"What exactly happened?"

"This isn't true, is it?"

Am I dreaming?

"Yes, it must be a dream!"

"How could he... No way... No way..."

Su Yujiao was incoherent; she dared not utter that word, nor even think about it.

Hearing Su Yujiao's choked voice, Zhou finally couldn't hold back her emotions any longer and burst into tears.

Su Yujiao listened to Zhou's heart-wrenching cries and looked at her usually strong, optimistic, and energetic mother-in-law.

At this moment, she collapsed to the ground, trembling all over, almost crying herself to death.

She staggered a few steps and fell to the ground, stammering, "How could this be... No, it can't be."

Wang Ma and her two sisters-in-law, who had heard the commotion, rushed in together. They tried to comfort one and help the other up, and eventually the women sat together and wept bitterly.

Suddenly, Zhou couldn't catch her breath and fainted from crying.

Bai Qingrou hurriedly pinched her mother-in-law's philtrum, and only breathed a sigh of relief after the woman woke up.

"Wang Ma, please help Grandma back to rest."

"Second sister-in-law, go and fetch a doctor to check on Grandma's pulse to make sure she's feeling well."

"I'll keep my younger brother and sister-in-law company and talk to them."

"good."

Looking at the woman on the ground with a blank and wooden expression, Bai Qingrou couldn't help but tear up again, and choked out, "Sister-in-law, get up first, the ground is cold."

After a long while, Su Yujiao stiffly turned to look at her: "Sister-in-law, this... this isn't true, is it?"

"He's not dead, is he?"

"I'm dreaming, I must be dreaming."

Bai Qingrou listened to her self-deceiving mutterings, turned her face away, and choked up, unable to speak.

What a pitiful woman!

In previous years, the seventh brother treated his wife badly, but now he has finally changed his mind, yet... he has ended up like this.

Perhaps this is what he owed her, and in the end, he even gave his life for it.

But his sister-in-law loved him and didn't want him dead at all.

Bai Qingrou composed herself and spoke again, "Sister-in-law, please get up first."

"Although Seventh Brother doesn't want you to know, I think you should know."

As Bai Qingrou spoke, she helped Su Yujiao, who had a blank expression, to her feet.

Su Yujiao looked at her with teary eyes, her lips trembling, her voice shaking uncontrollably: "Sister-in-law, he...he..."

The woman choked up several times and couldn't speak.

Bai Qingrou helped the trembling woman to sit down and said, "He died saving you."

"It was Master Xuanqing who personally brought his ashes back."

Su Yujiao stumbled and turned around sharply to look at her, her eyes filled with shock and confusion.

"Help me?"

"Um."

"He disappeared for so long not to investigate any case, but to help you defy fate."

“Master Xuanqing has calculated that the day when the world is at peace will be the day your death calamity descends.”

"Seventh Brother could not accept this reality, so he begged Master Xuanqing to save your life."

"Master Xuanqing told him that human life is predetermined by Heaven, and he cannot do anything to defy Heaven and change his fate."

"The seventh brother refused to give up, so he knelt down 99,999 steps, one step at a time, and waited at the entrance of the Taoist temple for countless days and nights. It was this true feeling that moved Master Xuanqing."

"Master Xuanqing said that the only way to save you is to exchange your life for his."

"Seventh Brother agreed without hesitation."

"For the next forty-nine days, Seventh Brother will need to soak the Life-Turning Pearl in his own blood every day until it turns blood red, so that it can be used as a magic tool for you two to exchange your lives."

"On the day of your accident, your seventh brother arrived just in time and put the life-saving bead on your wrist."

"After that, you lived, and your seventh brother died."

"To prevent your destinies from becoming unstable, Seventh Brother's body cannot be laid to rest. Only by cremating him into ashes can your destinies be completely changed."

Bai Qingrou choked up several times, pointing to the urn behind Lu Ziqian's memorial tablet and saying, "That is my seventh brother's ashes."

"The box next to you contains the life-saving beads he left for you; that bracelet carries all his love for you."

“He said he never regretted saving you; it was what he should do as a husband.”

"This is something he owed you before."

He also hopes that you will find someone who truly cherishes and loves you in the future, and spend your life with them.

"Seventh Brother's life has been too bitter. He suffered inhuman torture when he was a child, which made him not know how to love someone, causing you to suffer a lot of grievances."

"He only learned how to love now, but it's too late..."

"Why!"

Su Yujiao was already sobbing uncontrollably. It turned out that day wasn't a hallucination; it really was him.

He saved her!

He risked his life for another!

She was the one who should have died, but she caused his death, leaving him without even a complete corpse!

Overwhelmed with grief, Su Yujiao fainted from crying.

She didn't wake up until three days later. During those three days, she had a recurring high fever and refused to wake up.

The new emperor practically moved the entire Imperial Medical Academy to the General's Mansion to repeatedly pull her back from the brink of death.

My cousin saved my sister-in-law's life with his own, and he wants her to live.

He couldn't let anything happen to his cousin's wife, no matter what!

Su Yujiao had been awake for several days, staring blankly at the ceiling all day, tears streaming down her face, her pillow never dry.

Seeing the woman constantly in tears, Chen felt an overwhelming pang of heartache.

She stayed by her daughter's bedside day and night, fearing that her daughter might do something rash and follow her in death.

This poor child!

"Jiaojiao, you need to cheer up as soon as possible."

"You can't get into any trouble. If anything happens to you, what will happen to the two children?"

"Can you bear to let them grow up as children without parents?"

"Ziqian... Ziqian doesn't want to see you like this either."

"That child risked his life to save you so that you could live a good life."

Upon hearing the name Lu Ziqian, Su Yujiao's eyes finally moved, and tears involuntarily streamed down her face again.

For the next period of time, Jin Mudan, Lu Ziwei, and the little princesses took turns trying to persuade Su Yujiao, but she remained immersed in grief and only managed to give some responses.

"This won't do. We need to find a way to help Jiaojiao get through this as soon as possible."

"If this continues, my health will really collapse."

Jin Mudan looked worried: "It's easy to say, and she understands the principles, but how can we help her get over it quickly?"

"She's just too idle. She lies in bed all day thinking nonsense, which is why she gets more and more upset."

"Why not find her something to do, keep her busy, so she doesn't have time to think about those sad things, and maybe she'll gradually get over it."

"This method is worth a try."

"Is there anything you can do for your sister-in-law?"

"My sister-in-law is skilled in medicine. Why don't we find her some patients? It would be a good deed."

"Alright."

"However, my sister-in-law is currently depressed. What if she refuses to see other patients?"