Chapter 1597 — Struggles of the Heart: I Don't Even Like Him, and the One He Loves Is Tang Yun? But... Do I Really Not Like Him?

"Sister Yaoyao, what's wrong with you?" Shen Yushu asked, tilting her head at Gu Mengyao's strangely contorted expression.

"Nothing... nothing at all..." Gu Mengyao shook her head, banishing the unrealistic thought from her mind.

"Then... shall I go help?" Shen Yushu asked, barely able to contain herself.

"Don't go make a scene! Wei Zhao said he has a way to handle it!" For reasons she couldn't quite explain, Gu Mengyao found herself extremely reluctant to let Shen Yushu walk over there.

On Wei Zhao's end, he had swiftly driven silver needles into the acupoints all over his body — yet he could hear every single word of the conversation between Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu perfectly clearly! Wei Zhao let out a bitter smile, forced to do his best to suppress those improper thoughts.

As for Yaoyao and Xiao Shu, Wei Zhao naturally held affection for them as well. Was he made of wood or stone, to feel no emotion at all? After all, having lived together for so long, a unique kind of emotional bond had long since formed among them. Although Tang Yun had more or less tacitly accepted the presence of the eldest young lady and Xiao Shu, Wei Zhao found their true feelings utterly inscrutable.

The eldest young lady's affections were ambiguous — neither entirely true nor entirely false. Beneath Shen Yushu's sprightly ebullience, it was always impossible to tell what was genuine and what wasn't. Moreover, Wei Zhao already had Tang Yun, and he already had Feng Xiaoxiao. If something truly happened with the eldest young lady or Xiao Shu here and now, Wei Zhao would never be able to face himself.

Even if he were to act on it, Wei Zhao would consult Tang Yun's wishes first — that was the bare minimum of respect. He could not simply run amok just because Tang Yun indulged and tacitly permitted things.

But Wei Zhao soon discovered that the silver needle detoxification method seemed to have no effect on him. The temperature inside his body was still climbing! The drug's effects had clearly taken hold, and Wei Zhao felt no reversal whatsoever. The desire surging within him grew ever stronger, contorting his expression into something fierce and terrifying.

Still, Wei Zhao managed to cling to what little rationality remained. He sat cross-legged on the ground and urgently asked Jiao Yazi, "Elder Jiao, what should I do now?"

"Hmm... this looks rather serious. Try using your true qi to dissolve the desire," Jiao Yazi said after a moment's thought. "Your energy is universal in nature. See if you can convert it into a force to neutralize the drug's potency within your body."

"Alright!" Wei Zhao nodded, entered the jade pendant space, and activated the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Technique, using the energy within the jade pendant space to fight against and dissolve the aphrodisiac's poison in his body. To Wei Zhao's pleasant surprise, it actually seemed to be having some effect!

But the aphrodisiac's potency proved extraordinarily tyrannical — for every fraction he refined away, an enormous amount of energy had to be drawn into his body. Still, that was better than having no method at all, and time was something Wei Zhao had in abundance.

In a private room elsewhere within the resort, Zhong Yongliang and Gao Xiaofu were drenched in sweat, panting heavily from sheer exhaustion.

"Brother Liang, this isn't working either — my hands are about to snap off!" Gao Xiaofu groaned, his face twisted into a bitter grimace. "Paozi's drug is way too overpowered!"

"Tell me about it! My arms feel like they're going to break too — but we've got to push through! Think about Wei Zhao's side of things; we need to get over there as fast as we can. If we're too late, it'll all have been for nothing!" Zhong Yongliang said. "Let's sing a song — pick up the pace!"

"Sing? Sure! What song?" Gao Xiaofu asked.

"Sing with me! One, two, three — ready... Go! Calabash Brothers... Calabash Brothers..." Zhong Yongliang belted out at the top of his lungs.

And so, the two of them broke into song inside the bathroom, their spirits suddenly invigorated...

Wei Zhao's energy and the drug's potency locked in a brutal, grinding struggle. Under the sheer agony, wisps of white vapor began rising from his forehead — he was so hot he was literally steaming.

"Sister Yaoyao, this is bad — Arrow Bro is going to catch fire!" Shen Yushu cried out in alarm when she saw the white steam billowing from Wei Zhao's head.

"What?! Then... what do we do?" Gu Mengyao was no less frightened. "Shall we turn the air conditioning up to the max?"

Shen Yushu quickly located the remote control and cranked the air conditioning to its coldest setting. But although the cold air was blasting away, the steam on Wei Zhao's forehead didn't diminish even slightly — it kept billowing forth as before, thick with heat.

"How about we find two fans and cool him down that way? That might help him feel a bit better, right?" Seeing that the air conditioning wasn't doing the trick, Shen Yushu suggested.

"Good idea!" Gu Mengyao was grasping at every straw she could. The hotel room happened to have banana leaf fans on hand, so each of them grabbed one and began fanning Wei Zhao from his left and right sides!

He watched their efforts from where he sat, but the effect was negligible. Wei Zhao, however, no longer had the strength to speak — he was clenching his jaw tight, channeling his inner power to dissolve the desire raging within him.

Energy gathered around Wei Zhao's body, surging into him at an incredible speed, only to be consumed and dispersed in his struggle against the drug. The sheer rate at which he absorbed energy left Wei Zhao thunderstruck — surely he wouldn't need this much energy even when breaking through to a higher realm?

Yet the drug did indeed require that vast amount of energy to be neutralized. While Wei Zhao found it utterly unbelievable, he was also secretly alarmed — where on earth had Zhong Yongliang gotten hold of such a tyrannical drug? Could Zhang Naipao have given it to him? Thinking back on it now, that possibility wasn't entirely out of the question...

"Elder Jiao, this drug is far too potent — I'm barely holding on!" Wei Zhao struggled desperately, continuously absorbing energy to neutralize the drug's effects in his body.

"Oh? Then just take care of it," Elder Jiao said.

"Take care of it? How?" Wei Zhao asked.

"Five against one." Elder Jiao replied. "Although this drug seems outrageously potent, the fact that your true qi can dissolve it proves that physical intercourse isn't the only solution. So you could handle it yourself with your own hand — though given how powerful this drug is, it'll probably take a good hour or two."

"..." Black lines instantly crisscrossed Wei Zhao's forehead. Spend one to two hours in the bathroom jacking off? Are you kidding me? If Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu weren't right there it might be one thing — but they were both present! If he went now, wouldn't they just die of laughter?

"Anything else?" Wei Zhao asked, utterly helpless.

"Then you'll just have to keep dissolving it!" Jiao Yazi said. "With your current strength and the boundless energy of the jade pendant space, you can certainly neutralize it — it will just take considerably longer..."

"As long as it can be dissolved, that's all that matters!" Wei Zhao gritted his teeth and resolved to carry on.

An hour later, Zhong Yongliang and Gao Xiaofu had finally taken care of their business — both of them on the verge of collapsing from exhaustion. At this point, neither of them could so much as raise an arm.

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