethal. However, your body has been eroded by poison for too long. Your lifespan may not be very long—there’s a strong possibility you won’t live past twenty-five.”

When Lian Jiu spoke these words, she still felt reluctant in her heart.

She couldn’t understand why a mother would treat her own son this way.

She had grown up with both parents, a precious pearl held in their palms. Lian Jiu had never experienced such things.

But Xiao Yueqing seemed to have nothing, and now even the person he trusted most had betrayed him.

She could sense that Xiao Yueqing’s entire being was filled with the aura of death.

“But don’t worry too much. My medical skills are guaranteed. Twenty-five is just a rough estimate. Plus, your martial arts are quite strong, so I think you should be able to live beyond twenty-five.”

Xiao Yueqing didn’t really take Lian Jiu’s comforting words to heart.

He wasn’t afraid of death; he just felt this life seemed somewhat regretful.

He had thought he could properly mend his mother-son relationship with Mu Lan, but he never expected Mu Lan would treat him this way.

After a long period of careful treatment, his body was much better than before. The poison marks on his body had disappeared, but because he had been used as a poison experiment subject for half a month, his body wasn’t particularly healthy.

Before leaving, Lian Jiu gave him several more instructions.

“I’ve cleared most of your remaining poison for now, but I can’t guarantee what will happen to your body going forward. However, there’s one thing you must pay attention to—once your body starts coughing up blood, it means your body can no longer hold on.”

What “can no longer hold on” meant, both of them understood clearly.

Xiao Yueqing nodded toward Lian Jiu. “Thank you, Lian Jiu.”

Tianqing Manor returned to its former tranquility, as if nothing had happened.

Only the mindset of the master here was different from before.

From that point on, the jianghu gained another so-called great demon.

Xiao Yueqing’s thinking was very clear—if he was born already stained with sin, then he would carve out a pure land through killing.

After this brief recollection, his thoughts drifted back to the present.

Looking at the weed-overgrown courtyard, Xiao Yueqing’s mood was quite calm.

“If I was born already stained with sin, then I will carve out a pure land through killing. These words I spoke ten years ago—back then, I thought I wasn’t afraid of death; I just wanted revenge.”

Now ten years had passed. His great revenge remained unavenged, yet unexpectedly, Mu Lan had the audacity to come looking for him again.

This was completely unexpected.

However, no matter what Mu Lan would do, the bond between him and Mu Lan had long ceased to exist.

He could never forgive what Mu Lan had done.

Yet when he had just returned to the courtyard, he saw someone standing there.

Hearing footsteps, Dongfang Wuchen turned his head and immediately saw Xiao Yueqing.

He quickly ran to Xiao Yueqing’s side, wanting to reach out and grab him but not daring to.

He could only call out timidly, “Brother, I need to talk to you about something.”

“Didn’t you just recover from poisoning? Why did you come here from Mingyue Manor? This is your first time at Tianqing Manor—I didn’t expect you’d be able to find my courtyard.”

Dongfang Wuchen scratched his head somewhat awkwardly and explained, “I also asked around for a long time, which is how I found out where you live, brother. I have something very important I want to ask you. Would you be willing to talk with me?”

Xiao Yueqing roughly guessed why Dongfang Wuchen had come to find him.

He didn’t drive Dongfang Wuchen away, but instead brought him into the room.

“Brother, I want to know what exactly happened ten years ago? Mother refuses to tell me. I can only come ask you. Brother, did you suffer a lot because of me?”

Regarding this older brother who had suddenly appeared, Dongfang Wuchen actually didn’t feel much rejection.

Perhaps it was because he hadn’t disliked Xiao Yueqing to begin with.

Xiao Yueqing originally didn’t want to tell Dongfang Wuchen, because even he himself was unwilling to bring up those matters.

But since the person had tracked him down to Tianqing Manor, Xiao Yueqing naturally wouldn’t continue to hide it.

“Ten years ago, you were poisoned. That kind of poison was very difficult to find an antidote for. Your mother was born into the Tang Sect—you should know this, right? So to save you, she thought of me.

She left me when I was very young. I didn’t know where she went. Later I learned she had married your father and given birth to you. Seeing your family so happy and harmonious, I was actually quite envious.

Back then, I would often watch you. I just felt very envious of your life. You had parents who doted on you, but I had nothing. I was even treated as a disgrace by my birth mother. She said the thing she regretted most in this life was giving birth to me.”

Just as Xiao Yueqing said.

Dongfang Wuchen had grown up being treasured since childhood, so he couldn’t truly empathize with the suffering Xiao Yueqing had endured.

But just hearing about these things made his heart ache.

“When she first found me, I was truly happy. I thought she wanted to repair our mother-son relationship from all these years. She even made me a bowl of yangchun noodles, which I loved most as a child.

Because she didn’t like me, I always had to wear a mask. Even on my birthday, she never remembered. She always either hit or scolded me. When I was little, I always thought that if I just behaved better, she would be good to me. Later I realized she would never like me.”

Xiao Yueqing paused, then continued.

“Only then did I realize she had put a sedative in that bowl of yangchun noodles. When I woke up, I found myself locked in a basement.

At first, I thought someone had ambushed Tianqing Manor. When I saw her, I even wanted her to escape, never imagining she had tied me up there just to use me for poison experiments.

Because she needed to formulate an antidote and couldn’t find a test subject, she could only choose to use me as her test subject. It truly hurt so much back then. I was constantly soaked in a bathtub filled with various poisons and toxic substances. Each time, I was in such agony I felt like I was dying, always feeling I was about to die.

I begged her to kill me, but she ignored me. After she formulated the antidote, the first thing she did was take it and leave, not caring whether I lived or died. Later, my father’s close friend’s daughter saved me, but she said I could only live until twenty-five.”

On his way here, Dongfang Wuchen had thought about many things, guessing that something terrible must have happened to Xiao Yueqing.

Otherwise, why would Mother’s first instinct when facing these matters be to run away?

But when he heard these things with his own ears, he realized how absurd his so-called life had been.

“Brother, I’ve wronged you. If not for me, you wouldn’t have experienced these things.”