Pet Addiction: The Prince’s Desire to Spoil His Pet - Chapter 180 - Deceiving Uncle Sheng (79)

Chapter 180: Deceiving Uncle Sheng (79)

Shu Nuan and Xuan Jiu were separated. She didn’t know where he’d been taken, but she could tell the seriousness of the situation. If there was no fair trial, they would surely be punished in the worst manner.

Shu Nuan was kept locked in a cage for three days, outside in the snow. She huddled in a corner next to the iron bars and hugged herself tight, wrapping the cloak like it was her own skin. A thick layer of snow covered her figure. Her cheeks were flushed and frost stained her eyelashes, as if a wink would cause them to shatter.

She got a single bowl of rice everyday, and she ate each grain.

She was still hopeful and thought that as long as Sheng Qianmo wakes up, he would listen to her explanation and let her go.

From listening to the soldiers cursing the past few days, she had formed a rough image of the events.

Sheng Qianmo had been poisoned on the way to Changsheng Mountain Range, and the source had been found in her baggage. Her meeting with Xuan Jiu had only worsened the matters. She didn’t think it odd that they doubted her.

But she knew she could never hurt Sheng Qianmo.

Every moment of those three days she spent in the cage, she thought she was going to freeze to death.

In the meantime, she got sick. After all, she was young, and her resistance to the weather was much worse than the soldiers in the army.

The coughs were so bad that she had trouble catching her breath. When a soldier came to deliver her food, he said, “Your partner is pretty tight-lipped. He refuses to admit anything even after the torture. But I’d like to see if you’re as good as him.”

She Nuan covered her mouth while coughing hard. Upon hearing the soldier’s words, her red hands shook the rice bowl in them. She raised her reddened eyes and grabbed one side of the cage, before shouting in a dull voice, “I want to see General Ning.”

“Keep dreaming! Just wait for the prince to wake up and execute you!”

No one in the military held any sympathy for her. Betrayal was a taboo. She wasn’t sure if she’d be dead or alive at the end of this incident.

***

“This is a poisonous insect cultivated by the covert operatives of the Nanchao Kingdom. Five-Clawed Worm. This poisonous insect only attacks males near it. If the poisoned man doesn’t find an antidote within 5 days, they may die.”

The military doctor looked for 3 days to find out the type of poison. It remained to be seen if they could find an antidote within the short period of two days.

Ji Xili was silent for a while, before she said, “I will find out.”

Without waiting for them to answer, she turned and left.

Ningcheng frowned and pondered for a while, but he too felt that this matter couldn’t be delayed, and so he left to find Xuan Jiu.

However, he hadn’t expected for them to torture the boy to such an extent. What had been the fair and smooth skin of a teenager had been carpeted with bruises. His frost- and blood- stained body was tied to a tree. His hair was in disarray and covered his face. The bell on his neck was stained the same red as him.

Ningcheng Yuan cursed the guards and yelled, “Untie him quickly!”

Since the boy looked like this, he wouldn’t be able to escape even if he wanted to, thought the guards. They let him down.