Transmigration; Married to My Ex-Fiancé's Uncle-Chapter 278; Arrival of the Celestial Mother
"Her vitals are critically low. Heart rate is barely forty, blood pressure is dangerously low, and her breathing is shallow. She needs a hospital, immediately. I can’t...."
"Do what you can here," Lu Yuze interrupted. "She can’t be moved right now."
The doctor opened his mouth to argue, saw the expression on Lu Yuze’s face, and wisely closed it again. He began unpacking his medical supplies, setting up an IV line, and preparing emergency medications.
But everyone in the room knew that mortal medicine wouldn’t be enough. This was a spiritual affliction, a celestial poison, and it would require a celestial cure.
Minutes passed. Then an hour.
The lady continued her transfer, sweat beading on her forehead, her breathing becoming labored once more. She was giving everything, every drop of life force she’d recovered, every ounce of strength Shuyin had restored to her, she poured it all back into her daughter.
The doctor had done what he could: IV fluids, medications to support blood pressure and heart function, and oxygen through a nasal cannula. But he stood back now, watching helplessly as something beyond his understanding unfolded.
Mei had moved to support the lady, seeing her strength failing. "My lady, please. You’re going to kill yourself."
"I told you," the lady said, her voice barely a whisper now, "I don’t care."
Lu Yuze knelt on Shuyin’s other side, one hand clasping hers, willing her to feel his presence, to know she wasn’t alone. "Come on," he murmured. "Fight it. I know you can. You’re stronger than any poison, stronger than any curse. You’ve already proven that." 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
Shuyin’s fingers twitched in his hand.
It was tiny, barely perceptible, but everyone saw it.
"Again," the lady urged, pouring more energy. "Fight, baby. Find your way back to us."
Another twitch. Then Shuyin’s eyelids fluttered.
"That’s it," Lu Yuze’s voice was thick with emotion. "Wake up. Come back."
Shuyin’s eyes cracked open, just barely, just enough to see the faces hovering above her. Her mother, tears streaming down her face, hands glowing silver. Lu Yuze, holding her hand like a lifeline, his eyes red-rimmed.
She tried to speak, but only blood bubbled from her lips.
"Shh, don’t talk," her mother said softly. "Save your strength. You need to fight the poison from inside. I’m giving you everything I have, but you have to use it to drive the poison out. Do you understand?"
Shuyin managed the tiniest nod.
"Good. Good girl." The lady smiled through her tears. "You’re so strong. So much stronger than I ever was. You can do this. I know you can."
But Shuyin could feel it, her mother’s life force flowing into her, yes, but at a terrible cost. Her mother was fading, giving up her own recently restored vitality, sacrificing herself just as Shuyin had done.
History repeating. An endless cycle of sacrifice.
No, Shuyin thought with sudden, fierce clarity. Not like this. I didn’t save her just to let her die for me.
She was inside her own body now, consciousness turning inward, and she could see the Soul-Severing Poison clearly, black tendrils wrapped around her soul, trying to pull it free from her flesh. The poison was strong, relentless, and designed to be unstoppable.
But Shuyin had her mother’s life force flowing through her now, mixing with what remained of her own power. Silver and gold, intertwining, creating something stronger than either alone.
Mother and daughter. Two halves of the same soul.
She grabbed hold of those black tendrils and began to burn them.
In the physical world, Shuyin’s body suddenly convulsed violently.
"Hold her!" the doctor shouted, moving to keep her from injuring herself.
Lu Yuze pinned her shoulders gently but firmly while the lady maintained her hands on Shuyin’s chest, never breaking the connection, even as her own body swayed with weakness.
Inside, Shuyin was waging war.
She took the combined power, her golden celestial fire and her mother’s silver light, and weaponized it. Every tendril of poison she burned away screamed, fought back, tried to dig deeper. But she was relentless.
She had endured cruelty. Had survived assassination attempts. Had lived through betrayals and losses that would have broken lesser beings. She had crossed realms, learned to suppress her power, learned to live as something she wasn’t, and learned to endure.
She was her mother’s daughter, and she. Did. Not. Quit.
One by one, she ripped the poison’s tendrils away from her soul, burning them to ash, destroying them so completely they could never regenerate.
Her body convulsed again, harder this time. Blood erupted from her mouth, spraying across the floor, across Lu Yuze’s shirt. But this blood was different, streaked with black, carrying the remnants of poison being expelled.
"She’s purging it," Mei breathed, recognition dawning. "The princess is forcing the poison out."
More convulsions. More blood, each expulsion darker than the last, thick with dissolved poison.
The doctor looked horrified. "She’s hemorrhaging... we need to stop this..." He was truly confused with these people not understanding them at all.
"No," the lady said firmly, despite her own failing strength. "This is how celestial healing works. Let her finish."
Inside, Shuyin found the last tendril, the deepest one, wrapped directly around the core of her soul. This one was the strongest, the most stubborn, and removing it would hurt more than anything she’d ever experienced.
She didn’t hesitate.
She grabbed it with both spiritual hands and ripped it free.
The scream that tore from her physical body was inhuman, a sound of agony so profound it seemed to shake the very foundations of the mansion. Every window in the sitting room cracked. The chandelier swayed violently.
And then blood, so much blood, poured from her mouth in a violent torrent, black as ink, carrying with it every last trace of the Soul-Severing Poison.
When it finally stopped, when the last of the poison had been expelled, Shuyin’s body went completely limp.
For a terrible moment, there was absolute silence.
The doctor pressed his stethoscope to her chest, his face grave....
