Earth Dao World, Earth!
Huaxia, First People's Hospital of GZ City!
It was the hottest part of summer. Outside, the blazing sun hung high in the sky, rolling heat waves filled every corner, and even the cicadas had lost the strength to chirp.
Inside one of the hospital rooms, the air conditioner hummed feebly, yet it kept the scorching heat outside and left the room fresh and cool.
On the hospital bed, a young man—or perhaps a boy—who looked to be around twenty stared blankly at the white ceiling above him.
This was a special hospital room, one of the best rooms in the entire hospital.
That much was obvious from its daily fee of nearly ten thousand yuan.
Judging by that alone, one might have assumed that the young man in the bed came from a wealthy family, but the truth was otherwise.
The young man in this room was merely an ordinary college student, not someone born into wealth. There was a reason he had been admitted to such a room.
"Look, that person is awake!"
"He really is awake. This kid is damn lucky. If he'd been any later, he'd have gone to see the King of Hell!"
"Isn't that so? He got into a room like this without paying a cent. How could his luck be bad?"
A doctor had just finished making rounds, so the room door was open. By sheer coincidence, two or three nurses happened to pass by outside, and those murmured remarks came from them.
Although the nurses only glanced into the room before hurrying away, their voices pulled the boy back from some distant, ethereal state.
Lucky?
A helpless, bitter smile appeared at the corner of the boy's mouth, and a complicated expression crossed his face.
*If I were lucky,