Their Villain, The Mogul's Beloved

Chapter 409

Noticing Zinnia’s furrowed brow, Lydia said soothingly, “Zinnia, it’s okay if you can’t find a cure.

Lydia held little hope. If there were a cure, it wouldn’t have dragged on for over ten years.

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Zinnia turned to Lydia and said, “Lydia, Ms. Hollis doesn’t seem to have a mental disorder. It looks more like poisoning.”

Lydia froze. “What?”

Zinnia said, “When we came here, I observed other patients. Their eyes showed a kind of simple–mindedness, sometimes manic, sometimes melancholic.

“But Ms. Hollis is different. Her gaze is vacant and unfocused. Her hands tremble slightly if you look closely, and sometimes her pupils seem lost.

“You said there are times when her eyes turn wild and bloodshot. That’s different from typical mental disorders.”

Zinnia’s brow still furrowed.

Lydia took a deep breath and asked, “What kind of poison?” She didn’t doubt Zinnia’s words.

Lydia couldn’t help but wonder, ‘Has the treatment approach been wrong all these years? No wonder Mom never got any better. Poisoning? I can’t believe this could happen in real life.‘

Zinnia explained, “It’s mind–eroding powder. Once someone is poisoned, it gradually consumes their mind. At first, they experience mental fog and memory loss, and would forget what happened just seconds ago.

“If they go too long without the antidote, they’ll begin to descend into madness, violent headaches, wild eyes, uncontrollable urges to hit people or smash things, and desperation to destroy everything around them.

“If the antidote is never given, they’ll eventually lose all reason, get reduced to an empty shell, and get lost in their own world.

“The symptoms are similar to mental illness, so doctors misdiagnosed Ms. Hollis.

“But in reality, she was poisoned.”

Mind–eroding powder was typically used to control people. This vicious drug ate away at the mind bit by bit, until the victim became a madman, completely unable to care for themselves.

When Zinnia was a child studying medical books with her master, she had learned about this very poison.

Her master had said, “This poison was developed by an organization to control its members. If anyone betrays them, they are forced to watch themselves go mad, step by step.”

It was psychological torture, crueler than death itself. Zinnia never imagined she would actually encounter such a poison in real life.

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eliminated?” Lydia asked

everything Zinnia had said

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wallow in self–pity. She had

even after Lydia’s father disappeared, insisting she could raise

started to change bit by

away.

own hair, writhing in agony as she curled

deteriorated. Her mood swings became

would strangle her own neck, desperately trying to restrain herself from hurting

herself, Lydia would step closer and offer herself

all claimed that Bonnie had

floor. When the neighbors found her, they called the police, and Bonnie was declared mentally ill

was actually poisoned. Lydia wondered

through her bag, Zinnia replied, “Yes. I have the panacea with me. It

started carrying panacea pills

mind–eroding powder was nearly impossible to remove, but Zinnia’s master had developed an

said, “Lydia, once Ms. Hollis takes the

explain the side effects before Bonnie took the

it’s better forgotten,” Lydia said, glancing

mind all these years, she would still think of that man.

handed it to

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Hollis.”

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will gradually

mental deterioration for over a decade. It will take a long time for her to

child and need to be

hadn’t expected to find Bonnie poisoned

an antidote for that. If it really were a mental

took the pill, walked over to the bedside, and

still clutching the rag doll tightly. She murmured, “Don’t cry. Mommy will take good care

Lydia, my dear

Let’s have one, okay?” Lydia coaxed, while her heart