The host and the protagonist had a happy ending again [Quick Transmigration]

The silver needles gleamed faintly under the lamplight. Xu Ran looked at Pei Guan and said, "Take off your clothes."

Pei Guan paused, "In the past, when military doctors performed acupuncture, they didn't remove their inner garments."

Xu Ran had already reached out and tugged at his clothes, her tone amused: "Listen to the doctor, the patient has no say."

Pei Guan instinctively reached out to grab him, but then heard the man slowly say, "You won't let me take it off? Then I'll have Zhao Fu come in to serve General Pei."

Pei Guan clutched his collar, swallowing his anger, and said, "I'll take it off myself."

Exposing one's back to others is a dangerous act. As soon as the silver needle entered his body, Pei Guan felt discomfort. His body tensed up subconsciously, and his instincts honed by years of battle made him want to escape.

He bit his lower lip, his nails digging deep into his palm, suppressing the urge to resist.

He believed that the person behind him wouldn't harm him... so he lowered his guard.

Xu Ran concentrated on performing the first set of acupuncture techniques before slowly exhaling and then gently massaging Pei Guan's shoulder in a reassuring manner.

"Don't worry, it's just a little uncomfortable, it will get better in three months."

Xu Ran's voice was inexplicably convincing, but Pei Guan keenly sensed something amiss in Xu Ran's tone. "Your Majesty, may you come before me?"

Xu Ran, puzzled, walked up to him as instructed and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xu Ran wiped the cold sweat from Pei Guan's forehead with her sleeve. "Does it hurt a lot?"

The emperor didn't notice Pei Guan's expression; he was preoccupied with his own regret, muttering to himself, "If only I had come sooner."

Come when Pei Guan is twenty, or when he is seventeen, and replace the Reincarnation Pill with a sweet candy pill, or when he is fourteen, and dress the still-child Pei Guan in heavy armor to fight the enemy.

Pei Guan gripped his wrist tightly, his eyes revealing a look of despair for the first time—a look he hadn't shown when Pei Guan was fourteen, seventeen, or even when the pain flared up and he wanted to bang his head against the wall.

The veins on the back of his hand bulged, but the force he applied to Xu Ran's wrist was very measured, and she didn't feel any pain at all.

"Pei Guan? What's wrong?"

It was that same tone again, that same pure concern. Pei Guan shivered with cold. Xu Ran didn't know that in Pei Guan's eyes, he looked ashen-faced and hoarse, even worse than Pei Guan, the patient. Even if the acupuncture had taken its toll, he shouldn't have reacted like this.

Pei Guan trembled slightly and asked, word by word, "Are you feeling unwell?"

"The Reincarnation Pill offers no solution. How do you intend to resolve it, and what price will you pay?"

Pei Guan felt more and more guilty as he spoke. It was obvious how he could agree to let Xu Ran treat him, how he could allow himself to harbor such delusions.

He is a man who has long since abandoned his own life, and he should bear all the bitter consequences himself. If Xu Ran is hurt because of him, he deserves to die a thousand deaths.

"I don't want you to treat me anymore, Xu Ran. Just leave me alone. I never wanted to live anyway."

He spoke with such seriousness, as if it were the truth, that he dared not look at Xu Ran's expression. He only felt Xu Ran's wrist lose its strength and hang straight down. His heart sank with it.

Pei Guan's eyes welled up with tears again. He blamed himself; he had given up too soon. If he had known Xu Ran would come, he should have held on longer.

But there were only two years left, and there was no way to turn the tide. He dared not think about what Xu Ran would do to save his life.

The system was terrified. It had just hurriedly taken some of Xu Ran's data, wanting to ask him if he was feeling any better, when it saw this scene.

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"What's wrong with Xiao Pei? If I didn't know, I would have thought you were about to die, host."

It's just a little mental energy expenditure, why is it like I'm about to die? Humans are so strange.

The atmosphere was completely ruined by the system jumping around in her mind. Xu Ran's eye twitched: "Go ahead and eat your data bar."

If you can't speak properly, then don't speak.

Xu Ran lowered her head, pulled her wrist out of Pei Guan's hand, and then gently lifted the chin of the disobedient patient, forcing him to look at her.

"I forgot to tell you something."

Pei Guan was in pain, not from the acupuncture, but from the lingering, phantom pain that seemed to cling to his bones. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead again. He slowly tried to understand what Xu Ran had said, and his voice was hoarse: "What?"

Xu Ran patiently brushed the black hair from his forehead. "I forgot to tell you, if you're not here, I have no meaning in this world."

Whether it was for the mission or for Xu Ran's own sake, Pei Guan was the only reason he existed in this world.

We can't let him overthink things. Just as the system said, if this guy keeps imagining things, Xu Ran will die eight hundred times in his mind: "Saving you isn't worth my effort. Don't underestimate me, understand?"

"Your Majesty cannot deceive me."

Xu Ran walked behind Pei Guan and replied, "Yes, I'm not lying."

No, Pei Guan thought to himself, Xu Ran is clearly a good liar; he said twice during the morning court session that he was unwell.

When the time came, Xu Ran removed the silver needles from Pei Guan's back.

Thinking about Pei Guan's appearance just now, he felt it necessary to warn his patient, "Don't move, relax a bit, you need to apply the acupuncture three times each time."

Xu Ran thought he should be stricter, and his tone was surprisingly intimidating.

Pei Guan dared not move again, and the silver needles were inserted into different acupoints.

Pei Guan was in so much pain that he was somewhat dazed. His vision was completely white, but the breathing around him suddenly became heavy.

Pei Guan suddenly became clear-headed. The breathing sound was not his, but Xu Ran's behind him. He couldn't see the scene behind him, but Xu Ran's breathing was clearly panting.

Pei Guan's chest heaved. His Majesty was lying to him again. This was nothing? This was effortless?

"Stop!"

He bit his lip, pressing it to the raw flesh: "Your Majesty... Xu Ran, stop."

It was unclear whether he was scolding or pleading. Pei Guan was in so much pain that he couldn't even hear his own voice. Usually, the pain was in his chest, so why was his heart starting to hurt?

A gentle yet strong hand squeezed his palm, patiently soothing him until he gradually calmed down and heard the person's helpless sigh.

"Okay, okay, don't worry."

The man pressed down on his shoulder again, "Don't move, just a little longer."

"Your Majesty..." Pei Guan closed his eyes briefly, "This subject is not worth it."

"You didn't hear a word of what I said?" Xu Ran lightly flicked the man's head. "I told you I could save you, I told you I'd be fine, why wouldn't you believe me?"

Pei Guan fell completely silent. How could such a good thing happen? Xu Ran had come and could save him without him having to pay anything in return.

In the first twenty-five years of his life, he knew that gaining something always meant losing something more important. What could he possibly believe? How could he believe that such a good thing could happen to him after he had already given up?

Xu Ran lowered his voice, the eighteen-year-old emperor's voice already authoritative enough: "You are not allowed to be willful anymore. Do you listen to me or not? If you don't, then forget it. You have to live a good two years and I will accompany you. After two years, I will accompany you to the Yellow Springs."

"No—" Pei Guan's voice was urgent, "His Majesty is the Son of Heaven, how can he…"

"Are you going to use the country and the people to pressure me?" Xu Ran said without holding back, but his tone was calm and gentle. "Two years to cultivate a good emperor is a bit rushed, but it's not impossible."

Pei Guan wanted to say no, he wanted to say that His Majesty still had many years ahead of him and should not worry about a dying person.

The last words that came out were pale and weak: "Your Majesty... don't say this, don't say this."

He suppressed the bitterness in his heart and said, "I'll listen."

He listened to everything, but Xu Ran should not say anything more and should not cause any trouble.

The silver needles were slowly removed, and he was pulled into a warm embrace. "It's alright, don't worry."