Earth Dao Realm, Earth!
China, GZ City First People's Hospital!
It was the hottest part of summer. The sun blazed overhead, waves of heat rolling everywhere. Even the cicadas had lost the strength to sing.
In one of the hospital rooms, the air conditioner hummed feebly, but it kept the heat outside at bay, leaving the room cool and comfortable.
On the bed lay a young man who looked about twenty—or perhaps he was still a boy. His eyes were vacant as he stared at the room's white ceiling.
This was a special hospital room, one of the best in the hospital.
You could tell from the fact that it cost nearly ten thousand yuan a day.
At a glance, the grown boy in the bed might have seemed to come from a wealthy family, but that wasn't the case.
He was just an ordinary college student, and he hadn't been born into a rich family. There was a reason he was staying in a room like this.
"Look, he's awake!"
"He really is! That kid's got one hell of a life, though. If he'd been any later, he would've gone to meet the King of Hell!"
"Exactly. He didn't pay a cent and still got a room like this. How could his luck be bad?"
A doctor had just made his rounds, so the room's door was open. As luck would have it, two or three nurses were passing by at that moment. Their voices carried into the room.
Though the nurses had only glanced inside before hurrying away, their words had pulled the boy back from a dazed, unearthly state.
Lucky?
A helpless smile tugged at the boy's lips, and a complicated look crossed his face.
If I were lucky, would I have been shocked straight into