"Are you cold?"

Troy noticed her shiver and thought she might be feeling chilly.

Luo Wei snapped back to reality and quickly said, "No, I'm not cold. I just thought of something."

Troy gave her an inquisitive look: "What made you so scared?"

Luo Wei mischievously asked, "Are you afraid of seeing doctors?"

Troy shuddered, as if recalling some unpleasant memory, and tightly closed his mouth.

His reaction...

"Have you seen a doctor before?" Luo Wei asked curiously, "What illness did you have that required a doctor, and how did the doctor treat you?"

With a living example right in front of her, she couldn't resist the urge to interview him, wanting to know what kind of mindset people in this world had when seeking medical treatment.

She wondered which of the four major methods - bloodletting, induced vomiting, enemas, or poisoning - Troy had experienced.

Moreover, to have seen a doctor and still be alive, he was truly remarkable!

However, Troy kept silent, and Luo Wei's expression gradually became peculiar: "Don't tell me you had hemorrhoid surgery?"

Troy, embarrassed and angry, retorted: "No, don't make wild guesses!"

"No way, it really was hemorrhoids?" Luo Wei clicked her tongue.

In this era, the surgery with the highest success rate was hemorrhoid removal. One cut, and it's done. A quick incision followed by cauterization with a hot iron, perfect.

"I said it wasn't!" Troy, fearing her guesses would become more outrageous, quickly explained, "I just had some bloodletting done. The doctor used leeches on me."

Hearing the word "leeches," Luo Wei's face scrunched up: "That's even worse than hemorrhoid surgery. What if those things crawl inside your body?"

Troy's face turned ashen. He had indeed experienced leeches crawling inside him and had to make a great effort to remove them. That's why he was so averse to doctors now.

But he would never tell Luo Wei this truth!

"You don't get bloodletting every time you're sick, do you?" Luo Wei continued to ask as she pondered, "How many times have you had bloodletting? Don't you feel dizzy? Actually, excessive bloodletting can be fatal. Trust me, don't do it anymore."

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Troy felt exhausted, but to maintain his image, he had to explain: "I haven't done it many times. Unless you're on the verge of death, no one wants to get bloodletting. When I was sick as a child, I mostly just prayed and asked for holy water."

"Prayer and holy water don't work either, but who knows, it's called faith healing. Sometimes self-suggestion can have a bit of an effect," Luo Wei said, covering her chin.

Troy closed his eyes briefly, no longer wanting to hear her speak.

How hurtful!

You already know, why do you have to point it out!

The two walked side by side, leaving the academy street behind them. The surroundings gradually grew quiet.

"Troy."

"What?"

Luo Wei's expression turned cool, her previous jovial manner gone: "Have you heard of the surname Isis?"

She had just remembered to ask Troy, thinking he might know something.

"Isis," Troy repeated, his eyes flickering slightly, "Have you met someone with the surname Isis?"

Luo Wei denied it outright: "No, I just heard a classmate at school mention it. They were being all mysterious about it, so I got curious."

"Oh," After several seconds, Troy slowly began, "Isis is a very noble surname. People who use this surname are considered descendants of the God of Life, because the name of the Goddess of Life is Isis."

Luo Wei finally realized where that sense of familiarity came from. In her previous life, she had read about Egyptian mythology, where Isis was the goddess of life and health, as well as the protector of the dead.

This was a very typical naming convention: using your name to crown my surname, inheriting and displaying the glory of ancestors.

"Have you ever met anyone with the surname Isis?" Luo Wei probed.

"I haven't met any, but I've heard of them."

Troy looked up towards the southern sky: "Isis is a surname that came from the Wastes, not common in the Western Continent."

"I've only heard of one, the former queen of the current king of the Kingdom of Ateh, Peggy Isis. It's said she was a princess from an ancient country in the Wastes who married into Ateh, but she passed away many years ago."

Luo Wei felt an inexplicable pang in her heart: "How did she die?"

"I heard she drowned in a river while eloping with someone."

"The queen, eloping?"

"Yes, this queen was someone who couldn't tolerate even a speck of dust in her eye. She discovered the king sleeping with her maid and, in a fit of anger, wanted a divorce. But the King of Ateh didn't agree, so she eloped with someone."

"What was the name of the person she eloped with?"

"How would I know that? If it weren't for this royal scandal causing such a stir across the entire continent at the time, I wouldn't have heard about it either."

"How come I never heard about it?" Luo Wei asked suspiciously. There was nothing about this in the original owner's memories.

"That was fifteen years ago," Troy glanced at her, "At that time, you probably weren't even born yet."

Hearing his tone, Luo Wei teased: "Tsk tsk, how old are you, old man? You sound so antiquated!"

Troy's expression indeed turned unpleasant: "I'm only twenty-three!"

Luo Wei: "What? You're already a twenty-three-year-old bachelor?"

At this age in this era, he wasn't considered young anymore.

Troy gritted his teeth: "I'm not an old bachelor!"

"Okay, okay, you're not," Luo Wei, seeing him angry, quickly returned to the main topic, "So, was Queen Isis's body ever found?"

"I don't know!" Troy's chest heaved up and down. The topic change was so abrupt that it made him seem petty.

After taking a few deep breaths, he continued: "However, not long after Queen Isis died, the King of Ateh made that maid the new queen."

"It's said that this maid was extremely beautiful. At the time, she was almost taken by a lord to be his mistress, but Queen Isis saved her."

"But some people say that Queen Isis was too naive and was tricked. This maid came from a fallen noble family and had long harbored intentions of attaching herself to the king."

"She deliberately seduced the lord on the day of the queen's outing to stage an abduction, so that the kind-hearted queen would save her and bring her back to the palace, giving her the opportunity to get close to the king."

After listening, Luo Wei's expression was hard to describe.

What a melodramatic plot, what an exciting twist.

What's even more dramatic is that she realized she might have some connection to this Queen Isis.

Fifteen years ago, the age matched up too.

Could the original owner be Queen Isis's daughter?

If that's true, then the original owner's death wasn't in vain. Axina was ruthless, clearly someone who would "take advantage of illness to take a life."

Come to think of it, today was the day the original owner was supposed to be hanged.

Luo Wei extrapolated based on the original fate trajectory and realized that the original owner had already walked into a dead end at this point.

The crime of impersonating a noble wasn't enough to warrant death. There were three layers to what led to her demise.

The first two layers were naturally Axina's push and the mysterious assassin's plot. The final layer was Princess Lilith.

TBC