Yun Xingwan’s nose tingled with emotion.
It had been the same when she was little.
Yun Dequan eagerly offered up the shredded potatoes he had stir fried.
“Sweetheart, why don’t you eat this first?”
Liu Chunhua glared at Yun Dequan.
“Our daughter hasn’t eaten a single bite yet, and you want her to eat a plate of shredded potatoes? What kind of father are you?”
“Hehe, you’re right, old woman. Sweetheart, be good and eat the noodles first.”
Yun Dequan gave an embarrassed smile.
Shen Xingchen watched the scene and gently waved his hand, leading the medical staff present outside first.
Yun Xingwan took a bite of the fried egg.
The tender, smooth, and springy egg spread across her tongue, and her eyes grew moist once again.
This was the taste she had longed for over three hundred million years!
At long last, she tasted it again.
“So delicious!”
“Of course, of course. If you like it, eat more!”
The couple stood happily beside the hospital bed, their eyes filled with affection for their daughter.
“Cough, cough…”
She had already forged an unparalleled Imperial body, so ordinary mortal food entering her stomach was like poison.
The discomfort she had suppressed surged back once again, and she began coughing.
She looked like someone who had been sick for years.
“Cough, cough… cough, cough…”
Liu Chunhua was terrified and repeatedly patted her back.
“Doctor! Doctor!”
Shen Xingchen, who had been waiting outside, rushed in with the doctor.
“Cough, cough…”
This time, the coughing was so violent that it seemed as though she might cough up her internal organs.
Overwhelmed with anxiety, Liu Chunhua suddenly dropped to her knees.
“Commander, Doctor, please, please save my daughter!”
Yun Dequan’s eyes filled with tears, and he knelt down as well.
“I still have some food stored at home, and I can give you my life too. As long as you can cure her, I’ll do anything!”
“Mom, Dad, get up quickly. I’m fine!”
Yun Xingwan tried to speak through her coughing.
Shen Xingchen’s expression changed dramatically, and he hurriedly reached out to help the two of them up.
He had just received an order from Number One Commander to take good care of her!
Even without that order, how could he possibly allow the parents of a god to kneel before him?
What if the god became unhappy and merely coughed softly?
Would the Ninth Base even survive?
“Uncle Yun, please get up. Don’t worry. Miss Yun is our savior. Even without you asking, we will do everything in our power to treat her.”
The only words that registered in Yun Dequan and Liu Chunhua’s frantic minds were “do everything in our power to save her.”
They repeatedly thanked him.
“Thank you!”
Shen Xingchen turned toward the doctors who were still standing there in a daze.
“What are you waiting for? Bring out every advanced medicine in the reserve storage. Use all the life source fluid we just excavated as well.
Even if we empty the national treasury, it will be worth it.”
“Yes, yes!”
The doctors and nurses around them hurried into action, terrified.
This was the first time they had ever heard the commander speak like this.
The nurse who had initially tried to draw Yun Xingwan’s blood could not help taking another look at her.
Who exactly was she?
What kind of identity did she have to deserve such treatment?
Seeing the commander give his orders, Yun Dequan and Liu Chunhua finally felt a little more at ease.
Their eyes remained filled with concern.
“Sweetheart, don’t worry. Your father and mother will definitely save you!”
Yun Xingwan looked at her anxious parents and at Shen Xingchen rushing around to arrange everything for her.
A warm current quietly flowed through her heart, which had been desolate for three hundred million years.
Home…
Country…
Blue Star…
She had made up her mind.
Before she finally lay down inside that coffin, she, the Great Emperor Yun Xing, would protect this land no matter what!
At six in the morning, after staying awake all night, Yun Dequan and Liu Chunhua returned home.
They brought out the half bag of white rice they had treasured for a long time, cooked some porridge, and hurried back to the hospital.
Liu Chunhua blew gently on the steaming porridge before taking a spoon and carefully feeding Yun Xingwan one spoonful at a time.
She continued chattering about various trivial matters from home.
“Sweetheart, do you still remember Uncle Zhao’s family?”
Yun Xingwan lay obediently on the hospital bed, drinking her porridge.
Outside the room, Shen Xingchen watched the warm family scene inside, and an inexplicable sadness rose in his heart.
Even a god was ultimately still human.
He did not know what she had been through. No matter how powerful she was, she was ultimately still just a young girl.
Inside the hospital room, Yun Xingwan pieced together the fragments of her memories.
She picked up a name that she had almost completely forgotten and brushed the dust from it.
“Is it Zhao Jinzhan?”
A trace of gloom passed through Liu Chunhua’s eyes.
Her daughter actually still remembered him.
“Yes. Your father and I finished cooking the porridge this morning, and on our way to the hospital, we ran into your Uncle Zhao.
According to him, he has really made something of himself. He developed an ability and is now a lieutenant colonel in the military.”
Yun Xingwan nodded.
“That’s pretty good.”
Yun Dequan, who was peeling an egg nearby, paused as well.
“Sweetheart, back then, you and Jinzhan got engaged. You were planning to get married after you graduated from university. Then you disappeared.
He seemed very heartbroken, and I don’t know why, but he still hasn’t married to this day.
Now that you’re back, perhaps…
Well, as long as you still like him and he is willing to marry you, your mother and I are willing to agree too.”
Yun Xingwan thought about what had happened back then.
She had gone traveling after catching him in bed with her best friend.
At the time, it had truly broken her heart.
As for now, three hundred million years was more than enough time to erase many things from her heart.
Besides, he was nothing more than an insignificant person.
Her silence made the couple believe that their daughter still had feelings for him.
Although Liu Chunhua did not think Zhao Jinzhan was a good man, her daughter liked him.
In this apocalyptic world, who knew whether tomorrow or death would arrive first?
“Sweetheart, as long as you like him, that’s enough. You’re not young anymore, and your father and I agree to this marriage. Once you’re discharged from the hospital, we’ll discuss everything and settle the matter.”
Yun Xingwan’s eyelids twitched.
She had indeed loved him very much once.
But she did not anymore.
She wanted to refuse, but she was afraid of hurting her mother’s feelings, so she could only brush the matter aside.
“Mom, there’s no rush. We don’t need to hurry.”
Outside the room, a complicated feeling rose in Shen Xingchen’s heart.
She had a fiancé?
He had just taken a step forward when Dr. Jiang, her attending physician, came running over with sweat covering his forehead.
“Commander, could I speak with you privately?”
He followed Dr. Jiang to the laboratory.
“What exactly is wrong with Miss Yun’s body?”
Dr. Jiang suppressed the shock in his heart and activated a holographic projection.
“Commander, to be honest, we simply cannot understand it.”
“What happened?”
Dr. Jiang helplessly pointed at the chaotic data displayed on the screen, fear evident in his voice.
“We used the latest spectral scanning device to conduct a full body scan of her. The results showed…”
Dr. Jiang stopped.
Shen Xingchen gestured for him to continue.
“The results showed that Miss Yun has absolutely no signs of illness.”
“What did you say? Is she perhaps dead?”
“No. It’s more terrifying than being dead!”
“Then what exactly is it?”
Dr. Jiang pointed toward the pitch black section of the holographic projection.
“Under normal circumstances, the human body relies on cellular metabolism and the circulation of organic matter. Even able users cannot escape this fundamental law.
But her body is like a collapsed black hole.
Or perhaps, a universe that is gradually dying.
Every cell in her body is like a star, constantly disintegrating and releasing a form of high energy radiation that current science cannot explain.
This radiation is not only sustaining her life, it is also consuming it.”
“What’s the conclusion? Can she be saved or not?”
Shen Xingchen’s expression became cold and stern.
“No. She has already reached the end of her life.”