Chapter 5: Mysterious Little Pill

What was that ‘tick… tick…’ sound of the clock hands, and that sharp pain in his head?

Future Sight? Rebirth?

How did he obtain such a miraculous power?

Add to that the fact that Luo Taozhi had turned into a beautiful girl…

Was it Spiritual Qi Recovery, or was the Apocalypse about to break out?

Did his past life’s self lose everything in a future upheaval, and then, in his old age, research some strange Miao Miao Magic to provide hints to his current self?

Xiao Nanchu shook his head self-mockingly. It seemed his top priority was to delete the Yangshizi Novel app from his phone.

Xiao Nanchu was a firm believer in Materialism! Of course, it was wavering slightly now…

Anyone would waver if they found their best friend had vanished for three months, only to return as a beautiful girl, smash a giant crater into a concrete floor from an invisible height, and then stand up unscathed and vanish right before their eyes.

Who could remain a firm believer in Materialism after that?

‘Could I really be a Protagonist?’

That night, Xiao Nanchu fell into a sweet sleep while dreaming that he was indeed a Protagonist.

Meanwhile, Luo Taozhi, who had just come out of the bathroom after a shower, originally intended to go in and reclaim the master bedroom from Xiao Nanchu. However, she saw that he had already fallen fast asleep.

She curled her lip in disgust, cast a Cleaning Spell on him, and then indignantly fell asleep on the sofa.

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The next morning, just as the sky was beginning to brighten, Xiao Nanchu woke up as usual, washed up, and went downstairs to buy his usual breakfast.

Waking up early was a good habit of his. He never liked leaving stress for the next day, so he enjoyed drinking a cup of warm milk before bed, and then…

*Ahem.* Anyway, he had no bad habits, and he had no special pursuit for beautiful hands.

The most relaxing time of his day was waking up in the morning to buy breakfast, then sitting on the small sofa in the living room, opening his phone to find a video to watch while he ate, and comfortably enjoying his meal.

But today, as soon as Xiao Nanchu sat on the sofa, a muffled groan of dissatisfaction came from beneath him.

“Ugh…”

Then, a pleasant, groggy voice of a young girl who wasn’t fully awake sounded out.

Xiao Nanchu felt a surge of immense force from beneath him, and in an instant, he was pinned against the ceiling of his own home.

“Who is it! Are you looking for death? How dare you break into this Fairy’s dwell —”

The girl’s fiery words cut off abruptly.

A groggy Luo Taozhi looked around, and the anger in her eyes vanished instantly. Her beautiful eyes sparkled as she looked up at Xiao Nanchu, who was currently embedded in the ceiling. Her voice became soft and syrupy, filled with intentional flattery.

“Dad… you won’t blame me, right? It was just an accident…”

“Cough! You… you first, save… save me first.”

Xiao Nanchu felt like he was dying. His internal organs were in a turmoil of pain. He even felt a bit lucky — lucky that his body was in decent shape; he was still alive even after being slammed into a wall!

“Sure thing, Dad! Don’t worry, Dad. I’m good at hitting people, but I’m also good at saving them!”

Luo Taozhi gave a light leap, jumping right in front of Xiao Nanchu and placing her fingers gently on him. Before Xiao Nanchu could react, he was already lying on the sofa.

“You!!! You, you, you… I’m… I’m still alive?!”

“Come on… open up. Ahhh…”

Ignoring whatever Xiao Nanchu was saying, a slightly shimmering pill had appeared in Luo Taozhi’s hand at some unknown moment. She held the pill between two slender fingers at the edge of Xiao Nanchu’s mouth, looking as if she were about to feed it to him.

“Mmph! Mmm-ph!”

Xiao Nanchu clearly expressed strong resistance. The sounds he made seemed to be questioning what the suspicious pill in Luo Taozhi’s hand was.

“Be good and eat it. Your dad is personally feeding you; would I ever hurt you?”

Without caring about Xiao Nanchu’s resistance, she used a little force to shove the pill into his mouth.

“Mmph!”

Before he could even resist, Luo Taozhi’s slender fingers, carrying the pill, touched Xiao Nanchu’s lips and teeth. Almost instantly, the pill turned into a warm current that flooded into his mouth.

He didn’t even need to swallow. Simply placing it in his mouth caused it to dissolve into a heat that spread everywhere, becoming a part of his body.

Xiao Nanchu clearly felt the heat pass through his injured areas. The previous pain vanished instantly.

‘Weed?! Meth?!’

‘No, that shouldn’t be possible.’

Xiao Nanchu knew very well that his injuries were definitely not light! Although he knew the culprit was his familiar friend and that such things would never appear in this country, he couldn’t think of anything else that could make a wound stop hurting instantly.

Soon, the warm feeling in his body disappeared. The previous comfort felt like a hallucination.

“Luo Taozhi! What did you just give me!”

“A pill!”

Luo Taozhi spoke as if it were the most natural thing in the world. Her gaze toward Xiao Nanchu was full of ‘what’s there to be so surprised about?’

“What do you mean ‘a pill’! You didn’t give me some kind of painkiller, did you?!”

“What are you saying? Don’t insult my pills with such cheap things, okay? This is a genuine Chunsheng Pill!”

“What kind of nonsense is that! Give me my phone, my injury needs…”

Xiao Nanchu stopped halfway through his sentence, seemingly realizing something. He touched the area where his ribs had seemed to be broken earlier.

“It doesn’t hurt at all. Even when I press down, there’s no sign of anything moving?”

He hurried to lift his shirt and looked at his reflection in the mirror.

Clean, smooth, and sturdy. Aside from the lines of muscle, there wasn’t a hint of swelling or bruising on his back.

“This…! What is going on?!”

“Oh, not bad! This physique… is this what they call a lean muscular build? It’s way worse than what I used to have, though —”

Luo Taozhi didn’t shy away at all; she even looked at Xiao Nanchu’s body with great interest and began to critique it.

“Get lost! What kind of physique did you have? You were just a beanpole!”

Xiao Nanchu wasn’t polite either. He was becoming more and more accustomed to the fact that the beautiful girl in front of him was his friend. He could now talk to her normally despite her teasing. It wasn’t like when they first met, when he had been a bit awkward.

“Seriously, what exactly did you give me? My body even seems to have gotten better!”

Xiao Nanchu struck a few poses in the mirror, seemingly admiring his own physique. He hadn’t had such a good body before! Although his overall frame wasn’t much different, he had a bit of flab around his waist and a small belly.

But after eating Luo Taozhi’s mysterious, undocumented “pill,” muscle lines had actually appeared on his body!

“Huh? What are you talking about? That was just a normal Chunsheng Pill used for healing. What does your body have to do with my pill?”