The next morning.
A sound like an elephant suffering from rhinitis and coughing shattered the cottage's silence. The girl's thin blanket had already been rolled into a ball and tossed onto the body pillow, while one lotus-like arm reached out from beneath the thick quilt and flung a wonton (parabola), landing precisely on the floor, which was already covered in a layer of wontons.
"So cold..." the girl mumbled nasally. Then her whole body shuddered. Her cheeks and the tip of her nose were flushed, while her pitch-black hair was damp with sweat, with a few strands clinging beside her cheeks and the corners of her mouth.
If one ignored the wontons she occasionally wrapped up, it would be easy to wonder whether she had gotten up to some mischief with her hands again last night.
After yesterday's cold shower, something unexpected had, unsurprisingly, happened after all.
Hua Xin stared blankly at the ceiling, then slowly closed her eyes again. She placed both hands peacefully over her lower abdomen beneath the quilt.
???°??Ascension to Heaven??°???
She probably couldn't do anything today. Her body felt so weak that she had to brace herself against the wall even to go to the bathroom, or she would fall.
Although she had dealt with the Cappuccino her aunt had brought over, the combined stimulation of the cold shower and her aunt had ultimately brought down this frail body, which had been kept going by the Thirteen Spices element.
Things had come to this anyway. She might as well..., sleep first.
Although she hadn't eaten, she had filled herself up just by drinking lava. Humans could survive a week without food, but they couldn't survive without water...
Sleeping all day to recover from her illness didn't sound too bad...
A heavy wave of drowsiness swept over her, and she was about to fall asleep again at only around nine in the morning.
Peaceful??.
Oh, right. Had I taken my medicine just now?
The sudden question made her struggle to open her eyes.
"Ugh..." Hua Xin sighed and reached around beside the bed.
"Mm, found it."
With a pair of dead-fish eyes, she looked at the neatly arranged blister pack of Little Red Flower Gan Kang pills. Not a single pill seemed to be missing.
I'll take two at once... That should make me recover a little faster.
Awu...
After tearing open the package and swallowing the pills, Hua Xin picked up a tin mug that only elderly people from the last century would use and gulped down hot water.
"Bleh." The girl stuck out her tongue adorably and closed her eyes??. The bitter taste made her whole body uncomfortable??.
She peacefully crawled back beneath the quilt and lay down, then turned over.
When she lay flat, her nose became blocked and she couldn't breathe. Turning over allowed one nostril to breathe again. This strange phenomenon had baffled her to this day.
"I can breathe again..."
The girl hummed happily twice, then fell into a deep sleep while hugging her long, full-sized anime body pillow.
But whether it was because the fever had overheated her mind, or because repeatedly falling asleep and waking up had left her confused, Hua Xin didn't know.
Beneath a layer of wontons, the medicine package from two hours earlier lay quietly.
The phone on the computer desk kept flashing. It was also in silent do-not-disturb mode, so it couldn't alert Hua Xin to what was happening and could only suffer through the flood of messages all alone.
"Money??... So much money??..."
Bundles upon bundles of dollar bills rained down and submerged Hua Xin. The scent of ink from freshly printed banknotes filled the girl with incomparable satisfaction.
"Hehe??, I'm rich now... I can do whatever I want... I'll leave the air conditioner on all day, and I'll eat the ultimate invincible six-hundred-layer-cheese, three-thousand-layer-meat-patty giant Big Mac hamburger??..."
"I want the most expensive PS5 and 4090 Ti??, I want to buy?? the 10086 Max 1TB Coldfront Blue...
But then the countless dollar bills raining from the sky suddenly transformed into countless razor-sharp needles, stabbing toward Hua Xin as she swam through the money.
The girl lying among the dollar bills couldn't move at all.
"Ahhhhhhh?? Don't!!" The girl suddenly changed expression and wailed loudly. "Tang San, I even gave you monthly votes before (hinting) to help everyone revive Electrolux!! Don't kill me with the Torrential Pear Blossom Needles..."
"Ugh..." Hua Xin looked as though she had been turned into a porcupine??. Her head lolled to the side, and she stopped breathing.
Then the scene suddenly changed.
"Huh? I didn't die?"
The girl stared incredulously at her fair, petite hands and let out a long sigh.
What the heck... I'm still alive.
Hachimi, Hachimi, Hachimi~ Hachimi Nangleinuo~
Humming a song, Hua Xin sat up. But when she looked at the incomparably grand and luxurious room before her, she realized a problem.
Where was she?
"Creak."
"Master, would you like to eat first today, take a bath first, or perhaps... show favor to someone?"
An incredibly cute Cat-eared Maid entered the room and said seductively. Right behind her came... Ku... Kurumi??!
Hua Xin's eyes widened as she stared at the scene before her in shock.
Seijin Hui, Eriri, Tsunade, Saionji Sekai, Ahri, Seraphine...
One after another, the famous 2D beauties who occupied most of Hua Xin's spiritual solace also walked in.
"I'm not dreaming, am I?? I really am not dreaming, am I??"
Drool trickled from the corners of Hua Xin's mouth as she gazed heatedly at the neatly arranged characters before her.
"My harem... Is this all my harem??... I'm so happy. I'm so satisfied."
The girl stood up crying, then immediately prepared to throw herself onto the soft, pale thighs before her, to experience the ultimate scene she had fantasized about for nearly ten years.
"2D, here I come..."
"2D, I'm coming!!!!"
Clearly, she had forgotten that she no longer had the equipment for such crimes.
"Wives!!!... Huh????"
All the breathtaking wives had vanished, leaving behind only wooden stakes covered in sharp swords. Black-green liquid flowed down them, making it obvious at a glance that it was potent poison.
Her eyes widened, and she immediately wailed:
"Nooo, I don't want to go to 2D anymore!!!!"
"Uncle, save me! Make me stop! (desperate sobbing)"
The girl had already used all her strength to throw herself into a leap of faith and could no longer turn back. She could only watch helplessly as countless blade tips pierced through her body, staining the wooden stakes red with blood.
"Ugh..."
Hua Xin's head lolled to the side again, and she lay lifeless.
"My foolish master."
Hua Xin opened her eyes in confusion and found herself in another strange place.
This was a space containing nothing but pure white. There was nothing else.
"Who said that? Am I not dead?"
The girl raised her head to examine the strange space, but her breath immediately caught??.
A winged ???? was hovering in the air, looking at her with relief.
"Seeing that you're doing well, I can leave without worry."
"I'm going to pursue my own dreams and freedom. Don't feel guilty because I'm leaving. May everything go well for you..."
With that, ???? flapped its wings and flew into the distance.
"Nooooooo!"
"My ??????????!!"
The girl watched the scene unfold in grief, her eyes filled with helplessness.
Hua Xin reached out toward the direction in which it had departed... and then...
She opened her eyes.
Ugh...
The familiar scene.
The computer. The walls plastered with 2D posters.
After wiping away the drool, Hua Xin silently lifted the quilt.
It was gone.
Tears as large as beans slid down the girl's cheeks??.
Choked sobs escaped Hua Xin's mouth as she gripped the quilt tightly with both hands:
"Goodbye ????..."
"My ??????."
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