Li Weiwan walked up to the giant "eggshell" and pulled open a small, completely transparent drawer.

"Before starting the experiment, I need to collect the blood essence of my closest relative or loved one to awaken her desire for rebirth."

"Which of you two is coming?"

"I!"

Jiang Jingwen and Shi Jing spoke at the same time.

Li Weiwan looked at the two of them and slowly raised one finger: "Only one."

"I'll do it." Shi Jing walked directly to Li Weiwan. "Let me do it. I want to save Chaochao."

Li Weiwan did not agree immediately, but hesitated and looked at Jiang Jingwen.

Jiang Jingwen hesitated for several seconds before finally nodding: "Let him come. He's already suffered enough."

Li Weiwan: "Okay. Xiao Lin, take Mr. Shi to have his blood drawn."

"Yes!" Assistant Kobayashi responded, then jogged out of the office. "Mr. Shi, please come with me."

Shi Jing nodded, thanked Jiang Jingwen first, and then followed Xiao Lin into the office.

And so the experiment began.

The first time, Zhu Jinzhao traveled back in time to the day before Zhu Mingyue was to return home.

With the "novel plot" implanted in her mind by Li Weiwan, she knew her fate the moment she transmigrated. To avoid meeting her end, she ran away overnight before Zhu Mingyue even got home.

Unexpectedly, before she could even escape the capital, Zhu Xingye and his men captured her and brought her back. She still managed to meet Zhu Mingyue at the Zhu family home.

The story then unfolds in the same way as before her transmigration: framed by Zhu Mingyue, she is ostracized by Zhu's three older brothers and gradually driven to her death. Even more despairingly, in this life, Shi Jing is unable to even see her.

After the first experiment failed, Li Weiwan immediately started the second one.

Zhu Jinzhao traveled back in time to the night Zhu Mingyue returned home.

Because of her fiery personality in this life, she started a war with Zhu Mingyue on the very day Zhu Mingyue returned home.

Strangely enough, Zhu Mingyue, despite being clearly no match for her, couldn't seem to lose. The three men in the Zhu family were as if possessed; no matter how clumsy Zhu Mingyue's schemes were, they would unconditionally believe in her.

Even though Zhu Jinzhao had presented them with all the evidence, they chose to ignore it and pinned all the blame on him, making him the biggest villain in the entire Zhu family.

Zhu Jinchao won over Zhu Mingyue, but she couldn't outmaneuver these three ruthless men. In the end, she still died in the Zhu family.

In this life, Shi Jing also had no chance to see her.

The second experiment also failed, and Li Weiwan, unwilling to give up, immediately started the third one.

This time, Shi Jing finally met Zhu Jinzhao. But unfortunately, the day after they met, Zhu Jinzhao was run over and killed by Zhu Mingyue's car.

The experiment failed again.

Li Weiwan refused to give up and quickly started the fourth attempt.

This time, Shi Jing not only met Zhu Jinzhao, but also successfully started a relationship with her. However, due to Ning Shi's interference and her alliance with Zhu Mingyue to target Zhu Jinzhao, Zhu Jinzhao ultimately could not escape Zhu Jinzhao's clutches.

Then the fifth experiment began.

This time, Zhu Jinzhao was smarter. Knowing her fate, she and Jiang Jingwen devised a plan to fake her death as soon as she traveled back in time.

She planned a staged death, intending to die once at the Zhu family's house first, and then slip away in the chaos.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Mingyue saw through her scheme, turning her feigned death into a real one. She had only been back from the afterlife for less than a month when her fifth experiment failed.

Then, the sixth experiment began the next second.

Three months later, the experiment failed, and not only did Zhu Jinzhao die, but Jiang Jingwen also died once in that world.

The three of them gritted their teeth and immediately started the seventh round.

This time, the process took longer, and Zhu Jinzhao and Shi Jing even finished taking their wedding photos, but they still couldn't escape Zhu Mingyue's torment.

After the seventh failure, the eighth attempt followed immediately.

Then it failed again.

"You only have enough lifespan for one last injection." Li Weiwan held an electronic syringe as thick as an arm, her face troubled.

Shi Jing, with his head of gray hair, unhesitatingly extended his arm to Li Weiwan: "Go ahead and draw the needle. Even if there's only a sliver of hope left, I will save Chaochao."

In eight experiments, two involved drawing his semen. But a person's semen is limited, and after two attempts, no more could be drawn. Left with no other option, Li Weiwan had to draw his heart blood. However, heart blood could only be drawn once at most.

Since they couldn't find anything else to start the experiment, Shi Jing offered to extract his lifespan.

He was to have his cigarettes smoked for fifteen years at a time, and he had already let Li Weiwan do it twice. This time, Li Weiwan was hesitant to do so.

"Shi Jing, if you calculate based on your normal lifespan, you can only draw once more. But if... your lifespan is shorter than normal to begin with, then you won't even be able to draw once."

"What are the consequences if we can't get the injection?" Shi Jing asked weakly.

Li Weiwan: "It's death."

Although the answer was cruel, he had to tell Shi Jing in advance: "If you can't extract it, you will die in the laboratory immediately."

"Draw it." Shi Jing's hesitation lasted less than a second. "Once I draw it, I'll know if I have a chance. The outcome is unknown now, but I still have a fifty percent hope."

"Never mind." Jiang Jingwen staggered up, pushed Shi Jing's arm away from Li Weiwan's eyes, and then offered her own arm instead.

"Brother Li, take mine, you haven't taken any of my lifespan yet."

Upon hearing this, Li Weiwan turned to look at her.

She had her essence and blood extracted twice, and her heart's blood once, leaving her in the same physical condition as a woman in her fifties. If her lifespan were to be drained as well, she would truly be close to death.

"Xiao Jiang, you can't have any more blood drawn." Li Weiwan stared at her graying hair, her expression showing some reluctance. "Three blood draws have already caused irreversible damage to your body. If you have any more, you'll really collapse."

"It's okay." Jiang Jingwen shook her head. "I can smoke, you can smoke mine."

"No!" Shi Jing grabbed her hand and pushed her several steps away. "You're the only daughter in your family. If you die, the Jiang family is finished."

“But I’m different. If my dad wants, Shiyun Group can have more than one successor. I’ve been a troublemaker since I was a child, so he was already very worried about handing Shiyun Group over to me.”

"Take mine, I believe my lifespan will definitely not be that short."

"...Are you sure?" Li Weiwan knew she couldn't argue with him.

He nodded: "OK."

Li Weiwan gritted her teeth and finally slapped him.

The good news is that he can afford to smoke for the next fifteen years; the bad news is that after he runs out of cigarettes, he'll only have one day left to live.