"Nurse, what happened?"
Amamiya Rin couldn't help but ask the nurse who had been waiting outside the door just moments ago.
"Probably... probably just a minor accident during the surgery? Please don't worry about it. Your body is fine; you just need one to two weeks of rehabilitation training before you can be discharged."
The nurse's expression was peculiar, wearing a smile that looked rather forced.
Amamiya Rin nodded, signaling his understanding.
After all, she worked here; she couldn't exactly gossip about the hospital's scandals to a patient.
Although he was somewhat curious, Amamiya Rin tactfully did not pursue the matter further.
By the time he returned to the ward, it was already past 10:00 PM. The city outside the window was shrouded in a dim night curtain, with a bright moon hanging high in the firmament.
Amamiya Rin, meanwhile, was moving his limb joints with the nurse's assistance.
Every joint needed flexion and extension exercises, rotation movements, as well as straight leg raises and bridging exercises to alleviate muscle stiffness.
Amamiya Rin's timing for transmigration was quite ingenious.
One must understand that after a healthy adult becomes bedridden, muscle strength diminishes at a rate of 1% to 2% per day.
However, the first two weeks involve reversible loss. The muscle fibers haven't undergone serious atrophy and are merely in a state of temporary functional inhibition.
Once it exceeds two weeks, muscles enter a critical period of disuse atrophy. The number of fibers decreases, tendons adhere, and the recovery cycle extends geometrically.
Amamiya Rin had woken up on the thirteenth day of this body being in a vegetative state. He would only need a week of rehabilitation training to move independently.
After completing the day's rehabilitation training, Amamiya Rin drank a bowl of vegetable puree with the nurse's help.
It didn't taste good, but he could only consume this kind of semi-liquid food for now.
After the meal, the nurse helped Amamiya Rin lie down and left the ward.
Lying on the hospital bed, a sense of exhaustion immediately pressed down on him like a mountain.
However, Amamiya Rin's mind was somewhat hyperactive due to the visceral reality of his rebirth.
Transmigration, severe injury, awakening... everything felt like a bizarre and grotesque dream.
Yet, the weakness of his body reminded him with undeniable realism that this was no dream.
Still, this is really...
(This is great!)
An excited smile appeared on Amamiya Rin's face.
A new life, a young body—to him, this was simply a gift from the heavens.
Since that was the case, he would absolutely not let down this precious gift!
He would live an even more splendid life, live better, and make up for the regrets of his past life!
Amamiya Rin immersed himself in the joy of his new lease on life. Although his body was in pain and weak, his heart was filled with immense happiness.
This mental excitement temporarily overpowered his physical fatigue, but it didn't last too long.
A body just waking from severe injury was ultimately too weak. After the intense emotional fluctuations, a deep weariness gradually welled up.
Amamiya Rin's eyelids grew heavier and heavier, his vision began to blur, and the rhythmic ticking of the monitor seemed to drift further and further away.
...
Almost the instant he fell asleep, Amamiya Rin's consciousness suddenly "snapped" awake.
One second ago, he was still feeling the joy of rebirth.
The next second, what appeared before his eyes was a familiar desk.
A glaring desk lamp illuminated a mountain of reference books and test papers, and the air was thick with the smell of coffee from staying up late.
Is this... his study room from his past life during exam prep?
(What's going on? Wasn't I in the hospital?)
Amamiya Rin was bewildered and suspicious. He tried to stand up, only to find that his body was completely out of his control.
His right hand was calculating complex formulas in a workbook, while his left hand flipped through a thick dictionary beside it. His brain was filled with a familiar anxiety, bringing Amamiya Rin a nausea that made him want to vomit.
An exhaustion that penetrated deep into his marrow swallowed his body and mind.
He remembered this day clearly! This very moment!
That was the most torturous time of his life. To get into a good university, he stayed up late studying until the early morning every day. The pressure and anxiety nearly crushed his body and soul.
He had struggled hard to survive that period, and in the years that followed, he had nightmares more than ten times about returning to that exam prep period.
(A dream!)
(Am I having a nightmare again?)
Amamiya Rin realized what was happening and breathed a sigh of relief.
When a person realizes they are dreaming, they should wake up.
However, after a long time passed, Amamiya Rin still hadn't broken free from this nightmare.
Unable to wake up, unable to control his body, Amamiya Rin's consciousness was like a spectator imprisoned in a marionette, forced to endlessly repeat that most stressful time.
Time lost its normal flow in this dream world. Every tick of the second hand was separated by a long stretch of time, and that anxiety was stretched out infinitely.
One day, two days... one week, two weeks...
After an unknown amount of time, a vague call penetrated the layers of the nightmare.
"...miya-san? Amamiya-san?"
Amamiya Rin snapped his eyes open. He subconsciously sat up straight, his hands searching for the workbook and ballpoint pen.
However, intense fatigue caused his heavy body to collapse back down the second he sat up.
Reflected in his eyes were a pristine white ceiling and the nurse's concerned face.
"Where are my notes? The College Entrance Exam is coming up; I haven't finished organizing my notes yet."
Amamiya Rin had no spare energy to think about why he was in a hospital. He struggled, wanting to get up. For him, the most important thing right now was reviewing his coursework!
"What are you saying, Amamiya-san?"
The nurse paused for a moment upon hearing this, then revealed an understanding smile.
"Amamiya-san, you aren't in school anymore. This is Morita Hospital. You've just recovered and woken up. Did you dream about your old exam preparations? Those kinds of high-pressure dreams are indeed very common."
"Morita Hospital..."
Amamiya Rin froze. He looked around at the environment in confusion, and the past from thirty days ago gradually surfaced from the depths of his brain.
(Right... that's right. I am Amamiya Rin. I was in a car accident and just woke up... So, that was a dream just now? A dream that lasted... a whole month?)
A strong sense of dislocation and unreality struck him, making Amamiya Rin dizzy.
He had clearly only slept for a single nap, yet it felt as if a long month had passed. The exhaustion from a month of high-intensity studying remained in his brain with incomparable realism.
(But, why... do I remember it so clearly?)
It wasn't that Amamiya Rin hadn't dreamed before, but this was the first time he'd had such a lucid dream.
Not only did he realize in the dream that he was dreaming, but after waking up, he could actually remember clearly what had happened in the dream.
Normally, memories of a dream would become blurry after waking up.
But now, he still clearly remembered every minute he had spent in the dream.
The high school senior year knowledge points he had thrown to the back of his mind years ago were now firmly engraved in his brain after a month of review.
(What the hell? Could it be... is this my Golden Finger?)
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