Transmigrated as the Cannon Fodder Spouse of the Disabled Beauty - Chapter 26

“Was she willing?”

The doctor kept his head down, looking at the test results in his hand as he questioned Song Yunran, who was standing nearby.

Song Yunran was slightly dazed. By now, the strange fragrance in the air had dissipated, leaving only a faint wisp lingering around her wrist, reluctant to leave. The person who had emitted that fragrance was now fast asleep on the hospital bed after cooperating with a series of physical examinations. She slept sweetly, her cheeks flushed.

The doctor’s question reached Song Yunran’s ears, and only after a long delay did it finally register in her consciousness. Subsequently, a look of confusion slowly reflected on her face.

“These are symptoms of a sex hormone imbalance,” the doctor said. “The test results show she ingested stimulant hormone-type drugs.”

Song Yunran snapped out of her daze and then… fell silent.

The air smelled of disinfectant, and a bizarre atmosphere hung between them.

“…Stimulants?”

Song Yunran spoke slowly.

The elderly doctor asked her, “Are you partners?”

“Yes.”

“Did you give her the medication?”

Song Yunran: “…”

The old doctor pushed up his thick glasses, casting a disapproving gaze from behind the lenses toward Song Yunran. “Using this type of medication requires proper products used in moderation under a physician’s guidance. To send your partner to the hospital just because you were blindly chasing excitement…”

The doctor’s words already carried a tone of accusation because Song Yunran had not denied the question “Did you give her the medication?”

Song Yunran remained silent.

A few subtle expressions flickered across her brow. “Is this really a reaction to hormone drugs?”

The doctor clearly misunderstood her meaning and frowned. “Don’t tell me you gave her some black-market product? Stimulants are, of course, hormone-based drugs.”

Song Yunran: “…”

She hadn’t given Xu Luo any strange medicine, and the possibility of Xu Luo accidentally ingesting it herself was basically zero, as Xu Luo had been within her sight the entire time.

She had been watching her.

However, the doctor’s point was…

Was Xu Luo’s recent “frequency” due to a sex hormone imbalance?

Song Yunran’s gaze rested quietly on the person sleeping soundly on the bed. Another long silence followed.

“Doctor…” Song Yunran’s right hand unconsciously rubbed the armrest of her wheelchair. “Is it possible for the human body to cause such a sex hormone imbalance on its own, without external stimulation?”

Thinking she was trying to shirk responsibility, the doctor’s brow furrowed so tightly it could have crushed a fly. “It is impossible for the human body to cause an imbalance of this magnitude on its own.”

Song Yunran: “…Oh.”

The old doctor closed the test report. As a physician, he offered a well-intentioned warning: “Your partner is fine now, but stimulants cannot be used long-term; otherwise, they will cause irreversible side effects for the user.”

Song Yunran lowered her head. “Yes.”

The old doctor glanced at her, his eyes filled with distrust. He suppressed the urge to give her a long lecture and turned to leave.

Before he left, Song Yunran called out to him, asking: “If my partner shows these symptoms again, is my only option to send her to the hospital? Is there any other way that isn’t harmful to the body?”

“You!” At these words, the old doctor’s glasses slid halfway down his nose.

Listen to that! Had everything he just said been total nonsense to her?!

The old doctor nearly roared: “What I meant by all that was that the two of you had better not touch those kinds of drugs again!”

Song Yunran: “…”

“What if…” She rubbed the wheelchair. “What if I can’t help myself and use them? What can be done?”

The old doctor couldn’t restrain himself and shouted: “What else can be done? The best way is naturally to let her release it, to get the drugs out of her system as quickly as possible!”

Song Yunran had learned something. “Oh.”

The old doctor: “…”

He turned and left in a huff.

In the doctor’s eyes, Song Yunran was already a typical wealthy person with a decadent private life, the kind of “rotten person” seen in movies.

Song Yunran didn’t care about her reputation at all. Her thoughts lingered on the “release” method mentioned by the doctor, lost in thought.

“Mmm…”

The person on the bed murmured something, perhaps dreaming.

Song Yunran looked toward the bed.

After a while, she maneuvered her wheelchair to the bedside.

She reached out, her fingers landing near the ear bone of the person on the bed, feeling carefully.

She felt nothing.

Inside the sleeping body before her lived a wandering soul. Previously, she thought this soul came from another human, but now she was suspicious. The strange fragrance, the estrus symptoms, the hard object near the ear everything suggested that the soul inhabiting Xu Luo’s body was no ordinary human, and the entity’s original characteristics were manifesting one by one on Xu Luo.

Luo Luo, what exactly are you?

Song Yunran pondered. As she thought, the corners of her mouth curled up.

It seems you aren’t sick; you’re just changing.

That’s good.

No matter what you are, you are mine.

Xu Luo sat up abruptly, her eyes stung by the sunlight streaming through the window. She instinctively shielded them with her hand.

“Where is this?” she murmured in confusion.

“It’s a hospital ward,” a voice came from the side, answering her. “You had a fever.”

A hospital ward?!

Xu Luo didn’t have time to worry about her own body; the words “hospital ward” reminded her of Granny Fu.

“How is Granny?!” she cried out.

Answering her concern was the person in the other bed in the same room: “I’m fine.”

Hearing that familiar voice, Xu Luo looked up and saw Granny Fu leaning against her bed, receiving an IV drip.

Granny Fu had come out of the emergency room in the middle of the night. Her condition was stable for now, but it was only temporary. The surgery she had at eighteen had been very successful, allowing her to live peacefully until now, but the effects of that surgery were being rapidly exhausted. There was no helping it; from the moment she was born, it was decided that her life would be difficult to conclude in a natural, ordinary way. That she had lived this long in relatively good health was already a miracle.

Granny Fu had already learned about her physical condition from the doctor. She had been silent for a long time upon hearing it, but now, she had processed those complex emotions privately. What she showed was her usual warmth and tolerance.

“Thank you for your concern,” the old woman said with a smile.

Song Yunran was peeling an apple. She glanced at the old woman upon hearing this, then calmly lowered her eyes.

She was the second person present who knew the true state of Granny Fu’s health.

Xu Luo, shedding her weak appearance from the previous night, was now full of energy, as if she had just been fully recharged. She jumped off the bed and dashed to Granny Fu’s bedside.

“Granny, you’re okay?”

“Are you really okay? Did the doctor say you’re okay?”

“Granny, you really scared me yesterday!”

Granny Fu watched her and smiled, using her free hand to pat Xu Luo’s head gently and kindly. “Yes, I’m fine. The doctor said I’m fine.”

Song Yunran: “…”

Xu Luo was still worried and wanted to keep asking, but Song Yunran stuffed a piece of apple into her mouth to silence her.

Song Yunran said, “Luo Luo, aren’t you going to care about yourself?”

Xu Luo chewed the apple, unconcerned, and declared confidently: “I’m fine!”

Song Yunran looked at her, her eyes deep and dark.

Granny Fu looked at the two of them. She had gathered from the doctor that Xu Luo’s fever was caused by some kind of medication and that she would be fine as long as she stopped taking it; it wasn’t a serious illness, which relieved her greatly.

As long as it wasn’t a disease, it was fine.

She looked at the two young, vibrant lives before her with affectionate eyes.

As her gaze swept over Xu Luo’s bed, she suddenly touched her own wrist and found it empty. The woven bracelet she always wore was gone.

She panicked for a moment, then heard Xu Luo say, “Granny, are you looking for this?”

Xu Luo grabbed a worn-out bracelet from the cabinet beside the bed.

It was a bracelet with a significant sense of age. The woven thread had faded, and the decorative beads were heavily worn, looking a bit shabby.

Xu Luo had seen this bracelet on Granny Fu’s wrist several times, so she knew what she was looking for as soon as the old woman moved.

Seeing the bracelet, Granny Fu sighed in relief, the smile returning to her face. She reached out for it and said, “So it was put here.”

Xu Luo helped the old woman put it on and asked curiously, “Is this a gift from someone important?”

It was obvious that Granny Fu cherished it.

Granny Fu said, “I suppose so.”

“Suppose so?”

Granny Fu said, “When I had surgery at eighteen, a fellow patient moved into the ward after I woke up. My surgery was very successful, and since there was only one other patient in the room, I couldn’t help but chatter a lot to them. My fellow patient never spoke a word, so I always thought she hated me. But before I was discharged, she gave me a woven bracelet. She must have considered me a friend.”

At this point, a hint of regret appeared on Granny Fu’s face. “I considered her a friend too. It’s a pity I never knew what she looked like until the day I left.”

“Eh?”

Why was that?

Seeing Xu Luo’s confusion, Granny Fu explained, “Because back then, there were curtains drawn between the beds.”

And her fellow patient seemed to be someone with a strong sense of distance, never allowing her to peek. Even when she gave the bracelet at the end, she only reached a hand out from behind the curtain.

Granny Fu still remembered; it was truly such a thin, gaunt hand.

Granny Fu never wanted to think too deeply about what happened to that friend she never met whether her illness was cured, or if she was discharged in good health. Granny Fu didn’t dare to dwell on it.

Granny Fu looked at the woven bracelet on her hand, her thoughts drifting back forty years.

Granny Fu still needed to stay in the hospital for a few more days, but Xu Luo did not. She was kicked out of the hospital early by the doctor, told not to take up resources. Xu Luo didn’t want to stay in the expensive hospital anyway; she didn’t need the doctor to tell her she left of her own accord.

The moment she stepped out of the hospital, Xu Luo exaggeratedly scrunched her nose and took a deep breath, simultaneously opening her arms in a gesture of embracing the world.

“Luo Luo, what are you doing?” asked Song Yunran, who was seeing her out.

Xu Luo grinned and waved her arms twice. “These hands are the hands that embrace freedom!”

She sniffed again. “This nose is the nose that absorbs wealth!”

The hospital was a place that lacked freedom and cost money. Once out, everything felt refreshing!

Song Yunran: “…”

It wasn’t her imagination; her Luo Luo seemed… to love money a little bit.

Was she short on cash?

Sitting in the car on the way home, Xu Luo was looking at the scenery outside the window when she suddenly heard a string of notification sounds. She pulled out her phone in confusion and was dazzled by a screen full of “red envelopes” (digital cash gifts).

She froze, stunned for a long while, before looking at the person beside her who had sent them.

“Song Yunran, did your hand slip?”

Song Yunran was still sending them continuously. Hearing this, she touched Xu Luo’s hand and asked, “Is it slippery?”

Xu Luo grabbed the hand back, rubbing it repeatedly, and giggled.

She leaned over to watch Song Yunran send the red envelopes, acting shyly. “Why are you being so polite today? This is quite embarrassing.”

Song Yunran asked, “Luo Luo feels embarrassed?”

“Of course!” Xu Luo poked her own fair cheek. “Look, my face is completely red.”

“Pffft!” Song Yunran burst out laughing. “Then it is indeed embarrassing.”

She added, “It’s alright, no need to be embarrassed. I just wanted to celebrate your discharge from the hospital.”

One second she was claiming to be embarrassed, and the next, Xu Luo said with great gravity, “Then it truly must be celebrated properly.”

As if she had actually suffered a major illness.

Song Yunran chuckled softly.

Xu Luo knew when to stop while she was ahead. She snatched Song Yunran’s phone and said, “Stop sending them. Let me use this to play some games.”

If she kept sending them, Xu Luo would get addicted to the hospital and want to stay for a few days even if she wasn’t sick!

Song Yunran let her take the phone and said with a smile, “There are no games on my phone.”

Xu Luo looked, and indeed, there were none.

Song Yunran took the phone back, opened the app store, and asked the person beside her, “What game does Luo Luo want to play?”

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