I Make Cashback By Spending Money On The Female Supporting Character - Chapter 2

After saying that, the senior had no intention of staying any longer. She turned and was about to leave, but Qin Ran called out to stop her. Holding the handkerchief in her hand, Qin Ran asked, “How is Senior Yu Shuman doing?”

“Ah, still the same…” The senior gave a vague answer, then, amid her friend’s calls, left the doorway of Qin Ran’s classroom.

Qin Ran took the handkerchief back to her seat. It wasn’t the same as the one she had given away, but overall, it was about seventy to eighty percent similar. The thing that resembled it most was the little rabbit on the handkerchief.

Qin Ran sighed and put the handkerchief away.

That night, she should have gone to her part-time job, but her feet turned in another direction, and she ended up going to the hospital instead. She asked at the nurse’s station about Yu Shuman’s mother. Perhaps it was because many people from the school had come to visit Yu Shuman recently. Yu Shuman was beautiful, had a good personality, and it was only natural that she had many friends.

Seeing that Qin Ran was a student, the nurses didn’t hide anything from her. They told her the ward number and even said that Yu Shuman was truly a child who made people’s hearts ache.

Qin Ran listened to the nurse talk for quite a while before turning and heading upstairs. She didn’t enter the ward. She only stood at the doorway and looked inside through the glass panel on the door.

Yu Shuman was holding her mother’s hand, a smile still blooming on her face, exactly like the one Qin Ran had seen that day. Only, she looked much more haggard now. There were dark circles beneath her eyes, making her look especially pitiful.

Qin Ran watched for a long time before leaving the ward and going downstairs.

She was someone with very thin ties to her parents. In her previous life, her parents had entered a marriage alliance, and neither of them liked her. They only knew how to give her money. This life was even better—she didn’t have parents at all. So when she saw how good Yu Shuman’s relationship with her mother was, Qin Ran couldn’t understand it. But instinctively, she didn’t want to see that smile disappear.

Qin Ran sat on the flower bed beneath the hospital building, watching people come and go as she thought for a very long time.

Was she really going to tie herself to Yu Shuman for the rest of this life, all for Yu Shuman’s sake?

Yu Shuman was only a senior she had met once. The only connection between them was that one handkerchief.

She struggled and hesitated. She pursed her lips, then told herself: but if she didn’t act, Yu Shuman’s mother would die.

Yet another voice in her heart told her: look at all the people coming and going in the hospital. How many of them are living day to day, unsure whether they will even survive until tomorrow? Why aren’t you going to save them?

The two voices lingered in Qin Ran’s heart, leaving her not knowing what she should do.

Just then, she saw Yu Shuman.

Yu Shuman was holding an iron lunch box in her hands. From the looks of it, she was preparing to go get food. Qin Ran wasn’t stupid. She knew, more or less, that although the food in the hospital couldn’t be considered expensive, it wasn’t exactly cheap either. For Yu Shuman, rather than ordering food at the hospital, it was better to go nearby and find something cheaper.

Yu Shuman didn’t miss Qin Ran. With one glance, she spotted the girl sitting on the flower bed.

Yu Shuman walked over and, without even greeting Qin Ran, sat down beside her. “Junior, why are you here? Are you feeling unwell?”

Even when things were already like this, she still had the leisure to worry about others.

Qin Ran silently criticized Yu Shuman twice in her heart, but her face showed no expression at all.

Yu Shuman then said, “You can’t possibly have come to see me, right?”

“I received the handkerchief Senior gave me.”

Hearing that, Yu Shuman smiled even more happily. “That’s good. I spent a long time looking for that handkerchief. The little rabbit is exactly the same, right?”

The two of them chatted aimlessly for quite a while. Then Yu Shuman said she had to go buy food, otherwise all the tasty and cheap options would be snatched up by others in a bit. Qin Ran waved at her and watched her walk away.

After Yu Shuman left, Qin Ran called for the system.

The system had thought it would never see Qin Ran bind herself to anyone in this lifetime. It had never expected Qin Ran to call for it in the end.

She asked, “Can I bind Yu Shuman?”

By this point, the system no longer cared whether Qin Ran bound herself to a person or a dog. As long as she bound something, that was good enough.

It hurriedly nodded and told Qin Ran that she could.

And so, on this evening as the sun was setting, Qin Ran sat on the flower bed beneath the hospital building and bound herself to Yu Shuman.

From then on, every single cent she spent on Yu Shuman would be converted into cashback for herself.

The first thing she did was go to the hospital payment counter and pay money into Yu Shuman’s mother’s account. She was very generous and directly deposited five hundred thousand yuan in advance.

After all, the money she was spending belonged to the system. The moment Qin Ran decided to bind someone, the system hurriedly transferred the money onto her card and urged her to go spend it quickly.

The only requirement was that the money could only be spent for Yu Shuman’s sake. If it was spent for any other reason, it would become the host’s debt, and punishment would be carried out.

After the money was spent, the system only gave Qin Ran five thousand yuan in cashback. Faced with that little amount of money, Qin Ran couldn’t help letting out a snort. “With this tiny bit of money, you actually dare call yourself a tycoon system?”

The system also knew that a first payout of only five thousand yuan was a little unworthy of its grand title as a system. Thick-skinned, it replied, “The ratio will increase later. As long as the host works hard to spend money, that’s enough!”

Although five thousand yuan was little, it was still a lot to Qin Ran. She only earned one thousand yuan a month from her part-time job, and that was because the supermarket owner’s wife pitied her and paid her extra. Five thousand yuan, for Qin Ran, who ate, drank, and lived at school, was enough for her to live on for several months.

Five hundred thousand yuan had been pitifully little to Qin Ran in her previous life, but to the current Yu Shuman, it was frighteningly huge.

When Yu Shuman came back after buying food and heard that a kindhearted person had donated five hundred thousand yuan to her, she froze on the spot.

Qin Ran’s figure suddenly appeared in Yu Shuman’s mind. But when she thought about it again, Qin Ran was also poor—perhaps even poorer than she was. How could she possibly have money to donate?

But when she heard that someone had donated so much money, she couldn’t help shedding tears. She asked the nurse exactly which kindhearted person had donated it.

The nurse only shook her head. “The other party requested confidentiality. We can’t say.”

Yu Shuman tried every method she could think of and pestered the nurse until the nurse could hardly stand it anymore. But the nurse had professional ethics and didn’t leak even the slightest bit of information.

Yu Shuman could only sigh helplessly. In her heart, she thought that given time, she would definitely find this kindhearted person. Right now, she didn’t have the means to repay the other party’s kindness, but once she finished her studies and graduated, she would definitely earn money and pay them back.

Qin Ran didn’t know what had happened inside the hospital. She only knew that helping someone made her feel very good.

After that, she helped Yu Shuman quite a lot from behind the scenes, including, but not limited to, finding suitable bone marrow for transplant, covering later medical expenses, and so on.

After Yu Shuman’s mother’s condition stabilized, Yu Shuman returned to school.

Qin Ran found out about this because during the very first break after Yu Shuman came back to school, Yu Shuman ran over to look for her.

For one instant, Qin Ran suspected that some nurse had accidentally blurted out her identity as the “kindhearted member of society.” Unexpectedly, Yu Shuman had come to find her simply to share what had happened during this period of time.

The break between classes was only ten minutes. They found a stairwell where not many people would come and stood face to face there.

There wasn’t much light in the stairwell, but just a few steps farther out was a corridor full of bright sunlight.

Yu Shuman’s voice was light and lively, like a skylark’s. “Junior, do you know? That day, right after you came to the hospital, a kindhearted person came and donated money to my mom. Thanks to them, my mom’s condition finally stabilized. She’s already out of danger…”

She rambled on and on about these things.

Qin Ran had thought she was here to test her, but unexpectedly, Yu Shuman was simply sharing it with her.

At the very end, Yu Shuman gave Qin Ran a smile. “Junior, thank you. I think you brought me good luck. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence? On the very day you came, I received the donation!”

“Junior, you must be a lucky star. Don’t ever get discouraged. Even someone in a desperate situation like mine was able to receive help and make it through. You definitely can too!”

“…Okay. Thank you, Senior.”

Faced with Yu Shuman’s encouragement, Qin Ran didn’t know what to say.

It was only when class was about to begin that Yu Shuman finally left. The third-year classrooms were a bit far from the first-year classrooms, and as she was running, a teacher heading upstairs for class called out to her, “No running in the stairwell!”

Yu Shuman ran toward her own teaching building while saying, “I know, I know! Teacher, I’m about to be late!”

Qin Ran walked out of the stairwell and into the corridor. She leaned over the corridor railing and looked at Yu Shuman.

The latter seemed to sense her gaze and suddenly turned back.

The ponytail tied behind her head swung through the air in an arc. The hair at the end of her ponytail scattered with the movement. There were no trees at all on the sports field. In the still-stifling early autumn morning, warm sunlight fell over her, making her entire person look exceptionally dazzling.

But what drew the eye most was her smile. It was so bright, beautiful, and moving.

“Junior! See you next time!”

The moment she finished saying that, the class bell rang.

And so, that bouncing ponytail continued running forward.

After that, Qin Ran continued helping Yu Shuman. Under the anonymous identity of a “kindhearted member of society,” she did many things for Yu Shuman, such as sponsoring her university tuition and living expenses.

Yu Shuman was a child from a single-parent family. At home, there was only her seriously ill old mother. After her mother developed acute leukemia, she could no longer work and even needed to take medication and receive treatment regularly. Yu Shuman’s family had no source of income. If not for the help of this “kindhearted member of society,” she might not have continued studying after finishing high school.

Her grades were good, but they weren’t particularly outstanding. With her grades, she could attend a first-rate university, but there was no possibility of getting scholarships or anything like that. So at the time, she had thought she would simply stop studying and go straight to work.

Although that would have been very irresponsible toward her own future, it was still the best path available to her.

But the “kindhearted member of society,” the person who had been helping her all along, did not give up on her. Afterward, that person also took on the responsibility of covering her tuition and living expenses.

Yu Shuman very much wanted to thank the other party in person, but for a long time, the other party had always helped her through a third party. A dedicated agent would come forward instead.

Yu Shuman performed quite well on the college entrance examination and entered a first-rate university in the capital. Qin Ran also earned quite a bit of cashback thanks to Yu Shuman.

However, adding everything up from beginning to end, the cashback only amounted to twenty thousand yuan.

Qin Ran mocked the system in a voice full of disdain. The system, however, shrank into the corner, wanting to refute her but unable to say a word.

It also very much wanted to look down on Qin Ran.

Other people’s hosts, after binding to a system, hadn’t needed long before they had already built vast fortunes, bought luxury cars, and purchased famous watches without even blinking.

But what about its host?

Seventeen years.

It had already been a full seventeen years!

In total, she had only received twenty thousand yuan.

The system wanted to find someone to complain to as well!

The system took a deep breath. Everything was difficult at the beginning. At the very least, its host had finally bound herself to someone.