Transmigrated as the Villain Boss's Precious Darling-Chapter 150: The Tragedy of Second Uncle’s Family

Tang Xiaonan recalled this part of the story. Lana Steiner felt immense guilt over her inability to conceive, so she was completely obedient to Raina. Raina would frequently find so-called folk remedies for her, and Lana would drink them all without complaint, though they never had any effect.

Desperate for a grandchild, Raina heard about a widely renowned "Mystic Liu" and went to procure some medicine from her. It contained all sorts of strange ingredients. After brewing it into a concoction, she had Lana Steiner drink it. And the medicine actually seemed to work wonders—less than two months later, Lana was pregnant.

Raina was overjoyed and became a devout believer in Mystic Liu. Lana Steiner was getting on in years and her constitution wasn’t the best, so her pregnancy symptoms were especially severe. She even experienced some spotting. Raina immediately went back to Mystic Liu for more medicine, bringing it home for Lana to drink on several more occasions.

This planted the seeds of tragedy. At eight months, Lana Steiner went into premature labor and gave birth to a deformed infant with a long tail. The shock sent her into a massive hemorrhage, and the doctors couldn’t save her. The malformed child didn’t survive, either. Frederick Thorne, having lost his beloved wife and been traumatized by the sight of the monstrous infant, suffered a complete mental breakdown.

Frederick Thorne’s mental state fluctuated, so he naturally couldn’t work anymore and returned home to recuperate. Under the meticulous care of Raina and Byron Thorne, he remained marginally stable. But just a few years later, the Thorne family’s fortunes collapsed.

After Byron Thorne passed away, Raina herself was confined to her sickbed and could no longer care for her son. Frederick Thorne then snapped completely. One day, he ran out the door and never returned. A month later, a body surfaced in the reservoir of the neighboring village. It was Frederick.

The gravely ill Raina was devastated by the blow, and her health deteriorated even further. Though the book never mentioned when Raina died, ’she couldn’t have had many years left.’

Frederick Thorne was nothing like his brothers. He was gentle and level-headed, devoted to his parents, and cherished his wife. Unbound by old-fashioned thinking, he cared deeply for his nieces and nephews, especially Tang Xiaonan, whom he treated like his own daughter. Lana Steiner was also a gentle and virtuous woman. Yet, good people don’t always meet good ends. Of everyone, this kind couple’s fate was the most tragic.

The root cause was Mystic Liu’s "miracle drug." The author of the book had explicitly stated that the medicine contained many ingredients harmful to expectant mothers, which was what led to the fetal deformies. In fact, Lana Steiner’s pregnancy had nothing to do with the medicine at all. She would have conceived eventually, even without it.

’Based on the timeline, Lana Steiner should already be pregnant right now. But because her periods were irregular and she had given up hope of conceiving, she hadn’t paid it any mind. It wasn’t until her pregnancy symptoms became too strong to ignore that she finally went to the hospital, by which time she was already nearly three months along.’

’Therefore, Lana must not, under any circumstances, take that medicine from Mystic Liu.’

Tang Xiaonan also resolved to find a chance to expose this Mystic Liu. ’That goddamn charlatan has done so much harm. Daring to prescribe remedies for pregnant women without a lick of medical knowledge.’

"Mystic Liu this, Mystic Liu that," Byron Thorne said, his tone laced with displeasure. "Stop feeding Frederick’s wife all those strange concoctions. You’re going to make her seriously ill."

He was a "barefoot doctor," and while his skills weren’t exactly top-tier, he had basic common sense. ’Anyone calling themselves a "Mystic" is a fraud, nine times out of ten. Their so-called medicine is bullshit.’

"Linden’s mother told me about her," Raina said, utterly convinced, and shot Byron Thorne a look of disdain. "Mystic Liu is from her home village, and her remedies are incredibly potent. Plenty of women had babies after taking them."

’He’s a useless quack himself,’ she thought. ’Can’t even fix his own daughter-in-law’s infertility.’

"You should spend less time with Linden’s mother," Byron Thorne said, his dissatisfaction growing. "Linden is Phoenix Golding’s brother! How can you trust a word his mother says?" Linden Golding was Phoenix Golding’s younger brother, and the Thorne and Golding families had always been at odds. Raina, however, was on decent enough terms with Phoenix’s mother to exchange pleasantries now and then.

Tang Xiaonan’s heart sank. ’Phoenix Golding again. Why is she involved in every single misfortune?’

’I hope it’s just a coincidence.’