Peach-Orange! – Chapter 313 – Snow White’s Poisoned Apple

Chu Lingfeng panicked.

Facing Su Tao’s relentless approach, he was utterly terrified.

Though he knew some basic combat skills, there was no way he could defeat Su Tao in her current state. Moreover, he didn’t dare use the Thirteen Taiyi Needles on himself.

Forcing the body’s latent potential to multiply its strength would leave the user with only two or three years of life afterward.

That was the truth behind his earlier use of the Thirteen Taiyi Needles.

For an ordinary person to become a martial artist, aside from extreme methods like drugs, there was only one way—

To possess an innate bloodline like Su Tao’s, awakening it in a moment of extreme rage or breakdown.

The War Hero bloodline granted Su Tao the formidable physical prowess of a martial artist, far surpassing ordinary practitioners.

But no matter how strong a martial artist was, they were still human. A single bullet could kill them.

Only Su Dingtian was different.

If not for Su Dingtian’s youthful arrogance, offending too many people, and his unparalleled bloodline strength, why would he have been framed and ostracized at the peak of his success?

When a person posed too great a threat, they had to be eliminated.

And now, his unexpected daughter had inherited what might be the only bloodline of its kind in the world.

Chu Lingfeng wanted to run, but his legs felt weak. After barely managing a step, he nearly collapsed.

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Suppressing his trembling, he turned and shouted at Su Tao, “Miss Su Tao, calm down! Your sister… your sister’s condition wasn’t my doing! I was also threatened by those bodyguards!

“And… and this old butler!”

Chu Lingfeng pointed at the elderly butler, who had been weakened by a previous needle treatment and could barely stand. “It was all the Si family’s doing! This butler was acting on Si Zhenliu’s orders to force me!”

Yet Su Tao seemed not to hear him, continuing her slow, deliberate approach.

Consumed by rage, she had completely lost her rationality.

Even when Si Chen stumbled to Chi Xiaocheng’s side to check her injuries, Su Tao didn’t turn toward her.

Her crimson-brown eyes seemed to hold nothing but hatred.

Chu Lingfeng bit his tongue hard, trying to use the pain to force himself to stay calm, but his legs gave out, and he collapsed to the ground.

Scrambling backward, he kept shouting, “Miss Su Tao, your sister… I can save your sister! I’m a Miracle Doctor! I have the Thirteen Taiyi Needles! Whether it’s her injuries, her amnesia, or even mental illnesses, I can cure them all!”

Only when Chi Xiaocheng was mentioned did Su Tao pause mid-step.

She immediately turned her gaze toward the grassy area.

The petite girl lay motionless against the unconscious bodyguard, lifeless as if her vitality had drained away.

With a surge of fury, Su Tao picked up the fruit knife Chi Xiaocheng had dropped earlier and strode toward Chu Lingfeng, slashing straight at his forehead.

Her speed was beyond what an ordinary person could react to.

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But Chu Lingfeng reacted, whether by instinct or because his hand slipped, causing his head to tilt aside at the last moment.

The fatal slash missed, but with a pained scream, his remaining left ear flew off.

Before Chu Lingfeng could even cry out in pain, a knee strike slammed into his abdomen.

Blood and bile spewed as the impact sent him flying three meters back.

The agony of losing an ear, combined with the searing, crushing pain in his organs, left Chu Lingfeng curled into a ball.

His eyes burned with hatred as he glared at Su Tao. “Damn you… damn you!”

With all his remaining strength, he pulled a silver needle from his sleeve and stabbed it into his own body.

Then, with shaky but practiced movements, he inserted twelve more needles.

Despite the devastating blow he’d taken, he somehow managed to stand again!

“Su Tao, just you wait! I won’t let you go! Even if I die, I won’t let you off!”

He spat the threat but didn’t turn to flee.

The commotion had drawn many security personnel, some of whom now held guns.

‘Fate refuses to let me die!’

Su Tao, in her overwhelming fury, seemed to see those words written across Chu Lingfeng’s body.

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Her usually sharp intuition faintly warned her that if she truly forced his death now, something terrible would happen, something even she couldn’t escape.

As a character still bound by the original novel’s framework, Su Tao didn’t realize this was Chu Lingfeng’s protagonist halo.

But Chi Xiaocheng, who had endured the pain and witnessed Su Tao’s dark transformation and counterattack, let out a weak, bitter smile.

“As expected….”

Her lips trembled as she spoke, only to cough up a mouthful of blood.

“Cough… cough… It really won’t work.”

Hearing the hoarse voice, Si Chen whirled around. “Chi Xiaocheng?!”

He had assumed she was unconscious. While Su Tao was beating Chu Lingfeng, he had even called his top medical team on his phone, urging them to hurry.

But then again, Chi Xiaocheng had nearly died twice before and still pulled through.

A single punch? Why was he even worried?

Gradually calming down, Si Chen quickly said, “Chi Xiaocheng, don’t move! My medical team will be here soon. Su Tao has awakened her father’s bloodline, so she’s invincible for now and won’t be hurt. Don’t worry.”

Yet Chi Xiaocheng only shook her head faintly.

Her injuries were so severe she couldn’t even turn her head. Only the breeze stirred her bloodstained hair.

Her small hand, hidden beneath her, flipped over as if performing a magic trick, revealing a deep red apple.

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Swallowing the blood in her mouth, she spoke solemnly to Si Chen, “This… make Chu Lingfeng eat this. No matter what method you use!”

The words seemed to drain the last of her strength.

Her trembling hand tried to lift the apple but soon gave out, and she fell unconscious.

Her injuries were too grave.

Even with her pain reduction skill, that punch had been excruciating.

If not for the system’s medicines, the hyperactivity of her “orange cells,” and her skin regeneration skill, her frail body would never have withstood the blow.

A body so weak that even a long shopping trip left her exhausted, how much stronger could it become, even with tenfold darkening?

Following Chi Xiaocheng’s gesture, Si Chen looked at the apple that had fallen to the ground and rolled to his feet.

He had no idea how Chi Xiaocheng had hid it.

But the moment he picked it up, his hair stood on end.

Every instinct, every pore in his body recoiled from this seemingly harmless fruit.

A terrifying thought surged through his mind:

If someone eats this apple, they will be abandoned by the entire world, suffering a fate worse than death.