"…So you've been asking to see me these past few days, and this is why you're trying so hard to see me today?" Zhu Jin closed his eyes and looked at Helian Zhen and Shang Lu solemnly, "Why? Have you started messing around with ancient characters? To secure your position as princess?"
"Yes, I want to be a good princess. In order to let everyone recognize my princess identity, I must do something." Shang Lu avoided Zhu Jin's eyes, but Helian Zhen looked directly at Zhu Jin, "Please support me, sister. Before I release the ancient characters, don't say the ancient characters in front of the media."
"Hehe..." Zhu Jin laughed at Helian Zhen who was so confident. She had never thought about this before, but she didn't expect them to come to her. She looked at Shang Lu who had been lowering his head, and suddenly stopped smiling and stood up. She resisted the urge to tear the two of them apart and walked out without looking back. "Pray that your ancient characters can be published before tomorrow afternoon."
How dare they, how dare they use her feelings for her father for such a thing... How dare they! "Sister..." Helian Zhen shouted.
Zhu Jin stopped and turned back, looking at them coldly, then walked away again.
Helian Zhen stopped abruptly. Zhu Jin's look made her feel cold all over.
"A Lu..." Helian Zhen looked at Shang Lu uneasily.
Shang Lu didn't notice her at all. His eyes fell on Zhu Jin's back. His hands clenched into fists unconsciously and his heart was beating wildly.
He seemed to have done something he shouldn't have done again.
That night, Helian Zhen in the Princess' Mansion fell into a daze in the middle of the night. In the palace, Helian Lan and his wife almost did not sleep all night, and Shang Lu sat up almost until dawn.
Zhu Jin fell asleep, but she had a dream. She had a dream all night. Maybe she saw Helian Zhen in red, or maybe she saw her father. Zhu Jin dreamed of her father and returned to that night full of red.
On the night when Shang Lu got married and the whole world was red, when Shang Lu's warm lips fell on her, her soul was in great distress and left the bride's body instantly.
Zhu Jin's soul floated outside the room, flickering in and out of focus. She lost all sense when she heard the woman's cries of pain and the man's gasps inside the room.
Later, Zhu Jin's translucent soul wandered unconsciously, without direction, without day or night, without time. She truly became a wandering ghost.
Her mind was blank and she was unaware of the passage of time... When Zhu Jin slowly recovered her spiritual energy and her soul returned to its place, she slowly returned to the Shang Mansion.
Those were her roots, and she didn't know where else to go.
Familiar courtyard, familiar everything, the shops are extremely busy, everyone is in high spirits. Zhu Jin stood in the garden, watching the maids surrounding a man and a woman slowly approaching.
The man had a gentle face and a familiar expression, smiling from time to time. His soft eyes were cast on the pregnant woman beside him. He carefully supported her and slowly walked past her.
There was no trace of her in his world anymore.
That night, Zhu Jin prayed to God to take her soul... She wanted to reincarnate and forget everything.
God does not grant people's wishes. She is still wandering as a lonely ghost. After wandering outside for a few days, she can't help but come to the Shang Mansion.
She watched Shang Lu ask his wife about her well-being, watched him frown as he pondered the name of his unborn child, watched his child be born, watched him with tears in his eyes, watched him take care of his wife and child, watched him slowly grow a beard, and slowly lose everything she was familiar with.
And she was still the same, except for her face slowly aging, she was still just looking at him.
Her lonely world has no end.
She drifted along, not knowing how far or how long she had been drifting, until she accidentally ran into her father who had disappeared since her death. Her father was staggering due to drinking, and his body was covered in mud and blood.
She could hardly recognize her father, who was only in his forties, with white hair and a hunched back.
Her father had only one daughter, and he treated her very well since she was a child. He obeyed her in everything except marriage, but he finally compromised. However, the result of the compromise was that the old man sent the young man to his death. After her death, she was busy accompanying Shang Lu and didn't notice it for a while. Her father suddenly disappeared, but he moved away.
In the morning, her father woke up, got up and went to the small kitchen to cook her familiar breakfast. Through tearful eyes, Zhu Jin saw that her father served the same amount as before and placed two bowls and two stools.
"Zhu Jin, it's time for dinner." My father sat down and greeted the empty room opposite him. Everything was the same as before.
She has heard her father say this for more than ten years.
Zhu Jin's tears suddenly stopped.
Looking at her father's appearance, Zhu Jin realized how selfish and unfilial she was, and how much she meant to her father.
Zhu Jin began to accompany her father, reading medical books with him, diagnosing patients, taking pulses and prescribing medicine, just like her days as a girl.
At that time, she had not yet met Shang Lu. She was still the smart girl that her father valued the most and had a whimsical idea that he wanted to pass on the clinic to.
Zhu Jin's heart finally calmed down and she found the meaning of her existence.
Her father talked to her every day, cooked for her every day, and stayed with her every day.
She was happy for her father, worried for him, and began to worry about his health. In her anxiety, Zhu Jin, who didn't want her father to really get sick, was anxious to save her father, but she actually possessed her father's body, asked the neighbors for help, and saved him.
After hearing about his self-rescue behavior, his waking father said that it was his daughter Zhu Jin who saved him.
Her world became more sunny and colorful, and she started to learn medicine again.
In order to take good care of her father's health, Zhu Jin began to possess her father's body when his father was asleep at night, take care of herself, and help take care of the patients in the clinic, so that her father's weak soul could rest well.
Her father gradually became aware of everything, but he was just happy. He slowly recovered his spirit and began to try to find her and talk to her. Zhu Jin tried and found that she could still possess her father's body. After thinking for a long time, she finally recognized her father and accompanied her father in the form of a ghost.
Because of her, her father became abnormal, often talking to the air, and saying that his daughter was there. Others laughed at him for being crazy, but only they knew that they were truly living together.
Her father began to take care of his health and taught her medical skills. During the day, he wrote down the questions he wanted to ask, and at night she would enter his body to answer them. Later, because of a night consultation, she began to actually come into contact with patients.
Later, as she came into contact with more and more patients, her medical skills improved rapidly.
After two years, she was treating a large portion of the clinic's patients and had unknowingly established the first nighttime emergency department.
Her life became busy and exciting, and her world was no longer just about Shang Lu. Later, Zhu Jin would occasionally visit Shang Lu's house. She couldn't tell what was going on in her mind, but she would still go and take a look.
Watching his harmonious family, his virtuous wife, his smart son, and the family living a happy life. Watching his children being born one after another, watching him slowly become serious, slowly mature, slowly grow old, and guard his family, it was as if she had never appeared in his world.
That Shanglu was extremely unfamiliar to her.
Later, perhaps because her soul gradually aged and she had no strength or energy left, she never went there again.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, decades have passed. Her hair has turned white, and her father's eyebrows have turned white, but he is still energetic and has become a famous doctor. But they don't know that there is also a Zhu Jin among them.
This evening, there was an emergency.
The moment she saw the patient, Zhu Jin was stunned for a moment, then quickly began treatment and saved the patient's life. The white-haired woman kept holding the patient's hand and refused to let go.
The patient had white hair. The moment he opened his eyes, he looked at the woman. His eyes were filled with guilt, warmth, and love. They were the look that only comes after a lifetime of companionship. "Don't worry, ma'am. I'm fine." He then looked at his son who was over 40 years old beside the bed and said, "You don't even know how to take good care of your mother."
Then he looked at his gentle grandchildren and said, "Spend more time with your grandmother in the future."
Zhu Jin looked at the patient with a far-reaching gaze, let go of his withered hand, looked deeply at his wife, and then turned to his eldest son.
When she got to the outer room, she said directly, "Although you were rescued today, you don't have much time left, at most a month, so please be prepared."
Just as he finished speaking, he heard suppressed crying from behind him. When he turned around, he saw the lady with a head full of silver hair sitting on the ground crying.
"Wuwu..." The suppressed sobbing sound burst out from the tightly covered mouth, moving anyone who heard it.
Zhu Jin walked around his wife who had collapsed on the ground to write the prescription. His words flowed like flowing water, and his style had already surpassed that of his father.
A month later, upon hearing that Old Master Shang of the Shang Mansion, who had just moved here with his son from the east of the city, had passed away, his wife, Old Madam Shang, also cried herself to death. This became a beautiful story of life and death together, and she was buried together with her filial son in the ancestral home.
Everybody was praising Madam Shang, but no one knew that there was once a woman who had made a solemn vow with him, promising to live and die together.
No one remembers that there was once a woman who risked her life and death for him.
Therefore, it was destined that the empty tomb that Shang Lu had already prepared beside her would never be filled.
Time flies, and another six years have passed. My father, who is as old as can be, is sick all over and is kept alive by his willpower.
She thought it was time for them, father and daughter, to leave together.
One morning, Zhu Jin went to her own grave and remained silent for a long time. When she returned to the city, she also went to the tomb where Shang Lu and his wife were buried together.
He just took a look and turned away.
At that time, she was able to love him innocently and without fear of disappearing.
Love until it disappears.
The love between them and the fate between them ended at the moment of her life and death. She was crazy and stupid.
She was all his passion, occupying his entire youth.
However, the one who stayed with him until the end and grew old with him was his wife.
She was just a passer-by in his life.
Another year later, the world-famous doctor Zhu passed away, and the whole city was in mourning.
Zhu Jin stood on the walking stick that she had specially burned for herself in advance, with her back straight, and watched solemnly as her father was buried. In the following decades, she traveled all over the country and saved countless people.
She walked from two legs to three legs, and it took her several decades. A hundred years had passed since her death. She had been walking all the time, but she hunched her back and used a cane to use all her strength to return to her father's grave and stopped walking.
She couldn't walk anymore.
She leaned against her father's tombstone, watched the sun slowly rise, fell down with a smile, and finally lost consciousness.
She thought that God's punishment for her unfilial behavior and greed had finally ended and she could drink Meng Po soup and be reincarnated.
But she never expected that when she opened her eyes again, she was already Lian Nan.
(End of Volume 1)