Itch is a more frightening feeling than fear and pain.

  Fear hurts the spirit but does not harm the body.

  Physical pain you can still endure;

  It's so itchy, a double torment for both spirit and body, how can one bear it?

  The child's drawing was just a light scratch, but it seemed to trigger a terrible mechanism, and the itchy vines that resembled madness spread rapidly from her throat to her limbs...

  In an instant, itch enveloped her body, like a thousand hands teasing every inch of her skin, stirring up every hair on her body, making her start scratching uncontrollably.

  And every scratch will enhance sensory feedback, cycling back and forth infinitely...

  "You..." The sudden movement of the child's drawing naturally caused Ziqi to worry, but just as she had uttered a word, the friction between her clothes and skin also triggered that one touch, and she too started itching, the two people at the table frantically scratching, the more they scratched, the more fiercely they scratched, the more they couldn't stop...

  About half an hour later, Linlin returned, and as soon as she pushed open the door and entered the room, she was stunned by the scene in front of her!

  Zi Qi and Zi Hua, unexpectedly with disheveled clothes, hairpins askew and hair scattered, like a mad patient, one foot stepped on the embroidered stool, gnashing teeth and scratching legs wildly; the other half-reclined on the bedside, like a bear rubbing its back up and down, while both hands were frantically scratching around the waist and neck...

  Their entire exposed skin was covered in bloodstains and blisters, with countless scratched blisters oozing out a mixture of yellow and bloody water, emitting a strong stench.

  "You..." Linlin spat out two words, unable to help but shudder. At this moment, looking at them like that, she felt as if her own skin was festering.

  "Ling, quickly, help us!" Zi Qi squeezed out the words with difficulty, but couldn't stop scratching: "Quickly find some Astragalus and Paeonia, decoct them into a medicinal liquid to detoxify for us."

  "Poison?" Lingling exclaimed in shock: "Have you been poisoned?"

  "Go quickly!" Zi Hua cried out, her hands covered in blood from clutching the embroidered stool, "If we keep going like this, our bodies will be torn to shreds!"

  "Alright, I'll go now."

  Ling Ling immediately ran out of the house, but after a few steps, she thought of Ziqi's terrible appearance and turned around to rush back to the main hall.

  "How did you get here? Is there something going on?" Tang Jiuer was sitting in front of her dresser combing her hair.

  "Oh no!" Linlin's heart was racing with anxiety, and she said nervously: "Zihua and Ziqi suddenly broke out in big blisters all over their bodies, and they can't stop scratching. They say it's poison..."

  "It's indeed poisonous." Tangerine interrupted Linyin's statement very calmly: "How, they want you to help them detoxify?"

  "Do you know? Is it you..."

  "It wasn't me." Tang Jiuer's interest was waning and she let out a yawn.

  "Isn't it? Then how did they...?"

  "Hey! You absolutely mustn't do bad things, if you do, who knows where you'll suffer the consequences!"

  Zi Qi's painting was poisoned, she knew it clearly, so when Tang took a sip, she realized that the twin sisters were going to suffer.

  Ling looked at Tang Jiuer in confusion, but Tang Jiuer didn't clarify things for her. Instead, she asked: "Do you want to save them?"

  "Hmm, although they're really annoying and I extremely dislike them, and want them to suffer, but seeing their miserable state... still feels like a relief."

  Tang Jiuer's eyes had a hint of approval: "That's right, you go, and have them drink water stewed with huai shan and cassava leaves."

  "Tapioca leaves?" Linlin frowned in confusion: "They also said they used Pueraria root! Did they use it wrong?"

  "Fu Gen Cao is right, but the bitter end hasn't been eaten yet, how can you easily let it go?"

  Lingling looked at Tang Jiuer's cold face and smiled after blinking: "I understand."

  Ling Ling rushed straight to the pharmacy to prepare medicine, while Tang Jiu'er looked at herself in the mirror and touched her temples.

  If it's a coincidence, then it's retribution. If it's not a coincidence... I'm afraid someone has already memorized all the books in my study and learned to apply them.

  Tang Jiuer's eyes rolled: "Hua Rou? No! It can't be... could it be Mu..."

  Before he could finish speaking, Tang Jiuer's eyes had already become deep and profound like an abyss.

  ……

  "Gulp gulp gulp" He downed the medicine in one breath, and Zi Hua wiped his mouth while complaining: "Why is it taking so long to take effect?"

  The two of them have been itching since noon yesterday and it didn't stop until the sun rose this morning. They've taken three doses of medicine, but the situation hasn't improved much, just a tiny bit better.

  "Didn't you get the material wrong?" Ziqi was very weak, and although the most intense itching state of the night had disappeared, the itchy feeling still lingered. She barely maintained a sitting posture, not daring to move even an inch, fearing that she would trigger another uncontrollable frenzy.

  "Huai Shan, Fu Gen Cao, I did it according to your requirements, don't blame me if it's not right! I've been brewing medicine for you all night." Linlin said, putting down the just-collected medicine bowl and lying on the bed: "I need to make up for my sleep."

  "You..."

  Zi Qi hastily gestured to Zi Hua to shake her head, signaling her not to make a sound - who would dare to provoke Lin Lin and get them into trouble?

  Zi Hua's face was twisted in a mixture of shame and disgust, her head hung low as she gazed at the filthy and detestable state of her own hands. Zi Qi couldn't help but worry about his own situation upon seeing Zi Hua's miserable appearance.

  She slowly and carefully got up, and then very slowly moved in front of the mirror.

  She in the mirror, her body, hands and neck were covered with large patches of blisters, some of which wrapped around yellow pus, while others had scratched open to reveal red flesh, and between the blisters were dense scratch marks.

  "No, no!"

  Frightful appearance, sickening enough.

  Zi Qi's face twisted in disgust, she didn't care about being gentle anymore, quickly turning around to grab her clothes and put them on, trying to cover up the terrifying scene.

  But...

  "Ah!"

  As soon as she put on the clothes, she let out a painful cry, and in less than a breath, she quickly took off her clothes, as if the clothes were scorching hot iron that would burn her skin.

  "Sister, what are you doing?"

  "Can't...can't wear..." Ziqi clenched her fists and gritted her teeth, trying to endure: "The blisters on my body itch so much when they touch anything..."

  Zi Qi said that at this point she could no longer speak, and the oxygen-deprived gray matter in her body began to erode her nerves, tempting her to scratch.

  She didn't dare. If she continued to scratch, she didn't know what ugly state she would become, so in a moment of desperation, she squatted down on the ground, her hands grasping at the ground with all her might, even if her hands were quickly scratched until they bled, unable to stop.

  The child looked at his sister's beast-like appearance and nearly collapsed: "Is it... is it that we can't even wear clothes anymore?"

  Zi Qi and her sister were now under the control of itching, while Linlin, who was lying in bed pretending to sleep, was secretly glancing at them, muttering to herself:

  Who poisoned them anyway? The antidote has been eaten halfway and it's still such a mess... Tsk, tsk, too ruthless! However... really... feels so relieving...