“Su!
Cha!” Yunxi glared angrily at the juice Su Cha had just poured onto the ground.
Wine Fruit was incredibly precious.
If it weren’t for these special circumstances, she would have never wasted it on this piece of trash.
“Such a strong scent of Enchanting Grass.
Who are you trying to plot against?” Su Cha calmly placed the white jade cup onto the table.
Yunxi froze for a moment, but then suddenly laughed.
“Heh, I just wanted to make you realize your place in Mo Ze’s heart.”
Looking at Yunxi’s unhinged smile, Su Cha felt the female lead’s character arc was going completely off the rails.
Although the original book’s protagonist was highly controversial, she was at least supposed to play the innocent, universally adored sweetheart.
But because Su Cha had disrupted the original plotline, Mo Ze had yet to become mates with Yunxi.
Now, Yunxi was acting out of sheer jealousy, resorting to underhanded methods just because Su Cha had exchanged a few words with Mo Ze.
Su Cha had no intention of playing along with her games and turned to leave.
However, Mu Beichen stepped in to block her path.
A vicious glint flashed in Su Cha’s cold eyes.
“Mu Beichen, trying to play the hero before your injuries have even healed?
Are you eager to die?”
The latter merely showed a hint of surprise before choosing to obey Yunxi’s silent command.
Su Cha easily dodged Mu Beichen’s attack and threw out a handful of medicinal powder without hesitation.
She thought it was a complete waste of her precious medicine; every use meant she had less of it left.
“Beichen!” Yunxi gasped in shock when she saw Mu Beichen collapse so quickly.
She hurried forward to check on him.
Realizing he had only fallen asleep, she turned her head and flashed a malicious smile at Su Cha—the kind typically reserved for wicked female side characters.
“Su Cha, you didn’t really think Enchanting Grass only works when ingested, did you?”
The scent of Enchanting Grass mixed with Wine Fruit juice was just as effective if inhaled for more than fifteen minutes.
Su Cha had made her lose face at the mating ceremony, and now she was going to make Su Cha taste the same humiliation.
She would make Su Cha watch with her own eyes as Mo Ze became her mate.
“Lunatic.” Su Cha finally noticed the burning sensation stirring deep within her chest.
She cursed irritably, forced the courtyard gate open, and rushed out.
Mo Ze, who had rushed over after hearing the commotion, saw Su Cha running toward him.
He wanted to ask what had happened but was interrupted by another voice.
“Mo Ze, I don’t feel well.” The soft voice was full of tender vulnerability.
Anyone who heard it would find it impossible to walk away.
Mo Ze glanced at Su Cha’s retreating back, but ultimately turned around.
“Xi’er, what’s wrong?
Where does it hurt?” he asked with deep concern, pulling Yunxi into his arms.
Su Cha could not care less about them.
She pulled out a pill to temporarily suppress her symptoms and sprinted back home.
She wanted to curse them to hell and back.
Only the female lead and the original owner of this body could come up with such a melodramatic, cliché scheme.
SPLASH!
Su Cha dove headfirst into the deep pool without a second thought.
Although winter had just passed, the weather hadn’t fully warmed up yet.
The water in the pool still carried a bone-piercing chill.
Su Cha held her breath and dove straight into the depths, only resurfacing when her lungs burned for air.
In the beastman world, Enchanting Grass was divided into male and female plants.
The plot in the original novel only ever described it being consumed after soaking in water; it never mentioned this alternative method of exposure.
She might be able to formulate a cure, but right now, she had absolutely no time to study it.
The scorching heat inside her was slowly eroding her consciousness inch by inch.
The clash of ice and fire was pure torture, both physically and mentally.
The air was laced with the scent of a female in heat.
In the distant pool, the female submerged herself into the water again and again.
Cang Yuan’s dark green eyes watched her, as unfathomable as the pool itself.
From noon until the fading glow of the setting sun, the heat within her body finally dissipated, replaced by a permeating chill.
Only then did Su Cha weakly drag herself out of the water, looking like a drowned rat.
She fumbled into her spatial storage, swallowed some cold medicine, and changed out of her wet clothes.
Because she had fled in such a rush, she hadn’t brought any of the original owner’s clothes.
She had no choice but to pull out one of her own red dresses to wear.
She shifted to a dry spot, laid down, and waited for her strength to slowly recover.
An unfamiliar presence approached.
It lacked any killing intent, and this time, the person made no effort to conceal their aura.
“There’s a much better way to cure this, yet you insisted on choosing such a torturous method.
You’re quite an interesting female.”
The frivolous tone and androgynous voice gave it away.
Su Cha didn’t even need to turn her head to know which lapdog it was.
“The female you like is currently mating with another male, yet you still have the leisure to stroll around.
You’re even more interesting.”
Mu Beichen was speechless.
After a long moment of silence, he spoke again.
“What did you use earlier to knock me out?”
He was a Snake Beastman, highly skilled in the use of toxins.
Ordinary poisons had no effect on him, so he never expected to be taken down by a single strike from a female.
“It’s a life-saving skill.
Forgive me for keeping my secrets.” Su Cha had no patience or politeness for a Beastman who had just tried to attack her.
Mu Beichen remained silent, thinking it was truly impossible to hold a conversation with this female.
Having regained most of her strength, Su Cha stood up and patted the dust off her skirt.
Only then did Mu Beichen notice how extraordinarily beautiful Su Cha looked in the red dress.
Her already outstanding appearance was vastly different from Yunxi’s pure, cute aesthetic; it was a dazzling, entirely unique kind of beauty.
If she didn’t have a reputation for being vicious and incapable of Transformation, she would probably be incredibly popular among the males.
Su Cha pulled out the bone knife she always carried and turned toward Mu Beichen.
“Are you still trying to capture me?”
Mu Beichen raised an eyebrow.
The drug’s effects had already passed.
What was the point of capturing her now?
Even so, a playful, frivolous smirk touched his lips.
“Do you really think you can beat me?”
Although he had heard rumors that Su Cha had defeated a Fourth-tier Beastman a few days ago despite being unable to undergo Transformation, he assumed it was largely exaggerated.
How strong could a Beastman without an animal form possibly be?
A moment later, the previously arrogant Snake Beastman collapsed with a look of sheer disbelief on his face.
“Pass a message to Yunxi for me.
Tell her that I, Su Cha, am not someone she can easily step on,” Su Cha said coldly before Mu Beichen completely lost consciousness.
She casually blew the residual powder off her hand.
There were thousands upon thousands of poisons in the world.
Even the major villain, Cang Yuan—the most formidable snake of them all—could be poisoned.
For the military’s most brilliant miracle doctor to knock out a run-of-the-mill venomous snake?
It was child’s play.
Afterward, she used the bone knife to slice his finger open, unceremoniously collecting a glass vial’s worth of his blood.