48 Intimacy

Soon, the door was pulled open from the inside.

The room was eerily quiet. All the previously lit candles had been extinguished, and the light was somewhat dim.

The old doctor collapsed on the floor, drained of all energy, as though he had just returned from the dead.

Truthfully, he did not save the person himself, he had merely assisted by carrying a box and lighting a few lanterns and candles. However, he was the only one who witnessed Gu Jiao bring someone back from the brink of death in the King Yama Hall.

Before today, he had never experienced such a terrifying ordeal, nor did he believe he would ever face something similar in the future.

The housekeeper beckoned the maids to help the old doctor up, while she herself moved towards the bed with small, unsteady steps. To her surprise, a young girl, appearing to be a village damsel, was sitting on the edge of her young master's bed.

This was the bed of the Marquis Residence's Young Master!