My Dating Sim Just Got an Update - Chapter 41

Initially, when Mu Ning offered to rent her house to Ren Chenxi at a discount, Ren Chenxi had refused because she didn’t want to owe Mu Ning any favors. But now that Mu Ning was waiving the rent entirely, Ren Chenxi readily agreed. The reason was simple: in Ren Chenxi’s eyes, this was an equal exchange.

As Chen Gu had said, in the apocalypse, medicine had become incredibly rare within the base some items could even fetch a sky-high price. Therefore, her Recovery Card, which could clear debuffs and restore 70% of a health bar, was an absolute treasure. Using it to cover the rent was more than enough.

However, Ren Chenxi was the only one who knew the true power of the Recovery Card. The others had no idea such a miraculous item existed, so despite her confidence, they remained skeptical. Even her companions, like Jian Dan, found it hard to believe.

“Xi… Sister Xi… can you really cure a drug addiction? That’s an addiction! It’s not just regular poisoning!” Jian Dan didn’t want Ren Chenxi to make empty boasts just to save on rent and end up deceiving Mu Ning and her group.

“Well… I happen to have a type of detoxification medicine in my backpack with very mystical properties. Since you don’t have any other options right now, why not let me try?”

As Ren Chenxi spoke, she looked toward Sun Jia, who was leaning against the headboard.

Meeting Ren Chenxi’s gaze, Sun Jia maintained her gentle smile. “So, are you the doctor the Boss brought back? Then I’ll leave my recovery in your hands~”

Since the victim herself was willing to try, the others had nothing left to say. Besides, they truly were at their wits’ end.

Ren Chenxi had a good impression of this resilient and rational girl. She smiled and shook her head at Sun Jia. “I’m not a doctor, but I do have medicine with excellent detoxifying effects. Your addiction hasn’t flared up yet; once you take the medicine, you’ll see the results.”

“Alright, I’ll count on you then~” As Sun Jia spoke, she shifted her gaze to Tantan, who was still nestling obediently in Ren Chenxi’s arms. “It’s rare to see Tantan be so well-behaved while being held. he’s even letting you rub his head…”

Being envied once again for Tantan’s special treatment made Ren Chenxi’s smile widen, but at the same time, a pang of guilt twisted in her chest.

“Tantan~” She nuzzled the kitten’s furry little head again and offered a solemn apology: “I’m sorry. I’ll never leave you behind again!”

“Meow meow meow—” Tantan responded with a series of spoiled meows and a purr that sounded like a rumbling tractor.

“Leave behind? Are you Tantan’s owner?” The observant Sun Jia caught the significance of those words and looked at Mu Ning with confusion. “But… didn’t the Boss say this cat belonged to.” Her boyfriend?

Mu Ning also stared at Ren Chenxi with a heavy, searching gaze, waiting for an explanation.

Crap. Talking to Tantan felt so natural that she had accidentally let something slip again. But it didn’t matter; she could just pin everything on Ren Muhui. “This is my brother’s cat. He once told me that if he ever couldn’t take care of Tantan, he would entrust him to me. So, I’m technically his second owner. Now that my brother is gone… I didn’t find Tantan immediately when the apocalypse started. For two years, I felt like I was the reason he was lost. Seeing him so suddenly just made me lose my head a bit.”

“Your brother is gone?” This time, Sun Jia’s focus shifted to Ren Muhui. She instinctively looked at Mu Ning, feeling a bit lost. “Boss…” Over the past two years, her Boss had risked her life searching almost every corner of H City just to find her boyfriend. But now, his sister was saying…

Being reminded once again that Ren Muhui was dead and that the person before her was just his sister—stung. No matter how much they looked alike, they were different.

Mu Ning didn’t want to dwell on it. She looked at Ren Chenxi with a cold, flat expression and asked, “Didn’t you say you had special medicine? Let Sun Jia try it now.”

Mu Ning’s reaction startled Sun Jia. Such a cold attitude… Did she already know about his death and had done her grieving in private? Or… was he no longer that important to her?

While Sun Jia was lost in thought, Ren Chenxi had already walked to the bedside. She placed Tantan on the floor, but the clingy little thing refused to leave, weaving around her ankles. Ren Chenxi tried to coax him away, but Tantan, who was usually very perceptive, ignored her completely this time, stubbornly sticking to her side. Ren Chenxi had to give up for now and focus on Sun Jia’s wound.

She had no choice. In just that short time, she noticed Sun Jia’s health bar had dropped a tiny bit more! Her Recovery Card could only restore 70% of maximum health. If Sun Jia’s health kept ticking down, even clearing the addiction debuff wouldn’t bring her back to a safe level. She didn’t want to waste a precious SR-rank Recovery Card on a partial recovery.

The priority was to stop the bleeding and then apply anti-inflammatory and pain-killing meds.

Seeing Ren Chenxi prepare to treat the wound, Wu Tong and Zhang Tongqi stepped in to help, cutting away the thick layers of bandages. As the gauze was unwound circle by circle, Ren Chenxi saw blood seeping through before they were even halfway finished. The wound had reopened. No wonder the health bar was slowly draining. Ren Chenxi had initially planned to stop the bleeding before using the card, but now… forget it. Using the card first wouldn’t hurt. The sooner that debuff was gone, the better.

She discreetly pulled a Recovery Card from her backpack and held it between her fingertips. Seeing Sun Jia’s brow furrowed as she stared at her own arm, Ren Chenxi knew she was in pain. Wu Tong was being careful, but peeling away blood-soaked gauze was agonizing. Yet, the girl just bit her lip and didn’t make a sound. Ren Chenxi pretended to stretch her wrist and used the opportunity to “fire” the card at Sun Jia. The thin card vanished into Sun Jia’s body without her noticing a thing.

After all, Sun Jia was currently preoccupied with the intense pain.

“God…”

The gauze was finally removed. Wu Tong took one look at the gruesome wound and her voice began to tremble. Zhang Tongqi turned her head away, her eyes brimming with tears. A wound that large would have required stitches in the old world. But because this was the apocalypse, finding a skilled surgeon was nearly impossible. Looking at the wound which was even more horrific than the one on her own shoulder—Ren Chenxi felt a sympathetic ache in her own body.

“Sister Xi, the medicine…”

“Here, use this. You saw this bag on the way back. It’s from an old herbalist; the hemostatic effect is amazing, and it helps with inflammation. Sprinkle it on first. Oh, and I have clean bandages here.” Ren Chenxi pulled out a fresh roll of gauze as she spoke.

“And… the detox medicine?” Wu Tong was still worried about the addiction. If that wasn’t fixed, no matter how good the wound care was, Sun Jia might just tear it open again during her next episode.

“Right… the detox medicine…” Ren Chenxi glanced at Sun Jia, who now had zero debuffs, and pulled out a bottle with a bit of a guilty conscience. “Take this. Two tablets, three times a day.”

“Huh? Sodium Bicarbonate? This is stomach medicine?” After reading the label, Wu Tong looked at Ren Chenxi as if she were a traveling con artist.

“No, it’s just the bottle! The medicine inside is the detox cure. I told you it’s very rare, so it’s obviously not something you can buy at a regular pharmacy. I just used this old bottle to store it.” In reality, the bottle contained Cephalosporin. Given Sun Jia’s injury, antibiotics were definitely the right call.

Ren Chenxi had been prescribed these after an injury to prevent infection. But since the tablets came in those annoying blister packs, she had popped them all out and dumped them into an empty bottle for convenience—she just happened to grab a stomach medicine bottle. Wait… she usually ate and drank well; why did she even have an empty stomach medicine bottle in her bag? The medicine that used to be in here…

Suddenly, Ren Chenxi whipped her head around to look at Mu Ning. She remembered. Once, Mu Ning had been slumped over her desk, suffering from a severe stomachache. When Ren Chenxi found out, she had gone to a doctor, described Mu Ning’s symptoms, and bought several medicines including this very bottle. Mu Ning had been in so much pain then that she didn’t resist Ren Chenxi’s approach and had obediently swallowed a few pills.

Back then, Mu Ning’s compliance had made Ren Chenxi very happy. She had made a point to show up every day to supervise the medication. But on the third day, Mu Ning had shoved the empty bottle back at her, coldly stating that her stomach was fine, the medicine was gone, and that Ren Chenxi should stop bothering her.

How could a whole bottle of medicine be finished in three days? Thinking of all the other gifts she had given that were simply thrown away, Ren Chenxi realized where the pills had actually gone. She had taken the empty bottle back with a heavy heart and tossed it into her backpack. It had stayed in the first slot of her medicine category ever since. When she was packing the antibiotics, she had seen the empty bottle and used it on a whim.

Meeting Ren Chenxi’s gaze, Mu Ning was startled for a moment. Then, seeing the girl hurriedly turn back to the “detox medicine,” Mu Ning followed her gaze to the bottle in Wu Tong’s hand. With just one look, Mu Ning felt the bottle looked incredibly familiar.

“Let me see that!”

“See what? This is medicine for Sun Jia!”

Without giving Mu Ning a chance, Ren Chenxi rudely snatched the bottle back from Wu Tong. She twisted the cap while explaining: “I thought about it, and keeping such expensive medicine in a stomach pill bottle is a bad idea. It would be terrible if someone else mistook it for something else. Do you have a different container?”

Wouldn’t putting it in a different bottle still be misleading because of the label? Wu Tong was confused. However, Zhang Tongqi nodded and mentioned she had an empty moisture-proof pill box that would be perfect. After pouring the tablets into the box, Ren Chenxi screwed the cap back onto the empty bottle, intending to hide it in her bag. But as she did, Mu Ning walked straight up to her.

Ren Chenxi’s movements had been fast, but Mu Ning had seen the red text on the label clearly. Two words stood out in a large font: “2 Tablets.”

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