UD I Chapter 1 – You Have a New Delivery Order. Please Process It Promptly
by North_SkyThe doctor held out a form.
“Family member of the patient, please sign here.”
Rong Leying numbly accepted the pen. Her trembling hand moved across the critical condition notice as she signed her name.
“Please prepare yourselves mentally. The patient’s condition is not optimistic.”
Doctor… please save my grandfather…
The words stuck in her throat.
Her mouth opened, but no sound came out. The overwhelming pain had robbed her of the ability to speak.
The doctor had seen countless scenes of life and death, yet he couldn’t help feeling a trace of sympathy.
The young girl before him looked pale as paper. Bloodstains covered her clothes, and she looked as though she might collapse at any moment.
The hospital would do everything possible to save the old man.
But his injuries were simply too severe.
Even if the surgery succeeded, whether he would ever wake up again was another matter entirely.
The doctor took the signed notice and left.
The operating room doors opened and closed once more.
The three bright red words—In Surgery—glowed above the entrance like a cruel omen.
Inside was the only family member she had left.
The grandfather who had raised her.
Rong Leying stood motionless.
Memories from the past twenty years replayed endlessly in her mind.
Her parents had been true love.
She had been the accident.
Her mother and father were the perfect combination of two hopeless romantics. After giving birth to her, they spent their days immersed in romance and affection, tossing the responsibility of raising their child onto her grandfather, Rong Hongye.
When she was less than a year old, the couple was involved in a car accident during a trip.
Her mother died on the spot.
Her father suffered severe injuries and spent nearly a year recovering.
After losing the love of his life, her father couldn’t bear to look at a daughter who resembled his late wife.
As soon as he recovered, he left home to work elsewhere.
And once he left, he never came back.
More than ten years passed without a single visit to either the old man or his daughter.
Thus, Rong Leying and her grandfather depended on each other for survival.
Their lives were poor, but they were happy.
Her grandfather gave her more love than she could ever repay.
Even without parents, she never felt inferior to others.
She grew up optimistic and strong.
Perhaps Heaven thought her suffering wasn’t enough.
Half a year ago, her grandfather was diagnosed with a severe kidney disease.
Conventional treatment was useless.
If he wanted to survive, he needed a kidney transplant.
The surgery would cost hundreds of thousands of yuan.
Money could be earned somehow.
But a suitable kidney donor could not be found.
Among all organ transplants, kidney transplants were considered relatively easy when it came to finding donors.
Yet none matched her grandfather.
She had even volunteered to donate one of her own kidneys.
Unfortunately, Rong Hongye wasn’t actually her biological grandfather.
Her father had been adopted.
They shared no blood relation, and their compatibility tests failed.
Then, at the most critical moment, the father who had disappeared for more than a decade suddenly reappeared.
He had money.
He had resources.
He could find a suitable kidney donor.
But there was one condition.
She had to return home with him.
That irresponsible father of hers had always claimed her mother was the greatest love of his life.
Yet shortly after leaving, he had met another “true love.”
He remarried.
Started a new family.
Had a pair of twins—a son and a daughter.
Rong Mingda had built a successful company with the support of his current wife’s family.
Now he enjoyed a thriving career and a happy household.
Logically speaking, such a family should never welcome the daughter of a previous marriage.
Nor did Rong Leying believe that the man who had ignored her for over ten years had suddenly been struck by fatherly affection and wanted to make amends.
Especially when he placed no restrictions on her frequently visiting her grandfather.
But her grandfather’s condition was urgent.
She couldn’t afford to think too much about it.
Once she confirmed that Rong Mingda had truly found a compatible kidney donor, she agreed to return with him.
The waters of wealthy families ran deep.
Her stepmother and those twins were unlikely to welcome a stranger who suddenly appeared in their lives.
Rong Leying had expected that from the start.
She never hoped to find family affection in that house.
Instead, she focused solely on her grandfather’s health and remembered the words he often told her:
“Eat well. Sleep well. Take care of yourself. Don’t bully others, but don’t let anyone bully you either.”
Besides, apart from being born to those unfortunate parents, her luck had always been absurdly good.
No matter what happened, she could always turn misfortune into fortune.
If she bought a lottery ticket, she won.
If she entered a raffle, she got first prize.
Any event based on luck inevitably ended with her taking the top reward.
Yet her grandfather never allowed her to rely on such things.
He always said:
“A person’s fortune is predetermined. If you use today’s luck to obtain something that doesn’t belong to you, then something of equal value will be taken from you in the future.”
After moving into her father’s home, she found herself believing those words more and more.
She never fought with the twins over anything.
Nor did she oppose her stepmother.
At least on the surface, she remained polite.
Yet they regarded her as a thief who had come to steal what belonged to them.
Time and time again, they plotted against her.
If she hadn’t been naturally blessed with incredible luck, she would have died long ago and joined her unfortunate mother in the afterlife.
But never in her wildest dreams had she imagined they would be so vicious as to target her grandfather.
No.
That wasn’t right.
Her grandfather had been implicated because of her.
If she hadn’t gone to pick him up from the hospital today, they would never have encountered that car accident.
Why had they all been riding in the same vehicle?
Why was her grandfather the only one gravely injured while she escaped completely unharmed?
It’s all my fault…
If I didn’t exist, Grandpa wouldn’t have gotten hurt.
If I didn’t exist, he wouldn’t have spent his entire life working so hard for me.
He wouldn’t have exhausted himself and ruined his health.
It’s all my fault.
Why isn’t it me lying in there instead?
Self-blame and guilt engulfed her like a tidal wave.
She bit down hard on her lower lip.
Large tears crashed onto the floor one after another.
Her body trembled uncontrollably.
God… if You truly exist… please help me.
I’m willing to trade my life for Grandpa’s.
He’s the only family I have left.
Please…
Please don’t take him away…
…
A cold mechanical female voice suddenly echoed through the silent hallway.
[Ding!]
[You have a new delivery order. Please process it as soon as possible.]
Lost in grief, Rong Leying paid no attention.
She continued praying desperately for her grandfather’s safety.
[Ding!]
[You have a new delivery order. Please process it as soon as possible.]
The cold mechanical voice repeated itself several more times before finally drawing her attention.
She looked around.
Besides herself, there was only a middle-aged man sitting outside the operating room.
The man sat quietly on a bench with his head lowered, seemingly lost in thought.
Rong Leying glanced at him briefly before turning her gaze back to the operating room doors.
[Ding!]
[You have a new delivery order. Please process it promptly.]
The voice sounded again.
Only then did she realize it was coming from her phone.
She pulled the device from her pocket.
The moment the screen unlocked, an unfamiliar page automatically opened.
【Please deliver the toy airplane currently in Xu Zihang’s possession outside the operating rooms of Dongning Hospital’s Emergency Building to Xu Yunfei.
Reward upon successful delivery:
【5 Merit Points】
【50,000 Yuan Delivery Fee】
Would the courier like to accept this order?】
Several lines of text filled the screen.
Dongning Hospital.
She was currently standing in Dongning Hospital.
Right outside the operating rooms of the Emergency Building.
Under normal circumstances, Rong Leying would have immediately shut down her phone and restarted it.
Telecom scams were everywhere these days.
An application that appeared out of nowhere like this was obviously a scam.
Yet for some reason, she hesitated.
Then, as if possessed, she tapped Accept.
The instant her finger touched the screen—
A blinding white light erupted before her eyes.
Startled, she instinctively shut them.
When she opened them again—
A little boy had appeared directly in front of her.
His entire body was drenched in blood.
A massive hole gaped from the top of his head.
Fresh blood bubbled continuously from the wound, pouring onto the floor in thick streams.
And he was staring straight at her.