novelraw Chapter 1454: Everyone Returns to Their Place (Part 6)
Chapter 1454: Everyone Returns to Their Place (Part 6)
"This child of yours is really..." Zhao Li’s eyes were red as she held Ruan Jiaojiao, who was being playful with her, and for a moment, she was too choked up to speak.
Ruan Jiaojiao had been in Beidu for almost two months. Apart from making occasional phone calls to Zhao Li at the beginning with a couple of cat-like purrs, as her soul-leaving episodes increased, her memory started to get confused. Coupled with her genuinely limited brain capacity, she easily forgot many things and many people, living each day in a daze, and thus spoke to Zhao Li less frequently.
Zhao Li missed her so much that her heart ached.
Coincidentally, Shu Jiao couldn’t come this time, and since her family was also in Beidu, Zhao Li could no longer bear how much she missed Ruan Jiaojiao and seized the opportunity to accompany Ruan Jianguo. After all, she had nothing to do at home.
Initially, while still in the car, she thought she would give Ruan Jiaojiao a good spanking as soon as she saw her. But when she saw her being affectionate, all her anger dissipated, and all she wanted was to hold her close and cherish her dearly.
Though they were just godmother and daughter, over the years, their relationship had long become like that of a biological mother and daughter. Not seeing each other for so long only made their embrace tighter with affection.
On the other hand, Ruan Jianguo seemed redundant.
"My precious." He called, trying to get someone’s attention.
"Let it be, they haven’t seen each other in so long. Let them enjoy this moment." The Ruanlin family patted him, advising him not to get in the way.
"..." Ruan Jianguo thought, ’But I also haven’t seen my daughter in a long time!’
Watching the mother and daughter being endlessly affectionate, Ruan Jianguo had no choice but to head elsewhere, where Ruan Hao and Xiu Xi were discussing Yuan Manman with Master.
When the Master heard what they said, he didn’t seem surprised; they all considered it a matter of cause and effect.
As a monk, he shouldn’t have been involved in so many worldly affairs, but the misplaced fates of Ruan Jiaojiao and Yuan Manman were in a way connected to him.
Back when the Yuan matron’s hands weren’t yet tainted with those karmic debts, she had donated quite a bit to the temple and was deeply saddened by her daughter’s issues. Out of compassion, he gave her a Buddha bead, hoping it would help pacify the departed, but who would have expected her to continue committing transgressions?
Later, he realized she had accumulated many karmic debts and tried to persuade her multiple times to no avail. When she inquired about Yuan Manman, he even broke rules by giving her a vague answer.
His intention was to make her realize that her transgressions had caused Yuan Manman to be permanently unable to reincarnate, hoping she would stop her wrongdoings and not further deepen Yuan Manman’s already heavy karmic debts.
But who knew, the Yuan matron misunderstood and instead thought Ruan Jiaojiao was her reincarnated daughter.
Ruan Jiaojiao was born with trials, facing many disasters. The Yuan matron probably used her birth date for rituals and fed her certain things, leading to their fates getting intertwined. Although Ruan Jiaojiao’s trial wasn’t supposed to be fatal, due to these actions, it resulted in serious consequences later on.
Ultimately, he had some karmic involvement in these events.
He didn’t refuse their request for help, expressing his willingness to try, but admitted that with his skills, he might not be able to subdue the opposing force, as it was the accumulation of decades of karmic debt, carrying not only Yuan Manman’s grievances but also those of other wrongful deaths.