Gu Shaohua stepped over the two unconscious people on the ground and walked straight toward Shen Wangshu.
Shen Wangshu pretended to be timid, her eyes looking at people with an air of pitiful vulnerability.
Gu Shaohua took a few photos of her for evidence, then found the keys and unlocked the iron chains.
The chains had chafed Shen Wangshu’s wrists and ankles, seeping spots of blood.
She gave a soft cough or two.
Gu Shaohua looked at her pale face and her abnormally colored lips, red as if dripping with blood.
Her cold fingers touched Shen Wangshu’s forehead—it was burning hot like fire.
“You have a fever.”
Shen Wangshu hummed in acknowledgment, her voice very soft: “Seems like it.”
Gu Shaohua found a clean set of clothes from the wardrobe and had Shen Wangshu change into them.
After Shen Wangshu had changed, Gu Shaohua finally spoke: “I didn’t take the overpass, so I avoided the car accident. Thanks to you, I’m still alive.”
Shen Wangshu leaned half-reclined against the bed and hummed weakly.
Gu Shaohua was very curious: “How did you know there would be a car accident? Including that it would rain fifteen minutes later.”
Shen Wangshu coughed twice again, her voice very soft: “I know a little divination. You recently received a bracelet.”
Gu Shaohua widened her eyes in surprise: “You calculated that too?”
Shen Wangshu: “Mm.”
Not long ago, Gu Shaohua had been in a bad mood, and her old classmate had given her a bracelet, claiming it was a family heirloom.
She didn’t want to accept something so precious.
Especially since they weren’t in any particularly close relationship.
But Jia Xiaoyu had slipped the bracelet into her bag when she wasn’t paying attention.
She had been trying to meet up with Jia Xiaoyu to return it, but Jia Xiaoyu kept saying she had no time, so the bracelet was still with her to this day.
Gu Shaohua fished the bracelet out of her bag: “This bracelet.”
Shen Wangshu looked at the coral bracelet. She had been about to say to throw it away, but changed her words: “Donate it to a museum. The color is quite nice—it’s a cultural relic.”
Gu Shaohua: “Is there something significant about this bracelet?”
Shen Wangshu said: “The bracelet itself is fine, but it has an owner. She thinks you took her belongings and hid them for so many years, and she wants to have a word with you about it.”
Gu Shaohua’s whole body went cold.
The bracelet in her hand felt like a hot potato, and she wanted to throw it away immediately.
She looked around and whispered: “So… is there something like that around me?”
Shen Wangshu glanced at the bloody, mangled ghost lying beside Si Yingchu.
She asked: “Are you afraid?”
Gu Shaohua nodded: “Yes.”
So Shen Wangshu shook her head: “No.”
“The owner of this bracelet was your classmate. She was bullied at the age of fifteen and died by jumping off a building. Afterward, her belongings were stolen.”
The more Gu Shaohua listened, the more alarmed she became.
When she had just started high school, there had indeed been a classmate who died by jumping off a building.
But she had been an exchange student at the time and didn’t know the details.
Shen Wangshu continued: “The person who stole her things hid them for ten years, thinking that after so long, no one would know. But then she started having nightmares one after another.”
“She couldn’t handle it, and she ran into you. She figured that since you can move freely in and out of ancient tombs, your Fortune must be strong enough to suppress these things.”
Gu Shaohua promised: “I’ll look into it.”
Gu Shaohua wanted to ask more questions, but she saw that although Shen Wangshu was trying her best to restrain herself, her breathing was as unsteady as if she had just run up twenty flights of stairs.
Her overall condition wasn’t good, so Gu Shaohua, ignoring Shen Wangshu’s objections, sent her to the hospital.
Gu Shaohua also arranged for the doctors to give Shen Wangshu a full-body examination.
Good grief.
If you don’t check, you don’t know.
Once checked, even a dog would shake its head at the results.
Seven weeks pregnant, high fever, frail build, malnutrition, sleep deprivation, anemia, and other symptoms.
Even the doctor said: “In all my years of practice, I’ve never seen a pregnant woman—especially such a young one—in such poor health.”
He even advised Shen Wangshu: “With your current condition, either you take good care of yourself, nurture yourself carefully, or you have surgery to terminate while the fetus is still small, and try again later once your health improves.”
Shen Wangshu was silent.
She couldn’t go on the operating table—her good spiritual providence had all been drained by the Si family.
What she had now was extremely bad spiritual providence. Going under the knife for something as major as surgery, she would still die.
Gu Shaohua looked at Shen Wangshu with a pained heart.
She knew the child in her belly was the doing of Shen Wangshu’s adoptive mother.
If this had happened to her, she definitely wouldn’t have survived.
Who would be willing to carry the child of a strange man in their belly?
Let alone someone as young as Shen Wangshu.
Gu Shaohua’s compassion rose: “Wangshu, how about you become my younger sister? From now on, I’ll have your back.”
Shen Wangshu looked at Gu Shaohua with her bright, watery eyes.
Her silence made Gu Shaohua think she was unwilling.
Gu Shaohua said: “Really, I’ll treat you well.”
Shen Wangshu shook her head, then spoke very seriously: “Miss Gu, I did a divination for you. You need to pay me the divination fee.”
Gu Shaohua’s mouth fell slightly open, and she was caught between laughter and tears: “Wait, do you think talking about feelings hurts the wallet? I wasn’t trying to skip out on the bill.”
Knowing that Gu Shaohua had misunderstood, Shen Wangshu didn’t explain.
Gu Shaohua pulled out her phone: “Go on, how much is the divination fee? I’ll scan it to you.”
Shen Wangshu opened her payment QR code. “Two hundred.”
Gu Shaohua looked at Shen Wangshu in surprise. “Two hundred?”
“Mm.” Shen Wangshu answered very seriously. “Two hundred.”
Gu Shaohua was taken aback, her movements stiff as she slowly put her phone away, her tone dropping considerably. “I might have to pay you later.”
Two million. It had saved her dog’s life.
Not too expensive, really.
It was just that she couldn’t come up with it right now.
So Gu Shaohua started tapping on her phone again.
“Big brother, emergency rescue, lend me two million.”
“Big brother, big brother, please please please.”
No wonder he wouldn’t take her as his adopted sister.
When real feelings were involved, money got complicated.
Shen Wangshu looked at Gu Shaohua with slight confusion. Her Wealth Palace was abundant—there was no way she couldn’t produce two hundred yuan.
As luck would have it.
Shen Wangshu spotted Gu Qingyan’s grandfather there.
See.
She was one step closer to getting near Gu Qingyan.
If he hadn’t just returned from space and needed medical quarantine, perhaps she would have met him in person sooner.
Gu Shaohua was also surprised. “Grandpa, why are you at the hospital? Are you feeling unwell?”
They stood far away and spoke very quietly.
But that didn’t matter. Shen Wangshu’s hearing after her rebirth was exceptionally good.
She clearly heard Grandpa Gu say, “Well, before your big brother went to space, your grandmother—she’d rather be safe than sorry—insisted that your big brother leave behind some seed before she’d allow him to go. Now that your big brother is back, she notified me to come do the disposal.”
Grandpa Gu looked troubled, clapping his hands together as he continued in a low voice: “But guess what? There was a problem at the sperm bank.”
Gu Shaohua let out an “Ah?” “What kind of problem?”
Grandpa Gu let out a sigh. “They said it’s missing. They’re still investigating the details.”
Grandpa Gu kept muttering: “I sure hope it’s not inside some woman’s belly. If a child suddenly popped out without your big brother knowing, no one in the family could withstand his fury.”
They spoke very quietly.
Shen Wangshu said nothing.
Sorry about that. It was currently in her belly right now.
Already seven weeks along.
And not just one—two.
Just then, Gu Shaohua’s phone rang. She said, “It’s big brother.”
Grandpa Gu immediately shushed her. “Shh, don’t tell him I’m here.”
Gu Shaohua looked at her phone and said, “Grandpa, you should move out of the way. Big brother is video calling.”
Shen Wangshu immediately looked over.
She felt like a covetous person, lusting after something that didn’t belong to her.
“Shaohua.”
That voice came through the phone—just two words—yet it carried a deep, powerful authority!
Shen Wangshu felt a pang of melancholy. Judging by his voice, this Gu Qingyan was a bit fierce!