Chapter 353 What's Between You and Him

"You want to know why?"

Arthur pulled an inexplicably baffling and amorous smile at Elspeth, who held her breath and said, "Tell me."

"It's a secret!" With that, the man walked away resolutely.

Then, something seemed to have hit him as he turned back around. "That reminds me. Our engagement party was ruined. We'll have to redo it in a couple of days. You better get ready for it again."

Elspeth had just lost interest in why he would poison Ginna, and now he threw this bomb at her.

"Can't we just leave it as it is? We've already done it once, and everyone already knows."

All things aside, just having to wake up at 5.00AM to get her makeup done was already torturous enough.

"That won't fly. I'm a man of principles; everything needs to be done through and through." Arthur shook his head with a frown. It seemed that he cared a lot about this matter.

In the end, he still left after he said everything he wanted to.

Elspeth didn't have anything important to see to either. Then, it suddenly occurred to her that she hadn't given Isabel the medicinal herbs she had brought back the other time. Hence, she decided to buy a few other medicinal herbs from the hospital to mix with that batch after reaching home.

However, there were too few medicinal herbs in hospitals abroad. Even if the hospital she was in had the city's largest medicinal herb dispensary, she couldn't enter as she pleased, let alone obtain those medicinal herbs.

Still, she went with a glimmer of hope.

arrived at the entrance, the middle-aged man guarding the medicinal herb dispensary stood up and cautioned

your person-in-charge about it?" Elspeth asked politely.

imploring and talking her way into it. Coupled with her impeccable smile, the man gave in immediately.

that, the man left and returned with a Damorian guy, whom Elspeth thought looked familiar but just couldn't quite figure out where she

after seeing Elspeth, and he

friend seeking medical treatment," she answered euphemistically, "and I happened to specialize in

traditional medicine, the man narrowed his eyes slightly, and he sized her up arbitrarily with his piercing gaze. "You look like you're just in your

'specialized' in the study, so she backtracked her words at once. "Well, not really. I just

already dare treat someone else so casually. Are you not worried

no matter what

and I'm not skilled enough, but my mentor's a master in traditional medicine. Nothing will happen

that, the man became even more skeptical. "You

long become annoyed after so much

doesn't have much to do with my wish to purchase medicinal herbs, does it?" Elspeth's gaze

consuming the medicinal herbs you got from us, people will come to us after finding out the source of those herbs. So, to avoid any unnecessary issues, I have to get things straight." At the end of the day, the man was just doing his job. "I only have some trust in you and asked so many

I can most certainly treat

can forget about purchasing any medicinal

how could anyone bet on a person's

have a private moment with you? I'll tell only you," Elspeth negotiated, seeing

stopped at once, and he looked side-eyed toward the foreign man next to him. The latter understood at once and walked away acquiescently, as unwilling as

"Alright, tell me."

was just the two of them, Elspeth answered frankly. "He's

man's expression stiffened at once. "Are

skipped a beat, and an inexplicably ominous feeling crept up to her, for his expression wasn't one of the joys of encountering a

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