Flirtatious Little Bone

That year, a strange disease ran rampant. The flesh of those infected peeled away layer by layer until only a skeleton remained. Then fresh flesh grew back, only for the cycle of brutal flaying to begin again... People called the patients living skeletons. According to legend, one in every ten million patients would become a Skeleton King, a skeleton that never grew flesh. Grind the Skeleton King's bones into powder and use them as medicine, and the disease could be cured, the body strengthened, and youth preserved forever. But most Skeleton Kings were violent and terrifyingly powerful. No one had ever managed to capture one. As cities fell, the Holy Physician Shao Qisi was summoned to help with the rescue effort. He saw skeleton people everywhere, neither alive nor dead. Facing the waves of deathly energy sweeping toward them, Shao Qisi tugged lightly at the empty sleeve beside him. "Darling, lend me another bone." The down-and-out Skeleton King: "..." You don't love me at all. You just want my bones. In this extraordinary era, the position of Holy Physician had grown ever more prestigious. The previous Chief Holy Physician had met an unfortunate end. Before he died, he left a message saying that his nephew lived in Qilin Town beneath Qilin Valley and had exceptional talent. But the Holy Physicians didn't know that there were more than a dozen places called Qilin Valley and Qilin Town across the vast continent, if not a hundred. Only after exhausting every possible avenue did they find Shao Qisi and his assistant digging for herbs in the mountains of Qilin Valley in the west. The central authorities questioned him. "Does your family have a long history of medicine?" A poison doctor was still a doctor, so Shao Qisi nodded coldly. The official's eyes lit up. "How much of the Compendium of Materia Medica and the Hundred Herbs Classic have you studied?" The corner of Shao Qisi's mouth lifted slightly, his eyes full of scorn. The official slapped the table, deeply moved. "He's the one." And so Shao Qisi, heir to a poison doctor's legacy who had only recently left the mountains, became the youngest Chief Holy Physician. Shao Qisi: "..." The Skeleton King, who had witnessed the whole thing: "..." In everyone's eyes, the new Chief Holy Physician was a noble and virtuous man, compassionate and kind. He always rushed to wherever there was trouble, ever at the front line. He also had a little assistant at his side. The assistant wore a black robe from head to toe and was probably seriously ill. He was clumsy at everything, but the Holy Physician never abandoned him. The Skeleton King, who also served as the assistant, gave a cold laugh when he heard this. Could it be that the Holy Physician just thought it'd be more convenient to use him for poison testing in dangerous places? Could it be that if he hadn't pleaded and coaxed him endlessly, the Holy Physician wouldn't have planned to save a single person, and would still be thinking about destroying the whole world? Could it be that he kept him close only because he was a medicinal ingredient capable of curing every disease? The Skeleton King was exhausted and aggrieved, his murderous aura rising as he glared at Shao Qisi. "I'll ask you one more time. Which one do you want: that pale-faced, six-foot-tall pretty boy in the lab who drinks Biluochun all day, or me?" Heir to a poison doctor's legacy, shou Shao Qisi x down-and-out little Skeleton King Gan Xun Theme: Strive tirelessly