But when Tang Aining, or Gu Ning opened her mouth, Gu Man and Gu Qing was surprised. They couldn't believe their eyes, seeing Gu Ning sitting against the head of the bed.
The doctor had said there was congestion in Gu Ning's brain, and it must be removed by surgery, but now she woke up herself.
"Ning, Ningning, you, you're awake…" although being surprised, Gu Man reacted soon. She burst into tears immediately, striding ahead, wanting to hug Gu Ning, but was afraid to hurt her. Thus Gu Man stood there instead, not knowing where to put her hands.
"Ningning, you're awake. You're finally awake…"
Gu Qing rushed ahead as well. It was still unbearable for her, but she felt happy and excited.
"Mom, aunt, I'm awake," Gu Ning said, holding Gu Man's hands in hers to comfort her.
"Right, right. What a relief that you're finally awake!" Gu Man cried out of happiness. She clutched Gu Ning's hands in case her daughter would disappear.
Gu Qing was in tears of joy as well. Such a drama was a difficult test for normal human beings.
"Oh, I'll go find the doctor," Gu Qing realized first, and ran out directly.
Before long, the doctor walked in. He was also super surprised by the fact that Gu Ning was awake. What a magic!
But it still needed a comprehensive check to make sure it was real.
Therefore, the doctor arranged the exam for Gu Ning at once.
After the exam, Gu Qing went to buy food for Gu Ning, while Gu Man stayed by Gu Ning's side to look after her.
Gu Ning felt the strong mother's love from Gu Man.
It was the first time that she had been taken good care of ever since her mother had been in vegetative state.
Although when she had been with Qi Ziyue, she had heard of many sweet nothings, they were lies.
After the meal, Gu Qing was gone for afternoon work. And Gu Man was free for today and tomorrow. She had applied to have the rest separate three days' break of this month together, when Gu Ning had been caught by an accident yesterday.
Gu Man had talked with Gu Ning for a while before she told her to have a good rest.
Gu Ning knew Gu Man hadn't had any sleep since last afternoon, so she let her catch up on some sleep on a nearby empty bed.
Though Gu Ning was awake now, and Gu Man felt greatly relieved, she was still worried before the final result came out. So Gu Man was reluctant to take a break.
But Gu Ning said if Gu Man didn't rest, she won't neither. Thus Gu Man agreed at the end.
Gu Man was literally tired. She planned to lie down to comfort Gu Ning, but fell into a deep sleep in a few minutes.
As for Gu Ning, she couldn't sleep at all. She's staring at the ceiling, thinking about what had happened during her last lifetime.
All of a sudden, she saw a pair of feet walking by above her head. Gu Ning was astonished and had her mind back instantly, but there was nothing on the white ceiling.
Why she had seen a pair of feet walking by above her head? Was it a hallucination?
Gu Ning brought her eyes back from the ceiling. She rolled her body, focusing on the nearby bed where Gu Man was asleep. The woman had withered yellow skin with wrinkles all around her eyes and brow.
Gu Man, who had been living a hard life, never bought herself any skincare products, fine food or expensive clothes.
But she would try her best to give Gu Ning the best.
Fortunately, Gu Ning was always a good child. Although she was self-abased and introverted, she won't compare with others because she knew her family couldn't afford.
However, since Tang Aining was Gu Ning now, she wouldn't allow herself and Gu Man to stay poor and weak. Additionally, she was going to take revenge, and she must be powerful.
She had ambition. Given that her enemy was the Tang family, she must be stronger than it.
Although the Tang family was the third richest family in the capital, it was still a super rich family with billions of assets. And in a third-tier city, it must be the top one family.
But the Tang family's glorious achievements relied largely on Tang Aining's effort.
Tang Aining had done countless illegal things for the Tang Family, stealing opponents' confidential documents, killing people, for instances.
But Tang Aining had destroyed all the evidence for her own safety the last lifetime. It was impossible for her now to find and use those evidence to accuse the Tang family.
Once again, Gu Ning was distracted. She saw a person walking by a short distance away. Gu Ning was astonished again, and had her mind back at once.
But there was nobody walking by, but a white wall before her. Was she really having hallucination?
No, in addition to a person who was walking by, she had also seen a familiar door with a number plate said "106".
the room 106 was exactly the patient room that diagonally across hers.
But, how was she able to see the door?
Without a reason, she believed it wasn't a hallucination, but the truth.
Unconsciously, Gu Ning looked back at the wall. She focused on it.
After a while, the wall before her eyes became transparent. She could see the door of patient room 106, the patients who were walking about, the nurses and the doctors.
Suddenly, a bold idea appeared in Gu Ning's mind.
Was this clairvoyance?
Gu Ning was struck dumb by this thought. She had a deep breath.
To make sure whether it was clairvoyance or not, Gu Ning immediately moved her sight to another wall. The wall gradually turned transparent, then she saw what were in the room, the patient beds, the patients and the equipment.
Now she was sure that it was clairvoyance.
But Gu Ning still felt unreal. She wanted more proofs. So she looked around afterwards.
All of a sudden, Gu Ning felt a sharp pain from her eyes, then she fell into unconsciousness.
In the dream, Gu Ning dreamed herself was sinking after she had jumped into the sea, and the red light from the red jade on her chest.
Then, she heard a distant light voice. The aged voice said, "There's an ancient jade named the 'Blood of the Phoenix'. It's made of the blood of a phoenix and the soul of the earth. It has magical power, which enables you to live forever or be reborn."
Suddenly, she woke up from her dream in surprise.
What, what had happened?
While Gu Ning was confused, a piece of information dawned on her.
After a while, Gu Ning finally figured it out.
The "Blood of the Phoenix" was made of the blood of a phoenix. Because it was an ancient object, it had a magical power. She could be reborn exactly because of this jade.
In her previous incarnation, she had coincidentally picked up a phoenix-shaped red jade.
Although she had no idea whether it was authentic or not, Gu Ning had kept it because of her fondness for it.
Unexpectedly, the jade had magical power, which resulted in her rebirth.
Moreover, Blood of the Phoenix had been absorbed into her soul, causing her to inherit the power of the jade, as well as a pair of Jade Eyes.
Everything turned crystal clear in her pair of Jade Eyes.
With that power, Gu Ning also gained the ability of clairvoyance and a photographic memory.
Spirit Qi referred to a type of pure energy that existed in the myriad entities between the heavens and earth, akin to the essences of the sun and moon.
There was also a telepathic eye space. It was a still storage room. One could put any (dead) object before their eyes into this telepathic eye space just by mere thought.
Of course, all of those actions, or the use of Jade Eyes, cost the power.
In addition, a person who had the power could live longer, and can use the power to cure injuries and illnesses.
The space of telepathic eyes became larger as the power grew, and was able to accommodate more things.
Because Blood of the Phoenix was a jade itself, it needed the power of jade.
Jade consisted of nephrite and jadeite.
Nephrites included traditional gems like crystals, corals, agates and so forth.
Jadeites were mainly emeralds.
As long as it has the power of jade, it would be of use.
And jade was always popular and common, no matter in the ancient time or modern society.
So, it wasn't difficult for Gu Ning to find jade.
But, Gu Ning needed a large quantity of jade. Even she herself couldn't calculate the exact number.
Thus stone gambling was the only way to satisfy Gu Ning's need. She needed to accumulate the power of jade for her Jade eyes.
Since she had the Jade Eyes now, it was so easy for her to win the game of stone gambling.
Only by stone gambling, she could win more and more jade to absorb purer and stronger power.
At the same time, she could win money by stone gambling.
And if she wanted to win money, she could use her Jade eyes in other ways.
For example, playing dice cup. You could never fail by using clairvoyance.
But, it couldn't last long, because a casino had its own rules. There was a limit of winning money. If one won too much money, his or her name would be on the blacklist, or he or she probably would be skilled.
So if there was another way to make money, Gu Ning would not gamble, stone gambling surely excluded.
Antiques were of great use as well, because antiques normally had a long history with the essence from the sun and the moon. If an antique had the essence, it would be an authentic one. The more essence an antique had, the longer time it must had been existed for.
Stone gambling could make you a billionaire or a beggar overnight. Antiques had the same effect. If you accidentally got an authentic one, you would be super rich at once, otherwise you would lose every cent you had.
But for Gu Ning, who had gained magical power, those were merely problems.
On thinking of that, Gu Ning was more than excited. The magical power she had was so immensely powerful!
If she still couldn't achieve anything with the Jade eyes, she would rather die.
The scare was also replaced by happiness, for money was easily accessible to Gu Ning now. As for the Jade eyes, it was acceptable too.
"Ningning, Ningning, are you alright?" hearing the worried voice form Gu Man, Gu Ning immediately got her mind back. She looked at Gu Man's face, which was full of concern, "Mom, you're awake?"
Seeing Gu Ning was fine, Gu Man was relieved, but still slightly concerned, "I've been awake for a long time, but you seemed distracted. I've called your name for several times. You wouldn't react. I thought your brain was damaged again. You've sacred me!"
Um.
After Gu Man's explanation, Gu Ning felt a little ashamed, "Well, I just too concentrated on my thoughts."
Gu Man didn't ask any further. She only wanted to see Gu Ning was fine.
"I'm glad you're awake, that's all I want. It's almost six pm. What do you want to eat? Let me buy for you," Gu Man asked.
"I'm not picky. Anything is fine for me," Gu Ning replied.
"…" Gu Man opened her mouth for a second, but didn't say a word.
She knew Gu Ning was a good child, who would not indulge herself for expensive food. Then, Gu Man decided to make the decision for Gu Ning, and buy her some delicious food.
When Gu Man was gone, Gu Ning got off the bed to walk around as exercise.
But when she had just walked a few steps away from her patient room, a doctor who was walking fast with a white coat and mask, knocked her down. Gu Ning stumbled and almost fell. Luckily, she caught the wall at once, and kept her balance.
Gu Ning was displeased at first, but then she thought the doctor probably was in an emergency, and didn't knock her down on purpose. Gu Ning planned to forgive him.
But to her surprise, the man who had knocked her down didn't apologize at all, and even glared at her, then rushed away.
Gu Ning was struck dumb for a second, not because the man didn't apologize and glared at her, but because she had noticed the strong hatred in his eyes. The hatred was not for her.
Gu Ning couldn't help but turn around. Her eyes squinted. The man was weird.
All of a sudden, Gu Ning saw a gun hidden in the man's waist through his white coat.
Gu Ning was worried. Why would a doctor carry a gun with him?
And the man seemed he was not a plainclothes police, but an avenger.
Although it had nothing to do with Gu Ning, she couldn't step aside since she had found out the truth.
If the man was really for revenge, innocent people could be hurt once he shot.
On thinking of that, Gu Ning couldn't allow herself to ignore.
She wasn't the God, nor the Virgin Mary, but she wasn't cold-blooded neither. And she was willing to help as long as she could.
Therefore, Gu Ning followed up quietly.
Gu Ning followed the suspect to an office. When he was about to walk in, a young female doctor, who was in a white coat too, walked out, but was stopped by the suspect.
Gu Ning fixed her eyes on the movements of the suspect. The suspect pulled out the gun the minute the female doctor appeared in his sight. The gun aimed at her.
Due to the white coat, the gun wasn't obvious.
But the female doctor's face was as white as a paper now. She was scared.
Then the suspect talked to her for a while, and the female doctor reluctantly followed him to another side.
Gu Ning followed up immediately.
They went upstairs. There were few people in the corridors, because most of them used elevators. And nobody noticed there was something wrong with them.
They went straight to the top of the building. It was an open balcony.
There was no one else on the balcony, except the suspect, the female doctor and Gu Ning who was hidden in the dark.
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