"Alright, I understand."
In a high-end hotel in the city center, a professional-looking woman in a fitted business suit held her phone and spoke earnestly. "Don’t worry, sir. Whether the medicine works or not, we won’t hold you accountable. We can also draft a contract if needed."
"And the price of 300,000 is acceptable. I agree to this reasonable offer."
"Good. I’ve already sent a courier to deliver it to your address. Make sure to check for it," Luo's father replied over the phone.
Qiao Xin acknowledged with a sound of agreement.
Just then, there was a knock at the door. Qiao Xin quickly opened it to find a delivery robot standing outside.
"You have a food delivery," the robot announced—since regular delivery personnel weren’t allowed upstairs, all orders were handled by robots.
"Is this it?" Qiao Xin entered the retrieval code, and within seconds, she pulled out a small paper box from the robot’s compartment. Inside was a tiny pill, unremarkable in appearance.
Dark and grimy.
Almost like a ball of dirt.
She sniffed it, and an indescribable stench immediately made her frown.
Was this really the right thing?
Why did it smell so revolting? In her twenties, Qiao Xin couldn’t recall ever encountering anything this foul.
She took a photo with her phone and sent it to Luo's father for confirmation. Once he verified it was indeed the pill he’d sent, she placed it back in the box.
Qiao Xin had already done her research on Luo's family—a remarried household, ordinary with nothing particularly unusual. The couple had a daughter in college, and Luo's mother’s health had indeed taken a sudden turn for the better.
Her decision to reach out to them had been entirely coincidental, with no signs of premeditation.
And for some inexplicable reason, she found herself believing in the efficacy of this so-called "family heirloom remedy." Perhaps when people were at their most desperate, they clung to even the faintest glimmer of hope.
Whether it was prayers to gods or God Himself, the underlying sentiment was always the same: "What if? Maybe?"
Clutching the box, Qiao Xin hurried to the hospital.
Grandpa Qiao was still awake, staring blankly at the ceiling as if lost in thought, the steady hum of the ventilator filling the room.
When he noticed Qiao Xin, his weary face softened into a faint smile. "Xin… what’s the matter?"
She sat beside his bed, first adjusting his blanket before asking gently, "Grandpa, are you feeling any better?"
"Heh… cough… a little." Grandpa Qiao chuckled weakly.
Just seeing his granddaughter seemed to lift his spirits. Yet, even so, he didn’t want her wasting her energy on an old man like him. Despite his years of dominance in the business world, time had caught up with him.
Looking back now, he realized that good health was the greatest wealth of all.
But this illness had also revealed many truths. Without him holding things together, his sons’ incompetence had become painfully clear.
For all their talk of filial piety, not one of them had even bothered to visit the hospital.
"Grandpa, I got hold of a family heirloom pill. A woman with the same condition as yours showed significant improvement after taking it…" Qiao Xin explained.
Grandpa Qiao seemed to understand her intentions. He reached out and patted her hand lightly.
"It’s alright… No one would blame you for trying, Xin’er."
"If only I were ten years younger, I could’ve cleared the path for you."
He sighed deeply, then noticed the pill in Qiao Xin’s hand. "Is this it? Let me take it."
Qiao Xin shook her head. "Grandpa, we should test it first."
Since its ingredients were unknown, she wanted to have it analyzed to avoid any risks.
"It’s fine… Even if it’s poison, it doesn’t matter. This old man doesn’t have much time left anyway," Grandpa Qiao said calmly.
His body was already failing—things couldn’t get much worse.
He planned to swallow the pill and then reassure Qiao Xin that it had worked, just to give her some peace of mind.
Qiao Xin understood his reasoning. Waiting for test results could take too long, and there was no telling how many days her grandfather had left.
"Then… let me get you some water." Knowing she couldn’t change his mind, she poured him a glass.
"Heh, alright."
The mechanical hospital bed adjusted, raising him into a semi-reclined position. After swallowing the pill, Grandpa Qiao was nearly overwhelmed by its foul taste. But as a man who’d weathered countless storms, he took another sip of water to wash it down.
Just as he was about to speak, his throat tightened.
His ashen face suddenly flushed red.
"Grandpa, are you choking?!" Qiao Xin panicked, ready to call for a nurse.
But before she could move, Grandpa Qiao grabbed her wrist and shook his head. "No."
He took a deep breath, and his once-cloudy eyes seemed to brighten.
"Why… do I feel better already?"
He could sense strength returning to his weakened body—an almost unbelievable change.
Qiao Xin was stunned. Better already?
Could the medicine work that fast?
She wanted to say that drugs didn’t take effect so quickly, but the color returning to her grandfather’s face made her hold her tongue.
What was happening?
Was it just a placebo effect?
But the healthy flush on his face seemed too real to dismiss.
"Sigh… Truly remarkable. Far more effective than any hospital medication," Grandpa Qiao exhaled slowly.
Then he coughed again.
"Grandpa…"
"It’s nothing." He waved her off. "Do you have more of this medicine?"
For some reason, it had reignited his hope.
If there was a choice, who would willingly resign themselves to suffering?
He’d built an empire, and now, with the company in turmoil, he wouldn’t be lying helplessly in a hospital bed if not for his failing health.
"Yes—yes! The seller is willing to provide more," Qiao Xin replied, her voice trembling with excitement now that the pill’s effects were confirmed.
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
u serious?" Chen Feng watched helplessly as his painstakingly trained disciple, fresh off a championship victory, publicly abandoned him. "You had your chance, but you didn’t appreciate it. Now, face the consequences of your choice!" Chen Feng possessed the "Master System," a treasure trove of supreme martial arts techniques, capable of molding ordinary individuals into peerless prodigies. "Legs like yours? A shame not to train in the Crippling Kick." "Ever heard of a palm strike that descends from the heavens?" "Auntie! I see extraordinary bone structure in you—a martial arts prodigy, one in ten thousand." The once-defiant senior disciple, now watching her juniors rise to fame one after another, dominating the internet, was consumed by endless regret.
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
