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"Su Xie... Su Xie, save me..." She pressed down on me, gripping my neck tightly, her eyes brimming with tears, her fingers trembling. She struggled and cried out, "Su Xie, save me... I feel so bad... I can't control myself..."

His face was bluish-purple, and his lips were white.

Tears fell onto my face, burning hot. I dropped the dagger and grabbed her wrist. "You've been poisoned?"

I tried to get up, but she suddenly pressed down on my neck, choking me until I couldn't breathe and fell back to the ground. "I don't know, I don't know..." she called my name, trembling all over, tears streaming down her face. She said, "I'm in so much pain! I can't control myself... I'll kill you..."

She was like everyone else in the city, thanks to the Heart-Stealing Powder.

“Jinglian…” I grasped her wrist, my breathing labored. I wanted to say something, but the rumble of the carriage drowned out my voice.

I heard the neighing of horses, and a white figure darted out of the carriage like a startled swan, landing half a step away with a light touch. In the midst of the chaos, I only saw a flash of cold light, and Yan Shu thrust his sword straight at Jing Lian from half a step away.

My throat was gripped, and countless words were stuck in my throat, unable to be uttered. I could only watch as that point of cold light pierced straight towards me. My mind went blank for a moment. I desperately reached out to try and grasp the tip of the sword, but the sword was fierce. It cut through my flesh and drew blood in my palm without the slightest pause, piercing straight through Jinglian's spine.

“Su Xie…” Jinglian stared at me with her eyes wide open, tears welling up in them, and blood gushing from her chest, covering my face and body. It was so hot, so scalding, that my heart and lungs tightened for a moment, and I couldn’t breathe.

She was crying, tiny beads of blood, like red coral, clung to the tip of the sword that pierced her chest, trembling slightly. She cried with unbearable sorrow, "Su Xie... am I going to die? I... I feel so much pain..."

The fingers gripping my neck loosened, and she fell onto me. Throat, thump, thump, I could hear the faint, weak beating of her heart.

I stood frozen on the ground, gripping my sword tightly. The sky was filled with smoke, and it was so dark that I couldn't see any stars.

"Su Xie?" Someone called out to me for a long time, trying to pry my hand open.

I turned my head in a daze to see Yan Shu holding me with one arm and prying my hand off the sword blade with the other. "Su Xie, let go, loosen your grip!"

"Miss!" Changhuan knelt beside me, desperately prying my fingers open, "Miss, let go! Your hand is bleeding! Miss!"

I looked at him, and he opened his mouth in a hoarse voice, "Chang Huan... Chang Huan..." He wanted to say something, but he found himself unable to say it.

"I'm here! I'm here, girl!" He reached out and wiped the blood from my face, his hands, cold as ice, prying my fingers apart. "Let go, girl, let go quickly..."

He remembered he was about to cry when Yan Shu suddenly grabbed my wrist. My fingers went numb, and I let go. The blade was now embedded in my flesh, a bloody mess.

Chang Huan dared not reach out, but Yan Shu raised his hand to knock the sword away, tore off a piece of cloth and tightly wrapped it around my hand, remaining silent without uttering a word.

I looked at my bloodied and mangled palm, but I didn't feel any pain; it just felt numb.

Yan Shu's trembling made me tremble as well. He picked me up and shouted at Chang Huan, "Drive back!"

I suddenly reached out and grabbed Yan Shu's collar, but my fingers were limp and powerless, leaving several bloody scratches on his collar.

He frowned instantly and snapped at me, "Don't move! Don't you want your fingers anymore?!"

I stared at him, my throat bobbing for a long time before I finally managed to utter the words, "The antidote... give me the antidote for the Heart-Stealing Powder."

"Antidote?" Yan Shu carried me towards the carriage. "What do you need the antidote for?"

"The antidote!" My fingers trembled on his collar, beads of blood seeping through the white cloth covering it, my forehead beaded with cold sweat. "Give me the antidote!"

"Su Xie!" Yan Shu's face was extremely pale. Seeing my unwilling fingers, he finally softened his tone and said, "Don't move anymore, I'll give you the antidote..."

He called Ye Baizhi over and asked her to pour me a pill of the antidote. The small black pill turned red as soon as I spun it in my palm.

"Changhuan!" I called Changhuan over and handed him the pills. "Tongrentang, give them to Leng Baichun personally. She can't die." I looked at Yan Shu and repeated, "She can't die, Yan Shu, at least... at least nothing can happen to her..."

Yan Shu looked at me for a long time, then sighed and said, "Alright, if she doesn't die, I'll send someone to bring her out of Licheng."

"I want Changhuan to go in person!" My voice was hoarse. "I want you and Ye Baizhi to accompany me out of the city, while Changhuan goes alone."

He looked at me and ordered Ye Baizhi, "From this moment on, no one is allowed to lay a hand on Leng Baichun without my permission!"

It should be Angelica dahurica.

He frowned and said to me, enunciating each word clearly, "Satisfied? If you still want your fingers, then stay put!"

I looked at Chang Huan, who took the pill and nodded to me, saying, "Don't worry, young lady."

Yan Shu carried me into the carriage. As soon as we landed after leaving the city, I was in so much pain in the dark carriage that I fainted before I could think of anything.

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pain.

I can't pinpoint exactly where it hurts; it feels like everything hurts—my body and my stomach. I'm both in pain and hungry.

I dreamt I was crying, I didn't know why, I couldn't stop crying, and only one voice kept asking me—

"Su Xie... Am I going to die?"

I woke up with a start, my fingers twitched, and just as they were about to spasm, someone grabbed them.

"Su Xie, don't move." Someone grabbed my hand and whispered in my ear, "Don't move, listen to me."

The voice startled me. I sat up and saw Yan Shu lying beside my bed, looking at me wearily. "Don't move. The wound is too deep. You'll hurt your tendons."

His eyes were bloodshot with weariness. He let out a sigh of relief and smiled at me. "What did you dream about? Why were you crying?" He reached out to wipe my tears.

Almost instinctively, I shrank back and hid in the corner of the tatami mat. His hand froze there, staring at me intently.

"I'm fine." I reached out and wiped my face, which was icy cold and I couldn't tell if it was tears or cold sweat. I tried to pull my hand back, but I couldn't muster any strength.

"Are you afraid of me?" Yan Shu asked me, "or are you blaming me for killing Jing Lian?"

Su Xie... Am I going to die?

"Shut up!" I couldn't help but tremble, and I pulled my hand back abruptly, my chest heaving and my breathing becoming unsteady.

The lingering darkness of night seeped into the tent. Looking at the quiet night, I panicked and looked up to ask, "How long have I been asleep?"

Yan Shu pressed his brow and said, "It's been a day and a night, and it's already the second night."

The next day... Is this the last night of the seven-day limit?

I panicked more and more, climbed off the bed, and asked Yan Shu, "Where's Chang Huan? Has he come back?"

"Not yet." Yan Shu supported me, his brows furrowed. "Where are you going?"

I stood there, frozen in place. Where could I go? Where could I go? Changhuan hadn't returned, and time was running out. Where could I go?

Hungry, I feel like I've been hungry for a very long time. My stomach feels empty, and a little beast is restlessly scratching at my heart. I'm hungry, so hungry that I have nowhere to go.

"Su Xie?" Yan Shu called to me.

I turned around and sat back on the couch. After thinking for a while, I looked up at him and said, "Yan Shu, I'm hungry."

He paused for a moment, then looked at me and suddenly smiled. He squatted down and said, "It's good that you're hungry. You need to eat something to recover. I'll send someone to prepare something right away."

He gently placed my hand down and said in a soft voice, "You wait here quietly and don't move. I'll be right there, it'll be over in a minute."

I nodded, watching him happily lift the curtain and leave. He sat in the quiet tent for a long time before taking out a small medicine bottle hidden in his bosom.

Su Xie... Am I going to die?

I was starving, so hungry that I wanted to skin Yan Shu alive and devour him whole.

Author's Note: Oh my god... *sigh* Everyone's been ignoring me lately... What have they all been doing?! Can you say something?! I'm having so much fun and getting so nervous writing this! I'm hungry too!

Guess who's going to get a bento next!

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It seems the wind is picking up?

The wind whistled above the tent, causing the curtains to flutter loudly. I sat on the couch, staring at the curtains as they trembled with each pull. The small medicine bottle in my sleeve pressed against my skin, feeling cool and refreshing.

The curtain was lifted, and looking up from my feet, I saw Ye Baizhi's smiling face. She came in carrying several plates of pastries, placed them on the table, and said, "The High Priest has some matters to attend to and cannot come over for the time being. He asked me to bring you some pastries to tide you over."

I was so hungry that I used to grab anything and stuff it into my mouth, swallowing it down in big gulps, but it still didn't satisfy my hunger.

I'm so hungry, I'm shivering.

Ye Baizhi stood beside me, looking at me in surprise, and asked, "Are you that hungry?"

I buried my head in my mouth, not wanting to answer her at all, but she suddenly bent down, tucked my loose hair behind my ear, and said, "There's something I forgot to give you."

She gently pinched my earlobe, and I just kept eating, my whole body numb and without feeling, only a tingling sensation in my earlobe. She put something on my earlobe, then turned to my other side, bent down and pinched my earlobe, saying with a smile, "I found this on Jinglian's corpse, and I came especially to give it to you..."

My stomach sank, and a tingling sensation from my earlobe spread throughout my body, gradually stiffening my spine. She took a mirror from the bedside and held it to my eyes, half of her face peeking into the mirror from behind me. "How beautiful. I remember she once said she would give it to you. What a pity..."

I saw her pointed chin and smiling lips in the mirror, but who was that face underneath?

Pale, bloodless, a pair of dark, hollow eyes staring blankly at the mirror, a delicate red coral plum blossom earring on her earlobe, shimmering with a tiny light.

Who is this person? She stared at the mirror with a vicious look in her eyes.

"What a pity." Jinglian's mocking lips opened and closed as she spoke to me in the mirror: "Princess Jinglian treated you with all her heart and could have escaped this calamity, but in the end she still died at your hands and is now lying dead in the street. It's all your fault."

Was this person me? Both strange and familiar.

Jinglian held my shoulder and said, "If you hadn't been so indecisive and reluctant to take action, none of this would have happened. Do you know how many people have died in Licheng? It's all your fault. You killed Jinglian and so many people in Licheng. Su Xie, aren't you going to make your move?"

She asked me, "After tonight, Ruan Bicheng will die, and millions of people in Licheng will die. Do you know that? The King of Licheng has come to see the High Priest, bringing the Queen and Prince Baoze with him. I think they will die too. Su Xie, aren't you going to do it?"

I stared intently at the person in the mirror, swallowing the pastry in my mouth one bite at a time, as if I hadn't heard her words and was just eating because I was extremely hungry.

"Su Xie?" Ye Baizhi's lips twitched slightly in displeasure. "Are you even listening to me?"

The person in the mirror is Su Xie, and also me.

Ye Baizhi suddenly sneered, released my shoulder, and said to me word by word in the mirror: "Su Xie, just watch the people you like die in front of you one by one."

She snapped the mirror shut, stood up, and stopped talking to me. She walked past me to leave, but I suddenly looked up at her and asked, "Do you have the antidote with you?"

She paused at the doorway, turned around, and her eyes shone with a smile. "Don't worry, as long as you make a move, I can give you the antidote immediately."

"Okay," I replied, wiping my mouth with my sleeve. "When is Yan Shu coming back?"

“It won’t be long.” She said to me with barely concealed excitement in her eyes, “He instructed that he would have dinner with you, and he will probably come over shortly after meeting with the Prince of Licheng.”

I said "Oh," and looked at her, saying, "I need you to be there, to watch with your own eyes, and then give me the antidote."

Ye Baizhi lowered her eyes and smiled, "Don't worry, I will naturally see it with my own eyes. Otherwise, how could I be at ease? I don't know if Sister Su Xie will change her mind at the last minute."

I leaned back in my chair, my fingers tracing the pattern on the diamond-shaped mirror, and said nothing more.

She chuckled and bowed to me, saying, "Then I'll take my leave now and accompany the High Priest later." The curtain was lifted, and a cold breeze swirled through the hall.

She lifted the curtain and stepped out.

The wind swirling in the tent gradually subsided and then calmed down.

I sank back in my chair, my fingertips gently tracing the pattern on the diamond-shaped mirror. I lifted the mirror and, in the flickering candlelight, gazed at the person in it.

This pale, ghostly face.

Su Xie, Su Xie... I want to become you.