[BL] Accidentally Becoming the Healer of the Deranged Archduke novel Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Three Goals

Xion felt his legs aching again. This was another problem he had to bear.

A 24-year-old Xion was freshly graduated from medical college. Despite being used to hunger and beatings, he was blessed with a healthy body unlike now.

He glanced at his legs which looked too white even for his own eyes. The tender fairness irked him.

He had gone from a healthy male to a tender little chicken.

Xion tsked. He was a medical student, so he was used to sitting for longer spans of time to study. Even after sitting for hours, his legs never gave him any problem.

However, now, whenever he took more than a few steps his new legs would start aching.

There was something terribly wrong with his body and his dear dad did not even bother to send in a doctor.

The little Xion was happy to find his father. He thought he would not have to starve in the orphanage anymore.

Just because of this saving grace, he had listened to every order, every command of his father, Marquis Roberto Vaelis.

Little Xion even hid all the scars he got from Soren or the twins, for he did not want to bother his father.

How could the adult Xion not see that the Marquis had been keeping little Xion as a mere pawn?

If there was something that was in his favor, it was the intact memories of the original owner, still alive in his mind.

Xion Vaelis was very afraid of people, especially his stepbrother. So, he stayed in the wooden shed when the banquet was in full swing.

He would satisfy his hunger by eating the apples hanging from the nearby tree. Something happened on the third and the last night of the banquet.

Some dignitary was poisoned in the middle of the night, and the whole Marquis mansion was in uproar.

They checked every nook and cranny for the culprit. It was at that time, that the soldiers burst into the wooden shed.

They dragged the poor Xion in front of everyone. The already dizzy child almost fainted from all the pushing and pulling.

Marquis Roberto Vaelis hastily stepped forward to save him, and the poor kid felt that his father was a very good man.

Due to the intense interrogation that followed him, the child fell sick.

It took him almost a week to recover from the mild fever. Another day passed peacefully, until the doll like boy turned sixteen.

Instead of receiving any gift from his respected dad, he, himself, was given as a gift to the child of Viscount Hale, Caspian Hale.

Caspian Hale being the supporter of the future crown prince, could get away with almost anything, including his nasty hobbies.

Marquis knew well enough about the sadistic tendencies Caspian had for the pretty faces.

Stay away from the wooden shed.

Stay away from the people in the banquet.

Run away while Marquis Mansion is busy with the banquet.

This was one of the maids who helped Xion. If not for these good-hearted people, Xion might have died long ago.