Chapter 208: An Unexpected Ending

The factory gates suddenly swung open.

Su Yao and Ma Chulan ran in, panting heavily.

When they saw Su Yan and Su Jianguo, although they didn't know what had happened, they realized they were too late.

"Dad, please don't leave me." Su Yan had no tears, but her sorrowful expression moved everyone.

Su Yao rushed over, and seeing Su Jianguo's condition, his eyes instantly reddened.

"Second Uncle, wake up! Second Uncle!"

A look of grief appeared on Ma Chulong's face.

There is nothing more painful in this world than the parting of life and death.

Ma Chulan couldn't help but shed tears, even though this was her first time meeting Su Jianguo.

At that moment, a faint light emanated from Su Yan's cloth bag.

"Su Yan, look at your bag!" Although Ma Chulan knew it was inappropriate, she still spoke up to remind her.

Su Yan lowered her eyes and immediately realized something. A few seconds later, she pulled a talisman out of the bag.

"Yan Yan, can your eyes see again?"

Su Yao was utterly astonished.

Ma Chulan realized it at the same time.

The two of them stared intently at Su Yan's eyes.

Clear, transparent—they were undoubtedly the most beautiful eyes they had ever seen.

Ma Chulong immediately replied, "It's a long story. Su Yan, what is this?"

Su Yan's gaze flickered slightly. This was clearly the talisman that the old fortune-telling fraud had given her back when she was in the provincial capital with Sun Mang.

Before she could answer, the talisman in her hand transformed into a beam of light and flew into Su Jianguo's body.

This turn of events was unexpected by everyone.

By the time Su Yan wanted to stop it, it was already too late.

However, she quickly realized that Su Jianguo's breathing seemed to have become much more stable.

"Uncle Su's condition has improved?!" Ma Chulong's joyful words immediately confirmed her thoughts.

Su Yan immediately tested Su Jianguo's pulse and breath; it was indeed so.

"Su Yan, what kind of talisman did you just use? How could it have such an incredible effect?" Ma Chulong was shocked once again.

He had never heard of a talisman that could bring someone back from the dead.

"I'm not quite sure myself; I obtained it by chance." Su Yan could not hide her excitement; at this moment, she was infinitely grateful to that profound and mysterious old gentleman.

Everyone's attention was immersed in Su Jianguo, and no one noticed that Su Mo's corpse not far away had actually moved.

She suddenly snapped her eyes open, leaving nothing but pitch-black pupils in her gaze.

Without making a sound, she lunged toward Su Yan and Su Jianguo in a grotesque posture.

Even if she had to die, she would drag this father and daughter down to hell with her!

"Watch out!!"

Ma Chulong was the first to discover her.

But it was already too late to intervene.

Energy instantly gathered in Su Yan's eyes. Just as she was about to act, a figure directly blocked the path in front of the father and daughter.

Su Mo's fingers, wreathed in black mist, stabbed into the newcomer's chest, while the sharp knife in the other person's hand similarly plunged deep into her heart.

"Li Qiuhua?!"

Su Yan recognized her almost instantly, her expression filled with shock.

The others were the same.

In Su Mo's wide-eyed pupils, she stared straight at the woman who had taken her life—it was actually her mother.

"You... how can it be you..."

Blood flowed incessantly from the corner of Li Qiuhua's mouth as she also looked at Su Mo.

At this daughter she had loved for a lifetime.

"You aren't my Momo... my Momo wouldn't turn into this ghostly thing..."

The broken words completely enraged Su Mo. With a roar, she wrenched her fingers out of Li Qiuhua's body.

Li Qiuhua collapsed directly to the ground. Her eyes held only Su Mo. "Momo, it's Mom's fault for not teaching you well... Mom is willing to die with you... Momo, come back..."

Her words were thick with tears, regret, and pain.

Su Yan never imagined that Li Qiuhua could go to such lengths for Su Mo. Even if this mother and daughter had brought this upon themselves, she still didn't want to see such a scene.

Su Mo wanted to do something more, but her body no longer had the strength to support itself.

Li Qiuhua's falling tears made her heart tremble. She couldn't understand why this woman had to drag her down every single time!

"Ah!!" With a roar of resentment, Su Mo closed her eyes for good.

Li Qiuhua's blood pooled on the ground. With a lingering gaze, she looked toward the unconscious Su Jianguo and forced herself to crawl toward him.

At this moment, Su Yan did not stop her.

Li Qiuhua's bloodied hands carefully grasped Su Jianguo's wrist, feeling the man's final warmth.

"Jianguo... I don't regret... marrying you..."

Before her voice could even fade, she breathed her last.

"Second Aunt!" Su Yao rushed over to check on Li Qiuhua.

A few seconds later, he shook his head toward Su Yan.

No one had expected it to end like this.

"Yan Yan, leave this to me to handle. Take Second Uncle to the hospital first." Su Yao had no time for grief and immediately reminded Su Yan.

In truth, he didn't know Su Jianguo's condition either—could the hospital even save him?

Su Yan nodded, casting one last look at Li Qiuhua in the pool of blood before leaving.

Su Jianguo was rushed to the hospital. After a round of emergency treatment, the doctors reached only one conclusion.

His life was saved, but it was impossible to predict when he would ever wake up.

Su Yan stood outside the Intensive Care Unit, watching Su Jianguo through the window, covered in various tubes.

It was all because of her that her father had ended up like this.

"Su Yan, you have to pull yourself together. Uncle Su definitely wouldn't want you to lose your spirit because of him." Ma Chulong and his sister, Ma Chulan, comforted her from the side.

"Actually, before today, I didn't have much feeling toward my father. From the day I became self-aware, I had no relatives by my side, and I had long since grown used to such a life. But when he collapsed in front of me, my heart still ached. I had always kept what I was doing a secret from him—the secret of my eyes. It turns out he knew everything."

Su Yan's voice was very soft, as if she were merely talking to herself.

"That is kinship. It is woven into our very bones and blood and cannot be severed. Your father loves you more than you imagine," Ma Chulong said with absolute certainty.

Su Jianguo was even willing to give up his life just to wake her up. If Su Jianguo hadn't been there today, what she had to endure would likely have been even more perilous.

Su Yan said nothing, but her gaze toward Su Jianguo became even more tender.

"So, what are your plans next? Will you stay by Uncle Su's side constantly?" Ma Chulong asked proactively, hoping to distract her so she wouldn't be too self-reproachful.

Furthermore, the masked man had died so thoroughly that even if the Feng family wanted to pursue the matter, it would be impossible to trace it back to her in the short term.

She would be safe for at least a while.

Su Yan withdrew her gaze, a flash of gloom passing through her lowered eyelids.

"Once Father's condition stabilizes, I need to go to the Capital."

First to No. 76 Yongxiang Road, and then to the Feng family in Lingnan.

The Feng family had harmed her father and Ghost Shadow; that debt would naturally be collected.

(End of Chapter)