Chapter 315 Advanced Medicines

he wanted to eat together I thought his birthday should have started preparations several months ago."Gu Yichen explained, "Grandpa doesn't like extravagance, and... coincidentally, his birthday is th...Seeing Alex like this, not even answering the questions properly, Xu Zui Ning couldn't help but be surprised.

The truth serum is still very powerful; few can show emotion or resist in front of her.

Generally, he would only answer questions honestly, just like Alex before him.

But to Alex's surprise, his resistance to this matter completely overwhelmed the effects of the truth serum, revealing such obvious emotions. It was a rare sight indeed.

"Stop wasting time!"

Xu Zui'ning's voice was cold and severe.

"I know you must know something, or why would you have run away just now! Now tell me everything you know about the sigh of the Archangels!"

In order to get Alex to answer truthfully, Xu Zui Ning deliberately phrased the questions more plainly and directly, leaving him with no room to resist.

Alex heard Xu Zui'ning's words, his eyes still held defiance, but helplessly the effect of the drug was too powerful.

Faced with such a straightforward question, he had no way to escape answering it, so he could only tell all the secrets he had hidden for a lifetime.

More than twenty years ago, the 歐陽 family suddenly found me and said that their young mistress wanted me to design and polish a diamond ring for her. It was to be an engagement ring for her newborn son’s future fiancée.

When I first received this news, I was so excited I almost went crazy! Even though I am the Chief Design Officer of Longxi Shengjing, nothing compares to being able to design a shipmaster's ring for the Ouyang family! My reputation as a designer is definitely going to soar because of this.

"I was about to receive the greatest affirmation of my career, so I went straight to see Madam Chu Mantang, the young mistress of the OuYang family at that time, without any hesitation."

"I have never seen such a beautiful woman. I've seen plenty of beautiful women in my life, but she is unlike any other. She is both alluring and elegant, truly one of a kind."

She gave me a top-quality diamond rough, letting me cut and design it myself. This was child's play for me, but then she also gave me a bottle of potion.

Hearing such a crucial term, Xu Zui'ning naturally couldn't help but want to ask another question.

"What kind of medicine"

Although Alex was naturally white-skinned, the paleness on his face now had nothing to do with his complexion. It was pure fear that made him look so pale, his lips trembling uncontrollably.

"I don't know what it is… The potion was colorless and odorless, but as soon as I got close to it, I felt a chill run down my spine. It was like the blood in my veins froze!"

Xu Zui Ning couldn't help but gasp. Hearing Alex's description, she had a few guesses in her mind.

The medicinal water Chu Mantang gave to Alex, likely contains the toxin of frost bone poison.

In that case, the Frostbone Poison really... was made by Ouyang Chu's mother

"Indeed," Alex continued.

She gave me the potion and said I could go about my work as usual during the day, but at night, I had to soak the diamonds in it.

She said that doing so was to allow the diamonds to better permeate the medicinal properties within the liquid. I was curious and asked her, "What exactly is in this medicine"

But Chu Mantang didn't want to say, and I dared not ask any further. Even though I found it strange at the time, I didn't question it too much.

"After all, this was a job entrusted to me by Aunt OuYang, so I can only follow her instructions. During the day, I work as usual, polishing and cutting as needed. Then, in the evening, I put the semi-finished products into the medicinal water and soak them overnight."

"Day after day like this...until..."

When Alex got to this point, his eyes involuntarily closed, and a shiver ran through his whole body that wouldn't stop. He seemed to be thinking of something even more terrifying.

"Until one day, as usual, I finished work for the day, soaked the half-finished sigh of the archangel in the potion, and went to rest."

But unexpectedly, my pet dog wasn't tied up that day. In the evening, he ran out and saw the ring soaking in the basin. Maybe he just tentatively licked the medicine...and then he died! My dog was poisoned!

Xu Zui Ning's face was a bit gloomy. He couldn't help but want to look at Ou Yang Chu beside him, but he found that Ou Yang Chu's expression didn't change at all, not even a hint of emotion could be seen.

Seeing that Ou Yang Chu had no intention of speaking, Xu Zhuining couldn't help but ask.

"So you only just found out that the water Chu Mantang gave you was problematic back then"

"Hmm."

Alex swallowed hard.

“I was completely stunned. My dog died right there on the spot. The poison in this medicine is way too powerful. But I just can’t figure out why Chu Mantang would do this. Wasn’t this a gift for her own son Why use poison to soak it What is she trying to achieve”

"I was truly terrified. The secret about the Ouyang family being exposed, this kind of hidden truth among powerful families...knowing it probably means death. I went mad with fear and frantically polished the ring, sending it back to Chu Mantang's hands as quickly as possible."

"Chu Mantang did give me a large sum of money, and then instructed me to keep this matter secret. On the surface, I naturally had to agree, but at that time, I was terrified inside."

"I know Chu Mantang didn't make a move because she doesn't know yet that I already know the potion is poisonous. But I have this intuition... If she finds out, she will definitely kill me!"

After that, I didn't even dare to continue designing jewelry, for fear that she might suddenly remember and feel that I was still a threat, silencing me. Coincidentally, my wife was diagnosed with cancer at that time... so I quit my job directly.

"I took my wife back to my hometown, where we spent the last days of her life together."

Xu Zui'ning couldn't help but frown slightly. Listening to this, it seemed that there was nothing important about Alex's entire story at all.

He didn't know what was in the potion at all. The only flaw in the whole thing might be that Chu Mantang hadn't anticipated that Alex would coincidentally find out it was poison.

Otherwise, Alex wouldn't be alive either, and still here talking to them.

"Do you know anything else"

Xu Zui Ning, unwilling to give up, asked. This time, Alex shook his head frantically.

"I truly don't know... I've never told anyone these things before, and I was only forced to by Chu Mantang. I really don't know anything! Please, let me go!"efore him, his eyes revealing a deep disgust.Shen Qingyan stood there for a full half minute, but the man in front of her remained motionless.Shen Qingyan couldn't help but feel her heart sink a littl...