Chapter 79: When the Female Master Was Young, Her House Was Next to a Stable, Right?

Chapter 79: Chapter 79: When the Female Master Was Young, Her House Was Next to a Stable, Right?

At first, Shen Mianzhou showed no reaction. He soaked quietly in his room’s bathtub. But five minutes later, his agonized howls echoed through the entire villa.

Everyone rushed out of their rooms. Once they figured out what had happened, they all stared at Gu Weilan in silence.

Gu Weilan pursed her lips, muttering in a voice barely louder than a whisper, "I was just thinking... I hadn’t spent much time with him these past few days, so I wanted to let him try my most precious potion. I never expected... this would happen."

She remembered being told it would cause severe pain, but it was genuinely a good item. She just hadn’t anticipated it would hurt this much.

Lorenzo frowned slightly. "Beastmen from the Hunting Team can endure a lot of hardship. He... must have truly reached his limit to cry out like that."

Xuanshuo couldn’t help but frown as well. "How much longer is he going to howl? We can’t just stay up all night with him and not rest, right?"

Shi Lingfeng looked at Gu Weilan. "Was that the only vial? If you have more, you absolutely cannot drink it."

Xie Jing couldn’t suppress his curiosity. "What exactly is this potion?"

There were quite a few types of Bloodline Purification Potions on the market in the interstellar beast world. Though their effects varied, none of them were cheap. However, no one had ever heard of a potion causing a Beastman such excruciating, living-hell levels of pain that they would scream for so long.

Gu Weilan looked guilty. She definitely wasn’t going to spend another 50 points to be a sucker again. Just listening to Shen Mianzhou’s wretched screams made her certain that she wouldn’t be able to handle it herself!

"There was only one vial," she explained. "The friend who gave it to me did say it would be extremely painful. I just didn’t expect it to be this agonizing. I even thought that if this Bloodline Purification Potion worked really well, I’d ask for another one the next time I saw him."

Zhan Heng took a deep breath and rubbed Gu Weilan’s long hair. "Alright, don’t be upset. It’ll be fine."

Lorenzo looked at Zhan Heng with his odd-colored eyes. He made a mental note never to offend this absolute menace. Even when unprovoked, the guy was utterly ruthless. If someone actually offended him, how miserable would their fate be?

Shi Lingfeng pinched the bridge of his nose and stood up. "I’ll go mute the sound coming from his room."

Gu Weilan pursed her lips again. "I already had the butler robot mute it. It’s probably because... it just hurts too much, so... the sound is still this loud." ℯℯ𝘭.

Everyone couldn’t help but stare at Gu Weilan.

WOW.

The only drugs they knew of that caused this much pain were used in interrogations. They had never imagined that a normal potion could act like the devil itself!

Unable to resist, they all connected to the Star Network and began searching for the brand of Bloodline Purification Potion that could make a highly tolerant male scream so miserably.

Zhan Heng asked softly, "What brand is this potion?"

"It doesn’t have a brand."

"Then... when did it pass the Drug Administration’s inspection?"

"It didn’t go through an inspection."

Zhan Heng pursed his lips, and the other Beast Husbands picked up on the strange implications.

"Then who gave it to you?" Zhan Heng continued. "Is this friend of yours a male or a female? What does he do?"

Gu Weilan frowned. If she said it was a male, she could claim he went out to collect materials and lost contact or died in battle. But if she said it was a female, it would be much harder to cover up the lie.

Therefore, she decided to blend truth with fiction. "It’s a male. He’s a friend I’ve known since I was very young. He also likes Pharmacy, but school tuition for males is extremely expensive, so he’s entirely self-taught. He taught me a lot of my concepts and knowledge.

"He’s already gone to a Deserted Star to collect materials. We haven’t been in touch for a long time."

Zhan Heng’s breath caught for a moment, and the other Beast Husbands felt a surge of sour bitterness in their hearts.

She actually had yet another childhood sweetheart! And this wasn’t even the same one Gu Yaoqing had mentioned.

God, they were so jealous!

The childhood sweetheart who gave the Female Master the Cultivation Liquid formula, the childhood sweetheart Gu Yaoqing spoke of, and now this pharmacy genius childhood sweetheart she was talking about...

Did the Female Master grow up next to a sweetheart factory?

Zhan Heng thought, "Does going to a Deserted Star to find materials mean they have to lose contact for a long time? He’d better not die! If he dies, he’ll become her untouchable first love!"

Xie Jing, on the other hand, thought, "Hurry up and die! If this childhood sweetheart dies and the Female Master has to find a Beast Husband to avoid next year’s Beast God Matching System, she’ll definitely choose me!"

Lorenzo’s temples throbbed as he thought much further ahead, "What a manipulative childhood sweetheart! With no Drug Administration inspection, no production date, and no official qualifications whatsoever, the potion he brought out still gained the Female Master’s one hundred percent trust! What if he gives her poison and tells her to feed it to us Beast Husbands?"

Lorenzo’s scalp went numb at the thought.

He couldn’t help but pray, "Shen Mianzhou’s potion usage has to fail this time! If it succeeds, the Female Master will trust that childhood sweetheart even more! If he ever wants the lives of us Beast Husbands, wouldn’t it be as easy as flipping his hand?"

Shi Lingfeng rested one elbow on the armrest of the sofa, supporting his right cheek with two fingers and resting his jaw on three. He asked Gu Weilan directly, "Female Master Lanlan, if this potion’s effects turn out well, could we pay your friend to buy his upgraded formula?"

Zhan Heng shot Shi Lingfeng a cold look, his dark red phoenix eyes engaging in a silent clash with the other man. His gaze clearly stated that some money just wasn’t worth making.

Shi Lingfeng’s long, narrow peach-blossom eyes merely lifted in a slight smirk, silently firing back that just because Zhan Heng wouldn’t make the money didn’t mean he couldn’t take the Female Master to another pharmacy company to do business. Loving her meant elevating her.

Zhan Heng’s glare retorted that elevating her didn’t mean pushing her into the arms of some other ruthless male!

The silent battle between the two Beast Husbands’ eyes was so intense that the air practically sparked with enough electricity to leave a scorched scent in the room.

Shen Mianzhou’s voice finally began to die down.

Xuanshuo immediately stood up. "I’ll go check on Beast Husband Shen Mianzhou."

Shi Lingfeng and Zhan Heng also rose to their feet at once. Lorenzo Snow was equally impatient to take a look. They entered Shen Mianzhou’s room together and heard the sound of the shower running in the bathroom.

A few minutes later, he walked out of the bathroom wrapped in a navy blue bath towel.

In the past, his baby face had always exuded a full, gentle warmth. Now, however, his features seemed to have matured and sharpened overnight. It might also have had something to do with his deer-brown short hair, which had grown slightly longer and was pushed back through his fingers after the shower.

Slicked-back hair always made one look a bit more mature. His deer-like eyes hadn’t changed shape, but they now held a sharp, mature intensity. Previously, he had always liked to purse his lips nervously, but now the corners of his mouth curled into a slight smirk, his lips a luscious, vibrant red.

Shen Mianzhou had only used the Bloodline Purification Potion once, yet his entire appearance had completely transformed.

Gu Weilan observed Shen Mianzhou’s physique. His body fat still seemed to be around twenty to twenty-two percent, making his muscle definition highly visible beneath a very thin layer of fat. This gave his physique a fluid, powerful look, putting his strength fully on display.

As Gu Weilan circled Shen Mianzhou like an energetic squirrel, looking him up and down, Lorenzo was the first to speak.

"Congratulations," he said. "You’ve reached the Tenth Rank."

When Zhan Heng and Shi Lingfeng looked at Shen Mianzhou again, their minds raced with far more complex thoughts.