"I know your soul has issues when you were born, I thought it was damaged in your previous life and born with low soul power."
"But I never thought your soul is split and another part traveled elsewhere."
He turned to his eldest son and daughter in law and said, "Mei Mei knows it as well, we do not want you all to get worried about her. And so we did not reveal it to you all."
"The pendent which is worn by Chujiu is not just a normal jade pendent. It is a soul healing pendent which Mei Mei put it on to Little Jiu the day she was born."
Only now Chujiu understood why there is pendent handing on her body all the time and was said not to be removed by her mother. After her parents went missing the previous Chujiu always used to look at the pendent and touch it in the memory.
Master Lin and Madam Lin came to Chujiu and rubbed her head lovingly and welcomed her home. They also gave some presents.
Chujiu does not have spiritual root and cannot use spiritual energy. How can she store the gifts in to a space ring.
She looked absolutely pitiful, Madam Lin could not see her like that and pulled her towards herself and comforted her.
But Chujiu looked even more aggrieved. She really do not want to be a waste, she wants to cultivate too. Suddenly something stuck her mind and she excitedly said to her aunt, "Aunt, I think I know why I could not activate the spiritual root yet?"
In her previous life, she was on a mission and had to disguise herself as a student in a university to catch a lead who is hidden in the university. It was a top university and there were several thousand students from across the globe.
She spent a few good months in the university. In her dormitory, girls used to read webnovels and introduced some to her. She had the best calm days of her life in the university.
She read quite a few novels at that time.
Isn't it a common phenomena in the novels that female lead gets poisoned in her childhood and termed as waste until someone transmigrates and takes over the body.
All those clauses fit her situation, she is poisoned, turned ugly, had been trained as a pro in martial arts and have several skills including photographic memory.
Only one difference, she did not transmigrate.
Doesn't that mean, she will encounter the male lead who is handsome beyond words, cold to others but extremely dotting towards her and who will not even take a look at other girls and will only belong to her…. To her only and become hers alone….
Isn't it too wonderful to even have a thought… wow… how come she is so damn lucky…
While Chujiu is immersed in her dreamworld, Madam Lin and others in the room are anxiously waiting for what little jiu is going to say next. But they did not receive any response instead a certain someone is smiling foolishly by herself.
Grandfather Lin felt like he is looking at a young girl who has fallen in love… blahhh blahh… he must have gone crazy, his little girl is only 11 and had not seen the world… why is he so stupid to think so dirty…
Yes its too dirty to fall in love… yes its dirty when it comes his granddaughter and not to him who fell head over heels for his wife and got a grand title called 'love maniac' when he was young….
His Little Jiu must have gone crazy with happiness that she found a clue regarding her spiritual root and there might be chances that she can activate it…
That is it and nothing else… yes…
Madam Lin knocked Chujiu's forehead lightly to bring her back to senses.
Chujiu turned around and saw their eager eyes, she stopped dreaming and told them everything…
Lin Shihong stood up abruptly from his chair, "what did you say? There is poison in your body?"
Grandfather Lin and Madam Lin are shocked silly too. They never thought that their little nine was poisoned.
The weight of her revelation hung heavily in the air.
"Grandfather, Uncle, Aunt" Chujiu began, her voice tinged with a mixture of apprehension and determination, "there's something else you need to know. The poison that courses through my veins is unlike any other."
The room fell silent as Chujiu continued, "This poison affects my appearance and has blocked my meridians, preventing me from materialising my spiritual root. It's a complex poison, undetectable by normal physicians. If it weren't for my past life experiences, I wouldn't have recognised its symptoms."
Lin Jianhong's eyes narrowed, a deep furrow forming on his brow. "Are you saying someone intentionally poisoned you?"
They have already got most popular physicians on the continent to check on her when she got ill. Nobody has ever traced any poison in her body.
Chujiu nodded solemnly, "Yes, Grandfather. And it happened when I was just three years old. Someone within the family or close circle might be responsible."
Lin Shihong clenched his fists, his expression one of barely contained anger. "Three years old? Who could harbour such malice against an innocent child?"
Madam Lin's face paled, "This is terrible. To think someone could be so ruthless as to harm a child and continue to endanger her."
Chujiu added, "Not only was I poisoned, but someone also tried to drown me, making my body immovable. The same individual could be behind both attempts on my life."
Lin Jianhong clenched his fists, "We must tread carefully. An enemy lurks within our Lin manor, and we must uncover their identity before they strike again."
"But first we need to detoxify your poison."
Chujiu ensured her grandfather, "Don't worry grandfather. Others may not detoxify me but I can. I can understand my body well and I also have a solution for this poison. The problem is I need several herbs, I don't even know if they are available here. My knowledge is from another world."
"I want to read books which state about different herbs, their pictures etc. I can formulate a plan of treatment for myself depending on the medical facilities here and availability of herbs."
All three people sighed in relief but still there is lingering fear, what if they could not detoxify Little Jiu?
Chujiu understood their worries and said, "Don't worry this is not life threatening. All I need is knowledge of this world, the medicines, the resources available etc."