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A-Deng reached out a paw and touched Shen Baili's forehead, then began piecing things together.

"Could the safety harness snapping have injured his organs so badly that they had to remove a kidney?"

Shen Baili had the same suspicion. "Very possibly."

"Maybe the ending changed, and that's why the bonus chapter unlocked."

Shen Baili kept trying to reassure herself. "Second Brother avoided the harness accident. His organs weren't injured, and he still has both kidneys. What happened in the original story shouldn't happen now, right?"

"Is that what this bonus chapter means?" She turned it over in her mind, and her head began to ache again.

A-Deng thought for a moment. "I don't think it will happen."

Their reasoning made sense.

"But... I still feel uneasy." Shen Baili hugged the little orange cat. A-Deng quietly used her system energy to warm her body, leaving Shen Baili's chest warm.

"I'll find a way to get the whole family to have a checkup."

"What if someone's sick?"

A-Deng agreed. "That makes sense."

"Better to catch anything early."

Unlocking the bonus chapter had drained her. Shen Baili fell asleep while thinking it over and did not wake until school was out.

Little Butler Lin failed to find her at the school gate. Only after asking her homeroom teacher did he find her in the infirmary, still groggy with sleep.

She apologized to Little Butler Lin, and they returned to the Xie Residence together.

Shen Baili had no energy on the way home, but she could not fall asleep again. Images of Xie Tingsi before his death kept flashing through her mind, leaving her in a daze.

That daze reached its peak when she saw him.

"Little Pear Blossom, long time no see."

Xie Tingsi wore his signature SpongeBob SquarePants pajamas and sprawled across