"You hit me again! She... she... wah!" Cindy Zhu turned and ran off, sobbing.
Chloe Zhu watched her retreating figure and couldn't help but feel a little sorry for her...
Well, it seems tattling to Grace Wan really works wonders for her...
Grace Wan is going all out to win her over for the palace selection.
But does she ever feel bad seeing her own daughter cry like that?
That afternoon, Chloe Zhu headed to her mother's place early.
First, she was waiting for her dad.
Second... had to check her mom's pulse, just to be sure everything was okay.
Now that she had spirit power, her senses were a hundred times sharper than before. Maybe she could finally figure out what kind of poison was hurting her mom.
As long as she found the root of the poison and treated it properly, her mom could be cured.
This time, she had to do a thorough check.
She used every trick in the book—looking, listening, asking, and checking the pulse on both wrists for a long time.
Honestly, it was pretty hard to hide what she was doing, unlike before.
Luckily, her mom took a nap in the afternoon, and Chloe Zhu shamelessly insisted on napping with her. So her mom let her stay.
With no one else around, Chloe Zhu gave her mom a careful check-up while they shared the bed.
And then she finally figured out what kind of poison was hurting her mom.
Funny enough, she’d actually seen a patient with this exact poison in her previous life.
It was a mysterious middle-aged woman, whose symptoms and pulse were almost identical to her mom’s now.
Back then, Chloe Zhu had no clue what kind of poison that patient had.
It was the patient herself who revealed the name: Winterbane.
Winterbane is one of the three most powerful frost poisons on the continent.
Chloe Zhu had searched through countless medical books, but never found a cure for it.
Later, she heard that maybe the Spiritual Alchemist Guild Headquarters had a solution.
But back then, even though Chloe Zhu was already an Eighth-Tier Alchemist, she was just a member of the Vermilion Branch.
For her, the Spiritual Alchemist Guild Headquarters was something she could only dream about.
......
Chloe Zhu never expected her own mom would be poisoned by Winterbane too.
That kind of poison isn’t something ordinary people can get their hands on.
Even in her past life, when Chloe Zhu basically ran the entire Vermilion Branch in the Vermilion Kingdom, she'd never seen what Winterbane actually looked like.
Blue Moon Kingdom is just a vassal state of Vermilion Kingdom, and their top Spiritual Alchemist is only fourth-tier. So who in the world poisoned her mom?
As Grace sat in the outer hall, lost in thought, Aunt Crystal lifted the curtain and came in.
"Miss Grace, you're awake?" Aunt Crystal asked.
Chloe Zhu nodded.
"Here's the spirit medicine list you asked for yesterday. Second Madam sent it over," Aunt Crystal said, handing Grace a piece of paper.
"And these are the ones she sent but haven't used yet, or didn't finish using." She placed a basket in front of Chloe Zhu.
Chloe Zhu lifted the cloth on top and saw a bunch of spirit medicines inside.
She carefully checked each one.
The more she looked, the angrier she got.
These medicines were either made to worsen cold symptoms or would make Winterbane's poison even more deadly.
The Spiritual Alchemist diagnosed her mom with a cold syndrome.
If Grace Wan had only sent cold-inducing medicines, Chloe Zhu might not have suspected her.
After all, with her background, it was unlikely she could get her hands on something like Winterbane.
But among the medicines she sent, there were even ones that could make Winterbane's poison flare up!
This was no coincidence!
This proved Grace Wan knew exactly what kind of poison was in her mom, Chloe Zhu thought.