Published: August 16, 2025
Chapter 113: Lingxiang Pill
Tonight’s moonlit sky wasn’t particularly cold, yet Mo Caihuan’s cute little face was somewhat pale. Her eyes glared hatefully at Han Li, silently gnashing her teeth at this brazen senior fellow disciple who had suddenly appeared.
The two of them had been standing coldly on the narrow path in the backyard for over a quarter of an hour now, without moving a single step forward.
It turned out that Mo Caihuan, seeing that Han Li stubbornly ignored her three ultimate moves—acting cute, acting spoiled, and tear attacks—had no choice but to grit her teeth and stop leading the way. She planned to use this tactic to coerce Han Li, while still looking pitifully at him, hoping that this double approach would force him to yield.
But when Han Li saw Mo Caihuan’s pitiful look, he couldn’t help but laugh.
Her expression reminded Han Li of his friend Li Feiyu. Whenever Li Feiyu wanted Han Li’s help with some troublesome matter, he would use a very similar performance to move Han Li. Over time, Han Li had become completely immune to this expression.
So when Mo Caihuan gave him a look like an abandoned puppy, Han Li stood there with great relish, fully enjoying her act, occasionally shaking his head and reciting some sarcastic poetry.
Under Han Li’s ruthless counterattack, Mo Caihuan quickly broke down, completely putting away her pitiful look and replacing it with an angry glare that remained until now.
In fact, Mo Caihuan was already regretting it. If her mother found out about the current situation, she probably wouldn’t get any benefits and would instead have to taste the family discipline first.
Thinking of this, she glared at Han Li a few more times. This country bumpkin really should have given her something! Didn’t he know that girls needed to be coaxed? What a bumpkin!
At this moment, the girl had completely forgotten about opening her lion’s mouth at him earlier.
Although Han Li had no experience coaxing girls, he knew he still had to stay at the Mo Residence and couldn’t really offend her. So once he felt he had mostly broken her spoiled attitude, he slowly reached into his chest to see if he could find something suitable to pacify this little demon.
Finally, Han Li pulled out a small jade-green porcelain bottle containing several fragrant, bright red pills.
This pill was called the "Lingxiang Pill," reportedly an imperial medicine for palace consorts. It had no other effects except to emit an enchanting, lingering fragrance. This unique aroma was not only long-lasting and pleasant but also repelled mosquitoes and insects, making it a favorite among palace beauties.
Unfortunately, the main ingredients needed to make this pill were rare herbs of great age. Even the imperial palace, so rich and resourceful, often faced shortages and could not fully meet the harem's demand. Therefore, this pill was almost never seen among the common folk.
Han Li himself would never have made such a pill since it was useless to him, but back when he was in the seven mysteries sect, he had yielded to Li Feiyu’s persistent coaxing and made some of these pills to help coax Zhang Xiu'er.
This small bottle was the few remaining pills. Han Li originally kept them to prevent mosquito bites when camping outdoors, but now he could only take them out to settle the matter.
Han Li tossed the small bottle to the girl opposite him. Mo Caihuan caught it clumsily, unprepared for the gift.
“What’s this?” Mo Caihuan’s tears turned to laughter. She had finally gotten a gift from this extremely stingy guy. Although she didn’t know what it was, she was already very excited.
“This is the Lingxiang Pill. It’s quite wonderful; it can...” Han Li explained the pill’s effects in detail, fully expecting her to be pleased and happy.
But after Mo Caihuan opened the bottle and sniffed the fragrance for a moment, she quickly closed the lid and looked at Han Li with a wary, predator-defending gaze. Carefully, she said,
“This pill isn’t some kind of poison or aphrodisiac, is it? Its scent smells awfully similar to what my two elder sisters described. You wouldn’t be plotting something against me, would you?”