Chapter 49

After coming back to his senses, Zixiu hurried into the room and sat down. “Physician Ling, take a seat, please!”

Lingxiao didn’t stand on ceremony and sat back to his seat without hesitation.

“Physician Ling, if you have any questions for me, please go ahead.” Zixiu had answered the same questions many times since Nangong Du fell into a coma, and his patience was wearing thin.

Lingxiao was a little surprised at the ‘princess’s’ attitude, but he still put it straight. “Your Highness, could you please tell me the age of Prince Mu?”

“Er…” Zixiu froze on the spot. Nobody had ever told him how old that pervert was, and it had never occurred to him to inquire about it.

“His Highness is at the age of twenty!” Xingyi immediately chimed in. She had never mentioned any personal information about Prince Mu during her emergent training with Zixiu, so it was no wonder that Zixiu had no idea about Nangong Du’s age.

Lingxiao immediately sensed something wrong. “Xiuxiu doesn’t even know how old Prince Mu is?! So he must have been forced to marry this asshole! Nangong Du is so licentious that he might even force on a guy to satisfy his lust, let alone Xiuxiu, who is so sweet and drop-dead gorgeous!”

With a trace of coldness crossing his smiling eyes, Lingxiao unconsciously clenched his fists in his sleeves. “Nangong Du, our parents had betrothed Xiuxiu and me before we were even born. How dare you take my fiancée away from me? Humph! I won’t let you wake up so easily!”

“Did Prince Mu…” After quite a while, Lingxiao started asking questions that might be helpful for the diagnosis, managing to hold back his anger.

As a number of physicians had asked the same questions these days, Zixiu answered without difficulty and Lingxiao soon got the picture.

After observing the patient’s complexion, listening to his breathing, and feeling his pulse, he came up with the diagnosis after a while.

“Prince Mu is poisoned!” Lingxiao said with a grave look.

“What?!” Zixiu was startled, but next, he was seized with panic. “How come that pervert got poisoned? Are those people going to suspect that I did it?”

Xingyi was shocked as well. Though neither she nor Yueying was a physician, they knew something about poison after serving Nangong Du for years. “Since His Highness fell into a coma, none of those well-known physicians in Luanzhou has found out that he was poisoned… Wait! Maybe this young guy is making this up! Who knows?”

“Physician Ling, can you tell me the name of the poison?”

“A Thousand Years of Intoxication!”

“A Thousand Years of Intoxication?” Xingyi narrowed her eyes, wondering why she had never heard of the poison.

Detecting her suspicion, Lingxiao immediately explained, “It’s an anesthetic concocted by a Taoist priest by accident a hundred years ago, but as the side effect was considerable, it was reformulated and became a sort of poison. For its high production cost, it has never been used on a large scale and since the Taoist priest went into seclusion in the mountains, nobody has ever seen this poison anymore. I’m surprised that someone is still using it…”

“Physician Ling, since you’re certain that His Highness was poisoned, you must know how to detoxify!” Xingyi suddenly interrupted him, raising her voice. There were so many famous physicians in Luanzhou. Why should she believe what a young man said!

Lingxiao was smart and he immediately figured out what she was hinting. “Your Highness, seems you don’t trust me and I can’t escape getting beaten!” He turned to Zixiu and shrugged with a smile.

Having just recovered from his panic, Zixiu was puzzled by what he said. “I’m not doubting you!” he blurted out.