Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 350: The Proprietress’s Predicament

Chapter 350: Chapter 350: The Proprietress’s Predicament

Fang Bai and Li Fuzhi were in conversation when Liu Qing was secretly paying attention to this side. Seeing her husband about to eat the broccoli, her mouth opened slightly as she wanted to stop him, but she ultimately held back from speaking, her heart racing with nervousness.

When she heard her husband’s weak calls for her name, panic flashed in Liu Qing’s eyes. She hesitated briefly before finally biting the bullet and quickly walked over to her husband’s side.

"Old Li, are you alright?"

Liu Qing supported her husband with both hands, asking anxiously, tears flickering in her eyes, yet she dared not look at Fang Bai and Su Linglong.

"I can confirm, the poison was administered by you!"

Before Li Fuzhi could respond, Fang Bai had already spoken first. He looked directly at Liu Qing, his face exuding a chilling coldness as he said, "But I know you must have had your reasons... Now tell me, who instructed you to do this? Speak up, and I won’t pursue your responsibility for poisoning!"

As Liu Qing approached, Fang Bai’s far superior sensitivity allowed him to clearly sense her extremely rapid heartbeat and violent emotional fluctuations.

Based on these abnormal physical reactions, Fang Bai concluded that the person who poisoned him was Liu Qing.

However, there was no enmity between Fang Bai and Liu Qing; it made no sense for Liu Qing to poison him, so the likelihood that she was instructed by someone else was very high.

"Wife, did... did you really do this?"

Upon hearing Fang Bai’s words and seeing the guilty and evasive expression on his wife’s face, Li Fuzhi immediately understood and stared in disbelief.

"Old Li, I didn’t want to do something so heinous either!"

Under Fang Bai’s icy gaze and her husband’s stern questioning, Liu Qing finally broke down, tears streaming down her face as she said, "Someone kidnapped our son and threatened me to do it! If I didn’t comply, they would harm our son!"

"What happened to our son? Tell me more!"

When Li Fuzhi heard that his son was in trouble, his breathing became heavy. He clutched at his wife’s clothes tightly, rallying his strength to ask.

Thus, Liu Qing tearfully recounted the entire incident.

It turned out that just as school was let out earlier, Liu Qing’s phone suddenly received a photo of her son Li Yu, who had just turned ten, along with a text message.

In the photo, Li Yu sat on a concrete floor, his hands tied, an expression of terror on his face, while a masked man held a dagger beneath the boy’s neck.

The content of the text message informed Liu Qing that their son had been kidnapped, and instructed her to administer the powder received from a customer to Fang Bai’s food, ensuring he consumed it.

The message ended with a threat, ordering Liu Qing to delete it after reading and then drug Fang Bai without telling anyone or calling the police, or they would immediately "tear the ticket."

Just minutes after receiving the message and the photo, a customer pretending to pay at the cash register passed a small packet of powder to Liu Qing and hastily left.

Liu Qing knew what "tear the ticket" meant. After an intense internal struggle, she ultimately compromised for her son’s sake.

Consequently, there was the scene where Liu Qing convinced her husband to offer Fang Bai and Su Linglong a complimentary plate of sautéed broccoli.

However, unbeknownst to her, Fang Bai in his past life had been a pioneer in medicine, and the drug Liu Qing used was a very rudimentary ’Soft Bone Powder’, which Fang Bai detected as soon as it was served.

Fang Bai’s Chaos True Body was extremely powerful, impervious to all poisons. Even if he ate an entire plate of the poisoned broccoli by himself, it would not affect him in the slightest.

Li Fuzhi only had one son, whom he treasured and doted on. Learning of his son’s kidnapping, he sat on the ground, lifelessly collapsing, completely at a loss, his head drenched in sweat, muttering, "What do I do... What am I supposed to do now..."

"Call the police right away!"

Su Linglong, seeing the pitiable state of the couple Li Fuzhi and Liu Qing, felt some sympathy and casually reminded them.

As for the fact that Liu Qing had poisoned the food and nearly succeeded in poisoning herself and Fang Bai, Su Linglong couldn’t bring herself to hate Liu Qing.

In Su Linglong’s eyes, if she were in Liu Qing’s shoes, with her dear ones facing mortal danger, she might also be forced to do things against her conscience.

Su Linglong’s hatred was directed at the mastermind behind the scenes. She urged Li Fuzhi and his wife to call the police, also hoping to leverage the power of the authorities to find and severely punish the perpetrator.

"Right, call the police! Wife, hurry up and call the police!"

Li Fuzhi, after hearing Su Linglong’s words, finally snapped back to reality and urgently said.

"We can’t! They said if we call the police, they will kill our son!"

Liu Qing sobbed as she shook her head.

Su Linglong dismissively said, "Don’t be afraid, they’re just trying to scare you! Besides, do you have any other options right now besides calling the police?"

The couple Li Fuzhi pondered and indeed, after the failed attempt to poison Fang Bai, there really seemed to be no other option than to call the police.

Speaking of calling the police, Fang Bai suddenly thought of Tang Wenrou; it had been a while since he had seen Officer Tang, and he had no idea what she was up to.

"I’ll call the police for you!"

Fang Bai took out his cell phone, called Tang Wenrou, and briefly explained the situation. After listening, Tang Wenrou asked Fang Bai to wait for her at the Yuwei Hotel, assuring him that she would arrive with backup within half an hour.

With their son kidnapped and his fate unknown, Li Fuzhi and his wife had no heart for business. Shortly afterward, the hotel’s customers left one after the other, leaving only the couple and Fang Bai and Su Linglong.

"This broccoli had quite a bit of that drug in it; you won’t be able to move for an hour or two!"

Fang Bai, sitting at the dining table, said to Li Fuzhi, who was slumped on the ground.

When Li Fuzhi heard Fang Bai bring up this, he couldn’t help but feel ashamed and, together with his wife Liu Qing, kept apologizing to Fang Bai and Su Linglong.

One could imagine, if Fang Bai and Su Linglong had eaten the broccoli, they would have become weak and collapsed there, and who knows what might have happened.

If the two of them had been harmed, the Li Fuzhi couple would inevitably have been implicated.

Fang Bai, though decisive in killing, wasn’t a heartless person. Seeing the genuine remorse and sincerity in the couple’s apologies, he extended a hand and patted Li Fuzhi twice on the body.

Li Fuzhi’s body shook, and he suddenly felt his strength returning.

Li Fuzhi was no fool and recognized that Fang Bai was no ordinary person. After standing up, he looked at the young man with a mix of reverence, sensing the depth and unfathomable mystery behind his calm demeanor.

Twenty minutes later, two police cars arrived with sirens wailing and stopped in front of the Yuwei Hotel. Eight officers, braving the rain, got out of the cars and quickly entered the hotel.

The eight officers, seven men and one woman, were all fully equipped. The woman leading them was spirited with a slender figure, peerlessly beautiful; who else could it be but Officer Tang?

The other seven male officers were all sturdy and muscular, emanating an aura of toughness; clearly, they were the exemplary force of the police.