Chapter 2: It's better to be killed by others than to commit suicide.
It turns out that people really do have souls.
Tina didn't believe it before, but now she has no choice but to believe it.
She stood in front of the window glass in the hospital ward, posing a few times. Although the glass couldn't reflect a clear image like a mirror, it could still show faint shadows. For instance, the two tall thermos flasks on the table, the iron stand holding the saline drip in front of the hospital bed, and the few family members of the patients and the busy nurses in the ward could all be faintly reflected on the window glass. But no matter how she moved, there was nothing but transparency on the window glass.
Watching the emergency room doctor rush past her, she let out a long sigh. What a nightmare! Let her wake up.
What did she do wrong in her previous life that she would faint from an electric shock and have her soul leave her body? She looked at herself lying on the hospital bed. The emergency doctor was conducting various tests, shaking his head as he checked. Finally, he pulled her eyelids apart with his hand and looked closely.
She gritted her teeth and made her (N+1)th attempt to rush towards the body on the hospital bed, wanting to return to her body.
Just as she ran over, she passed straight through her body. Her soul was like a wisp of air.
No, air has mass. She was even less substantial than air. Perhaps it was just a lingering hatred towards that scoundrel, Luo Qunhang, a hatred so intense that it couldn't be dissolved, even if the world were to end and the most devoted couple in the world were to break up.
Thinking this way, she was a consciousness, a vengeful spirit. A shiver ran down her spine, scaring herself.
The emergency room doctor turned to the nurse beside him and said, "The patient was electrocuted by 220V current. The electrocution lasted too long. The central nervous system and the heart have been burned by the current. Breathing and heartbeat have stopped for too long. Despite treatment, it was ineffective. The patient is declared dead."
The nurse looked at the patient on the hospital bed. What a pity. A young and beautiful life, in the prime of her youth, has left us.
The nurse covered Tina's face with a white sheet with a sigh and called a colleague to come and take her away.
Tina suddenly became scared. She rushed to the emergency room doctor, cursing, shouting, biting, and kicking him, begging him to save her.
It was no use. He couldn't hear or see her. He looked at the young female patient on the other hospital bed and said, "After gastric lavage, the large amount of sleeping pills she took have been removed. She should be out of danger. As long as she waits a little longer, she should be able to wake up."
The patient's family member standing beside the hospital bed, an old and kind woman, began to cry and said, "Thank you, doctor."
She turned and threw herself beside the girl on the hospital bed, crying and calling out, "Xiao Tian, thank goodness you didn't die. If you had died, what would your mother do?"
Tina's heart ached. She was found by a neighbor who had come to invite her for a morning run and noticed something was wrong. Her family and colleagues didn't know this news yet. She wondered if her mother would cry as heartbreakingly as this woman. After all, her mother had remarried and was living a happy life abroad. They hadn't been in contact for a long time.
Seeing the mother crying so desperately, Tina became angry.
The chance of a life being born is far less than one in a hundred million. That is to say, the sperm that combines with the egg has to run past at least a hundred million of its brothers to be the one that gives birth to you. If it stumbles or takes a break along the way, the person born in your mother's womb would be your sibling instead of you.
In this sense, the chance of being born as a human is far lower than the probability of winning the first prize in the Double Color Ball lottery, which is 1 in 17,721,008. Not to mention all the hardships and tribulations one has to go through from childhood to adulthood, and all the efforts and energy of one's family. When it's time to give back to society and family, what reason could there be to say "I'm going to commit suicide" and actually do it?
Life is so hard to come by. If one really can't go on, it's better to be killed by others than to commit suicide. Then she thought, if she didn't want to live anymore, it would be better to give her life to her. She had so many things left undone. As soon as this thought occurred to her, she felt an irresistible force pulling her towards the bed of the suicidal patient. She struggled hard, but it was like a thin piece of paper trying to resist a powerful vacuum cleaner. She was helplessly pulled in and suddenly found herself inside the dustbin, or rather, attached to the body of the suicidal patient on the bed.
She struggled for a moment, but the feeling of her soul merging with the body was like water and milk blending together. Although it didn't fit perfectly, it was still more comfortable than being outside. She felt a sense of relief.
She was trying to figure out how to make herself more comfortable.
Several doctors in white coats pushed the door open and looked at the little nurse, asking, "Is this the one?"
The little nurse nodded. The doctors lifted her up and placed her on a gurney, joking, "Hey, she's quite pretty. The guys in this batch are in luck. They've got a pretty new neighbor."
What were they going to do? Where were they taking her body?
She panicked and struggled to stop them.
But she couldn't move. The body was like a prison, firmly locking her soul inside. She struggled desperately, watching helplessly as they pushed her out.
The ward door slammed shut, as if cutting off the last connection between her and that body.
A sharp pain pierced her heart.
She struggled, struggling with all her might.
The body her soul occupied moved slightly.
The emergency room doctor saw this and exclaimed happily, "Great! Your daughter has woken up."
Tina heard the doctor's words and immediately felt her soul and this body fit together perfectly.
She moved her eyelashes, trying to force a smile of rebirth, but unexpectedly, a tear that was hard to distinguish between joy and sorrow slid down her face.
She had died from a mysterious electric shock and then, because of a thought, mysteriously taken over someone else's body and been reborn. What the hell was going on?
A huge sense of exhaustion hit her. She struggled, but still fell into a deep sleep. —————————————
She didn't know how long she had been asleep. It was only after a long while that she managed to relieve the exhaustion of her soul. She was awakened by a conversation that started as a whisper and grew louder, eventually turning into an argument. She listened quietly for a long time before realizing that she had been reborn halfway through her life as a girl named Tian Tian. Her life was as bitter as wormwood. She had grown up in a wealthy family with her parents and elder brother, but all the family's wealth was obtained through her father's corruption and bribery. When she was just a few years old, her father was reported and fled overseas with a huge sum of money. All the family's assets were confiscated, leaving them penniless. However, her brother didn't change his bad habits formed when his father was in power. He couldn't give up gambling, drinking, and womanizing. As a result, her mother and she had to work hard and save every penny to support him. This was a real scumbag! So despicable that even dogs wouldn't want to eat him if he were chopped up. Tian Tian's mother pleaded, "Xin Kang, keep your voice down. I still have a hundred yuan here. Take it. Don't wake up your sister. She tried to kill herself because of you. Can't you just let her be?" "A hundred yuan? You're trying to send a beggar off with that? Mom, I'm telling you, Tian Tian's suicide has nothing to do with me. I saw her with a handsome and rich guy last time. Maybe she was abandoned and killed herself for love. Look at the guys behind me. They're all from the underworld. I can't pay them back. They might cut off my arm or leg. How will I explain this to Dad? Tian Tian is in the hospital for emergency treatment. You must have some money to pay the hospital bill. Why don't you give it to me first..." Tian Tian's mother burst into tears, feeling helpless and sad. Tina lay in bed, getting angrier and angrier as she listened. This scumbag! His own sister tried to kill herself, and he didn't even offer a word of comfort. He was even planning to take the money for her hospitalization to pay off his debts. If she didn't teach him a lesson, she would be letting down this rare chance of rebirth. Maybe the gods gave her this chance to be reborn to save the poor Tian Tian from her suffering and sent her here to carry out justice. She opened her eyes a little and saw a handsome man with two burly men behind him. They were wearing sunglasses and looked as fierce as butchers in the meat market, holding bone-cutting knives. There was no trace of the handsome and dashing gangsters in Hong Kong movies. Amen, so this is what the underworld is like. Movies are indeed all fictional. She thought for a moment and looked at the iron stand holding the IV drip beside the bed. An idea struck her. If she were her former self, she would surely have picked up the iron stand and beaten them until they ran away and begged for mercy. But now, she looked at the IV needle still attached to her hand and her obviously malnourished, thin arm. Could she still lift this iron stand? She really had to come up with a plan. Really, couldn't the hospital security guards do something other than asking patients for medical and hospitalization fees? How could they let these people in without even checking? Xin Kang was still making a fuss, completely unaware that his sister, who was lying in bed, had opened her eyes and was shooting him cold glances.