Chapter 951: Chapter 951: He Said He Wouldnât Leave (11)
âWhat do you mean by âjustâ? Are you implying that we havenât taken good care of her and you want to take her away?â Shu Jiao retorted.
Mrs. Yuan, the elder lady, lowered her eyes guiltily. Indeed, she had come with that intention, even if she could not achieve it, she also hoped that the Ruan Family would not continue to alienate her. She really just wanted to do well by her daughter, to make amends.
âMrs. Yuan, to use your own words, I didnât want to say this, but now that weâve come to this point, I just want to ask you one thing. You said youâve tried many ways to have your daughter reincarnated, but are you aware that Jiaojiao was born with a malevolent life force?â
âWhat do you mean?â Mrs. Yuan asked in astonishment.
âWhat do I mean? I just want to kindly advise you to stop, you are healthy now, but have you ever thought about the misdeeds youâve done and on whom the consequences have fallen?â
âI donât care about the past life; all I know is that in this life, Jiaojiao is my daughter, the treasure of our Ruan Family. If you, Mrs. Yuan, truly have even a little bit of remorse, then stop your selfish actions. The retribution for your sins has already fallen on those around you, so please stay away from Jiaojiao from now on.â
After saying this, Shu Jiao didnât wait for Mrs. Yuanâs reaction and turned to leave.
After finishing her words, Shu Jiao returned to the hospital ward and did not concern herself with what Mrs. Yuan thought. But as she had said, if Mrs. Yuan really had even the slightest bit of guilt, she should have realized that Jiaojiaoâs illness was inseparable from the sins she had committed.
Moreover, she truly couldnât feel any remorse from her; the kind of methods she spoke of are not used by common people, and anyone with a bit of conscience would know that they can bring about divine retribution, especially since she herself believed in reincarnation. How could she have done such a thing?
This wasnât guilt, it was just a selfish act fueled by her own desires; she wasnât remorseful for her daughter, she just wanted to feel a little better herself.
Shu Jiao waited for Mrs. Yuan and her family to leave before going to school. Before she left, she instructed the Ruanlin Family and Zhao Li and the others to forbid visits from Mrs. Yuanâs family.
She didnât care if her daughter was the reincarnation of Mrs. Yuanâs daughter; all she knew was that Jiaojiao was her darling, a treasure unique to the Ruan Family! A treasure she would protect at all costs, even if it cost her life.
Right after returning home, Mrs. Yuan fell ill, and temporarily she had no time to bother the Ruan Family.
Perhaps Shu Jiaoâs words today had completely pierced her veil of shame. The things she had done over the years, whether they were really to make up for her prematurely lost child or merely to ease her own conscienceâa question perhaps only she knew the answer to in her heart.
Ruan Jiaojiao recovered nicely over the next two days; no fever, her wounds didnât get inflamed again, and every day she was well-fed, well-rested, and in good spirits. The only discontent could probably be that Xiu Xi was not by her side, the itch of her wound made it hard for her to concentrate, and she could only listen to Ruan Jianguoâs not-so-standard Mandarin as he narrated âhorror storiesâ with animated emotion.
On the fourth day of her hospital stay, she was discharged.
On the day of her discharge, it was a monthly holiday for high school students, and it happened to be the weekend for middle and elementary schools, so ten big and small boys including her eight brothers and two god-brothers, a good dozen of them, swarmed in and nearly filled the entire hospital ward.
Dr. Yuan, who was conducting her final check-up, felt a chill on his back under the gaze of all those eyes.