I Really Didn't Want to Have a Happy Ending with the Black Moonlight Female Lead - Chapter 5

The sunlight floated, plating the still-green leaves with a warm glow, yet Lu Shizhen felt an immensely real, desolate chill of autumn.

She sat in the last row of the shuttle car, her slightly stunned pupils fixed on the back of the girl sitting in the front row. Light flowed within them, filled with disbelief.

She had just helped Xu Shiyue vent a lot of anger, so why was she still deducted one point?

What kind of The Farmer and the Viper storyline was this?

Or…

Thinking this, Lu Shizhen shifted her gaze to the system floating beside her.

Something flashed across the shuttle car’s rear-view mirror. Before the system could react, Lu Shizhen grabbed it in her hand.

Then, it felt a violent tremor run through its body. Lu Shizhen smacked it several times, just like repairing a non-functional appliance at home.

“Zzz, zzzz…”

Electric currents sparked in the sunlight, and the blinking wings shook out many electric-star-shaped specks.

The small sphere was dizzy from Lu Shizhen’s smacks. It was released, swaying precariously, and spoke pitifully: “Host, the system is not a product of your human world. Your human method of repairing appliances is completely useless on me.”

“And the score system is not connected to the data inside my body. Hitting me won’t help.”

Lu Shizhen’s shoulders slumped even further upon hearing this. She questioned, clutching a thread of hope: “Then what if it malfunctions?”

“It won’t. The score system is a massive framework with extremely high algorithmic precision, written by the Main God. It hasn’t failed in all these years of operation,” the small sphere told Lu Shizhen with a solemn tone. “The bug preventing the Host’s score from displaying is also because the volume of points to be counted is too huge, and the algorithm temporarily cannot count the total.”

In the time they had spent together, this was the first time Lu Shizhen had heard the unreliable small sphere speak to her with such a serious tone.

The feeling was as if it were defending a belief it held sacred, forbidding anyone from questioning it.

Because of this, Lu Shizhen had no choice but to accept the fact that her score had indeed been deducted by another point.

The breeze traveled around the shuttle car, lifting Lu Shizhen’s long hair.

She looked at the huge villa she now possessed and sighed deeply.

What good was sitting on countless riches? If the score wasn’t enough, she would still disappear in the end.

Nothing would be hers, including the healthy legs she had just acquired.

The wind rustled the paper bag, and Lu Shizhen belatedly realized that the sandwich in her hand had gone cold.

She truly felt that the transmigration task she received was uniquely difficult. Everything she did was wrong, and doing nothing was also wrong.

The girl exhaled in frustration, simply unwrapped the cold sandwich, and began to eat it herself.

The small sphere looked at Lu Shizhen’s downcast eyelashes and instantly realized that it had been too excited just now.

The round little sphere quickly flapped its miniature wings and stopped over Lu Shizhen’s head, clumsily comforting her: “Host, don’t lose heart. The road ahead is long; it can’t be accomplished overnight. How can you see the rainbow without going through the storm?”

The shuttle car quickly brought Lu Shizhen and Xu Shiyue back to the villa. The elevator carried them up to the second floor.

The original owner, to confuse and flatter Xu Shiyue, had specially built her a high-end treatment room. Money flowed like water, but the expensive equipment was left here to gather dust, having only been used once when Xu Shiyue was first brought back.

It must be said that only a crazy pervert like the original owner could commit such an act of wasting resources.

Lu Shizhen was inwardly lamenting this when Sun Yi pushed open the treatment room door.

Qin Wen immediately stood up from his chair. Another tall, slender woman stood up right after him.

This must be the ophthalmology expert friend he had mentioned to Sun Yi.

Lu Shizhen surmised. Qin Wen had already walked up to her and introduced them: “Miss, this is my fellow apprentice, Shen Cheng, currently the Associate Chief Physician of Ophthalmology at S University Affiliated First Hospital.”

Lu Shizhen was genuinely surprised by the title Qin Wen mentioned and couldn’t help but marvel at the power of money.

However, these exclamations had to remain hidden. As the profligate lunatic, she had to appear accustomed to everything, her tone exceptionally calm: “Hello.”

Shen Cheng was also polite and unpretentious: “Hello, Miss Lu. Little Qin told me about Miss Xu’s condition last night. I reviewed Miss Xu’s previous examination reports this morning and would like to perform some simple tests on Miss Xu now. Is that alright?”

That’s more than alright!

Lu Shizhen was secretly nodding excitedly in her heart, struggling to maintain the original owner’s calm and detached facade. She nodded serenely to Shen Cheng: “Yes.”

“Great, let’s start now.” Shen Cheng nodded and walked toward Xu Shiyue, who was standing behind Lu Shizhen. “Miss Xu, over here.”

Sunlight streamed through the window into the room. The quiet room was filled with the sound of instruments starting up.

This was the first time Lu Shizhen had observed a medical examination from an outsider’s perspective. Whether out of curiosity or concern for Xu Shiyue’s condition, she wanted to stay.

Glancing around the room, Lu Shizhen located a single sofa that looked exceptionally comfortable nearby.

This spot was excellent; not only could she see all the various instruments in the room without obstruction, but the sunlight from outside fell perfectly onto this corner.

It was as if the location had been determined after precise calculation.

As soon as Lu Shizhen sat down, a fact surfaced in her mind.

Such a good position was no accident—it was deliberately arranged by the original owner!

Lu Shizhen inwardly sneered, “As expected of her.” When she looked up again, Xu Shiyue had already been settled by Shen Cheng into the seat of a professional instrument.

Her posture was straighter than Shen Cheng, who was sitting opposite her. Her slender arms rested lightly on her legs. Every curve exuded an elegance rooted in her bones.

The daylight was bright. She sat there quietly, with only the long hair tied low at the back slightly moving as the wind from the air conditioner brushed it.

Her straight posture gave the impression that she would never collapse, like a green bamboo struggling out of mountain rock, exuding a sense of cold, aloof detachment in this desolate autumn season.

Watching her, Lu Shizhen couldn’t help but slow her breathing.

Her past experiences made her empathize more with Xu Shiyue. She wanted her eyes to heal quickly, and not just for the sake of the mission.

She wondered what kind of eyes would be worthy of Xu Shiyue’s beautiful appearance.

And if her eyes hadn’t been damaged, what beautiful eyes they would have been.

This was the first time Lu Shizhen felt that the written descriptions in the novel couldn’t compare to even a fraction of what she was seeing now.

“Alas.”

Perhaps it was a sigh of admiration, or regret, Lu Shizhen let out a soft sigh.

Afraid that her action would affect the examination, even her sigh was tiny, but Xu Shiyue, not far away, still slightly lifted her eyelashes.

This was the second sigh she had heard from Lu Shizhen today.

The first was earlier in the shuttle car.

Lu Shizhen’s blurred figure merged with the rear-view mirror reflecting the sunlight, making her features unclear, yet Xu Shiyue saw the person’s smiling face emerge in her mind.

This person always seemed to be smiling. Even when she was in a bad mood, the smile still remained on her face.

What could make her sigh twice in a row?

Firing the servants, finding an ophthalmology expert for her diagnosis.

Had she noticed Xu Shiyue’s lack of trust, and was she restarting her plan to win her favor?

A trace of coldness and disdain flashed in Xu Shiyue’s eyes. The hands resting on her knees subtly tightened into fists.

—If she had known that the performance at the school anniversary ball would bring her this endless torment, she would never have forced her ailing body onto the stage to perform.

Sunlight filtered through the new leaves; every color held the vitality of spring.

The deep, magnetic sound of the cello played. Just as Xu Shiyue’s beautiful past memories slowly permeated and surged up with the music, Shen Cheng’s voice pulled her back.

Pulled back to the dark and blurry present.

Shen Cheng: “Is Miss Xu completely unable to see now?”

Xu Shiyue looked at the hand moving back and forth in her blurred world and gently shook her head: “I can’t see.”

“Good.” Shen Cheng nodded, carefully recording the situation in her notebook, completely missing the flicker of complexity in Xu Shiyue’s eyes.

Xu Shiyue was the most cooperative patient Shen Cheng had encountered—docile and obedient, answering questions carefully and seriously.

The entire examination went smoothly. However, because some data wouldn’t be available until the afternoon, it was already evening by the time the consultation ended.

“…Miss Xu’s main issue now is a weak constitution, so the effect of medication won’t be ideal, and surgery also carries certain risks. Both Little Qin and I recommend starting with drug therapy while simultaneously conditioning Miss Xu’s body. A two-pronged approach will yield better results.”

Lu Shizhen listened to Shen Cheng’s analysis of Xu Shiyue’s condition and the treatment plan and nodded in agreement.

Although she didn’t fully understand the academic details, she had dealt with doctors the most in her original world. The professionalism exuded by Qin Wen’s fellow apprentice, Shen Cheng, from her demeanor and conduct, made Lu Shizhen very trusting.

Lu Shizhen knew well the hardships of the medical profession. After finalizing Xu Shiyue’s treatment plan with Shen Cheng, she instructed Sun Yi to arrange a car to take Shen Cheng and Qin Wen home.

The car headlights cut across the villa’s glass. The busy villa immediately fell silent.

Having learned from the rose garden incident, Lu Shizhen didn’t dare to rashly seek out Xu Shiyue, who had returned to her room for IV rest, to try and gain favorability. She thought for a moment and returned to her own room.

The lightweight door was closed from the inside. The moment the room light turned on, Lu Shizhen immediately dropped the original owner’s persona.

She stretched her sore shoulders, then turned around, tense and excited, to ask the small sphere: “I didn’t lose any points, right?”

“No, no!” The small sphere, which had been monitoring the score system, shook its head frantically and exclaimed excitedly: “Host, we only lost two points today!”

The expression on Lu Shizhen’s face immediately fell substantially. She glared at the small sphere unhappily.

The small sphere instantly felt wronged and mumbled softly behind Lu Shizhen: “Compared to the original owner’s past data, this is already significant progress!”

“Is that so,” Lu Shizhen said with a bitter smile.

Progress or stagnation.

Lu Shizhen only felt that today was more exhausting than reading eight hundred terrible novels. She was too tired to play word games with the small sphere and turned to throw herself onto the bed.

In any case, Shen Cheng had formulated a treatment plan for Xu Shiyue. Once her eyes were cured and she realized Lu Shizhen held no ill will toward her, she was bound to gain back favorability.

She even imagined that Xu Shiyue might feel guilt over her past misunderstanding of Lu Shizhen, then profusely show kindness and apologize, with her score increasing exponentially.

A half-moon hung pristine outside the window, reflecting the warmth and beauty of the room.

Just as Lu Shizhen was lying on the soft bed, raising the corners of her lips at the thought of her fantasy future, the system’s alert sounded, exceptionally untimely.

[Detection: Xu Shiyue’s physical health index has stopped recovering again. System bug possibility has been ruled out.]

[Host, Xu Shiyue appears to be constantly refusing treatment.]