Seeing her awake, he put his phone back in his pocket. “Miss, you’re awake.”
“Mm, Zhang Shu, you’re back. Thank you for staying with me all this time,” she said. In her previous life, Zhang Shu had always stayed with her in the hospital, bought her meals, and ran errands.
“Hehe, no need to thank me,” he said, scratching his head.
“Zhang Shu, did you get my jade pendant back?”
“Ah, I got it. Here it is, for you.”
“Thank you.”
Yun Shu took the pendant from Zhang Shu and held it in her palm. It felt icy cold, no longer radiating the warm energy it once did.
What was going on?
Could it be that the pendant had no effect in this life?
She held it again, closing her eyes to feel it carefully.
Still, it was only cold.
Disappointed, she opened her eyes. “Zhang Shu, I’m hungry. Could you get me some food?”
“Sure. What would you like?”
“Just some lean pork congee, thank you.”
“No problem. You just lie down and rest. I’ll be back soon,” Zhang Shu said, seeing her listless appearance and feeling uneasy.
“Mm.”
After Zhang Shu left, Yun Shu picked up the string of the pendant and let it dangle. She watched it spin once in front of her before slowly stopping.
“You won’t help me anymore, will you?”
Suddenly, the pendant cracked with a snap, and a beam of white light shot straight into her forehead.
It only lasted an instant, too fast for her to react, before entering her body.
“Ding, system match successful. System importing… import successful.”
Yun Shu’s eyes widened.
She thought she had just heard a voice speaking in her mind. Blinking, she looked at the pendant and saw it slowly turn gray, like an ordinary stone, without a trace of shine.
“Ding ding ding, Hello, Master! I’m the Super Invincible Medical System, happy to serve you!”
“Y-You… who are you? How are you in my mind?” This time, she was certain the voice was in her head.
“Master, I am the Medical System. Due to an accident while being sent from the interstellar realm, I was stored in the pendant before you. You awakened me.”
“How did I awaken you?”
“Your blood from your past life revived me. I restored my energy and bound myself to you. But once I bound to you, I died. If your soul disappeared, I would never return to the interstellar realm. So I used my remaining energy to bring you back two days ago.”
So that was it.
“But what’s the point of binding me? I don’t even know how long this body will live.” She lowered her eyes sadly.
“Don’t be sad, Master. I am a medical system. I can heal you.”
Yun Shu’s eyes lit up. “You can heal me? But I have a congenital heart disease. It’s very difficult to cure.”
“Don’t worry, Master. Interstellar quality, guaranteed premium. Our interstellar restorative elixir can cure any chronic illness—just drink 100 drops. Only…”
“Only what?”
“Cough… only that the elixir requires collecting human ‘favor points’ to exchange. 500 favor points per drop.”
“Favor points? You mean I have to collect other people’s admiration for me?”
“Yes, Master.”
“How do I get others’ admiration?”
“That’s up to you to figure out, Master.”
“So if I drink 100 drops of the elixir, my heart disease will be cured, right?” Yun Shu asked uncertainly.
“Yes, Master.”
“Alright,” Yun Shu said joyfully, her face blossoming into a bright smile like a flower, lighting up the entire ward.
A doctor passing by for rounds couldn’t help but stop and look through the window.
From his angle, the girl’s face and lips were pale from illness, but her delicate and beautiful features smiled radiantly, and her glass-like eyes shone brightly—like a resilient snow lotus refusing to wither.
“Dr. Li, what are you looking at? The patient in Room 306 may need urgent care,” a nurse urged him as he stood frozen.
“Oh, right, let’s go.”
After the doctor left, Zhang Shu returned carrying a takeout bag. Seeing Yun Shu in bed, he seemed even more relieved than before, hoping that the child could live well even after leaving the Yun family.
“Miss, I’ve brought your congee. Want to eat now?”
“Thank you, Zhang Shu. I’ll eat now.” She wanted to eat well—since there was hope for her recovery, she would live properly.
“Ding, congratulations, Master, favor points +1. Total favor points: 1,” the system’s voice sounded in her mind.
“Zhang Shu, have you eaten?”
“Hehe, I’ll grab something later.”
“It’s late, Zhang Shu. You go eat first. I’m fine here.”
“Alright, I’ll go then.”
“Okay.”
Watching Zhang Shu leave, Yun Shu quickly asked, “System, did I just receive a favor point?”
“Yes, Master. Keep it up!”
Yun Shu was delighted. Even if it was just one point, it was a good start, wasn’t it?
She silently gave herself a thumbs-up.
Half an hour later, Zhang Shu returned with her suitcase, apologetic. “Miss, Madam sent me to the airport to pick someone up, so I brought your luggage.”
“Alright, just place it by the wall. You go ahead and take care of your tasks. I can manage myself. I may leave tomorrow, so you don’t need to come again.”
Her foster mother had likely sent Zhang Shu to pick up the real Yun Shan Shan.
“Miss, please take good care of your health.”
“Mm, I will.”
After Zhang Shu left, she remembered her foster mother once showing her photos of her biological parents in the countryside.
The people in the photos were dark-skinned, thin, single-eyelid, with flat noses and calculating eyes—nothing like her.
That was why she rejected returning to her biological parents in the countryside. Seeing her reluctance, her foster father bought her an apartment in Yunhai City to live independently.
Her brother was on a business trip abroad; she wondered if he knew she wasn’t his real sister.
She opened her phone and looked through chat records with him. Just two days ago, he asked what gift she wanted, saying he would buy it for her.
And in the past, whenever he upset her, he would message her to cheer her up and beg for forgiveness.
Looking at these messages, tears flowed again uncontrollably. Finally, she pulled the blanket over her head and wept silently.
【Do not take the novel literally; it’s all made up by the author. Ignore any inconsistencies and just enjoy the story. Go, go, go…】