"Yueyue, it really is Yueyue." After confirming that he wasn't dreaming, Liao Qingshan quickly pushed his granddaughter away and looked her over carefully. "You've grown taller and fairer, but why are you still so thin? You must have suffered a lot in the countryside, right?"
He must have had a very hard time all year, being alone every month...
Li Xiyue smiled and shook her head, but for some reason, tears just kept falling uncontrollably. "Grandpa, I didn't suffer. I'm doing very well. I... I just miss you so much..."
Actually, the original owner of this body didn't have a good life; she was beaten to death by Li Muqing and her brother.
"Grandpa misses you too. Grandpa worries about your safety every day." Liao Qingshan's eyes also reddened.
The incident happened so suddenly that he didn't have time to say much to his granddaughter. Moreover, given the circumstances, even if he could have, he wouldn't have dared to, for fear of implicating her.
"I've been asking around for news of you, but no one knows where you are, Grandpa. I thought something had happened to you. I'm so scared..."
Liao Qingshan hugged his granddaughter and comforted her, "Don't be afraid, Grandpa is perfectly fine, isn't he?"
Chu Xun, who was watching this scene from the side, felt heartbroken. It turned out that Yueyue's strength was all an act. But then again, she was just a teenage girl, all alone in the countryside, with no one to rely on. She had no choice but to be strong on her own.
It's understandable that she's wary. She almost died at the hands of her own younger brother and sister-in-law, and even her father wouldn't help her. She was isolated and helpless. If she hadn't been on guard, how could she have survived until now?
"Grandpa, it's so good that you're still alive." Li Xiyue wiped away her tears, genuinely happy.
She had previously guessed that the original owner's maternal grandfather might be alive, and later confirmed it with Chu Xun's words, but she could only be completely at ease when she saw him alive with her own eyes.
"Yueyue, come on, let's go inside and talk." Liao Qingshan looked at his granddaughter's face, suddenly became serious, and pulled her into the house.
Chu Xun knew they had a lot to talk about, so he went to see his father first.
"That's right, the missing soul has been restored." Liao Qingshan carefully examined his granddaughter's face and finally confirmed it.
Li Xiyue asked in confusion, "Grandpa, what did you say?"
The soul is incomplete? What does that mean?
“Yueyue, actually, your maternal grandfather’s ancestors were not ordinary doctors, but witch doctors,” Liao Qingshan said.
Li Xiyue exclaimed in surprise, "A witch doctor?"
She had heard that witch doctors could predict people's fate and fortune, and also knew magic.
"The witch doctor clan is proficient in the I Ching and divination. In addition to curing diseases, they can also predict people's fortune and destiny. Some skilled witch doctors can also use witchcraft to cure diseases, not only curing the disease but also bringing the dead back to life."
Could it be the long-lost art of incantation?
Liao Qingshan sighed and continued, "But there are also treacherous people in the witch doctor clan who have used witchcraft to harm others. As a result, witch doctors have been suppressed, and gradually, many traditions have been lost. By my generation, all I know is a little bit of witchcraft. I can only read people's faces and tell fortunes."
So, since he can read faces, could he also tell that she wasn't the original owner of this body?
But he didn't say she wasn't the original owner; instead, he said her soul had been restored. Could it be...?
"Our Liao clan, besides being shamans and healers, also possesses an ancestral secret technique, the Thirteen Ghost Needles. This acupuncture technique actually requires some magic to use, and it will cause backlash after use. Under normal circumstances, we would never use it lightly."
Li Xiyue knew this; she knew it would backfire when she taught herself the Thirteen Ghost Needles.
However, in her view, there was no such thing as a backlash; rather, it was because she interfered with other people's karma that she received bad karma.
Everyone has their own karma and retribution, and others should not interfere arbitrarily. Once you interfere with someone else's karma, you will have to bear the consequences for them.
“I have used the Thirteen Ghost Needles twice in my life. Once was because I was greedy for fame and fortune and saved a high-ranking official. As a result, I suffered a backlash and your three-year-old uncle died. After that, I stopped using the needles and never dared to use the Thirteen Ghost Needles again.”
It turns out that the original owner's uncle died because the original owner's maternal grandfather used the Thirteen Ghost Needles?
"Until more than 20 years ago, the military found me and asked me to save the old commander Chu Xingbang. That was the second time I used the Thirteen Ghost Needles." Liao Qingshan said with a firm look in his eyes, "But that time, it was not for fame or fortune, but only for the greater good of the nation."
Li Xiyue was filled with awe.
The original owner's maternal grandfather used the Thirteen Ghost Needles to save a great hero who defended the country. Wasn't that for the greater good of the nation?
“I used the Thirteen Ghost Needles to break the Japanese evil magic. I know that I will suffer a backlash, and that the backlash will befall my child.”
Li Xiyue was secretly shocked. So the original owner's mother's death was also a result of the original owner's maternal grandfather interfering with other people's karma.
Liao Qingshan's eyes were filled with sorrow. "In order to ensure your mother's safety, I told her to stay away from the medical field, to live an ordinary life, and to marry an ordinary man. But who knew that it still wouldn't change her fate."
"Fortunately, she left me with you, Yueyue." Liao Qingshan smiled as he looked at his granddaughter, but then the smile in his eyes dimmed as he thought of something. "...However, I could tell when you were born that your soul was incomplete. I don't know why you lost one soul and one spirit. I cast a divination for you and it was predicted that you would face a death calamity when you turned eighteen."
So, was it fate that the original owner suffered at the hands of Li Muqing and her brother?
"But after careful calculation, I found a glimmer of hope in your near-death experience. As long as you survive this ordeal, your life will be peaceful and smooth."
Liao Qingshan beamed with joy as he said this: "When I saw you just now, I noticed that your missing soul seemed to be complete. I thought I was seeing things, but when I went back inside and took a closer look, it was indeed true."
It turns out that the granddaughter's near-death experience was a case of being put in a life-or-death situation and then surviving.
Li Xiyue finally understood that she was the missing soul and spirit of the original owner. After she died in the apocalypse, her soul and spirit returned to the original owner, completing her soul and spirit.
To put it simply, she and the original owner were the same person, only their souls were split in two, and they lived in two different times and spaces.
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