"Are you that disgusted with Emperor Wu?" He said casually, quickly withdrawing his hand, but his eyes were still filled with ridicule and disgust.

  "Does it make you sick?" Chu Ci's voice was cold and hoarse, with an icy tone.

  The masked man seemed to pause for a moment after hearing these words, and it was unclear whether he was stimulated by Chu Ci's sentence. He remained silent for a while before laughing softly.

  He generously didn't argue with Chu Ci, but slowly stretched out his hand to grab the chain that locked Chu Ci's hands, and then suddenly pulled it hard before Chu Ci could react, throwing him off the stone bed.

  Chu Ci was slammed to the ground, letting out a pained and stifled cry. He slowly closed his eyes and said, "You're also too ungrateful, I kindly helped you bandage your wound, and this is how you treat me?"

  Chu Ci lay on the ground, clutching the chain, and struggled to slowly get up again. It seemed that even in such a situation, she had not thought of giving up this matter.

  But she didn't know that something even more desperate was yet to come.

  The masked man walked slowly in the darkness, blocking her path forward. He seemed to have opened a bottle of something in his hand and smiled slightly as he asked: "Crown Princess, did you enjoy investigating the White Poison case for the past two days?"

  Without waiting for Chu Ci's response, he continued on his own, "Then you should also be very familiar with Bai Du."

  He slowly crouched down, placing the black bottle in his hand near Chu Ci's nose. Chu Ci furrowed her brow and tried to turn away, but he forcibly pinched her chin and turned her face back around. He leaned in close, his voice whispering softly to her: "Be good and take off what's on your hands, and I'll let you go. Otherwise, I'll have to feed you poison."

  In other words, what he was holding in his hand was the white poison that had been making a big fuss in the west of the city for days.

  Chu Ci subconsciously wanted to move back, but that person pinched her cheeks and forced her mouth open, frowning in pain as he told her: "If you're infected with the white poison, do you think that prince would still dare to get close to you? The people around you will all leave you one by one, no one will like you anymore, and... they'll lock you up, you'll slowly die from the poison's effects... Ah, just thinking about it is so pitiful."

  He said with a sigh.

  The expression on Chu Ci's face did not change from start to finish.

  Or to put it another way, she was very clear about how terrible it would be to get stained with white poison, but what she understood even more clearly was that the Xīng Luó chain was the protective treasure of the Crown Prince's mansion. Although she didn't know why the flower-shaped decorations on the Xīng Luó chain looked exactly like the flowers in the Crown Prince's heart, her intuition told her they were connected, and even if there was only a one-in-ten-thousand chance of danger, she wouldn't take the risk with the Crown Prince.

  Moreover... this is something given to her by His Highness the Crown Prince.

  She is even less likely to let Xing Luo Chain be taken away by others.

  So no matter how this pervert threatened her, from start to finish, Chu Ci never wavered in her heart.

  But her unyielding heart made the masked man's expression turn gloomy, and he said coldly, "So you've made your choice."

  He stared at Chu Ci's clear and icy eyes for a while, sneered, as if mocking her for being overconfident, then lost patience, and ruthlessly pried open Chu Ci's mouth to feed the white poison into it.

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