Nighttime, Yueqi Kingdom, the back garden of the Prime Minister’s Residence.
A woman in a pink dress, covered in blood and filth, her face flushed and weak, shrunk into a corner. Her legs were curled up, trembling uncontrollably.
“Third Young Miss, stop resisting. Just be good and let this old servant prick you. You’ll feel better, and I’ll be able to complete my task.”
The old woman held a long needle, her wrinkled eyes filled with malice and calculation.
Yun Li wept, struggling and shaking her head. “No, no… Granny Fang, please let me go, okay?”
“Third Young Miss, if I let you go, the Eldest Young Miss won’t let me go.”
As soon as the words fell, the old woman plunged the long needle into her shoulder. Yun Li’s body slumped softly against the wall, and she quickly lost her breath.
Granny Fang smiled and shouted toward the door, “Hurry, bring the man in!”
A moment later, a man was sent into the room, and the door was locked.
The woman in the corner’s eyelids flickered, and her closed eyes suddenly snapped open. Her mind was a muddled mess as she stared blankly at the dim surroundings of the room.
She saw a filthy old man, grinning with a mouth full of yellow teeth, walking toward her.
The man looked at the woman in the corner. Her skin was as fine as congealed cream. Although half of her face was terrifyingly ugly, she had a curvaceous and exquisite figure. It was clear she was a rare beauty—and a daughter of the Prime Minister’s Residence to boot. Tsk, tsk… A lady raised in the inner chambers being his to enjoy? Dying on top of her in the next moment would be worth it.
Thinking this, the beggar prepared to lunge forward and overpower her.
“Little lady, here I come…”
Yun Li’s pupils constricted. She felt her whole body go limp, unable to muster any strength. Her mind raced, thinking of how to deal with this old beggar. Her hand suddenly brushed against the long needle on the floor. She picked it up and, without hesitation, stabbed it into the beggar’s eye.
The beggar clutched his eye and screamed in agony. Blood streamed from his eye, a gruesome sight.
“Ah… ah! You bitch, you actually dared to poke my eye… I’ll make you pay for this!”
Yun Li forced herself up, gripping the wall for support. She grabbed a stool by the table and swung it at the beggar.
The beggar was beaten until his head was covered in blood, and he collapsed unconscious on the floor. She followed up with another needle to his throat—a fatal strike. The beggar was dead.
A wave of dizziness hit her. She shook her head, trying to stay conscious. Fragments of memory began to flash through her mind in quick succession. Combining what had just happened with these memories, she finally understood the situation.
She was the 18th-generation descendant of the Spirit Physician Clan from the 23rd century. While out, she had been drugged by enemies from the Ghost Physician Clan. She had been poisoned with Flower Passion Poison, a toxin comparable to an aphrodisiac! However, while regular aphrodisiacs had antidotes, this Flower Passion Poison was a special creation of the Ghost Physician Clan. Currently, there was no cure; the only “antidote” was a man. Otherwise, she would face death by internal combustion.
To avoid being captured by the Ghost Physician Clan, she had jumped off a cliff in a desperate gamble. To her surprise, she had transmigrated!
She had transmigrated into the body of the Third Daughter of a Concubine in the Prime Minister’s Residence of Yueqi Kingdom, who shared her name, Yun Li.
The original host was naive and easily fooled, but she possessed a peerless beauty that earned her the title of the capital’s number one beauty. However, for a concubine’s daughter in ancient times to possess such looks without a background or anyone to protect her, her beauty only invited disaster.
When she was fifteen, simply because the current Crown Prince spared her an extra glance, she drew the jealousy of her two legitimate older sisters. They did not hesitate to drug her and disfigure her. Even tonight, the long needle the old woman had stabbed into her was coated with a lethal poison mixed with an aphrodisiac. The goal was not just to kill her, but to destroy her chastity and reputation first.
Yun Li sneered. She hadn’t expected to transmigrate to this unknown dynasty and end up in such a wretched state. She placed her right hand over her left wrist to check her pulse.
There were four types of poison in the original host’s body: the poison on her face, a chronic internal poison, the aphrodisiac, and the lethal poison from the silver needle… This body was truly weak and vulnerable.
Dammit, the Flower Passion Poison she brought with her during the transmigration hadn’t been resolved yet…
Just as she was frowning and pondering how to break out of this predicament, the clear green jade bracelet on her wrist began to glow with a faint warmth. Then, a pale green halo appeared, and the bracelet actually turned invisible!
However, she could still feel the presence and the warmth of the bracelet on her wrist.
Suddenly, a massive space appeared in her mind. There was a lawn, and mountains could be seen faintly in the distance.
At the foot of the mountain ran a gurgling small river. The water was crystal clear, with no fish or weeds.
To one side was a two-story villa. The first floor contained a living room and kitchen, with large floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the lawn and river. The second floor housed bedrooms and a walk-in closet, fully furnished in a modern style.
Opposite was a four-story building. The entire first floor was a supermarket filled with a dazzling array of goods. The second floor was a medical storehouse, which even included an operating room! It was identical to her medical research lab back in the Spirit Physician Clan! The third floor was a Weapons Warehouse!
My god, could this be the legendary Portable Space… and this space was way too versatile…
Amidst her surprise, her thoughts drifted back many years. This jade bracelet was an heirloom left to her by her parents when she was ten. it was also the symbol of her status as the successor of the Spirit Physician Clan. At the time, her parents told her the bracelet contained a vast hidden world, but it could only be opened under the right circumstances. They told her she must protect it at all costs.
She had worn the bracelet for nearly ten years without noticing anything special. As time passed, she hadn’t taken her parents’ words to heart, treating it only as a memento of them.
She never expected the “right circumstances” to be this kind of situation, allowing her to open the bracelet space.
Since there were items in the space, could they be stored and retrieved?
She tried to pick up the water cup on the table and used her mind to operate it. Sure enough, it was taken into the space, leaving the table empty. Operating it again, the cup was retrieved and placed back in its original spot.
Since there were houses, mountains, and water in the space, a person should be able to enter, right? With that thought, she instantly flickered and entered the space.
But she didn’t have time to look around or celebrate. She hadn’t forgotten she was still poisoned. She rushed into the medical room to take things one step at a time. First, she dealt with the original host’s aphrodisiac—otherwise, the two potent aphrodisiacs would make her lose her mind. She also took a detoxification pill to neutralize the lethal poison from the needle and the chronic toxins in her body.
The poison on her face was Thousand Leaves Poison. A general detoxification pill wouldn’t do much; the antidote for this had to be applied topically. But this wasn’t difficult for her; with the space, she could formulate it at any time. The most pressing issue was the Flower Passion Poison. If given time to research, she could formulate an antidote, but right now, time was a luxury she didn’t have.
In her heart, she cursed the ancestors of the Ghost Physician Clan down eighteen generations for creating such a low-life substance and doing such underhanded things… Truly, the good die young while the wicked live for a thousand years.
Leaving the medical room, the erupting heat within her made her body burn with discomfort. Her clothes were already soaked with sweat. She looked at the small river, desperately wanting to jump in to wash and clear her head.
Acting on the thought, she did just that. The icy river water cleared her mind. Although she could still feel the physical discomfort, the brief relief was enough to make her feel much better.
She cupped some water in her hands and gulped down a few mouthfuls. The water was incredibly sweet! She couldn’t help but drink more. She felt a refreshing sensation that lifted her spirits!
Wait—did the Flower Passion Poison get cured? Surprised, she quickly checked her own pulse. The poison was still in her body, but it had been temporarily suppressed. She still needed to find a real cure as soon as possible.
This result was already a pleasant surprise for her. Temporary relief was good; at the very least, it would take time to find a man, and she wanted to find one who was easy on the eyes…
Wait, this water… couldn’t be Spiritual Spring Water, right? My god, she had an entire river of Spiritual Spring Water! Haha… the heavens were indeed kind to her.
At this moment, if Yun Li had a mirror, she would have discovered that the black scars covering half of her face had already lightened slightly in color.