Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 9

by North Night (夜北)

  The Young Miss of the Thousand Beast City, Qu Ling Yue, had gotten severely injured in the Spirit Battle Tournament and the culprit that had been responsible was none other than the one person everyone highly debated about, the prodigious youth, Jun Xie!

  In moments, the news spread very quickly among the people.

  At that moment, Jun Wu Xie was sitting alone in the Imperial Capital’s prison. In the dark and dank prison, only a pile of dirty dry straw was thrown on the ground and a pungent and nausea inducing stench pervaded the entire prison.

  Jun Wu Xie plopped herself down upon the pile of dry straw and lowered her eyes to look at the locked chains on her arms, a faint smile playing across her lips.

  “Meow.”

  [In your past and present life, Mistress, this is the first time you are squatting in jail! How….. queer this is feeling.]

  The little black cat plodded a rounds around Jun Wu Xie.

  “In life, there is a first for everything.” Jun Wu Xie said softly. Towards the bad state of things she was mired in at that moment, Jun Wu Xie seemed to be unconcerned. The thing that was on her mind at that moment, was what really happened to Qu Ling Yue.

  She had thought about it carefully earlier. Qu Ling Yue had not shown any abnormal signs before their battle and immediately after the battle started, she had suddenly vomited out blood and collapsed. She was certain she had not touched Qu Ling Yue, so it was not possible that she had injured her.

  She had not paid Qu Ling Yue that much attention but it was not hard to see that Qu Ling Yue was naive and innocent. For such a simple minded girl, Qu Ling Yue wouldn’t have tried to scheme against her as well.

  Jun Wu Xie could almost be certain, that today’s incident, was most definitely a plot by someone, and it was targeted directly at her!

  “Is it the Emperor, or is it the Fourth Prince? She must admit, the speed that this plot had been executed, hadn’t been that slow this time.” Jun Wu Xie’s faint smile deepened and a icy frosty shone in her eyes.

  Volume 9

  Chapter 842 : “Trumped Up Charges (3)”

  Night fell, and it was quiet within the jailhouse. Jun Wu Xie sat alone in her jail cell neither frustrated nor displeased, and she just sat there quietly, as quiet as she had always been like she would be in her own room. The jailors had come by to check on her twice and they had never seen anyone who had been caught and thrown into jail remain so calm. Jun Wu Xie’s completely unconcerned demeanor really made people forget her young age. But seeing the boy not causing any trouble, the jailors had not said much either.

  Late into the night, the jailors could not fight off sleep any longer and several figures quietly slipped into the prison.

  “I’ll say….. here you are squatting in jail. Aren’t you looking a little too leisurely in there?” Qiao Chu said, looking at Jun Wu Xie with an exasperated expression on his face. They had received the news not long after Jun Wu Xie had been arrested. The one who had delivered the news to them was one of the guards from the Crown Prince’s Residence. Although Lei Chen had not shown up himself, he had sent word of it to them.

  Jun Wu Xie looked up lazily and stared at the several figures standing outside her cell.

  Hua Yao, Qiao Chu, Fei Yan, Rong Ruo….. and even Fan Zhuo had followed them here.

  “You guys are here.” Jun Wu Xie said calmly, not at all surprised at their sudden appearance.

  “If we do not come here, are you intending to stay in there forever?” Qiao Chu asked, an eyebrow lifting up on his face. His eyes fell on the lock on the door in front of the cell and he said: “Little Yan, we’ll have to depend on you for that.”

  Fei Yan glared at Qiao Chu and said in disdain: “If you do not call me by that damned Little Yan name, I think I might be a little more inclined to help.”

  Qiao Chu shrugged his shoulders and Fei Yan immediately stretched out his hand and put it on the lock. He gathered his spirit power into his hands preparing to physically break the lock apart.

  “I do not intend to go out.” Jun Wu Xie said as she looked at her companions who were all preparing to help her break out of jail. Although she was glad that they had come, she did not intend to leave this place at this moment.

  “What?” Qiao Chu was shocked for a moment and Fei Yan who had gathered a good amount of spirit power into his hands had upon hearing Jun Wu Xie’s words, dispelled the spirit power gathered around his hands.

  “Little Xie, did they torture you?” Qiao Chu asked anxiously as his eyes quickly surveyed Jun Wu Xie from head to toe. Only after ascertaining that Jun Wu Xie was completely unhurt did he sigh out in relief.

  “You did not hit your head, why are you saying something so illogical? Don’t tell me you find this place more comfy than the Immortals’ Loft! ?”

  Jun Wu Xie rolled her eyes at Qiao Chu.

  “How is Qu Ling Yue?” Jun Wu Xie asked next.

  “I went to take a look at her and her condition is not too optimistic. At this moment, all the physicians in the entire Imperial Capital had gone to the War Banner’s and even the Imperial Physicians have been activated. However, she is still in a coma and her injuries grave. Even in her coma, her vomiting of blood continues.” Fei Yan said, rubbing at his chin. He had secretly gone to the inn the War Banner Academy had been in to find out what the situation was like there and he found out that Qu Ling Yue was still lying in bed with her deathly pale face.

  “Little Xie, do you have anything against that Qu Ling Yue? You had been rather brutal with her. If not for the life extending elixir that the War Banner Academy had given her, she should already be dead by now.” Qiao Chu said, looking mournfully at Jun Wu Xie, having never once doubted Jun Wu Xie’s cruel viciousness against her enemies.

  “Even you think I did it?” Jun Wu Xie asked, her eyebrow coming up.

  Qiao Chu froze in surprise and then asked hesitatingly: “You didn’t?”

  Jun Wu Xie did not reply.

  Actually, she should not blame Qiao Chu for assuming that. Jun Wu Xie had in the two previous missions with him been mercilessly ruthless and when he saw Qu Ling Yue in that barely alive state, it would be normal for Qiao Chu and the others to assume…..

  Volume 9

  Chapter 843 : “Trumped Up Charges (4)”

  That Jun Wu Xie must have held a grudge against the lass, or why would Jun Wu Xie want to take her life with her very first strike?

  “You did not do it. Someone wanted to frame it on you.” Fan Zhuo said suddenly.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded. “I did not even touch her in the slightest and at the moment just before I attacked, she collapsed.” She had been moving extremely fast then and she had indeed closed in to come near Qu Ling Yue. In the eyes of others, it would look like she had struck Qu Ling Yue using her blindingly fast speed.

  But no one knew it better than Jun Wu Xie herself, what the exact situation had been at that exact moment.

  Jun Wu Xie’s words made Qiao Chu and the others suddenly fall deep in thought. They had initially thought that Qu Ling Yue had done something which made Jun Wu Xie lash out at her. But hearing Fan Zhuo’s and Jun Wu Xie’s words now, they were rudely shaken awake.

  If Jun Wu Xie really wanted to retaliate against someone, she would most definitely not employ methods that attracted so much attention to herself. She had almost never revealed her true intentions before others and it was even more impossible that she would commit to an attempted murder without any preparations beforehand.

  Thinking back on it, the incident with Qu Ling Yue was truly unlike Jun Wu Xie’s usual style.

  “Do you know who is the person behind this?” Hua Yao asked.

  Jun Wu Xie replied: “If not the Emperor, then the Fourth Prince. I had just rejected the Fourth Prince’s invitation recently and with his proud and arrogant temperament, he will not let it slide just like that. For them to have schemed to put me in jail today, more things are sure to come after.”

  She was getting deeply curious just how much more the E
mperor and the Fourth Prince are capable of.

  “I do not intend to leave this place at the moment. Fei Yan, help me keep a close watch on Qu Ling Yue’s side. They wouldn’t dare to allow anything to really happen to Qu Ling Yue.” Qu Ling Yue’s unique identity made her a person that not everyone dared to harm. The reason they had chosen to use Qu Ling Yue was firstly because Qu Ling Yue was her next opponent in the tournament, and secondly, they were intending to use the powerful Thousand Beast City behind Qu Ling Yue to blow up the matter.

  If it had been any other youth in this incident, it would have been easily covered up and nothing close to anything of this scale would have happened.

  “Do we need to enlist Lei Chen’s help?” Qiao Chu then asked.

  “Regarding this matter, Lei Chen would not be able to interfere. Why do you think they chose Qu Ling Yue? As the Young Miss of the Thousand Beast City, if anything happens to her, the people of the Thousand Beast City would surely be dragged into the farce. Lei Chen is merely the Crown Prince of the Yan Country and he is not able become involved in it. Moreover, the Emperor will not give him any opportunity to stick his hand into the matter either.” Jun Wu Xie explained calmly. If Lei Chen could do anything about the situation, she would not still be sitting in that cell at that moment.

  “Is that old Emperor becoming dotty? Does he have to play the game in this way? Aren’t Lei Chen and Lei Fan both his sons just the same? Don’t tell me he already knows that Lei Chen is not his biological son?” Qiao Chu asked, a sinister smile playing across his lips.

  Both of those boys were not related to the Emperor in the slightest, and if that old man found out, he would surely die from that unimaginable rage.

  “If he knew, Lei Chen would be dead by now.” Jun Wu Xie looked at Qiao Chu helplessly. [When would this overgrown kid grow some brains?]

  “The Emperor only wants Lei Chen to step down from his position as the Crown Prince and doesn’t really want to take his life. But, on the other hand, Lei Fan might not be sharing that same thought.” Jun Wu Xie had only interacted with Lei Fan once in their short first meeting. But with just that single meeting, Jun Wu Xie had been able to gather that Lei Fan’s temperament and personality was unlike normal people. She had barely just rejected his invitation to be his study partner and the next moment she had found herself thrown in jail.

  He had acted really fast.

  Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed and they suddenly glinted with an unidentifiable emotion.

  Volume 9

  Chapter 844 : “Trumped Up Charges (5)”

  Jun Wu Xie raised her head suddenly and stared right at Hua Yao who was at that moment still deep in thought.

  “Brother Hua, have all of you finished your matches?”

  Hua Yao nodded. Except for the unexpected incident at the first battle district today, all the other battle districts carried out all their matches and the winners from nine battles districts have been decided, with Hua Yao and the others, a total of five of them, gaining a spot among the top ten easily.

  “How long more is it to the matches to determine the top ten rankings?” Jun Wu Xie asked next.

  “Five more days.” Hua Yao said.

  “Five days…..” Jun Wu Xie lowered her eyes and immediately stood up. She walked over to the door of her cell and pulled out silver pin from under her hair. She reached her hands outside the cell and jiggled the pin around the lock’s keyhole briefly.

  A click sounded crisply and the cell door swung open.

  Qiao Chu and the others stood outside the jail cell, their mouths hanging open as they stood marveled and shocked at Jun Wu Xie’s lock picking skills.

  “Little Xie….. When did you pick up such a skill?” Qiao Chu asked with a loud gulp. They had been all ready to smash the lock to open and Jun Wu Xie had so calmly opened the lock with just a tiny silver pin.

  “I learnt it from a friend.” Jun Wu Xie said as she hid the pin back under her hair. She had picked up her lock picking skills from someone and it had been to allow her to come and go as she wished back at the organization. She had not thought that after being reborn in this world, she would be able to put it to such good use.

  “That is just amazing!” Qiao Chu exhorted.

  Jun Wu Xie did not think much of it and said: “I’m not that skilled. If it had been her, it wouldn’t have taken even three seconds…..” Jun Wu Xie’s voice trailed off as she spoke. She wiped away the emotion welling up in her heart and walked out of the cell.

  “I thought you were not intending to leave this place?” Rong Ruo asked teasingly of Jun Wu Xie.

  “I’m not leaving.” Jun Wu Xie replied, suddenly confusing everybody. She turned to look at Hua Yao. “Brother Hua, you stay here in my stead.”

  “…..” Hua Yao was speechless with surprise and it took him awhile before he realised what Jun Wu Xie was saying.

  “I need to go out in the day while Brother Hua will stay in the cell on my behalf and I’ll come back here at night.” Jun Wu Xie did not want to leave just like that and since someone wanted her to be locked in jail, how could she allow them to do as they wished?

  “What do you intend to do?” Qiao Chu asked.

  “In regards to what truly happened, Qu Ling Yue is the one person who knows best. Once she regains consciousness, the truth will be revealed, and they will have no more reason to keep me locked up in jail anymore.” Jun Wu Xie said, the corners of her lips curling up in a slight arc.

  [Since they want to play, she would give them a good game.]

  Having understood what Jun Wu Xie meant, Hua Yao did not probe further and immediately shifted and transformed the bones in his body, turning himself to look at Jun Xie.

  Hua Yao’s personality was similarly cold and distant like Jun Wu Xie and with him consciously imitating Jun Wu Xie’s manner and expressions, it was really hard to tell them apart when they stood together.

  “Are you going out now or tomorrow?” Hua Yao asked in a voice exactly like Jun Wu Xie’s.

  Jun Wu Xie answered: “Tonight.”

  Hua Yao nodded and walked into the jail cell without hesitation, even snapping the lock back in place in passing as he entered. Since the two of them were already dressed in the Zephyr Academy’s uniform, there wasn’t even a need to change.

  While it was still dark and quiet, Jun Wu Xie quietly slipped out from the prison with Qiao Chu and the others. The two prison guards at the main doors into the prison were snoring in their sleep and were completely oblivious to the fact that the prisoner they had locked up in there had already been switched.

  Soon after stepping out from the prison, Jun Wu Xie summoned Ye Sha.

  “Make a trip into the Imperial Palace.” Jun Wu Xie told him.

  Ye Sha nodded slightly, and his towering figure quickly disappeared into the darkness of the night.

  Volume 9

  Chapter 845 : “Peerless Genius Doctor (1)”

  When Jun Wu Xie was thrown in prison, Lei Chen ran all over the place, but the result had been disappointing. The Emperor had dismissed him away after saying just a few words and had not even allowed him to enter the prison, where Lei Chen was left worrying himself almost to madness in the Crown Prince’s Residence.

  “Your Highness, disciples from the Zephyr Academy seeks an audience.”

  Lei Chen was surprised a moment before he immediately said: “Bring them in quick.” before he quickly adjusted his clothes, trying to not look so wretched.

  Qiao Chu brought with him another person covered in a black cloak as he stepped into Lei Chen’s study. Lei Chen looked questioningly at the figure beside Qiao Chu and quickly turned to Qiao Chu to say: “Young Master Qiao, did you come here today regarding the matter with Jun Xie?”

  Qiao Chu scratched his head as he replied awkwardly: “You can put it that way.”

  Lei Chen gave him a bitter smile: “I am really powerless. I had wanted to discuss with my Father about it but he did not even give me the chance to bring it up, and only warned me n
ot to interfere with this matter. The news that Qu Ling Yue had gotten severely injured had spread to the Thousand Beast City and people from the Thousand Beast City will be arriving here soon.”

  Lei Chen was getting rather depressed. Qu Ling Yue had also been another person he wanted to recruit and he had spared no effort recently to build closer relations with Qu Ling Yue. Who would have thought that such an incident would happen that had gotten Qu Ling Yue so severely injured that she had slipped into a coma and even Jun Xie had been dragged into it. That had made him extremely nervous and the Emperor had prohibited him from becoming involved, so he could do nothing but sit there and worry himself to death.

  “How is Qu Ling Yue doing?” Qiao Chu glanced at the person beside him without being noticed as he asked.

  Lei Chen sighed heavily. “Not good. The Imperial Physicians have treated her throughout the night but the effects have been minimal. I went to see her yesterday and she looked extremely frail. The physicians were only able to use all kinds of life extending elixirs to stabilise her heart and meridians but that could only be a temporary measure. If it continues to go on like this….. She might not survive this ordeal. And if anything happens to her, the people from the Thousand Beast City will never let little brother Jun off! The Thousand Beast City’s Chieftain has always been tyrannical and even a Crown Prince like me is deemed beneath his notice. I’m afraid I’m unable to rescue little brother Jun from his imprisonment.”

  Qiao Chu nodded and glanced self consciously to the figure beside him once more before he said: “If it’s injuries you are talking about, I have here a genius doctor that I can recommend to Your Highness.”

  “Oh? Really?” Lei Chen’s eyes lit up immediately.

  Qiao Chu nodded and quickly pointed to the figure beside him to say: “Truth to be told, I came here today to bring you this person.”