Chapter 327 Even If It Fails, It Doesn't Matter
While others were helpless against this poison, it was quite easy for Thaddeus to cure because he had the antidote.
Thaddeus reluctantly opened the medicine box he was carrying, took out a small ceramic medicine bottle, and handed it to Gwyneth. "Just feed this to her. There are three antidote pills inside. The three pills are one treatment course - one pill per day. After three days, the poison will be completely cleared out."
Gwyneth took the small bottle and immediately fed Isabella one pill.
Sure enough, after about ten minutes, Isabella woke up.
Gwyneth breathed a sigh of relief. "How are you feeling? Any better?"
Isabella only felt a bitter taste in her mouth. Besides that, her limbs were a bit sore.
"The arrow that hit you was poisoned. I just gave you the antidote," Gwyneth explained.
Seeing that the person had woken up, Thaddeus said in a deep voice, "I've cured the poison for you. Are you satisfied now?"
Gwyneth glanced at him. "Thaddeus, even so, this doesn't prove that the Guest family has nothing to do with this. The Powell family will investigate this to the end!"
Thaddeus snorted coldly. "Then you'd better come up with evidence!"
"Without evidence, even if you want revenge, I believe the other three major families won't just stand by and watch."
Among the seven great families of the Powell family, there were the upper three clans and the lower four clans.
The upper three clans were closely connected with good relationships. Although the lower four clans weren't as powerful as the upper three, they didn't want to see the upper three dominate, so the lower four united together to keep each other warm and balance the power of the upper three clans.
The Powell family and the Jordan family were two of the upper three clans.
The Guest family belonged to the lower four clans.
So if Gwyneth had no evidence to prove that the people who poisoned the Powell family were arranged by the Guest family, she couldn't easily trouble the Guest family, because the other three clans among the lower four wouldn't just stand by and watch.
Moreover, in today's society, every word and action of the seven great families was watched by the public. If Gwyneth targeted the Guest family without reason today, tomorrow news of the Powell family bullying others would spread throughout the seven great families and thirty-six noble families. The Powell family's reputation among the forty-three clans would be greatly damaged.
It might even trigger some public opinion.
So all along, although the families constantly made small moves against each other in secret, on the surface they still had to maintain a fake sense of courtesy.
Hearing this, Gwyneth's eyes darkened.
At first, when she said this matter was related to the Guest family, she was indeed making it up, just to get Thaddeus to come cure Isabella's poison.
But just now she got news from Li Kui that the three archer assassins had been silenced.
Naturally, she now had real suspicions about the Guest family.
However, Thaddeus was right - she indeed had no evidence.
Gwyneth lowered her eyes and just said coldly, "I will naturally find out the truth. I also hope the Guest family has nothing to do with this."
After all, they had hurt her daughter.
She would definitely find the person behind this and would never let that person have a good ending.
Gwyneth's guilt toward Isabella made her unable to tolerate any harm coming to Isabella!
Thaddeus looked at Gwyneth deeply, then left with a cold face.
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When Thaddeus returned to the Guest family castle, Milan happened to be there too.
"Father, the Powell family people didn't do anything to you, did they?" Milan asked with concern.
"What could she do to me? What would she dare do to me?"
Thaddeus snorted coldly and sat down.
But thinking about it, he still felt indignant. He couldn't help crushing his coffee cup. "This Gwyneth is too unreasonable, pinning all kinds of charges on the Guest family! If you ask me, she just doesn't like the Guest family, so she's looking for trouble on purpose. What a disgusting woman!"
After speaking, Thaddeus looked at Milan and asked, "By the way, you didn't arrange for anyone to shoot and kill Powell family people, did you?"
Milan's eyes flickered, and he immediately denied it. "Of course not. How could I do such a thing?"
Thaddeus breathed a sigh of relief. He said earnestly, "Although the Powell family people do deserve to die, now is not the time to move against the Powell family. If we get caught, we'll be the ones in trouble."
"Milan, do you understand what I'm saying?"
Milan pressed his lips together. "I understand."
"Don't worry, Father. I'm definitely not that impulsive. I won't act rashly."
Thaddeus nodded. "Good."
Milan chatted with Thaddeus for a few more moments, then returned to his own room.
As soon as he got back to his room, that man in black appeared before him again.
"Master, should we continue with our next move?"
Milan's eyes focused, and he said through gritted teeth, "Stop all actions on this matter for now."
He had originally thought those archer assassins could poison Gwyneth. Since only the Guest family had the antidote to Viperleaf, if things went smoothly and Gwyneth was poisoned, as long as the Guest family didn't provide the antidote, Gwyneth would die from the poison.
That was his original plan - to easily kill Gwyneth. But unexpectedly... he had still underestimated Gwyneth's luck.
However, it didn't matter.
He hadn't placed much hope in this matter anyway. If he hadn't accidentally run into that Powell family guard named Ollie at the black market wanting to buy poison, he wouldn't have gone with the flow to set up this plan.
So even if it failed, it was no big deal.
Besides, he had done it perfectly. Those three archer assassins were dead, and everything was pushed onto that guard named Ollie. Gwyneth had no way to find evidence that he did it.
Next time when there's an opportunity, he would just plan more carefully.
Milan thought about it and stopped worrying about this matter.
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At the same time, at the hospital.
Although the poison was cured, Gwyneth still wasn't at ease and stayed in the hospital room with Isabella every step of the way.
Isabella sat on the hospital bed, recalling the scene of those archer assassins shooting at them. Her face looked somewhat serious as she looked at Gwyneth and said, "They were coming for you, not me."
Because those archer assassins had all shot arrows at Gwyneth. She only got hurt because she was standing next to Gwyneth.
What Isabella could sense, Gwyneth naturally sensed too.
"Those three archer assassins are already dead."
"What?" Isabella was somewhat surprised to hear this news.
"The Punishment Hall people said they died from poison. The poison must have been administered beforehand," Gwyneth said.
Isabella clenched her palms. "Poison again..."
She really found it hard not to suspect this matter was related to the Guest family.
If someone from the Guest family wanted to harm Gwyneth, thinking of this, Isabella's face darkened.
"I need to see Ollie."
Isabella immediately tried to get out of bed.
Gwyneth was startled and pressed down on her shoulder. "Isabella, your wound hasn't healed yet. How can you go to a place like Punishment Hall?"
That place had a strong smell of blood and lots of bacteria. What if she got infected?
"I just want to ask Ollie some questions. I don't think it's possible he has no impression at all of the person who sold him the poison. Now that the archer assassins are dead, we can only find a breakthrough through Ollie," Isabella said.
Gwyneth still disagreed. "I'll have them keep a close watch on Ollie first. If you want to question him, you can wait until your wound heals."
"But I want to find the person behind this as soon as possible..."
In the end, after Isabella's persistent pleading, Gwyneth gave in and agreed to let Isabella go to Punishment Hall to see Ollie, but not now - tomorrow, after her wound recovered a bit more.