Chapter 305: Three women on one stage (2/2)
“The dignified eldest young Miss of Western Zhou’s Chu Clan actually carries around aphrodisiac?” Han Yunxi had a very shady smile on her face.
Chu Qingge was both embarrassed and enraged. “Han Yunxi, you shut up! Stop meddling in other people’s business.”
Han Yunxi stood up calmly and asked in a cold voice, “Who kicked that chair downstairs?”
Seeing her expression, Chu Qingge couldn’t help but exclaim, “It’s not like it hurt you!”
Han Yunxi had a pretty good idea of how things stood after that reply. “It frightened me. This wangfei has never taken kindly to scares.”
Chu Qingge knew she was the weaker party since she’d gone out without her weapons in Tianning Country. Still, she refused to feel any fear and rebutted, “Then what do you want to do?”
Han Yunxi darted a glance at Mu Linger before calmly resuming her seat. “You two can continue first. When you’re finished, I’ll tell you.”
“Then wait well!” Chu Qingge’s words were full of hidden meaning. At this second, Mu Linger suddenly sneak attacked Chu Qingge with her sword. The latter didn’t dodge in time and lost a portion of her sleeves as the blade rubbed her skin raw.
“You sneak attacked me!” Chu Qingge fumed.
“You’re the one who sneak attacked me!” Mu Linger had thoroughly lost her temper because of the attempted aphrodisiac. Even though Chu Qingge could poison her again, she simply swept forward with her sword in succession, forcing Chu Qingge to stay on the defensive. All she could do in return was keep releasing poisons, scattering powders in the air with every stab she evaded.
The poison powders were both scentless and colorless. As Chu Qingge’s movements increased, their potency grew in the air until a single whiff would be enough to poison the victim. As things stood now, Mu Linger was sure to lose, but Han Yunxi simply remained watching from the sidelines. She used her detox system to measure the concentration of poisons in the air. When they reached toxic levels, she immediately unleashed another needle to detoxify them. Mu Linger only released that Chu Qingge had used poisons again after sniffing the fragrant scent in the air. At the same time, Chu Qingge realized that Han Yunxi had ruined her plans once again!
Mu Linger glanced at Han Yunxi out of the corner of her eye, about to speak when Han Yunxi cut her off. “What are you looking at? Don’t think I’m helping you! I’d never help you a second time after the first! I just think that other girl’s unsightly.”
After helping Mu Linger once, she’d gotten enmity for her kindness, so she’d never help her again. Naturally, Mu Linger understood Han Yunxi’s words and gave a cold snort. She placed her to the back of her mind and continued to fight Chu Qingge.
Chu Qingge shot Han Yunxi a venomous glare. “Han Yunxi, this girl will have the honor of keeping your company until the very end!”
She had started studying poisons since she was in primary school, so she couldn’t believe that she wouldn’t best Han Yunxi. Han Yunxi likes to detoxify poisons, does she? Let’s see if you can detoxify every single kind!
Soon enough, Chu Qingge unleashed a wealth of formidable poisons. Unfortunately, all of them were detoxified by Han Yunxi. Chu Qingge couldn’t believe it, and stubbornly tried to keep on. In a moment of carelessness, she was stabbed in the shoulder by Mu Linger. As she was still recovering from her injuries at the poison grounds, this was just a wound on top of another wound. Chu Qingge pressed a hand to her shoulder and finally stopped.
“Apologize!” Mu Linger insisted.
How could someone as prideful as Chu Qingge ever lower her head? She didn’t spare Mu Linger another glance, but turned to leave. Mu Linger blocked her way with her sword and said coldly to the little beggar girl, “You, come here!”
Although the little beggar girl knew that Mu Linger was doing this for her sake, she didn’t dare to move.
“What are you dawdling for? Get over here!” Mu Linger was still in a bad mood, so her temper was terrible as well. The frightened little beggar girl ran to hide behind Han Yunxi instead.
Mu Linger grew even more infuriated. “What are you scared of? Come here!”
Chu Qingge took this chance to shove Mu Linger aside. “She’s not even grateful to you. That’s what comes of meddling in other people’s business! Move aside!”
“It’s only because…” Mu Linger suddenly stiffened in place as she felt her entire body turn numb. She couldn’t move an inch. Chu Qingge glanced at Han Yunxi before snorting contemptuously. Without a doubt, her poison had succeeded.
She strutted away with a swagger, but Han Yunxi suddenly used her Pear Blossom Teardrop Rain to shoot a needle from her sleeves, the weapon darting past Chu Qingge’s nostrils before it buried itself in the opposite wall. Alarmed, Chu Qingge touched her nose to make sure it was still there before she felt relieved. She never expected Han Yunxi’s needles could be so quick and accurate.
“Heheh, it looks like Eldest Young Miss Chu is just like this wangfei, and doesn’t take well to scares,” Han Yunxi wore an elegant, stately smile.
Chu Qingge didn’t move. It wasn’t that she didn’t, but because she couldn’t. She had been poisoned as well. Despite this, she didn’t know what kind of poison it was. In other words, she couldn’t detoxify it!
Han Yunxi walked over leisurely and grabbed a corner of Chu Qingge’s robes with amusement. Smiling, she remarked, “If this wangfei remembers correctly, Eldest Young Miss Chu still owes this wangfei a debt, correct?”
Last time at the poison grounds, they made a bet. If Chu Qingge lost, she was supposed to leave all her clothes behind. Of course Chu Qingge remembered, so she started to shriek as soon as Han Yunxi begin to undo her waistband. “Han Yunxi, stop it! Hold it right there!”
Han Yunxi ignored her and slowly pulled aside the waistband. Even Mu Linger felt trepidation at the sight. After all, this was a restaurant! Because of all the noisy commotion from before, no one had dared to draw near, but there was probably a sizable crowd below the building by now.
At this rate, would Chu Qingge be able to keep her clothes on?