Chapter 118
Chapter 118
Xia Sheng turned her head and looked at Madam Sun’s meek, compromising expression. For a moment, she seemed to see a shadow of Fang Rong from the past, and she couldn’t help sighing. In the end, she withdrew her spell.
Whatever. The boy was already being haunted by Wraiths. Even if she didn’t deal with him herself, Xuanxuan probably didn’t have many days left to live.
When Xia Sheng lifted the curse on Xuanxuan, he had already bitten a chunk of flesh right off Old Madam Sun’s hand.
Once the pain in his body vanished, Xuanxuan’s eyes cleared. But when he looked at the wound on his grandmother’s hand, there wasn’t the slightest trace of guilt in them. Instead, he glared furiously at Xia Sheng. “Ugly woman, what the hell did you just do to me!? Fuck your-! You black-hearted, big-breasted woman!”
The moment he opened his mouth, it was nothing but filthy language. Madam Sun quickly snapped, “Enough! Stop talking! You were the one who started by being rude!”
It was obvious Xuanxuan had been spoiled rotten by his grandmother. He didn’t listen to his mother at all and kept spewing one insult after another.
Xia Sheng’s expression turned colder and colder. She walked straight to the hospital bed and slapped him across the face.
Madam Sun’s heart ached when she saw her son get hit, but she didn’t try to stop it.
Old Madam Sun had been baring her teeth from the pain in her hand, but the second she saw her grandson get slapped, she immediately shouted at Xia Sheng, “What are you doing!? You’re not allowed to touch my grandson!”
As she spoke, Old Madam Sun lunged at Xia Sheng.
Xia Sheng froze her in place with a spell.
After being stunned for a few seconds from the slap, Xuanxuan quickly came back to his senses and resumed hurling every bit of trash talk he could at Xia Sheng.
And every time he cursed once, Xia Sheng gave him another slap.
“Ugly wom-”
Smack!
“Fuck your mothe-”
Smack!
“Stop hitting me, you bitch!”
Smack!
“I-I beg you, please stop hitting me…”
By the end of it, Xuanxuan’s face was swollen from all the slaps, and tears streamed nonstop down his cheeks. He didn’t dare say another dirty word.
Only then did Xia Sheng finally stop.
At the side, Old Madam Sun saw that her grandson’s face had been swollen from the beating and angrily said to Madam Sun, “Why are you just standing there like an idiot? Xuanxuan’s being bullied, and you’re his mother-aren’t you going to do anything!? We’ve supported you all these years for nothing!”
She had said our family. Clearly, that family did not include Madam Sun.
A wave of desolation rose in Madam Sun’s heart. “Mom, Xuanxuan really was in the wrong just now…”
“How was Xuanxuan in the wrong? This woman is the one who’s gone crazy!” After saying that, she turned to Sun Yang. “Just look at the kind of Celestial Master you brought here! She’s obviously a lunatic! Why aren’t you throwing her out already!?”
As the middleman who had brought Xia Sheng over, Sun Yang was in an awkward position.
He turned to look at Xia Sheng. “Little Celestial Master…”
Xia Sheng didn’t make things difficult for him. “Let’s go back.”
Seeing that Xia Sheng didn’t seem too angry, Sun Yang let out a sigh of relief. “Alright, I’ll take you back.”
As he spoke, the two of them prepared to leave.
But Madam Sun called out to Xia Sheng, “Little Celestial Master, you came today to examine my son. Can you tell what illness he has?”
After what had just happened, Madam Sun was now basically certain that Xia Sheng truly had some ability.
If possible, she still hoped Xia Sheng could help her son.
Expressionless, Xia Sheng said, “He’s about to die. At most, seven days. Start preparing the funeral arrangements.”
Madam Sun was shocked, and the blow of the news made her body sway. “Little Celestial Master, is what you’re saying true? My son only has seven days left?”
By the time Madam Sun finished speaking, her voice was already trembling, and tears were falling despite her efforts to hold them back.
But after hearing Xia Sheng’s words, Old Madam Sun only felt that she was cursing her grandson. She instantly flew into a rage. “You wretched girl, fine, forget what you just did to me and Xuanxuan, but now you’re actually cursing him!
“Our Xuanxuan is perfectly healthy, so stop standing there spouting doom and bringing bad luck on people!”
Compared to Old Madam Sun’s sharp, venomous scolding, Madam Sun only cared whether her son could survive. She looked at Xia Sheng and asked earnestly, “Little Celestial Master, since you can tell how many days my son has left, is there any way you can help him live a little longer?”
“Yes.”
Madam Sun was overjoyed at Xia Sheng’s answer, but Xia Sheng’s very next sentence sent her heart plunging right back to rock bottom.
“I can save him, but I won’t.”
“Why?” Madam Sun asked anxiously. “I know Xuanxuan was rude just now, and that was his fault. I’ll apologize to you on his behalf. Please help Xuanxuan…”
Madam Sun was so frantic she looked ready to drop to her knees.
“Spineless fool! You actually believe this little lunatic?” Old Madam Sun snapped viciously from the side. “She’s nothing but a Charlatan, a rotten, black-hearted piece of trash! Why are you begging her? If you ask me, she’s saying all this just to swindle money out of us!”
Xia Sheng shot Old Madam Sun a cool glance. “Your driver’s child is mentally disabled, isn’t he?”
When Sun Yang first heard Xia Sheng say that, he thought she was insulting someone. But Old Madam Sun’s expression changed at once, and even her voice jumped several pitches. “What driver? What mentally disabled child? I have no idea what you’re talking about!”
Seeing that Old Madam Sun’s reaction was off, Madam Sun sensed that something was strange and asked Xia Sheng, “Little Celestial Master, why did you suddenly bring up our driver’s child? Does my son’s condition have something to do with Haohao?”
Haohao was the driver’s son.
He had congenital developmental issues and was mentally impaired.
Because the driver worked for the Sun Family, the boy often came by to play and was good friends with Xuanxuan.
Xia Sheng asked, “Haohao went missing, didn’t he?”
Madam Sun nodded. “I didn’t expect you to be able to divine even that.”
Haohao had disappeared a month ago. During this time, Uncle Liu, the driver, and the police had both been searching for him.
Madam Sun had also hired a private investigator to help look, but there had been no results.
Xia Sheng reminded her, “Think about it carefully. Didn’t your son start having episodes only after Haohao went missing?”
Madam Sun thought about it and realized the timing really did match.
But what did that mean?
She still wanted to ask more, but Old Madam Sun spoke up again. “You wretched girl, I told you to get out. Are you deaf!? If you don’t leave right now, I’ll call security!”
This time, there was a note of urgency in Old Madam Sun’s voice, as if she desperately wanted to stop Xia Sheng from saying any more.
Ignoring Old Madam Sun’s shrill outburst, Xia Sheng merely cast her a cold look and said flatly, “Those who harm others eventually harm themselves. Once your grandson dies, you won’t live much longer either.”
With that, and without sparing Old Madam Sun’s livid face another glance, Xia Sheng turned and left.
Old Madam Sun was still shouting after her, “That wretched girl is spouting utter nonsense! Even if you die, I still won’t die!
“You bullied my grandson like this today, so just wait to be sued!”