---- Chapter 7 Grandpa's condition continued to deteriorate. The hospital had determined it was due to the toxins in the medicine, but they couldn't identify the specific poison. I stayed by his bedside day and night, watching helplessly as he grew increasingly frail. Late one night, Charles walked in, followed by an elderly gentleman who exuded an extraordinary presence. "This is my Treyist mentor, Mr. Bowen Atkinson. He's highly skilled in medicine, especially detoxification." Bowen carefully examined Grandpa before pulling out a silver needle and lightly pricking his wrist. A few drops of blood dripped into a porcelain dish. Bowen then pulled out a packet of powder and sprinkled it into the dish. Instantly, the blood turned a purplish-black. ---- His brows furrowed deeply. ''Veilroot Bloom. This is a poison so rare that it hasn't been seen in a century. It's colorless, odorless, and slow-acting." Shocked and furious, I asked, 'Where did this poison even come from?" "The plant grows deep in the mountains, and people generally can't get their hands on it." Bowen's tone grew graver as he continued, "But there are some countries near the equator that have private cultivators who sell it at exorbitant prices." Charles immediately pulled out his phone to call his investigator. Within half a day, he received a call back. "They've found something. Tahlia contacted an international smuggler about three months ago, and they made a transaction that was worth exactly 500 thousand dollars." Isneered. "That money definitely came from Michael. He recently received funding from Grandpa for his research project. Who would've thought he'd be so cruel as to target Grandpa?" ---- "That's not all,"' Charles continued as he turned on his tablet. "We found that someone had tampered with the security footage at Kingston Group's office building." He played the restored video, which clearly showed Tahlia sneaking into Grandpa's private medicine room late at night and switching out the medicine packets. "Don't worry, young lass. Charles has already found the antidote for this poison. It requires seven rare herbs and plants, and I've already sent people out to collect them." Just then, our company's financial system was attacked by a hacker yet again, causing even more chaos. Jeremy sent me a smug-sounding message. "You can't get the data back again, can you? Just be good and hand the company over already." But what he didn't know was that I was already prepared for him.