“You must be the patient’s family. We did our best… however…”
“She might be in a vegetative state for the rest of her life.”
Lin Yue clung to the cold glass, looking at the high-rises outside the window.
It felt surreal.
His father was smoking outside, and his mother was sick at home.
No one was left to stay by her side but him.
‘It’s all my fault…’
If he had discovered it earlier, if he had helped her sooner, would things have turned out this way?
The cold divorce papers on the table offered no answers.
“There is a surgical plan abroad with a high cure rate, but… it is very, very expensive…”
“And… even with the high cure rate, it only increases it by a few percentage points. It might not be worth it for you to—”
“How much…”
“…”
“How much.”
An astronomical figure.
As a child from an ordinary family, he had never seen such a sum.
Looking at the pale face on the hospital bed, Lin Yue made up his mind.
“I understand…”
Lin Yue held his head and woke up in bed, likely because he had drunk too much the night before.
At some point, he had stopped touching even a single drop of alcohol, until he transmigrated here and became [Lin Yue Hawke].
He had not been drunk in a long time.
He did not expect to have such a distant dream.
‘I guess I really am a little homesick.’
He looked at the unfamiliar ceiling, feeling as if a lifetime had passed.
For the past three months, he had mostly been looking at the dark, low tops of tents.
He rarely saw a normal ceiling.
Lin Yue could not help but feel that sleeping in a dark little corner suited him better after all.
After waiting for a while, his headache gradually faded.
He stretched and recalled the events of the late hours last night…
After the exclamation, the two of them looked downstairs simultaneously, wondering what had happened.
Rushing downstairs, they found that the cheerful gathering from moments ago had suddenly turned into a scene of horror.
“Her body is so hot, it’s like she’s being boiled.”
Isabella was using ice magic, trying to help her cool down.
However, it was a drop in the bucket, barely suppressing her pain without solving the root problem.
“What happened?” Lin Yue approached Gus and asked.
“I don’t know. We were drinking happily when Lilian suddenly got dizzy and collapsed.”
Ewan took out a potion he always carried and fed it to Lilian, but it was useless.
He frowned and shook his head at everyone.
“Do you think it’s just a simple cold because autumn is here?”
Gus crossed his arms, still an optimist, not daring to speak the worry in his heart.
Beside him, Ewan scratched his head, puzzled.
Normally, with these minor ailments, his potions would at least make things a lot better even if they did not cure them.
Why was it completely useless this time?
“Where is Lia? Lia… huh?”
Lin Yue looked up.
For some reason, after being left alone for a moment, she had opened a pair of opposing spatial gates.
She was endlessly shuttling between two spaces, just like playing Portal 2.
She could not stop and had already made herself dizzy.
“The professor… she drank in secret. When we realized, she was already like this.”
Lin Yue let out a long sigh.
Was there not a single reliable person here?
However, he knew that something would eventually go wrong with Lilian.
After all, she was Allen’s ultimate lifeline.
In the game, the story would not force Allen to face the Demon God directly unless something happened to her.
But it was not time for her accident yet.
The snowy mountain in the third act was nearly one season away.
What was going on?
The party only returned to normal once the maid took her to the infirmary and Allen followed after saying his goodbyes.
Even if everyone comforted themselves by saying it was only a temporary illness, the atmosphere could not return to its initial lightness.
Lin Yue prepared to get up and get dressed to check on Lilian’s condition in the infirmary, but he felt as if he were sealed in place.
Why did the blanket feel exceptionally heavy today?
Lin Yue slowly lifted the blanket and found two familiar faces lying on either side of him, both drooling.
“Ariella… Lia…”
Lia frowned and pulled the blanket back toward herself, seemingly not having had enough sleep.
Ariella’s shoulders were half-exposed, her delicate body pressed tightly against Lin Yue.
Her face rubbed against him unsatisfied, clearly not wanting to let go of this warm body pillow.
‘What the hell is going on?’
Even Lin Yue, who had experienced a lot, could not figure out why these two handfuls were lying in his bed together.
“Hah… so cold!”
Ariella, who was sleeping beside him and clutching him tightly, was the first to wake up.
Shivering from the cold, she instinctively hugged him tighter.
“Ariella, wake up…”
Lia would not wake up, but Ariella seemed to be stirring.
He should wake her first.
Besides, she was quite heavy… Lin Yue glanced at Ariella, who was pressed against him, and realized he truly did not have the talent to judge a girl’s figure at a glance.
She was smaller than Mabelle, but larger than the Valianna sisters.
Her figure was already quite impressive, incomparable to ordinary people.
“Lin Yue? What… let me sleep more… ah!”
Ariella rubbed her eyes, looking at Lin Yue with half-open eyes.
Then she looked at her own state and snapped awake instantly.
Ariella had been out of commission all night after drinking yesterday.
She was the type of person who would not know the sky was falling even after waking up.
Because she was drunk, she had been lying on the sofa, and no one paid her any mind.
When everyone left, no one reminded her.
Since Lin Yue had also drunk too much, he had bypassed the sofa and gone straight to his room to sleep, leaving her there.
Ariella had woken up in the middle of the night seeing stars.
Feeling thirsty, she drank some water, then fumbled her way into a certain someone’s room in the dark and fell back asleep in a daze.
Perhaps feeling that her clothes were uncomfortable to sleep in, she had tossed her messy accessories aside before lying down with a clear conscience.
There was a big “body pillow” next to her.
She did not know when it was bought, but it was warm and particularly comfortable.
And then…
‘I… we…?’
‘Did we reach home base?’
‘Is this the legendary… “afterward”?’
A blush gradually crept up Ariella’s cheeks.
She covered herself with the blanket, her eyes darting around, not knowing how to react.
Should she be shy?
Should she cry?
Or should she just cling to him and never leave?
But why was there no sense of reality at all?
“Mnn… the blanket…”
On the other side, Lia felt the blanket being pulled away and pulled it back toward her side in dissatisfaction.
‘And… Lia!’
‘Could it be?’
‘Both of us were taken by him…?’
The psychological impact of this seemed a bit too much for her.
With a heavy weight gone from his body, Lin Yue was finally able to climb up.
He straightened his disheveled shirt.
The autumn weather in Avelina was actually quite cold.
“Lin Yue… don’t move… mnn…”
Lia was also woken by the commotion.
She had been lying on top of Lin Yue and wanted to change positions, but she felt something hard.
“Why do you sleep with a magic wand… it’s poking me and it hurts…”
Lin Yue felt a bit uneasy being rubbed by Lia’s soft body.
Her hair was tickling his nose, making it itchy.
Just as he was about to push her up, Lia rubbed her eyes.
Seeing the two familiar figures beside her, she stretched and climbed up on her own.
Ariella was still immersed in the shock of her first time being a threesome, her mouth hanging open, not knowing what to say.
“Ariella, your outfit…”
Lia finally saw Ariella’s state and could not help but feel disdain.
“No… it’s not like that!”
Hearing Lia mention it, Ariella’s face turned beet red instantly.
She could only cover her body with the blanket.
It was like that, but not that way!
“All right… everyone get up, then explain exactly what is going on…”
Just as the three of them were in a state of chaos, Lin Yue’s door was suddenly opened.
“Pardon me, Master. I am the exclusive maid taking over your household affairs starting today. My name is —”
The three of them turned their heads to find a blue-haired maid with her hands folded over her stomach, staring blankly at the three individuals lying together.
“Melinda…”