Chapter 2689: Chapter 2690: The Rice Is Cooked

"Stop making excuses, we’ve been watching here for half a day, and no one else has come. Do you think your mosquito repellent powder could knock out two elders? Do you think all our eyes are useless?" Heluo’s face darkened, his tone turning colder. "If you don’t tell the truth now, you will no longer be the saintess of the clan and will spend the rest of your life in the dungeon."

Tian Ning’s face changed dramatically, "You can’t do this to me!"

Some young people anxiously said, "Clan leader, you mustn’t! There are already few women in the clan, how can you imprison Tian Ning?"

"Just because there are few women, does it mean she can harm clan members with impunity?" Heluo asked.

For a moment, Tian Ning’s brainless fans didn’t know what to say, but some still wore expressions of disbelief, unwilling to accept that the gentle and kind saintess in their hearts, Tian Ning, would harm the great elder.

The third elder, who was guarding alongside Heluo, spoke up, "The clan leader is right, we all saw it. It’s unbelievable that well-behaved Tian Ning could be so vicious behind our backs. If we had been a bit slower, the great elder might have..."

He did not continue, instead letting out a heavy sigh.

Tian Ning’s face turned paler. Why was Heluo guarding with others? She had checked before; Heluo and the other elders had gone back to rest, leaving only the fifth and sixth elders here.

Could it be... She hurriedly looked at Xuan You in the crowd, meeting Xuan You’s unfriendly gaze, and seemed to understand.

If it were before, Xuan You would have immediately jumped out to speak for her. Why had it become like this? Xuan You, clearly always foolish, how could...

"Tian Ning, I’m giving you one last chance, otherwise, I’ll have no choice but to send you to the dungeon," Heluo said.

Tian Ning gritted her teeth, "Fine, I’ll talk, but I want to speak with you alone."

"No way!" Xuan You immediately spoke up to stop her, "Brother, don’t agree to her. What if she, in desperation, tries to attack you?"

Heluo gave Xuan You a reassuring look, "She can’t hurt me."

"If you don’t agree, I won’t say a word even if I’m locked in the dungeon for life," Tian Ning said.

Heluo could only look at the elders, then finally nodded in agreement.

He had Tian Ning escorted into the room and walked in behind with some reluctance. Unexpectedly, Bai Ruozhu stopped him.

"Heluo clan leader, if you trust me, take this detoxification pill, just in case," Bai Ruozhu handed him a green pill.

Heluo thought for a moment, took it, and swallowed it, "Thank you."

Bai Ruozhu nodded silently, feeling that Heluo’s candidness and pride, much like most of the Golden Wings Clan, suited the position of clan leader.

Heluo walked into the room, and the door was closed. Tian Ning looked at him and set up a barrier with a wave of her hand, saying, "I just want to talk to you alone so that no one outside can hear."

"Then hurry up and say it, don’t waste everyone’s time," Heluo said impatiently.

"Heluo, how can you treat me like this?" Tian Ning cried out in pain, "All these years, why can’t you see my feelings?"

Heluo’s face remained emotionless, "You and I are too far apart in age, it’s not suitable. There are so many young talents in the clan, why are you so fixated on me?"

"I don’t care about age, I don’t want to look at them, my heart only has room for you!" Probably seeing no future, Tian Ning no longer cared about her dignity and boldly expressed her feelings.

Heluo sneered, "If I weren’t the clan leader, just an ordinary middle-aged man in the clan, would you still feel this way?"

"Do you think I care about your status or position?" Tian Ning exclaimed in surprise, "How can you think of me like that!"

As she spoke, she suddenly lunged forward, tiptoed, and pressed her lips hard against Heluo’s. Heluo didn’t expect she would be so bold and didn’t have time to dodge, letting her lips touch his.

He pushed her away forcefully, "Tian Ning, please have some self-respect. You should explain why you targeted the great elder. Is it really just because of the poisonous insect beneath the fertility tree?"

Tian Ning staggered, almost falling. Her eyes showed determination. She suddenly raised her hand to Heluo and sprinkled some drug powder.

Heluo was furious. It was sleeping powder!

But he quickly realized he wasn’t poisoned, thanks to the detoxification pill Bai Ruozhu had given him!

He felt more grateful to Bai Ruozhu and a deeper revulsion toward Tian Ning.

He initially wanted to teach Tian Ning a lesson but decided to pretend to be poisoned and faint on the ground; he wanted to see what she intended to do.

Tian Ning knelt beside him, hands trembling as she reached to touch his face, muttering to herself, "Don’t blame me, I care about you too much, you don’t understand my feelings, so I can only... only set the rice as cooked."

As she spoke, she went to untie Heluo’s belt, reaching toward his lower body, her actions exceedingly bold.

The ’unconscious’ Heluo’s face turned green with rage. He didn’t know Tian Ning was so shameless to this extent, with so many people waiting outside, yet she was going to "set the rice as cooked" with him?

At last, she discreetly said he forced her, the situation would get complicated.

Just as her hand was about to grab a crucial part of Heluo, he suddenly extended his hand and tapped her acupuncture points.

Tian Ning’s eyes widened, but her body couldn’t move.

"You... you didn’t get poisoned?" she asked unwillingly.

Heluo sneered, "I took detoxification medicine; I can’t help but guard against a woman as vicious as you."

Tian Ning showed hatred, "That outsider woman gave it to you, right? How could I not know about any medicine in the clan?"

"Enough nonsense, confess honestly, or else I’ll have to torture you," Heluo’s face chilled, eyes full of disgust.

"It’s all their fault. If they hadn’t come, I wouldn’t have done this. Even if I die, I won’t spare them!" Tian Ning cried out angrily, suddenly biting her tongue. Fortunately, Heluo was prepared and dislocated her jaw.

He carried Tian Ning out and told the people outside, "She had no intention of confessing and wanted to bite her tongue to commit suicide."

Many people took a sharp intake of breath, as Tian Ning had many admirers in the clan.

Tian Ning moaned in pain, with black blood suddenly oozing from her mouth.

"Quick, check if she bit her tongue!" the third elder exclaimed.

Bai Ruozhu swiftly rushed over, tapped Tian Ning’s body a few times, then produced a silver needle and stuck it into several of Tian Ning’s acupuncture points.

"She has a poison pouch in her mouth; her tongue isn’t bitten, but she’s ingested poison," Bai Ruozhu explained.

Her needle movement was quick, making the golden-winged clan members dizzy, and then she tossed a detoxification pill into Tian Ning’s mouth, saying, "Okay, she won’t die from the poison for now."

"Why would she use poison?" the fifth elder asked in disbelief, but thinking about how he himself had been knocked out by Tian Ning’s sleeping powder, felt it wasn’t impossible.

Bai Ruozhu glanced at Heluo, quirking her mouth, "Oh dear, her lips were smeared with poison too."