Immediately after, Jingrong rushed upstairs and pushed open the door.

Inside, a thick, pungent smell of blood assaulted his nostrils!

Muruo was treating and bandaging Ji Yunshu’s wounds.

Huff!

He hurried forward and asked, “How is she?”

Muruo himself seemed much more relaxed now. While applying medicine to the unconscious Ji Yunshu, he said, “I have to say, like attracts like. Not only are you stubborn, but I never expected this girl to be just as stubborn. She actually endured it—even a man might not have been able to bear it.”

Jingrong only heard one phrase: “She endured it!”

“So, she’s alright now?”

“You could say that. Who do you think I am? I’m the divine physician of this world—there’s no one I can’t save.”

Extremely pleased with himself!

Oh my, who was it that had trembling hands while pulling out the blade earlier?

Now he knows how to boast!

After finishing bandaging Ji Yunshu, Muruo stood up and patted his robes, saying to Jingrong, “Before pulling out the blade, Master Ji entrusted me with many matters. I suppose I won’t have the opportunity to relay them for her.” With a smug look in his eyes, he added, “Alright, I’m going to the inn to see if there are any medicines available.”

Then he left!

Before leaving, he ran into Tang Si and told her, “You stay here. Later, change Master Ji into clean clothes.”

What?

She should change his clothes?

“Me?” Tang Si pointed at herself with her finger, her eyes wide with shock. “I’m a woman, how could I…”

Before she could finish speaking, Muruo had already left.

She stood there stunned. What was going on!

Then she went inside.

Zhao Huai also came up from below and asked Wen Xian, who was guarding the door, “How is the young prince?”

“He’s already fine.”

“That’s good. If something happened to the prince, we wouldn’t know how to explain it.”

However, Wen Xian glanced downstairs several times, wondering, “Who exactly are these people?”

Zhao Huai shook his head. “Not sure. On the way to Yu Prefecture with that prince and the young prince, I also encountered them, and they were all after the prince.”

“Are you saying there are still people who want the prince’s life?”

“Yes.”

Wen Xian couldn’t understand it.

But he pondered in his heart that those who would kill Jingrong, aside from them, probably had connections to court matters.

He didn’t continue thinking deeply. Right now, the most important thing was the young prince’s safety.

Inside the room!

Jingrong stayed by her side, looking at the pale face of the woman on the bed. His heart felt as if it were being pierced by needles.

Harming Ji Yunshu was crossing his final boundary.

Jing Yi, this prince swears that upon returning to the capital, I will tear you limb from limb.

After a long while—

He looked at Tang Si, who had been standing in the room, and said, “You go out first.”

“Go out? But A’Mo told me to come in and said I should change A’Ji’s clothes.” She herself couldn’t believe it either.

However, Jingrong said, “I’ll do it myself. You go out.”

“Oh.”

She couldn’t ask for more.

But then she said angrily, “By the way, I think those people should die. Throwing them into the mountains to feed the wolves would be too good for them. If it were me, I would keep them alive, then torture them bit by bit, pull out their tendons, flay their skin, then cut the flesh from their bodies piece by piece, making them wish they were dead—that would be best.”

Good grief!

When it comes to ruthlessness, you’re the most formidable.

Jingrong was too concerned about Ji Yunshu to have any mind for such matters.

To him, death itself was the most terrifying thing.

As if what she said wasn’t enough, she continued, “You’d better root out the mastermind behind this, then torture them according to what I just said. Otherwise, if A’Ji develops any lingering ailments later, then…”

Before she could finish.

“Get out.”

Jingrong’s tone became heavier.

Fine, out she goes!

Tang Si shuffled her feet and was about to leave. Just as she was closing the door, she hastily glanced at the person on the bed.

She discovered—

Jingrong was removing Ji Yunshu’s blood-stained garments, revealing the slightly protruding chest…

That chest didn’t look like pectoral muscles at all—it was clearly breasts!

Breasts?

Tang Si’s eyes went blank. A woman?

Master Ji is a woman?

No way?

Thinking this, she closed the door, then rushed downstairs and ran to the back courtyard to find Muruo.

Muruo was currently gathering herbs in the inn’s medicine room.

Seeing her rushing over in such a hurry, he said, “What? Another massacre?”

“What massacre! Quickly tell me, did you already know?”

His hand stopped mid-motion while gathering herbs. Looking at the shocked woman before him, he asked, “What, you finished changing her clothes?”

“Change what? Jingrong wouldn’t let me. He’s doing it himself.”

Just as he finished speaking, the medicine in his hand nearly fell to the ground. His eyes widened and he pointed upward with his finger. “Jingrong is personally changing her clothes?”

“Yes.”

Muruo’s jaw nearly hit the floor.

Jingrong, you’re really something!

Buddy, if you knew that Jingrong and Ji Yunshu had already slept together, wouldn’t your jaw be buried in the ground?

Tang Si realized they seemed to have gotten off topic and quickly pulled it back, saying, “I’m asking you, is A’Ji… a woman?”

“What do you think?”

“I saw it.”

“Saw what?”

“It’s just…” The chest!

She pursed her lips, not saying the word “chest” aloud.

Muruo continued gathering herbs without refuting her, essentially confirming her suspicion.

The thunderbolt in Tang Si’s heart exploded at this moment—the person she had liked before was actually a woman?

It was like being struck hard with a club; she nearly fainted on the spot.

She was about to ask more questions when she noticed that Muruo seemed to have something on his mind.

“Why do you have that expression? A’Ji is already fine, so what are you worried about?”

“Am I worried? No, I’m not!” He quickly pulled himself back together.

Tang Si didn’t believe him. With an investigative look, she continued pressing, “Trying to fool me? Hurry up and tell me, what’s wrong?”

It had to be said, this woman had excellent observational skills!

Muruo let out a heavy sigh and said to her seriously, “Do you know there’s a poison from the cold frontier called toad toxin?”

“Toad toxin?” Tang Si searched through her mind, then suddenly remembered. “I remember! One of the medical texts you gave me recorded it. Toad toxin is the chief of the five poisons—it can’t be completely cured, but it won’t take a person’s life either.”

“Exactly!”

“But why are you suddenly bringing this up?” Tang Si was puzzled, then in the next moment, she realized and her mouth fell open. “You mean…”

“Shut up.” Muruo stopped her. “Don’t say it yet. Master Ji’s poisoning isn’t deep, and the poison has been temporarily neutralized, but we still need to wait until she wakes up to assess the situation.”

This time, it was Tang Si’s turn for her jaw to drop toward the ground.

Nervously and worriedly, she asked, “Then… is A’Ji alright or not?”

“With me here, naturally she won’t die, but the toxins have infected her internal organs. It won’t be fatal, but it will make her wish she were dead.” His face was somber.

Tang Si had read many medical texts and had studied toad toxin.

She knew what Muruo meant by “wish she were dead.” Those poisoned by toad toxin suffer seven parts of abdominal pain—ten days for mild cases, three days for severe ones.

If the poison had already infected Ji Yunshu’s internal organs, then for the next several decades, she would spend her days in abdominal agony.

It wouldn’t take her life!

Just make her wish she were dead!