Gu Yanjing has been on a business trip for a week.
Qiao Yuxian has been staying at the Gu Mansion.
The Old Sir’s spirits haven’t been particularly great. Bringing Huang Qi to Jingyu Garden wasn’t practical, so she stayed at the Gu Mansion.
This way, it was convenient for Huang Qi to watch over her and the Old Sir.
Every day she went to work at the company, then after work, she accompanied the Old Sir, and then got "studied" by Huang Qi.
In a week, Huang Qi changed three prescriptions for her.
But with all three prescriptions, she vomited after taking them.
She vomited so much it made people suspect whether she was allergic to traditional dicine.
The vomiting caused Qiao Yuxian to noticeably lose weight over the week.
No other symptoms appeared, but the vomit from the dicine nearly took her life.
Fortunately, Qiao Yuxian’s spirits remained high.
This sowhat comforted the worried Huang Qi.
But Huang Qi was visibly anxious.
Apart from scheduled consultations and prescriptions, every morning before she leaves and every evening before returning to the East Courtyard, Huang Qi would check her pulse.
He was very afraid her condition would suddenly worsen and was extrely cautious about monitoring the progress of the poison.
Every three days, she would also have blood drawn for tests, partly to check if any indicators had risen. He could actually tell if there was progress from the pulse, but he opted for a double assurance. The other purpose was to find out exactly what poison it was and how to counteract it.
Huang Qi spent all day researching, to the point of obsession.
Being a doctor is inherently about treating and saving people, sothing ingrained in his very being; saving lives always cos first.
Besides, the person involved is Qiao Yuxian, Mrs. Gu Yanjing, a very important person.
If anything were to happen to her, he felt Gu Yanjing would be devastated.
Especially in this situation where he hasn’t found a way to detoxify, Gu Yanjing knows nothing about it, and he is the only one aware.
If at this ti Qiao Yuxian suddenly got seriously worse or anything happened to her.
He felt the entire Huang Family might not fare well.
So he was extrely tense.
Even the Old Sir Gu noticed sothing was wrong with him.
The Old Sir was the first to notice that he was not acting right.
Anxiety, fatigue, dark circles under the eyes.
At first, the Old Sir thought maybe sothing was wrong with himself, that he wasn’t going to make it.
But after two days, Gu Yanjing still didn’t co back.
Logically, if there had been sothing wrong with his own health, Huang Qi would have told Gu Yanjing imdiately, and no matter how busy Gu Yanjing was, he would have surely co back at once.
But everything seed normal, as if nothing had happened.
Later, the Old Sir Gu discovered sothing startling.
He noticed Huang Qi went to the East Courtyard every day, and when he was ho, he was mostly with Qiao Yuxian.
The first day he discovered it, the Old Sir couldn’t sleep that night.
He had the feeling soone was going to steal his grandson’s wife.
At two in the morning, he called Gu Yanjing.
He asked him when he would be back, hinted if there were any emotional problems with Qiao Yuxian, and then urged him to co back soon.
At that ti, Gu Yanjing was in a eting, almost bewildered by the Old Sir’s barrage of questions.
Before the eting, he had just spoken on the phone with Qiao Yuxian, and after a three-hour-long eting, his relationship in his ho country had broken down...
Mr. Gu didn’t know what kind of rumors were spreading back in the ho country, but he felt uneasy, an unease that had started even before he left.
Even after arriving in M Continent, this unease hadn’t dissipated.
The matters here were not yet resolved, but he was also planning to find so ti to go back.
But before he could arrange a ti to return, the next day, the Old Sir’s call ca again.
Gu Yanjing had just pulled an all-nighter and was getting ready for another eting.
Seeing it was a call from the Old Sir, he took the call outside the conference room.
As soon as he answered, the Old Sir’s voice trembled on the other side.
"Yanjing!"
"What’s wrong? Don’t panic just yet." Gu Yanjing’s heart tightened with the Old Sir’s voice.
The Old Sir was so anxious that he could hardly speak. After taking a couple of deep breaths, he said, "You have to co back right away, Yu Xian is sick. You need to co back imdiately. It’s Qu Qingkong’s poison. Soone poisoned her, she’s... she’s poisoned. You need to co back, hurry back!"
As he spoke, the Old Sir banged his cane on the floor,
thumping louder and louder each ti.
Gu Yanjing heard every thump through the phone.
Each thump was like a punch to his heart.
His brain hadn’t fully processed what the Old Sir was saying when all the blood in his body went cold, and his joints stiffened.
The Old Sir’s voice trembled even more severely: "Qiao Huaisong died from poisoning, you have to co back quickly, imdiately. I don’t know how long she’s been poisoned; Huang Qi has been secretly treating her these days. I only just found out today. Co back right now! Did you hear ? Answer !"
The Old Sir ended up shouting directly.
After he realized sothing was off with Huang Qi, he kept an eye on him.
There were many people in the Gu Mansion; those coming and going were all trusted by the Old Sir.
He found soone who frequently cleaned the East Courtyard.
The Old Sir seized the opportunity when Qiao Yuxian was not around and, with a little intimidation, got the information out.
Huang Qi didn’t particularly avoid others when consulting with Qiao Yuxian, considering they spent so much ti together daily; deliberately avoiding people would only raise gossip, and Qiao Yuxian had to drink her dicine, which had a significant reaction after taking it.
Keeping it a secret was impossible.
Qiao Yuxian had simply inford her people in the courtyard to not tell the Old Sir, to avoid worrying him.
Even with instructions, they could not withstand the Old Sir’s intimidation.
"Got it." When Gu Yanjing said these three words, he was already in the parking lot.
Shang Chen followed behind him, not knowing what had happened, only seeing that Gu Yanjing’s face had suddenly turned frighteningly pale.
"Mr. Gu." Seeing him stand still in the parking lot after hanging up the phone, Shang Chen called out to him.
Like sothing hit him hard on the head, Gu Yanjing snapped back and said to Shang Chen: "Go to the helipad and have them arrange a plane back ho, imdiately."
"Yes." Shang Chen agreed and went to get the car.
As the car drove out of the parking lot, Shang Chen had already arranged the helipad there.
Gu Yanjing sat in the car for a while, phoning the company managent to arrange the follow-up matters.
Then he made a call to Wan Ying, asking him to go to F Continent to bring Gu Yicheng to M Continent and have Gu Yicheng keep watch there.
With everything arranged, Gu Yanjing lowered his gaze to his phone.
He thought of calling Huang Qi to inquire, but after hesitating for a mont, he didn’t make the call.
Finally, he opened the chat history with Qiao Yuxian, scrolling through their conversation.
Shang Chen watched Gu Yanjing through the rearview mirror.
He had never seen Gu Yanjing like this.
There wasn’t a trace of color on his face; although his expression didn’t show much change, there was an air of panic and tension from the inside out, even a hint of fear.
Shang Chen felt like he might fall apart.
He didn’t dare to ask and could only silently speed up the car, heading quickly to the helipad, to get ho faster.
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