Xu Fei opened the door just a crack, poking his head out.
“What’s the matter, Master Su? Not sleeping this late?”
Caught off guard and seemingly unconcerned with saving face, Su Hong got straight to the point.
“You were able to clear the murky qi from my body, so surely you can help my eldest daughter too!”
Worried his words might be too vague, Su Hong quickly handed Xu Fei a file.
“This contains all the relevant information. Once you read it, you’ll understand what I mean. You have to help me!”
“Helping me with this is even more important than saving my life, understand?”
With that, Su Hong left the corridor and returned to his room.
Xu Fei opened the file right there in the hallway and began reading its contents.
It took a while, but he finally grasped the situation.
“Has my dad gone? Why aren’t you coming back in…?”
Clearly, the prolonged commotion at the door had left the sisters inside anxious.
They thought Su Hong’s sudden appearance meant he’d discovered their presence.
Having read the file and realising the gravity of the matter, Xu Fei decided to close the door and have a serious talk with Su Yu.
With a smile, he turned around, shut the door, and sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Su Yu.
“It’s simple to help you both with your sleeplessness, but regarding your background, you need to tell me everything you know. Otherwise, I won’t help!”
Though Xu Fei spoke sternly, he was deliberately using reverse psychology.
As expected, the tactic worked. After hesitating for just a few minutes, Su Yu decided to spill the truth.
Regarding the jade pendant she carried, Su Yu had long asked her father about it.
Most young girls prefer pretty, delicate accessories, so who would like an ugly Taotie pendant?
Once, at school, Su Yu accidentally revealed it, and her classmates mocked her relentlessly.
When she got home, feeling wronged, she told her father about it.
But instead of comforting her, Su Hong, as her father, slapped her across the face.
“Daddy… why… why, when my classmates mocked me at school, do you have to hit me too…?”
Su Yu’s eyes brimmed with tears, on the verge of crying.
But to her surprise, her father, sitting across from her, cried even more dramatically, his sobs heart-wrenching.
It was then that Su Hong told Su Yu about the past and the origin of the jade pendant.
The story began with Su Yu’s birth.
That was a time when Su Hong’s career was on the rise.
Though his trade wasn’t exactly honourable, it was undeniably lucrative.
After having a daughter, Su Hong decided to pour all his earnings into raising her, determined to have no regrets.
But who could have foreseen that, right after Su Yu was born, her mother died in childbirth, and the newborn Su Yu suffered from persistent high fevers that wouldn’t break?
No matter how many top hospitals Su Hong visited, nothing helped.
