Chapter 232 A Dying Flame
Yao Xiyu was about to reprimand the maid for her disrespectful behavior; after all, 100% of the staff hired by the Yao Family were people with a high enough level of education to know how to behave at high society events. However, after hearing the panicked woman's words, Yao Xiyu's face changed slightly.
Beiming Fei completely ignored all decorum and discarded her modest and calm appearance, jumping to her feet. With her face slightly panicked, she asked, "What happened? What happened to my daughter?" Although Beiming Fei wanted to shout out her worries, her voice broke midway and in the end a soft voice left her lips.
"Explain from the beginning what happened. I want as many details as possible." Yao Xiyu stood up and started walking in the direction of her daughter's room. His wife Beiming Fei and his eldest son Yao Zenyu hurried after him.
The maid took a moment to calm down slightly and as she walked a few steps behind the other three, she quickly explained, "Currently, there are only a few hours left before the Young Miss's birthday party officially begins and the guests will start arriving. That's why after I finished with my assignments, I headed to the Young Miss's room to ask if she needed my help to brush her hair or help her with her dress."
The family of three made their way to the third floor of the mansion and walked down a wide hallway as they listened attentively to the maid's explanation.
She continued, "However, after knocking on the Young Miss's door for several minutes with no answer, I assumed the young lady was not in her room so I used the service keys to enter and see if there was anything that needed to be cleared away.... But, what I did not expect to find was the Young Miss with a completely pale face and after seeing her shivering as if she was feeling very cold, I panicked and quickly went to report to you, sir."
Yao Xinyu nodded and said, "You did a good job."
The family of three together with the maid finally arrived at the farthest room on the third floor and stopped in front of an oak door. Yao Xiyu held out his hand and the maid quickly handed him the keys.
Click
With a soft sound, the door to the room was opened and Beiming Fei was the first to rush in, even pushing her husband and son in the process.
Yao Mei's room was very feminine. The walls were painted a pretty purple color, the curtains blocking the sunlight were a soft pink color, and there were many teddy bears everywhere. In the center of the room, there was a giant bed with at least ten teddy bears and rabbits of all sizes. But what was most striking was the girl who had her eyes closed and her crimson red hair resting on the pink sheets.
"Mei'er!" The mother cried out in fright at the sight of her daughter's condition when she arrived at the bedside.
Yao Mei's face was pale, her once red lips had turned an almost completely purple color and her body was shivering slightly as if she was feeling a hard-to-describe amount of cold.
Scared, Beiming Fei quickly grabbed her daughter's hand. However...
"AH!" Immediately after touching her daughter's hand, Beiming Fei reflexively let go of it again. "How... How can she be so cold?" She muttered with wide eyes.
Yao Xiyu rushed over and after touching Yao Mei's hand, his face changed greatly, "How can this be possible?"
Yao Mei's body, which was like the representation of fire itself, was as cold as an ice cube frozen for a thousand years. Moreover, unlike his wife Beiming Fei, who was a wind Esper, Yao Xiyu was a very powerful fire Esper, so that's why he could notice something else.
"Xiyu... My, my little baby, what's wrong with her?" Beiming Fei took her daughter's hand again, ignoring the coldness that froze her skin and without taking her eyes off the girl's face, she asked.
Yao Xiyu's face stayed impassive, making it difficult for others to identify what kind of emotions he was feeling, and said slowly, "Don't worry. She will be fine... I'll go get some help, for now, we'd better let her rest."
Beiming Fei immediately shook his head, "No, forget it! I definitely won't move from here..... Today is her birthday! She should be smiling happily why did something like this have to happen!?"
Just as Yao Xiyu was about to say something, Beiming Fei turned furious for some reason and lashed out at him, slapping him so hard that it echoed in the room.
Pa!
Yao Zenyu's mouth opened wide, not believing what he was seeing. On the other hand, the maid was so terrified that she directly passed out on the scene.
Slapping Yao Xiyu? What a joke! No one in the whole world would dare to do something like that! With Yao Xiyu's power, ranked as an SSS rank Esper, wanting to slap him was the same as trying to play games of luck with death itself!
However, Yao Xiyu did not get angry after being slapped by his wife. He looked her in the eyes as she glared angrily at him and shouted, "This is all your fault, you damn bastard! Due to your actions, your daughter stopped to smile and practically stopped to speak! Look what a good father you are, not only did you take away her smile on her previous birthdays, now look at what condition she's in!"
Yao Xiyu sighed and a look of guilt shone in his eyes for a moment before returning to normal. He said nothing and simply looked at his wife venting her will and fears at him.
On the other hand, Yao Zenyu's face changed slightly and knowing that it was best not to be there at this time, he headed out of the room. As he passed by the passed out maid, he frowned and after a moment's consideration, raised her from the floor and carried her out of the room, closing the door behind him.
His mother's almost inaudible screams muffled by the walls and the door was clear evidence of how angry she was with his father; Yao Zenyu stood outside the room while looking at the sky through a wide window and lost himself in memories of the past.
After about twenty minutes, the door of the room opened again and Yao Xiyu together with Beiming Fei walked out of the room.
Beiming Fei's face was tear-stained and her eyes were red from crying, while Yao Xiyu had the same stoic look as always, hiding his emotions. Although his mother still looked a little angry, Yao Zenyu suspiciously noticed that she had calmed down almost completely.
"Zenyu, accompany your mother and have a cup of tea made for her to calm down a bit." Yao Xiyu ordered in a stern voice.
Yao Zenyu nodded without hesitation and after a moment, asked, "Father, what about little Mei?"
"Don't worry." Yao Xiyu waved his hand and began to walk away slowly as he said, "Your sister will appear on her birthday tonight as if nothing had happened."
The duo of mother and son looked at Yao Xiyu's back and saw him disappear around the corner of the corridor. Then Yao Zenyu took his mother's arm and said softly, "Mother, let me make some tea for you."
Beiming Fei nodded silently and followed her son, feeling a little better. Before, she had been so frightened that she had unconsciously turned all her fear into anger and vented it against her husband. But now, she had finally regained her calm almost completely.
Meanwhile, after walking away from the sight of his wife and eldest son, Yao Xiyu's stoic face like a firm rock finally crumbled. A strange look of worry appeared in his eyes and a deep frown creased his face.
His daughter Yao Mei's condition was incredibly strange, something Yao Xiyu had never seen in his entire life. As Fire Espers, all members of the Yao Family who awakened a skill in their lifetime possessed a core of fire that was like a burning flame within their bodies. However, when Yao Mei was born, she surprisingly had two fire cores! One of these cores was as hot and bright as the sun itself while the other was like a tiny seed in comparison. This was why Yao Mei was always so powerful even at such a young age.
However, the current problem was that the small fire core that contained Yao Mei's weakest flame had been completely extinguished; there was nothing there anymore. On the other hand, the bigger core that was burning like a blazing solar flare had currently weakened so much that it would not be surprising if it went out at any time just like the smaller core.
It was thanks to this bigger core that Yao Mei was still alive... At the very least, she would have lost all her powers... Currently, Yao Mei was like a flame that could be extinguished at any moment.
Although Yao Xiyu knew about mental weakening, from his point of view, it was impossible for Yao Mei to become so exhausted that she would be in such a dangerous situation.... Of course, he did not know that his daughter fed her own fire energy to a practically immortal and impossible to destroy beast for a long time.
After leaving the mansion, Yao Xiyu headed south into the forest.
He sprinted at full speed, moving at speeds capable of being compared to supercars. After several minutes, he finally arrived at what appeared to be a fiery magma lake, where the temperature was impossible for a normal person to bear. Yao Xiyu stood there, staring at the bubbling magma with a dubious look on his face, and only after thinking for almost five whole minutes, he finally clenched his teeth and jumped into the magma in search of help from the one person who might have the ability to solve this problem.