Just Another Background Character

(No CP + spatial storage)

Zhou Zimo thought the world was truly cruel. She had studied so hard, hoping to change her fate, only for the grandfather who had cared for her to die while she was at university, leaving her without her only family in the world. After struggling to support herself through school with part-time jobs, she finally earned her doctorate and landed a teaching position at her university. She had worked there for just five years, and was on the verge of buying a home of her own, when a routine work medical exam revealed that she had cancer.

It was already at a late stage, with no chance of treatment. Thinking there must have been a mistake in the report, she went to another hospital for tests, but the results were the same: she really did have cancer. If she took medication, she might have at most a year left. Without it, she might have only a few months.

In a daze, she left the hospital and took a cab home. After thinking it over for a day, she decided that life had to go on, even with her own life on a countdown.

She took a handful of pills every day and kept teaching until the end of the semester, but her body had reached its limit. By then, winter break had arrived. Her colleagues took her to the hospital. She knew she didn't have much time left, but at least she had prepared her will and asked a friend and the teacher who had guided her for years to take care of her affairs.

With her teacher and friend by her side, she left this world. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself embarking on a very different life.