BOOM!!!
Liu Shaoyang's complexion turned deathly pale. It's over. It's completely over. The Liu Family's destiny has been destroyed, and I'm about to suffer the backlash. The thought had barely flashed through his mind when…
SPURT!!!
A shocking gush of blood spouted from his mouth. A second later, he collapsed, completely unconscious.
Su Qingning was startled. She hadn't expected Liu Shaoyang to become so enraged that he would vomit blood, much less faint. Lin Xiao, however, knew Liu Shaoyang was suffering from a backlash.
Su Qingning was about to call an ambulance for him when her phone suddenly rang. Seeing the call was from her mother's attending physician, she quickly answered. Whatever the doctor said, Su Qingning's face instantly turned white as a sheet.
"I—I'll be right back!" she stammered.
After hanging up, she turned to Lin Xiao and said, "Follow me!"
They rushed to the hospital in a frenzy. The moment Su Qingning pushed open the door to the hospital room, she saw her mother lying on the bed, hanging on by a thread. Su Qingning collapsed to her knees before her mother, and tears immediately began to stream down her face. She wanted to say something, but the words were caught in her throat.
I've imagined this scene countless times. I thought I was prepared for it, but now that it's actually happening, I realize I wasn't prepared at all.
Her mother managed a weak smile. She shakily reached out, tenderly caressing her daughter's face, her eyes filled with reluctance and regret.
"Silly child, don't cry.
"Actually, this isn't so bad.
"Ever since your father passed away, I've thought about him every day.
"Now, I can finally go to him, and I'm very happy.
"But, the only one I worry about is you.
"Listen to me. After I'm gone, sell the bar.
"The Su Family will never let you obtain the inheritance rights to the Su Corporation."
Saying this, her mother paused. She gently and with difficulty wiped away Su Qingning's tears.
"If you find a boy in the future whose eyes are only for you, be sure to tell your father and me so that we can… smile… smile in the nine springs."
Her mother's breath grew weaker and weaker, her voice fainter and fainter, until it was nearly inaudible. The hand caressing Su Qingning's cheek fell powerlessly onto the bed.
Su Qingning panicked. She clutched her mother's hand tightly. "Mom, please don't leave, okay? You haven't seen me in my wedding dress yet! Mom, I got married! Let me show him to you! Mom, say something!"
Heart-wrenching sobs echoed through the hospital room.
Lin Xiao's heart ached listening to her. He said softly, "Qingning, don't be afraid. I'm here. Your mom will be fine."
Su Qingning seemed oblivious, her crying only growing more miserable.
Lin Xiao stepped forward and placed his fingers on her mother's wrist to check her pulse.
"What are you doing? Stay away from my mom!" Su Qingning shrieked through her tears.
"I'm checking on your mom's condition!"
"Shut up! Get out, do you hear me?"
Lin Xiao paid no attention to her. After a moment, he released her mother's wrist.
"Hmm. It was originally just a small kidney problem, but how did she get poisoned with Seven-Star Poison? This poison is what completely destroyed her kidneys... but it's not a big problem."
Listening to Lin Xiao's nonsense, Su Qingning could no longer contain her anger. "Lin Xiao, what on earth are you trying to do?"
"I want to save your mom!" Lin Xiao said.
"Shut up! You think you can save her just by saying so? Who do you think you are?"
"You're actually right about that. I can save her just by saying so," Lin Xiao laughed.
Su Qingning was too furious to speak. How can he still be spouting such nonsense at a time like this?
Looking at her mother on the bed, who had already left her forever, Su Qingning burst into tears again. But this wasn't from sadness; it was despair. Su Qingning had completely given up hope. I truly don't know what to do anymore. This has to be the darkest day of my life. I've never done a single thing to wrong heaven or earth, so why is fate being so cruel to me?
As she stood there, she suddenly began to sway. Lin Xiao knew she was about to faint from the immense shock. Sure enough, her vision went black, and she collapsed. With quick reflexes, Lin Xiao caught her in his arms and gently placed her on an adjacent bed.
I was going to wake her up, but on second thought, she's suffered a series of shocks and is emotionally unstable. Letting her rest for a while will help calm her down. Besides, while she's unconscious, I can save her mother. When she wakes up, it'll be an enormous surprise.
With that thought, Lin Xiao quickly moved to the mother's side. Her breathing was now as faint as a thread; she was on the verge of death.
Without another word, Lin Xiao pricked his own finger. A drop of golden blood seeped out. That's right—Lin Xiao's blood was the color of gold. Because he had once eaten a dragon.
On his sixteenth birthday, his grandmaster had approached him with a grin, saying he had a birthday gift for him—one he had been preparing for sixteen years. Lin Xiao had expected some earth-shattering treasure. Instead, his master had produced a five-to-six-meter-long snake from god-knows-where. The snake was a solid gold color and had a bizarre appearance. But that wasn't the worst part. What truly broke Lin Xiao was when his grandmaster forced him to swallow the snake whole. Only later did Lin Xiao learn that it wasn't a snake. It was a damn dragon.
After eating that dragon, his body underwent a heaven-and-earth-shaking transformation. He became impervious to all weapons and immune to all poisons, and his cultivation level skyrocketed. His blood even gained the power to revive the dying. Simply put, as long as a person was still breathing, Lin Xiao's blood could save them.
He let the drop of golden blood fall into the mother's mouth. In just a short while, her deathly pale complexion began to grow rosy. Her weak breathing rapidly grew stronger. Even her tightly shut eyes slowly fluttered open.
Lin Xiao wasn't surprised by this change in the slightest. After all, he had verified the miraculous effects of his blood more than once.
Just as Lin Xiao was about to speak to the revived woman, Su Qingning, who had fainted earlier, suddenly woke up. She immediately rushed to her mother's side and, without a word, burst into loud sobs.
"Child, why... why are you crying?" her mother asked.
Huh?
Su Qingning froze. Did I just hear my mother's voice? It must be a hallucination. I must be missing her too much. The girl started crying again.
Her mother placed a hand on her head. "Silly child, I'm all right."
BOOM!!!
Su Qingning's mind went blank. Seeing her mother lying on the hospital bed as if nothing had happened, she was utterly stunned. What's going on? Just a moment ago, Mom had clearly... left me. How is she alive again? Am I seeing things?
She rubbed her eyes hard. After confirming it wasn't a trick of the light, she became completely and utterly ecstatic. "Mom! Mom, you're all right?"
Her mother nodded. "It seems so."
"Mom, you're really all right?" Su Qingning still couldn't believe it.
"Child, I really think I'm fine. The pain is gone too."
Su Qingning cried again, but this time, the large tears that streamed down her face were tears of joy. The feeling of getting back something you thought you'd lost forever is something you can't understand unless you've experienced it yourself.
Lin Xiao smiled. "So, Su Qingning? See? I told you I could save her."
Su Qingning stopped crying and looked at Lin Xiao with suspicion. Did he really save Mom? To be honest, she couldn't believe it. But besides Lin Xiao, there was no one else in the spacious hospital room.
"You... you saved my mother?"
Lin Xiao grinned. "That's right. Besides being handsome, my medical skills are pretty good too."
"How did you do it?" Su Qingning asked quickly.
Just as Lin Xiao was about to speak, a cold voice suddenly drifted in from outside the room.
"Bullshit! It was my master who saved her. How dare you, a piece of trash, try to take the credit?"