It seems that the villain is targeting me.

This didn't seem difficult to do, and Xiao Niao's shoulders relaxed.

I will stay in this world for a while, and I will have plenty of free time when I return to reality.

She finally agreed.

Perhaps because someone mentioned it, Xiao Niao couldn't help but think about what he would do after returning.

As she ate her vegetarian meal, she pondered the following question in her mind: Should she stay in the city where she studied at university and develop her career? Or should she return to her hometown and inherit the family business left to her by her parents?

Either way, it is a good choice for her. Xiao Niao has experienced too many adventures, and they are too long. For her, a peaceful life itself is worth yearning for and looking forward to.

Perhaps the only thing that can affect her is people.

While thinking about these things, Xiao Niao couldn't help but think of Gwyneth.

When thinking about grand and vague topics such as the "future" and "the rest of your life", you will always unconsciously think of someone in your life - in this regard, the subconscious mind is often more honest than the person himself.

Perhaps at some point in the past, she had indeed thought about living a good life with that person.

But fate did not give her this opportunity. Responsibility, life span, and the long-standing obsession with returning home, too many things stood between them, and the beginning of the story declared that it was destined to end in tragedy.

Now just thinking about these things makes me feel empty inside.

[Hmm… Wait, this is too weird…]

The system's voice suddenly rang in his mind, interrupting Xiao Niao's tangled thoughts.

Perhaps because his attention was focused elsewhere, Tongzi did not notice Xiaoniao's emotional fluctuations at this time.

"What's going on here?" it exclaimed. "Why did Lu Zhiqing agree... This is definitely a disguised agreement, right?"

Is this girl suddenly out of her mind? How could she agree to that kind of marriage?

Even the stupid cat number four could see that Lao Deng was definitely planning something bad... There was no way Lu Zhiqing couldn't see it, right?

Xiao Niao also calmed down at this time - after being interrupted by the system, her mood became much calmer.

She raised an eyebrow. "Hmm...you mean, Zhiqing agreed to her family's request for a marriage? And the marriage partner is the son of destiny?"

The system said yes reluctantly.

[It is definitely the will of the world that is causing trouble.]

Tongzi concluded: "He is still trying to drag the plot back to its original trajectory... It's just that since you didn't interfere too deeply with the plot this time, His main target isn't you."

The world will certainly not want to perish, and the bird can to some extent restrict the dangerous existence of the "Doctor"...so He turned a blind eye and let this foreign stowaway go.

But what if the "supporting character" who originally belonged to your own world rebelled?

What if your own son goes from being omnipotent to being a loser?

He would definitely not be happy about that.

In the original plot, shortly after Lu Zhiqing's graduation banquet, Gu Tianjiao, the son of destiny, would have an accident with Lu Yao and then get engaged.

But the current plot has become like this, luck

The probability of Zhizi getting engaged to Lu Weiren is greater than that of getting engaged to Lu Yao.

The will of the world probably pulled out all its hair and used every possible means to barely pull the derailed storyline back.

[As a result, the person being engaged now is the eldest daughter of the Lu family? ]

The system seemed somewhat unacceptable to this result, [That girl is truly unlucky...]

Although Lu Zhiqing's final outcome had nothing to do with Xiaoniao's commissioned mission, it was still unbearable to watch this young girl being used as a bargaining chip in exchange for benefits.

It would be fine if we had no connection and didn't know each other, but when a tragic fate happens to someone you know well, the impact is still huge.

[The marriage is beneficial to both parties—Gu Tianjiao wants to use the Lu family's influence to seize the company from his mother, and Lu Weiren likely agreed to the marriage out of money and power...]

The system was so angry that its teeth itched. […these two groups of people unanimously wanted to make Lu Zhiqing the sacrificial lamb.]

Lu Weiren is okay here, although he is also a snobbish old man, but at least he has some logic: he doesn't like the daughter born to his ex-wife, so he asked her to arrange a marriage, and he doesn't care whether the other party is happy or not.

But when it comes to Gu Tianjiao, he is a complete beast. He weighs 130 pounds and there is not a single good thing about him.

Even if the core is operated to the point of explosion and self-ignition, the system cannot figure it out: How is it possible for someone to like someone who bullies him? He doesn't even know what he is loving, but he just loves him forcefully!

Still in love with her to death!

He pushed his benefactor into the fire without blinking an eye.

Even Xiaoniao is not good at commenting on this type of anthropomorphic creature: all we can say is that there are many kinds of people in the world, and there are all kinds of birds in the forest.

Xiao Niao actually has a headache about the lucky sons of this world. This kind of person is what she hates dealing with the most. She can neither kill him nor completely avoid him, which is really annoying.

Although an enemy like Lu Weiren is also quite difficult to deal with, every move he makes can be traced and he acts entirely in accordance with his own interests.

——This kind of person can actually communicate and cooperate with you, because you can completely guess what he will do next.

But Gu Tianjiao is different: you don’t know what he is thinking, nor do you know what he is going to do, but you just have a vague ominous premonition as if you saw someone throwing firecrackers into a cesspool.

What is truly terrifying is never that the enemy is too bad, but that the enemy is too stupid, especially when the enemy is stupid and impulsive, and yet thinks that God blesses him in everything he does - encountering such a situation is truly heartbreaking.

"...But, there's no rush to stop him just yet."

Xiao Niao's cheeks bulged as he chewed the radish. "Wait a minute, the further we go, the more Lu Weiren will reveal his true colors."

Evidence must be fully collected before taking action, especially when facing an enemy of this size. If the attack cannot be fatal, it is best not to take action first.

"Besides, Lu Zhiqing is not as passive as you think, Tongzi."

Xiao Niao stroked the rim of the bowl with his thumb. "She looks like she was forced into the marriage, but it's not like she's completely resigned to her fate."

In his previous life, when Xiao Niao had not intervened at all, Lu Zhiqing had been fighting wits and courage with the people in Lu's house for a long time.

At that time, she was just a student, but she accurately avoided the conspiracy of her half-sister and made her suffer a great loss. She also won the opportunity to study abroad and avoided all the troubles at home during that time.

Although her ending was not good, she did not fall into despair, and she was able to stay away from her original family as she wished.

Finally, Xiao Niao put down his chopsticks and said in summary:

"Zhiqing has her own backup plan. This is just a concession after weighing the pros and cons... She left herself a safety net."

The original supporting characters in the plot actually have extremely strong vitality. They are not necessarily powerless and can only wait for a hero to rescue them.

As long as there is a little opportunity and some room to grow, these lives will find a way out on their own.

The two did not meet, and when the system sent the next message, Lu Zhiqing had already left.

It was already late after the vegetarian meal. Xiao Niao looked up at the sky: the weather in this season was very changeable. She saw a group of gray clouds flowing quickly from west to east over the distant mountains, and the wind became chilly.

She suggested to the doctor that they go down the mountain, and the two of them chose the shortest route to the foot of the mountain. However, the weather changed too quickly, and halfway through the journey, Xiao Niao was drenched by the cold mountain rain.

Her teeth were chattering, and the wet coat she wore could no longer keep her warm.

The two of them rushed to the foot of the mountain, finally got a taxi, and hurried back home.

"Take off your coat,"

Chen Xiaoyue opened the door with one hand and looked back at Xiaoniao worriedly, "Hurry up and take a hot shower first, otherwise you will catch a cold."

"how about you?"

Xiao Niao raised her eyes and pulled at her soaked coat, looking like a bird in the water. Her soft hair hung on her shoulders, still dripping with water.

"You take a shower first," Chen Xiaoyue said gently, "I'm in good health and won't catch a cold easily."

The doctor himself

Having said that, Xiao Niao couldn't refuse any longer. She hesitated for a few seconds, and finally picked up her coat, being careful not to dirty the floor, and went into the bathroom.

Dr. Chen was actually soaked by the rain, but there was only one bathroom in the rented house, so two people could not take a shower at the same time.

Although it was only a matter of ten minutes, she was reluctant to let the bird suffer the cold for her.

People have different opinions on what they like.

Chen Xiaoyue wiped her hair with a towel and went to the bedroom to change into dry clothes, finally making her body a little warmer.

When I came to the living room again, I could hear the sound of water splashing from the bathroom.

Well……

The honest and calm doctor stared at the living room floor in a distracted manner - she suddenly felt that she was not so cold anymore - not only was she not cold anymore, there were even some signs of fever behind her ears.

No, no, no, is this the time to let your imagination run wild? Chen Xiaoyue cursed herself in her heart. She was so useless!

Out of some kind of escapist mentality, she went into the kitchen to boil brown sugar ginger water, cut three slices of old ginger and four spoons of coarse brown sugar, put them together in the casserole, and let it gurgle.

A few minutes later, Xiao Niao ran over from the other side of the room with wet hair.

Her whole body exuded the heat from a bath, and even her eyes looked moist. The white and fluffy towel draped around her neck gave people an inexplicable feeling of laziness.

"You should take a shower too?" Xiao Niao suggested to her in a friendly manner, "Don't catch a cold."

"Yeah, yeah," Chen Xiaoyue responded absentmindedly, "I know..."

It was at this time that Xiao Niao received a call from the school.

Some random thoughts about doctors [continued from the end of the previous chapter]

This didn’t happen in reality

Xiao Niao felt that this was a rented house after all, and it made no sense that the owner should have to sit there with wet clothes and freeze.

She pushed the doctor to the bathroom door and made a somewhat forceful request: "Hurry up and go in. If you keep dragging it out, both of you will catch a cold."

Xiao Niao knew that spring was the peak season for various types of influenza, and it was easy to catch a cold if one was not careful - but if it was just to warm up the body after being caught in the rain, then it would only take about ten minutes, which would not take much time at all.

I ran all the way home in the heavy rain, so a little more time wouldn't be a big deal.

Even so, Chen Xiaoyue's movements were still faster than she had imagined.

Xiao Niao felt that he had just taken out a towel from the closet and wiped the moisture from his hair when the doctor opened the door and walked out of the bathroom.

She noticed that the doctor's exposed skin was very red: this man must have been in a hurry to finish his shower and give her his seat, and he used too much force in the hasty wiping process.

"Okay," Chen Xiaoyue held Xiaoniao's wrist with her scorching hot hand, "I'm done washing, come in quickly."

She was really afraid that I would catch a cold, the bird nodded thoughtfully.

In the end, Xiao Niao was almost stuffed into the bathroom, his head still confused, and clean clothes were handed to him.

"Sorry, the clothes hanging on the balcony are all wet. These are the only two pieces left."

The doctor's voice came through the frosted glass door, inexplicably tinged with shyness, "...You, you just have to put it on for now."

It is a very ordinary style of top and cotton pajamas. The combination is a bit strange, but it is quite comfortable and you won’t feel prickly even if you wear it to sleep.

Xiao Niao tried it out a bit and found that the clothes were a little big - she realized that these two pieces were the clothes the doctor usually wore.

Fortunately, Xiaoniao is not the type who is obsessed with mysophobia, and since both of them are girls, there seems to be nothing wrong with borrowing clothes temporarily.

Xiao Niao accepted this well and happily put the clothes on the rack.

She turned on the faucet and started to take a shower. The bathroom was soon filled with warm mist, and her originally cold fingertips turned red.

Because she was no longer in a hurry to give up her seat, Xiao Niao took a little longer to wash. Only when her frozen body was completely warmed up did she slowly reach for the towel on the rack.

When I walked out after washing, a bowl of ginger syrup with brown sugar as the base was already placed on the table in the restaurant - probably because there was plenty of time, an extra egg was also placed on it.

"Ah, you're done washing," Chen Xiaoyue, who was standing in the kitchen, gave her a faint smile. "That's great, let me help you blow dry your hair."

Xiao Niao had an inexplicable illusion that she was picked up and taken home - as if she was a poor puppy wandering on the street on a rainy day - before she could react, she was taken home, and she was bathed and blown dry in a daze. When she came to her senses, even the hot food was placed at her mouth.

But perhaps it was because Chen Xiaoyue's action of taking out the hair dryer was too natural, with an expression of "it's just a matter of convenience" on her face, which made her confused.

After all, the doctor meant well, right?

Xiao Niao was thinking in some confusion. She was pushed to the edge of the sofa and sat down to make it easier for the doctor to operate. The sound of the hair dryer made her already messy mind even more chaotic.

The doctor patted her shoulder and motioned her to lean back.

If you refuse, you should not

That’s great?

Xiao Niao had no choice but to adjust her body according to the other person's movements. The doctor's slender fingers sank into her hair, starting from the roots and moving down little by little with a very gentle technique. The fingertips moved vaguely among the soft hair, making people unable to help but get goose bumps.

This is the method of blow-drying that is least likely to damage your hair. Because you are always using your fingertips to test the temperature, it is basically impossible to get burned by the hot air.

Xiao Niao had been to a professional barber shop before, but even those extremely expensive professional barbers would not be as gentle as this in styling hair.

This was a little too comfortable. When the hand left, Xiao Niao even felt a sense of loss.

"Okay." Chen Xiaoyue put down the hair dryer in her hand and fiddled with the ends of her hair with satisfaction.