The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 23

Vivienne took out the pre prepared ointment and asked Eartha, “Are you sure she hasn’t eaten or drank anything since yesterday?”

“Nope,” Eartha replied. “She has been very obedient. Even when she’s starving, she’s determined not to eat a thing”

Vivienne nodded, then turned to Isolde, her tone as gentle as she could muster. Tm about to start applying the ointment now. You need to hang in there. If the pain gets unbearable, you can bite me”

Isolde seemed pretty nervous, but she gritted her teeth and said, “Don’t worry, Vivienne, I’ll hang in there.”

Without saying anything more, Vivienne had Isolde undress and began applying the medicine. Starting from her face, Vivienne covered her entire body with the ointment. At first, the cool sensation of the ointment made Isolde feel quite comfortable. She gave Vivienne a sweet smile. “Vivienne, are you trying to scare me? This ointment feels so comfortable on my skin… Ah!”

Before she could finish her sentence, Isolde suddenly let out a scream. But as if realizing something, she quickly shut her mouth. Her body was completely covered in ointment, making it impossible to see her expression. Her body was shaking, and more and more moisture appeared on her skin, soaking the ointment.

Isolde was in so much pain she couldn’t even speak. She didn’t dare to scream, and could only bite on a pillow to endure it.

Eartha looked on with deep concern. “Are you okay?”

T’m fine… it’s just… a bit painful!” Just saying that seemed to drain all her strength. She was in extreme pain, it felt like thousands of bugs were biting her. She wanted to endure it, but she was barely holding on.

Seeing her state deteriorating, Eartha quickly asked Vivienne, “Ms. Hawthorn, she’s not in trouble, is she? She seems really uncomfortable, and her breathing is difficult.” She was worried. If anything happened to Isolde, how would she explain it to Mr. Percival? Should she call him?

Vivienne took a look at Isolde’s condition, and asked softly, “Can you hang in there?”

the floor, filling the room with her screams. Luckily, this ward wasn’t in the

checking the ointment, Vivienne said to Isolde, “Can you hang on

a message to Percival when she heard Vivienne’s words, so she put away

some reason, hearing Vivienne’s voice made her feel somewhat reassured. Even though the pain was

had asked not to let others know she was treating herself. So she couldn’t attract attention because

later, Isolde finally stopped feeling pain, and she let out a long sigh of relief. After the pain subsided, she felt extremely comfortable, like she was soaking in warm water. She cracked a smile. “Vivienne, did I do okay?”

ointment, and when she smiled, only her

“You did great!

treated similar poisons for others before, all requiring this ointment, and even grown adults in their thirties and forties found it hard to endure. So, she often had to change treatment

up and said to Isolde, Let’s go, I’ll take

followed her into the

took out the medicine she’d prepared and dripped it into the

“Vivienne, don’t I need to shower first?” Wouldn’t the water

ointment needs to combine with my medicine for the cure to be complete.*

asleep. She didn’t know how long she’d

up!” Vivienne gently

soft voice next to her ear. Isolde slowly opened her eyes, looking at

soft. “Go look in the

the mirror. When she saw herself in the

pounding as she rushed into the room.

hardly believe her eyes. Was this still the extremely ugly Isolde that

ward was on the fifteenth floor. How could a five–year–old child come to the fifteenth floor to replace

over to the window and peeked out. She wanted to see if there was a child who had fallen to their death below.

She went back to Isolde, and cautiously asked, “Isolde?

shock, Isolde grabbed Eartha’s hand, excitedly shouting, “Eartha, it’s me. I’m cured. I’m really cured!