Chapter 402 The Prophecy Comes True
Chapter 402 The Prophecy Comes True
“Ahhh!”
A sharp, agonizing scream suddenly tore from the princess’s mouth.
And almost at the exact same moment, dark red blood began to slowly trickle from both of her ears. John’s hand, still gripping the silver needle, trembled uncontrollably at the sudden turn of events.
The surrounding doctors were frozen in place, their eyes locked on the princess’s ears.
“H–How could this be?”
To them, the idea of acupuncture causing such symptoms had sounded like pure fantasy–something utterly impossible.
But now, the brutal truth before their eyes was like an invisible slap across all their faces.
And then, slowly, almost in unison, every doctor turned their head and stared at Raven,
“Could it be… that what she said just now was true?”
“Mr. Kidman… Is this… is this normal?” Ellie’s voice broke the silence, her tone unsteady as she looked blankly at John. The other doctors immediately turned to him as well.
They all knew that bleeding from the ears was absolutely not a normal acupuncture response. But still–they wanted to hear what John had to say.
Under their collective gaze, John stared at the blood staining the princess’s pillow crimson. His face grew darker with every passing second.
He had just confidently declared that there was zero chance of any of the symptoms Raven predicted occurring. Now, less than a minute later, the princess was bleeding from both ears.
The slap to his credibility was swift and brutal.
And if he stopped now? The princess would almost certainly die. But continuing meant proving Raven right–again.
People would start remembering that Raven had said the princess had only expelled internal congestion–and that, with rest, she’d recover.
If that had been true all along, and his intervention made things worse, then everything John had built over his years in medicine would collapse overnight.
With that thought, John’s eyes sharpened with resolve.
No matter what, he had to finish the final two steps.
He picked up another silver needle.
Staring at the princess, now more like a fragile, broken doll, he inhaled deeply and carefully aimed at the next acupuncture point, just left of her lower abdomen.
But before the needle could land, Rupert, still frozen from the last incident, suddenly stepped forward and raised his hand to stop him.
“Dr. Kidman… are you certain this next needle won’t cause what Miss Valor predicted?”
The princess’s life was directly tied to his future.
He could not afford to gamble.
The other doctors began whispering in uncertainty.
“None of them had believed Raven before–but now?
Blood from the ears? That had already happened.
“John froze, not knowing what to say.
He didn’t think the next needle would cause Raven’s predicted reaction–but he hadn’t expected the last one to, either. Tight–lipped, John finally said in a low voice, “Whether or not those symptoms occur, if I finish the last two needles, there’s still a chance the princess will live. But if I stop now, she’ll die for sure.”
Rupert’s face turned stiff.
He understood the stakes–but the consequences of failure were too great to bear.
After a long pause, he finally stepped back to let John try again.
ohn exhaled softly, relieved.
He carefully rechecked the placement above her lower abdomen several times, then slowly pushed the silver needle in.
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Chapter 402 The Prophecy Comes True
The moment he released the needle, another blood–curdling scream burst from the princess’s throat.
And then–under everyone’s stunned gaze–her legs began to tremble violently.
Everyone in the room, including John, went completely still.
If the first symptom could be dismissed as coincidence, this one left no room for doubt.
No one questioned it anymore. If the final needle went in, the princess would bleed from all seven orifices–and die.
Slowly, every person in the room turned their gaze toward Raven.
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