"At that time, I was still inexperienced, and I didn't have much suspicion about Xiao Yu's younger brother, my junior apprentice brother. Seeing how distressed he was about Xiao Yu's illness, I didn't say much else and let him stay. Over the following years, Xiao Yu's condition became erratic and worsened rather than stabilized like before. I was always puzzled as to why she had become like this; she had taken all her prescribed medicine and her treatments were never delayed. Why was she not getting any lighter but instead getting heavier? It was not until one day when my senior brothers and I came back early from dealing with matters outside that I learned the truth about everything. That beast, he, he was actually harming Xiao Yu!"
An Yiqing felt a chill in her heart, and a slow disbelief crept into her eyes, "How could this... " Before she could finish, An Yiqing closed her mouth.
