"Madam! Madam!" the servant's frantic voice resounded in the entire Gao Manor. She was running as fast as she could towards the lotus pavilion where the Lady of the manor lived.
Under normal circumstances, the servant would have been punished for being disruptive, but Gao Chu didn't care about that at the moment. 'The Young Miss is more important!' she thought.
She was one of the servants that was freed from slavery and was bestowed with the house hold family name by her master's grace.
Because of this Gao Chu vowed to serve her Young Miss all her life and if something ever happened to her master, she did not know what to do!
"What happened? Quickly tell me!" Li Mao was worried when she saw her daughter's personal servant, Gao Chu, running and shouting in panic. As the madam of the Gao Family, she was aware that the only time the servants dared to break the rules was when there was an emergency.
"Madam! The miss had an accident! Please follow me quickly!" Gao Chu's face was pale. Her voice sounded worried and panicked while her lungs were out of breath. After reporting to the madam about what had happened, Gao Chu did not waste any more time as she ran back towards the main gate.
Li Mao quickly followed. As she did so, no one knew how many times she had begged Buddha to keep her only child safe.
When she reached the main gate, she saw a guard carrying her unconscious daughter in his arms while a physician was checking her pulse. "Bring her in immediately!" Physician Mo ordered.
Li Mao heard the doctor's voice clearly. She had not seen her daughter's condition yet. However, with the doctor's tone, laced with urgency, she was certain that something bad had happened to her.
"What happened? How is my daughter?" She asked, but the doctor was hurrying to the room so she was ignored. All she could do was follow them inside where her daughter would be treated.
Upon entering, Li Mao was shocked to see her daughter covered in blood from her beautiful face to her shoes. She was trying to be calm before but now she couldn't stop the tears that fell from her eyes. There were multiple wounds that looked like claw marks all over her body. Her normally pristine white robes were torn apart and soaked in blood, which showed some of her fair jade-like skin.
"Physician Mo, how is she? She will be fine, right?" she asked. 'She needs to be fine!' was what she really wanted to say, but Madam Gao swallowed those words back. It didn't matter to Li Mao whether her daughter got scarred or not as long as she was alive!
Physician Mo looked at Gao Lan Mei gravely. He wanted to assure Madam Gao that everything would be fine. However, there were limits to what he could do.
If the young miss had been a cultivator, she would have been able to heal herself slowly. That was 'if', but unfortunately, she was not. The entire Shizi empire knew that the only child of the Left Minister was a waste.
"Madam, we need the blood replenishing pill to save the young miss. Right now, her blood loss is too much. I have stopped the bleeding for now, but it will not be enough. I will continue feeding her medicine but it will only be a temporary solution," the doctor stated with disappointment. He was feeling incompetent for not being able to completely treat the Gao Family's only daughter.
"What?!" Li Mao could not stop herself. Her eyes were red and swollen from crying. "Please Physician Mo, do everything that you can." She said helplessly as she reached for her daughter's hands that were also covered in blood.
The doctor did not respond anymore. At that moment, all he could do was just write a list of herbs for the servant to collect.
Li Mao felt faint after thinking about what Physician Mo said. Where was she going to get a blood replenishing pill? It was a rare pill that could only be taken by nobles. The royal family even limited the availability of these pills. Aside from that, it was also very expensive.
Even though Gao Lan Mei was the Gao couple's only child, she was still branded as trash which elicited scorn from others.
Those hypocrites did not show blatant hostility to her daughter, but Li Mao and her husband had recognized the discrimination in their eyes when they looked at their daughter. They were just giving face to the Minister's family. Those people might not allow them to get a pill if they learned that it was for Gao Lan Mei. They would surely feel that it would be a waste.
"The master! Did someone tell the master about this?! Quickly go tell him!" Li Mao exclaimed thinking that her husband might have a solution.
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"Hmmm…" she let out a soft groan. Just completing that small action felt very uncomfortable. She felt sore all over her body.
"Hur…hurt…" She murmured, trying to test her hoarse voice. The slow movement of her mouth caused her pain as well. She tried to touch her throat that felt like dry sand, but she couldn't even lift her hands to do so. The best thing she could do now was wet her dry lips with her also somewhat dry tongue. It was the first time that she had felt so much pain, that she could barely open her eyes.
Trying to recall what had happened, flashes of images quickly appeared in her mind causing more pain. Hers, and Gao Lan Mei's memories.
At the time of the "accident", she had been forced to stay at the outer region of Mount Hua. The original Gao Lan Mei was a fool to accept the challenge of the despicable prince in order to prove her love to him.
The poor Gao Lan Mei initially believed that the prince would realize her worth after completing the challenge.
Gao Lan Mei was impulsive and proud. She thought that if she didn't go into the deeper parts of Mount Hua, nothing could possibly go wrong.
However, even though she wasn't entirely wrong, spiritual beasts still lurked on that part of the mountain and it was dangerous for anyone who couldn't cultivate.
Another fact was that she was naive enough to not consider the people around the prince. With that, the original owner of the body died when she was attacked by the spiritual beast owned by the second prince's concubine Li Huan.
Gao Lan Mei did not even think of the possibility that she would be treated as their entertainment. And that she might be left to die, being eaten by the spiritual beasts did not even cross her mind. She never even expected that regardless of what the second prince might have though, his concubine would make sure that Gao Lan Mei would not leave the mountain alive. Concubine Li Huan had undoubtedly ordered her demon wolf beast to maul her to death.
It was too late when Gao Lan Mei realized that she was going to die. She did try to save herself. Despite running with all her might, it was still impossible for her to ask for help.
She was attacked and toyed with by the demon wolf until she died. Who would have thought that someone would save her before she was dismembered by the beast?
Her efforts in running and asking for help were futile as the original Gao Lan Mei had died and had been replaced by a wandering spirit.
'Gao Lan Mei, that will be my name from now on.' She thought to herself.
In her previous life, she was only called "Miss". Her father in that life had not been able to give her a name before leaving to take revenge. She didn't even know why she had been confined. Was she being punished? She had no idea.
"Mei'er, are you awake? Are you thirsty?" Li Mao noticed her daughter frowning and attempting to move her hands.
She reached for a clean cloth to dip in drinking water. "Try to open your mouth if you are thirsty…Try it slowly…" she gently and carefully instructed her daughter. There were claw marks on her daughter's face as well. A part of the wounds even reached her lips. After her daughter slowly opened her mouth, Li Mao squeezed the wet cloth to the small opening to help her drink.
Seeing Gao Lan Mei's condition, Li Mao's eyes watered. These past few days, she had not been able to sleep. Even though she was already told by the doctor that her daughter would survive, she just could not rest while Gao Lan Mei was still unconscious.
Aside from that, she was afraid of having nightmares of her daughter still covered in blood.
Gao Lan Mei slowly tried to open her eyes, 'I can still see. Good,' she thought. She also checked her other senses. "All seems to be working aside from gathering spiritual energy." Then she looked at the teary-eyed Li Mao, "Mo... Mo... Mother…" She tried to speak again although it was hard to even open her mouth.
So this is how a mother is. The care and love could clearly be seen and felt just by looking at the Madam's eyes.
Since she was now using this body, she would live under the original owner's identity. From now on, it would be her responsibility to never make her mother cry again.
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