No 1 Supreme Warrior

Joan gave a bitter smile. “Why should I hate you?” she said. “I did hate you at the start—I hated how weak you were, and how you couldn’t take care of us!”

Here, she heaved a sigh and stood up. “But I no longer hate you. I know that you truly love me, and I can feel your sincerity,” she continued. “I also understand your helplessness. You are in this position after all. And your father and your family would never have approved of us even back then. Besides, as the master of the family, you must always take the White family into account!”

“Thank you, Joan. Thank you for being so understanding and forgiving!”

Nash’s eyes reddened. “Or maybe this is God’s punishment, to make me, the master of the White family, die on a bed instead of a battlefield,” he added. “I thought of plenty of ways I could die, but I never thought that I would be poisoned!”

Joan turned around and looked at Nash, smiling. “Don’t be so pessimistic. Jack’s very skilled in medicine. I believe that there will be a way to find an antidote—I believe that he’ll find a way!”

“I don’t think it’ll be easy. It’s extremely difficult to find a poison that can successfully take effect on a chi practitioner—what more a chi practitioner like me. It means that this poison is very lethal!”

me to know the truth. Are all of you on it too? All of you are probably well aware that there’s no way of finding an antidote for this poison. I’m not afraid of dying, to be honest. I’m already content because I got to see

tsk. Aren’t you being too sentimental for a grown

his condition was so serious,” he said.

did you arrive?” he asked

lying, “I had just arrived at the door when I heard you voicing

Hah. I don’t have to worry about anything with you around. I trust

while before saying, “Oh, right. Why aren’t you asleep yet, Jack? You must be

something to talk to

Jack replied, smiling.

first. I’ll

curved into a soft smile when she looked at Jack, then