Xiao Yebai stood by his mother-in-law’s bedside, watching as she lay with her eyes closed, her face covered in red rashes. His eyes narrowed slightly as he leaned down a little closer, seemingly trying to make out any words that might be coming from her barely moving lips.
Gu Nuan’s father was restless in another isolation room, worrying about his wife, worrying about his daughter. Fingers tightening around his hair in anxiety, he suddenly leaped up, resolved to follow his wife’s lead and seek out Qiu Sanggu.
After all, Gu Nuan’s mother had mentioned before that she got the cream from Qiu Sanggu. Was there any other option than to go to Qiu Sanggu for an antidote? Of course not.
As he approached the door, it suddenly swung open from the outside, with his son-in-law, Xiao Yebai, standing in the doorway.
"What’s the situation?" Gu Nuan’s father grabbed one of his arms and asked.
Xiao Yebai looked at the hand gripping his own and said, "Dad, don’t worry too much. The best doctors are here, and so am I."
Gu Nuan’s father nodded slightly, seeming to calm down a bit, and returned to sit down in the room with him.
Xiao Yebai asked, "Dad, who did Mom get that thing from?"
"Qiu Sanggu. Don’t you remember? The one who sold the land to you," Gu Nuan’s father replied.
At this point, what Gu Nuan’s father couldn’t understand was why Qiu Sanggu, of all people, would poison his wife and daughter. Firstly, what reason could Qiu Sanggu have for poisoning them?
Was it just because Gu Nuan’s mother and others had concealed Gu Nuan’s marriage to Xiao Yebai from Qiu Sanggu? Could such a trivial matter fuel such deep-seated hatred to the point of wanting to kill them both?
It seemed implausible because despite Qiu Sanggu’s love for money, she was not impulsive. Poisoning Gu Nuan and her mother would bring more loss than gain. It made more sense to curry favor with Gu Nuan and her mother, to build a good rapport, and use Gu Nuan’s connections to continue doing business and thrive.
The more he thought about it, the less likely it seemed that Qiu Sanggu could be so foolish.
Therefore, Xiao Yebai reassured his father-in-law, "There’s definitely something amiss here, something we weren’t aware of before. Now, I’ve sent people to investigate. I believe the news will come out soon."
If they could just find the answer, Gu Nuan’s mother might be saved.
But things were far from being that simple.
Xiao Yebai’s phone suddenly began to ring incessantly.
Glancing at it, he saw the call was from home. Usually, Xiao Yebai wouldn’t bother to answer; the calls from his sisters were nothing but dull to him. But now, the situation was different.
The timing of the call was too suspicious, too urgent. Could it be that the Xiao family already knew about the mishap with Gu Nuan’s mother?
No, the Xiao family was unaware. On the contrary, Xiao Shuju urgently needed to contact Xiao Yebai because a major incident had occurred at the Xiao family residence.
"Yebai!" Xiao Shuju, upon getting through to her brother, immediately lashed out, "You need to come home right now!" Nᴇw ɴovel chaptᴇrs are published on novel•fire.net
Xiao Yebai listened coldly as his third elder sister ranted like a lunatic.
"Do you have any idea what your in-laws are? They’re all scoundrels! Pretending to be kind, putting on a show, greedy for money—that’s bad enough! But do you know what they’ve done? They gave poisoned ’skin care’ products to Grandma, disguising them as beauty creams. Now, Grandma’s been poisoned and rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment!"
Normally, Grandma Xiao would not even glance at the things sent by the Gu family. However, at that time she had allowed her attendants to accept them. Without questioning, the attendants had taken the skin care products directly to Grandma Xiao’s room.
When Grandma Xiao got up in the morning to do her skincare routine, she had forgotten about the matter. Seeing the skincare products on her table, she opened them up and tried them out. Not long after, the elderly lady was poisoned.