The baby-making system is unreliable

"Buzzing—"

The phone vibrated violently on the bedside table, its ringtone swirling like a swarm of bees, stubbornly piercing the tranquility of the early morning.

Sunlight streamed obliquely into the bedroom, falling on the messy bedding, but it couldn't wake Yun Xinrou, who was lost in her dreams.

She rolled over, her brows furrowed slightly, as if being slowly pulled up from the deep sea by that voice.

Finally, she fumbled for her phone, her eyelids heavy as if weighed down by lead, her voice hoarse and indistinct: "Hello... who is it? What's up?"

"My God! Yun Xinrou, are you still sleeping?! What time is it?!" Guo Xiaoxiao's scream exploded on the other end of the phone, her voice trembling with disbelief. "It's your shift today! You're not... just not going, are you?!"

Yun Xinrou was startled, her sleepiness receding like a tide, her heart sinking with a "thud". She glanced at the alarm clock on the bedside table; the hour hand was pointing to 8:23.

It’s over.

Her shift was scheduled for 8:00 AM sharp, but now... that time has already passed!!

Since Yun Xinrou returned from those bizarre and fantastical spaces, it was as if she had just awakened from a deep dream. Her memories were like fleeting shadows in the mist, fragments flying everywhere, making it impossible to distinguish between reality and illusion.

She has traversed galaxies, stepped into other worlds, glimpsed the threads of fate, and faced the abyss of the soul.

But in the end, she still returned here, returned to this hospital that she was so familiar with that she was almost numb to it, returned to the incandescent light day after day.

She remains the same doctor who shuttles between wards and the duty room, her white coat impeccable, her stethoscope cool, as if nothing had ever happened.

No one was alarmed by her return, nor did anyone notice the unspeakable weariness in her eyes.

Life goes on as usual, calm and undisturbed, like a well-ordered river, flowing quietly without asking where it comes from.

Until that day, as the morning light slanted into the corridor, she was looking down at her medical records.

Suddenly, she looked up sharply. At the end of the corridor, a stranger dressed in black stood quietly, holding an ancient book that gleamed with a faint light. His gaze pierced through the crowd and landed directly on her.

At that moment, my heart stopped beating.

"Who are you?!" Yun Xinrou's voice was tense, and her body instinctively took half a step back, her hand already quietly reaching for the scalpel in the pocket of her white coat.

"Meow~ Don't be nervous!" the other suddenly said in a soft, sweet voice, with a slightly coquettish upward inflection at the end.

Immediately afterwards, a boy wearing a black hoodie raised his hands in a surrender gesture, but his eyes shone like a cat's pupils in the night. "I am Li Li!"

"Li Li?!" Yun Xinrou's pupils shrank suddenly, and the image of the cat that had been with her for so long flashed through her mind.

She suddenly remembered that she had recently encountered a tabby cat with caramel-colored fur that was always sunbathing in the back alley of the hospital. She had even treated its paw that had been cut by glass last week.

But the boy in front of me, although he had a familiar cunning in his eyes, was clearly a living human being!

"Huh?? It's actually Li Li?!" She subconsciously touched the scalpel in her pocket, then looked at the boy's vertical pupils, which clearly had feline features, and her voice changed, "You...you actually turned into a human?!"

"Just came to see you?!" Li Li waved her phone, and the screen lit up, displaying eight photos of men in different styles.

"Your husbands from all eight of your worlds can't come, so I came to see you to keep you from getting too bored."

Yun Xinrou stared at the screen, her eyelids twitching suddenly. She subconsciously took a half step back, her back against the cold wall, her voice trembling: "You...you didn't actually bring them all to the modern world, did you?"

"Oh dear, what are you thinking!" Li Li waved her hand exaggeratedly, the hood of her hoodie slipped down, revealing a pair of fluffy cat ears, which twitched excitedly.

"They're all busy in their own timelines right now! But..."

It suddenly moved closer, its nose almost touching Yun Xinrou's forehead, its vertical pupils full of cunning light.

"I could help you 'invite' them over for some fun, like having that handsome guy in period costume volunteer at the hospital? Or having the famous Emperor open a milk tea shop?"

"No, no, no! This is practically killing me! If so many people come at once, I'm doomed!" Yun Xinrou hurriedly waved her hands, her forehead beaded with cold sweat.

She could picture it; just thinking about it sent chills down her spine. "Please don't do anything rash! Please, please don't do anything rash!! I beg you!"

"Don't worry!" Li Li straightened up, put her hands in the pockets of her hoodie, and swished her tail proudly behind her.

"I'm just here to remind you not to think that everything will be fine once you're back in the modern world. The karmic consequences of those worlds haven't been severed yet, and who knows, one day..."

It suddenly lowered its voice, a mysterious light flashing in its vertical pupils, "The 'creditor' from some other world has come knocking."

Looking at its gloating expression, Yun Xinrou suddenly felt that the incandescent lights in the hospital weren't so reassuring after all.

"Hahahaha... Just kidding. I am the guardian of various timelines. They can only travel with my permission."

Moreover, time-space distortion is no joke. The Supreme God has gone to great lengths to allow me to come and see you, not to cause trouble.

"That's good! Don't scare me, I don't want to offend a bunch of people!!" Yun Xinrou patted her chest, remembering what the little loli goddess had said, and still felt a little flustered.

"You can't tell anyone about things that happen in different timelines, or else..." The little girl tilted her head, her tone innocent and naive, but what she said made Yun Xinrou feel as if she had fallen into an ice cave.

"Otherwise, even I can't guarantee your safety. The laws of space and time are very strict."

That childish warning, like a tiny ice needle, is still deeply embedded in her memory. Every time she thinks of it, it makes her heart tighten and stirs up waves of lingering fear.

After completing her trials in the eighth space, she was drawn by an invisible force to a chaotic void.

There was no up, down, left, or right there, no passage of time, only her and that seemingly harmless little girl.

It was there that she learned from the Supreme God that her divine power, scattered across various time and space, had been largely restored and was now sufficient to support her journey back to her original era.

"You can go back now." The little loli goddess swung her legs, tapped her fingertips, and a portal to a modern city slowly unfolded before Yun Xinrou. "Your era, your life, are waiting for you."

The allure of going home was so immense; the enormous light gate exuded a familiar scent of reinforced concrete and electronic products, almost drawing her in.

But she couldn't help turning back in the end, gazing at the void that had swallowed countless days and nights of her, her voice trembling slightly: "My Lord God, after I return..."

"Shh—" The little girl held up a finger, making a shushing gesture, her pink lips slightly upturned.

"Remember my words, keep your secret. This is the only way for you to return safely, and the best way to protect yourself and those around you. Those who reveal secrets will ultimately be devoured by them."

Those crystal-clear eyes now seemed to contain the mysteries of the universe and an undeniable majesty.

“So, you must not do anything foolish,” Yun Xinrou repeated to herself in her heart, her fingers unconsciously twisting the hem of her clothes. “Those thrilling past events, those comrades who fought side by side, those loves and hates… can only be buried deep in my heart, as a long and bizarre dream.”

She took a deep breath, trying to suppress those complicated memories into the deepest part of her soul, locking them away with countless locks.

Then, she straightened her back, took a step forward, and walked resolutely toward the door of light leading to the modern world.

Behind her lay the vast, boundless void and the unseen supreme god; before her lay a future that was both familiar and strange.

After returning, she gradually settled into a peaceful life, which was tiring but also fulfilling.

Alright, my dear friend, it's good to take a break from your busy schedule. No reason is needed to rest!!

(The modern-day side story is finished. This book has come to an end.)