Chapter 38p1: The Young Miss in the Wheelchair 38
After the sound of glass shattering, the red apple, which had no other choice, used this method to attract the attention of others.
As expected, several people rushed into the ajar hospital room and saw Xi Congshuang, who was drowsily half-closing her eyes, and were instantly overjoyed.
“She’s awake, she’s awake! She’s finally awake!”
“Doctor, go get the doctor!”
“You’re finally awake. If you hadn’t woken up by tomorrow, the anesthesiologist would have really gone crazy.”
“It’s already the fourth day. It would have been really dangerous if you hadn’t woken up. Luckily, you’re awake.”
Many words flooded her ears, so noisy that Xi Congshuang couldn’t help but frown, wanting to close her eyes and go back to sleep.
The people outside were even louder, all shouting, “Don’t sleep, don’t sleep! The doctor will be here soon.”
“Think about your mission! Think about your healthy body! Xi Congshuang, don’t sleep!”
Only Xi Congshuang could hear the electronic voice, which was so excited that it was about to break, enter her ears. A figure appeared in her mind.
Her chaotic thoughts finally grasped a thread of reason, broke through the hazy shackles, and returned to reality.
Doctor Xu bent down to observe the state of Xi Congshuang’s pupils. The situation was a little better than she had thought. “Miss Xi has woken up. Please rest well. We’ll do a comprehensive examination tomorrow to assess her recovery.”
Xi Congshuang quietly cooperated with the doctor. As Doctor Xu and Chairman Xi were talking, she turned her gaze to the IV stand.
A red apple was growing on the bare iron IV stand, looking down at her.
Only after everyone in the room had left did it come down, saying with lingering fear, “You’re really not afraid of death, are you? You actually made it through. I was so scared these past few days that you would really die.”
Xi Congshuang: “Me too.”
The red apple was at a loss for words. Since you were also scared, why did you have to have this surgery?
Xi Congshuang had been asleep for too long and was in a rare mood to chat with the system. “If I had really died, what would you have done?”
If anyone else were present, they would have definitely shouted, “Don’t say such inauspicious things,” and covered her mouth.
The red apple, which was still angry but too embarrassed to argue with a patient, said huffily, “What else could I do? I’d just leave you and find a new host.”
Xi Congshuang: “Really?”
The red apple strangely felt that something was not right, but a patient who had just come out of anesthesia couldn’t be playing mind games with it at this time, right?
But its hesitation at this moment betrayed its true situation, even though the red apple said huffily, “What else? There are thousands of people in the world. Not everyone is like you, who would waste a chance at rebirth.” It could not make up for it.
Xi Congshuang took in its reaction and showed a pale, weak smile. “So that’s how it is.”
The red apple: “Of course. In this hospital alone, I can find more than ten dying people to sign a contract with me at any time, to work for me honestly and complete the mission.”
Looking at the smile on her lips, the red apple helplessly remembered the supplementary condition: Only those who meet the standard can sign the contract.
Those who meet the standard are not cabbages that you can have whenever you want.
***
The subsequent results were unexpectedly smooth, almost a green light all the way.
Doctor Xu also sighed that she had never seen a patient with such a strong will to live. After learning that she could try rehabilitation, the stone that had been hanging over Xi Congshuang’s head for a long time finally fell.
On the seventh day after the surgery, Xi Congshuang began to get out of bed and move around. Half a month later, with her insistence, Doctor Xu agreed to let her undergo rehabilitation.
This time, it was no longer rehabilitation that focused on strengthening her upper body while sitting in a wheelchair, but standing on the ground with the support of a pair of crutches.
This feeling was truly indescribable. Xi Congshuang only felt that the blood in her body had come alive, and a sense of ease flowed through her limbs.
The doctors and nurses kept encouraging her but did not support her in walking immediately. She started her rehabilitation by trying to stand.
The patient herself was calm. Following the doctor’s words, she supported herself with the crutches and painstakingly placed her feet flat.
A long-lost intense pain came from her legs, but it was more reassuring than her numb legs. At least her leg muscles were finally reacting.
Xi Hanran was extremely flustered. From a distance, she wanted to reach out and help the trembling person.
But after watching for a long time, she suddenly said, “Xi Congshuang, have you grown taller? Weren’t you a few centimeters shorter than me before?”
The crutch in Xi Congshuang’s hand tilted, her body leaned, and she was about to fall.
“Hey, hey, hey!” The nurses rushed forward and stabilized her.
Another nurse walked over with a smile and politely asked her to leave, so as not to disturb the patient’s rehabilitation.
Xi Hanran, who had been kicked out, was still unrepentant. She looked in through the observation window and gestured her own height again.
“She really is taller. I estimate she’s three centimeters taller.” Xi Hanran continued to gesture, pointing to her eyebrows. “My net height is 175. Xi Congshuang used to be up to here.”
Xi Hanran’s assistant: “…”
Xi Hanran lowered her head and tapped on her phone, then said, “I heard you can grow taller after breaking your legs. Could it be because of this?”
Looking at Xi Hanran, who was looking at her legs, then at her phone, and then turning to look at the hard-working Xi Congshuang with an envious expression, the assistant: “…”
Although the boss is very capable at work, in other aspects, the boss’s lack of a brain is also real.
Everyone has their own shortcomings, more or less, but her own boss’s shortcomings are a bit too obvious, which makes her occasionally feel embarrassed in front of Xi Congshuang’s assistant.
The assistant quietly covered her face, not wanting to see Ni An’s face as she walked over.
***
“Bang!”
The hands holding the parallel bars did not hold on tight, and the figure in the hospital gown fell to the ground with a thud. The nurses rushed forward to help her up. The side of her face was visibly red from the fall.
Xi Congshuang’s skin was thin, and she had little fat on her face, so it was easy to leave marks.
The nurse skillfully checked Xi Congshuang’s knees and, as expected, found two more scrapes.
The nurse suggested, “If it’s still a bit of a struggle for you, why don’t you rest for a while and deal with the fall before you come back?”
Xi Congshuang nodded. “Okay.”
The nurse immediately brought a spray to apply medicine to her wound. The spray, with a strong medicinal smell, was sprayed on her legs and hands, emitting a cool sensation.
Xi Congshuang slowly felt the stinging pain of the wounds on her legs, and there was a hint of pleasure in her heart.
The legs under her pant legs were thinner than a normal person’s, with faint scars remaining, and on top of the old wounds were various scrapes and bruises from falls.
She was eager to make progress, so she was more prone to injury than others.
Come to think of it, her soul transmigration was not much better than a soul transmigration. It was a one-to-one replica of the original owner’s car accident injuries and post-operative scars. Sometimes when she looked in the mirror, she almost couldn’t tell who she was.
The nurse gently put down the rolled-up pant leg, turned to pack her things, and left Xi Congshuang to rest.
The pale sunlight shone into the room through the translucent curtains. Xi Congshuang was attracted by the reflective floor and looked over, her gaze falling on the curtains that were being blown by the wind.
Through the gap, she saw that the leaves on the treetops outside had all fallen. Winter was coming.
So it’s almost winter.
The red apple had been a bit lazy recently, appearing more and more frequently. Recently, it had been keen on watching Xi Congshuang’s rehabilitation.
Watching her fall again and again, and get up again and again, it deepened the system’s impression of her—a stubborn person.
My life is hard. I’ve met a stubborn person, and a stubborn person who loves to gamble.
After another fall from exhaustion and being advised by the nurse to rest on the side, the red apple flew over.
It didn’t understand. “If you had completed the mission properly, you would have already been in the next world by now. You might not have had to go through all this trouble with rehabilitation.”
Falling and getting bruised all over every day, working so hard for so long, and only being able to stand up and move a few steps carefully.
This is the personification of getting half the result with twice the effort. I don’t understand what she’s insisting on.
Xi Congshuang stared at the red apple. No matter how many times she looked at it, she still felt that it looked very much like the poisoned apple in the hands of the Snow Queen.
From the current situation, neither of them had a very good first impression of the other.
The red apple was a bit scared and backed away. “What are you looking at me for?”
Xi Congshuang said, “Before I transmigrated, you saw that I was about to die. In fact, before that, I had given up on a surgery.”
“The doctor said that if I hadn’t given up, I could have lived for at least another three years.”
“But I felt like a fish on a chopping block, at the mercy of others, and I was tired, so I gave up the surgery.”
“When you arrived, I was feeling the life force draining from my body.”
The red apple: “………”
The apple was shocked.
Oh my god, no wonder she was so quiet back then, and so profound even with a chance at rebirth.
And she’s not very dedicated after transmigrating, either eating or watching dog blood dramas.
I didn’t expect this person to have no intention of living at all!
My main god, why did the main system agree to let it sign a contract with this person? What did it do wrong?
The red apple felt that it had fallen into some kind of trap. It couldn’t figure out what was wrong and said in a breakdown, “According to common sense, a person like you would never easily say what’s on your mind. Why are you telling me?”
“…”
Xi Congshuang smiled and moved herself out with her crutches.
A row of white teeth flashed across the red apple’s virtual screen, and it hurriedly chased after her.
“No, what do you mean by all this?”
“Are you trying to say that something has given you a new hope for life? What is it? Tell me!”
“I haven’t even settled the score with you for the surge in the collapse value! How are you going to repay what you owe me!”
Xi Congshuang did not answer its question, which only made the red apple even redder with anger.
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