CHAPTER 31: CHAPTER 31: UGLY PEOPLE CAUSE TROUBLE

"Mom, it’s not your fault!" Xia Mian quickly explained, "Someone is trying to harm us!"

Song Juan’s expression was bleak, her eyes helpless, "Mianmian, I almost killed you just now!"

Xia Mian softened her tone as much as possible, "Mom, you’ve been poisoned by a Gu. You were bewitched by the Gu Worm, and none of your actions are your own. Don’t worry, I’ll solve it."

As Xia Mian said this, Song Juan’s eyes suddenly fixed on her, "You will solve it?"

Xia Mian’s heart skipped a beat, and she immediately realized something was wrong.

"Mianmian, are you hiding something from me?" Song Juan narrowed her eyes, her gaze suddenly becoming sharp.

Her daughter was an innocent little princess before the car accident, but after it, she seemed to have suddenly grown up.

Initially, she thought Xia Mian was stimulated by Xia Jianguo’s affair.

But later things grew more and more beyond her comprehension.

Kang Cheng knelt to her, Old Li knelt to her, and the high-ranking young master from the Lu Family followed her daughter Mianmian around like a shadow...

Mianmian would even occasionally find ways to get rid of her mother.

She is naive, but not stupid. Xia Mian is hiding something from her.

"Are you still my Mianmian?" Song Juan’s eyes bore into Xia Mian as if trying to see through her.

Xia Mian pressed her lips tightly together, matching Song Juan’s probing, suspicious, and guarded gaze, and suddenly smiled, "Yes, no matter what I become, I am still your daughter."

Upon hearing this, Song Juan suddenly burst into tears.

She cried sorrowfully, her tears falling like broken pearls, unstoppable, crashing to the ground.

"Mom won’t ask anymore, Mom won’t ask anymore, no matter what happens to you, as long as you’re my Mianmian, Mom will always love and protect you!" Song Juan wept into her hands.

Xia Mian smiled through tears, "Mom, I’ve once been a person who died, during the time I was in a coma, I had a long, long dream..."

Xia Mian no longer concealed anything from Song Juan and recounted everything she had experienced in the form of a dream.

Song Juan listened and didn’t come to her senses for a long time.

"Learned from a dream?" Song Juan chuckled, "The world is vast and full of wonders, maybe this is a blessing in disguise for you!"

As they talked, the takeout was delivered.

Xia Mian took the takeout and went with Song Juan to freshen up in the bathroom before eating together.

While eating, Xia Mian paid special attention to Song Juan’s state and found her appetite had increased significantly. She barely touched the two takeout orders, yet Song Juan still felt unsatisfied.

Xia Mian narrowed her eyes slightly, understanding that the Gu Worm inside Song Juan was causing this.

After finishing their meal, Xia Mian and Song Juan returned home together.

The company matters had been sorted out for now, and Xia Mian wasn’t in a hurry to take over. The priority was to remove the Gu Worm from Song Juan’s body.

On their way home, Xia Mian made a special trip to a traditional medicine shop to buy some mugwort.

Back at home, Xia Mian instructed Song Juan to take a bath first, while she prepared a fire basin, talisman paper, and various poisonous insects.

When Song Juan finished her bath and came out, Xia Mian had just about completed her preparations for removing the poison.

She first placed the various poisonous insects into an empty vessel and then cut her own finger to drip a few drops of blood inside.

Seeing Xia Mian cut her finger, Song Juan couldn’t help but feel heartache, "Mianmian, what are you doing?"

Xia Mian shook her head at Song Juan, signaling her not to speak.

Then, she lit the mugwort and threw it into the fire basin.

Xia Mian’s blood seemed to have an extremely deadly allure to the insects; within moments, several poisonous insects were fighting each other.

Just as Song Juan was puzzled, a wave of nausea hit her throat, and she instinctively opened her mouth as a black shadow swiftly flew into the vessel with the poisonous insects.

With quick reflexes, Xia Mian promptly inverted the vessel over the fire basin after seeing the black shadow fly out.

The burning mugwort made a sizzling sound, and the sharp noise from the insects scratching the vessel’s surface made Song Juan’s skin crawl.

Xia Mian exhaled slowly, staring intently at the mugwort that turned to ashes in the fire basin. The once bright vessel now charred black. Only then did she turn to Song Juan, "Mom, you’re fine now. In the future, stay away from the Xia Family, and don’t let them near you again."

The experiences of that day were horrifying, and Song Juan quickly nodded, "Don’t worry, if they dare to cause trouble again, I’ll send them to the detention center for a few days!"

Xia Mian was silent for a while, then said, "This won’t work in the long run, it’s better to hire some bodyguards to protect you!"

The Xia Family wouldn’t give up, and while Song Juan wasn’t afraid of talking, she feared they would resort to violence.

"Hmm, that’s a good idea, I’ll check out a bodyguard company this afternoon!" Song Juan was also scared by the antics of the Xia Family.

If it were just directed at her, it wouldn’t matter, but making her lose her senses and harm Xia Mian was something she could never accept.

At the same time, in the old Xia Family house in the countryside, a middle-aged man with a bushy beard was drinking tea when he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, staining the tea with red.

His complexion became visibly pale as paper.

"Master!" Yu Hongmei brought water for the master, only to see him cough out blood from a sip of tea, changing her expression instantly.

Shi Kui, pallid and weak, glanced at his teacup and murmured, "My Gu was broken."

There is a connection between the Gu Worm and the one raising it. Once the Gu Worm dies, the raiser also suffers backlash.

"Broken? How could that be?!" Yu Hongmei screamed incredulously.

Shi Kui was the expert the Xia Family had painstakingly found!

It had just made Song Juan make a couple of scenes and now someone broke the Gu?

"There is someone powerful on her side; I’m no match." Shi Kui said responsibly without boasting, "Find someone else better than me!"

The opponent’s means were sophisticated, and continuing to confront them worried Shi Kui that he would suffer greatly.

"Master! We’re just ordinary people; we can’t reach your level of resources. Where would we find another expert..." Yu Hongmei stopped Shi Kui from leaving, pleading, "Master, please, help us find someone, and when it’s done, we surely won’t forget your benefit..."

Yu Hongmei sincerely didn’t want Song Juan to live well.

Why should Song Juan, a woman with a worthless daughter, inherit the massive assets of the Song Group?

Han Xi was pregnant with Xia Jianguo’s child!

Han Xi checked, and it was a boy!

The Song Group should be left to Han Xi’s child in the future!

Otherwise, why would Han Xi give birth to a child for the Xia Family?

Because they think it’s a dream?