Chapter 219: Chapter 200 A Legendary Birth
Dongfang Jing was born into the Dongfang Family in Jinnan City.
Born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she should have enjoyed endless wealth and glory like many other children of noble families.
But alas, heaven envied her beauty, and she was diagnosed with a rare disease right after birth. A mysterious elder once predicted:
If nothing unexpected happens, her life will forever pause at the tender age of twenty.
As Dongfang Jing’s parents, they naturally couldn’t accept that the child they carried for ten months would have her life halted at such a youthful age.
Since Dongfang Jing could remember, various strange medicines never stopped coming.
To cure Dongfang Jing’s disease, her parents took her to see all the renowned experts domestically and internationally, even to remote countryside doctors in the deep mountains.
However, every result was almost the same, as the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
It wasn’t until Dongfang Jing was eight years old, after having traveled every corner of the globe to no avail, that her parents finally realized: since the outcome couldn’t be changed, they should give Dongfang Jing a happy childhood before the bad news arrived.
From then on, Dongfang Jing finally lived a life of a normal person.
Such peaceful and happy life lasted only for a brief two years, just two years.
From the age of ten, Dongfang Jing began fainting inexplicably with no warning at all.
Sometimes she would faint while eating; suddenly collapse while walking;
other times while in the restroom;
and sometimes even in her dreams.
Upon noticing this condition, her parents once again embarked on a strenuous journey seeking medical help with her.
But this journey was no different from the arduous eight years they had already endured.
Two years of seeking medical help not only did not improve her condition, but with time, the fainting spells gradually increased in duration.
From just a few seconds at first, to several hours two years later.
In endless grief, Dongfang Jing’s parents had no choice but to resign to fate, taking Dongfang Jing to a holiday villa in downtown Jinnan City, and cared for her meticulously.
To prevent accidents from sudden fainting, Dongfang Jing was always accompanied by four agile female bodyguards and a medical professional wherever she went.
From that time on, every time Dongfang Jing went out, she was surrounded and protected.
Uninformed people might think Dongfang Jing was some famous actress.
As she grew older, Dongfang Jing gradually developed her own ideas.
She longed for a normal life like that of an ordinary person.
No need to be accompanied by a group of people who in the name of caring for her actually limited and protected her, making Dongfang Jing the focal point wherever she went.
Because of this, Dongfang Jing lost the freedom and peaceful life she desired.
The illness also meant that Dongfang Jing had no true friends in her life.
Looking back at her life, apart from those two years of happiness.
Dongfang Jing found herself questioning every night:
Why did I come to this world?
Why do I exist?
Many times, Dongfang Jing cursed the unfairness of heaven.
Some said, heaven gave Dongfang Jing extreme beauty but forgot to give her the body of a normal person.
Every time she heard this, Dongfang Jing could only silently weep alone in her room.
If given a choice, Dongfang Jing so wished to be an ordinary person, with a complete childhood and life.
Extreme beauty did not bring any color to Dongfang Jing’s life, but rather reflected regret and pity in those gazing eyes.
And now, all childhood memories were accompanied by medicine.
Striving to survive was just preparation for the ending of life at age twenty.
One cannot help but sigh: Perhaps Dongfang Jing’s life was destined to be a tragedy from the very beginning.
Until the age of nineteen, each fainting episode lasted for more than ten hours.
Almost half of each day, Dongfang Jing spent in bed.
Yet even so, her parents often took her traveling; while she was awake, she would see the great landscapes of the nation.
But during a trip to Brocade Manor, a coincidence unexpectedly altered Dongfang Jing’s predetermined life path.
While resting at a highway service area, Dongfang Jing felt uncomfortable on her way back to the car to retrieve a coat.
At that moment, a small truck parked next to her suddenly started and rolled back slightly, causing Dongfang Jing to stumble and tumble into the cargo compartment, where she fainted.
The driver was unaware of what happened behind him and drove away amidst the roaring engine noise.
By the time Dongfang Jing woke up, it was already nightfall.
Penniless, Dongfang Jing awoke in the truck’s cargo compartment, helplessly staring at the unfamiliar surroundings.
Just as Dongfang Jing climbed out of the compartment, hoping to find someone to seek help from, her head throbbed inexplicably...
In less than half an hour, Dongfang Jing discovered her world had plunged into darkness where not a finger could be seen.
Though she couldn’t control her body or speak during her coma, Dongfang Jing unexpectedly found she could hear the sounds around her clearly.
This discovery brought a sliver of comfort to Dongfang Jing’s fearful heart.
Later, Dongfang Jing learned someone had saved her and taken her to the hospital.
Upon learning she was diagnosed as a vegetative state, at that moment Dongfang Jing was filled with fear and despair.
She wanted to shout to make people aware of her consciousness.
But no matter how she screamed, the outside world gave no reaction.
Just as she thought she would be abandoned or even die earlier because of this, a man surprisingly chose to continue her treatment.
Not only that, he firmly continued to share with her all the new things happening in the world every day.
Even though she couldn’t speak or move, Dongfang Jing’s heart was extraordinarily calm.
Just when Dongfang Jing thought she would spend the rest of her life in this state until its end, an unexpected event completely changed Dongfang Jing’s life course.
That day, as usual, he was sharing some amusing stories from a game, but with an ordinary sentence, he unexpectedly awakened another part of Dongfang Jing’s hidden memories in her mind.
This unfamiliar memory emerged so suddenly, so unexpectedly.
However, as this memory slowly integrated into her mind, Dongfang Jing felt everything in it seemed like something she had experienced before, nearly losing herself in her thoughts.
Who knows how long it took, but Dongfang Jing finally fully assimilated and integrated this sudden memory.
A memory as incredible as a legend;
A key memory of whether she could change her fate.
At this moment, a long-lost light pierced the utter darkness.
The familiar voice sounded again in her ear:
"You’re awake."
At this moment, Dongfang Jing suddenly understood what she had been through all these years was for.
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