I Have Three Years Left to Live

Fang Hua was twenty-one, a junior in the biology department at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and an orphan. In August, he accompanied the girl he loved to the hospital for a checkup and got himself examined too. The day the results came back, the doctor asked him to sit down and said one thing: suspected ALS.

On the day he was diagnosed, a System appeared in his mind. It said, "Complete my tasks, and I can cure your illness."

The first task was simple: go to Shuguang Hospital and find a doctor named Suoya. He went. In the waiting area, a five-year-old girl somehow came over to him. She said nothing, didn't cry or fuss, and simply reached out to tug on his sleeve. Her mother ran over from a distance, froze when she saw them, and said softly, "She's never done that before." Fang Hua looked down at the little girl and said nothing.

All he wanted was to cure his illness. But from that day on, a little girl who called him "Daddy" inexplicably became part of his life. So did a woman who had been weighed down by life for years, too afraid to lift her head, yet still struggling to hold on. And so did several women, each with her own difficulties and her own life.