I Really Didn't Want to Have a Happy Ending with the Black Moonlight Female Lead - Chapter 6

A sudden gust of wind rose outside the window, shaking the branches and startling a flock of sparrows that had just settled into slumber.

Lu Shizhen shot up from the bed, startled as if dying, her face full of shock: “Does your special power glitch too?”

The small sphere was a little helpless and a little wronged: “Host, please give me some trust.”

“Actually, I detected that Xu Shiyue’s health index stopped recovering last night. Although I also thought it was a bug at the time, the feedback I received this morning after reporting to the main system was that there are no bugs in the system, and the detection is accurate.”

Lu Shizhen’s frown deepened: “Then why would her, uh, health physical data index stop recovering?”

“It’s the Body Health Index Data,” the small sphere corrected.

It transmitted the System Glossary into Lu Shizhen’s mind, then explained: “Based on the monitored person’s physical condition, the degree to which medication works in their body is represented by the index. Beneficial effects show a positive number, which is recovery. Harmful effects show a negative number, which is damage.”

“The system detected an index increase when Xu Shiyue received the IVs these two days, but it stopped when it only reached slightly over half of the system’s estimated value. This is far outside the system’s margin of error.”

“And no one entered or left her room during this time slot, so the only person who could stop her data recovery is herself?” Lu Shizhen held her chin, thoughtfully deducing based on the small sphere’s words.

“That’s right!” The small sphere instantly lit up, its tone excited. “As expected of the Host! You came to the same conclusion as me immediately!”

Lu Shizhen was used to the little thing’s inappropriate excitement and only glanced at it.

Flattery couldn’t resolve the doubt in her heart. The confusion on Lu Shizhen’s face was very apparent as she asked: “Then do you know why she would refuse?”

Of course, the small sphere couldn’t know something like that, but it did have a likely answer. It reminded Lu Shizhen hesitantly and subtly: “Host, could it be that Xu Shiyue is afraid the medicine has been tampered with?”

Lu Shizhen froze upon hearing this.

She had forgotten that she had zero trust points with Xu Shiyue.

“Then if we want her to accept treatment, we have to earn her trust,” Lu Shizhen said.

“That’s correct,” the small sphere nodded.

Lu Shizhen sighed, troubled: “Doesn’t this bring us back to square one?”

She couldn’t believe that her infinitely perfect plan had barely taken the first step before stumbling hard.

Splat, it shattered.

The small sphere slowly landed on Lu Shizhen’s head and comforted her: “At least we know where to focus our efforts, Host.”

Moonlight and lamplight intertwined, falling into Lu Shizhen’s vision.

The original text didn’t describe much of Xu Shiyue’s experience with the original owner, and even the details of her family’s ruin were sparse.

Somehow, as Lu Shizhen recalled this blank space, she felt that Xu Shiyue’s refusal of treatment wasn’t just due to a lack of trust.

“Doesn’t she want her body to get better?”

The distant dark clouds were pushed by the night wind next to the moon, obscuring most of its light.

Lu Shizhen looked down at her crossed legs, her murmuring voice low.

Even she, a person who had never experienced health, chose to accept this difficult mission after experiencing health.

Didn’t Xu Shiyue, who was tormented by frailty and blindness, ever miss the time when she was healthy and carefree?

Or does she feel that none of this matters to her anymore?

So she isn’t even willing to try.

The wind abruptly stopped. The clouds in front of the moon did not move, and the night deepened before midnight.

The subtle, sole sound in the quiet, dim room was the liquid slowly dripping through the already saturated soil.

Xu Shiyue was asleep. The soft pillow cradled her clean, pale face, making her look exceptionally docile.

She lay on her side, her black, curly long hair draped over her, like an infant curled up in its mother’s arms.

The thick dark clouds outside the window seemed to be saturated with rain. The crackling sound of fire consuming wood gradually spread around her ears.

She felt her father’s firm chest tightly protecting her and her mother beneath him, and her mother’s soft yet eternally reliable embrace protecting her even more fiercely.

The air was filled with a searing and choking smell, yet Xu Shiyue smelled tobacco and gardenia.

She wanted to move closer to that scent, but the next second, it was crushed and scattered by the intense, dominating smell of disinfectant.

The white light was like a sun replacing the one outside the window, making the sickroom intensely bright.

The sounds of various monitoring instruments piled up in the space, perpetually tireless, perpetually tormenting her.

“Shiyue, you can’t be like this. If you don’t get injections or take medicine, your health will quickly collapse.”

“Shiyue, your parents are gone to protect you. You can’t squander your life like this, understand?”

“You must live. Your life isn’t just your own. Listen to your Eldest Uncle, alright?”

…

Light shone from one side of the hospital bed, and the man’s heavy figure enveloped Xu Shiyue.

He spoke earnestly to the girl again and again, and her face maintained a calm, obedient composure. Her thick eyelashes blinked slowly, as if she were listening carefully.

If only there weren’t the IV needles she had pulled out and the monitoring instruments lying beside her.

If only there weren’t the restraints used to confine her on the raised bed rails.

Whether for her Second Uncle, who hadn’t completely squeezed out her family’s wealth and power, or her Eldest Uncle, who cared for her out of blood relation.

Everyone tacitly wanted her to live, silently sewing the souls of her parents onto her shoulders.

No one cared if she was willing to live.

No one thought about how she should live after losing both parents.

Anyway, as long as she was alive.

After all, people said there was infinite hope only in living.

Only by living could the people who died for her not die in vain.

Only living.

Heh.

A cold laugh was hummed from the girl’s tightly closed throat. Her pale, bloodless face was full of scorn.

“Living” became an eternal curse. With every slow blink of her eyes, it consumed her already blurry world inch by inch, squeezing and corroding her fragile heart.

As if to help her break free.

“!”

A sharp intake of breath oppressed her brain nerves. Xu Shiyue suddenly opened her eyes.

The dark clouds had long been pushed away from the moon by the wind, and a sliver of brightness shone through the window.

But the darkness that should have been broken free from the nightmare still enveloped her sight.

The girl’s thin shadow was cast on the wall. The thin blanket slowly moved as she sat up.

Xu Shiyue leaned down and rested her face on her knees. Her dead eyes rarely showed a hint of gloom.

It had been a long time since she had dreamed of those things.

She thought she had forgotten, but the examination she underwent today brought them back.

Dr. Shen and Dr. Qin earnestly drew up plans, confidently assuring Lu Shizhen of the cure rate for her eyes.

Even if she could only barely see a blurred shadow, Xu Shiyue could sense Lu Shizhen’s satisfied look.

She didn’t know why Lu Shizhen had suddenly become so dedicated to her recovery treatment.

But she was afraid she would disappoint this Miss Lu.

She didn’t trust this person, nor did she harbor hope for her bodily functions to be restored, and she had no interest in getting her eyes better.

Anyway, as long as she was alive.

“Dong dong.”

The muffled, faint sound of the midnight chime came from the first-floor living room of the villa. A new day had arrived.

The clamminess on her back intertwined with the nightmare. The shadow on the wall slowly straightened up.

The recent dream had made Xu Shiyue sweat a little, as if it were the materialization of those unpleasant memories.

This made Xu Shiyue want to take a bath in the first-floor bathroom.

The room door was pushed open from the inside, letting out a barely noticeable creak.

The villa was pitch black in the early hours of the morning; even the hallway nightlights were off.

Xu Shiyue didn’t walk fast, but she was faster than a sighted person walking in the dark.

She was already accustomed to walking in the darkness. Turning on the lights or not made no difference to her.

And this wasn’t the first time she had gone to bathe late at night.

Previously, to avoid Lu Shizhen’s ill intentions, she often took a bath at this time.

The piled bubbles gradually became fine with the agitation of the hot water. The girl’s arms were covered in a layer of soft foam.

Her black long hair was lightly twisted and clipped casually on top of her head with a shark clip. Without the hair covering it, her slender neck stretched out like a swan’s.

Water overflowed from the bathtub. Xu Shiyue felt around the edge of the tub, lifted her long leg slightly, and slowly submerged into the bath.

The window frame divided one side of the window into four sections. The moon quietly stayed in the upper right corner.

The bright moonlight peeked at the girl with her eyes closed, secretly casting a light on her delicate collarbone, quiet and beautiful, making the moon want to keep her secret.

Steam filled the entire bathroom with warmth, dyeing the girl’s pale skin with a vitalizing pink hue.

The rising heat slowly melted away the emotions brought out by the dream. Vigilance once again occupied her mind.

Bubbles rode the churning water and spilled onto the floor. The girl’s slender legs slowly rose, balanced and fair, reflected on the window glass.

The moonlight watched the girl’s butterfly-like shoulder blades unfold, but the next second, they were completely wrapped in a towel.

The surging heat rushed out as the door was pushed open. With nothing to grab onto, Xu Shiyue walked outward as carefully as ever.

But she didn’t expect the water that had just overflowed from the bathtub to have spread to the outer tile floor.

Her bare feet stepped out of the bathroom without warning, and the icy water instantly enveloped them.

The slippery tiles offered no friction. The sense of sudden weightlessness pulled Xu Shiyue’s body backward.

But just as the cold pooled water was about to touch the girl’s hair, that second was the closest it ever came to her.

Another person’s warmth was pressed against Xu Shiyue’s waist. Lu Shizhen’s voice, exceptionally untimely, sounded in that space: “Out bathing this late?”