The Culprit!

"Stupid Dog!" Li Ming shouted loudly at Snowy who ran out of the room like he had seen a ghost. His screaming/barking had nearly given her a heart attack just now.

She looked back at the man lying on the floor covered in black smoke or black mist or.....was it the poison that she had gathered from the fields.....Whatever!

It looked like she was doomed to exhaust herself tonight!!

Li Ming couldn't clearly see the face of the person who was lying like a dead man on the floor because of the black smoke. She was sure that the black smoke was the same poison that she had collected from the fields in the crystal ball but how it ended up attacking this man was a mystery.

Although it was important to find exactly how this man entered the mansion and what he did to her spell room but she was in no condition to interrogate another person tonight. Moreover the condition of the man was not looking good enough to answer her questions.

With some effort she found his hand and checked his pulse. After a while she finally found the problem.

It seemed like she had found the culprit who had turned her spell room upside down. His body was overflowing with the potions that were the pride of her spell room for decades or even centuries.

The idiot had drank all the potions not even caring whether they were even drinkable or not.

'What was he thinking? Was he trying to commit suicide? Fool!'

Ming's first thought was to kick the man out of the mansion and let him die. But if he died then wouldn't she be the one in disadvantage. He had ruined hundreds of the rare and special potions, she had to find a way to compensate herself!

After checking his condition from head to toe, Li Ming was slightly confused or rather shocked. He had control over black fire!

Did that mean he was a demon?

Li Ming looked at the man with a frown. He also had a lot of poison in his body. What's wrong with this man?

Li Ming struggled a little bit but finally succeeded in putting the man on the couch. She found some herbs and placed them while forming a charm, on his body.

Then she prepared a few potions and let the man drink all of them, which was not easy at all since she was unable to see his face clearly and he was also unconscious.

By the time she finished it was already 4:00 in the morning. She just left the room to take her much needed sleep.

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Li Ming woke up late in the morning next day. Though everyone in the orphanage were shocked since it was the first time when she was late, but no one disturbed her.

Li Ming spent the rest of her day teaching in the orphanage. It was kind of refreshing to spend her time in the company of small and innocent children. (Though half of them were her own age).

She visited the fields in the evening and took a look at Lian Hu and his group. Everything was perfect and she had to wait for one more day for Zhang Yong's return.

Li Ming had her dinner with the others in the garden. After everyone went to bed, Li Ming also entered the mansion.

She entered the spell and to her relief everything was in proper condition.

After seeing the room in tatters yesterday she was now afraid to find her spell room in that exact condition again.

The man was lying on the couch but due to the charm that she had placed on him last night, the black smoke had left his body.

Li Ming went close to the couch and looked at the most beautiful man she had ever seen in her life. His beauty was beyond words. In other words he could give a proper challenge to Zhang Yong in terms of handsomeness.

The long silver hair was covering the cushions like a blanket.

Li Ming had special love for silver hairs. Her own hair was silver back in her previous life.

The man was still sleeping and his jade white skin was sparkling in the florescent lights of the room.

The man was wearing dark purple and black color clothes which gave him a dark aura.

Li Ming sat down beside him and murmured a cleansing charm on the man. She checked his pulse which was now normal. After feeding him the potions that she had prepared last night, Li Ming closed the door of the spell room and left for her room.

That night Li Ming didn't sleep but read a lot of potion books. She needed to restock her spell room as soon as possible. After midnight she started cultivating.

Next day she also got late. It was nearly noon when she finally stopped her cultivation and got ready for the day.

When Li Ming came out in the garden, she was greeted by Long Jie, Zhang Yong's bodyguard.

"What's wrong? Why you came here alone?" Li Ming asked him.

"Miss Li, His Highness received your message and sent me to take you to him as soon as possible. He's a little bit tired after the long journey so he is resting at the Nan Xia Manor. But he doesn't want to make you wait. That's why he sent me here." Long Jie said in a hurry.

Li Ming looked at the guard who was standing before her. Although she was a little bit suspicious but she also knew that Long Jie was Zhang Yong's most trusted man.

She sighed and looked at the man with a smirk. "Are you sure that he sent you to take me to the Nan Xia manor and not the other way around?"

Long Jie was confused by Miss Li's words but he didn't got a chance to question.

The very next second his whole world started spinning and he had a strong urge to throw up. Just a few seconds later he was kneeling on the ground in the front garden of the Nan Xia manor.