Chapter 409.1: Five Days Time (1/2)

Baili Yiling recognized this thing. It was called rosemary and was a very strong knockout drug. By putting it inside the candle and slowly burning it, it’d cause a person to become drowsy without even realizing that they were under the effects of a drug.

Although this was tasteless and colorless as it burned, there was just one fatal weakness to it that most people didn’t know. Candles that had rosemary mixed in would burn slightly blue. The blue would be so faint that it was almost imperceptible.

If you weren’t aware that rosemary was being used and didn’t examine the flame specifically for that trace of blue, you wouldn’t notice it at all.

It was very difficult to obtain this drug. The only reason she knew of this drug was because she had already suffered at its hands before. Back then, she had only been saved because Grandpa Gui arrived just in time. After that incident, Grandpa Gui taught her about all the types of knockout drugs and their special traits. Since she had fallen for this drug before, she was especially sensitive to it.

The fact that the master of the manor used this against her, or more precisely, used this in the guest rooms, meant that this manor was definitely hiding something!

When Baili Yiling’s thoughts got to this point, she became a little stirred up. She might really be able to find some important information here about the person that was behind all of this!

Big Brother, just wait for my good news!

In Azure Water Valley.

Baili Yu had a jar of rice wine and was drinking cup after cup like it was water. His peach blossom eyes were even deeper than the color of the night. They were slightly narrowed, but also hazy. The cool moonlight seemed to freeze his crimson robe, causing the normally fiery color to look exceptionally cold.

Another cup went down. He looked up at the bright moon. How was he supposed to choose?

Choosing to give up on his own child, how was that any different from killing his child with his own hands? How then, would he be any different from that insane father of his?

Every night, he would dream of the past. Those vivid buried memories would always make him despair. That time, he had only been a few years old, but he had to watch as his brothers and sisters died one by one next to him…

Blood, rotting flesh, and those disgusting bugs all over them… over him. That memory lingered in his mind.

Even after so many years had passed, he still couldn’t forget the terror that he had felt back then, the numb despair… Those people that died were sisters in which the same blood as his had flowed. Back then, he had wondered why the person they called father was so cruel, so heartless as to treat his own children this way?

Where were their mothers?

Why didn’t anyone come to save them?

They wanted to live! That was the only desire in everyone’s eyes, live… but gradually, even that faded. Their eyes turned dim and dull, then they died, until he was the only one left.

If he chose to allow the poison to spread in Tang Doudou’s body, would that child have the same thought as he did back then?

Why were his parents so cruel?

A child that was near seven months old, if developing properly, would already be able to hear their parent’s words and would kick his mother’s stomach in joy… Did he already have a consciousness?

Wouldn’t death be too cruel to him?

Right after coming to this world, before even having a chance to see it, he’d leave…

Baili Yu abruptly grabbed the pot of wine and poured it into his mouth. He couldn’t bring himself to think about what came next!