Chapter 971: Chapter 975: My Spiritual Eyes Boyfriend (15)
The yellow talisman looked cheap, stained with the sweat of a humid palm, and the cinnabar patterns on it showed signs of blurring.
It was like something you could buy in bulk for ten dollars on some online marketplace.
Yet somehow, Gu Ling had an intuition that the beautiful lady would surely not deceive her.
To say the least, her life was not good.
Though born into the elite Gu Family, as another Lady of the Gu Family, the difference between her and Gai Yun was like heaven and earth, a world apart.
Sitting loftily above the clouds was Gai Yun, while trodden down into the mire was Gu Ling.
As a child, she once had a rebellious heart and felt it was unfair, but reality had already taught her to submit.
Gai Yun’s mother hailed from the equally prestigious Zhu Family, while her own mother came from an ordinary working-class family.
Logically speaking, her mother should never have crossed paths with the Gu Family, as they were worlds apart.
But such was the absurdity of the situation.
Gai Yun’s mother, who was nominally her aunt, had poor health from birth, and managing to survive smoothly required many efforts from the Guzhu families.
Top-notch medical care, a wealthy lifestyle, expensive medication.
Her aunt was fortunate enough to survive, yet she wasn’t content with that.
Dreaming of a harmonious life with her husband, she recklessly desired to leave him a testament to their love.
But how could such a thing be realized…
Against everyone’s objections, she ignored them all and secretly became pregnant.
She wanted to gamble on that sliver of possibility.
Predictably, the child was born, but was in very poor health. Later, the child survived, but every year there was always a period spent in slumber.
That is, Gai Yun had an annual slumber period.
This time, she had just awakened from a coma, and insisted on following Yun Yu out here.
As for her aunt, after giving birth, she never left her bed. It’s said she came close to death several times but miraculously pulled through.
Under such circumstances, there should have been no intersection between her mother and the Gu Family, but her father, with genuine interest, somehow heard about life for life.
And her mother was the one being exchanged.
Initially, her so-called good father hid his identity and got romantically involved with her mother. Only after she was born did her mother learn the truth, which was a great blow to her.
But what was done was done, and the Gu Family’s power was not something they could challenge, so they had no choice but to accept it.
Of course, no one ever told her this, as the Gu Family valued their reputation and would never disclose such matters openly.
Even though the whole circle knew the truth, they could cover it up with a veneer of lies and pretend nothing happened.
These were things Gu Ling had gradually uncovered over the years.
She and her mother couldn’t leave the Gu Family mansion, but could only live in a small corner of it.
And her father’s wife was still that chronically ill Lady of the Zhu Family.
The Gu Family maintained this peculiar situation of a man with two wives for more than a decade.
But every day, she had to face her aunt’s eyes, filled with hatred.
She and her mother lived a life no better than servants at the Gu Family.
It was strange, though, that her aunt’s body, which was declining, seemed to slowly recover over the years. Gu Ling suspected this transformation began over a decade ago, but went unnoticed due to its subtlety.
Until now….
In contrast, her mother’s health began to deteriorate.
Even though she was only in her early forties, white hairs appeared, and her memory worsened significantly.
Gu Ling felt deeply afraid, but she was just a seventeen-year-old girl, unable to do anything.
Day-to-day, Gu Family’s strict discipline governed her, confining her life to just the space between school and home, having never even attended a classmate gathering.
And as her eighteenth birthday approached, her anxiety grew, as though sensing something ominous coming.
This time, she managed to leave the Gu Family only because Gai Yun insisted on following Yun Yu here to have fun.
And so she was forcefully required to stay by Gai Yun’s side.
On the one hand, to take care of her daily needs, on the other, to look after her.
After all, Gai Yun’s health wasn’t great; it would be troublesome if she suddenly fell unconscious.
Besides, Gu Ling knew that her father must have increased the security around them in secret.
After all… Gai Yun was the treasured product of his love with her aunt.
Gu Ling’s heart pounded fiercely as she stared intently at the yellow talisman in her hand, then took out the scissors from her small nail clippers, making a small cut on her index finger. A slight sting followed, “Hiss~” she winced, wiping the Blood Pearl from her finger onto the talisman.
The talisman paper remained quiet with no change, only taking on a vivid color from the bright Blood Pearl.
Gu Ling wasn’t sure if she was disappointed or not.
Perhaps the blood wasn’t enough.
Deep down, she had an instinctive trust in that lady. It was a gut feeling.
This intuition had helped her avoid many dangers in the past, and it was this sense that allowed her to uncover the corruption under the bright surface of the Gu Family, step by step finding the truth.
She believed that lady would not deceive her.
Given how her life already was, what purpose would deceiving someone like her serve?
Gu Ling made another cut on her finger, allowing more blood to flow out, turning the entire yellow talisman paper red.
A few hours earlier.
Gu Ling, feeling something inexplicable, had sat down opposite Su Li, who then introduced herself.
Su Li shook the coffee cup in her hand, revealing a meaningful smile, “You’re quite an interesting young girl.”
Gu Ling was confused, unable to glean any intention from her words.
“I like your eyes.” With those words, a burst of excitement rose in Gu Ling, and her palm instinctively touched her eyes.
This was the happiest thing for her recently.
Gu Ling mumbled, unsure of what to say, just following her heart, feeling somewhat inexplicable.
Awkwardly silent for a moment, she was about to take her leave, when the pretty lady across suddenly said, “Don’t you want to reclaim the Life Chart that originally belongs to you?”
Su Li’s words struck like a bolt of lightning in Gu Ling’s mind.
She had an inkling, yet couldn’t believe it; her hands on her thighs trembled with uncertainty.
“What… what do you mean?”
Su Li gave a slight chuckle, “Sitting before me, isn’t this your way of saving yourself?”
“You must have sensed something, right?”
Originally, Gu Ling thought it was just some delusion born from her impending madness, but Su Li’s pointed words made everything clear.