Nu Woer was explosively temperamental and viciously spiteful. In The Outside, she had acted like an emperor of the soil, long accustomed to unrestricted power, and had never encountered such significant losses. She almost ground her teeth to pieces with hatred toward the green-clothed female servant who served the Seventh Princess.
Meanwhile, on the other hand, Dong Huiying let Zhan Hanyun dispose of a few confidants from the people who had died in The Outside to provoke conflicts with the green-clothed female servant. One by one, lives evaporated from the world, and both Nu Woer and the green-clothed female servant had forged an irreconcilable enmity.
Until later, Dong Huiying no longer acted personally, but both Nu Woer and the green-clothed female servant had already seen red.
Nu Woer even temporarily summoned a troop from her station. The Outside was very close to the Golden Triangle, and the green-clothed female servant also sought help from the Seventh Princess, who was in Jiangnan. However, due to the long distance and challenging terrain, before the letter could reach the Seventh Princess, these green-clothed female servants located in the Golden Triangle had already been annihilated by Nu Woer’s forces.
While the outside world was in turmoil and the green-clothed female servant had died, Nu Woer considered it "avenging her former disgrace." Meanwhile, inside Weiyuan Hall, Dong Huiying had already refocused herself on refining Gu.
Once she focused on something, she did so wholeheartedly. Lao Si, who watched over her quietly, personally cooked noodles for her three times a day, which she did not mind, and eventually, Zhan Hanyun, unable to watch any longer, called Lao Si over and subtly gave him some "suggestions."
Thus, Lao Si also started to get busy. He spent his days huddled in the back kitchen of Weiyuan Hall, earnestly learning from the chefs there, but it proved that some things truly depend on talent.
Lao Si tried hard to learn cooking, but the food he prepared improved only from "inedible" to "barely palatable."
That night, having not washed her face or combed her hair for days, focusing solely on Gu refinement, and driven by a bout of "addiction," she grabbed Lao Si and went through a bout of intimacy in the room—Dong Huiying finally refined a Gu.
This Gu, temporarily unnamed, had an extraordinary characteristic—it fed exclusively on poisons.
Her eyes gleaming, she lifted the Gu out of the vessel used for Gu refinement and briskly walked towards an adjacent room.
Liang Zhichen still lay quietly on the bed, exactly as he had several days earlier, his skin still a mottled blue and purple.
She vigorously rubbed her eyes. These past few days of focusing on refining the Gu had cost her many good nights’ sleep. Gently, she touched Zhichen’s wrist, implanting the unnamed Gu into it, and from the wrist, the blue and purple discoloration that had covered his skin began to fade. Gradually, all of Zhichen’s arms regained their original appearance.
They were no longer blue and purple, but a normal skin tone.
However, the unnamed Gu seemed to have eaten too much and stopped moving.
Dong Huiying sighed deeply.
It seemed that all she could do now was wait. To wait for the unnamed Gu to digest the toxins, and for the purple and blue to be completely cleared, then Zhichen could wake up.
Climbing onto the bed, she lay beside Zhichen; her little head rested on his shoulder, covering her mouth to yawn.
She was tired and sleepy.
She could hardly keep her eyes open, and inevitably, she fell asleep.
She had lain on her side to sleep, and when she woke up, her whole arm was numb from being underneath her.
With disheveled hair, she slowly got up.
Massaging her numb arm, her gaze wandered and eventually landed on Liang Zhichen’s face.
The man looked just as he had when she had fallen asleep the night before.