My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

At that moment, she remembered Li Qingshun.

A happy expression appeared on his face.

'A fleeting moment, a fleeting moment! Only a fleeting moment is different!'

'Shun's illness has been cured, and he will definitely get better in the future!'

"Besides, the money I owe can be resolved by waiting a little longer!"

'After a while, I won't have to do this dirty work to pay off my debts anymore, and I won't have to face those disgusting men anymore!'

'In an instant, in an instant...'

While Chie Maeda was pondering, the bus stopped at Shirokicho Station in Aomori City.

After getting off,

Chie Maeda first bought a large bag of fruit before arriving at a two-story detached house. After hesitating for a long time, she finally pressed the doorbell.

A moment later, the door opened.

A haggard-looking woman saw Maeda Chie and said warmly, "It's Chie! Come see Shun! It's raining heavily outside, come in quickly and don't get wet!"

"Auntie, I'm sorry to bother you."

Maeda Chie entered the house, took off her wet mid-heeled shoes in the entryway, and changed into dry indoor shoes.

Then, guided by the woman, we arrived at a tightly closed door. The door to this room was a traditional shoji door, the kind that slides left and right, with a wooden frame covered with paper.

The woman called softly into the house, "Shun, Chie has come to see you."

After saying that, the woman opened the door, revealing the scene inside the room.

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Chapter 271 Li Qingshun

The room was very empty, with no furniture or furnishings. The floor was covered with tatami mats, and in the very center of the room, there was a quilt on which lay a gaunt man who looked like a dried corpse.

His body was emaciated, his cheeks were deeply sunken, his eye sockets were bony, his thin skin looked as if it could be pierced with a single poke, his slender hands looked as if a gentle breeze could break them, and his frail body looked as if a light gust of wind could blow him over.

The sound of the door opening startled the man awake, and he tried to struggle to sit up.

"Shun-kun, be careful."

Maeda Chie exclaimed in concern, quickly approaching Tatekiyo Shun in a few steps. She knelt on the tatami and carefully helped him up, finally dragging a cushion over to place behind him so he could lean back comfortably.

After Li Qingshun leaned in, he looked at Maeda Chie and smiled, "It's Chie."

"Shun-kun, you've only been discharged from the hospital recently and you're not fully recovered yet. You need to rest more!" Maeda Chie said.

"I'm much better now, and I was able to walk around the yard today," Li Qingshun said with a smile.

"Shun, is it true?!"

Maeda Chie's face was filled with joy, and she was genuinely happy for Tachibana Shun's recovery.

Outside the room, Li Qingshun's mother saw this scene, silently closed the door, and left.

Inside the room, Maeda Chie looked tenderly at Tatekiyo Shun's gaunt face, as if she could see his handsome features before his illness in the contours of his thin face.

She couldn't help but recall the first time she met Li Qingshun three years ago.

three years ago,

At that time, she was just a junior high school student in her third year of junior high school, just reaching the age when she began to experience romantic feelings.

One day, Li Qingshun's family moved to the vicinity of her home.

It was at that time that Maeda Chie first saw Tatekiyo Shun.

Li Qingshun had fair skin, a slender figure, and handsome features, making him exceptionally dashing. His years of painting had also cultivated his unique artistic temperament. In particular, since Li Qingshun was already aware of his illness, a faint sadness always lingered in his proud eyes. With so many unique qualities combined in one person, Maeda Chie instantly fell for him and secretly gave her heart to him.

She had never seen such a unique, outstanding, and handsome boy. He was so captivating, like a deep universe, making people lose themselves in his vastness at first glance.

Compared to Riki Shun, Maeda Chie suddenly felt that all the boys around her were so ordinary, so common, and so boring.

From then on, she often came to Li Qingshun's house to talk to him and watch him paint.

Such days did not last long before Maeda Chie had already made up her mind to marry no one but him.

Finally, after Tatekiyo Shun drew a portrait of Maeda Chie, Maeda Chie confessed her feelings.

And Kiyosuke accepted it.

On that day, Chie Maeda gave away her virginity.

In the following year, Maeda Chie's feelings for Ritsu Seishun grew deeper, but at the same time, Ritsu Seishun's health deteriorated.

At this point, Rikiyo Shun told Maeda Chie about his illness.

It turns out that Li Qingshun showed amazing talent in painting from a young age, winning numerous awards throughout his life. He is the kind of child people often refer to as "someone else's child".

Just when his life was about to climb to the top in this way, an accident happened.

During a physical education class in his sophomore year of high school, he suddenly collapsed on the playground. Later, after a hospital examination, it was discovered that he had a very rare disease—Rugers syndrome.

This is a spinal cord atrophy disease, which is very rare. There are only 7 recorded cases worldwide, and Li Qingshun is the seventh case.

If you have this disease, your spinal cord will gradually die and lose its vitality, and your whole body will gradually lose sensation, eventually leading to paralysis below the brain.

This is just the beginning. Since the spinal cord is the pathway through which all the body's deep and superficial sensations, as well as most of the visceral sensations and nerve impulses, pass to the brain, except for the head and face, the brain will lose its ability to control all the internal organs when the spinal cord dies.

At that time, the internal organs will become chaotic, the heart will beat once a minute, the lungs will keep inhaling air without exhaling it, the kidneys will stop excreting toxins, and so on, and finally die in an extremely miserable way.

This disease used to be incurable, but now, with the development of neurosurgery, spinal cord transplantation has become possible, which is Li Qingshun's only way to survive.

However, this does not take into account the high risks associated with the surgery itself.

The cost of the surgery alone is equivalent to a death sentence.

Because the total cost of the entire surgery is 2 million yen.

This number is astronomical for Li Qingshun's family.

In his family, his father was just an ordinary company employee, and his mother was a full-time housewife.

Despite all their efforts and taking on countless debts, Riki Shun's parents managed to raise 100 million yen.

There's still 100 million left, which is impossible to raise.

With no other option, Li Qingshun's parents finally gave up.

They sold their house in Tokyo and came to the quiet city of Aomori to spend the last days of Tatekiyoshun's life with him.

After learning the whole story, Maeda Chie was tormented by the fact that Rikishun was about to die.

She cursed the injustice of the world more than once, wondering why so many incompetent good-for-nothings lived well, while the exceptionally talented Li Qingjun had to suffer such a fate.

In the end, she had no choice but to accept reality.

because,

One hundred million yen!

One hundred million yen is an astronomical figure for a high school girl like her.

Her family background was not even comparable to that of Rikiyo Shun, and they simply couldn't afford 100 million yen.

All she could do was to satisfy Li Qingshun's desires as much as possible while he could still move, at least allowing him to enjoy a moment of peace in her body and forget the tragic future.

However, as time went on, Li Qingshun was unable to even perform the basic behaviors of a man.

He completely lost it, yelling at Maeda Chie, "Get out! Get out! What are you doing here? Are you here to laugh at me?"

"I'm useless, completely useless!"

"There is no future, there is no hope!"

In the end, Li Qingshun burst into tears. As a man, especially in Japan where male chauvinism is highly valued, he simply cried.

Chie Maeda also cried along with them.

In the end, Chie Maeda didn't know how she left.

On the way, she was filled with guilt, constantly thinking about how she could help Li Qingshun.

One hundred million yen!

It means they sold her...

kindness?!!!

Sold yourself out?

At that moment, Chie Maeda suddenly remembered a loan advertisement posted on a telephone pole she had just passed.

The tiny flyer, barely the size of a palm, read: "Need money urgently? Contact us. Any amount, funds arrive in one day! Phone..."

Chie Maeda knew this was an advertisement for loan sharks.

However, at this moment, she only had Li Qingshun's image in her mind; the loan sharks and such didn't matter to her anymore.

One hundred million yen!

Chie Maeda wondered, 'Could I sell myself for 100 million yen?'

With that in mind, she dialed the number on the advertisement.

As a result, Chie Maeda succeeded and successfully obtained a loan of 100 million yen.

But at the same time,

She was required to work as a prostitute for six years under this organization whose name she did not know.

He could not leave until he had earned 200 million yen for the organization.

This organization has calculated things very clearly, starting from the moment Maeda Chie signed the contract.

From the age of 17 to 23, she entertained clients every day. Given Maeda Chie's looks, she earned 80,000 yen per client. Especially before the age of 20, she could have earned 100,000 yen per client, and there were plenty of men who would have slept with her.

Over the course of six years, they earned at least 200 million.

Maeda Chie gave the 100 million yen she got from "selling herself" to Tatekiyo Shun, lying that it was an inheritance from her deceased parents.

Ritsu Kiyosuke accepted the 100 million yen, and with the 100 million yen his family had raised, they finally raised a total of 200 million yen for the surgery.