Chapter 1286: The Curse of a Gift (big chapter seeking monthly ticket)
He Ao studied the girl before him. There was nothing wrong with how she expressed her thoughts, yet something still felt off.
She seemed to have believed his words a little too quickly.
The girl looked rather guileless, but she was not stupid. Though she truly admired "Director He," she should not have believed him so easily after just one sentence. She had not even asked why He Ao had said such a thing.
Then He Ao realized something. He paused slightly, looked at Ye Ying, and asked softly, "You had already noticed something yourself?"
Ye Ying was stunned by the question. After a brief silence, she nodded gently. "Yes."
After thinking for a moment, she said slowly, "Ever since I was little, I've had this feeling. As I grew older, the people around me gradually became stronger and more energetic, but I only became weaker and weaker."
She paused, seeming to feel that her words could be misunderstood. After organizing her thoughts, she continued, "It's not exactly that I became weaker and weaker. I could feel that I was growing too, but the gap between me and people my age only kept widening. My physical strength lagged far behind that of ordinary people.
"Other people might walk one or two kilometers before they felt tired, but I would be exhausted after only a few hundred meters.
"When I was little, my parents took me to see many doctors, but none of them could do anything. They all believed I was a 'healthy' person, just somewhat frail.
"Different doctors prescribed different remedies for me—regular medicine, as well as herbal medicine. Even after I entered middle school, I kept taking medicine, but my body remained weak, and it only