Chapter 8: The Spiritual Spring Water Is Amazing—Practically Divine

So dizzy… I really did lose too much blood—my body can’t handle it

After donating blood, Wu Xiuxiu felt the world spinning around her, the dizziness becoming unbearable. Although Director Li immediately instructed the nurse to take her back to her ward for IV fluids, it didn’t help.

Once the nurse left and she was alone in the room, Wu Xiuxiu quickly pulled out the IV needle and entered her space to drink some spiritual spring water.

Just like last time, after just a few sips, her body immediately felt better.

She couldn’t help but call it miraculous, praising the spiritual spring water as badass, practically divine.

Worried someone might walk into the ward and discover her missing, she quickly left her space, returned to the bed, and called out loudly for a nurse.

Soon, a nurse entered the room, and Wu Xiuxiu told her she had accidentally pulled out the IV needle and asked her to reinsert it.

She had originally planned to do it herself, but was afraid of doing it wrong, hurting herself, or inserting it in the wrong spot.

Right after the nurse reinserted the needle and left, Ding Hongjuan and Dong Xiaoye returned. Seeing Wu Xiuxiu on an IV again, they looked confused—hadn’t she already finished her drip earlier that morning?

Both women were worried and immediately asked what had happened. Was her condition relapsing? Had it worsened? Why else would she need another infusion?

Wu Xiuxiu quickly shook her head and explained that she had donated blood to save Commander Jiang.

Ding Hongjuan and Dong Xiaoye were shocked and then blamed her for taking such a risk. What if her illness flared up again or became serious? What if she died?

Wu Xiuxiu hurried to reassure them. She admitted she had felt weak and dizzy, but once the infusion started, the dizziness eased and she didn’t feel so weak anymore. After finishing the IV and getting a good night’s rest, she would be completely fine. She told them not to worry.

“Really? You’re not just lying to keep us from worrying?” Ding Hongjuan and Dong Xiaoye still looked unconvinced.

“I’m not lying! I swear to heaven!” Wu Xiuxiu exclaimed.

“Mom, just look at her—she’s full of energy, her complexion looks good. I don’t think she’s lying,” Dong Xiaoye said after carefully observing her sister-in-law.

Hearing her daughter-in-law’s words, Ding Hongjuan also looked closely at her daughter. Wu Xiuxiu did seem spirited, her complexion was fine, and her eyes were bright and lively. She finally sighed in relief.

“You silly girl, don’t you dare do something like this again! You can’t risk your life just to save someone else…

I shouldn’t have gone to the Qi family with Xiaoye earlier. I should’ve stayed here to look after you and let Xiaoye go with Wang Ping,” Ding Hongjuan said regretfully.

Wang Ping was a relative who had come to the hospital to find them. She was Ding Hongjuan’s cousin. The one who had attempted suicide was the eldest daughter of a cousin she and Wang Ping shared—her name was Fang Min, and she was married to Qi’s father, a worker at the glass factory.

“Speaking of the Qi family, how is my cousin Fang Min doing now? Is she okay? Did she survive?” Wu Xiuxiu asked curiously.

She remembered that neither Fang Min nor Commander Jiang were characters in the original novel.

Thinking of Commander Jiang again—she wondered how he was now.

She had been wheeled back after her transfusion, while he was still in the emergency room. She really hoped he survived. If he died, all that blood she donated would’ve been for nothing.

“She’s alive! Your sister-in-law and I spent several hours talking her down at the Qi house before she finally gave up on dying. Sigh… I still feel speechless thinking about it,” Ding Hongjuan said with a shake of her head.

Speechless? Why would Mom feel that way? Wu Xiuxiu blinked in confusion.

“What happened? Why did she try to kill herself?” Wu Xiuxiu asked.

“It was over a job,” Dong Xiaoye answered before her mother-in-law could speak.

“A job? What do you mean?” Wu Xiuxiu grew even more curious.

“Fang Min doesn’t work and has been idle at home. Recently, she heard that one of her unemployed friends found a job through her in-laws’ connections. She got jealous and started pressuring her husband to get her a job too. She’s always been competitive,” Ding Hongjuan explained.

“But her husband is just an ordinary worker at a glass factory. His family has no connections. Where would he even find a job for her?

But she didn’t care. She made a scene, throwing tantrums, threatening to die, and forced her husband to keep looking for a job for her. The poor man was driven nearly insane.

Your aunt Wang Ping didn’t know the whole story and thought she really was suicidal. She rushed to our place for help, and when she heard we were at the hospital, she came here to get us.

When we arrived at the Qi house and heard the full story from her husband, we all scolded her. But instead of reflecting, she threw an even bigger fit.

She tried to bang her head against the wall, said she’d jump off the building, then threatened to slit her own throat. She kept yelling that we couldn’t stand her existence, so she’d just die and stop being an eyesore.

She nearly drove us all mad.

If it weren’t for the memory of her late mother, I honestly wouldn’t have cared. Your aunt, your sister-in-law, and I had to grit our teeth and talk her down for hours. Finally, she calmed down, agreed not to die, and stopped forcing her husband to get her a job.”

So that was it! This Fang Min was seriously something else—completely insufferable!

After hearing her mother’s words, Wu Xiuxiu frowned, her eyes filled with disgust.

“I don’t think Fang Min ever really meant to die. She was just trying to scare people by making a scene,” Dong Xiaoye said. “Honestly, I pity her husband—he must be completely worn down by now.” Sympathy flickered across her face.

Ding Hongjuan also looked sympathetic. “Let’s hope she stops this nonsense and stops tormenting that poor man.”

Wu Xiuxiu didn’t speak. She was trying to recall everything she knew about Fang Min from the original owner’s memories. After thinking hard for a while, the full picture came back, and she could only shake her head inwardly.

She’s a drama queen—through and through.

Fang Min was relatively kind to her maternal relatives, so she got along with that side of the family. But she had one major flaw: she was obsessed with comparing herself to others and loved to stir up drama.

Every now and then, she would kick up a storm at her in-laws’ place, exhausting her husband’s family to the point that they moved back to the countryside. They would rather live far away than help her with the kids.

Fang Min resented them deeply. She thought her in-laws were heartless and moved just to avoid helping her. Whenever she mentioned them, she would curse them out.

Whenever anything went wrong in her life, she always blamed someone else—never once reflecting on herself.

People like that… Mom and Sister-in-law need to stay away. There’s no benefit in keeping close to someone like her.