Chapter 273: Period
“Sister… my stomach hurts… I can’t sleep…”
At night, her little sister was no longer lively like she was during the day. Her face was pale, she held her lower belly with both hands, and pouted sadly while leaning against the headboard.
“It hurts so much… it comes and goes… it hurts again and again…”
An Han was sitting at her computer, talking with Su Peng about how to “win over” her father. Too bad Su Peng wasn’t a girl.
If he were, she could just show the chest binder and winning over her father would take only minutes. But even for a girl, this plan might just make you gain another mom instead…
She was still worrying about her father and Su Peng’s relationship, so she asked without turning her head.
“Didn’t you say it didn’t hurt this morning?”
The blood-stained bedsheets had already been taken by her mother to wash. The blanket they were using now had just been taken from the wardrobe and smelled strongly of mothballs.
“Grandpa said I drank too much milk and told me to drink more.”
“How many bottles?”
“Three!”
Grandpa had basically treated little sis as a tool to help finish all the New Year gift milk.
But in winter, room-temperature milk was too cold, and it upset her body. Grandpa didn’t know she got her period, and this little girl probably got too excited when she saw something she liked to drink, forgetting everything else.
“Serves you right.”
“Sister~ help me rub my belly~”
“Do it yourself. You can enjoy the results of your own work.”
An Han never knew what period pain felt like. Before becoming a woman, she had already gotten a system reward that made her completely immune to menstrual pain.
She had been curious before about what it felt like… but seeing her sister’s pale face, her curiosity disappeared.
She really looked like she was suffering.
An Han took a hand warmer from the drawer and plugged it in.
“In ten minutes, use this on your stomach. It might help a bit.”
“Okay…”
Her sister looked really bad, low energy, head hanging down, wrapped into a small ball with the blanket, letting out quiet little cries of pain.
An Han grew worried. She searched online for what to do about period pain and found the usual answer.
“Little sister… drink more hot water.”
This wasn’t brushing her off, drinking warm water really does help.
“I don’t want to…”
“Then I can’t help you,” An Han muttered. “I can’t just go buy you painkillers…”
The internet also mentioned painkillers, but she still felt medicine should be avoided if possible.
Seeing her sister get worse, An Han, who wasn’t very worried at first, began to panic a little.
She frowned, stood up from the computer, and went downstairs.
It was already midnight. Her parents’ bedroom on the second floor was quiet. She knocked lightly on the door, then gently opened a small gap and looked into the darkness.
“Mom, are you awake?”
“Mom?”
No response, she was asleep.
Annoyed, An Han grabbed her hair in frustration.
“What is it, so late at night?”
A sound came from inside. It was her father’s low voice.
She could faintly see his shadow as he carefully got out of bed. There was some soft shuffling as he put on a coat and walked toward her.
“Let’s talk outside. Don’t wake your mom.”
Her father was only wearing a cotton undershirt, not even buttoned yet. The front was open, showing his chest and stomach.
An Han glanced without thinking.
Huh? Dad actually had a thin layer of chest hair…
“Little sister said her stomach hurts. Her period came.” An Han led her father upstairs while explaining. “This is my first time dealing with this, so I don’t know what to do. She hurts so much she can’t sleep.”
“How does your mom usually fix it?”
Hearing his footsteps stop behind her, she turned around and saw her father’s shocked, confused face.
Right… her father lived overseas for years and was rarely home. How would he know how her mom handles period pain?
Her father awkwardly rubbed the bridge of his nose and could only ask back. “Then how do you fix it?”
“I’m healthy… I never had it.”
“……”
Both of them fell silent. One was an older man who had lived abroad for years and understood nothing about periods. The other was a girl who had only recently become female and might never even have menstruation cramps in her life.
They stared at each other in silence for a moment, and both saw the same confusion in each other’s eyes.
“We should just wake your mom,” Her father said, stepping back toward the bedroom.
“Wait.”
Suddenly, three lines of text appeared in front of An Han’s eyes.
Her sister’s problem actually triggered the system too?
“What’s wrong?” Her father asked.
“I’ll go take care of her first. Try not to wake Mom, she’s very grumpy when she gets up.” An Han used this excuse and then told him, “Go boil some hot water downstairs.”
“Okay.”
Her father hurried downstairs, and An Han returned to her room. She unplugged the now-warm hand warmer and sat on the bed.
She sat sideways on the bed, worried, pressing the hand warmer against her sister’s lower belly. Then she asked with concern, “How does it feel?”
“A little better…”
Her sister’s voice had lost all of its usual liveliness. Her head hung down weakly, like a flower about to wilt.
Feeling sorry for her, An Han rubbed her belly gently through the hand warmer and comforted her.
“It’s okay. All girls have to go through this.”
“Then why do you never hurt…”
“I… I’m just healthy!”
“Liar…”
While she was taking care of her sister, An Han finally had time to check the system tasks.
[Option 1: Transfer An Siqi’s current pain during this time period to yourself.
Reward: An Siqi gains the “no period pain” trait.]
What kind of insane option was that!?
Transfer her sister’s cramps to her? Did the system have some serious problem??
And the system could actually give rewards to other people now?
[Option 2: Comfort her and reduce her pain within one hour.
Reward: An Siqi gains a random attribute point.]
An Han’s eyes lit up. If her sister got a random intelligence point, maybe her grades would…
Well, probably stay the same, just with even sharper ability to cause trouble.
After all, most first-year middle schoolers get bad grades because they simply don’t care about studying. Even if someone had the talent to get into top universities, it wouldn’t help if they didn’t study.
[Option 3: Ignore her.
Reward: A random attribute point.]
This attribute point would be for An Han herself.
But she didn’t really need attribute points anymore, and she was even worried that certain attribute changes might make her body change too obviously.
“Sister… it hurts again…” Her sister complained weakly. “It’s all Grandpa’s fault.”
“You know you shouldn’t drink cold stuff. You know cold cola is bad for you, and you still went to drink milk?”
“It wasn’t from the fridge…”
An Han paused, then knocked her sister lightly on the head.
“What does the pain feel like?”
“It feels… like someone is drilling my stomach with an electric drill.”
Just imagining that pain made An Han shiver.
Better choose option two and call Mom to handle it. Or she could give her sister painkillers.
Even if there were some side effects, at least it could be considered the price for giving her a stat point…
“Sister~ why can’t this pain just be transferred to you instead?”
An Han rolled her eyes.
Wow.
That was exactly what the system suggested too.