Forensic Imperial Concubine novel Chapter 948

"Lady Harper, what poison is it?" Derrick, who until then was keeping silent, suddenly asked.

Harper looked at Derrick, her eyes deep and undecipherable. Even though she couldn't bear to tell him the truth, she had to. "Darren was drugged by the Spiritual Poison, and... I still haven't worked out an antidote yet."

"What do you mean, Harper?" Daphne asked, staring at her shocked and confused.

Harper knew that the man in black she hurt a while back must have known her relationship with Darren. Because of that, he injured Darren to get an antidote out of her. But Harper didn't expect that the man would have hurt Darren so much that he almost died!

"I'm the only one I know who has the Spiritual Poison. There's no antidote, because I haven't made one," Harper explained as she took a deep breath.

Hopelessness grasped Daphne immediately, and she was trembling and staggering backward as she couldn't believe what she just heard. "Harper, do you mean that Darren... will die?"

Harper didn't respond or even look at Daphne. Instead, she just looked at Darren. Although his lips hadn't turned darker purple, she knew that he still hadn't been detoxified. And if she wanted to detoxify him, she must develop an antidote first. She was the only person who could do that.

"I won't let him die, Daphne. That's a promise."

Though still unsure about what would happen to his brother, Daphne calmed down mainly because she had great trust in Harper. "But wait. You said you are the only one who has this Spiritual Poison. Then, how could Darren be poisoned?"

"To know that, we have to locate the assassin I attacked last night." Harper's expression continued to be grim as she looked at the unconscious Darren. Finally, she revealed what happened. "Last night, my husband and I met a group of assassins. Their leader was a martial arts master dressed in all black. He was wearing this demon mask in bronze. We weren't able to defeat him, and in order to save our lives, I had to inject the leader some of the Spiritual Poison I had made before. I wasn't planning on using it to other people, but as we were faced with an emergency last night, I had to. It was the first time I used it. What I didn't know was that he would use it against Darren!"

Daphne finally understood that someone wanted to use her brother to force Harper to give them the antidote. What they didn't know was that the antidote hadn't existed yet.

The poison was a desperate move on Harper's side—she didn't even think about creating an antidote for it because she never thought she would ever use it. Now that all of these were happening, she had no choice but to make the antidote as soon as possible!

"But Harper, will you be able to create an antidote to it?" Daphne asked worriedly.

"I'll do my best," Harper answered straightforwardly, not wanting to promise something she couldn't deliver on.

Once again, Daphne felt her fears vanishing, though not completely. For her, as long an antidote could be developed, she really wouldn't care about anything else.