When Li Wei opened her eyes, what she saw was a jade-green canopy and a palace ceiling of carved beams and polished jade.
And... three familiar faces.
Grandma...
Li Cheng...
And Old Gu...
Wait, why had Old Gu's hair turned white?
She instinctively reached out and tapped Gu Jinzhi between the brows with her fingertip.
A gentle energy flowed from her fingertip, carrying holy white light. Like molten jade, it slowly poured into his forehead.
In the blink of an eye, that glaring frost-white hair rapidly turned ink-black from the roots, at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The haggardness and exhaustion on his face were swept away by this force, restoring him to his former appearance.
After finishing, she happily pinched Old Gu's cheek and was just about to laugh.
But in the next second, the fragmented, heart-wrenching memories from her dream surged into her mind like an out-of-control tide.
The abandoned infant in the snowy night, the orphan girl suffering an epileptic seizure, the student forced to withdraw, the years spent struggling bitterly at the bottom...
And finally... the despair of coughing blood and dying in a hospital bed...
The corner of Li Wei's eye twitched. The smile on her face swiftly faded, replaced in an instant by a textbook dead-fish stare.
She abruptly sat up, her dark brows shooting straight upward.
But before she could explode—
Jiang Xinyue was faster!
She sprang up from the cloud bed in a fury, looking ready to tear someone apart and fight to the death.
Grandma's sudden movement startled Li Wei and interrupted her emotions.
She blinked and asked blankly, "What's wrong with you?"
Jiang Xinyue flung back her fiery-red sleeve and viciously declared, "You guys chat first. I have a score to settle with my mother!"
The moment she