"Oh?" Wondering what trick Yu Nan was up to this time, "What do you want to bet?"
"Bet on how many days it will be between my discharge and my next hospitalization."
Yu Nan thought about it carefully, "If nothing happens in a month, then my check-up time will be changed from once a week to once a month. If nothing happens in a year, then I will have a check-up every six months, and I will be allowed to return to the company to lead projects."
"What if something happens to you within a day?"
"How could this be!" Yu Nan exclaimed, as if she had heard something unbelievable. "Even if I were stupid, I wouldn't go through all this trouble right after being discharged from the hospital!"
That's true, Yu Nan is very shrewd.
“If I, Yu Nan, come back just one day after being discharged from the hospital, then I’ll completely listen to my sister from now on. If she tells me to go east, I won’t dare to go west, okay? If she tells me to stay in the hospital, I won’t leave!” Yu Nan raised an eyebrow.
"Fine, whatever you want." Gu Wanqiu agreed to the bet.
Gu Wanqiu wasn't really after the prize money, but at least for the next year, Yu Nan would have to take care of her health because of it.
She knew that Yu Nan wasn't someone without a sense of proportion; her current desperate actions might be a fit of pique—wanting to prove herself to those who thought she was courting death by making indie games back then.
"You had an illegitimate daughter with another man behind my back, and you're making a scene to get discharged from the hospital. You even made a bet with me that you'd work for me." Gu Wanqiu made a phone call to Li Yue from the corridor.
“She’s fine when she’s in good spirits, I’m just worried she might be listless,” Li Yue couldn’t help but laugh as she listened to Gu Wanqiu complaining to her. “I’m planning to find her a roommate, at least someone can keep an eye on her while she sleeps.”
"Why don't you hire a nanny?" Gu Wanqiu asked, puzzled.
“It really won’t work.” Li Yue rubbed her temples. “We’ve tried before, but if it’s a contractual relationship, Yu Nan won’t listen to anything the other party says.”
"Please stall for time. I'll let her leave the hospital once I find someone suitable. I have to go to a meeting now. Love you."
Gu Wanqiu detained Yu Nan for another two days until Li Yue said she had found the person, and only then did she release Yu Nan from the hospital.
When Yu Nan got home, it was already past four in the morning. She took the elevator in the basement back to her bedroom.
The villa has elevators, one at the far end of the basement corridor, one in the study on the first floor used for game development, and one in Yu Nan's bedroom.
After tidying up briefly, Yu Nan grabbed some food and drinks from the refrigerator and went to the game room to play games.
She lay in the hospital for five whole days, and Li Yue even took away all her electronic devices. Apart from Gu Wanqiu chatting with her during her rounds to relieve her boredom, she couldn't do anything but sleep.
Furthermore, Gu Wanqiu was very busy and didn't really want to talk to him, so he was getting bored to death.
Yu Nan, who had no desire to sleep, turned on her computer and began checking her game inventory.
She decided to take Li Yue's advice and at least complete 50% of the game in her inventory...
It's a massive undertaking.
Buying games is fun, but playing them is a nightmare. You can buy games with one click, but you can't complete them instantly—what a terrible design! It completely ignores people who only like buying games and don't enjoy playing them!
After playing until 10 a.m. the next day, Yu Nan thought she should meet her new roommate, so she went back upstairs from the basement.
A normal person should be up by 10 a.m., right? Yu Nan picked up her Switch, turned on Zelda, and lay on the sofa in the living room, playing while waiting.
I waited until noon, but it still hadn't arrived.
Doesn't this person eat lunch? Yu Nan decided to wait a little longer.
However, they waited until 2 p.m. but still didn't see it.
Yu Nan couldn't take it anymore, so she went back to her bedroom and slept until midnight.
After waking up, Yu Nan planned to go to the kitchen to make herself a bowl of noodles before starting her new day's game plan.
As soon as I opened the door, I found a plate of sushi wrapped in plastic wrap in front of me.
It seems my new roommate has moved in.
Judging that no one would be awake at this hour, Yu Nan simply took some sushi to the basement for "breakfast," only to be surprised to find that her roommate's cooking skills were quite good!
I don't know what agreement my new roommate and Li Yue reached, but she's even bringing me food.
It doesn't matter anyway, I'll just ask again if I run into them tomorrow.
After finishing the plate of sushi, Yu Nan went to the kitchen to get some drinks and also took three pieces of milk candy to place in front of her roommate's door.
Consider it a return gift of sushi.
Alright! Everything's ready, let's start the game!
What is Yu Nan doing today?
Looking at the inventory, most of the games I haven't played are either skill-based or horror games.
Yu Nan knew that besides being clumsy, she was also extremely afraid of ghosts.
When she was a child, Yu Nan would be dragged to watch horror movies by her older brother and Li Yue during holidays.
And after those two wicked guys discovered that she was genuinely afraid of ghosts, they started forcing her to watch horror movies with wicked grins.
Often when Yu's parents came home, they would see their son and niece pinning their daughter down on the sofa, each holding up one of her eyes and forcing her to watch a horror movie on TV while she was crying loudly.
When their own daughter cries, her parents have to comfort her.
Fortunately, Yu Nan is very easy to coax; she would stop crying and start laughing whenever she saw her brother being beaten.
However, watching horror movies can have lasting effects. During that time, even the slightest disturbance would cause Yu Nan to experience extreme panic.
Many excellent games on the market contain elements of horror and the supernatural.
Yu Nan has always prioritized collecting these kinds of games, only occasionally watching online walkthroughs, and resolutely refuses to play them.
But now I'm planning to finish all the good games in my collection that I haven't played yet, and I'm stuck on Souls games that I just can't beat, so I can only start with horror games.
Let's play "Underground High-Speed Rail: Leave Home" today.
"High-Speed Rail: Leaving Home" tells the story of a group of Russians searching for a new camp in a world devastated by nuclear attack.
This game has received widespread acclaim, and Yu Nan has already completed it online.
But she was still afraid of the monsters in the game that had been exposed to radiation.
Even though she had read the guide and knew exactly what kind of monsters were in which places and where terrifying scenes would appear, she still didn't dare to fight.
She was afraid of chases, afraid of terrifying atmospheres, afraid of ugly, red-eyed, baring-toothed, drooling monsters.
In short, he was extremely cowardly.
Putting on her headphones and holding the controller, Yu Nan silently cheered herself on several times while chanting "Amitabha."
Anyway, these monsters can't get off the screen and attack me!
Yu Nan! Don't be a coward! Just go for it!
Waaaaaah, these mutated animals are still so scary...
As she played, Yu Nan's mind started wandering, recalling the scary stories that Li Yue and her brother had forced her to listen to before she went to sleep or when she stayed up late when she was little.
Li Yue said that reading horror novels or watching horror movies late at night would attract ghosts to come and watch...
Playing a horror game by myself in the middle of the night, I guess... it'll be okay...
People can scare each other to death.
Yu Nan convinced herself that after defeating this last monster, she would save her game, exit the horror game, and switch to a less scary one…
Suddenly, a loud bang came from behind!
Yu Nan's limbs went numb instantly, and she froze.
Her body felt as if it had fallen into an ice cave, her mind went blank, and her throat felt like it was being squeezed by something, preventing her from even screaming—or perhaps she screamed subconsciously, but her brain had shut down and she was unaware of it.
Was I attracted by a ghost...? Am I going to die young...?
Before losing consciousness, Yu Nan thought this.
Chapter 8 Your niece should tone it down a bit.
“It’s not due to overwork. Yu Nan must have been so frightened that her brain went blank,” Gu Wanqiu said, flipping Yu Nan’s eyelids. “She’s still alive, her vital signs are stable, she’ll be fine after a while.”
Sitting beside the hospital bed were Li Yue, who couldn't help but laugh, and Zhu Yao, who looked dejected and wanted to disappear into the ground.
"You mean, she was stressed?" Li Yue's mouth was practically stretched to her ears, but she lowered her head to suppress her laughter.
“That’s one way to put it,” Gu Wanqiu said, glancing at Yu Nan, who was unconscious and pale, and then at Li Yue, who was trembling from trying not to laugh. “She should wake up in a little while.”
"However, when she first wakes up, she may experience a rapid heart rate, mental dullness, confusion, or even temporary amnesia. Try not to agitate her."
Gu Wanqiu glanced at Zhu Yao, and she never expected that someone who looked so gentle and weak could scare Yu Nan to the point of fainting on the very first day.
In a sense, Yu Nan's self-prediction was quite accurate; she's practically a master of setting up flags (i.e., making predictions).
Yu Nan is unlucky; how can she, as the attending physician, be so happy?
“Yu Nan is fine. She often faints from fright.” Li Yue comforted the restless Zhu Yao. “This child has always been timid and has often fainted from fright before.”
Li Yue had scared Yu Nan quite a bit in the past, and naturally, she had also frightened him to the point of fainting.
Although sometimes it's not intentional... how can someone faint from fright just because they hear someone call their name from behind?!
As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. The first time Yu Nan fainted, Li Yue blamed herself for three whole days, the second time for one day, and now she's not worried at all.
Zhu Yao wanted to disappear into a crack in the ground; on the second day after moving in, she scared her landlord so much that he ended up in the hospital.
Judging from what Li Yue said, her landlord had been discharged from the hospital less than a day ago, and she had sent him back.
Zhu Yao shrank her neck, hoping that the landlord wouldn't hold a grudge against her after waking up.
Even if she was slow to realize it, she eventually understood that Li Yue's "daughter" was just a "father-son" joke between Li Yue and her landlord. She wouldn't be facing a child who needed care, but an adult with a very strange lifestyle.
However, it seems that Dr. Gu, the attending physician, got out of the same car as Li Yue. When they first entered the hospital, they seemed to be wearing the same style of clothes. I felt that they were exchanging glances. Was it just my imagination?
And they seem... to have quite a bit of lesbian romance, they're actually quite a good match.
Zhu Yao, Zhu Yao, please don't look at this with a yaoi lens! This is the friendship between straight girls, the close bond between straight girls!
"..."
Yu Nan opened her eyes and saw three people surrounding her.
Li Yue was laughing, wasn't she? She was laughing at herself.
Gu Wanqiu seemed to be suppressing a laugh as well. Wasn't she supposed to be a cold and aloof female doctor?
Why is there someone next to me with their head down? Is that my new roommate? The noise just now was definitely related to her!