"Despicable!"

  Huā Róu had not yet reacted, and Táng Liù let out a loud shout as he rushed forward, scolding: "Dù Jié, you shameless thing! Who has ever done something like intentionally throwing away their gloves? It's clear that Huā Róu didn't want to poison you, so how can you say you won?"

  "It's just about winning or losing!" Du Jie glared at Tang Liu without any politeness: "You care about what method I use, but the one who won is me now!"

  "Damn it! Not a bit upright, you're not even a man!" Tang Liu turned his head and shouted at Tang Ji: "Brother Ji, how can there be such a scoundrel in your house? Shameless!"

  Tang Jin was silent, but his gaze at Du Jie was particularly intimidating. Du Jie was immediately cowed by the gaze and shrunk back, not daring to make a sound.

  "What a fuss! Between the battle arrays, no one is tired of deceit. Tang Jian loudly announced: "This round of competition, Du Jie wins!"

  Du Jie let out a long sigh of relief and was about to leave the stage.

  "Wait!" At this time, Hua Rou stood up: "I lost."

  She said, bowing to Du Jie, and then seriously instructed: "But my just-received move may not be timely enough, I suggest you go back and drink a bowl of mung bean water to detoxify as soon as possible to prevent injury."

  This sentence brought a flush of shame to Du Jie's face, while Hua Rou turned around and left the scene.

  She sprained her foot, although she could walk, it still hurt a lot, so she could only move slowly and carefully. At this time, Ziqi's voice was much brighter: "I really thought she could hold on!"

  "Isn't it!" Zi Hua naturally chimed in: "In the end, we still lost, what a loss of face for our Poison House."

  Malicious words hurt people, and falling into a well is a vicious character, but Hua Rou didn't listen to it at all, just taking care of herself moving forward slowly, without any anger.

  Such an unreasonable and unflappable attitude made Zi Qi and Zi Hua's faces turn pale, and in the next second, Mu Jun suddenly appeared on the scene, without saying a word, he swept Huajiao into his arms!

  A cry of surprise, that was Huā Róu's unexpected intention.

  A burst of astonishment, it's the surprise and envy of the crowd!

  "Brother Mu?" Hua Rou looked at Mu Junwu in surprise.

  "Your foot is sprained, I'll take you back!" Mu Junwu said softly as he hugged Hua Rou and quickly left the scene, shocking everyone into a stunned silence, with discussions and speculations erupting all around.

  "My goodness! I also really want to sprain my foot!"

  "Even if you broke your leg, it would be useless; when has anyone else ever appeared in Mu Junwu's eyes?"

  "I'm so envious, I'm so jealous!"

  Listening to these rumors, Zi Qi's face changed from incredulity to indignation, while Tang Xiao, who rushed to the edge of the scene, looked at Mu Junwu embracing Hua Rou and leaving in the distance with a melancholy expression.

  ……

  In the west wing of the poisonous house, Mu Junwu gently massaged Hua Rou's ankle with her light hands and feet: "Does it hurt?"

  "It doesn't hurt." Hua Rou's face turned red as she shook her head: "I was just in pain for a moment when I sprained it earlier, but now it's fine."

  "That's good." Mu Junwu said, picking up the shoes and preparing to put them on Hua Rou.

  "I'll do it myself!" Hua Rou couldn't bear to let Mu Junwu put on her shoes for her, and she reached out to take them, but Mu Junwu flicked his hand aside and looked at her: "Don't move..."

  Two light words, yet like magic, fixed Hua Rou in place, making her face even more flushed with shyness.

  I carefully put shoes on Hua Rou, but as soon as I did, she took them off again and held them up to examine them.

  "The heel is so uneven, no wonder you sprained your ankle."

  "Huh?" Hua Rou's face turned red: "Really? I didn't notice."

  "You can tell!"

  Hua Rou was stunned by the words and struggled to understand what Mu Junwu meant, while at this time, Yu'er walked in with her head down, saw Mu Junwu and Hua Rou together, and froze.

  "Yu'er, you're back?" Hua Rou asked while trying to withdraw her foot: "How was the competition?"

  However, Mu Junwu did not let go of her foot, but instead pulled it back and calmly helped her put on her shoes.

  "I lost." Yu'er sighed and waved at Mu Junwu, trying to greet him, but he was busy helping Hua Rou put on her shoes and didn't even lift his head to acknowledge her.

  At this moment, Yu'er's face turned even paler, and she reluctantly withdrew her hand.

  "It's okay, Yu'er!" Hua Rou comforted Yu'er: "The loser can still participate in the losers' group competition, and there are five more winning spots. You'll definitely be fine."

  "Really?" Yu'er's eyes didn't have much confidence in them.

  "Of course! I believe you!"

  "Then what about you?"

  "Huh?" Hua Rou hadn't reacted yet.

  "Are you confident of winning in the losers' bracket?"

  Hua Ruo heard this and sighed: "If everyone were as reckless with their lives as Brother Du Jie, I really wouldn't have any confidence."

  "Being overly kind is your weakness, if you can't overcome it, you will undoubtedly lose."

  "Believe me, I'm right." Yuer rushed to Huajou and said: "You're just too kind-hearted, always being bullied and calculated by those people. Next time you fight, just make your move, they'll be scared to death!"

  "No matter if they are afraid of death or not, I don't want to hurt people with poison." Hua Rou frowned and said: "Even if the poison can be cured, it's still harmful to the body."

  Yu'er was about to retort, but Mu Jun spoke first: "If you don't want to, then don't force yourself. I'll think of a way to deal with it for you. You rest, I'm leaving."

  Mo Jun said as he turned around and walked away, coincidentally facing Yu'er, so he glanced at Yu'er and slightly nodded his head to her.

  This slight concern made Yu'er feel someone's attention, and the gloomy color immediately decreased by half. After Mu Junwu went out, she rushed to Hua Rou and smiled: "Are you two getting along well?"

  Hua Rou's face turned red as she lowered her head in embarrassment: "Don't talk nonsense, Mu Ge is just... concerned about me."

  Yu'er laughed even more brightly: "Yes, Tangmen, he only cares about you!"

  Hua Rou's face turned even redder, like a delicate pomegranate flower.

  Outside, Mu Junwu walked out and saw Tang Jiuer standing in the corridor, silently bowing to him.

  "Come here!" Tang Jiuer's initiative made Mu Junwu walk over in surprise.

  "Aren't you going to say thank you?"

  Thank you, Poison Master, for lending a hand to save me.

  Tang Jiuer lowered her eyes: "You should thank me, not for saving you, but for knowing about your affair and not reporting it."

  Mu Jun's eyelids lifted slightly, and he straightened up, looking at Tang Jiu'er with a dull expression: "The disciple does not understand the poison master's meaning."

  Tang Jiuer let out a cold hum: "Do you understand? I don't care, what I care about is... how did you and Hua Rou get to know each other?"

  "We are both people who have fallen to the ends of the earth."

  Tang Jiuer nodded: "Mu Junwu, I have something that I want you to help me with."

  Admiring you, I look at Tang Jiuer, silent and motionless, without any action.

  Tang Jiuer sighed and said, "Consider it a favor I owe you!"

  "What does the poison master want me to do?"

  "When you have the chance to leave Tongmen and go outside, I hope you can use your intelligence to find a place for a little girl to settle down safely for the rest of her life."

  "If I could go out."

  "You can." Tang Jiuer said, taking out a small bamboo tube from her sleeve and handing it to Mu Junwu: "Remember after burning!"

  I took it and was about to open it when Tang Jiuer turned around and walked away.

  Admiring you, I watched her back enter the main hall. After closing the door, she opened the bamboo tube and pulled out a thin silk handkerchief from inside.

  On this silk handkerchief was painted a map, and after Mu Jun had roughly scanned it once, his heart was filled with shock and doubt: This... is the secret passage to leave the Tang Gate?