Chapter 351 - Woes of Fatherhood

Doctor Lou sat watching Xiao Ying's unrelenting rescue efforts from his corner of the room. After that outburst from earlier, he had let her be and she had been going at this for a few hours now...for the most part.

Doctor Lou sighed, "See, it's not working. The moment you let go, she will die... I can still save her soul though. Just let me -"

"NO." Xiao Ying bit out, cutting him off again, "What are you even doing here? I thought you were recovering in seclusion..."

"Hmph, I'm perfectly healthy. Why would I need to recover?" Doctor Lou mumbled with a pout, pulling his long beard. No wonder she had the thought to steal from him. Doctor Lou sighed, "...I'm telling you, this is useless." She was obviously having a difficult time and watching his baby suffer like this was not easy for him either. Despite his cool appearance, he was very attached to his baby, no matter how troublesome she was. Trouble meant spirit, spirit meant alive, therefore, trouble was a good thing.

Not that he was one to talk but he did not understand why she was so set on saving this mortal girl either. He had already told her that Tung Mei would have died regardless of her intervention in her life. Therefore, it was not her fault one way or another. Not to mention, his Xiao Ying was not a s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e person, something like this should not bother her to the point of stealing from him.

Doctor Lou sighed again, "Why won't you let this girl rest in peace? You've been clinging on to her for too long. If this is about Yong -"

"This is not about anyone!" Xiao Ying barked again, causing Doctor Lou to jump a bit.

The room was silent for a bit until Doctor Lou mumbled, "Being angry also doesn't suit you..."

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"Not everyone can leave at peace..." Doctor Lou advised with another sigh, closing his eyes. She really was too obstinate, but then again, he had raised her to be that way. Doctor Lou shook his head.

{...No, obstinate is good! No one can bully her then! But then again, if anyone dares that then I'd crush on them and then scramble them and then roast them alive and the-...}

Xiao Ying ignored him, this was a very important part. She was sure she had healed her, now she just had the guide the vitality pill out of her body - it was not something a mortal body could handle, which was why she had used her own powers as a foil to protect Tung Mei's soul while she used the vitality to restore her body.

Xiao Ying took a deep breath and then slowly began to move one hand up Tung Mei's body, while the other remained centered on her abdomen, keeping the vitality centered as her other hand channeled it out of her body, releasing the blue energy into the air.

"What a waste..." Doctor Lou lamented with a sigh and a disgruntled pout. People would kill for what she was dissipating into the air like nothing - uselessly too considering he had already told her that this would not work but some lessons needed to be learned on a personal level. Still, he closed his eyes and tried to ignore the crime this child of his was committing.

The last of the blue light washed through Tung Mei's body and dissipated into the air and the pink glow sank into her body, gradually dimming as Xiao Ying brought her hands down and with a nervous almost disbelieving smile quietly said, "I did it..." finally letting out the breath she had been holding the entire time.

Doctor Lou rushed over and scrutinized the unconscious girl with knit eyebrows, her face had regained its color and well, she seemed healthy now. "How did you - This should not be possible." He said, frowning in confusion.

"Well, naturally I learned for the best~" Xiao Ying said, her smile blooming even more as she looked at Doctor Lou.

Doctor Lou grabbed his long beard and tried not to smile, clearing his throat, "My daughter is naturally brilliant but.." His discerning eyes moved between Tung Mei and Xiao Ying. Normally, he did not need to read pulses to tell most situations, but this truly perplexed him. He could not trust his reading right now. So he took Tung Mei's hand and checked her pulse and then frowned as he got his confirmation, "... this should not be possible."

But it was true, her pulse was strong and steady... and oddly, somewhat familiar. But before he could discern that familiarity, Xiao Ying retrieved Tung Mei's hand and proceeded to tuck her in as she dismissively said, "There is a first time for everything..."

"I keep encountering perplexing things recently..." Doctor Lou mumbled to himself and then crouched down, "... I didn't teach you this, who did you learn it from?" He seriously asked, squinting at Xiao Ying.

"No one...I told you, I just had a theory" Xiao Ying responded, quickly rising to her feet, looking about ready to bolt.

"Okay, then enlighten me." Doctor Lou said, playfully twirling his beard with raised eyebrows.

Xiao Ying blinked at him and then awkwardly cleared her throat, "Well... I just repurposed your vitality pill, as you saw an-"

Doctor Lou snorted, "I taught you to be a better liar than this -"

"Whatever, mind your business!" Xiao Ying said and immediately went to leave, disappearing from the room.

"Come bac-" Doctor Lou exclaimed, raising a hand towards her but before he could do anything, she reappeared a second later on the ground.

Doctor Lou blinked at her and hurriedly went over to her, "What's wrong?"

But Xiao Ying was not looking at him, she was looking at the bed as she mumbled with a frown, "Tch, she's waking up already? So soon?" 

Then Doctor Lou heard a groan from the bed and then he looked at his daughter who was struggling and his eyes widened as he connected the dots, "You - You - What did you do to yourself?!"

"It's nothing, Let's go, she's waking up!" She ordered, grabbing her father's arm and urging, "Hurry up!"

Doctor Lou frowned, not amused, but as more movement came from the bed, he picked Xiao Ying up and disappeared from the room. They reappeared again in the little courtyard of Doctor Lou's pharmacy. He put Xiao Ying on the bed and then seriously but calmly asked, "What have you done?"

"Repaying a debt... She loaned me her body so I'm just loaning her a bit of life." Xiao Ying offhandedly said with a dismissive wave, turning to face the wall, closing her eyes.

Doctor Lou glared at her back and then began pacing, "Where did you even learn how to perform a soul pact? Do you even understand what it is?! Have you thought about the repercussions of interfering with someone's fate like this? What if -"

"You're not exactly one to lecture me about changing fates. Besides, her fate already changed the moment she met me... Better still, from the moment you gave me the soul stone to play Xing Jie. Therefore, I disagree that she was meant to die -"

"That is not the point!" Doctor Lou roared, "The girl was already dead! You were the one clinging to her soul! If I had known this was where you were going with this, I would have never allowed you to have begun this stupid fantasy in the first place! How can you foolishly put yourself on the line for some stupid -"

"I know what I'm doing so leave it alone." Xiao Ying sternly said, turning back to him with a frown, "If you touch her, I won't forgive you." She warned, glaring at him.

Doctor Lou scoffed "Who said I was going to do anything? It's your life. If you wish to throw it away, what's it to me? You should naturally suffer the consequences of your own actions!" He shot back and then turned and stormed towards the doors. But then he stopped after a few steps, took a deep breath and stormed back to the bed, and plopped down on the ground with a pout, pulling his long beard and looking away. 

Xiao Ying smiled at him and relaxed on the bed and calmly said, "Father, don't worry. I'm not stupid, It's not a soul pact, why would I want to live and die with some random mortal girl? It's not like she's my Yong ge..." Doctor Lou scoffed and rolled his eyes at that, but Xiao Ying was too weak to bother and she finally mumbled, "It's a loan... They said I'd just be weak for a while, an adjustment period -"

"Who said?!" Doctor Lou exclaimed, his ears perking up as he turned around. But then she had stopped responding, he checked her pulse and it seemed steady as well, but her body was rapidly growing cold. This confused him. Doctor Lou sighed and massaged his forehead with a hand, feeling stressed.

Even though he said all that to her, she was still his baby. So even though he was really busy right now with important matters, he could not leave her like this even though she said that she would be alright, he needed to know that she would be. He could not take her word for it nor the words of the idiot "They" who apparently gave her the guide to stupidity.

From what he could see, what she had done was a soul pact, and that was something stupidly in love idiots did to ensure they lived and died together. If she had done this with her "Yong Ge", then he could try to understand - even then he would have tossed "Yong Ge" into a volcano after forcing him to undo it. But then how could she be stupid enough to actually do it with some random human who could die from a flimsy misstep?! Not to mention, their short lives!

Doctor Lou took a deep breath to calm himself, reminding himself that Tung Mei was technically an innocent bystander dragged into his daughter's hunt for a distraction. The girl would not even be able to undo it even if he threatened her over the volcano. It was just annoying him that now he had to worry about some random human girl's life now. 

He sighed, resigned to his fate as he got up and put Xiao Ying over his shoulder again and left. He reappeared in Tung Mei's room again and found the girl now awake, apparently having located the maid and physician that Xiao Ying had knocked out, she was currently trying to shake the two awake.

Doctor Lou glared at the girl and then froze the room. He dropped Xiao Ying on the bed and then rummaged through his sleeve and pulled out a little white gemstone, similar to ones on the bracelet on Xiao Ying's wrist. He then crouched down next to Tung Mei and put it on her forehead and it was absorbed into her forehead. Then he squinted at her and poked her head, "Annoying..."

Then he went back to the bed and picked up Xiao Ying and was gone again, and the room's occupants resumed their activities. Doctor Lou stopped again at the Imperial palace, Ah Jin's room to be specific. 

"Shifu!" Ah Jin exclaimed in surprise, immediately jumping up in bed as Doctor Lou dumped Xiao Ying on the bed next to her, "Xiao Ying? What happened to her?" Ah Jin asked with a surprised frown as she touched her arm and felt her ice-cold skin.

"Long story..." Doctor Lou mumbled, sitting down on the bed as well, pushing the two girls back into the small bed with his b.u.t.t.

{... A very bothersome one...(￣ヘ￣) ... When I find the idiot who put this idea in her head, I am going to grind them!...}