Keep your voice down. Are you trying to look glamorous dressed as a forced lover?

If Li Qingxian is infected, his weakened state will be Li Qingyan's opportunity.

"Okay." Sannoh replied crisply.

Li Qingyan was overjoyed, because the fear she felt from the snake had lessened, and she felt completely safe.

She lowered her eyes and whispered to Sannoh, "I actually wish he were dead right now, so we could all be safe, but now is not the time."

This protagonist's halo isn't something you can easily steal. If you let Sannoye kill it now, something unexpected will definitely happen.

We decided not to let him take the risk.

"A lesson is enough; you can't afford to get hurt."

Sannoye, who had already walked five steps away, paused upon hearing this before setting off again.

Li Qingyan didn't notice his departure: "He almost burned me to death tonight. If I die, you will die too. So this is not only revenge for me, but also revenge for yourself."

After she finished speaking, she noticed something was wrong, looked up, and saw that Sannoye was nowhere to be seen.

Only silence remained, along with the locust tree lying on the ground.

Li Qingyan: "..." She really runs fast.

"They didn't even bother to say hello."

"Fine, consider it efficiency. He was so straightforward, I'll forgive his coolness."

After she finished speaking, Li Qingyan felt an eerie silence around her, and fearing that another snake might emerge, she quickly crouched down.

"Huai Xu, wake up..."

He pinched Huai Xu awake, confirmed that she had only hurt her bottom a little, and hurriedly took Huai Xu back, walking very fast.

Li Qingyan felt uneasy and heard rustling sounds behind her, but when they stopped to listen carefully, they heard nothing.

Li Qingyan's feeling was correct; there were indeed snakes and Gu worms behind her, constantly following and protecting her.

She walks, they walk; she stops, they stop.

They only returned after she safely returned to Jingchen Palace and sensed the presence of her companion.

The next day.

After being woken up by Huai Xu, Li Qingyan's biggest concern was whether Sannoye had succeeded.

She asked Huai Xu, but since Sannoye hadn't arrived or sent any messages, she frowned: "Did it not work?"

What Li Qingyan was most worried about at this moment was that the protagonist's halo and the ending of this book were already locked and could not be changed. Letting Sannoye take action also had the potential meaning of testing the rules of this book.

She quickly washed up, scratching her wrist as she did so.

The first time, after waiting for a while, Sannoh did not come.

Li Qingyan asked Huai Xu to walk around and check if there was anything unusual about Anhe Palace, where the Prince Xian lived, while he scratched it again.

This time, Sannoh came.

With a touch of unavoidable morning grumpiness, eyes still heavy with sleep, as if she could fall asleep at any moment.

"Why are you so late? Did you succeed?"

"Go to sleep, it's a success."

After saying that, Sannoh turned to leave and went to catch up on his sleep.

"Why do you like sleeping so much? Wait a minute..."

As Li Qingyan, who was sitting at the dining table, moved, her leg bumped into the table leg.

She only felt the pain for a moment, but Sannoh suddenly stopped, the pain jolting her awake.

He turned around slowly in disbelief. Li Qingyan felt a little guilty. She had heard that bumping into the corner of a table was very painful. She had seen many people wince in pain, but she had never experienced it herself.

"Does it hurt a lot? I just want to confirm with you again..."

Li Qingyan deliberately avoided the table legs, but as a result, her foot inexplicably slipped and she fell, hitting her hand and her head on the dining table with a thud.

Sannoye watched helplessly as Li Qingyan fell flat on her face, the pain spreading from her feet to her hands and head.

His lips twitched slightly.

Li Qingyan sat on the ground, completely bewildered. Why did she suddenly start bumping and falling?

"Your Highness." Huai Xu, who had returned from outside, rushed forward to help Li Qingyan up. "Are you alright?"

Sannoye took two steps forward without making a sound, keeping a close eye on Li Qingyan the whole time, ready to catch her if she fell flat on her face again.

"It's nothing." Li Qingyan straightened her skirt and was about to speak when she heard Huai Xu report in a low voice, "Your Highness, this servant has something to report."

"Just tell me."

Huai Xu spoke solemnly: "A woman entered Anhe Palace late at night. Some palace maids heard unusual noises, including a man's deep, beast-like roar and a woman's seductive, broken, and incoherent voice (censored)..."

Li Qingyan: "..."

Sannoye: "???"

Huai Xu's voice remained serious: "The eunuchs on duty in the Anhe Palace kitchen complained that His Highness asked for water eight times last night. No one in the palace, from maids to eunuchs, slept well. The maids had dark circles under their eyes, while the eunuchs were full of energy."

"Your Highness, based on this, I deduce that something happened at Anhe Palace last night."

Li Qingyan was genuinely puzzled: "Huai Xu, why do you describe things like that?"

Who would describe it like that?

"That's what the palace maids at Anhe Palace said. I overheard them and relayed it."

Case solved.

"Huai Xu, you can go down now."

After Huai Xu left, Li Qingyan asked Sang Nuoye, "Sang Nuoye, you released snakes, not poison, did you?"

Sannoh: "...It's a snake."

That's strange.

Shouldn't being bitten by a snake result in poisoning? I understand that if someone is bitten by a snake and poisoned, they should ask Qiu Nanxing, the female lead who also comes from the Divine Doctor Valley, to come to the palace to detoxify them. But why are the two of them still able to have sex even though they are both poisoned?

She knew that there would be scenes of hospital wards and patient gowns in the novel, but snake venom even... and it had to be washed eight times.

"Is it because snakes are inherently promiscuous? Do they go into heat after being bitten? Will drinking water eight times a day help neutralize the venom?"

Sannoye shook his head: "Snake venom only causes bleeding, swelling, and necrosis; it doesn't cause estrus, and estrus will only worsen the condition."

So, having sex eight times in one go means she's in heat. No wonder she had that expression just now.

No one knows snakes better than him, and no one knows snake venom better than him; he has never experienced such symptoms before.

He couldn't understand why the wise king would act this way, and even let out a low, beast-like roar.

Could it be that the snakes he kept have also mutated?

Sannoh decided to go and check it out.

Li Qingyan could only attribute this to the fact that it was a low-quality novel, hence the bizarre setting.

"I understand. You can go back and rest now."

Sannoye glanced at Li Qingyan suspiciously. If she kept falling and he kept hurting, how could he rest?

So, just after Li Qingyan took a sip of porridge, she discovered that Sang Nuoye hadn't left. Instead, he was kneeling in front of her on one knee and reaching out to grab her skirt.

"Cough..." Li Qingyan choked a little: "What are you doing?"

Sannoye looked up, his face completely innocent: "Legs, touch."

You little juice!

Li Qingyan immediately dodged his hand: "What did you mean by touching?"

"Your leg bone," Sannoh said, pointing to her leg. "You keep falling, look."

Li Qingyan finally understood what he meant. She was speechless, but since she had fallen twice inexplicably and quite badly, she agreed.

"Alright then..."

Because of her attitude, Sannoye remembered that a girl's skirt should not be lifted up casually. So, under Li Qingyan's incredulous gaze, he reached out and grabbed her ankle, inch by inch.

From bottom to top.

The hem of his skirt moved with his movements.

Li Qingyan's eyes widened slightly. He...

The visual impact of all this, coupled with her extreme ticklishness and sensitivity, caused her to instantly tighten the hand on her knee.

"Wait...it itches."

Sannoye paused, as if digesting something, then he looked up, his voice slightly hoarse.

"It's not just itchy, there's also..."

Looking at herself reflected in his dark pupils, Li Qingyan realized something and reached out to cover his mouth.

"Don't tell."