[Full-Time Job, BG] Who's the One with a Problem?!

This is a martial arts AU side story for the neighboring Anko fic, You Who Are Favored by the Dice Maiden. The Dice Maiden does not appear in this story. The plot is fairly loose and freewheeling, written whenever inspiration strikes.

Famous Figures

[Zhang Jiale]

Former leader of the Five Poisons Sect.

Commands snakes, scorpions, and all manner of venomous insects, and is highly skilled in poison and Gu magic.

He had many followers in the sect. In the second year of Yuanzhen, he suddenly passed the leadership to his adopted son, Zou Yuan, and vanished without a trace.

[Zhou Zao]

Adopted daughter of the former leader of the Five Poisons Sect, and current Saintess of the Five Poisons Sect.

She is skilled with snakes, scorpions, and a hundred kinds of Gu, no less than her father. Yet she is obsessed with unorthodox arts and spends much of her time in seclusion. After Zhang Jiale passed on the leadership, she left the Five Poisons Sect and traveled far into the Central Plains.

Violent and willful, her moods unpredictable. Yet her beauty is peerless, far surpassing that of anyone else.

[Wang Jiexi]

Head of Herb Hall, equally accomplished in medicine and swordsmanship.

His swordplay is elusive and uncanny. He once took first place at the Heroes' Gathering, but later abandoned the sword to devote himself to medicine, often holding free clinics to help the common people.

A respected elder of great virtue, with many followers. He carries on the legacy of the Wang clan.

[Yu Wenzhou]

Leader of Blue Brook Pavilion, most skilled in the art of music.

As a child, he was tormented by villains, who severed the tendons in his hands and feet, leaving him unable to practice martial arts. Yet he is a master strategist, with a mind almost demonic in its brilliance.

[???]

Blond, dressed in blue.

Appears and disappears without a trace, with peerless swordsmanship. Kills without leaving a shadow.

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Suspected to be working for Blue Brook Pavilion.

You had only gone to the free clinic at Herb Hall to see what was going on.

Who would have thought that the young doctor who took your pulse would only need one look at you before he dropped his head and hurried off to fetch his master?

His master took your pulse and pondered for a long while before saying, "There is something unusual about your pulse. It is because you practice unorthodox arts, and the poisons of insects and the chill of corpses have entered your body, clouding your seven apertures and weakening your senses... If you are not treated in time, I fear you have little time left to live."

You looked up at him, and he looked back at you.

So many people had told you since childhood that you would die a terrible death, and you had never taken them seriously. But now, you laughed in a fury. "You mean to say I don't have long to live, is that it?"

At the time, you thought: If he nods, I'll kill him.

But his gaze was calm, as if he had not sensed your murderous intent. "This humble one may not be much, but I can treat you."

Then he held out his hand to you.

*The one who is actually ill is Xiao Zao (you).

*Xiao Zao has a really bad temper in this story!

Theme: Just writing some martial arts fiction to relax!