Chapter 2: Awakening

  She rolled over and finally woke up, her eyelids not fully open yet, but she felt a hand on her forehead, followed by a familiar voice that was all too familiar.

  "Wake up, wake up, you've finally woken up! You're going to scare Daddy to death!" Seeing his daughter wake up, Han Feng finally let out a sigh of relief, and for the moment, he didn't care about any blame, his tone was full of concern.

  After a moment of daze, Han Jiangxue finally discovered that she had not been killed by Liu's family, and her father was standing alive in front of her. Although she didn't know how she escaped, thinking back to everything she experienced before, she couldn't help but burst into tears with a loud wail.

  "Dad, daughter just almost was..." She sat up with a start, crying and wanting to tell her father all the truth she knew before, but didn't expect to be interrupted by her father before she could say anything.

  "Alright, alright, I already know. Isn't this over now? You're really too unreasonable, a young lady like you making a scene with several men over something trivial and not knowing when to stop. And then you even dared to provoke the second son of the Zhuang family! Even if he did intentionally knock you off your horse, it's still because you asked for trouble in the first place. If anyone is to blame, it can only be yourself!"

  The sound of the Korean wind gradually became angry, seeing that his daughter was not seriously injured this time, and his tone naturally became severe, scolding: "Do you think I'm just like your big brother, only knowing how to spoil you, listening to everything you say? Talking about your big brother makes me even angrier, this dead kid couldn't be stopped earlier, rushing out like he had no life, who knows what kind of trouble he's going to get me into again..."

  As she listened on, Han Jiangxue couldn't help but freeze up, feeling more and more that something was off.

  What Dad just said were all things that happened two years ago. That time, I was knocked off my horse by Li Xingming and fainted, scaring the whole family to death.

  It was because of this that the elder brother ran to beat Li Xingming almost to death, and Li Xingming nearly lost his life. The matter became irretrievable, and the elder brother had to disable one of his hands to dispel the anger of the Zhuang family's ancestral hall. Later, although his hand healed, he could no longer hold a sword or practice martial arts, and couldn't even lift some slightly heavy things by himself.

  The elder brother, who had always been proud and arrogant, became self-abandoned and disheartened, and his father was increasingly disappointed in him. Half a year later, he was sent to the Han family's ancestral home for introspection, but soon after, news came that the elder brother had taken his own life.

  But aren't these all old things that have already happened? Why does Father seem to be completely unaware of Liu's killing her, yet is talking about these things instead?

  She carefully looked at her father in front of her and only then discovered that since the death of her older brother, her father's hair had turned white overnight by more than half, but now it was completely gone.

  She quickly looked around and found that all the furnishings in the house had changed back to what they were like two years ago when her older brother was still alive, even the stupid parrot that had long since died was still perched in its cage.

  Everything was so bizarre as to be unbelievable, yet it felt real enough to make her understand that it absolutely wasn't some kind of dream!

  She didn't die! Not only did she not die, but she miraculously returned to two years ago!

  It was like this, she went back to two years ago, at that time her elder brother had not died, Liu's mother and daughter had not revealed even a hint of their true nature, and she was still just that ignorant and naive young lady!

  After confirming this, Han Jiangxue suddenly had no surprise and fear at all, but instead a strong joy and excitement firmly occupied all emotions.

  It no longer matters what happened to her, what's important is that Da Ge is still here, Liu's conspiracy has not been fully revealed, and the fate of everything can still be changed!

  "Xue Er, are you okay?" Seeing his own daughter wake up and be puzzled, not only did her expression change unpredictably, but also she hadn't spoken a word for so long, completely different from before. Han Feng suddenly became worried again, thinking to himself that this girl wouldn't have damaged her brain, would she?

  "Dad, I'm fine now, much better. Mom... didn't she go get a doctor for me? And my sister, is she still in the palace studying?" Han Jiangxue quickly suppressed her overwhelming joy and sorrow, calmly asking her father.

  From today on, she is no longer the little girl who was spoiled by people and didn't understand anything! From today on, she is both a devil who ran out of hell to take revenge and a guardian who changes her fate regardless of everything to protect her loved ones!

  After seeing Han Jiang Xue return to normal, Han Feng didn't think much of it and just thought that she was still a bit disoriented from waking up.

  He nodded and said: "Yes, your mother just saw you fainting all the time, so anxious that she cried, and personally invited a doctor to come and diagnose you. Your sister..."

  Before she could finish speaking, Han Jiangxue saw Liu Shi bring in Wu Daifu, a famous doctor from the capital, hastily.

  Everything is exactly the same as it happened before!

  But this time, she won't be blinded by anyone!

  "It's great, Xue Er finally woke up!" Seeing Han Jiangxue wake up, Liu was overjoyed and rushed over in three strides, sat down beside the bed, and reached out to hold Han Jiangxue's hand as if to comfort her.

  At the moment Liu appeared, Han Jiangxue almost had an uncontrollable urge to rush forward and strangle this hypocritical poisonous woman to death. She dug her fingertips into her flesh, using the intense pain to forcibly suppress that surge of hatred, struggling not to lose control of herself.

  "I'm fine now, I just fainted for a moment." She quietly avoided Liu's outstretched hand and turned to look at Dr. Wu on the side.

  "Mr. Wu, you're also late! Fortunately, I'm lucky and nothing serious happened to me. If I had been waiting for you to save my life, I'm afraid I would have run out of breath by the time you arrived!"

  As soon as these words came out, Liu was stunned for a moment. Although Han Jiangxue's words were strange to the doctor, they seemed to have a hint of implication that she had deliberately delayed treatment and sought Wu Daifu from afar.

  She wasn't sure if Han Jiangxue was being deliberate or not, and just as she was about to speak up to smooth things over, Wu Dafu surprisingly didn't show any anger towards Han Jiangxue. Instead, he found a place to sit down and chimed in, "This is exactly what I wanted to say! Who knows how your family thinks, but at such an urgent time, you're still being so picky? Even if you think my medical skills are good, can't you find someone else to take a look first? Saving lives is like racing against the heavens, where does this kind of delay come from?"

  Han Feng seemed to be a little scared, and he couldn't help but look at Liu Shi, with a hint of dissatisfaction in his eyes. At first, he didn't expect Liu Shi to run so far to find Wu Daifu either.

  Liu's family saw the situation, hastily stood up and said with great regret: "Alas, it was all my fault. In a hurry, I became muddled-headed, only thinking of finding the best doctor to save Xue'er, but forgot everything else. Fortunately, Xue'er is blessed with good fortune and didn't have an accident, otherwise, I would be...

  Before she could finish speaking, Liu was already in tears, choking with sobs. Anyone who saw her would not have any reason to doubt anything. Even Han Jiangxue couldn't help but feel a sense of wonder, if he hadn't seen Liu's true face before, he really wouldn't have thought of it that way.

  Seeing Liu's self-reproach, Han Feng immediately softened and repeatedly advised: "Alright, alright, Xue'er is fine, don't cry anymore, don't let Dr. Wu see the joke."

  Liu hastily stopped her awkwardness, looking extremely embarrassed, but then seemed to think of something and said with concern: "Since Dr. Wu has been invited, let's ask him to give Xue a thorough examination, after all, she fell off the horse, can't be careless..."

  "No need, if anything were to happen, I would have died long ago. If Mother is worried, just thank Doctor Wu properly and send him back personally." Han Jiangxue directly interrupted Liu's proposal and intentionally emphasized the phrase "worried" before getting out of bed and ignoring Liu completely.

  Although she really wanted to slap Liu's hypocritical and vicious face, she knew it wasn't the right time yet. Without absolute evidence, not only would she fail to convince her father, but she would also end up alerting the snake in the grass.

  What's more, she now has something even more important to attend to, she must hurry and stop her elder brother from bringing about a great calamity! Changing her elder brother's fate begins at this very moment!

  Liu was stunned, unsure of what to do for the first time. She had never thought that Han Jiangxue would speak like this, although this girl had always been ill-tempered, but she had never been so towards her, could it be that she had fallen and was in a bad mood, which is why she was taking it out on her too?

  "Xue Er, where are you going?" Han Feng saw his daughter wake up with a bad attitude and immediately want to run out again, he was so angry that he didn't know when this child would ever understand things and let people worry less!

  "Dad, don't worry, this time I'm not going out to cause trouble!" Han Jiangxue explained extremely seriously to her father while casually adjusting her clothes, "If I didn't go to stop him, big brother will definitely get into big trouble!"

  Upon hearing this, Han Feng suddenly remembered Han Jing, who had stormed out earlier in a rage to avenge his sister.

  "Do you know where your elder brother is?" Han Feng didn't know about Han Jing's temper, and at this time the only one who could hold back that disobedient son was herself, so she hadn't planned to stop him.

  "Don't worry, Father, I'll definitely bring back Big Brother safely!" Han Jiangxue didn't have any extra time to linger and said as she rushed out of the room.