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On the second day when Fu Yuan woke up again, he felt his own neck hurt, and the shackles on his hands already undone. As he massaged his neck, when he was just about to say something, the door was pushed open, and the smell of strong bitter medicine permeated through the whole room.

“You’re awake?” When Xie Zhi An held a bowl of medicine and saw that the other person was already awake, he placed the bowl of medicine on the table, “If you’re awake, come drink this medicine. As the leader of a demonic cult you can’t possibly not even have the slightest energy to drink medicine no?

Fu Yuan did not move, only stared at that bowl of medicine and did not say anything.

“Rest easy, I didn’t put any poison in it.” And flashed the silver needle between his fingers[1]. Xie Zhi An did not mind Fu Yuan’s suspicion of himself, “If I had wanted to poison you, you wouldn’t even know how many times you would have died.”

“You drink it first.”

Towards this idiot who was full of suspicion, Xie Zhi An gave an contemptuous look[2], “I’m not the one who’s been poisoned- as if I’m going to drink it, you idiot. If you die while I’m at the cult, do I still want to go back to the Doctors’ Valley?”

“Hurry up and drink- after you drink it, I still need to get you in a medicine bath and do acupuncture.”

The Fu Yuan who was about to lift himself to get up stiffened for a bit, “Medicine bath?”

“That’s right.”

“Just you and me?”

After having been forced and bound, to also have to go against this patient ill with suspect, Xie Zhi An had a very hard time, “If not? Are you going to do acupuncture on yourself?”

The two people had entered a stalemate for half a day. In the end, Xie Zhi An directly used a needle to seal the other person’s acupuncture point, and forced down the bowl of medicine. A few hours after helping the other person put on a blanket, he entered once again, and lifted up the blanket in one motion. When he saw the other person’s angry gaze, Xie Zhi An could not help but lightly laugh, “Don’t look at me like this, I am only forced by the situation- if you were willing to cooperate, I wouldn’t have to treat you like this, right?”

After finishing, he wrapped the Demon Head up and directly carried him over his shoulder.

Don’t even say Fu Yuan wanted to kill this quack; he couldn’t even move a single hand. He stared at the floor continuously moving forward, and thought- if he was cured, he would definitely kill this person to silence him, “You quack, what are you planning to do to me?”

“If you want to kill me, best wait until you are better. Right now, I’m bringing you to the medicine bath.”

Wait…… Medicine bath?

Fu Yuan had been stripped of his clothes by Xie Zhi An in a manner without attachment to life, and was immediately thrown into the medicine bath. The warm medicine water enveloped him, and if there wasn’t another person here, he would have already let out a sound of comfort.

“First, soak in this medicine water- I will constantly help you switch it out. Once you’ve soaked until nighttime, I will use acupuncture to seal your internal energy, then you don’t need to be afraid of flaring up and harming other people.

“Who would be worried about this- I can’t wait for them to be all gone.”

The Demon Head with a ungrateful mouth had already reddened his ears, and quietly hid under the black medicinal water.

Xie Zhi An had long already found about the other person’s two faced personality[3], and went along with the their words while changing out the medicine water for the other person.

As dusk had slowly climbed up the mountains outside, the Demon Head felt the familiar aching pain and itch spread from his bones, gradually swimming around every part of his body. Xie Zhi An pursed his lips, tied up Fu Yuan’s hands together, and pricked a silver needle in his body, “Just bear with it first, even if it hurts, you won’t be able to move. Just in case, I tied your hands together first.”

There would definitely be a day he would kill this quack. If he dared to show a bit of malicious intent towards him, he will definitely strike first.

His consciousness was slowly being consumed- it was unlike the pain from previous few nights that would swallow a person’s will, making the person possessed (by the devil); this pain instead was familiar, as though it hadn’t been felt for a long time, and made Fu Yuan want to laugh a bit.

Finally, the pain did not reach to a point that would immediately make the person lose his reason. Before, he would feel like this aching pain was unbearable, but after experiencing it, once he experienced it again, it would make the person feel it was just so-so.

Within the haziness, Fu Yuan heard Xie Zhi An’s voice, “Hey, Demon Head, don’t sleep.”

After a needle was inserted, Xie Zhi An let out a breath when he saw the other person had woken up a bit, “Hey, Demon Head. If you really can’t take it, then talk with me. If there was someone chatting with you, maybe it wouldn’t be as bad.”

“Do you remember things from when you were young? I remember when I was small, I was quite naughty. I was never willing to learn about medicine. But my father would pamper me, and never hit or scold me. Even if I didn’t study medicine, he wouldn’t force me to.”

“Then after, I made a promise to someone- once I grew up, I would become an even greater miracle doctor than my father, and then save him.”

“I heard from others, you are wicked to the point it can’t be forgiven, that to practice demonic energy, you would even use living humans to train- but I feel you aren’t this kind of person.”

The Fu Yuan who had held onto a sliver his consciousness until the end would feel like there was someone constantly talking and talking. He opened his eyes, still flooded with a blood colour and struggle, and hoarsely spoke, “Noisy.”

Xie Zhi An sat beside of the bathtub, propped his chin up and smiled, sly like a cat, “If I’m not noisy, how bored would you be in the bathtub? I didn’t think the big wicked Demon Head from the rumours was a virgin chicken that would blush from just being stripped of his clothes.”

“Shut your mouth.”

“Anger has turned to embarrassment, I see.” Xie Zhi An extended a hand to pinch the other person’s earlobes, then speedily shrunk it back, “Although you can’t move now, but don’t think to kill me after you can move. This poison of yours still needs a few days in order to stabilize. If I die, you won’t live long either.”

Fu Yuan whose thoughts that had been hit on the mark: “…….”

Thanks to Xie Zhi An, when the skies had lightened up a bit, Fu Yuan managed to have a good sleep after enduring through the pain.

After this interaction, Xie Zhi An always liked to tease[4] Fu Yuan while he could not move, and in the end, to prevent the other person from refuting himself, even directly made it so the other person could not say a word.

Fu Yuan who temporarily could not make a sound: “……”

After Fu Yuan no longer needed to soak in the medicine bath, Xie Zhi An could no longer strip his clothes and tease the him until his face and ears were red. Thus, the lonely him would sit in the courtyard to look at Fu Yuan practice his sword. After a while, he spoke up, “Demon Head, you can’t stop taking medicine.”

The entire cult could see the doctor they invited back would endlessly challenge the leader’s bottom line. At the beginning, they were still afraid the other person would be stabbed by the leader when he could no longer restrain himself when practising the sword. And so, to protect the leader’s saviour, they even spontaneously split into groups to constantly protect Xie Zhi An; until the end, these people would even hide in the dark to crack open seeds and drink tea.

They were too naive. As expected, the leader was still that leader whose words did not match his heart. Although he would be angered by Xie Zhi An until his face and ears went red and had urges to just stab the person every time, in the end, he would just silently sheath his sword then coldly turn his back and leave.

The young married women who watched this play out would lament- how great would it be if Doctor Zhi was a girl. With such smooth delicate skin, they would match extremely well with their leader if they were standing by his side.

Having been brainwashed by the women of the cult, the group of men would feel it was true the more they looked on, that there were even a few who were not afraid to die and brought it up once in front of Fu Yuan.

“Leader, just look at how good looking this Doctor Zhi is- although he is a man, this favour of saving your life should be paid back with one’s body[5].”

“Get out!”

[1] Silver in ancient times is often used to test for poison as it would tarnish in its presence.

[2] Literally, white eyes. Imagine the motion of rolling ones’ eyes.

[3] The exact expression is, his words not matching with what is in his heart.

[4] Can also mean to chitchat, joke. Both viable options since he does both. All instances of ‘teasing’ in this story can also be replaced with chatting.

[5] Typically used by females in offering their body (sexual intimacy) to their loved one as a pledge. By doing so, it is akin to a pledge to get married to each other.

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