Andy Argyle.

This was the second time Louis had heard this name.

The last time he heard it was at a previous engagement ball when Gregory from the Todd Family received the Heartbreak Jade from his uncle, Andy Argyle.

The Heartbreak Jade from the dark side of the Love God almost turned Gregory into a mad dog out of jealousy.

The Secret Guard had investigated the matter.

The Heartbreak Jade was a necklace that the Argyle Family's dissolute youngest son bought at an auction.

It was a birthday gift for Gregory.

After this matter was exposed, Andy Argyle, who was suspected of endangering Gregory, was immediately penalized by the Noble Council.

It's said that he paid a fine that made the Argyle Family rather distressed.

Louis just didn't expect that this person would now be involved in the Beauty poisoning case.

He continued to peruse the files.

As expected, due to Andy's interference, negotiations that were initially settled between the brothel and Rein broke down.

He offered too much, exceeding the brothel's expectations.

As a result, the deal that had been confirmed was unexpectedly broken.

Sally also struggled.

For example, she showed tendencies of wanting to end her life, hoping the brothel's manager would change his mind.

However, contrary to her wishes, the brothel made their decision.

——Sally was sold to Andy Argyle.

In a few days, she would be sent onto the Argyle Family's carriage and taken away directly.

So yesterday, she approached the manager, hoping to see Rein Kaichen one last time.

The manager agreed and today, contacted Rein at the academy.

"… Later on, as you all saw, for some unknown reason, Sally chose to poison."

Louis nodded to show he understood.

The Little Swan glanced at Louis and said:

"Isn't this a crime of passion?"

After speaking, the Little Swan added:

"Such a melodrama, I thought it was about abandoning the Fox Beauty, leading the Fox Beauty to go mad and seek revenge."

But she soon noticed quite a few people at the scene frowning after understanding what transpired.

"Eh, did I misjudge the situation?"

The Little Swan scratched her head and whispered.

Marquis York gently stroked the whiskers of his chin and said softly:

"Her Highness Olivia is indeed correct, this situation seems overly dramatic."

Hearing this, Louis's lips curled into a slight smile:

"Because the symptoms don't match."

"Hmm?"

Louis picked up the Yin Yang Poison Wine Pot, shook it, and poured out the poison wine.

"This kind of hemolytic toxin is indeed dangerous, but just talking about toxicity without dosage is nonsense."

In the astonished eyes of everyone, Louis drank that cup of wine in one go.

"Louis, are you crazy?"

The Little Swan rushed to snatch Louis's cup, pulling out the highest grade healing tool from her dimensional bag to use.

But Louis reached out and grabbed her wrist, his voice incredibly calm:

"Shh, Olivia, let the bullet fly for a while."

Although Little Swan didn't know what a bullet was, she guessed Louis didn't want her to use the tool.

She looked at him nervously and said:

"If I notice anything wrong with you, don't think you can stop me from using the tool."

——After all, he is Sister Wang's fiancé; she wouldn't let him die in front of her no matter what.

Louis pressed his lips and nodded:

"Okay, if there's a problem I'll call you."

The next moment, a look of pain appeared on his face, and his complexion visibly paled.

But this scene lasted less than 5 seconds before Louis's face started regaining color.

His long and attractive eyes slightly narrowed, and he said:

"The wine is not bad."

And then he said in the astonished eyes of everyone:

"Although I have partial demonic physique, thus a higher resistance to toxins, you must have noticed by now that this wine—"

"Is actually far from the lethal dose."

"I already discovered when detoxifying the two of them that, though they were similarly poisoned, the symptoms for Fox Beauty Sally were very mild."

"Although she'd enter a poisoned coma, it would take quite a while to die directly."

"But Rein, who was similarly poisoned, was in a critical state."

Louis placed the empty wine cup upside down on the table and calmly said:

"It makes sense; if Fox Beauty Sally wanted them to die together, at least one of them wouldn't last until I rescued them."

"If her intention wasn't to poison Rein, it explains why the toxin content in this wine is so low."

"Therefore, Rein must have been re-poisoned, the true culprit is someone else, am I right?"

Louis turned to look at Instructor Jino who was dragging the brothel manager over, and blinked.

Jino nodded and turned to Marquis York:

"The Secret Guard broke him, this guy is a Poison Master from the dark side of the Love God."

The manager, limp on the ground, had a twisted expression:

"It's strange, why are you so sure I'm the one who poisoned them?"

"Of course it's because there have been too many recent 'coincidences'!"

Louis initially wanted to answer like that, but he spoke earnestly:

"When you reclaimed the Heartbreak Jade, couldn't you have moved faster, afraid no one would know your identity?"

The cold smile on the manager's face froze instantly.

Then Louis continued to hit his sore spot:

"The Heartbreak Jade magnifies a person's weaknesses. As Beauty trained by you from a young age, no one knows her character and the choices she might make better than you."

"Under the influence of the Heartbreak Jade, her choices become more extreme."

"She isn't a professional, so the Heartbreak Jade's influence is further amplified."

"In despair, she took a desperate gamble, using the double poisoning of clients and herself in hopes that the person buying her would be scared enough to return her."

"Perhaps she also hoped you, as the manager, would take pity and give her a way out."

"You deliberately ignored her actions, allowed her to poison Rein voluntarily."

"Then while they were both comatose, you first took the Heartbreak Jade, and re-poisoned Rein."

"Your intention was always to target Rein Kaichen."

"Am I right, Mr. Poison Master from the dark side of the Love God?"

The Poison Master had fallen silent, and after a while, he suddenly chuckled softly:

"As expected of the empire's intellect, but you got one thing wrong."

Louis curiously asked, "Oh?"

"Last night Sally came to me crying, hoping to dissuade Andy Argyle from buying her, and I chose to support her."

Louis said with some surprise:

"That is quite a stroke of luck, had you used her trust in you to supply a toxin far beyond lethal levels, poisoning her and Rein in one go, it could have ended as an unsolvable case."

"Or could it be that a person like you can still retain a sense of pity?"

The Poison Master calmly said:

"The dark side of the Love God believes [All that is loved becomes a snare]."

"I intended to use this chance to leave Jino with an irreparable heart wound, hindering his rise to legend."

"But I didn't expect that I would be the one ensnared in the end."

Indeed, the reason Fox Beauty did not perish was due to the Poison Master's hesitation.

This was also the reason for his exposure.

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