The Dramatic Crown Princess Wants to Poison Me!-Chapter 279: Softened Heart

Seeing Xia Wenjin still kneeling on the ground, he irritably said, "Senior, Senior, since you are my disciple, do you not even know how to call me Master?"

Huangfu Jingchen finally breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. The Undying Poison Doctor saying this meant he was acknowledging Xia Wenjin as his disciple.

Xia Wenjin laughed and said, "Isn’t it because I was afraid Master would be displeased?"

The Undying Poison Doctor said disdainfully, "Don’t call me Master yet. I don’t have such an ugly disciple. Besides, if your illness doesn’t get better, won’t I have taken on a dead ghost as a disciple? We’ll talk when you’re better. And, I still need to verify the Exquisite Duck!"

He was the one who wanted her to call him Master, yet now it’s forbidden.

However, Xia Wenjin knew his temper and did not find it strange at all.

The Undying Poison Doctor impatiently said, "Why are you still kneeling there, you don’t know your weak body will keel over with a gust of wind?"

Huangfu Jingchen helped Xia Wenjin up.

Xia Wenjin smiled and said, "Master, do you have any other instructions?"

The Undying Poison Doctor rolled his eyes: "What instructions can I give, you’re in such a ghostly state of illness, can you even carry out any orders? Change back into your female clothes quickly after the epidemic, what kind of image is this neither male nor female?"

Clearly a young girl, pretending to be a boy, looks awkward no matter how you see it.

He muttered a few more words and then picked up the prescription he had thrown down earlier, pointing at it: "You’ve been researching for so long, and this is what you’ve come up with? Can’t even cure yourself?"

Xia Wenjin was quite ashamed, she only learned 30% of the Poison Doctor’s skills in her past life, and most of it was focused on dealing with external injuries. Back then, her mind was preoccupied, only thinking about being useful to Huangfu Yuxuan. As for other illnesses, she had only touched upon them lightly and did not study them seriously.

Faced with this epidemic, she found the knowledge insufficient.

The Undying Poison Doctor said, "Show your hand!"

Xia Wenjin extended her hand.

The Undying Poison Doctor placed his two fingers on her pulse. Xia Wenjin cooperated quite well; when the Undying Ghost Doctor looked up, he saw the slight smile on her face, so indifferent and carefree.

He became instantly angry, raised his eyes, and scolded: "Laugh, laugh, laugh, almost dead and still able to laugh? Don’t you know you have only a few days left to live? Such a heartless thing."

Taking advantage of her current boyish attire, he hurriedly scolded a few sentences; once she reverted to girl’s clothes, it would be inconvenient to scold.

Xia Wenjin was not angry and said, "From the moment of diagnosis, if I die, it will ruin the Undying Poison Doctor’s reputation. How could Master let his reputation be ruined? So, I won’t die!"

"Is this a threat against me?" The Undying Poison Doctor got even more furious.

Xia Wenjin laughed and said, "No, even if Master from now on stops treating me, outsiders wouldn’t know, they’d surely think Master has begun treating my illness. Therefore, I won’t die. I will strive to live, work hard to develop a cure for the epidemic, weather through the disease, and cure myself. I can’t tarnish Master’s reputation!"

What a statement!

The Undying Poison Doctor was uncertain whether to be angry or amused.

Huangfu Jingchen, on the other hand, looked at her with some concern; Xia Wenjin also smiled at him, indicating that she was fine. This was her Master; she knew his temperament.

The Undying Poison Doctor rolled his eyes again and said, "Go find something to eat!"

Xia Wenjin immediately said, "I’ll call someone for it, though there isn’t anything good, only porridge."

This area is a severe epidemic zone. The patients here are bedridden, with severe hemoptysis and difficulty swallowing, they can only consume some porridge.

Huangfu Jingchen quickly said, "I’ll go!"

One of them was sick, making him feel distressed, the other was a healing Bodhisattva; plus he couldn’t really be of help there.

Watching Huangfu Jingchen quickly exit, the Undying Poison Doctor said, "He’s quite perceptive!" He intended to call Huangfu Jingchen anyway since his sickly little disciple was really none of his business, he felt that somehow he did not want to let her be too exhausted.

Could it be that never having been a teacher before, suddenly taking on a disciple softened his heart?

He turned to look at Xia Wenjin, waving the prescription in his hand and said, "What you’ve been researching is almost there. Maybe in half a month, you could develop a real cure for the epidemic. However, even if you manage to delay your own death, you can only extend it for seven days at most."

Xia Wenjin nodded, she realized that the remedy for the epidemic still had shortcomings and could only serve to delay. Yet, for those severely infected, the internal functions are continuously damaged by the disease, getting worse; merely delaying buys only a breath, ultimately powerless to recover.

She said, "Earlier, I thought if I advanced one more step, even if I died, when the Imperial Physicians from the Capital City came and took over, they would have fewer steps to complete, thus speeding up the development of the cure for the epidemic."

She bowed deeply and said solemnly, "Fortunately, Master is here, now I need not die, and once the cure is developed, many lives can be spared!"

The Undying Poison Doctor squinted and said, "Didn’t you say that even if I did not intervene, you would strive not to die to preserve my reputation?"

This prescription annoyed him; though it reflected his medical approach and medication habits, the level of the prescription was not even half of his, were his dream-taught apprentices somewhat dim?

He wondered how this little... girl managed to please him in the dreams, indeed, was there truly such a thing as dream-teaching?

The Undying Poison Doctor felt his century-old life experience was wasted.

Up to now, he didn’t even know whether to believe it or not.

Yet he could clearly feel that this little girl indeed was familiar with him, not fake.

Though he would investigate the matter later, now he had to save the person first, whether because of the deal or because he had promised that kid to exchange for a mink.

Huangfu Jingchen brought food, and the three of them hastily filled their stomachs. Xia Wenjin then sent Huangfu Jingchen away.

This place was ultimately inappropriate for him to be. Even though Master is here, the epidemic will certainly be resolved, there was no reason to contract the disease unnecessarily and endure needless suffering.

Huangfu Jingchen, though reluctant, left obediently.

After all, the Undying Poison Doctor had arrived and appeared to be Wenjin’s Master, and he had promised to save Wenjin, what is there left to worry about?

Although in medical expertise, the Undying Poison Doctor was the best in terms of experience and technique, since this epidemic lacked previous experience to follow or a set cure to apply, it required new development.

The master and disciple spent three full days further refining the prescription based on Xia Wenjin’s original research, and finally, on the fourth day, created a new, satisfactory epidemic cure.

At this time, although the medicine Xia Wenjin had previously consumed helped prolong her condition, her health had greatly deteriorated and she no longer had the strength to move. Unable to even wait for the medicine to be decocted, she coughed up blood from exhaustion and illness, and fainted.