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Names mentioned in this chapter (which can also be found in the glossary ):
-向以茉( Xiàng yǐ mò)- Xiang Yi Mo, the female lead
– 景谦( jǐng qiān)- Jing Qian, a talented surgeon from the department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
「Even if you decide to stay away from the rights and wrongs of the female and male leads now, it won’t change the fact that you will be dead in three years.」
A child-like voice suddenly sounded in Xiang Yi Mo’s ears.
“Who is that?!” The woman exclaimed, looking around in panic.
However, there wasn’t a single figure to be found.
「Stop looking around. I’m not a human.」
There was that child-like voice ringing in her ears again. Xiang Yi Mo was also certain that she wasn’t hallucinating, but something was really talking to her, making her even more frightened.
Because the thing making the noise said that it isn’t human!
Xiang Yi Mo had been afraid of ghosts since she was a little girl. She was terrified of them.
She clutched her pillow and backed away until there was nowhere else to retreat. She crouched at the bedside as if she was about to face an enemy.
Her soft voice trembled terribly. “You, you, are you a demon or a ghost? (Whimper) I’m just a little cannon fodder. Lord Demon Devil Monster, let this child off.”
The system was utterly speechless. How could there be someone so timid and funny?
「I’m not some demon, devil or monster! I am a system from the divine realm, here to help you.」
“Help me?” The words Xiang Yi Mo spoke were a bit muffled. But when she heard the word 'system”, the unexplained fear in her heart subsided a lot.
After all, she was quite fond of reading web novels.
As Xiang Yi Mo calmed down, the system repeated what it had come for.
The system that descended from heaven told her that even if she weren’t going to be involved in the male and female protagonist’s story anymore, she wouldn’t be able to avoid the death flags three years later. Also, even if she wouldn’t be sent out of the country to die in a foreign land, she would die in a fancy way under various circumstances.
Xiang Yi Mo: ???
“System, are you kidding me?”
「This system is seriously telling you this!」Unfortunately, its soft, child-like voice was destined to make its words sound less convincing.
Therefore, Xiang Yi Mo didn’t believe it at all.
「You don’t believe me, right?! You will know when the time comes!」
The system snorted and said nothing more.
The next day, when Xiang Yi Mo visited the largest and busiest shopping mall, Huanyu City, she suddenly fainted in front of her eyes. She was taken to the hospital by an ambulance called by a kind person.
When she woke up again, she received even more unbelievable news than the news from yesterday that she was female cannon fodder.
She was told by the doctors that they couldn’t find out what was the cause but all her body organs began to fail.
She was notified that she had a critical illness and would not live more than three years.
Xiang Yi Mo was utterly stunned.
“Doctor, is there really…nothing can be done?”
The doctor couldn’t stomach that either. He silently looked at her for two seconds and shook his head.
“We did a very comprehensive examination of Miss Xiang’s body. It can’t be done with the current technology. Even if Miss Xiang is wealthy, it won’t help.”
“I’m sorry.” The doctor said solemnly.
Xiang Yi Mo stumbled and ran out, bumping into an unknown person in the process. She left the hospital without apologising, lost in thought.
The eyes of the man who Xiang Yi Mo bumped into flickered slightly as he looked at Xiang Yi Mo’s disappearing back.
That is…
“Dr Jing, Dr Jing?” The doctor beside him saw that Jing Qian had stopped there for a long time without moving, so he called out to him.
Jing Qian responded with an “mm” sound to that fellow doctor.
“What’s wrong, Dr Jing? Are you too tired? After that surgery just now, you should take a good rest, doctor.”
“Mm…I just saw someone I know.” Jing Qian averted his gaze and spoke indifferently, “It’s fine. Let’s go.”
In the bedroom of a villa, Xiang Yi Mo’s entire body was paralysed on the bed. Her small hands held up the notice of critical illness that the doctor had issued to her as her eyes stared intently at the white paper with black letters in a daze. She was just…devastated.
After a long time, she struggled to open her mouth. “System, are you there?”
「I’m here.」
“Do you know, System, this is not the first time I have received a critical illness notice? I received one in my previous life.”
In her previous life, she had to lie in a hospital bed every day and endured the pain of her illness. She always looked out of the window with longing eyes, wishing all the time that she had a healthy body.
She finally had it in this life, only to be fooled by this outrageous cannon fodder fate.
「I know. I have all your information here. Xiang Yi Mo, a person who suffered from leukaemia and had died from suicide.」
Because her family in her previous life wasn’t well off, and she had a younger brother. Also, her family somewhat attached more importance to males than females.
Xiang Yi Mo knew that her parents were about to give up on her, and she didn’t like having her life dictated to her.