"You can’t really blame yourself for this; it’s just that Linhao was unlucky," Yang Chuxia sighed after hearing Mu Shaoling’s words. "If anything, you can only blame your tight connection with Baili Yan, and the vile nature of the Li Family. Surely it can’t be because your medical skills are too good, right?"
"But the main problem still lies with me!" Mu Shaoling insisted, "It was the Li Family who forced me to research eye transplantation, which led to Linhao’s eyes being gouged out. Otherwise, Linhao would not have ended up ."
Alright, the situation was like a chain of interlocked rings, each one caught within the next, unraveling layer by layer.
Even Yang Chuxia had to admit that the Li Family’s schemes were indeed far-reaching.
This is how it went: after listening to Yang Chuxia’s advice, Mu Shaoling quickly reviewed several people around him in his mind and finally locked his target on one of the young servants.
This servant hadn’t been with him since childhood but came to his side when he was already a teenager. Mu Shaoling discovered that this servant had originally been a spy planted in the Mu Family by another household, which even included his family members.
A whole family of spies, that was terrifying, and they were all born and raised within the household. One can imagine how many years ago the spy network had been laid out, just waiting to be activated.
This mid-term accompanying servant was both good and bad. Precisely because he was a later addition, not having grown up with him since childhood, he was the first to be suspected when things went wrong. With intentional investigation, discrepancies could always be rapidly uncovered.
It was learned from the servant’s mouth that Luo Linhao was indeed taken to Funan by the Li Family; however, the Li Family had gotten him from human traffickers.
Upon seeing Luo Linhao, the Li Family immediately hatched a plot. They first gouged out one of Luo Linhao’s eyes, then dumped him in Quanya County, where the youth eye-gouging incident had occurred, in order to create confusion and cover up the Li Family’s own tracks in the process.
They did all this not for anything else but to force Mu Shaoling, a divine healer, to research how to transplant and settle new eyeballs.
In fact, the influence of Mu Shaoling was partly to blame, as the young master of the Li Family thought of eye transplants to restore his brother’s sight after learning that Mu Shaoling had once experimented with eye transplantation on animals, although he later discontinued his research. Yet this hint inspired him to find a large number of relevant books to study the matter.
By using Luo Linhao, he also thought that Mu Shaoling might restart his research on eye transplants—after all, the relationship between the two families was there. If two people were researching the matter at the same time, the chances of success would be greater.
It would be best if he succeeded on his own; but if he failed and Mu Shaoling succeeded, then he would find a way to acquire Mu Shaoling’s method. If he couldn’t get the method, he would kidnap Mu Shaoling himself.
It was also because his servant had once thought of obtaining the formula for treating eyes and had been to Mu Shaoling’s pharmacy twice, being caught both times, that Mu Shaoling’s first target was locked onto him.
Everything proceeded as the Li Family’s young master had plotted. Mu Shaoling resumed his research on eye transplants and eventually succeeded.
So, when the Li Family couldn’t find the formula, they prepared to kidnap him.
This was one aspect of the Li Family’s plot. The other, more hidden aspect was that if Mu Shaoling neither researched nor succeeded, they planned to reveal that Luo Linhao’s blinding was somehow related to Mu Shaoling—of course, leaving the Li Family out of the story.
Then, the two major supporting families behind Baili Yan would come into conflict because of this, with Baili Yan inevitably being affected.