Marry the NPC with Money, Wife Comes Knocking - Chapter 3

Walking into the hospital building, the lights were on everywhere, yet it was eerily quiet-there wasn’t a single person in sight.

Hua Suihe only took a cursory glance around and then followed Ye Susheng into the elevator.

After Ye Susheng pressed the button for the 4th floor, the elevator doors closed, and suddenly, the elevator lights went out, though it continued ascending as usual.

The abrupt darkness made Hua Suihe instinctively reach for the handrail beside her. The cold and slimy feeling made her fling her hand away at once, and she broke down and screamed, “Ahhh!”

“Who spat on the handrail? Does anyone have any manners left?!”

Hua Suihe felt her palm wet and sticky-she wanted nothing more than to rush to the bathroom and wash her hands eight hundred times.

The elevator was clearly old and poorly maintained. The broken lights were bad enough, but there was also a strong smell of rust-probably the elevator itself was rusted, and no one cared.

Ye Susheng, standing beside her, was likely startled by her reaction and tried to reach out and touch her hand to comfort her.

Hua Suihe wouldn’t let her, scrunching up her whole face. “Don’t touch my hand. It’s so dirty, so dirty, I’m going to die, it’s so disgusting!”

The person beside her finally stopped trying to hold her hand. With a “ding,” the elevator doors opened.

Light from outside spilled in, and the silhouette of a person standing there appeared.

Hua Suihe looked up and saw Ye Susheng standing perfectly fine outside the elevator, and beside her…

Hua Suihe turned her head and saw another woman with short hair and glasses, dressed in a white coat.

She looked at the stranger beside her, then at her wife outside the elevator.

Hua Suihe awkwardly tugged at the corner of her mouth and forced a smile, sincerely apologizing, “Sorry, I mistook you for someone else just now. I didn’t wipe anything dirty on you.”

Thinking about her humiliating scream in front of a stranger, and in the cramped space of the elevator no less, she wished she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

She glanced again at the spot she’d touched, but the light coming in from outside was too weak-she couldn’t see what she had touched at all.

She didn’t dare look at her own hand, afraid she’d end up with a psychological shadow from seeing something dirty.

Hua Suihe stepped out of the elevator and looked at Ye Susheng, her voice catching and tinged with tears as she complained, “Wife, where’s the bathroom? I touched something dirty.”

Ye Susheng’s red eyes moved slightly, lowering her gaze to Hua Suihe’s hand that was hidden by her side, then immediately led her in the direction of the bathroom.

The female doctor in the elevator, who had looked perfectly normal a moment before, suddenly had her eyeballs bulge out, the lenses of her glasses shattered and stabbed into her eyes, her hands transformed into bloody, slippery tentacles, and her whole body ballooned like an overinflated balloon, her skin splitting open.

Stimulated and transformed by the mental pressure, she swelled and mutated in the elevator until her distorted body filled the whole space, bright red blood oozing out from under the elevator doors.

She had developed an appetite for Hua Suihe, but she hadn’t even opened her mouth-she was just drooling!

She was the elevator’s security guard, respawned here, not intentionally replacing Ye Susheng.

Only she knew how innocent she was.

Hua Suihe rushed to the bathroom and washed her hands over and over with soap, until her hands were red, but still couldn’t shake off the feeling of disgust.

Ye Susheng stood beside her the whole time in silence, her red eyes fixed intently on Hua Suihe. When Hua Suihe turned off the faucet, Ye Susheng’s red pupils contracted slightly, and she turned her gaze away before Hua Suihe looked up.

Hua Suihe stealthily wiped her hands on her white coat, leaving two wet handprints at her waist just as she expected.

The bathroom lights flickered twice.

Seeing this, Hua Suihe couldn’t help but complain, “The facilities here are terrible. It’s the only pet hospital in the city, hasn’t anyone reported it?”

Ye Susheng still didn’t speak. Her long silence finally made Hua Suihe feel neglected, and she complained, “Doctor Ye, do you have to act this seriously even when no one else is around?”

“My name is Ye Susheng.” Ye Susheng finally spoke, but answered off-topic, her tone cold: “The hospital’s workload is very heavy every day. If you want your pet to see a doctor, you need to bring your pet. Where is your pet?”
Hua Suihe: …?

Ye Susheng’s expression was extremely serious. Her question didn’t seem fake at all. The problem was, Hua Suihe really couldn’t produce a dog.

Hua Suihe and Ye Susheng looked at each other in silence, the atmosphere gradually growing strange.

Hua Suihe suddenly sighed, remembering that this was the world of a Script Game. Right now, Ye Susheng was ‘working’-that is, being controlled by the script code, an NPC in the middle of the plot, not sharing her thoughts.

But triggering dialogue with Ye Susheng in the plot was Hua Suihe’s most practiced move.

If Ye Susheng believed Hua Suihe had a dog, then so she did. Recalling what Ye Susheng had just said to the security guard, “Doctor, my dog has been staying at the hospital for treatment. Aren’t you the one taking care of it for me?”

Ye Susheng pinched the spot on her clothes where there was a wet handprint, her crimson eyes still fixed on Hua Suihe’s face without a hint of emotion.

Hua Suihe really liked her beautiful, ruby-like eyes. The more she looked, the more she liked them, wanting to lean in for a kiss.

Her thoughts drifted for just a moment, and Ye Susheng suddenly leaned down and kissed her on the lips, then pulled away, still looking completely serious.

Hua Suihe’s eyes widened, her dark pupils reflecting sparkling starlight, her expression shocked and confused.

This left her at a loss-wasn’t Ye Susheng supposed to be working? Wasn’t this behavior seriously out of character?

Ye Susheng raised her hand and pinched Hua Suihe’s cheek. The soft feeling was irresistible, and Hua Suihe squinted her eyes in delight, like a cat being petted.

When she spoke again, it was in the familiar, coquettish tone Hua Suihe knew so well: “Hua Hua, I’ve wanted to kiss you for so long.”

The incandescent bulb flickered several times, its light wavering. Hua Suihe’s face immediately fell, and she pushed Ye Susheng’s hand away. “Oh, you! How dare you pretend to be me!”

Ye Susheng laughed cheerfully, and the bathroom light finally gave out completely.

Ye Susheng hugged her, her whole body cold as ice, passing her chill to Hua Suihe.

Hua Suihe thought she was having an episode and let her hug her, reaching up to touch her neck. It wasn’t the familiar burning heat. “Why are you suddenly so cold?”

As soon as Hua Suihe finished speaking, she felt Ye Susheng gradually warming up again, returning to a normal temperature.

“Hua Hua~ Hua Hua~ Hua Hua, you’re so good~”

“Hua Hua, you really love me, you love me so much, hehe~”

She started giggling foolishly again.

Hua Suihe patted her on the back. “Alright, alright, Doctor Ye, I’m your client, you know. Isn’t this a bit too ambiguous?”

“Wife,” Ye Susheng corrected her. “I won’t let Hua Hua take on these boring script missions anymore.”

“Boring? Not really. It’s my first time experiencing a real-life Script Game, so-where’s my dog?”

Ye Susheng hugged Hua Suihe even tighter, her tone a little sullen. “It’s being kept. It has an infectious disease and could infect people. Hua Hua, you’d better not go see it.”

“What disease? It can infect people?” Hua Suihe just said it casually-didn’t she know whether she had a dog or not? Not being able to find it was normal. “Then I’d better not see it.”

“Hua Hua, you must listen to me. Don’t wander around on your own. There are a lot of people and many sick pets in the pet hospital, and you’re not familiar with this place, so don’t wander about.”

“I know, I’ll listen to you.” Hua Suihe thought of the doctor just now-he was probably a real veterinarian, so it wouldn’t be good for her to wander around.

But when she came in on the first floor, there wasn’t a single person. Was this hospital really that busy?

Ye Susheng saw she was listening and finally led her toward her own office.

The corridor was long; Ye Susheng’s office was at the end.

All the rooms ahead were closed consulting rooms. She could hear the sounds of various pets inside. The soundproofing was decent-the noises came and went, but couldn’t be made out clearly.