The evening breeze was gentle.
Her gaze t Ji Mu's, and in that brief mont of contact, Ruan Qingqing felt her head, which had just cleared up, beco dizzy again.
A rosy blush spread from her cheeks like a fire, soon staining her ears and neck a faint red.
She looked like a freshly ripened peach, tender and juicy.
"Mm... mm-hmm..." she murmured, pale fingers tugged at the corner of the blanket, shyly avoiding his gaze.
'Trouble never applies... why does Mu Mu always say these things?'
She felt nervous and her face was a little hot.
Ji Mu, seated beside the bed, spoke, "Are you hungry? I'll go downstairs and get sothing to eat."
"No need, I..."
"You've been sleeping all day. If you don't eat sothing to replenish yourself, your stomach will have problems."
Without giving her a chance to refuse, Ji Mu stood up and took the key ring from the bedside table. "Getting so food will help you recover faster. I'll use your house key for now."
"Mu Mu..."
"Just rest. If you feel unwell, just send a ssage on your phone and I'll co up right away."
After giving his instructions, he left the room. Half a minute later, the soft creak of the door echoed from outside.
The room returned to silence, and Ruan Qingqing curled up in bed, her heart feeling empty.
She knew that he'd be gone for a little while, she still couldn't help but feel reluctant.
Perhaps it was influenced by that intermittent, unclear dream.
A creeping panic arose out of nowhere, and her heart tightened and fluttered like it was being squeezed.
'Maybe I should send a ssage to Mu Mu to co back now... '
As soon as this thought appeared, Ruan Qingqing dismissed it.
Mu Mu had already done enough, taking care of her tirelessly. She couldn't be... so selfish.
Shaking her head, she quickly discarded those unnecessary thoughts, her chaotic breathing gradually calming down.
The room was dimly lit, the upper half of the girl's face and her thoughts hidden in shadows, the colors swirling in her narrow eyes unfathomable.
Why did she feel like she was becoming more and more greedy?
Ruan Qingqing... You really are a bad kid.
She turned her head to glance at the window.
The curtains had been blown slightly open, revealing a narrow gap. Outside, it was pitch black. Night had already fallen.
"Seriously, I slept all day and still..."
Her muttering stopped abruptly as Ruan Qingqing suddenly realized that sothing was wrong. She hastily grabbed her phone and took a look.
The date on the screen was May 2nd.
And the ti... "11:59?!"
Her groggy mind imdiately cleared.
She... hadn't consud a blood pack all day.
The realization brought beads of sweat to her forehead.
"Qingqing, before mom returns, you must drink at least one blood package a day, otherwise... bad things will happen."
Her mother's worried warning echoed in her ears, and her face turned pale, an indescribable uneasiness rising in her heart.
A sense of foreboding seed to whisper that if she didn't do this, sothing terrible and unexpected would happen next.
With this thought, Ruan Qingqing threw off the covers and ran barefoot into the living room.
There was only one minute left before midnight.
It should... be enough ti.
She opened the bottom layer of the fridge, and just as she was about to take out the blood pack to consu, a sudden change occurred.
Her arm, stretched out in the air, suddenly froze, and her body felt like it was filled with lead, unable to move an inch.
A strong sense of weakness surged through her entire body, making even the slightest movent of her thumb extrely difficult.
Within a few breaths, the remaining strength in her legs vanished, and she collapsed to the cold floor.
At that mont, fragnts of the previously forgotten dream flashed through her mind.
Deep despair, darkness without light.
Were these false mories or... a real past life?
Dizziness overca her, and her vision began to blur.
Deep within her soul... it felt as if a familiar yet strange consciousness was gradually awakening.
It slowly took control of her body.
In the last second before her eyelids closed, she looked in the direction Ji Mu had gone, her eyes filled with a sickly longing, as if she wanted to grasp that light in her hand.
"Mu Mu..."
…
Near the apartnt building.
Ji Mu stood quietly at a wonton stall, having just paid.
Now that he thought about it, the system hadn’t shown up at all today. Not even when the silly goose had a fever, it was like it had vanished.
If he hadn't called after returning to Tianhua City, he wouldn't have known that she was sick and stuck at ho.
"System?"
After calling for a while, there was still no answer in his mind.
Ji Mu frowned.
Was it asleep?
Neglecting one's duties is not acceptable; it greatly affects the progress of their tasks.
Just as he was about to call out a few more tis, he noticed that the moon was unusually round tonight.
Its bright silver light spilled across the dark sky, like… an eye, just opened after a long sleep.
It was a beautiful scene. Ji Mu didn't know why he suddenly thought of an eye.
And... why was his right eyelid twitching continuously at this mont?
Left eyelid twitching ans wealth, right eyelid twitching ans disaster?
He shook his head quickly.
No, no... It's all superstitious nonsense, not worth believing any of it.
He'd deal with the system after taking care of the task objective.
…
Achoo!
The system, far away in another room, sneezed.
'Who the hell is talking behind my back? Could it be that subsystem kid gossiping about ?'
Rubbing his nose, he looked around.
A vast and flat unfamiliar environnt ca into view, the ground covered in green and stretching as far as the eye could see.
What kind of place was this? A grassland?
It didn't have much patience to investigate and shouted directly into the room.
[All right, Fan Lei, stop playing tricks and co out quickly.]
A gust of wind blew by.
Suddenly, a cold hand touched its cheek. The system jolted from the chill.
[Hiss—]
It slapped the hand away and quickly stepped back, turning to look.
A tall female figure stood in front of it, her body shrouded in mist. Though her features were hidden, the system could clearly feel the pair of smiling eyes staring through the haze.
[Xiao Qi, did you miss ~]
Fan Lei, the guardian of Heavenly Dao in this novel world.
The embodint of the world's consciousness.
The system was displeased with how familiar she acted.
[What's the matter with you? Don't just randomly cling to people like that. Can't you have so sense of boundaries?]
[Well~ it's just that I haven't seen Xiao Qi for so long, so I couldn't help it.]
Fan Lei crouched down halfway, grabbed the system's pudgy little hand, and looked up with a pitiful tone.
[Forgive , okay~]
The system didn't buy it at all and shook her off unceremoniously.
[You wouldn't co here without a reason. Tell , why did you drag to this strange place?]
This damn woman, if you're going to apologize, just apologize. Why are you always copping a feel?
[Xiao Qi, saying that makes so sad. Can't I just co to catch up with you?]
Fan Lei pretended to wipe away tears.
The system watched her performance with a blank expression.
[If there's nothing, I'll leave.]
Crazy, it was busy teaching the host how to improve his emotional intelligence. No ti to chat.
With that, it turned around and lifted its foot to leave, but Fan Lei suddenly hugged it tightly from behind.
[Alright, alright, I'll tell you. Don't be in such a hurry to leave, Xiao Qi.]
The system coldly snorted without answering, indifferently waiting for her to continue.
Seeing this, Fan Lei sighed deeply and began to speak.
[Actually… the reason I suddenly brought you here has to do with the plot point of this full moon night.]
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