The ancient repository of celestial emperors' writings,
This is Langhuan.
Now, the Lin family's comprehensive academic training school, due to the supreme and unparalleled knowledge and skills it housed and imparted, was lauded by the world as a marvel, a sacred ground for scholarship.
Connoisseurs added the name Langhuan,
Respectfully calling it the Langhuan Sacred Land.
Only a celestial emperor's repository could compare, thus, only Langhuan was fitting for its name.
—————— "Langhuan Sacred Land: Preface"
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By the time Ding Yun celebrated her eightieth birthday, the training school she founded had become a sacred site in the hearts of doctors worldwide. To describe it merely as a training school was an insult to its knowledge.
That year,
Many meticulously carved stone tablets were presented.
Shen Nong Sacred Land, Comprehensive Medical Arts Sanctuary, World's Foremost Medical Research Center—various names, indicating internal disunity. Ding Yun initially intended to refuse them all or store them in a warehouse.
Unexpectedly, the matter escalated. Internet enthusiasts even organized a public voting event.
Simultaneously, Shen Nong Sacred Land, with overwhelming advantage,
Secured the top spot in the online poll.
Though initially just a public amusement, Ding Yun had no intention of changing the school's name or erecting the stone tablets. Yet, after the online fervor subsided, even without the tablets displayed or erected, people generally began referring to Ding Yun's training school as Shen Nong Sacred Land.
Eventually, no one called Ding Yun's school a training school anymore; it was directly called Shen Nong Sacred Land.
Some who had enrolled for training,
Were taken aback upon seeing the training school,
Even suspecting they had been scammed.
The eventual outcome was that the official name was largely forgotten, while the nickname became widely known. At this point, one could hardly issue a disclaimer or state that it wasn't called Shen Nong Sacred Land. They could only let it be.
Subsequently, as Ding Yun acquired more advanced skills, her training school naturally began to expand into new industries and develop new courses.
No longer confined solely to the medical field,
It encompassed culinary arts, handicrafts, and a hundred other crafts and skills.
At this juncture, calling it Shen Nong Sacred Land was no longer appropriate, as Shen Nong only pertained to agriculture and medicine, not the diverse arts and crafts.
Someone specifically brought up the name Langhuan.
Thus, not long after, people widely began referring to Ding Yun's training school as Langhuan Sacred Land, comparing it to the ancient Jixia Academy and considering the current Langhuan Sacred Land to far surpass it.
Ding Yun's training school indeed lived up to expectations. While it did not contain knowledge of divine cultivation, it encompassed most of the knowledge in the mortal world.
And it was the most cutting-edge knowledge;
It disdained to include anything of a lower caliber.
Years later, upon Ding Yun's death, most of her cash inheritance was given to her grandson, while her most significant asset, the training school, was passed to her daughter.
This included, but was not limited to, the school and certain patents.
It was at this time that the training school was officially renamed. Not only the registered name changed, but also the signs and plaques. It was formally changed to Langhuan.
From then on, Langhuan Sacred Land was no longer an alias,
But became the official academy name.
And more than a decade later, Ding Yun's daughter, Liu Linxia, passed away. Her grandson, Liu Changan, unwilling to take over the school, led to Langhuan Sacred Land gradually being nationalized.
With the state's assistance,
It underwent appropriate segmentation, truly transforming into the transcendent Langhuan Sacred Land.
The operational steps involved completely removing the teaching departments. These were divided into various smaller branches based on their disciplines, becoming formal schools.
The Sacred Land itself retained only the academic research departments,
Achieving its complete purification.
Thus, Langhuan Sacred Land laid its foundation for eternity.
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———An Ending Without a Protagonist———
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When Liu Changan received the hospital notification, the news was not of his grandmother's hospitalization, but her death.
The first second, he was stunned.
The second, his hands began to tremble, his voice trembled, his body trembled, and his mind was in utter chaos.
He felt lost and terrified.
After several seconds, as if grasping at a final straw, he loudly questioned the person on the other end, asking if they wanted money, if he needed to wire them funds.
Because he thought if they were asking for money,
And demanding immediate payment,
Then perhaps this wasn't real, and his grandmother was still alive and well.
Unfortunately, the other party did not ask for money but urged him to calm down and come to the hospital immediately, adding that if there were other adults at home, they should come too.
At this point, Teacher Xiao clearly noticed his distress and inquired further, quickly taking him to the hospital. Liu Changan, being just a child, besides being grief-stricken by such an event,
Had no mind for anything else.
Thus, later on, Teacher Xiao handled many matters, such as liaising with the hospital, accident determination, insurance compensation, and claims against the perpetrator.
What followed was greed.
When the death compensation was substantial, and the inheritors were merely a paralyzed woman and a child, some of Liu Changan's relatives began to stir. Some came to offer to raise him, others to "help" him manage the money, all appearing as benevolent relatives.
Fortunately, the original owner had long seen through the true nature of some of these relatives. Years ago, to protect some of her husband's and son's compensation money, she had repeatedly fallen out with them. Therefore, she had long ago specifically instructed her grandson.
Thus, although the process was chaotic and difficult,
Liu Changan persevered, protected his grandmother's compensation, and with Teacher Xiao's help, hired an affordable caregiver for his aunt.
He couldn't help it; he was a man and found it inconvenient to care for his aunt directly. While feeding her, cleaning, laundry, and turning her were manageable, using the toilet and bathing her were something he couldn't easily handle.
However, this period of busyness,
Caused him to neglect his aunt's psychological state.
When Liu Linxia learned of her mother's death, her emotions were already highly unstable. She even felt that her mother had died because of her.
At the same time, she felt that her continued existence,
Was an even greater burden.
She feared it would prevent her nephew from getting into a good university and make his future marriage difficult, as no girl would want to marry a boy with a paralyzed aunt to care for.
Therefore, after the funeral, Liu Linxia's emotions completely broke down. She lost all will to live, wishing only for an early death. For a healthy person to lose the will to live and seek death would cause their body to deteriorate quickly.
And what of someone who was paralyzed?
Coupled with her refusal to eat, she tricked the caregiver into believing her nephew had already fed her, and she told Liu Changan she wasn't hungry because the caregiver had already fed her. Not long after, her body completely gave out.
Thus, less than three months after the original owner's death,
Her daughter Liu Linxia also passed away.
However, outsiders would not believe Liu Linxia had died by choice. They would instead think that a mother and nephew are different. Her mother had cared for her for over a decade, and she was still alive, while the nephew had cared for her for only three months before she died.
Perhaps they thought she was a burden,
And they had found ways to cause her death.
These rumors were undoubtedly another torment for Liu Changan. He wanted to defend himself, but the person was already dead, how could he explain? Teacher Xiao's comforting words were also useless. In the end, his academic performance plummeted. In the college entrance examination, he barely qualified for a second-tier university. Teacher Xiao wanted to persuade him to repeat a year, but he was unwilling to stay there any longer.
Shortly after the college entrance examination, he sold the house.
He went to attend university alone,
Majoring in Finance and Management. He felt that if he had been wealthy, his grandmother might not have had to work so hard, wouldn't have had an accident, and his aunt would likely not have died. Everything, it seemed, would have been better.
As for what happened afterward, who could know?
That might be another life.