Surveillance equipment was installed everywhere in the Lu family's manor, but the letter seemed to appear out of thin air.

The letter contains a prescription that can alleviate Chu Xiao's symptoms. He should drink it every three months and must drink it for five consecutive days.

But this drug only has an inhibitory effect, treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and can also produce drug resistance.

The sender put forward three conditions. If the Lu family can meet them, he will provide a cure for the strange disease in 2024.

"First, you and Chu Xiao cannot return to the country during this period."

"Second, your granddaughter is still alive and can survive at least to adulthood, but you must give up the search for her within this week. Otherwise, her life will not be saved."

"Thirdly, I will send a second letter in the future, please check it carefully."

Lu Jianbai immediately asked someone to prepare a medicine according to the prescription. Chu Xiao was indeed much better after drinking it.

However, the letter clearly meant that Lu Jianbai should choose between Chu Xiao and Chu Yao.

If the search for Chu Yao is given up, Chu Xiao can recover at the age of twenty. On the contrary, Chu Xiao can only live until the age of twenty at most.

After much internal struggle, he finally made a decision over the weekend and asked the private investigators to stop searching.

Lu Jianbai had a trace of luck in his heart. If what the letter said was true, Chu Yao would be able to live to at least eighteen years old, and the deadline agreed with them would be only two years apart.

In two years, an adult girl will not encounter much danger.

It was nearly ten years later when I received the letter again.

For the past ten years, every time Lu Jianbai fell asleep, he would have nightmares, in which an innocent girl begged him for help.

He knew that he couldn't lie to himself.

The moment he made up his mind, it was equivalent to sentencing Chu Yao to death.

When he received the letter, he felt very calm, thinking that the sender was just asking for some more conditions.

There was only one photo in the letter. A girl in a loose school uniform was smiling shyly at the camera.

Lu Jianbai and his wife recognized at a glance that this was Chu Yao, their granddaughter, because she looked so similar to their daughter.

There is also a row of yellow words directly below the photo, which reads: ...The top ten senior high school students took a group photo in 2020. From left to right, they are: Chu Yao,...

This is undoubtedly a group photo. The sender did not want to reveal too much address information, so most of it was cut off.

She is really alive and her grades are good.

Lu Jianbai's wife cried out in distress. The girl was too thin, and the school uniform contained the cheapest shirt.

She was not living well. While all her relatives were enjoying a wealthy life, she could only wear a piece of clothing worth more than ten yuan when taking pictures.

It can even be said that Chu Xiao's life was bought with her pain.

That night, Lu Jianbai seriously called Chu Xiao over and handed him the photo.

Chu Xiao, who was originally joking and not too serious, was stunned. Due to the living environment, Chu Yao didn't look very similar to him, but how could he not recognize her.

He can often feel emotions that are not his own. He feels sad for no reason even though he is playing games, or he suddenly feels happy while he is in class.

When Chu Xiao was a child, he didn't understand and thought he was sick, so he would have emotions that were inconsistent with his state of mind.

Later, he suddenly thought, could it be from his sister?

It was like another him in the world. Even though he was thousands of kilometers away, her emotions could still be conveyed to his heart.

Chu Xiao often began to guess that she was a little depressed at the moment. Was she being punished by the teacher or bullied by her classmates?

She seems very happy today. Is she talking about her boyfriend?

He found that Chu Yao's emotion was very short-lived and not very intense. It seemed that it only lasted for a few seconds.

When Chu Xiao got the photo, what he thought was that she was so happy last week because she won first place.

Chu Xiao couldn't help but poke the face in the photo with his finger. He knew that girls in China considered thinness to be beautiful, but Chu Yao was too thin, as if the wind could blow her away.

The Lu family later discovered the cause of Chu Xiao's strange disease. He had accidentally eaten the seeds of a poisonous fruit, and the solution was to eat the flowers of the poisonous fruit again.

But they could hardly find where the poisonous fruit called "Five Elements Fruit" grew, let alone find the flower used as an antidote.

But now, with the hard-earned petal placed on the dining table, Lu Jianbai and his wife only felt heartache and guilt.

They had never really done anything for Chu Yao, but she asked someone to deliver the antidote that could save Chu Xiao's life.

They really owed her so much. They didn't dare to think about how a poor girl could obtain something that even the Lu family couldn't find. How much hardship she had suffered and how much injustice she had suffered.

They don't know.

……

Istituto Marangoni Art.

Located in the world's fashion center, it is the first professional fashion art school recognized by the National Education Cup and has gathered many world-class masters.

Chu Mingjing studied for a master's degree at the Marangoni School of Art last year. Due to his excellent performance, the school invited him to stay at the school to teach after graduation.

According to Chu Mingyou's description, Chu Mingjing is a person who is hot on the outside and cold on the inside. Although he has a good relationship with everyone, he is actually a very cold person.

Unlike Chu Mingyou and Chu Mingxiu who were obsessed with investigating the cause of their mother's death, he didn't care about the Chu family's family affairs at all.

In recent years, he has been staying abroad and has never come back once.

After getting off the plane, Chu Yao went straight to Marangoni's art exhibition hall on the twelfth floor.

She checked the information while waiting for the flight. Today, a creative fashion show will be held in the art exhibition hall, and one of the teachers and judges will be Chu Mingjing.

When Chu Yao entered the first floor, the elevator door was already halfway closed.

Fortunately, the girl inside had a keen eye and took the opportunity to press the door button and said, "Come quickly."

She spoke Mandarin and must be an international student.

"Thank you." Chu Yao said. She saw that the button for the twelfth floor of the elevator had been pressed.

The girl asked her curiously: "You are not from our college, are you? I know all the international students in our college, but I have never seen you."

"Well, I'm here to find someone." Chu Yao replied.

The girl then said: "Who are you looking for? I will take you to find him later."

Chu Yao smiled and shook his head, "No need, I know where he is."

"Oh... okay then."

The elevator slowly rose, and the girl suddenly said, "Did you know that the elevator in our school is actually haunted?"

As soon as she finished speaking, with a soft "pop" sound, the elevator fell into darkness in a cooperative manner.

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