Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
“What do you want to do? Watch TV?” Xu’s mom asked.
Xia Yu didn’t know how to answer the way Xu Youxiang would. He considered it for a moment and said yes.
Xu’s mom smiled instantly. She turned the TV to a channel showing an idol drama.
“How is this one? You used to love this show!” Xu’s mom tried to ask him.
She liked idol dramas? She really was a typical young woman. Xia Yu mumbled a yes.
Xu’s mom seemed even happier as she asked, “I’ll heat up some porridge for you?”
“OK.” Xia Yu did feel a little hungry.
Xu’s mom walked to the door, but she returned after opening the door.
“The microwave has radiation. I’ll ask your dad to buy some porridge. He was saying there was a place with good porridge, now you can try it.” Xu’s mom took out her phone to call her husband.
Xia Yu knew the radiation thing was just an excuse. She was worried about leaving her daughter alone and the girl harming herself.
This woman was so worried about her daughter’s feelings. She was a good mom.
Xu’s mom moved the bed higher, helping Xia Yu sit up so he could watch TV.
“I’ll have your dad bring over the computer so you can play games. After we get the test done and see there’s nothing wrong, we can go home.”
Xia Yu didn’t reply. It was because another voice came on.
It was Xu Youxiang’s voice.
“What are you doing?!” Xu Youxiang’s voice was manic and angry. She had been conscious after Xia Yu woke up, so she had been coming to terms with what happened yesterday.
“Where’s my phone?” Xia Yu asked Xu’s mom.
Xu’s mom looked nervous. “I didn’t bring your phone. Can you do whatever you need on my phone? Your dad will be here in an hour, he’ll have your things.”
Taking over Xu’s mom’s phone, Xia Yu opened the notepad app and started to think.
Xu Youxiang, failing to receive an answer from Xia Yu, was cursing up a storm.
How should he reply to Xu Youxiang? That it was no big deal if you couldn’t move your legs? That life without the use of your legs could have joy too?
Both of these sayings seemed self-absorbed. If the same thing happened to him before he got the body swap game, he’d feel very devastated too.
Thinking of what to say, Xia Yu typed on the notepad.
“Maybe I can heal your legs.”
Medicine is an important skill too. For himself, for his family and friends, after he made some money, he would try to get this skill, maybe he can cure Xu Youxiang too.
This is not impossible. If Scaring, as unscientific as it is, exists as a skill, extraordinary medicine could exist too.
But Xu Youxiang didn’t believe Xia Yu. “You’re all lying to me. Saying you can cure me… it’s all a lie!”
“Can other doctors control your body?”
“Then, make me better now!”
Xia Yu’s head hurt. Xu Youxiang didn’t believe him at all.
Maybe it’s that Xu Youxiang, so used to going into hospitals with hope and leaving with disappointment, no longer wanted to believe in other people.
This was a self-protective mechanism. Someone who was lied to a lot would stop trusting others.
Since there wasn’t a way to fix the problem right away, he let it go. He looked at the TV.
The idol drama on TV had ridiculous plotlines, but it had pretty actresses.
If An Siyao was a 100, the number 1 and number 2 actresses on the show were around 80, and maybe even 90 with some embellishments.
They weren’t the same as An Siyao, and not even at the level of Feng Yujia and Feng Yumo, but they were alright.
“Turn it off! Why are you watching this?” Xu Youxiang yelled.
It was rare for her not to curse at him.
Maybe this was a clue.
Picking up the phone again, Xia Yu typed in the notepad.
“Your mom said you liked this show.”
“I don’t! Turn it off!” Xu Youxiang’s voice became even sharper.
“Why not? It has good-looking characters, it’s fun to watch, right?” Xia Yu asked.
Xu Youxiang sounded weird again. “You think a cripple watching people enjoying their wonderful life is having fun?”
Xia Yu picked up the remote and changed the TV to a pets channel.
Seeing the cats and dogs on TV, Xu’s mom became excited. “Xiangxiang, what if we got a cat or dog for you?”
“What do you think?” Xia Yu typed.
“No!” Xu Youxiang shouted and became quiet.
Xia Yu relayed Xu Youxiang’s answer to her mom, and the woman lowered her head in disappointment.
Xia Yu thought Xu Youxiang would start cursing again, but she stayed quiet.
Five minutes later, Xu Youxiang asked, “Ask her how much it costs.”
“Huh?”
“Ask her how much my hospital stay cost!”
Xu Youxiang’s tone made Xia Yu frown. He could take care of a disabled person, but Xu Youxiang was really rude.
Fine. Once you and An Siyao worked for me, I would take my revenge.
Xia Yu noted the incident in his mental journal.
He asked Xu’s mom, “How much did the hospital stay cost?”
Xu’s mom avoided his gaze. “Not much.”
“How much is not much?” Xia Yu asked again.
Xu’s mom didn’t answer. Her eyes looked teary. “No matter how much it costs, we just want you to be safe and sound.”
Xia Yu became silent. Xu Youxiang didn’t say anything either.
By 4:40 p.m., a slightly chubby middle-aged man came into the hospital room. He brought porridge and Xu Youxiang’s digital things.
It was Xu’s dad.
Xu’s dad wasn’t much of a talker. He put down the stuff, watched his daughter from his bedside chair for a bit, then left the room.
After drinking the porridge, Xia Yu picked up Xu Youxiang’s phone and scrolled through it.
“What happened to your Penguin Chat?” Xia Yu noticed she’d uninstalled the chat software.
“So I can hear those phony words?” Xu Youxiang asked.
Xia Yu understood. He knew there were many seemingly sympathetic but in fact clueless people who would keep bringing up Xu Youxiang’s pain.
“Does your family need money?” He asked. If they didn’t, Xu Youxiang wouldn’t have asked about the cost.
“The money was all swindled by liars like you!” Xu Youxiang said.
Xia Yu couldn’t explain that he wasn’t a liar. Maybe he could persuade her with money.
“If there was an opportunity for you to make money with your body, what would you think?”
“Why, you want to take advantage of me? I just want 100 thousand yuan, and you can do whatever you want to me, here I am, a freshly-made cripple!”
Xia Yu did a simple calculation. He earned eight thousand a month, so he’d need to save for 13 months to make 100 thousand yuan.
This wasn’t the issue. He didn’t want to buy Xu Youxiang’s body, he just wanted its usage rights.
Even worse, Xu Youxiang assumed he wanted her body. He needed to explain himself.
After some thinking, Xia Yu typed.
“What do I need your body for?”
He decided to pretend to be a slightly older young woman.
“You’re a woman?” Xu Youxiang sounded doubtful. “Let me ask you, how do you use sanitary napkins?”
Oh no.