Chapter 14 - Putting An End
When Di Jiu asked her about her condition, Shen Ziyu immediately realized that he must have forgotten about this as well. Di Jiu had actually known about her condition and had tried to find the Red Xue Flower for her.
“I have a condition called Heart Apnea…” she explained, “My heart could stop functioning at any moment. Sometimes the illness’ duration is short, but occasionally my heart stops working for a very long time. If my heart stops for too long, it will be too late for anyone to revive me.”
What Shen Ziyu said was sufficient for Di Jiu to understand what her condition was. This illness had been called the Life-Leaking Disease back in the Yalun Continent.
Di Jiu had been a medical master in the Ji Nation, so he naturally knew what a scary disease this was.
The Life-Leaking Disease was also known as the Life-Deprivation Disease. Its symptoms were not limited to the heart, though. Shen Ziyu’s symptom was just one of many. People who suffered from that disease could not live beyond the mathematical pattern of four-nine, which basically meant that they reached 36 years of age.
In the Ji Nation, the people who had that disease left their lives up to the heavens. Being able to live till 36 was a blessing considering that their lives could be taken from them at any time. This disease was incurable by western medicine.
There was no such thing as western medicine in the Ji Nation though, as the technology there was way more advanced. There were many methods to treat the disease, but the Life-Leaking Disease could only be treated with natural herbs. The Red Xue Flower was indeed one of the herbs that could be used to treat it.
However, the Red Xue Flower was not sold in the market, so it was practically a priceless herb.
Di Jiu did not understand how he had known about this herb in his previous life. Only doctors in the Ji Nation knew about it.
Shen Ziyu knew that, even if she got a divorce from Di Zimo, her family would still force her to marry his brother, Di Ziheng. However, she was still moved by Di Zimo’s affection for her.
As soon as they had gotten a divorce, Di Zimo had immediately disappeared.
Now that he had come back and accepted her card without any hesitation, she was reminded of a joke he had cracked when they had proceeded with the divorce. “If you divorce me, your family will give me a big sum of money. Now that I am no longer the heir of the Di family, this sum of money will be very useful to me.”
Based on her understanding of Di Zimo, he would never have divorced her for the money. He would only have done so in order to make her suffer less and let her off the hook.
From the looks of it, however, she might have been wrong. Di Zimo could have been telling the truth all along.
Their wedding had been just a formality, so it was entirely possible that, when he had found out that he was no longer the rightful heir, Di Zimo had wanted to divorce her in order to get some money. That would definitely have been the right move for him.
Shen Ziyu did not doubt that the Shen family would have given him the money and allowed him to divorce their daughter. Shen Ziyu still had some standing in the family, so it was just a question of whether she was willing to sacrifice herself or not.
Shen Ziyu felt a choking feeling in her heart. Even though she did not like Di Zimo, she was not repelled by the fact that he liked her. Now that she had found out that he actually did not like her either, but had married her for other reasons, she could not help but feel disappointed.
“I think you should leave first. I shall not…” Shen Ziyu recovered her composure, but before she was able to finish her sentence, she felt her world turn black and passed out.
Di Jiu, who had been taking out the wooden box when he saw her fall over, immediately rushed over to her side to support her.
Her soft, gentle scent drifted into his nose. Because of their close proximity, he could see how flawless both her face and body were. It was no wonder that he had been willing to sacrifice himself for her in his previous life. This woman was indeed a true beauty.
However, no matter how smitten he had been with her, this was all in the past.
Di Jiu, who realized that she had relapsed, did not try to wake her up. Instead, he opened the wooden box, lifted her clothes, and placed the Red Xue Flower on the middle of her back. Then, he pressed the flower against her back with one hand, while his other hand pressed repeatedly on her acupuncture point.
The Red Xue Flower could not be used directly on the surface of the skin. It had to be injected into the bloodstream through a golden needle.
Di Jiu was almost the equivalent of a medical master, so even though he did not have a golden needle, he could still let the Red Xue Flower penetrate her skin by pressing her acupuncture point repeatedly.
In a mere 10 minutes, the flower against her back started to wilt and turn gray. Even though she did not wake up, Shen Ziyu’s pale face started to turn rosy pink.
Di Jiu threw the wilted flower onto the floor, helped her get dressed and then laid her back down on the bed.
By using the flower he had collected in his previous life to save Shen Ziyu, he had put an end to their story. After he left the room, the two of them would no longer be related anymore.