Rebirth Counterattack with Space

Finally, everyone left, and only Second Uncle Lu, his wife, Lu Aiguo, Xia Yuan, Shitou, and a few others remained in the Lu Family’s living room.

"Will Xiaoyun truly be alright?"

Ever since Shitou had stepped forward and spoken those words, Xia Yuan had been holding back, assuming they were meant to comfort everyone.

"She will definitely be fine. If something were wrong, her complexion wouldn’t still look so good. We were just panicked before," Shitou took a deep breath, "You all should go and rest. I’ll stay and watch over Xiaoyun."

"You didn’t sleep all night yesterday, you should go to sleep and I’ll watch over her. I can’t fall asleep now anyway," Xia Yuan said, looking worriedly at Shitou, fearing he wouldn’t be able to endure.

"Right, the two of us will watch over Xiaoyun, you get some sleep first, and when you wake up you can replace us," Lu Aiguo also nodded, "Even if you can hold up, you can’t afford to look too exhausted tomorrow."

Shitou hesitated, it was one thing to guess, but he couldn’t feel a hint of sleepiness until Xiaoyun truly woke up.

"Didn’t you also say that Xiaoyun will be fine? Let’s settle on this," Second Uncle Lu sighed as he looked at Shitou.

"Yeah, don’t collapse from exhaustion when Xiaoyun wakes up. If she can wake up tomorrow night, you need to appear before everyone in high spirits, and you can’t look too haggard," Second Aunt Lu added her persuasion.

"...Okay." After much consideration, Shitou finally agreed.

"Aiguo, do you have that medicine? Give him one," Second Uncle Lu asked Lu Aiguo.

"I don’t need it. If necessary, I have my own supply," Shitou declined, shaking his head.

Once he took that pill, he would sleep through the entire night, so Shitou planned to go back to his room and cultivate his spiritual power for a complete cycle, which would restore him more effectively than sleep. And then, he would be able to watch over Lu Yun again in the second half of the night.

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Lu Family villa.

The group returned to the villa and immediately had Lu Jinsheng follow Xu Liang back to the courtyard. They also reminded him to make sure to call home and let everyone know he was safe after he arrived.

Watching the car drive away, everyone instructed the villa’s butler to knock on everyone’s door to inform them once Lu Jinsheng reported back safely. After receiving confirmation, each went back to their own rooms to wash up and rest.

After several hours of nervous anticipation at the courtyard, with everyone on edge, they all felt especially exhausted now.

"Mom, Dad, has Xiaoyun woken up yet?"

Gu Feng and Gu Meng followed Xia Na and Gu Tianming into their room, and the moment they entered, both couldn’t wait to ask.

"Not yet. Sigh, we don’t know how it came to this. Tomorrow is her engagement day with Shitou, and even if we can excuse their absence by saying the young couple isn’t well enough to make an appearance, what about the day after? It’s Xiaoyun’s birthday; surely we can’t say the same then?" Xia Na kept sighing as she spoke.

In fact, she couldn’t understand why her sister, brother-in-law, even her sister’s in-laws, Shitou’s grandparents, would oppose sending Xiaoyun to the hospital. Deep down, she actually agreed with Lu Aimei’s suggestion.

"Don’t be so pessimistic; who knows, she might wake up tonight or tomorrow," Gu Tianming hurriedly took over the conversation.

"I hope so," Xia Na leaned back on the living room sofa, closing her eyes, looking like she didn’t wish to say any more.

"..." Gu Feng and Gu Meng exchanged glances, both turning their eyes towards Gu Tianming.

Accordingly, Gu Tianming whispered the proposition by Lu Aimei to send Lu Yun to the hospital, which everyone disagreed with, and then relayed Shitou’s words to them once more.

"Could it be that sending her to the hospital now is considered inauspicious?" Gu Feng couldn’t help but speculate.

Yeah, that’s a possibility.

Gu Meng suddenly remembered his girlfriend Jiang Xiuwan’s father, who was particularly superstitious, so he nodded, seeming to agree that most business people are like that.

"Don’t talk nonsense, your little aunt and uncle are not that kind of people," Xia Na opened her eyes and shook her head, "Maybe it’s really like what Shitou said, Xiaoyun truly isn’t in any serious trouble, right? It’s late, all of you hurry back to your rooms and rest, I’m tired too and want to sleep."

"Oh, alright." Seeing that Xia Na and Gu Tianming indeed looked exhausted and couldn’t conceal it, Gu Feng and Gu Meng quickly agreed and also returned to their rooms.

Back in their room, they each lay down on their own single bed, and Gu Feng and Gu Meng felt a wave of sadness as they thought about Lu Yun’s unexplained coma.

"Xiaoyun hasn’t met Xiuwan yet, has she?" Lying there, Gu Meng looked at the plaster carvings on the ceiling, memories of his girlfriend Jiang Xiuwan creeping into his mind. She and her parents should have almost reached Capital City by now, right?

"What kind of talk is that? It’s as if... spit spit spit," Gu Feng spat a few times in annoyance, feeling like Gu Meng’s words were particularly jarring to the ear.

"I didn’t mean that." Gu Meng suddenly sat up, glaring at Gu Feng.

"Alright, alright, I admit I misspoke," Gu Feng didn’t want to argue with Gu Meng.

"You did misspeak," Gu Meng nearly spat out blood in frustration. Not only had Gu Feng misinterpreted his words, but even when he seemed to admit his mistake, the tone made it seem as though he, Gu Meng, was being unreasonable.

Gu Meng’s expression changed, his brother’s demeanor was strikingly similar to that of his new girlfriend.

He disliked that woman the moment he saw her, sensing she was particularly affected and usually so delicate—not at all like his Xiuwan, who was daring in love and forthright, utterly adorable. He always found her to be very fake, but his brother just fell for her act.

"Brother, have you been influenced by that Ming Danzhu and ended up ’poisoned’ too deeply?"

"Dan Dan might become your sister-in-law in the future. Can you show her a bit more respect?" Faced with his brother’s continuous criticism towards his girlfriend, Gu Feng felt completely helpless.

Back in the time of college entrance examinations, as their parents were often away in S City and rarely able to return to Haicheng, he and Gu Meng had grown up mostly apart from their parents, yearning for their presence. Finally, longing to be by their parents’ side, he and his brother had each applied to universities in S City in succession.

The two brothers being in the same university naturally grew familiar with each other’s girlfriends. However, Gu Meng for some reason took an inexplicable dislike to the girl he fancied, constantly bad-mouthing Dan Dan in front of him, fortunately, Dan Dan was tolerant...

He really didn’t understand what Gu Meng was being so critical about. Having been with his girlfriend Ming Danzhu for two years, he felt stuck in the middle for just as long: on one side was his girlfriend, on the other his brother. How was he to choose?

The brother was blood, of course, but the girlfriend was also someone he cared about.

"...Anyway, I still feel that Ming Danzhu is too fake, I don’t like her, she doesn’t suit you," Gu Meng paused, standing his ground.

"..."

Gu Feng was fuming but also knew that continuing this topic would lead nowhere, so he simply shut his mouth and chose not to continue.