Jasmine sat by the hospital bed, looking at the young man who was still unconscious, his spine injured after an accident.
His name was Johnny Joestar, her boyfriend — or more accurately, her original body’s boyfriend.
Jasmine had just finished a week of night shifts at the hospital. On her day off, she went to sleep, and when she woke up, she found herself in another person’s body.
This world was from a comic set in 19th century America with supernatural powers. A friend had recommended it many times, saying it was a story about a selfish young man who later tried to change his fate. Jasmine had planned to read it after work, but now she had no chance.
Why did she transmigrate as the disabled male lead’s ex-girlfriend before she even finished the story?
Even though this ex-girlfriend was just a minor character who would leave soon, she was the reason why the male lead’s accident and the whole story began.
Jasmine now had the original owner’s memories. It was 1888. The original owner was the daughter of an immigrant. Her father ran a gambling house in the Chinese district and made a lot of money. The original owner was pretty, but she was known as a troublemaker. She knew the male lead was a famous playboy who changed girlfriends very quickly. But because he was the most popular star jockey at the time, being with him made her feel proud, so she took the initiative and became his girlfriend.
On their first date, they went to see a movie. Because she did not want to wait in line, she encouraged her boyfriend to cut in line and to be rude to an ordinary person who had been waiting all night. They were too harsh, and even paid the security to drag the other person away. In the end, the person was pushed too far and an accident happened — a gun was fired, and Johnny’s spine was injured, leaving him unable to walk.
When she received these memories, she just felt speechless.
Normally, a comic male lead would have some special power or a noble character. She had never heard of a male lead who became paralyzed because he cut in line and bullied others!
What was even more unbelievable was that she heard he later did something extreme to the president in the story — because this was a fictional comic world, not the real President Benjamin Harrison.
Jasmine felt that this young man named Johnny must have been mentally affected by his injury, which made him do such extreme things later.
The original owner broke up with him directly after he was injured and could no longer ride horses. All his friends and admirers left him. She heard his father had also abandoned him, having broken ties with his family long ago. Now he was truly alone.
He had experienced great ups and downs at such a young age… it was truly pitiful.
Jasmine had now become a minor supporting character whose role seemed to end after the male lead’s accident. Honestly, his family had given up on him and left him alone in a poorly equipped hospital to recover, though she heard he would rise again later. It seemed he would not take revenge on the girl who caused his accident, so even if she left him, there would be no problem.
But Jasmine felt her conscience could not allow it.
Although she was not the original owner, she could not shake off the responsibility. Out of humanity, she should care for him.
Of course, the main reason Jasmine was willing to visit him was that Johnny was very cute — a standard American sweetheart boy.
And she also had free time, unlike other immigrants who needed to worry about money. Because the original owner’s father was busy with his own business and was very indulgent to his daughter, she had time. During Johnny’s coma, she came to see him several times, but besides her, no one else came.
He slept for a long time. The nurse said he woke up a few times, but because he could not accept that he could not walk, he quickly fell asleep again crying.
Until one day, during Jasmine’s visit, Johnny finally woke up.
Jasmine thought he would be furious and vent all his anger on her, scolding her for making him like this. She was mentally prepared, after all, it was the original owner’s fault.
However, Johnny just stared at her blankly, his eyes calm and hopeless, as if he had already accepted everything.
“Oh? You haven’t left yet? You…”
Johnny looked at Jasmine weakly and in surprise. He moved his dry lips, but could not call out her name for a long time.
…He probably doesn’t even remember what her name is. Jasmine thought silently, after all, he was a playboy who changed girlfriends quickly.
“Jasmine.”
Jasmine closed the book she was reading and reintroduced herself to Johnny, “I’m sorry for what happened to you, but saying anything now is useless. I will take responsibility for you.”
“…Ah.”
Johnny, realizing the situation, suddenly looked empty, his expression became very numb.
“…There’s no need, it’s not your fault, it’s my own problem of being too arrogant. If I wasn’t so arrogant, how could I do that kind of thing just because my girlfriend encouraged me…”
In fact, he had blamed and hated before, but in the end he reflected on himself. Blaming a girl for his own mistakes was the worst behavior. Only a true loser would do that, even though he had now become a loser.
His emotions collapsed more and more, and he suddenly covered his eyes with his hand that could still move, and cried uncontrollably.
“Really… why did I do that…”
…Actually, he is quite a good person.
Jasmine thought to herself, at least in this situation he didn’t blame others. Any other person would have started blaming and scolding the woman by now, even she herself felt the original owner was also responsible. But Johnny took all the blame himself. Not to mention his previous playboy behavior, he was actually a pretty good man.
It’s just that his regret came too late… reflection is useless now.
“It’s not entirely out of responsibility.”
It was because he was good-looking and she had free time, Jasmine suddenly felt that accompanying him was not bad at all, because he looked so cute.
Jasmine took out a handkerchief to help him wipe his nose, and then proudly told him, “Because I am your girlfriend, we haven’t broken up, right? I didn’t date you just because of your fame. I won’t abandon you like others.”
“Really? You don’t plan to break up with me?”
Johnny showed a surprised expression again, and at the same time he looked a little ashamed.
“Actually you don’t have to do this, I can’t give you anything now, if you continue to date me you will only be laughed at by others, I don’t want to drag a girl down for a lifetime.”
In fact, he didn’t even remember this girl’s name. He would break up with these girlfriends who came to him quickly like before, but he didn’t expect that after his disability, everyone abandoned him, but she still planned to continue to be with him.
“It’s true! I don’t care at all whether you can walk or not! I only like you, your condition won’t affect our feelings, I still want to be with you, unless you plan to dump me.”
In fact, if he was still that talented playboy with a halo, she wouldn’t insist on continuing to date him.
Jasmine stared straight at Johnny, she could hardly hide her excitement.
“By the way, do you really have no feeling anywhere? Oh I just ask casually, don’t take it to heart, even if you can’t do anything, I don’t mind, I can take care of you.”
“….”
Johnny was silent for a moment, his eyes suddenly became more lifeless, but he still weakly defended himself.
“…No, I still have feeling.”
“How do you know?” Jasmine narrowed her eyes vigilantly, asking suspiciously.
Could he be pretending to be strong? But actually she really didn’t mind at all.
“…I just know.”
Johnny’s voice became lighter and lighter, he didn’t dare to look directly at Jasmine, and finally he covered his face with his hand and said painfully, “I… I want to calm down for a bit, okay? Although you say you don’t want to break up, I still need to think…”
“Okay, then I’ll come to see you tomorrow? Before I go, let me help you tidy up your blanket first.”
The next day when Jasmine went to see him, Johnny very decisively proposed a breakup.
“I’m sorry, I still can’t be with you.”
He looked very depressed, but he still told the truth.
“Because I don’t actually like you. If I continue to be with you just so you can take care of me, then I’m really selfish. I’m already useless, I don’t want to be a terrible man anymore… I’m going to ask the nurse to take care of me. Anyway, thank you for taking care of me during this time, Jasmine.”