The Useless Heiress Is Actually A Bigshot
Chapter 455 - Chapter 455 Chapter 455 Life Borrowing

Chapter 455: Chapter 455 Life Borrowing Chapter 455: Chapter 455 Life Borrowing Upon hearing Zhong Nianyao’s words, Chu Ciwen and Guan Liu’s faces underwent a drastic change.

Old Sir Chu and Chu Xu’s expressions weren’t looking good either.

“Lady Zhong, you must help Tongtong,” tears covered Guan Liu’s face as she reached out, attempting to grab Zhong Nianyao’s hand, but missed and grasped at air instead, “Tongtong is still so young and has suffered all these years. We’ve just finally found her, yet she hasn’t had the chance to enjoy any blessings. Her life has been too hard, and it’s our fault as parents. If we hadn’t lost her in the first place, none of this would be happening now.”

“Lady Zhong, no matter the cost, we are ready to bear it,” Chu Ciwen said firmly, “if saving Tongtong means giving up my own life, I am willing to do so.”

When everyone looked at Zhong Nianyao, their eyes were filled with pleading and hope.

Zhong Nianyao turned to Chu Ciwen and Guan Liu and said, “Your daughter’s condition isn’t just a simple health issue, she has been subjected to ‘life borrowing.'”

“‘Life borrowing’?” Chu Ciwen and Guan Liu exclaimed in unison.

Clearly, they had never heard of such an absurd thing before. However, recalling that Zhong Nianyao had merely relied on facial features to deduce that Shen Yixue was an imposter, and that their daughter’s life hung by a thread, the idea of life borrowing didn’t seem too hard to accept.

“Lady Zhong, is there any way you can save Tongtong?” Even Old Master Zhong, with his extensive experience, knew a bit about such matters, “Now that her life has been borrowed, is there a way to reclaim it?”

“We need to find out who borrowed her life first,” Zhong Nianyao didn’t directly answer Old Master Zhong’s question, “and moreover, I only know that her life has been borrowed, but the specific circumstances are still unclear. The most important thing now is to figure out who borrowed her life, and how they did it.”

“But how do we investigate something so intangible?” Chu Xu scratched his head, his eyes full of confusion, “Lady Zhong, what should we do now?”

“We ask the person involved, of course!” Zhong Nianyao answered bluntly, “The person whose life has been borrowed must have received something.”

Soon, the group was once again beside the hospital bed.

Watching Chu Tong, who lay sleeping peacefully, appearing completely unlike someone who was sick, yet had been resuscitated several times over the past few days, Chu Ciwen and Guan Liu felt their hearts wrenched in agony.

If the person responsible were right in front of them, they would have wanted nothing more than to rush forward and kill them.

Without saying much more, Zhong Nianyao took out a talisman and applied it directly onto Chu Tong’s body.

In front of everyone’s eyes, the talisman seemingly merged into Chu Tong’s body, leaving no trace at all.

As the talisman disappeared, Chu Tong’s fingers twitched, and soon her eyelids began to flutter; she began to wake up.

“What’s happened to me?”

Although her voice was hoarse, Chu Tong felt significantly better than before; she even sensed a new surge of strength in her body.

Struggling to sit up, Chu Tong even felt hungry, a sensation she hadn’t experienced in days. It was a rare and startling feeling of hunger that made her realize she was still alive.

Hearing Chu Tong proclaim her hunger, Chu Ciwen and Guan Liu were also pleasantly surprised. However, Zhong Nianyao’s next words shattered all their joy.

“There’s no need to rush to find food; even if you did, she wouldn’t be able to eat it,” Zhong Nianyao stated calmly, “The bit of energy she has now is just the effect of the talisman. Once its effect wears off, she will lapse back into unconsciousness.”

The temporary unconscious state was Chu Tong’s body’s way of protecting itself. As her vitality was slipping away, to ensure her survival, her body would automatically choose the least metabolically demanding state, which was unconsciousness.

It was at this moment that Chu Tong took notice of Zhong Nianyao’s presence, looking confusedly at her biological parents, “Dad, Mom, who is this–”

In fact, even at this very moment, Chu Tong felt as if she was in a dream.

Starting from last month, she had begun feeling unwell, out of energy, and sometimes she would even faint for short periods.

Terrified, she had hurried to the hospital for tests. But after a series of examinations, no problems with her health were found.

What followed, however, was completely out of control. Despite clear medical check-ups, her body continued to weaken. Even the doctors couldn’t explain it, and the hospital had no better treatment options; they could only try to delay her deterioration as much as possible.

Clearly, the results were not promising.

She considered herself to be terribly unlucky. Her parents had always favored boys over girls, and at home, she was always given the hardest tasks and the least food. Moreover, despite her good academic performance, her parents had forced her to drop out of school early to help support the family.

Her brother was of no use, yet her parents had spent a lot of money to send him to a subpar university.

After she started working, her parents continued to exploit her, forcing her to earn money for her brother’s car and house. The pressure of life was suffocating.

When she fell ill, she immediately called home. Despite her disappointment with her parents, deep down, she still longed for their love.

To her dismay, when they heard of her illness, instead of showing concern for her health, they told her not to seek treatment to avoid wasting money. They’d rather keep the money for themselves than waste it on futile medical care.

At that moment, she felt utterly hopeless and even thought that perhaps dying would be a release for her.

Just when she was about to give up on treatment, a well-dressed couple found her and claimed that she was their lost daughter.

Learning the truth brought her some solace. No wonder her parents never loved her; it wasn’t due to sexism but because she wasn’t actually their birth child.

Over the past few days, she had finally experienced love from her parents, and at the same time, she developed a strong desire to live. She didn’t want to die; she wanted to survive.