Chapter 2756 — The Jade Pendant Swapped?

"For a while now, I've had no energy at all. I keep dozing off, and every day it feels like I can never sleep enough—I even sleep through the day at school..." Wang Xinyan did not say that this was because of Wei Zhao. Instead she said, "And the reason I was living here before wasn't what you think. Wei Zhao and I weren't living together. He was treating me, regulating my health."

"What! Sleeping?" Wang Xuben and Xiao Qinlin exchanged a glance, and shock and worry flashed in both their eyes at once.

"Dad, Mom, Wei Zhao examined me and reached a conclusion: there's nothing else wrong with my body—it's just extremely weak, and getting weaker by the day..." Wang Xinyan sighed. "At first I didn't want to tell you, for fear you'd worry. If Wei Zhao could cure me, then wonderful—it would be as if nothing had ever happened."

"Your body started growing weak?" Wang Xuben and Xiao Qinlin frowned even harder with worry, exchanged another glance, and their faces turned pale...

"Dad, Mom, what's wrong?" Seeing her parents' expressions change so drastically, Wang Xinyan was startled too, and she hurried to say, "It's not that there's no way. Wei Zhao is helping me think of something..."

"Xinyan..." Wang Xuben was silent for a while before he said, "This problem of yours—it's actually innate. When you were little, your health was poor, and the symptom was simply that your body was weak. We took you to many hospitals, and none of them could do anything. An old Chinese physician examined you too, and he said that with a body like yours, you simply wouldn't live long..."

"Mm... I guessed as much..." Wang Xinyan nodded, unconcerned. "But later, didn't a great master cure me? If he could cure me then, he should have a way now too, shouldn't he?"

"That's right, Uncle Wang. Xinyan told you all this to prepare you, to let you know about her condition. But the real reason Xinyan and I asked you to come was to ask whether you can still get in touch with that wandering master you met back then?" Wei Zhao asked.

"How could we possibly get in touch with him?" Wang Xuben gave a bitter smile. "Back then we wanted to ask the master for his contact details, but a friend of his—a man who looked like an immortal sage—said something baffling."

"Something baffling?" Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan asked together. "What did he say?"

"He said: today we form a bond of goodwill; eighteen years from now, all things have their cause and effect, and if fate allows, we shall meet again." Wang Xuben remembered the words of that master and his friend clearly. "Then they left, and I couldn't very well force them to stay..."

"Eighteen years from now? All things have their cause and effect?" Wei Zhao was stunned for a moment, then his expression changed. "How old was Xinyan then?"

"She was two at the time..." As Wang Xuben said this, something seemed to occur to him too, and his face went stark white. "Could it be that the master meant that eighteen years later, Xinyan would... This year—isn't Xinyan exactly twenty? Isn't that exactly eighteen years later?"

Hearing Wang Xuben's reasoning, Xiao Qinlin's face went pale as well, and her body trembled involuntarily. Could it be that the master had meant that after eighteen years, Wang Xinyan would still leave them?

The same possibility had occurred to Wei Zhao, but at this moment all he could do was try to console them. "Uncle Wang, Aunt Xiao, don't panic yet. I don't think that's what the master meant. Perhaps he meant that after eighteen years, you would meet him again, or that another solution could be found?"

Once he calmed down, Wei Zhao felt a little puzzled too. Perhaps the master had meant that after eighteen years Wang Xinyan's body would develop problems—but looked at from another angle, if Wei Zhao had never met Wang Xinyan, never cultivated using the fragrance on her body, wouldn't Wang Xinyan be living perfectly well? Wouldn't there be no problem at all?

In other words, the master might have spoken offhandedly. If he could predict that eighteen years later Wei Zhao would appear and happen to absorb Wang Xinyan's fragrance, then his prophetic ability would be a little too terrifying, wouldn't it?

"Another solution?" Wang Xuben sighed. "What other solution is there? We tried everything back then... And besides, if even you have no solution, what solution could there be? I've heard of your medical skill from others, Aunt Xiao and I—it ranks among the finest of our time..."

"For instance, did the master ever say what that prescription was, or the name of that miraculous medicine?" Wei Zhao asked.

"No. The medicine was brewed by the master, and the miraculous ingredient was fetched by his friend. We never knew what it was called..." Wang Xuben shook his head with a bitter smile. "If I knew the name of that medicine and the contents of the prescription, I wouldn't be sighing like this. Even if I had to sell everything I own, I would gather the ingredients and buy that medicine!"

"Then... did the master leave nothing else behind?" Wei Zhao asked, still unwilling to give up.

"Leave behind... That's it!" Wang Xuben suddenly stood up and turned to look at Wang Xinyan. "Xinyan, where's that jade pendant of yours? You haven't taken it off, have you? You've been wearing it all this time?"

"No..." Wang Xinyan gave Wang Xuben a puzzled look and drew the pendant out from inside her collar. "I've worn this jade since I was little. After all these years I'm used to it—it hasn't left my body even when I bathe or sleep... Huh?"

As she said this, Wang Xinyan suddenly gave a cry of surprise! And when Wang Xuben and Xiao Qinlin saw the pendant at that moment, they cried out as well, their eyes filled with deep shock and dread!

"What is it?" Wei Zhao, at a loss, looked in puzzlement at the whole Wang family, who had suddenly been so shaken.

"Xinyan, why has your jade pendant changed appearance?" Wang Xuben said in horror.

"I think so too—the color seems to have faded a lot?" Wang Xinyan had not reacted as strongly as Wang Xuben before; after all, she saw the pendant often, so she had no particular sense of the change. Only today, seeing it under the lamplight, did she too feel that the color seemed to have grown lighter.

"That's right, Xinyan. Your pendant used to be emerald green—how has it turned this dim, pale green now?" Xiao Qinlin said in astonishment as well. "Could the jade pendant have been swapped for a fake?"

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