Ling Xiya walked limply down the hospital corridor; she had actually arrived in Beijing a long time ago, but she decided to go elsewhere to calm herself down first. Even so, her expression made it clear that she was devastated; even her eyes looked very swollen from crying too long.
"Hmm? Ling Xiya? What happened to you? Why are you like this?"
Ling Xiya turned her head towards the person who called her. "Doctor Xiao, I'm fine; nothing happened to me."
After that, Ling Xiya walking in to the patient room where Ling Xiao was being treated.
'Didn't she go to Hangzhou this morning? Did she become like that because of Yun'er?' Xiao Xiao muttered inwardly as she frowned; she was sure that something had happened to her. Since she was curious about Ling Xiya's condition, she immediately spread her senses to Ling Xiao's room to seek the truth.
"Why are you like this, Xiya?" Yun Mingyue asked in surprise as soon as she saw her daughter's face. She then pulled her to sit beside her and looked at her worriedly. "What happened to you? Did you meet Ling Yun? Is he willing to give you the antidote?"
Ling Xiya then hugged her mother and buried her face in hers, and she started sobbing again. "Mom, I can't do anything for dad; he won't give me the antidote, and-"
"And what? What exactly happened when you met him?" Yun Mingyue asked impatiently, especially since her daughter's condition was so bad.
"He... he did everything to get revenge on us."
"Why does he want to take revenge on us? Quickly tell me everything, Xiya." Even though Yun Mingyue already knew that Ling Yun hated them so much, but she still didn't know what exactly made him have the heart to hurt his father, and she only thought that it was because of the affair she had with his father in the past.
"Ling Yun has read the memories of the three of us, so he already knows all of our secrets." Ling Xiya then recounted all of his words to her mother.
After her daughter finished telling her everything, Yun Mingyue instantly stiffened and her face turned deathly pale; she really never thought that Ling Yun would already know everything.
Ling Xiya hugged her mother even tighter and spoke in a pained voice. "What should we do now, Mom? He's already given us his slave marks, and we can't say anything to anyone about these matters."
Yun Mingyue's face turned even paler after hearing that, although she was not a cultivator, she certainly knew about the slave mark. Unknowingly, tears dripped from the corners of her eyes. 'No wonder he treated me and Xiya like that; it turns out he only thinks of us as his slaves.'
Meanwhile, Xiao Xiao, who was eavesdropping on them with her senses, was also shocked to hear that. She really did not expect that Ling Yun would have the ability to read other people's memories, let alone that he would also give them a slave mark.
And those facts made Xiao Xiao wonder about Ling Yun. "How did Yun'er acquire his abilities? Who exactly is his master? And why did his master teach him to enslave others?"
Even so, Xiao Xiao had no intention of contacting Ling Yun, especially after she had heard all of Ling Xiya's stories. "Sigh, I didn't expect that the three of them were really evil; no wonder Yun'er hated them so much and gave them slave marks. Yun Mingyue used the Love Sickness Potion to snatch Ling Xiao from Sister Mingxia, and Ling Xiya also intended to do such a thing to her and her daughter. Furthermore, Ling Xiao was also in cahoots with the Mo Clan, and he even intended to hand over his biological daughter to those heretic cultivators. If people in the cultivator realm know about it, I believe the Ling Clan will definitely be destroyed."
Just as she was about to go to Ling Xiao's room to confront them, Xiao Xiao was startled by the appearance of a woman's avatar, which she then greeted respectfully. "Great Grandma Yulan, what made you come to see me all of a sudden?"
"Xiao'er, I ask you not to interfere with Ling Xiao's family matters."
"Why is that?" Xiao Xiao was not surprised by Xiao Yulan's words, because she knew for sure about her ability, for she was the seer. However, she wanted to know the reason for her forbidding her to meddle in their affairs.
"You certainly know that I can't tell you the reason, right?" Xiao Yulan replied with a warm smile, leaving Xiao Xiao speechless. "I can only tell you that it is related to the fate of several people, including you."
"My fate?" Xiao Xiao was surprised to hear that; this was the first time Xiao Yulan spoke to her about her fate.
Xiao Yulan nodded to her. "Yes, the wheels of your fate have started to move, and the man who will be your husband has appeared."
Xiao Xiao was stunned upon hearing that, and she stared at Xiao Yulan while blinking repeatedly. "Are you serious about it, great-grandma?"
"Have you ever heard me talk nonsense?" Xiao Xiao shook her head. "Although I can't tell you the reason why I forbade you from meddling in Ling Xiao's family affairs, I can tell you about your future husband."
"Please tell me." Although Xiao Xiao was curious about her future husband, according to Xiao Yulan's vision, but she didn't intend to take his words for granted. For her, her fate is in her own hands, and she won't let anyone control it.
"That man has nine elements, and you have also met him."
"Nine elements!?" Xiao Xiao let out a cry of shock upon hearing that; even cultivators with two elements were quite rare, but now Xiao Yulan said that her future husband would possess nine elements. "Who is that man? I don't think I've ever met a cultivator with more than two elements."
"You will know when the time comes, Xiao'er." Xiao Yulan replied with a shake of her head. "I know that you have always wanted to control your own fate, but the two of you were fated to be together, and you won't be able to change that. Even so, the relationship between the two of you will not be easy , and there will be many hurdles for the two of you to overcome together."
Xiao Xiao nodded and said. "All right, I understand. I won't meddle in Ling Xiao's family matters. But as for my future husband, I won't just resign myself to my fate, and I will definitely change it."
Xiao Yulan did not speak further; she only looked at Xiao Xiao with a gentle gaze before her avatar disappeared.
"Future husband, my ass!" Xiao Xiao cursed in annoyance after Xiao Yulan disappeared. "I'm sorry, great-grandma. Although you have seen my fate, I will definitely defy fate, and I will determine my own future."
After that, Xiao Xiao rushed over to check on some of her other patients.
- To Be Continued -
