Hearing her grandmother finally speak, Su Ruojin grabbed her hand, very excited: "Grandmother."
The old lady reached out and stroked Su Ruojin's face, then called out again, "Ning'er."
“Grandmother, it’s me, Xiao Jin,” Su Ruojin said softly.
But the old lady still called her Ning'er.
Su Ruojin remembered that her great-uncle had said that his granddaughter was named Zhao Jingning. Her grandmother had not fully recovered her senses and probably thought she was Zhao Jingning.
Zhu Chao was somewhat surprised to learn that the old lady had actually spoken: "This Su Ruojin really has some skills; she actually woke people up."
Granny Cao, standing to the side, said with some worry, "Steward Zhu, if she really cures the person, won't she...? Maybe I should..."
At this point, Granny Cao made a throat-slitting gesture, her eyes filled with malice.
Zhu Chao raised his hand to stop him: "No need, I will arrange it myself. What's the situation at Tianning Temple?"
"Master Tianyi went into seclusion after returning to the temple. The young lady is still waiting for Master Tianyi to come out of seclusion and won't be back for a while. The Third Prince sent a letter asking you to get the jade pendant as soon as possible."
"Okay, I understand."
After Granny Cao left, Zhu Chao sat blankly in the room, lost in thought.
*
At midnight, Su Ruojin had just fallen asleep when a thin tube pierced the window paper, and white smoke blew into the room.
Soon the smoke drifted onto the bed.
"Su~Ruo~Jin, Su~Ruo~Jin......"
A plaintive voice, neither male nor female, came from inside. Su Ruojin suddenly opened her eyes, sat up, and stared blankly at the door.
Suddenly, the doors and windows opened instantly, and thick fog billowed out.
A figure dressed in white with long hair covering its face slowly floated past the window and door.
Even more bizarrely, as he passed through the door, his white clothes suddenly turned into bright red blood-stained clothes.
The man in blood-stained clothes suddenly raised his hands and lunged at Su Ruojin.
"Su Ruojin, prepare to die!"
An ordinary person would be terrified to death upon seeing this.
Su Ruojin's previously blank gaze instantly cleared, and several silver needles flew towards the man in blood.
Hehehe!
The man in blood-red clothes let out a strange laugh, his body spinning in mid-air at an unbelievable angle to dodge the silver needles.
Su Ruojin's brows furrowed, and she threw out another handful of silver needles.
This time, the silver needle pierced directly through the blood-stained man's body and embedded itself inside the door frame.
Even Su Ruojin was stunned.
How can silver needles penetrate the human body?
Hehehe!
The man in blood-stained clothes charged at Su Ruojin with a strange laugh again. Just as he was about to touch her, she rolled away to avoid him.
Su Ruojin quickly took out a medicine bottle, opened the cap, and threw it at the man in blood.
If silver needles won't work, poison powder should do, right?
The medicine bottle still passed through the figure of the man in red and fell to the ground, scattering the powder everywhere.
Su Ruojin's eyes widened.
That's impossible!
Seeing the blood-clad man continue to attack her, Su Ruojin dodged while simultaneously throwing whatever she could find at him.
Without exception, all of these things passed through the blood-stained man and fell to the ground.
This only proves that the blood-clad figure is not a physical entity!
If it's not a physical entity, could it really be a ghost from legend?
Su Ruojin narrowed her eyes slightly; she needed to get out of the room first.
With such a commotion in her room, Fifth Brother should be here soon.
Su Ruojin dodged the attack from the man in blood and ran towards the door.
Rushing out of the room, Su Ruojin was startled by the scene before her and quickly stopped, barely managing to regain her balance.
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