After taking the antidotes from Zhuge for several days, Wendy’s face remaining pale as shell, you may see the dark circles between her eyebrows. That’s why Sung calls Zhuge here to make a check for her again. “What did you eat these days?” Zhuge checks her pulse then asks with frown. Sung gets worried also, “So how’s she? Have we cleaned some of her poisoning inside after these days?” He checks carefully.
Zhuge sighs, “Not at all, and she’s getting worse…” His words make Sung and Wendy nervous, “How? I have checked everything before I ate these days. Nothing is poisoned…” Wendy says with unthinkable. Zhuge looks at her, getting conscious, “Are you sure you double checked everything? Did you eat something else that not checked? Please think carefully!” Wendy thinks for a while then speaks, “I, I used to eat some cakes from Zoe…”
“No! It can’t be!” Sung furrows then argues with Wendy’s words. Wendy nods, agrees with him. Zoe looks so innocent and lovely, it can’t be her! “Yes, I agree with you guys. Wendy saved Zoe’s life, she should treat Wendy as a savior. Besides, there’s no motivation from her.” Turns to Wendy, “So did you go to her every single day, and took her cakes?” Wendy nods.
Sung frowns and deep in thought, “Then we must go for a check. This may not good for Zoe’s body if it is true.” The next day, Wendy and Zhuge go to check Zoe, they see a full table of delicious cakes when they walk in, “How you eat such sweet stuff, Zoe? You can’t touch any strong food yet.” Zhuge complains a little. “Oh, I prepare for my sister.” Zoe smiles, such a sweet and charming smile she has!
“Wow, now you have a new sister, and forget your brother, huh? Can you prepare something for me next time?” Zhuge teases and makes Zoe laugh, “Are you jealous? Wow, ok, I will! But you must prepare a huge table of delicious dishes when the time I can eat!” Wendy laughs with her, “You foodie!” She never believes Zoe can be one of the suspects of her poisoning! Zhuge then takes a piece of white sugar cake, he splits it out fast! “Why? It’s yucky for?” Zoe asks with curious.
“It’s poisoned!!” Zhuge replies in astonishing. “What did you say?” Zoe seems very amazed, she picks one then splits it out fast too. “Yes! It’s poisoned! How?!” By this moment, Sung walks in with a cold face, he scolds to Zoe, “Sister, I never know you are such a good poisoner.” Zoe looks up, feeling unfair and wrong. “Wait, you suspect me, brother?!” Sung explains coldly, “She came to you every day, and ate your cakes. Actually, we have found her poisoned a few weeks ago, we have checked all her food, except yours!” Sung’s words hurt Zoe, she almost cries while she sees Sung’s disbelief face. The unbelief face of her dear brother!
“I didn’t! Do you think I will poison myself as well?! Brother, if I wanna poison someone, you won’t even figure out! This poison from the west area, the worst one among all other poisons! I won’t even think to use this stupid one to poison others!” Zoe raises her voice, explaining with weeping.
“Then why we found the poison today in your cakes?” Sung requests back. Zoe’s heart collapses at the moment, she grabs a short knife from her dressing table. “Fine! Brother! I never thought you could suspect me one day! How long we have been together?! If you think I try to poison my sister, as well as my savior, then I, I…” She places her knife towards her heart, and about to pierce into her heart! Sung and Zhuge don’t understand her motivation at that time, they freeze there doing nothing. Meanwhile, Wendy knows clearly her mind, she jumps to her and grabs her knife as fast as she could! Suddenly, she feels something warm on her hands, it’s blood! Big drops of blood run out of her wound and fall to the ground, dying the white stone floor to pink.
“My god! You are bleeding, sister! Does it hurt?! Why you do that?!” Zoe runs to her fast and covers her wounded hand with her pink handkerchief. “Why you stop me? They all think I poisoned you, then you just let me die!” Zoe says with weeping, her tears make her eyes pink. Wendy holds her hands tight, looking into her eyes, “My sister, I never think of suspecting you. Please trust me.”
Zoe looks down and replies, “Sister, you are stupid. How could you know me, after we just met like a few weeks before?” She then looks towards Sung, “But they know me well! After they have known me around ten years or more! They think I poisoned you, so don’t trust me, Sister!” Her eyes look so hopeless. Sung walks closer and checks Wendy’s hand, “Do you feel pain? My god, look at you…” Wendy shakes her head quietly. “How could you not feel anything? That’s a big scar on your hand!” Sung keeps checking and blaming himself. Zoe doesn’t understand their weird talking, “It’s good if she doesn’t feel pain. What’s wrong?” Sung turns to her with anger, “How could you do that to yourself?! If you die then how would I explain to master?!” Zoe turns her face aside, pouting her mouth.
“Fine, it’s all my fault! I shouldn’t suspect you…” He apologizes to Zoe.
Zoe looks back, “Now I know how you think of me, my beloved brother! You think I’m too bad to poison my savior! Everyone says you are a smart Prince, well I think you are stupid like a piggy!” Zhuge walks by and helps, “No, no, he is a doggy now. Do you know your sister has a dog named Coral? That’s him!” Zoe laughs all of a sudden, all her madness has gone. “You are amazing, sister!” Now Wendy looks confused among them, “What you guys talking about?”
Zhuge teases, “Do you know Sung’s nickname used to call, Coral?” Sung looks back to them with irony, “Shut up, you two!” Wendy laughs immediately, “Oh, that’s why you were pissed that day while you met Coral! My god, that’s too funny!” Sung seems more annoyed, “Then don’t you dare to call that stupid dog, Coral, any longer! You hear me?” Wendy comforts, “Fine, then I will call you Coal, you are the big version of her. Hah!”
Sung ignores her, turning to Zhuge, “Bandaging her again, not use Zoe’s handkerchief! You never know how dirty of it, from Zoe’s nasal mucus!” Zoe argues, “No, it is clean! I never use that to clean my nose! Gosh!” Her face gets red at once. “Sister, look at him! Before he tried to suspect me. Now he tries to slander me!” Wendy smiles and comforts, “Ok, ok, we will punish him together later. We let him sit on a washboard!” Zoe continues, “That’s too easy for him! Sister, we must put him on a torture-rack, which is used for punishing those prisoners, do you know what it looks like? All sharp nails on it!”
“What the? Why my sister is so evil?” Sung sighs with unbelief.
“Exactly! That’s how you think of me! You see, you think I am evil!” Zoe seems like to cry again.
Zhuge looks back to the cakes and asks, “Who made those cakes by the way, do you know?” Zoe shakes her head. Later on, Sung calls a maid, Lin, who used to take care of Zoe now. “Who made those cakes?” He asks. She replies, “It’s me, your majesty!” Sung freezes, “Did anyone help you?” She shakes her head and says, “No, it’s all made by myself. My family used to open a cake shop in town. So I know how to make good cakes. Your majesty.”
Sung hits on the table with madness, “Then why you poisoned Zoe and Doctor Wen?!” She hears then bends down fast, “No, no, your majesty. I didn’t poison no one! I didn’t!” She cries. “Then who else would do that? You said you prepared everything by yourself!!” Zoe asks with pissed now. Lin cries and explains, “Well, I’m sorry, Miss! I really don’t know about it. I try every cake after I make them. How could I poison myself then?!” Zhuge hears and coms to her fast, he checks her eyelid, tongue and her pulse. He nods and says, “She is poisoned too…”
“What?! How… Will I die, Doctor? I don’t wanna die!” Lin scares and asks in a rush. Zhuge replies, “No, you are fine. You just get poisoned for a few days. I will give you some medicines then you will be fine.” Lin thanks him then turns to Zoe, “Miss, please trust me! I never poisoned you, I am not!” Wendy says, “I don’t think is her, I have already poisoned before she made those cakes to us.”
The silence drops in this room, everything seems curiouser and curiouser. The most scared part is not the poison itself, it’s the one who tries to poison everyone here.