My head was spinning.
My body felt so heavy.
I was so sleepy… I couldn’t even open my eyes.
But my consciousness was the only thing steadily gathering, growing clearer by the second.
Hadn’t I… died before?
Then I ran into that bastard light orb.
What was it that she said?
Oh, right.
She said she was going to make me a girl in my next life!!
What the damn hell!
Rage toward that bastard light orb surged up instantly, mingled with sheer terror in her heart. Ye Zhibai abruptly snapped her eyes open!
It was just like jolting awake from a nightmare. The moment her eyes flew open, she drew in a deep breath with too much force.
“Cough! Haah… ha…!”
She nearly choked herself to death again!
It took several labored deep breaths before she could finally steady her breathing.
And right then, her senses began to recover one by one.
Her sense of smell picked up the sharp tang of disinfectant.
Her hearing sharpened. Her vision cleared. Her sense of touch returned crisp and vivid.
The area around her carried the faint scent of disinfectant.
It was a bit pungent.
As her vision focused, she saw spotless white porcelain tiles overhead on the ceiling.
She could hear the crisp chirping of birds outside the window, along with a faintly irritating… beep-beep-beep.
Ye Zhibai had been a med student in her previous life. She knew that sound all too well.
It was the steady rhythm of a heart monitor.
Her palm registered the soft touch of the bedsheets beneath it.
All these vivid sensations pointed to one undeniable fact.
This lord… had come back to life!!
She was alive, but not fully yet.
Her body still wouldn’t obey her. It felt as heavy as if it were filled with lead. She couldn’t even turn her head to look around—just lie there on her back, staring up at the ceiling.
Calm down… just calm down for now.
Judging by the ceiling and the smell of disinfectant, this had to be a hospital, right?
In that case, there was a good chance that whole business with the trash light orb was just a dream. Maybe she’d been hit by a car and some good Samaritan rushed her to the hospital for treatment… She hadn’t actually died at all?!
Yeah! By all logic, getting cursed out by a deity after death was the kind of miserable crap that just didn’t happen!
Right? Right? Who the hell had it that bad?
So… that bit about turning into a girl was probably part of the dream too, nine times out of ten.
Damn, what a weird dream. She had gone and scared herself for nothing.
Perhaps it was the sudden weight lifting off her mind, but out of habit, Ye Zhibai let out a relaxed breath as her nerves eased.
“Hoo…”
Huh?
Something wasn’t right.
Her heart skipped a beat.
Even the heart monitor’s beeping picked up speed!
Ha… Must’ve been the way she breathed just now.
Try again.
She exhaled softly once more.
This time, the sound came out a bit louder than before.
“Hoo…!”
Wait—what?!
Her voice!
Where the hell was the deep, magnetic timbre she remembered?!
What was with this damn sweet lilt?!
“Hoo, hoo, hoo! Cough, cough, cough!”
Lesson learned: never do several pointless exhales in a row—especially without inhaling.
Choking on your own spit while hacking up a lung was pure misery!
Using the momentum from her coughing fit, she twisted painfully toward the head of the bed.
She shifted her suddenly narrow-feeling back, trying to lean against the bed’s side table and sit up.
Wait—
Her eyes, squinted shut from the discomfort, gradually opened wide.
She gasped in a sharp breath and stared in utter disbelief!
With her posture shifted, her view changed too.
And within her field of vision… the hospital room was shockingly spacious.
Way too big.
There was just the one bed in this massive room—like a VIP private suite reserved for treating VIPs.
But that wasn’t the point.
The real kicker was the name tag stuck to the headboard for the patient.
It didn’t say her original name “Ye Zhibai.”
It said—”Ye Zhibai” but written with completely different, feminine characters.
Ha…?
Such a girly name.
Had the nurse messed up entering her info? Swapped two characters, no less?
Talk about sloppy.
As if!
If only it were that simple!!
Ye Zhibai clearly saw a lock of silver hair—rising and falling right in front of her, spilling across the bedsheets.
Following it along the sheets, it nearly reached the edge of the bed. She strained to look down further, and that one lock was just the beginning.
A dazzling cascade of silver fanned out around her like a sea of silvery-white blossoms, covering most of the bed!
And following the direction of the silver strands, Ye Zhibai saw her lower half: two slender legs clad in pure white pajama pants.
And at the end of those legs, a pair of exquisitely soft little feet, delicate as fine craftsmanship.
She wiggled her toes experimentally.
They actually moved!!
These were her feet?! Hadn’t they shrunk a full size smaller?!
She lifted her hands… equally delicate and tender. Long, slender fingers. Her arms gleamed with an alluring snow-white pallor.
Ye Zhibai’s little face instantly drained of color!
This lord… had never grown out her hair, let alone silver hair!
That was the color she’d dreamed of on her 2D waifu!
But right now, this dreamlike cascade of hair was breathtakingly beautiful.
Could it be… that none of it was a dream?!
Had that inexplicable light orb really turned her into a girl?!
Panic flooded Ye Zhibai’s mind almost completely. She desperately needed more proof.
“No… way… This… can’t…”
Ye Zhibai had to admit it—she was freaking out!
Only then did she realize her body had gained a bit more strength since waking. It still wasn’t enough for free movement, but small motions were no problem now.
That last check wasn’t enough. Her palm began sliding slowly along her arm, exploring her body, until it reached her chest—and froze.
“Hm…?”
What… was this wonderful, stress-melting sensation?
Not too big, not too small—just right. Soft and perfectly cupped in one palm.
The gentle curve wasn’t exaggerated, yet it traced an artistic arc that soothed the soul!
This was something Ye Zhibai had never touched in her previous life.
She felt an inexplicable urge.
Gathering what little strength she had, she squeezed!
“Ah…!”
A jolt of electricity shot through her.
Ye Zhibai’s toes curled involuntarily.
?!
Was that pathetic squeak really her voice…?
That frail, delicate girly voice—like it would topple in a stiff breeze?!
But that sensation… it was something she’d never felt in her past twenty-odd years.
The resulting weakness made her hand slip from her chest, falling naturally to her upper thigh—right in the middle.
Empty—
Empty—
So damn empty!!
The heart monitor blared out the fastest beeps since she’d woken!
Help!!
My little brother—the one who’d stuck with me for twenty years but never seen real action, never set foot on the battlefield! He’d vanished!!
Ye Zhibai couldn’t take it anymore!
She pretty much knew now that the bastard light orb hadn’t lied. She really had been turned into a girl!
But…! She desperately needed someone to explain her situation right now!!
At least give her a mirror so she could see what she looked like!
The bit of restored strength in Ye Zhibai’s body was nearly spent.
The only move she could muster now was slapping the metal bed rail, banging out clang-clang-clang to summon someone alive to explain!
And it worked.
Ye Zhibai had barely smacked the rail three times.
The door to the room practically exploded open with a thunderous crash!
Like a full-on battlefield assault!
It startled Ye Zhibai so badly she jolted all over.
With the door flying open came two urgent shouts.
“Eldest Miss?!”
“Eldest Miss Ye!! Are you okay?!”
“…”
Through the corner of her eye, Ye Zhibai weakly lifted her head, taking in the dramatic scene at the door.
It wasn’t nurses who burst in.
It was two maids in black-and-white maid outfits, baseball bats in hand, faces a mix of fierce and vigilant as they charged into the room… two maid sisters?
But when the two maids saw Ye Zhibai with her eyes open, propped dazedly against the bed’s edge and staring at them…
They looked just as shocked as she was!
Ye Zhibai could have sworn she heard one of the maids, her voice trembling with joy, instruct the other.
“Quick… quick! Go tell the Second Miss… the Eldest Miss is awake! The Eldest Miss is really awake!”
