Chapter 351 - Woes of Fatherhood (2/2)

”Whatever, mind your business!” Xiao Ying said and immediately went to leave, disappearing from the room.

”Come bac-” Doctor Lou exclaimed, raising a hand towards her but before he could do anything, she reappeared a second later on the ground.

Doctor Lou blinked at her and hurriedly went over to her, ”What's wrong?”

But Xiao Ying was not looking at him, she was looking at the bed as she mumbled with a frown, ”Tch, she's waking up already? So soon?”

Then Doctor Lou heard a groan from the bed and then he looked at his daughter who was struggling and his eyes widened as he connected the dots, ”You - You - What did you do to yourself?!”

”It's nothing, Let's go, she's waking up!” She ordered, grabbing her father's arm and urging, ”Hurry up!”

Doctor Lou frowned, not amused, but as more movement came from the bed, he picked Xiao Ying up and disappeared from the room. They reappeared again in the little courtyard of Doctor Lou's pharmacy. He put Xiao Ying on the bed and then seriously but calmly asked, ”What have you done?”

”Repaying a debt... She loaned me her body so I'm just loaning her a bit of life.” Xiao Ying offhandedly said with a dismissive wave, turning to face the wall, closing her eyes.

Doctor Lou glared at her back and then began pacing, ”Where did you even learn how to perform a soul pact? Do you even understand what it is?! Have you thought about the repercussions of interfering with someone's fate like this? What if -”

”You're not exactly one to lecture me about changing fates. Besides, her fate already changed the moment she met me... Better still, from the moment you gave me the soul stone to play Xing Jie. Therefore, I disagree that she was meant to die -”

”That is not the point!” Doctor Lou roared, ”The girl was already dead! You were the one clinging to her soul! If I had known this was where you were going with this, I would have never allowed you to have begun this stupid fantasy in the first place! How can you foolishly put yourself on the line for some stupid -”

”I know what I'm doing so leave it alone.” Xiao Ying sternly said, turning back to him with a frown, ”If you touch her, I won't forgive you.” She warned, glaring at him.

Doctor Lou scoffed ”Who said I was going to do anything? It's your life. If you wish to throw it away, what's it to me? You should naturally suffer the consequences of your own actions!” He shot back and then turned and stormed towards the doors. But then he stopped after a few steps, took a deep breath and stormed back to the bed, and plopped down on the ground with a pout, pulling his long beard and looking away.

Xiao Ying smiled at him and relaxed on the bed and calmly said, ”Father, don't worry. I'm not stupid, It's not a soul pact, why would I want to live and die with some random mortal girl? It's not like she's my Yong ge...” Doctor Lou scoffed and rolled his eyes at that, but Xiao Ying was too weak to bother and she finally mumbled, ”It's a loan... They said I'd just be weak for a while, an adjustment period -”

”Who said?!” Doctor Lou exclaimed, his ears perking up as he turned around. But then she had stopped responding, he checked her pulse and it seemed steady as well, but her body was rapidly growing cold. This confused him. Doctor Lou sighed and massaged his forehead with a hand, feeling stressed.

Even though he said all that to her, she was still his baby. So even though he was really busy right now with important matters, he could not leave her like this even though she said that she would be alright, he needed to know that she would be. He could not take her word for it nor the words of the idiot ”They” who apparently gave her the guide to stupidity.

From what he could see, what she had done was a soul pact, and that was something stupidly in love idiots did to ensure they lived and died together. If she had done this with her ”Yong Ge”, then he could try to understand - even then he would have tossed ”Yong Ge” into a volcano after forcing him to undo it. But then how could she be stupid enough to actually do it with some random human who could die from a flimsy misstep?! Not to mention, their short lives!

Doctor Lou took a deep breath to calm himself, reminding himself that Tung Mei was technically an innocent bystander dragged into his daughter's hunt for a distraction. The girl would not even be able to undo it even if he threatened her over the volcano. It was just annoying him that now he had to worry about some random human girl's life now.

He sighed, resigned to his fate as he got up and put Xiao Ying over his shoulder again and left. He reappeared in Tung Mei's room again and found the girl now awake, apparently having located the maid and physician that Xiao Ying had knocked out, she was currently trying to shake the two awake.

Doctor Lou glared at the girl and then froze the room. He dropped Xiao Ying on the bed and then rummaged through his sleeve and pulled out a little white gemstone, similar to ones on the bracelet on Xiao Ying's wrist. He then crouched down next to Tung Mei and put it on her forehead and it was absorbed into her forehead. Then he squinted at her and poked her head, ”Annoying...”

Then he went back to the bed and picked up Xiao Ying and was gone again, and the room's occupants resumed their activities. Doctor Lou stopped again at the Imperial palace, Ah Jin's room to be specific.

”Shifu!” Ah Jin exclaimed in surprise, immediately jumping up in bed as Doctor Lou dumped Xiao Ying on the bed next to her, ”Xiao Ying? What happened to her?” Ah Jin asked with a surprised frown as she touched her arm and felt her ice-cold skin.

”Long story...” Doctor Lou mumbled, sitting down on the bed as well, pushing the two girls back into the small bed with his b.u.t.t.

{... A very bothersome one...(￣ヘ￣) ... When I find the idiot who put this idea in her head, I am going to grind them!...}