Reborn Heiress: Seeking Revenge-Chapter 566: The Hope of the Shangguan Family (2)_1

"Grandfather, Brother Qing has fallen asleep." Qi Zhuochen gently helped Shangguan Qing sit upright and spoke softly. After overcoming numerous obstacles and adversities, the Qi grandfather and grandson had finally found the comatose Shangguan You. Qi Zhuochen looked at Shangguan You sleeping on the bed, gently shook her body, and softly called out, "Sister Youyou, Sister Youyou, please wake up. Wake up soon."

"Alas, Zhuochen, it’s no use. This girl is fated to face this disaster," Old Qi sighed, glancing around the room and shaking his head. Gazing at Shangguan You, who lay on the bed with a rosy complexion, he heaved another long sigh.

Although Old Qi had long foreseen that Shangguan You was fated to face this calamity, he was, after all, only human. He was merely a bit stronger than ordinary people and completely unable to predict future events. Thus, he had no way to prevent Shangguan You’s current destiny and could only watch helplessly.

"Grandfather, can’t you wake Sister Youyou either?" Qi Zhuochen asked, his face full of worry as he stared at Shangguan You on the bed. He reached out his small hand to gently touch her face.

"Zhuochen, your grandfather is merely mortal, only able to glimpse a bit of heaven’s secrets," the old man sighed heavily. "I don’t possess the power to defy nature and change fate. Otherwise, your destiny wouldn’t be entwined with the Shangguan Family, and your normal life wouldn’t be disrupted by this girl Youyou’s coma. Alas..." Old Qi shook his head, looking around the room. "Thankfully, Shangguan You’s complexion is rosy, and her previously damaged meridians have self-repaired. There’s no immediate danger for now. It’s just that her vital qi and blood are too abundant, a sign of excessive nourishment, which isn’t good. This is evident from your occasional nosebleeds, Zhuochen."

"Grandfather, being connected with Sister Youyou is good too. At least when she’s in trouble, I can sense it. At the most critical moment, I can still save her life," Qi Zhuochen said, nodding. He spoke softly, a note of sadness in his tone. If only I had known earlier, could everything have been different?

"Kid, save her life? Do you think her life is as worthless as yours?" Old Qi scolded Qi Zhuochen angrily. This grandson of mine is truly overestimating himself! With his meager cultivation, how could he possibly change anything? He can barely protect himself, let alone save others. It’s already a blessing he hasn’t implicated Shangguan You!

"Grandfather, please tell me, how exactly can Sister Youyou wake up? I don’t want to see Youyou lying there motionless, and I don’t want to be lying lifelessly like sister either."

"If I knew how to wake her, I would have acted a month ago. Why would I wait until today?"

At the door, Shangguan Zhi and another person, who had just been about to push the door open and enter, froze when they heard Old Qi suddenly shout inside. They exchanged a look, held their breath, and made no sound. The two of them remained vigilant at the doorway, watching every movement inside. If anyone seemed to threaten Shangguan You, they were ready to rush in at the first instant.

"Since there’s no way, then why did you come here, Grandfather? Shouldn’t we be trying to figure out how to wake Sister Youyou right now?" Qi Zhuochen’s eyes darted around a few times, his gaze turning cold as he looked at his grandfather.

"You brat! I came here because I’ve divined that Shangguan You is destined to face a deadly calamity. This ordeal is exceptionally dangerous. If she can get through it in the coming days, her awakening won’t be far off. But if she doesn’t get through it, she may never wake up," Old Qi said, his voice heavy. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"What deadly calamity? Grandfather, is there any way to avoid it? I don’t want Sister Youyou to end up in a vegetative state."

"Brat, I told you, I don’t know!" Old Qi muttered, pacing the room. "If I knew everything, I’d be a god! It’s precisely because I don’t know that I risked coming to the Shangguan Family. I wanted to see if there was any chance, any opportunity to help this girl get through it. I keep feeling she’s missing something. If we can just find that one thing, her illness will heal without any medicine. But I just don’t know what that thing is!"

"Grandfather, you have to save Sister Youyou! Look, she’s been in a coma for a month, but her complexion is getting rosier and rosier. She doesn’t look sick at all! Missing something? What exactly is she missing?" Qi Zhuochen asked, puzzled, as he watched Old Qi pace back and forth mysteriously.

"The hexagram reading shows a deficiency in ’Metal’ among the Five Elements. But what does this ’Metal’ mean? Could it really be these pieces of gold?" Old Qi murmured to himself. He took several glittering gold bars from the backpack behind him and placed them on Shangguan You’s bed.

Seeing the glittering gold, the mouths of the two people at the door twitched simultaneously. The idea that these gold pieces could wake Shangguan You was simply laughable.

"Grandfather, are these gold bars really useful? A deficiency in ’Metal’ doesn’t necessarily mean gold. It could be something else, couldn’t it?" Qi Zhuochen frowned, looking at the glittering gold bars. So Grandfather exchanged all our family’s most valuable possessions for gold bars, all to save Sister Youyou.

"The Five Elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth. The hexagram shows the deficiency is ’Metal.’ But this ’Metal’ is truly perplexing. If this were over a hundred years ago, ’Metal’ would naturally refer to the Gold Spiritual Bead. But now, after more than a hundred years... where would one even find this ’Metal’?" Old Qi muttered, shaking his head. He looked troubled as he stared at the dazzling gold beside Shangguan You—it was his entire fortune.

"Grandfather, if it really is ’Metal’ that’s needed, where should we go to find it?" Qi Zhuochen asked softly. He occasionally tucked the blanket around Shangguan You and, from time to time, touched her skin. Her skin feels so good, so smooth, soft, and tender. Is all girls’ skin as nice to touch as Sister Youyou’s?

As Qi Zhuochen took the opportunity to touch Shangguan You’s skin while adjusting her blanket, he secretly thought that his future partner’s skin must be as wonderful as Sister Youyou’s. This standard inadvertently set the stage for his future tragic life.

The two at the door listened quietly, growing more and more shocked.

"You brat! How would I, your old man, know? If I knew, why would I need to sneak around like this? I’d have come openly! By then, the Shangguan Family would surely have given your grandfather millions and returned all our money for the gold!" Old Qi put on a stern face. Ever since Shangguan You fell into a coma, Qi Zhuochen had become even more of a worry.