That night, in an intensive care unit at the Third People's Hospital, everything was white, and the pungent smell of disinfectant permeated the entire room.
As a nurse walked past the ward, she couldn't help but say with pity, "Director Xing is so pitiful. He was in a car accident at such a young age and became a vegetable, lying there for three years without getting up again."
It's a pity that her medical skills are so superb. In the past, so many people came from far and wide, specifically wanting Director Xing to perform their surgeries.
Even more so, there were those distant relatives who popped out from who-knows-where, relying on their slight connection with Director Xing, begging her to see them and ask for medicine.
Now that Director Xing has been injured, those people have vanished without a trace.
If it weren't for the hospital director's great appreciation for her talent, placing her in a VIP ward and hiring a caregiver for her out of his own pocket, Director Xing might have died young because no one could pay her medical bills!
Her companion sighed, "Alas, this is what they mean by 'the heavens are jealous of talent.' We can never catch up with Director Xing's medical skills in this lifetime, but it's no use saying anything now!"
What good are your medical skills or outstanding achievements if your body is no longer functional?
The nurse nodded in agreement: "You're right. Without a healthy body, everything else is meaningless."
Compared to that, we're actually quite happy!
As they walked further and further away, they failed to see the slender, graceful body beneath the snow-white sheets in the ward, at which point she twitched her little finger.
A single tear silently slid down her pale, frail face.
Yes, it's so good to have a healthy body, instead of lying in bed feeling like you're dying, slowly feeling life slip away...
A gust of wind blew in, causing the snow-white curtains to flutter and fall.
In the originally empty and quiet ward, a figure suddenly appeared out of nowhere. He walked to the bedside with his back to the light.
Xing Tianyun kept his eyes tightly closed, but he could feel a shadow cast on his face.
There was no sound of the door opening or closing, so how did this person get in?
And as if knowing she was conscious, it spoke a sentence, its voice sharp and hoarse, making it impossible to tell if it was male or female: "If I gave you a chance to have a healthy body again, would you be willing?"
Xing Tianyun no longer cared how bizarre the scene was.
She felt that she had to grasp even the slightest glimmer of hope!
So she struggled and tried to respond to him.
Unfortunately, she couldn't find the right method, and she became dejected and quiet.
Although there was no movement on Tianyun's face, the mysterious person seemed to know that she was trying to respond. "You only need to talk to me in your mind, and I can sense it."
Upon hearing this, Tianyun knew he was no ordinary person and quickly responded in his mind.
"Can you help me wake up? I'll do anything you ask, just let me stand up again!"
She'd had enough of these three years, living like a living dead. If she could kill herself through sheer willpower, she would have done it long ago…
Such tormenting days are worse than death.
It makes things easier for me.
Others are also relaxed...
"You only need to do one thing. I want you to protect someone for two years. If he is alive and well after two years, then that body is yours. If you fail to protect him, then you will not survive after two years either. Are you willing?"
Why is there so many parts of this sentence that I don't understand?
Protect one person?
But I don't know martial arts. If that person really has a lot of enemies, I'm afraid I won't be able to protect him!
And why is it said "that body"? Does it mean I'm going to be resurrected in another's body?
The mysterious man guessed Tianyun's concerns and replied coldly, "I said to protect, not to safeguard. I will send you to Daliang, where you will have a new identity."
"Remember your mission, and don't make me feel like this is a losing proposition."
Daliang sounds like the name of an ancient state.
However, none of these things could overcome her desire to wake up!
"Okay, I promise you."
As soon as Tianyun responded, he felt a dizziness and a sharp pain in his head!
It was as if someone had pressed her head into a deep, dark sea. As her consciousness faded, she heard that hoarse voice again.
"Remember, that man's name is Xiao Ziwu."
——
Tianyun slowly opened her eyes.
The stars were scattered outside the window, and the sky had already darkened.
She raised her arm in front of her eyes; her hand was soft and white, like a piece of jade. She then gently moved her foot, which was also lifted at any moment.
She smiled gently as tears streamed down her face, things she had once desperately wanted to achieve now came easily.
The elegant and grand black lacquered bed inlaid with mother-of-pearl and flowers and birds beneath her, with a soft cloud-patterned brocade quilt spread out on it, all these antique furnishings reminded her that she had traveled through time.
Fragments of memories flooded her mind, countless images flashing through her head. She rubbed her temples, struggling to accept these experiences that weren't hers to begin with.
This dynasty was called Daliang, and its national strength was only considered average among the surrounding countries.
Two years ago, her father, Shangguan Ming, was promoted from a small place called Wei County to the capital of Daliang, where he served as a fifth-rank official in the Imperial Secretariat.
It was a job that only required copying scriptures for the royal family, a leisurely and comfortable job with opportunities to make extra money.
The only drawback was that his official rank was too low to even qualify for "forming cliques for personal gain".
The original owner's name was Shangguan Tianyun, and he was somewhat vain and competitive by nature.
From the moment my family moved to the capital, I began to fantasize about integrating myself into the circle of noble ladies in Kyoto!
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