It was around 8 am when Lin Yixin suddenly clutched her chest and ran into her room. Since the gang was still in the middle of enjoying their tea, I immediately put a hand on He Yi’s shoulder and said, "Eve, keep Chengfeng and the others company, will you? I need to check up on Yiyi. I won’t be logging into the game during the day, but I will participate in the WEL preliminaries later, okay?"

"Yes. Go!" He Yi watched my back as I departed.

I locked the door behind me after I had entered the girl’s room. She was sitting on her chair with sweat all over her forehead.

……

I walked up to her and held her gently. "Does it hurt?"

"N… no…" She shook her head, but bit her lip so hard that it nearly bled.

My heart ached horribly at the sight. "And you call me Little Cheat. I won’t think of you any less for being in pain, you know…"

She broke into a smile, but her nose began bleeding before she could say anything. She quickly grabbed a nearby syringe, drew some blood, and placed it among the other blood samples. Throughout the process, she continued twitching from time to time and tearing at the sheer amount of pain she...