34 got slapped in the face
◎I felt so good, hehe◎
When Yan Sui woke up again, she opened her eyes to a clean white ceiling. A smell similar to disinfectant entered her nostrils, making her frown.
"Sui Sui, you're finally awake."
Yan Sui looked in the direction of the sound and saw Jian Liyun, whose eyes were red at the corners.
"What is this...?" Yan Sui's voice was hoarse, and she was somewhat puzzled.
Shouldn't she and Jian Liyun have gone home by now?
Jian Liyun still feels lingering fear when she thinks back on it. "On the way home, you suddenly started having a nosebleed that wouldn't stop no matter what we did. I had the driver rush you to the nearest hospital. Luckily, the doctor treated you in time and you're fine now."
"Huh?" Yan Sui exclaimed in surprise, "I have a nosebleed?"
This body in this world is exactly the same as the one in the original world, and she has never had a nosebleed since she was a child.
She wasn't hit or subjected to any trauma, so why would she suddenly have a nosebleed?
Jian Liyun seemed even more puzzled than her, "You had a physical examination just a few days ago, and the results showed everything was normal... But the doctor just drew your blood for another test, and the results showed that you are malnourished."
Yan Sui didn't know what to say.
She quickly adjusted her mindset, "Then I'll just pay attention to my diet from now on. I'm sorry, Li Yun, did I scare you back then?"
Jian Liyun shook her head. "It's good that you're alright. You should sleep a little longer. I'll wake you up after the IV is finished, and then we'll go home."
Yan Sui then remembered that Jian Liyun had to record a program tomorrow. "Liyun, you should go home and rest first. You have to record a program tomorrow. I can manage here by myself, don't worry."
Jian Liyun pursed her lips and silently shook her head.
Seeing this, Yan Sui had no choice. She looked around the ward, which seemed to be a private VIP room. There was a sofa not far away that could easily accommodate one person lying down. "Li Yun, why don't you go rest there for a while... wait!"
Yan Sui's pupils constricted. Ignoring her own discomfort, she struggled to sit up and gently grasped the other person's arm with the hand that wasn't receiving the IV.
"Why is your sleeve covered in blood? Did you hurt your arm? Did you see a doctor?"
Jian Liyun sighed, "Sui Sui, this is your blood."
Yan Sui patted her chest. "That's good. You scared me. I thought you were injured too."
Jian Liyun lowered her eyes. "I'd rather be the one who gets hurt."
"Don't say things like that," Yan Sui frowned. "Alright, what happened to me today was an accident. I will try my best to prevent such a situation from happening again and to stop making you worry."
Jian Liyun nodded slightly and touched Yan Sui's face. "Go to sleep."
Seeing that Jian Liyun wasn't planning to rest on the sofa next to her, Yan Sui said helplessly, "Fine, then you can sit next to me. If you're tired, you can go sleep next to me."
"good."
Jian Liyun's gaze remained fixed on Yan Sui. When the two looked at each other, Yan Sui felt it would be awkward if she didn't say anything, so she simply closed her eyes.
"System," Yan Sui called out in her mind.
[Host, sob.]
"You can speak now? Were you silenced again when I was helping Lu Shutian? Poor thing," Yan Sui thought to herself.
[Host, how come you still have the leisure to joke around QAQ? I really tried my best to tell you that you couldn't help the female lead like that. You were helping to bear and transfer her pain, and those side effects would be transferred to you.]
"I can't just stand by and watch someone die, can I?"
The system panicked: [Host, your refusal to help someone in distress must be based on your own safety. What happened just now... the female lead...]
The system is once again flirting with being muted.
Yan Sui sighed helplessly, "System, you'd better be more subtle, or you'll get banned again."
[Host, that's the price she chose to pay; it has nothing to do with you. You don't need to help her like this. Besides, your body won't be able to handle it. This time it's just a nosebleed, but what about next time? Even if you get to the hospital in time, you might not survive.]
"You're trying to scare me," Yan Sui said confidently. "You should be able to tell how many more times my body can take this, right?"
[Host, why are you being so clever again at this time?]
"So, how many more times can I take it?"
[Maximum three times. Host, if you help her like this again, you will truly die. The you of this world will die, and the you of the original world will not have survived that car accident either.]
You will die in the truest sense.
The system is rarely serious.
Yan Sui changed the subject, "Do you know that system that gave me the Eye of True Sight? It's given me the Eye of True Sight twice already."
[Host, you must have fallen in love with the new system and abandoned your old flame, sob sob.]
Yan Sui suddenly said, "Yeah, at least they have a cheat system. Okay, let's get back to the point. Do you know that system? It always seems to pick its timing quite well."
Moreover, this new system seems to have different task requirements than the system that Yan Sui is bound to.
Yan Sui's original system required her to save the female supporting character, while the new system required her to learn more about the female lead and male lead.
[Host, my permissions are too low to verify the new system's identity. However... I suspect it's using you.]
Yan Sui said indifferently, "Anyway, I haven't lost anything, so it doesn't matter. Now I don't know what its ultimate goal is. If it wants to use me, then what exactly does it want me to do?"
It is impossible to draw a conclusion at this time regarding whether one person can unify the country.
Yan Sui unknowingly fell asleep.
She slept very soundly, and when she woke up again, it was the next morning.
"Sui Sui." Someone touched her face.
Yan Sui groggily rubbed against the other person's palm, "...Sleepy."
The man helped her sit up. "I know you're very tired, but eat your breakfast first, then go back to sleep."
Yan Sui had already changed into a beige cotton nightgown. She frowned and hugged the other person in a spoiled manner: "No, I'm really sleepy, let me sleep a little longer."
Yan Sui was so sleepy that she didn't even want to open her eyes, and her consciousness was a little blurry, but she knew that the person calling her name was someone she could completely trust and even rely on to a certain extent.
Jian Liyun chuckled and leaned close to the other's ear, "Wrap your legs around my waist, and I'll carry you to dinner, okay, Miss Yan?"
"Don't call me that... I don't want to be Miss Yan." Yan Sui muttered, but her body honestly clung to Jian Liyun.
A faint jasmine scent filled her nostrils, a comforting aroma.
Before his mind could even process it, the words had already spilled from his mouth, "Li Yun, the program recording..."
Jian Liyun carried Yan Sui to the restaurant. "Don't worry, it's eight o'clock in the morning now. We can get there by two o'clock in the afternoon."
Jian Liyun carefully placed Yan Sui on the wooden chair and put a steaming bowl of red date soy milk in front of her. "Drink some soy milk first to warm your stomach."
Yan Sui reluctantly opened her eyes, and once her vision cleared, her previously half-closed eyes widened completely—
This was breakfast, but the table was filled with all sorts of food; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe it as a Manchu Han Imperial Feast.
"Just the two of us? That's way too much!" Yan Sui exclaimed in astonishment.
Jian Liyun said matter-of-factly, “I’m not asking you to eat it all. Try a little of everything for better nutrition.”
God knows how devastated Jian Liyun was yesterday when she heard the doctor say that Yan Sui was malnourished.
She was determined to restore Yan Sui's health.
Yan Sui shook her head helplessly, "Okay, okay, but don't do that again. I know my own body."
"Sui Sui," Jian Liyun said, looking at the woman in front of her whose face was still somewhat pale, "I wish you a long and happy life."
Yan Sui smiled and said, "I send you the same blessings. As long as you are happy, I am happy too."
Jian Liyun hesitated, as if she wanted to say something but then stopped.
[Host, you've almost seduced the female supporting character.]
Yan Sui chewed on the shumai, "System, you always talk nonsense."
After the two finished breakfast, Yan Sui was about to go back to sleep when she received a call from Director Kong.
"Xiao Yan, I'm sending you a document. Print it out and give it to Lu Shutian right away."
"Hmm?" Yan Sui didn't respond immediately. "Miss Lu isn't an artist in our company, is she?"
Director Kong exclaimed on the other end of the phone, "Isn't this her agent, Lao He, who just contacted me? Lao He told me that you two are neighbors, but he can't see her right now because of something, so could you do me this favor?"
Yan Sui had no choice but to agree.
Less than a minute after the call ended, Yan Sui received an electronic document from Director Kong on her phone.
Reluctantly standing up, Yan Sui muttered, "Let's finish this quickly and go back to sleep."
Jian Liyun leaned closer, "What's wrong?"
Yan Sui gave a brief explanation, then pointed towards the door: "Li Yun, I'm going out to the nearby print shop to print this document."
Jian Liyun grabbed her arm, "No need, there's a printer in the study."
Yan Sui raised an eyebrow. "That's great! I didn't even notice it when I went to your study before."
Jian Liyun smiled and said, "Because I put it away."
The two went to the study, where Jian Liyun brought out a printer that hadn't been used for a long time, but fortunately the machine was still working properly.
The printed paper was still slightly warm. Yan Sui touched the warm paper and said, "I'll take it to her now."
Jian Liyun wanted to go with them, but Yan Sui stopped her, saying, "It's just delivering a document; we'll be back soon."
Yan Sui thought it was just a matter of knocking on the door to deliver a document, so she was too lazy to change out of her pajamas. "Li Yun, do you have a loose-fitting long coat? I can borrow it."
Jian Liyun took a gray-green woolen coat out of the closet. "Wear this."
Yan Sui put on her coat, but she was too lazy to button it up, so she just casually gathered it up and went out with the documents in her hand.
Knock knock knock.
Yan Sui knocked on the door, and after a short while, the door was opened.
Yan Sui wore a polite smile. "Ms. Lu, your agent asked my boss to give you these documents. I haven't read them, so please don't worry."
Why are you calling me Miss Lu again? Shouldn't you call me Tian Tian?
Lu Shutian glanced at Yan Sui, but swallowed the words she wanted to say:
The woman in front of her was wearing a long coat casually over her clothes, but underneath she was still wearing the beige pajamas that she had seen on Jian Liyun's bed. The top two buttons of the pajamas were undone, and her delicate and beautiful collarbone rose and fell with Yan Sui's breath.
Lu Shutian lowered her eyes and gestured for Yan Sui to come inside.
Yan Sui hesitated: "Once I've delivered this document to you, I'm going back to rest."
Lu Shutian turned her head, her expression flashing with a ferocity so fast it was almost imperceptible.
"There are some things in this document that I need to tell you. You need to reply to my agent."
What business is it of mine, an outsider, to meddle in your and your agent's affairs?
Yan Sui thought to herself, "Fine then."
She left in a hurry without her phone, and thinking that Lu Shutian probably wouldn't keep her for long, she went straight into the other person's house.
Bang.
Lu Shutian closed the door. "Sister, give me the documents."
Yan Sui handed it over, and Lu Shutian took the document and sat down on the sofa in a casual and languid manner. She flipped through the document and asked, "Sister, have you had breakfast yet?"
Yan Sui nodded, "Mm."
She pulled her coat tighter and stood beside the sofa.
Lu Shutian flipped through the documents faster and faster; even describing her as reading ten lines at a glance couldn't keep up with her reading speed.
Yan Sui suspected that the person hadn't looked carefully at all, and in fact, that was indeed the case.
Lu Shutian threw the documents onto the coffee table. "Sister, do you hate me that much?"
How did the topic turn to this again?
Yan Sui was already used to this. "I don't dislike you."
Lu Shutian laughed out loud, "Yes, I shouldn't have asked that."
She grabbed Yan Sui's coat hem, and with her movement, Yan Sui's coat was pulled open, revealing the beige pajamas underneath.
"You really do like Jian Liyun more than me, don't you? You like the pajamas she bought you so much that you even wear them to my house?"
[Host, do you believe that if you said the coat also belonged to the female supporting character, the female lead would explode on the spot?]
Yan Sui sighed helplessly, "System, you're just stirring things up."
She said seriously, "I'm used to wearing these. I was a little tired yesterday, and I was planning to go back and rest after delivering the documents to you, so I was too lazy to change."
Yan Sui's words only fueled Lu Shutian's anger.
She stood up, her face cold, and wrapped one arm around the other person's waist. Then, she shifted her weight, and the two of them fell onto the soft sofa together.
Lu Shutian propped herself up on the sofa with one hand, the ends of her hair brushing against Yan Sui's cheek, as if in some kind of intimate probing.
The person involved was completely unaware. Yan Sui's body hadn't recovered yet, and when her position was suddenly changed, she felt dizzy and saw stars.
Being unable to see or hear clearly is a truly unpleasant feeling.
Yan Sui's pupils went unfocused, and Lu Shutian interpreted her silence as disgust.
Lu Shutian reached out to Yan Sui's chest, and through her delicate skin and soft flesh, she could feel her heart beating.
Feeling the touch in her palm, Lu Shutian was very unwilling, "Sister, I still don't understand where I lost."
Lost? Did you participate in any competitions?
Yan Sui, who had just regained her hearing, felt utterly helpless upon hearing what the other person said.
She heard her own voice, "Why are you so fixated on me? It's pointless. Does the scar on your heart still hurt often?"
Lu Shutian sneered, "So what if it hurts? You won't feel sorry for me anyway."
[Female lead, you're talking nonsense! My host didn't just feel sorry for you, she directly took the damage for you, and you're still saying such things about her!]
The system was indignant, but Yan Sui's emotions were completely unaffected.
Their posture was quite intimate, yet there was no trace of desire in her eyes. "Lu Xiao... Tian Tian, I'm telling you this very seriously. That scar on your heart, you said it was punishment, can you tell me what kind of punishment it was? And what kind of punishment it was, would it make you feel pain?"
"Give me a kiss and I'll tell you." Lu Shutian's expression suddenly changed.
Yan Sui: ...
Sometimes she even suspected that Lu Shutian and Jian Liyun had been in contact in private, otherwise how could they always say the exact same things?
However, Lu Shutian also had a serious expression at this moment. Although what she said was not serious, she did not seem to be joking.
The two remained locked in a stalemate for a minute.
Yan Sui was defeated.
She blinked, pinched the other person's chin, and without much force, Lu Shutian's pure and sweet face got closer and closer to her.
Yan Sui tilted her head slightly and, at the last moment, lightly kissed the corner of Lu Shutian's lips.
"Can we talk about it now?"
Lu Shutian's lips moved slightly: "...Are you really that unwilling to kiss me?"
Even when they were to kiss at the end, it was just a forced kiss on the corner of their lips.
Yan Sui couldn't help herself and gently patted Lu Shutian's face: "Don't push your luck."
Despite the gesture being almost like a slap, Lu Shutian finally smiled.
She stuck out her tongue and licked her lower lip, seemingly still wanting more.
Yan Sui: ?
[Host, you've really enjoyed beating up the female lead.]
Oh? Is that how it is? What a strange female lead.
Yan Sui resisted the urge to frown. She cleared her throat and said, "Never mind, I'm going back."
Yan Sui pretended to push her away, but Lu Shutian clung to her affectionately. Although she was close to Yan Sui, she didn't actually put all her weight on her.
"Okay, okay, I'll talk, I'll talk."
Lu Shutian hugged the other person, and with a little force, the two ended up lying face to face.
The stunningly beautiful female lead was lying opposite her. Yan Sui thought to herself that it was fortunate the sofa was wide enough, otherwise Lu Shutian on the outside would have fallen off.
Lu Shutian grabbed Yan Sui's hand and reached towards her chest. Through the fabric, Yan Sui still vaguely felt as if she could feel the unevenness of that hideous scar.
"Sister, it will hurt." Although she spoke of pain, Lu Shutian's tone carried a hint of pleasure. "And this scar, in this world, is only visible to you."
Um?
Yan Sui hadn't expected this, "Then..."
Lu Shutian stroked the other person's arm; the skin felt very delicate, but it was also quite cold, which she didn't like.
"Because we were meant to be a couple, only you can see my pain."
[Why is this female lead subtly promoting her own opinion? You haven't even spoken yet, and she's already shipping her and you as a couple.]
The well-informed system had seen this situation in other worlds before, and it would call it a top-tier dream girl.
Yan Sui changed the subject, "So, how do we treat this scar?"
Lu Shutian smiled, "No one in this world can see this scar, so naturally they can't heal it. No matter how many times I go to the hospital for a checkup, they won't find anything wrong. If you want to resolve it..."
Lu Shutian spoke at a rapid pace, and Yan Sui unconsciously held her breath.
"To be honest, although I have some clues, I'm still not sure. And the scars and pain are just a result of the problem; they are not important in themselves."
“How could it not be important?” Yan Sui frowned. “You’re in a lot of pain, so this is important to you.”
Lu Shutian's lips trembled, and she gave up, even though she had originally wanted to continue to put on a brave face.
She closed her eyes, her fingers lightly touching Yan Sui's face, tracing the other's eyebrows and eyes.
“Sister,” Lu Shutian said in a very soft voice, “I have indeed awakened consciousness, but it is more than just awakened consciousness.”
Have you ever played games, sister?
Lu Shutian gently touched the corner of Yan Sui's eye with her voice, and the warmth from her fingertips made her feel at ease.
Before Yan Sui could answer, she continued to mutter to herself, "If this were a game—"
"So now, this is the world of the second playthrough."
[Author's Note]
Unbelievable, right? Xiao Lu not only awakened his consciousness, but he was also reborn! [noob emoji]
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