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The private room door swung open. Zinnia’s cheeks were deathly pale, her whole body trembling with exhaustion.

Charlie was practically holding Zinnia up. She could barely stand on her own. Her hands hung limply at her sides, trembling uncontrollably. Her lips were drained of all color, patches of skin bitten raw and marked with faint bloodstains..

Yannis sprang forward to catch Zinnia, his worst fears confirmed. Looking down at Zinnia in his arms, his heart clenched. The healthy, rosy glow he had painstakingly restored to her cheeks vanished in an instant, leaving her as pale as when they first met.

“Zinnia.” Sofia’s eyes turned red with heartache at the sight of Zinnia’s face, and she didn’t even remember to ask about Henry.

“Grandma, Grandpa is all right now. Don’t worry.” Zinnia managed in a feeble voice. But as the dizziness overwhelmed her, she couldn’t hold on any longer. Her vision blurred and she collapsed forward, her head landing against Yannis’s chest.

Yannis scooped Zinnia up in his arms, pressing her head tightly against his chest. Feeling her feather–light weight, his heart twisted with pain. The hand hanging limply at her side was wrapped in thick bandages, with faint traces of blood seeping through.

“What’s wrong with Zinnia?” Her sudden collapse threw the whole family into a panic.

Charlie’s eyes filled with heartache. “Zinnia is completely exhausted. Mr. Spence said she should go home and get some proper rest.”

Turning to Sofia, he added gently, “Grandma, Grandpa is fine now. He just needs some time to recover. Mr. Spence is inside finishing the final procedures; you can go in and see him now.”

Charlie glanced back at the open operating room, where Raymond was completing the final procedures. Zinnia had pushed herself to the limit and simply couldn’t hold on any longer, so Raymond had to take over.

The Flowing Technique was so difficult to master that very few ever succeeded. It was nearly impossible to remember all the needle insertion points, let alone insert hundreds of needles in sequence. A single misplaced needle meant starting the entire process over from scratch.

More importantly, it completely drained the user’s mental and physical energy.

The silver needles were so fine that even the slightest lapse in concentration would make people’s vision blur. Most people with poor stamina couldn’t endure it at all. After six hours, the user’s hands turned to jelly.

let me go with you to take Zinnia home,” Charlie said, glancing

with Zinnia in his arms, Charlie hurrying

Zinnia tightly in the back seat, refusing to let go. Each time he loosened his grip, she would frown. Gently lifting her hand, thickly wrapped in bandages, he

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wound is quite deep. She gets faint at the sight of blood, so when you change

never tell a soul. He simply reminded Yannis

Charlie wasn’t telling the whole truth. His gaze lingered on Zinnia’s hand–normally so soft and delicate, now deathly pale without a trace of color, like that

caressed her icy–cold fingers. ‘She’s so cold… Is she just too exhausted?‘ he wondered, noticing how

one of her hands tightly between his own to warm it, and then slid

after losing blood, she hadn’t had a

exhaustion. She was running on sheer willpower alone. But once she was sure Henry

They kept vigil by her bedside. Charlie refused to go until

a high fever. They gave her fever reducers, and by the time her temperature finally broke, dawn

exhaustion on Charlie’s face, Yannis said gently, “You should go back and check on Henry.

when Zinnia wakes up,” Charlie said. He was genuinely worried about Henry and knew he had

as Charlie left. He moved to the bedside, where Zinnia lay.

nightstand, took a cotton swab, dipped it in water, and gently moistened her lips. Then he

a pang, ‘The Flowing Technique–so few ever master it in a lifetime, yet Zinnia learned it before even coming of age. She saved Henry, but at what

told him that performing it was extremely mentally draining. Just a moment’s

catch their breath.

had warned her against mental strain. Yet she’d just spent six straight hours performing the Flowing Technique. Just looking at those hundreds

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