Chapter 455: Borrowing Life
When they heard Zhong Nianyao's words, Chu Ciwen and Guan Liu's expressions changed instantly.
Mr. Chu and Chu Xu's expressions were not very good either.
"Ms. Zhong, you must help Tongtong." Guan Liu's face was covered with tears. She stretched out her hand, wanting to grab Zhong Nianyao's hand, but her hand was empty. "Tongtong is still young. She has been suffering for so many years. We finally found her now, but she has never enjoyed any happiness. Her life has passed too quickly. It's our fault as parents. If we hadn't lost her, none of this would have happened now."
"Ms. Zhong, no matter what the price, we will do it." Chu Ciwen said firmly, "As long as Tongtong can be saved, even if it costs my life, I am willing to do it."
When everyone looked at Zhong Nian Yao, their eyes were filled with pleading and hope.
Zhong Nianyao looked at Chu Ciwen and Guan Liu and said, "Your daughter's condition isn't simply a health issue; someone is using her life for her."
"Borrow your life?" Chu Ciwen and Guan Liu asked in unison.
Obviously, they had never heard of such a ridiculous thing before. But thinking about how Zhong Nianyao could tell that Shen Yixue was fake just by looking at her face, and that their daughter was in imminent danger, borrowing her life didn't seem so difficult to accept.
"Miss Zhong, do you have any way to save Tongtong?" Old Master Zhong was knowledgeable and experienced, so he knew something about this kind of thing. "Now that our destiny has been borrowed, is there any way we can get it back?"
"That depends on who borrowed her life first." Zhong Nianyao did not directly answer Mr. Chu's question. "Also, I only know that her life was borrowed by someone, but I still don't know the specific circumstances. The most important thing now is to find out who borrowed her life and how."
"But how can we investigate something so vague and elusive?" Chu Xu scratched his hair, his eyes full of confusion. "Miss Zhong, what should we do now?"
"Ask the person involved!" Zhong Nianyao said directly, "The person whose life was borrowed must have received something before."
Soon, several people came to the bedside again.
Looking at Chu Tong who was sleeping there quietly and didn't look sick at all, but had been rescued several times in the past few days, Chu Ciwen and Guan Liu, as parents, felt heartbroken.
If the person who harmed them was right in front of them, they would even want to rush forward and kill him directly.
Zhong Nian Yao didn't say much. She took out a talisman and stuck it directly on Chu Tong's body.
Then, in front of everyone's eyes, the talisman sank directly into Chu Tong's body, leaving no trace.
As the talisman disappeared, Chu Tong's fingers moved, and soon her eyelids moved as well, and she regained consciousness.
"What's wrong with me?"
Although her voice was a little hoarse, Chu Tong felt that her condition seemed to be much better than before. She could even feel that she had a little more strength.
Struggling to sit up, Chu Tong even felt a little hungry. She couldn't help but feel a little surprised. This was one of the few times she felt hungry in the past few days.
This feeling of hunger made her feel that she was still alive.
Chu Ciwen and Guan Liu were also very surprised to hear Chu Tong complain about being hungry. However, Zhong Nianyao's next words directly shattered all their surprises.
"Don't rush to find food. Even if you find it, you won't be able to eat it." Zhong Nianyao said calmly, "The reason she's a little alert now is just because of the talisman. Once the talisman wears off, she'll fall into a coma again."
The temporary coma was a form of protection for Chu Tong's body. As her vitality faded, her body would automatically choose the method with the least loss in order to stay alive: coma.
It was only at this moment that Chu Tong noticed Zhong Nianyao's presence. She looked at her biological parents with some doubt, "Dad, Mom, what is this——"
In fact, until this moment, Chu Tong felt like she was dreaming.
Since last month, she has been feeling very unwell and tired, sometimes even falling into a short coma.
She was terrified and rushed to the hospital for a checkup, but after a series of examinations, they found nothing wrong with her body.
What happened next was completely out of control. Although the examination showed no problems, her body continued to weaken. Even the doctors couldn't explain the cause, and the hospital had no better treatment options, so they could only try to delay her decline.
Obviously, the effect was not very obvious.
She felt truly unlucky. Growing up, her parents favored sons over daughters. She'd always done the hardest work at home, yet eaten the least. Furthermore, despite her excellent academic performance, her parents forced her to drop out of school early to help support the family.
Her brother is a loser, but her parents spent a lot of money to buy him into a fake university.
Even after she started working, her parents continued to exploit her, asking her to earn money to buy a car and a house for her brother. The pressure of life almost made her breathless.
After she fell ill, the first thing she did was call home. Although she was very disappointed with her parents, deep down in her heart, she still longed for their love.
What she didn't expect was that when her parents heard she was sick, they didn't care about her health at all. Instead, they told her not to get treatment so as not to waste money. Instead of wasting money on meaningless treatment, it would be better to leave it all to them.
At that moment, she was completely desperate and even felt that dying would be a relief for her.
Just when she was about to give up treatment, a well-dressed man and woman found her and said she was their lost daughter.
The moment she learned the truth, she felt somewhat relieved. No wonder her parents never loved her. It turned out it wasn't because they favored boys over girls, but because she wasn't their biological child.
During these few days, she finally felt the love from her parents. At the same time, she also developed a strong desire to survive. She didn't want to die, she wanted to live.
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