For some reason, Su Xi had been extremely unlucky recently.
She was almost hit by a car while walking and choked on water.
That was not all.
Three days ago, she was participating in a long-distance running event at the sports meet. She was about to reach the finish line with great difficulty and usher in the glorious moment of first place. But all of a sudden, she inexplicably tripped over a small stone and fell flat on her face in front of all the students in the stands.
Not only that, when she stood up, she felt a piercing pain in her ankle. She was covered in cold sweat as she limped to the infirmary with the help of her classmates. Only then did she know that her right ankle was fractured.
Su Xi had no choice but to lie in the hospital after a hundred days of recovery.
She was in her second year of high school. Although Su Xi had two very good friends in class, they could not drop their studies to visit her often.
As for Su Xi's father and mother, needless to say, they were so busy with the factory at the end of the year that they could not even take care of themselves. They could only let Su Xi stay in the hospital by herself and visit her after work.
Su Xi lay on the hospital bed alone and scrolled through all her social media apps. She used a gel pen to draw on the plaster until it was pitch-black and sighed in boredom.
She opened the app store and planned to download two games to play. Suddenly, her attention was attracted by an ancient game called "The Emperor's Road: The Sickly Prince Only Favors You".
Damn, this game's name was a little embarrassing. It looked very crude.
However, what attracted Su Xi was the game's introduction.
"Do you want to change your luck? Do you want to get a Koi? Do you want to be the luckiest person in life? Let's play this game then! This unique experience will let you know what it means to be favored by a prince! The special experience feedback will make you a lucky Koi! "
Su Xi's eyes lit up.
It was not that she was superstitious, but she was indeed unlucky since she was young.
Although she did not have to worry about food and clothing, her grades were excellent, and her family's life was stable, disasters, big and small, were constant.
The major ones were broken bones, and the minor ones were cutting her hand while spinning a pencil. They would come every few days. It made Su Xi doubt her life.
Recently, she was even lying in the hospital.
Su Xi could not help but click on the download button. She had nothing to do anyway.
The game was quickly downloaded. It did not take up much of the phone's memory, only a few megabytes. However, after it was loaded, Su Xi was stunned.
How could a game that cost a few million be made so well? This roof … even the number of tiles could be counted clearly. It looked so real. How many original artists had died from exhaustion?!
The first game interface that appeared was the eaves of a house. There was snow on it, and it looked like it was a cold winter day. There was even a hole in the eaves, and some cold wind leaked out.
Su Xi turned his view to the inside of the house and realized that it was actually very old and was only the size of a palm. There was only a wooden bed in the room. There was some straw on the wooden bed and a thin bedding. One look at it and one would shiver from the cold.
Other than that, there was only one cupboard. It was closed, and no one knew what was inside.
There were no tables or stools in the entire room. On such a cold day, the wooden door was left ajar, making creaking sounds.
Su Xi put on his headphones and thought, "The sound of the wooden door being blown by the heavy snow is too real!"
She didn't know where to start playing the game. She poked left and right on the interface, trying to find a button to do a mission.
At that moment, the wooden door was pushed open. A small person in thin, coarse clothes carried a few pieces of firewood and came back wet.
Although it was a simple drawing, it was obvious that he was very tired.
When he put down the firewood, he rolled up his sleeves, revealing a pale and weak forearm. There were a few whiplash wounds on it.
Su Xi couldn't see it clearly. She wanted to zoom in, but the game interface immediately popped up.
"If you want to see the prince's face clearly, you need to spend 20 gold coins. You only have 10 gold coins left in your account. Please recharge before spending."
Su Xi was speechless.
Profiteer! He didn't even want to see the face of the game's protagonist! He still needed to recharge?
Wasn't it just a cartoon character? How shocking could it be?
I don't want to see it!
After the little person put down the firewood, he immediately dragged his tired body out of the house and went to the yard to chop firewood.
His black hair was still dripping with water. As he walked forward, water droplets were left on the ground.
It was winter. How could this little person be in such a sorry state?
Su Xi tried to poke the little person's head. She thought that according to normal games, she should be able to click on the little person and give him a name. However, who knew that another box would pop up.
"If you want to obtain the prince's real name, you need to spend 2 gold coins. You only have 10 gold coins left in your account. Would you like to spend 2 gold coins to obtain his real name? Of course, you can also change your nickname. The system will recommend several domineering names for you. For example, Long Aotian, Ye Liangchen, Xuan Yuan … "
Su Xi said, "… No, no, no, the real name is fine."
In the upper right corner, 2 gold coins were deducted from her account, and a character introduction appeared in the upper left corner.
The game's protagonist was called Lu Huan. There were two lines at the bottom. The top line was the life line, and the bottom line was the stamina line.
It was obvious that the little person's stamina was running low. The line had become a pale 10%.
Moreover, as the little person in the game kept working, his stamina continued to decrease.
At first, Su Xi was still scared. She was afraid that his stamina would drop to zero in the next second, and then he would die. However, she didn't expect that even though he only had so much stamina left, he still stubbornly held on for so long.
He continued to climb up the eaves to repair the roof.
Then, he went out again. However, Su Xi couldn't unlock the other maps for the time being. She could only see this small house, so she didn't know where he went. However, when he came back, the clothes on his back seemed to be torn. There were two bloodstains that were similar to the ones on his arms. His footsteps were even more staggered. In short, he looked very miserable.
Su Xi could roughly guess from the game's introduction that this Lu Huan was Prince Ning Fu's illegitimate son. He wasn't liked and was looked down upon. Her main mission was to become an emperor with him.
However, at this moment, Su Xi still couldn't figure out what exactly happened to him. How to play this game?
Time in the game seemed to pass faster than in reality. In the blink of an eye, the sky in the game was dark.
Su Xi saw that the game character was still busy, and the game interface didn't move at all. She couldn't help but feel a little bored. Just then, the nurse called her for lunch, so she threw her phone and limped to the hospital cafeteria.
The hospital's food was very fragrant. Su Xi ate two bowls of rice and went back to take a nap. When she woke up, she saw that her phone was still lit up. Only then did she remember to play the game.
She was already bored and planned to delete this trashy game. However, she suddenly paused.
She saw that it was already late at night in the game. The character who had been busy during the day was now lying motionless on the hard bed. The thin blanket couldn't block out the cold wind, and the door was whistling from the wind.
Why isn't he moving?
Su Xi poked him, but he turned over. His skin was even paler than during the day. It looked like there was no blood at all.
What's going on?
No way, what kind of trashy game is this? The main character is sleeping for me to see?
However, Su Xi soon found out why. She saw that the health bar in the upper left corner was only 30% red. The stamina bar had completely dropped from 10% during the day to 1%. It was close to zero.
Su Xi suddenly panicked.
The game character was sick? Did he have a fever?!
He was so tired and tossed around during the day. He was wet and did so much work. How could he not collapse?
Su Xi suddenly felt that this trashy game was actually quite logical. She watched as the health bar in the upper left corner decreased bit by bit. She was a little anxious. The game hadn't even started yet, and the main character was going to die. This little prince was too weak!
She couldn't help but poke left and right, trying to see if there was any hidden cold medicine or something. But after rummaging through the room, she didn't find anything. Instead, she saw two thin, worn-out robes that had been washed white in the wardrobe.
This prince was too … poor.
Su Xi was silent for a moment. She opened the map and tried to look elsewhere. However, just like in the morning, the map was not unlocked. However, there was a lit place. It should be the courtyard that was currently unlocked.
She quickly opened it and found that it was a courtyard with a small bridge and flowing water. It was a very unique and luxurious courtyard. It was completely different from the woodshed where the main character lived. The candles and lanterns in the courtyard were very bright. She could hear the conversation of two servants.
"That bastard, Second Young Master taught him a lesson during the day! Isn't he a sick ghost? Then let him soak in the bone-piercing cold pool and send him to his death earlier. It's a good deed! "
"I say, you should take it easy. Although this bastard is a bastard, look at how hard he resisted the butler's whip today. I'm afraid he'll be able to turn things around in the future."
"Turn things around? Him? Bah, I think he won't be able to turn things around in this lifetime! "
Large paragraphs of words appeared on the interface. Su Xi's face twitched. What the hell? Who were these two servants who were gossiping behind her back? It turned out that the main character was drenched and almost caught a cold today because of them.
If she died in the game, it was their fault!
Su Xi was filled with righteous indignation. She wanted to poke over to see who these two people were, but the map was not unlocked. She couldn't see them and could only resentfully return to the woodshed.
After hearing the two people's teasing and disrespect of the main character, Su Xi went back and saw the game character lying on the bed with a pale face. Because of the cold, his limbs were curled up in the corner, as if he had lost consciousness. She couldn't help but feel a little sympathy and guilt for her game character.
Logically speaking, she should have taken good care of the game character during the day. There should have been some hidden way to stop him from continuing to work. That way, he wouldn't have gotten sick and had a fever now.
Out of guilt, Su Xi continued to rummage through the house to find medicine.
But she still couldn't find it.
She couldn't help but poke the character again.
Just then, a white bubble appeared on the top of her character's head.
"Water."
Lu Huan opened his dry and pale lips. Because of the fever, his throat was burning.
He forced his eyes open and pressed the back of his hand against his eye sockets. After a while, he tried his best to support himself to sit up. When he got out of bed, he was too weak and rolled down.
Su Xi tried to support him, but her fingers poked the character's back. Instead, she poked Lu Huan and made him lie down.
She was speechless.
Su Xi didn't dare to move again. The game character obviously didn't know that there was an external force. He only thought that he was sick and weak.
He got up and staggered to the windowsill.
The interface popped up. "Do you want to use three gold coins to exchange for the location where the water is stored?"
Su Xi was simply unable to restrain his anger. Cross out this interface, she could find it herself.
Shui Shui Shui Shui! Hurry up and pour the water! She knew that this was a mission, so she quickly looked for water in the house. Fortunately, she still remembered that Lu Huan had fetched water during the day. Sure enough, she saw a bucket in the corner, and the teapot by the windowsill was empty. She tried to drag the bucket
F * CK, I dragged it!
Su Xi was delighted. She felt that she was about to find the gameplay of this game, so she dragged the bucket to the teapot with great effort and poured water into it.
The moment the water poured into it, the system popped up a message:
"Congratulations on obtaining a reward of five gold coins. Because the mission is relatively simple, you have obtained a reward of 0 points. Please continue to work hard and assist the protagonist in achieving the path of the emperor from five aspects, such as skills, interpersonal relationships, external appearance, physical fitness, and main storyline. Every ten reward points can be exchanged for a Koi. "
What reward?
Koi?
Su Xi didn't take it to heart at this time. She thought that it was just nonsense from the game.
She was still thinking about the problem of the water.
Although it was cold water, it should be the spring water that Lu Huan fetched during the day. It could be drunk, but it was a little cold.
But to let a sick character drink ice water, no matter how she looked at it, it was pitiful.
While Su Xi was thinking about how to boil water in the game, Lu Huan was stunned. He picked up the simple teapot and drank two mouthfuls to relieve the burning in his throat. Then, he slowly put the teapot back to its original position.
What was going on?
Lu Huan stared at his teapot suspiciously.
He clearly remembered that because of Lu Wenxiu's deliberately making things difficult for him, after he came back from fetching water from the foot of the mountain three miles away, he was weak all over. He lay down to rest for a while and didn't pour water into the teapot.
But now, why was there water in the teapot?
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