Chapter 4: No matter how you say it, one-sided deep affection is all a lie

Dragging those three things, for Su Mo, it was nothing less than Mount Tai pressing down.

After returning home, she took a while to calm her heartbeat before regaining composure.

She placed the dying dragon beastfolk on the bed and examined his wounds.

There were traces of being stabbed by a sharp weapon, but the fatal injuries were not these wounds; rather, they were the two tiny wounds on his calf.

The wound was the distinctive mark of a snake clan bite, identical to the wound on her hand.

However, besides snake venom, his body also contained a strong hallucinogen.

The attacker was unusually vicious.

Su Mo decided to treat his wounds later, first going to treat the two lightly injured dragon cubs.

Su Mo used a small knife to cut away the rotting flesh from their wounds, then took disinfectant water from the system space to disinfect them, and applied anti-inflammatory bandages.

Outside the window, Mo Xiao and the three others were hiding in the dark, watching every move inside.

Watching the busy figure inside the house, Yue Ying narrowed his long fox eyes: "When did she learn all this? What did she just apply to the dragon cubs? Will it work?"

Mo Xiao and Fei Yan remained silent, observing Su Mo's actions, which were no less professional than the tribe's shaman doctor.

Yue Ying added: "Long Yan is a Dragon Clan Minor General; he was injured in our tribe. If the dragon clan finds out later, they might investigate. If she ends up curing Long Yan to death, wouldn't the whole tribe be in trouble? Or else, let's go in and have her throw those three out."

Scarlet Face frowned: "Even if Long Yan doesn't die, our tribe can't escape responsibility. Better to wait and see."

Mo Xiao remained silent; he knew the poison Long Yan had been given was the most potent toxin specially crafted by the snake beastfolk, a synthesis of the strongest toxins from the highest-ranking snake beastfolk.

There is no antidote; we can only temporarily prolong his life. Even if he were the one poisoned, it would be the same.

He just couldn't figure out who had given Long Yan such a deadly poison.

Mo Xiao and Yue Ying understood Fei Yan's meaning.

The two dragon cubs' injuries were not serious; once they woke up, they would be the two best witnesses.

Even if Long Yan died under Su Mo's treatment, later they could say her medical skills were poor. But she meant well; even if the dragon tribe was displeased, it wouldn't be right to say anything further.

Yue Ying suddenly asked while shaking his fan: "Why not go in and take a look?"

Mo Xiao instinctively refused: "I'm not going!"

Although they hadn't broken off the engagement, whenever Mo Xiao thought of that woman giving him drugs, he felt a physical revulsion.

Fei Yan said nothing.

Mainly… he couldn't find a good excuse to go in at the moment.

Inside the house.

Su Mo finished with the two small ones, then went to check on the largest one.

She silently called Xiao Jiu: "Can you give me another detox pill?"

"Sorry, host, the detox pills from the system mall can't neutralize the snake venom in his body. You need to think of another way~"

Su Mo raised her eyebrows; she didn't believe this nonsense, the system is damn shady.

She deliberately said: "Forget it, let him stay here and destroy himself. Anyway, if he dies, I can still get 100 points."

"Uh… host, last time I helped you advance-pay for a detox pill, that was already a violation, warned by the System Administration Bureau. Moreover, his current toxins, the system mall really has no detox pill; that previous one was actually a tranquilizer… I swear I'm telling the truth!"

Su Mo was speechless; selling me one tranquilizer for 600 points, your heart is truly black!

"Then just watch him destroy himself here? You know, I currently lack the ability to neutralize the toxin in his body."

Xiao Jiu fell silent for a moment, then said: "Host, why not try using your blood?"

Su Mo: "Poison counterattack? You really aren't afraid of the poison in my body, completely killing him?"

"Anyway, he's almost dead; treat a dead horse as if it were alive."

"Fine, I'll heal him! This is you telling me to heal him!"

Su Mo pricked her fingertip with a needle and dripped a few drops of blood onto his lips.

Then she helped treat his bodily wounds.

This person's wounds were deeper than those of the two dragon cubs; Su Mo took out the external wound treatment pack from the system space and sutured him with a few stitches.

After finishing, she let out a slight breath.

Her gaze shifted, landing on the dragon's solid abdominal muscles.

【Wow~ Even though he's injured, those abs are still pretty~】

【Tsk tsk, these muscle lines are much smoother than a snake's scales~】

【I really want to grab a handful—No, no! I must be a moral person!!! Ah, this damned virtue of wifely obedience… I really don't want to uphold it!】

Outside, Mo Xiao stood with a grim face; for a moment he really wanted to go in and strangle that woman!

She compares everything to him; in her eyes, is he just some worthless trinket?!

Yue Ying's hand shaking the fan sped up unconsciously, his eyes narrowed: "Even in this state, she still has the heart to scheme."

He instinctively glanced at his own stomach—abs? Isn't this something everyone has?!

What's the point of looking at a dead dragon's abs?

He turned his head to glance at Fei Yan and Mo Xiao, saying: "You really aren't going in? Then I'll go in myself—just to see what tricks she's up to."

Having said that, he darted away like a gust of wind, soon returning with two rabbits in hand.

Yue Ying, with his usual expression, explained to the two standing at the door: "It's impolite to show up empty-handed; bring a gift."

Seeing Mo Xiao and Fei Yan that he truly intended to knock and enter, they quickly flashed aside to hide.

Yue Ying raised his hand and knocked on the door: "Future Wife Lord, are you in?"

The sudden knock startled Su Mo inside the house, making her jump.

"Who?!"

"It's me, Yue Ying, bringing you two rabbits as a side gesture."

Su Mo froze: 【When did that dead fox become so kind, sending me rabbits in the middle of the night? He must regret not breaking off the engagement and wants to poison me, right?!】

I won't open; let's see what he'll do!

Yue Ying cleared his throat awkwardly, "Future Wife Lord (Honorable), does that mean you don't welcome me? Your house isn't hiding any other male Beastmen, so you don't dare open the door for me? You said you were deeply devoted to me, but it was all a lie…"

……

Dong—

Su Mo yanked the door open, pulling a stiff smile: "How could that be? What are you daydreaming about!"

"Okay!" Yue Ying handed over the two rabbits, then tilted his head and glanced at the bed.

In a yin‑yang mocking tone, he said, "Yo, you really got me; I really came at the wrong time."

Su Mo now wants to stitch up Yue Ying's stinky mouth with a needle.

She squinted, feigning nervousness as she explained, "What nonsense are you saying? He's my… patient! Picked up on the mountain, I didn't have time to deliver him to the Shaman Doctor, so I took care of him first."

"Injured? Let me see." Yue Ying said, stepping into the house.

Long Yan's injuries were indeed quite severe, but now, looking at him, he seemed a bit more lively than earlier.

This Su Mo really is unexpected.

"I'll take that thing; there's nothing else, you just…"

Before Su Mo could finish her dismissal, Yue Ying laughed and cut in: "Wife Master's kindness is a virtue, but looking after the injured is hard work. Tonight I won't go; I'll stay and help you."

……

Su Mo thought that this fox gourd definitely hadn't sold good medicine.

She twisted the corner of her mouth and said, "But I don't have a place for you to sleep here~"

Yue Ying swayed his Feather Fan, his gentle gaze on Su Mo: "How could that be? Among those few Thatched Cottages outside, there's one that's mine! You said before that whenever I feel like coming to stay, I can. Is it because someone else is here that Wife Master doesn't want me to stay?"

Having said that, he cast a pointed glance at the person on the bed.

He deliberately added, "All those solemn vows you made to Yue Ying, were they all lies?"

"How could that be!"

"Then I'll stay. If Wife Master has anything to do, just tell Yue Ying."

Su Mo took a deep breath in secret, narrowed her eyes and said, "Fine…"

【This Dead Fox doesn't know what madness he's got; he's disturbing the lady while she admires abs! Annoying lightbulb!】

"Um, I still have to give him another round of medicine; why don't you sleep first…" Go!

"How could such rough work trouble Wife Master? I'll do it! From now on let me handle these things."

Yue Ying said that while quietly lifting the cloth off Long Yan to glance at his abs.

Then, with a disdainful raised eyebrow, "Is that it?"

It seems their Wife Lord (Honorable) really hasn't seen anything good.

Su Mo: "I'll do it then."

"No need, I'll do it!"

Yue Ying said that while applying medicine to Long Yan; whether intentional or not, his hand was a bit heavy, and the wound faintly seeped a thin stream of blood.

These shameless Beastmen of the Dragon Clan love to roam around and tempt other people's Wife Masters!

They're even more seductive than that fox!

Might as well just kill him…