Gu Jinyan leaned over the sink, his brow furrowed in discomfort. He felt nauseous to the point of misery, wanting to vomit but unable to bring anything up. The distress was so intense that his eyebrows were tightly knitted together.
Seeing his discomfort, Jiang Tian hesitated for a moment before reaching out to gently pat his back in a comforting gesture.
One vomiting, the other patting—an oddly harmonious scene unfolded between the two.
It took quite a while before Gu Jinyan finally recovered.
Jiang Tian turned and poured him a cup of warm water.
“Want a drink?”
“Thank you.”
Jiang Tian raised an eyebrow and pulled out a chair to sit beside Gu Jinyan, smiling. “I never expected someone as aloof as the award-winning actor Gu to actually say ‘thank you’?”
Gu Jinyan didn’t respond directly, instead retorting, “I also never expected someone like you to be thoughtful enough to hand me a cup of warm water. I thought you’d just splash it in my face.”
After exchanging these words, the two looked at each other and laughed.
Two weeks ago, they were at each other’s throats every time they met—putting on a show in public while undermining and fighting in private. But since they had agreed to cooperate, they had managed to coexist peacefully without interfering with each other.
Of course, this didn’t mean Jiang Tian had started liking Gu Jinyan. After all, she still regarded him as one of the most dangerous people in the world. She had no intention of meeting a tragic end at such a young age.
“I’ve noticed you haven’t been feeling well for a while now. Have you been to the hospital?” Jiang Tian sat at the table and continued eating her noodles, her appetite completely unaffected.
“No, it’s not a big issue. Just nausea and loss of appetite, though sometimes I feel hungry easily. I’ll go for a checkup after we finish the concentrated filming sessions in the next couple of days,” Gu Jinyan replied slowly as he sipped his warm water.
Jiang Tian couldn’t help but chuckle.
“That actually sounds a lot like pregnancy symptoms. Loss of appetite, nausea, but sometimes feeling hungry. Do you also occasionally crave sour things?”
Gu Jinyan: …
He glared at Jiang Tian with a dark expression.
Meeting his murderous gaze, Jiang Tian immediately raised her hands in apology. “Alright, alright, I’ll stop joking. You should rest early. Leave the dishes here; I’ll clean up. Thanks for tonight’s noodles.”
She smiled, her lips curving upward.
Gu Jinyan paused, stiffly nodded, and replied, “Mhm.”
After finishing his water, he placed the cup on the table and headed upstairs.
As he turned on the stairs, he caught sight of Jiang Tian downstairs, having just finished her meal. She was humming a tune while washing dishes in the kitchen. He couldn’t help but find it amusing, and the corners of his mouth lifted into a smile.
Meanwhile, Jiang Tian had just finished cleaning the kitchen and washing her hands. She headed upstairs to shower and sleep, her hair still damp. As she sat on the edge of the bed, about to blow-dry her hair, a sudden system notification echoed in her mind.
[Ding~ System Notification: The counterattack mission #Hope the naive and sweet transmigrator enters a tragic novel where the male lead forces her to have an abortion, and after the abortion, he even demands her uterus be removed# has been issued. Completion reward: 3 optimization points.]
“…”
Jiang Tian froze in place.
After two weeks of peaceful coexistence, she had almost forgotten about the existence of missions. Now, suddenly being hit with such a massive task left her utterly bewildered.
[Player, please note: The mission completion deadline is one and a half months. Please continue to work hard.]
“…”
This time, there’s actually a time limit?!
The key issue is, where is she supposed to get a child to abort within a month and a half? And removing the uterus! What the hell is this about removing the uterus?!
What does this mission even mean?
How is she supposed to counterattack?!
Jiang Tian panicked.
·
After drinking warm water the night before, Gu Jinyan felt much better. When he woke up in the morning, he was surprised to find Jiang Tian already up.
“You didn’t wrap up until 2 a.m. last night and only went to bed at 3 a.m. Why are you up so early? Don’t you have no scenes scheduled for today?”
But the response he received was a resentful look from the woman and an expression full of exhaustion.
Jiang Tian had suffered from insomnia all night.
Every time she closed her eyes, all she could think of were a few bold words—“Abortion! Remove the uterus!”
Last night, she actually thought Gu Jinyan seemed like a decent guy. But ever since that task was assigned, every time she see his face, it just irritates her.
Men—they really are all the same!
Utterly annoying.
Taking a sip of milk, she glanced at Gu Jinyan, who was happily eating his breakfast.
Hesitating for a moment, she asked, “Gu Jinyan, do you have any children?”
Gu Jinyan: “???”
“Whether they’re born or unborn, they all count.”
Gu Jinyan’s face darkened. “Jiang Tian, what’s wrong with you now?”
It’s not me—it’s the system that’s gone haywire!
Based on past mission experience, these so-called counterattack missions usually involve reversing the plot onto someone else once the task is assigned. Like before, when I was supposed to be humiliated, I ended up preemptively tricking Gu Jinyan.
But what about this mission now?
Find someone pregnant with Gu Jinyan’s child and force them to have an abortion and remove their uterus?
What kind of person would that make me?
What were those ridiculous anti-fans thinking when they came up with these curses?!
What on earth does this ridiculous system mean by assigning such a task?
Jiang Tian was going crazy.
“What’s wrong with you?” Gu Jinyan couldn’t help but ask, seeing her tugging at her hair one moment and frowning the next.
Jiang Tian quickly waved her hand. “It’s nothing, nothing at all. I’m full. I’m leaving now.”
Gu Jinyan: …
·
After leaving the Gu residence, Jiang Tian drove absentmindedly. Suddenly, on the way to the set, she spotted the pharmacy where she had bought contraceptives before. She froze.
Her expression gradually turned strange.
“Could it be… that I’m the one who’s pregnant?”
The original curse was that Jiang Tian herself would be forced to have an abortion and have her uterus removed. But if she isn’t forced into that situation, wouldn’t that count as a counterattack?
She…
The more Jiang Tian thought about it, the more uneasy she felt. She opened the car door and hurried into the pharmacy.
After much hesitation, she asked for a pregnancy test.
But the moment she got it, it felt like a hot potato. She shoved it into her bag.
·
When Gu Jinyan arrived at the set, he noticed Jiang Tian arrived after him, which struck him as odd. However, with so many scenes to shoot today, he didn’t get a chance to ask. Instead, Li Xia came over to remind him.
“Brother Gu, I’ve contacted Dr. Ji. He said it’s best for you to get checked. It won’t be too troublesome—just a few simple tests. You can leave right after the checkup. Oh, Dr. Ji also said if it’s inconvenient for you, you can provide a urine sample first. He’ll run a urinalysis for you to save time and hassle when you go over there.”
Li Xia handed Gu Jinyan a transparent urine sample container.
Gu Jinyan frowned slightly and nodded.
“Leave it there. I’ll take care of it in a bit.”
“Alright.”
After Li Xia left, Gu Jinyan looked at the urine sample container. After a moment’s thought, he set down the script in his hand, picked up the container, and headed to the restroom in the break room.
Just as Jiang Tian returned to the break room, Gu Jinyan happened to come out of the restroom. He saw her looking flustered, clutching her bag tightly as she brushed past him and headed into the restroom.
“What’s wrong with you today?”
Jiang Tian reflexively glared at him but then shook her head, remembering something. “It’s nothing.”
She held her bag tightly, as if afraid Gu Jinyan might see inside, pushed open the restroom door, and went in.
Gu Jinyan, treated like a thief: …
After changing his clothes, he happened to run into Li Xia, who had come to collect the sample. He instructed, “I left the sample in the second drawer of the cabinet. You can get it later. Jiang Tian is inside.”
“Got it. I’ll wait a bit.”
Meanwhile, Jiang Tian was so nervous her heart felt like it was pounding out of her chest. Her hands trembled uncontrollably as she stared fixedly at the small test strip.
She closed her eyes tightly, thinking to herself, Fine, let’s just get this over with.
She undid her clothes and proceeded to urinate. Following the instructions from the pharmacy assistant, she collected part of the urine in a container. Just as she was about to run the test, Cheng Fang’s urgent voice sounded from outside: “Sweetie, the female lead hasn’t shown up. They want you to fill in immediately and shoot the next part of your scene with Lu Xin.”
“…”