Harper took out a bag full of needles and had acupuncture on Francis' body. Francis had a blood stagnation. She didn't know what kind of stimulus he suffered led to such a symptom. Yet one way or another, Harper had to help him spit out the blood to save his life.
After the acupuncture treatment with several silver needles, Francis spat out a mouthful of blood, which frightened Owen. The latter immediately cried out, "Your Highness, are you all right?"
After putting the silver needles away, Harper looked at Francis's pale face. Francis looked like a wreck. If the events at the birthday banquet were plotted by him, he didn't need to care about her opinions anymore. After all, his poison was completely cleared, so she should have been useless to him now.
But he came to see her, even disregarding the heavy rain. With a single glance, he recognized that the person in the Phoenix House was not the real Harper and even guessed correctly that she was in the Pine House. It was obvious that Francis was smart. Why did he come to Matthew's mansion at such a moment?
Looking at the pale face of Francis, and then at Harper, Owen pursed his lips and tears poured down his face. He cried louder, "You bully people. You are cruel to His Highness."
Harper felt both amused and annoyed. "When did we bully him?"
"You let him stay in the rain for two hours, and he fainted because of it. How can you deny that you are cruel to him?"
"You brat! Your whining is so unreasonable. Her Highness didn't even know that Prince Francis was outside. Complain to us instead; we hid the fact and didn't report to her!" Forsythia stood with arms akimbo and shouted at Owen. She couldn't bear to hear someone being rude to Harper. What was more, she couldn't allow anyone to disturb her rest, so she didn't report Francis' arrival when he came.
Hearing that, Owen cried even more bitterly. He pointed at Forsythia, gasping and saying, "You are also a bad person. You bullied His Highness and me."
Seeing a man crying like this, Forsythia scorned at once. "Look at this! A man is actually crying like a woman."
Her words made Owen so angry that he couldn't even cry anymore. He just glared at her furiously. He remembered that she had threatened to cut off his tongue at that time!
Harper shook her head and her mind was racing fast. She wondered, 'Francis passed out because he was upset and suffering from the cold. Is it also because he knew how he got poisoned?'
"Your Highness," Forsythia called abruptly.
Harper turned around and saw Matthew come in, wet from the rain. She frowned and said, "Hurry up. Bring a towel for Matthew."
"Yes."
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