The Perfect Human Returns, Reborn

"The patient has been unconscious for two days, and her high fever hasn't gone down. If it doesn't break and she doesn't wake up tonight, madam, I'm afraid you'll have to prepare for her funeral."

"What!" Zhou Ru frowned in displeasure for a moment and glanced at the girl on the bed.

Then she shook her head, her voice cold. "Send her to the hospital, then. Have the morgue make preparations."

Even if she was going to die, she couldn't die in a room in the Wen Family home. It would bring bad luck.

The doctor had no objection. Seeing that the IV was nearly finished, he intended to remove the needle, but the moment he touched the back of the girl's hand, he discovered that her once-burning temperature had dropped.

Before he could react, pain shot through his abdomen. Then he fell flat on his face with a scream.

The girl who had been lying unconscious on the bed spoke, her voice slightly hoarse. "Don't touch me."

Zhou Ru and the family doctor were both stunned.

Ji Chuxing raised a hand and rubbed her forehead. Her memory was still stuck on the moment the laboratory exploded and a powerful blast struck her, and her head immediately began to ache.

She looked up at the ceiling overhead. The smell of medicine drifted to her nose, and another set of unfamiliar memories rushed into her mind.

"This is the Wen Family home, not the Ji Family home. Remember, you're only staying here as a guest. Don't indulge in wishful thinking. Xinyue and Xiaoyang may call you their older sister, but Xinyue is the Wen Family's real eldest young lady. You mustn't compete with her for anything, or you'll offend your uncle Wen, and I'll have no choice but to send you back to the countryside."

"Xiaoyang is your own younger brother. You need to give way to him. What? He bullied you? Who taught you to slander people at such a young age? Xiaoyang is so well-behaved and obedient. How could he possibly bully you?"

"Look at your grades. They're so terrible, and you still want to enter an art competition? I went to so much trouble to bring you back from the countryside. Don't go out and make a spectacle of yourself and embarrass me."

Scene after scene of unfamiliar memories and heart-piercing words flashed through her mind like a movie, finally freezing on the despairing eyes of a girl leaping from a high-rise building.

Countless memories flashed through Ji Chuxing's mind, but in truth, only two or three seconds had passed.

She confirmed that she had been reborn. Once the most perfect product of a laboratory in another world, a top researcher known as a "technology genius" and a "medical genius," she had been reborn as a girl in this world with the same name, Ji Chuxing.

She learned the course of the girl's entire life.

It was an incredible thing. Ji Chuxing lay on the bed in a daze, feeling the emotions left behind by the body's original owner.

Zhou Ru had yet to recover from the fact that her biological daughter had suddenly woken up. The family doctor, who had inexplicably fallen flat on his face, had already gotten to his feet and demanded furiously of the girl on the bed, "How dare you kick me!"

That was right. Ji Chuxing had kicked him in the abdomen, moving so quickly that even Zhou Ru hadn't seen it.

Ji Chuxing remained flat on her back, staring blankly into space. Without even looking at him, she said, "I told you not to touch me."

She had wanted to sleep some more, but now it seemed impossible. As she spoke, she deftly pulled the needle from the back of her hand.

Hmph! Trash medical skills.

Doctor Sun was the Wen Family's family doctor and a descendant of a renowned medical family in South City. He held a high position in society and in the Wen Family.

Even Wen Huayang, the head of the family, had to treat him with a measure of courtesy. How could he tolerate such rudeness from a girl? He snorted coldly. "Just as I'd expect from someone from the countryside. You have no manners at all. You're no match for the Wen Family's eldest young lady. Do you think just anyone can ask me to treat them?"

Zhou Ru had also come to her senses by now. She was Wen Huayang's wife and the mistress of the Wen Family. Whatever she might have been like in front of her daughter in the past, she had always taken care to maintain her image in front of outsiders.

Looking at the girl on the bed, she frowned. "Xiaoxing, how can you be so unreasonable? Doctor Sun has treated you for two days. You've finally woken up, and it's bad enough that you aren't grateful to him, but how can you speak so harshly to him? What have I always taught you?"

Then she turned and apologized politely to Doctor Sun. "I'm terribly sorry, Doctor Sun. Xiaoxing may be in a bit of a temper because she's only just woken up. Please be understanding."

One mustn't offend doctors. That was an established rule.

Zhou Ru's apology greatly inflated Doctor Sun's vanity. He raised his chin. "There's no need to apologize. But forgive me for speaking frankly: with a personality like hers, who knows what trouble she'll bring upon you in the future, madam? I'll let it go today. I'm the Wen Family's family doctor, and I treated her out of respect for you and Mr. Wen."

Zhou Ru continued politely, "Xiaoxing is fortunate indeed."

After listening to the two play off each other, Ji Chuxing, still lying on the bed, turned to Zhou Ru and asked innocently, "How about I give that good fortune to you?"

She curled her lip and glanced at the family doctor. "A doctor who saves people straight into the morgue. Hmph, that's quite a special talent."

"You!" Doctor Sun considered himself a renowned physician of South City, respected even by important figures. Stung by Ji Chuxing's jab, he flew into a rage out of humiliation and was about to retort, only to see that although the girl's face was sickly pale, her clear, cool eyes held an imposing air that made one afraid to meet them. A strange feeling crossed his mind, but he soon decided he was overthinking it.

He said coldly, "Since Miss Ji doesn't need me, please find someone more capable!"

With that, he picked up his medical case and left. He couldn't stand being looked down on by a little girl like this. Did she think she was a miracle doctor?

Seeing how angry Doctor Sun was, Zhou Ru hurriedly stood up. "Doctor Sun! Doctor Sun!"

But Doctor Sun had already carried his medical case downstairs. With no other choice, Zhou Ru called down to Mrs. Wen, "Mrs. Wen, please see Doctor Sun out and apologize to him for me."

By the time she returned to Ji Chuxing's room, Ji Chuxing had already gotten out of bed. Hmph! What kind of quack can't even administer fever medicine properly!

Zhou Ru frowned. With no outsiders present, she didn't need to put on a pleasant face for Ji Chuxing. This daughter was the greatest blemish on her otherwise perfect life.

"What's wrong with you? How could you speak to Doctor Sun like that? How many times have I told you to get rid of those nasty habits you brought from the countryside? This is South City, not the countryside. Hasn't anyone taught you?"

Ji Chuxing finished packing her schoolbag, turned around, and looked steadily at Zhou Ru. "I haven't had parents since I was little. No one taught me how to be courteous and polite to a quack."

"You!"

Ji Chuxing's father, Ji Jinzhong, had gone missing when she was four and was later declared dead by the police. Zhou Ru had soon grown unable to bear the hardship of life in the countryside and left, abandoning her child.

Ji Jinzhong had also been a poor doctor who every now and then paid out of his own pocket to treat people. After he went missing and was declared dead, she finally packed up and left without hesitation.

She soon met Wen Huaming of a wealthy South City family and married him not long afterward, becoming a stepmother to someone else's child—the Wen Family's eldest young lady whom the family doctor had just mentioned. Now they had a child together, Wen Liyang.

And Wen Liyang was inextricably linked to the original owner's illness this time.

It was Wen Liyang who had pushed her into the Wen Family's swimming pool, causing her to drown and fall unconscious. Over the past two days, while she was unconscious, he had even sneaked in and pinched her neck and arms.

It was at this juncture that Ji Chuxing had transmigrated and been reborn.

He was as vile as vile could be, yet Zhou Ru had never investigated. She had simply assumed the original owner couldn't swim but had gone to play by the pool anyway, and something terrible had happened.

As for her four-year-old daughter Ji Chuxing, Zhou Ru had left her behind in the countryside back then, treating her as a burden. From childhood, she and Grandpa Ji had depended on each other. But half a year ago, Grandpa Ji had died of illness. Before he passed, worried about leaving his granddaughter alone, he had finally asked someone to find her birth mother, Zhou Ru. Somehow, the wealthy ladies of South City had learned that Zhou Ru had a daughter in the countryside. Concerned about her reputation, Zhou Ru had been forced to bring Ji Chuxing back from the countryside, putting on a thoroughly respectable show.

Grandpa Ji had always had her best interests at heart. If he knew in the afterlife what sort of hellish life the original owner had led in the Wen Family over the past six months, even his coffin lid probably wouldn't hold him down.

Grandpa was the person who had loved the original owner most in this world.

Although Zhou Ru had left when Ji Chuxing was four, she was still her mother. Weren't Ji Chuxing's words a curse that she was already dead? Zhou Ru was furious and raised her hand to slap Ji Chuxing across the face.

"Who taught you to talk like that!"

But before her slap could land, Ji Chuxing seized her wrist. "Don't lay a hand on me. This is your last chance."

From now on, she would never give Zhou Ru another chance to hit her, whether for her own sake or for the sake of the original Ji Chuxing.

Before the original owner died, her greatest wish had been never to have had a mother like this.

Zhou Ru had never imagined that the frail-looking girl could have enough strength to grip her wrist so tightly. The girl's own wrist was slender and pale, so thin that bluish veins were faintly visible beneath the skin, along with quite a few bruises.

But the humiliation of being held in Ji Chuxing's grip overwhelmed everything else. "Ji Chuxing, I'm your mother!"

"Mother?" Ji Chuxing gave a mocking snort. "Are you worthy? Did you raise me for even a day? Before I was four, my dad raised me. After I turned four, my grandpa raised me. Did you fulfill your responsibility for even one day?"

It was the plain truth, but Zhou Ru wouldn't allow Ji Chuxing to say it. She even flew into a rage out of humiliation. "If you dare treat me like this, then never come back to the Wen Family! Get out!"

Ji Chuxing's face was expressionless. "Don't worry. Even if you begged me to stay, I wouldn't."

This had never been her home anyway. There was no need for her to stay.

Ji Chuxing flung Zhou Ru onto the bed. Hearing those words, Zhou Ru found them both infuriating and ridiculous. Beg her? Who did she think she was?

A country girl with no one to rely on-how could she possibly survive in South City without the Wen Family?

How naive. She would be the one begging Zhou Ru to let her come back!