Chapter 94: What a Great Assist! The Child of Destiny is Horrified!
Listening to Xia Liu's arrogant and smug words, his demands dripping with lecherous intent... he actually brazenly told Su Hongmian and Jiang Linlin to serve him right in front of Shen Anyu.
He wanted the Young Master of the Yanxia Shen Family to watch his women kneel.
Shen Anyu's smile remained unchanged, but his eyes narrowed slightly. A cold glint, sharp as a scalpel, flashed through them.
He had originally intended to play around with this "Country Divine Doctor," this Child of Destiny, for a while longer. To extract more value.
But since Xia Liu was being so provocative, courting death so aggressively... he shouldn't blame Shen Anyu for dealing with him ruthlessly.
If you don't court death, you won't die!
Shen Anyu was a [Destined Villain]. He had always been the one to threaten others, to hold the power of life and death. Yet he was now being threatened in return by a bug he had already crushed once?
How could he tolerate that?
Jiang Linlin's pure and charming face turned pale. Her pearly teeth bit into her lip until it almost bled. A desperate struggle was evident on her face. Her small hand clutched Shen Anyu's sleeve, twisting the fabric, at a loss for what to do.
"Brother Shen... what do we do now?"
She was burning with anxiety, like an ant on a hot pan. Was she really going to succumb to Xia Liu's threats? To let that disgusting man touch her?
But Brother Shen's life was more important than anything. She couldn't just ignore it. If her sacrifice could save him...
At this moment, Jiang Linlin didn't even care that she herself had been poisoned by the wine. She only saw Shen Anyu.
Su Hongmian, on the other hand, glared at Xia Liu through gritted teeth. Her pretty face was frozen with anger, her eyes blazing.
She stepped forward, shielding Shen Anyu.
"I won't be threatened! I'll fight you! If Shen Anyu dies... I'll just die with him! But I will take you to hell first!"
As she spoke, her long, 1.2-meter legs tensed, ready to kick out with lethal force.
However, Shen Anyu reached out and pulled Su Hongmian back gently but firmly.
He smiled at her. "Don't reward him. Those legs can only kick me."
"You... at a time like this, you're still thinking about that?!"
Su Hongmian stomped her foot, looking at Shen Anyu with a mix of amusement, annoyance, and deep worry. Her eyes were red-rimmed, and tears unconsciously welled up. He was infuriating, even in the face of death.
Shen Anyu's heart softened. He wiped a tear from her cheek.
He said softly, his voice low enough only for them to hear:
"I told you, I have a solution. And that solution is..."
He leaned in and whispered a few words.
Listening to Shen Anyu's words, Su Hongmian and Jiang Linlin's eyes widened instantly. Their mouths opened in shock.
Their pretty faces gradually flushed crimson, the color spreading down their necks like wildfire. Even their fair, delicate earlobes were covered in large patches of rosy color.
Because Shen Anyu's method was simply too embarrassing. It was... actually that?
Xia Liu, standing a few feet away, was also dumbfounded. He strained to hear, but only caught fragments.
Could [Seven Emotions Severing Pulse Powder] really be resolved this way? Impossible, right?
He recovered his composure and sneered.
"Heh heh! Shen Anyu! Don't be so fanciful! My potent poison can't be resolved by that method! It's not some trashy aphrodisiac you buy on the street!"
"It's a complex neurotoxin that attacks the meridians! You need the antidote formula, which only I possess!"
Xia Liu looked disdainfully at Shen Anyu, full of confidence! He held the winning card.
However, Shen Anyu's next words stunned Xia Liu into silence!
"It's nothing more than [Seven Emotions Severing Pulse Powder]. A poison created by the eccentric Medical Saint three hundred years ago. What's so special about it?"
"You... you actually know about [Seven Emotions Severing Pulse Powder]???"
Xia Liu looked at Shen Anyu, who calmly uttered the five characters "Seven Emotions Severing Pulse Powder" as if reading a grocery list.
He felt as if struck by lightning. His expression changed drastically, his confidence shattering.
[Seven Emotions Severing Pulse Powder] was a secret poison formula from a thousand years ago, passed down only in his lineage. After his grandfather passed away, Xia Liu should have been the only one in the world who knew about it. Even the name was lost to history!
How could Shen Anyu possibly know?
[Ding! Child of Destiny Xia Liu is panicking! Plundering +20,000 Destiny Points!]
At this moment, Xia Liu finally panicked. Shen Anyu could actually identify the poison at a glance. Did he really have a solution? Did he have a better medical inheritance?
Shen Anyu, however, couldn't be bothered to say more to Xia Liu. He waved his hand dismissively.
"Aunt Xiao. Drag this fellow down and give him a good 'treatment'."
"Start with the Eighteen Cruel Tortures. Then the Wooden Ox and Flowing Horse. Cycle through them a few times until he forgets his own name."
Xia Liu was instantly scared witless. Eighteen Cruel Tortures? Cycled through a few times? He knew those names from history books. They were nightmares made flesh.
"Yes, Young Master!"
Aunt Xiao respectfully replied. She looked at Xia Liu with icy eyes, cracking her knuckles.
"Ah! No! Don't! Shen Anyu! Are you out of your mind?! I have the antidote! You need me! No... NO!!!"
Aunt Xiao grabbed him by the hair and dragged him out of the room.
Immediately, Xia Liu's incomparably shrill wails echoed down the hallway, fading further and further away into the depths of the restaurant's basement.
[Ding! Child of Destiny Xia Liu is scared stiff! Plundering +19,999 Destiny Points!]
...
[Ding! Child of Destiny Xia Liu is terrified! Plundering +30,000 Destiny Points!]
Shen Anyu watched Xia Liu disappear from his sight with a deep, satisfied gaze. Then he turned back to the main event.
He looked at Su Hongmian and Jiang Linlin with a half-smile.
He leisurely said:
"Mianmian darling... Linlin darling... let's go 'detoxify'."
Jiang Linlin's cheeks flushed to the color of a ripe apple. She looked down at her toes and softly hummed in agreement. She trusted him completely.
As for Su Hongmian, that tsundere young lady, she was even more overwhelmed.
Her head hung low, as if she wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into. But she couldn't even see her feet, let alone the ground, because her chest was heaving with conflicting emotions.
She wanted to refuse. She wanted to slap him for being so shameless.
But now that she was afflicted with that [Seven Emotions Severing Pulse Powder]... a potent poison... her life would be forfeit if it wasn't resolved. And Shen Anyu's life too.
It was all that detestable Xia Liu! He was too wicked! He forced them into this!
"Shen Anyu! I... I'm not afraid of death! I'm only doing this to save you! Otherwise I'd rather die than do such a thing!"
Su Hongmian raised her head. She bit her lower lip with her pearly teeth, her eyes wet but fierce. She spoke bravely, trying to salvage her dignity.
"Mhm, mhm. It's all to save me. I know. Mianmian is a good girl, kind-hearted and loves me so much she'd sacrifice herself!"
Shen Anyu had an inexplicable smile on his face. His gaze playfully directed at Su Hongmian's chest.
"Hmph! Who loves you?! Shen Anyu, are you very pleased with yourself? After saving you, we're cutting ties! Breaking up immediately! I wouldn't want to like a scumbag like you for another second!"
Su Hongmian looked at the smug smile on Shen Anyu's face, feeling utterly mortified and furious. She gritted her teeth.
Shen Anyu raised an eyebrow. He stepped closer, invading her personal space.
"I hope you still have the energy to tsundere about breaking up after 'detoxifying'..."
...
[Location: Dream Bar - Third Floor VIP Booth]
Night had fallen over the Demon City.
Situ Yueying sat quietly in the same VIP booth. Her lips were painted fiery red, a stark contrast to her pale skin. Beneath her black dress, her skin surpassed the beauty of white jade.
She remained as enchanting and beautiful as ever, a queen of the night.
However, her expression was somewhat dazed. She stared at an empty glass.
Last night, that person had sat right here.
Incomparably handsome. A calm demeanor that hid a tempest.
He had directly declared her proud creation, [Dream Night], to be trash. Yet then, he displayed astonishing bartending skills, giving her [Dream Night] a finishing touch that made it truly extraordinary. He had understood her art better than she did herself.
Shen Anyu!
This name, this person, now occupied Situ Yueying's mind. Impossible to shake off.
At that time, Situ Yueying had thought Shen Anyu was a kindred spirit. A rare soulmate. The most important person apart from her biological younger brother Situ Yuehe and Dragon King Mr. Han.
However... reality was far stranger.
That person, Shen Anyu, was actually the Young Master of the [Yanxia Shen Family]. A leviathan.
Even a big shot in the [Dark World] like Black Dragon was so terrified in front of him that he immediately knelt and kowtowed in apology!
Even the most powerful and formidable existence in her heart, Dragon King Mr. Han... couldn't compare.
If Shen Anyu hadn't intervened, they would probably have been completely wiped out by Black Dragon. She would be dead.
Yet... Shen Anyu actually demanded her from Dragon King Mr. Han.
And Dragon King Mr. Han... the man she loved... readily agreed. He wanted to use a honey trap. He wanted Situ Yueying to be by Shen Anyu's side and influence him. To be a spy.
Her fate seemed to have significantly deviated in the transaction between two men. She was currency.
All of this left Situ Yueying dazed and quite bewildered. She felt adrift.
A long, long time later, as the bar began to fill up downstairs, the enchanting, narrow eyes of Situ Yueying finally regained their luster. A resolve hardened within them.
She murmured softly:
"Let's just consider it repaying Dragon King's kindness. If not for him, Yuehe and I would already be dead two years ago."
"Shen Anyu... Young Master Shen... heh, at least it's not a bad choice!"
"Handsome, distinguished status, powerful... and he even knows how to bartend."
Situ Yueying pursed her red lips. Her beautiful eyes flashed with unwillingness, helplessness, powerlessness, and a myriad of mixed emotions.
Then she gritted her teeth. She picked up her phone.
She typed a message to Shen Anyu:
[Situ Yueying: Young Master Shen. I agree. Come over.]
She waited.
One second. Two seconds. Ten seconds.
Half a minute. One minute. Ten minutes...
A full half hour passed. The phone remained silent. There was no reply from the other side.
"Did he not receive it?"
Situ Yueying wondered, checking her signal. She frowned and sent another message.
[Situ Yueying: Are you there?]
This time, the reply came almost instantly.
[Shen Anyu: I'm busy for now. Detoxifying. I'll come find you when I'm free.]
Situ Yueying was instantly stunned.
Busy? Detoxifying? With who?
She looked at her reflection in the darkened window. For the first time, the Queen of Dream Bar felt like she was waiting in line.
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