Suddenly, with a "swoosh", an arrow shot in from outside the door and pierced into a wooden pillar in the room.
"Who is it?" Su Mo heard the sound and immediately ran out, but there was no shadow of anyone.
She went over, pulled out the arrow, and found a note tied to it.
Su Mo took the note off, opened it up, and read:
[Lady Bai, if you want the antidote, bring the real treasure map to the back mountain of the Bai family.]
Su Mo handed the note to Lady Bai. Lady Bai wiped away the tears at the corner of her eyes and took the note.
Looking at the words on it, her face darkened slightly. "Is it from Third Aunt? What does she mean? Didn't she already take the treasure map?"
Wang Butler took the note and looked at it. "My lady, she means the treasure map she got was fake."
"Mother, what does this mean? Did you swap out the real treasure map?" Bai Yunhan asked.
Lady Bai frowned slightly. "I didn't care about that legendary treasure map at all, why would I go through the extra effort? If what Third Aunt got was fake, then it means Old Master Bai had swapped it out beforehand."
Lady Bai stood up, her eyes turning cold. "Wang Butler, protect Yunhan here at the Bai house. I'm going to find Third Aunt to get the antidote!"
After she spoke, Lady Bai immediately left the room.
"Mother!" Bai Yunhan wanted to stop her, but he was too weak and nearly fell off the bed.
"Young Master!" Yi immediately ran over to support him.
"Young Master, I'm worried about my lady, so I'll leave this place to Fang Qing. I have to go take a look." Wang Butler said anxiously.
"Go on. That Third Aunt is no simple character. We can't let anything happen to my mother!" Bai Yunhan said weakly.
Wang Butler also immediately left.
The entire room fell into a tense atmosphere.
Bai Yunhan looked up at Bai Yunxin and Second Aunt. The corners of his mouth pulled into a miserable smile. He said to Bai Yunxin, "Yunxin, you've poisoned me now and completed your task, so you and Second Aunt should leave..."
Bai Yunxin was suddenly stunned. A trace of panic flashed through her eyes. "Brother... what are you saying? I... I didn't poison you."
"My mother and the butler are gone, why do you still pretend?"
Su Mo and the others looked at Bai Yunxin in disbelief. They didn't expect that Bai Yunxin would actually poison her own brother.
Bai Yunxin looked at Bai Yunhan with slightly reddened eyes. "Brother, I didn't..."
"Forget it. You and Second Aunt should leave and not stay at the Bai house anymore. Go to Wenge Pavilion and wait until you get married..."
Bai Yunxin paused and didn't say anything.
Then she pulled Second Aunt's hand and turned to leave the room. Tears slid down her face in that instant.
"You knew she would poison you, so why did you still eat it?" Xiao Han asked, puzzled.
Bai Yunhan lowered his eyes. "I wanted to gamble. I gambled that she wouldn't poison me because I was her brother. But I... guessed wrong."
Everyone fell silent and didn't speak.
The affairs in the Bai family were too complicated to judge simply as right or wrong.
"You all can leave. I want to be alone and quiet for a while." Bai Yunhan said.
The others then withdrew from the room.
"Sister Li, should we go back then?" Su Mo asked.
Sang Li paused. "Let's wait for a bit, until Lady Bai comes back with the antidote. Then we'll leave. If anything happens to Bai Yunhan, at least Xiao Han is here."
Su Mo thought about it and felt they should stay as well.
Since they crossed over to this world, besides Wu Ying, Bai Yunhan was the second person they knew. And Bai Yunhan had always treated them well, so she didn't want anything to happen to him either.
"Hey, hearing what Lady Bai said earlier, I somehow feel that Old Master Bai got what he deserved!" Xiao Han said as she sat on a stool and took a piece of layered cake from the table to eat.
"Hey hey hey, that cake is poisoned! That's what Bai Yunhan was poisoned with!" Su Mo immediately said.
Xiao Han froze mid-chew. "Bleh bleh bleh!"
She immediately spat the cake out. "Why didn't you say so earlier?! Are you trying to kill me?"
"You're done for, you must be poisoned now."
Xiao Han immediately tried to stick her hand down her throat. Sang Li grabbed her hand and said helplessly, "Mo Mo tricked you. The cake isn't poisoned. The poisoned tea was already spilled by Lady Bai."
Hearing Sang Li's words, Xiao Han immediately relaxed. She immediately stood up and pinched Su Mo's waist. "Mo Mo, you want me to prick your laugh point with silver needles until you laugh enough?"
"No no no, I was wrong, I was wrong!" Su Mo immediately surrendered. Only then did Xiao Han let her off.
However, Sang Li didn't have the mind to think about anything else. Her mind was full of the treasure map.
If the treasure map Third Aunt had was fake, and Lady Bai didn't swap it out, then could the real treasure map still be at the Bai house?
Would Bai Yunhan know the whereabouts of the treasure map?
She stayed here not purely for Bai Yunhan's sake—she had her own motives.
Seeing Sang Li's cold expression, seemingly lost in thought, Gu Zhi thought she was worrying about Bai Yunhan.
He suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, inexplicably stifled.
"Sister..." Gu Zhi called her. "Are you worried about Young Master Bai?"
Sang Li looked at Gu Zhi and went along with his assumption. "Back at the Bai house, Young Master Bai treated us very well. Naturally, we don't want anything to happen to him."
Gu Zhi looked at her. "Then if something happened to me, would you be so concerned about me too?"
Sang Li's brows furrowed slightly. "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Gu Zhi lowered his eyes. "I just want to know if you have even a shred of... difference in feelings towards me."
"None at all." Sang Li answered decisively.
"... " He felt as if his heart was pricked. Gu Zhi's words were choked in his throat, unable to come out.
Sang Li said coldly, "Gu Zhi, I only see you as a friend, and just a very ordinary friend at that. It's best if you find your family soon and leave quickly."
"I, I..." Gu Zhi panicked a little. He quickly said, "Sister, I didn't mean that. I meant to ask if you could see me as a friend like Su Mo!"
Sang Li looked into his eyes. "Is that what you meant?"
"Yes, yes!" Gu Zhi immediately nodded. "I want... to be a very good friend of yours!"
Sang Li paused. "That's not possible either. Mo Mo, Xiao Han and Miao Miao, no one can compare to them for me."
Gu Zhi was on the verge of tears. His eyes reddened slightly and he cried aggrievedly, "Sister..."
Seeing his aggrieved appearance, Sang Li's heart softened. She added, "But you... are the best friend aside from Mo Mo and the others."
"Better than Young Master Bai?" Gu Zhi immediately pressed.
"No, you're the same."
"... "
Heartbroken several times tonight.
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