Dense Forest

After finishing their meal and gaining the vow from Cheng Zhou to teach Lu Sujia how to cultivate, Xiao Tao and she were on the way to their Palace. 

It was already three in the afternoon. 

Cheng Zhou was coming to drop them off, as it was quite late for a woman to stay outside. 

While coming the way, They talked about a lot of things and Lu Sujia brought some flowers to place them in her flower vases. 

"Lu Sujia, you are still the same.. You still like this Lily flower. "

"Yes." she said with a broad smile. 

So real Lu Sujia also liked Lily, that was great! 

With those small things, no one would suspect her anymore. 

Even when Xiao Tao and Cheng Zhou couldn't recognise her, it meant that she was really like Lu Sujia. 

After they came home it was already half past four. 

They had walked a long path. 

Though Lu Sujia told Cheng Zhou to have a cup of tea with her, he declined the offer and told her he would come another day for sure, because it was truly late and he needed to hurry back. 

Lu Sujia didn't want to hold him back because it was really late and also she didn't want to stir up any misunderstanding. 

After Cheng Zhou left, she came back to her room and tidied up something and told Xiao Tao to prepare a warm bath for her. 

As it was summer, she was all sweaty and smelling stinky, that's why she insisted on taking a flower bath. 

There was a bathtub full of flower petals giving a refreshing vibe. 

When she sat down, Lu Sujia was feeling so sleepy. 

After a while, she couldn't keep her eyes open and took a quick nap there. 

After thirty minutes... 

She came out from the washroom and intended to do her skin care routine. 

Even if there were no modern cosmetics, she still had something that was made with natural essence and good for skin or it would be right to say these were far better than those chemical cosmetics. 

While applying a cream on her face, she noticed a small bottle and picked it up. 

She remembered that it was the same bottle which was given by Lu Wanrong that day. 

She didn't even open the bottle previously. 

But now she was really curious to know what it was. 

From her point of view, there was no way that Lu Wanrong had given her something good or nutritious, rather it could have affected her cultivation process. 

After all, according to Xiao Tao, every time the real Lu Sujia took this tonic, she fell ill and couldn't leave her bed for at least three or four days. 

So, it was definitely not good. 

Still she opened the bottle. 

After opening the bottle, she smelled a high noth fragrance that made her almost throw up and the next moment there was a sweet smell lingering all over the room. 

It was making her light headed. 

She quickly shut the bottle and applied the perfume all over the room to reduce the fragrance but to her surprise, she could see that the smell could mix up with others and make it strong so that it could make anyone who was in there suffocating. 

She hurriedly came outside because she couldn't breath there. 

What horrible things! 

Even smelling the tonic could make anyone this dizzy and suffocating, let alone if she drank it! 

No wonder, Lu Sujia was so fragile. 

It was not her body which was fragile but someone deliberately wanted to break her physical Constitution by giving her this type of drug again and again. 

But it would be even better, if she could know what it was! 

Even in her previous life, she went to the research laboratory where they made some colorless and odorless drugs to make enemies weak and it would help them to defeat them quickly, but it was not something like that nor she knew what it was made of. 

If she knew, she could make another one which was far different from it and let Lu Wanrong have a taste of her own medicine. 

While thinking of this, she suddenly remembered that Xiao Tao said there was someone who was formidable in drugs and poison. 

If she could meet with him, she could show the drug! 

Huh! 

Drugs? 

she should say it was poison, a vicious poison. 

With thinking she called Xiao Tao. 

"Miss, are you looking for me? " Xiao Tao came there. 

"Yeah" Lu Sujia nodded, "Do you know where the Poison Master Situ lives?"

"Umm, yes" Xiao Tao nodded, "I know, it was near my hometown. "

"I see. ``She was satisfied, "That's good. "

"Why Miss? " Xiao Tao felt something was off, why was her Miss suddenly asking for that man? 

"What do you think? " Lu Sujia smirked. 

"You are not intending to meet with him, are you? "  Xiao Tao's expression changed to pale. 

"Tao Tao, you are really intelligent. ``She was so fortunate to get this little girl beside her. 

"But Miss. " Xiao Tao was so afraid, "What if Emperor Highness will find out? "

"How can it be?" Lu Sujia frowned, "Listen there's no need to tell anything to anyone. "

"But... " Xiao Tao was in deep thoughts, "How can we enter the Palace then? "

"Tell them that we are going to visit your hometown as I'm still so weak and need to change weather for speedy recovery."

Xiao Tao still couldn't feel at ease. 

"Miss, Still I heard that he lives in a dense forest, what if we will lose there and can't come back?" Xiao Tao was so worried about her Miss, what if something will happen to her. 

What will she say to others? 

How can she face herself? 

Lu Sujia pinched her brows together and thought something. 

"That makes sense. " Lu Sujia nodded. 

After hearing that Xiao Tao thought she did not want to go anymore. 

But who knew!! 

"In case, I will go alone." Her face was determined, "You are still so young and have a long way to go, so I don't want to drag you in my mess. You just need to take me out from the Palace and that's all. 

If later, I can't be found, you will just give an excuse that I would insist on going alone and get killed by a wild beast. Yes, that's a good idea. "

While talking, Lu Sujia didn't look at Xiao Tao and was thinking deeply but when she looked at her, she was so shocked. 

The delicate little girl who was like a soft flower was sobbing miserably. 

After seeing her like that, Lu Sujia rushed to her. 

Even if her current age was yet to be eighteen, her mental age was actually twenty three, so naturally she felt a sisterly affection for this girl. 

Moreover, she was the only one who stayed beside her after she woke up from the narrow escape. 

"Tao Tao, Why are you crying like that? " she asked worriedly. 

"Does Miss not want me anymore? " she said as she hiccuped because of excessive crying. 

"How come.. Miss loves Tao Tao most. " she comforted her, 

"Then, if you really want to go there, let me follow you, alright? "

"You.. are you sure?" she was so worried, after all she was just a child, who was far ahead of her, unlike her who had already died once and didn't mind one more time. But how could she drag her into this. 

"Yes, I am. " Xiao Tao was also determined. 

She could live or die, it didn't matter she just wanted to accompany her Miss everywhere. 

"But you said by yourself the place is dangerous. " Lu Sujia was looking white because of worry. 

"Miss, it doesn't matter. " Xiao Tao wiped her tears, "As long as we are together, we can surely find some solution but let me follow you, okay? "

Lu Sujia couldn't say her 'no' anymore and nodded a little. 

But she vowed in mind that she would surely protect Xiao Tao from every danger. 

"Then let's go to the court tomorrow to have permission from the Emperor. " Lu Sujia suggested. 

"Okay." she nodded. 

"Okay enough, now let's go and help me to tidy up this." Lu Sujia pointed to her room which was full of the sweet smell. 

"Okay," Xiao Tao accompanied her there.