Bai Ruozhu had left out one detail, right from the beginning when she heard that Weng An was poisoned by some junior sister and started spending time with Xiu Cuicui, she felt something was amiss. She hadn't had a good impression of Weng An and hadn't expected him to act so quickly.
Xiu Cuicui cried silently, without any expression on her face as if her heart had died and she couldn't even muster an expression of pain, yet the tears quietly streamed down her cheeks.
"He said he wanted to rush back to the Sect to report to our master and ask for my hand in marriage. I happily left the City with him. But before we got far, he suddenly clutched his chest and collapsed to the ground, saying we had been deceived, that his poison had not been cured at all, and he was afraid he'd be unable to accompany me for life," Xiu Cuicui's face finally showed some expression, a twisted anger.
