C9 A Strange Object in Her Eyes

"Why is she still sick?" Ann Jue arrived at her daughter's bedside, drenched in sweat and nearly out of her wits with worry. "Doctor, my daughter will be okay, right?"

"She should be fine," the doctor reassured her. "She's just been overly frightened. A few days of rest and she'll recover."

Ann Jue herself felt much better now. The pain in her eyes had subsided, though her vision remained somewhat blurry. It was clearer than before, though, and she suspected that perhaps she had been overwhelmed by sadness.

"Dad, I'm okay now. Let's go home!" Ann Jue didn't want to stay in the hospital. Even though her father had health insurance through his job, she found the hospital to be an unpleasant place.

"Alright, we'll head home now!" Ann Jue scooped up her daughter, thanked Mrs. Zhang, placed Ann Jue on the back seat of her bicycle, and they headed home.

Once home, Ann Jue felt tired and quickly fell asleep on her bed. Her father's eyes reddened with concern. He turned to the landline and called his workplace to request two days off, intending to care for his daughter. The sudden death of Mr. Xue had shocked him, and he knew it must be even harder for his daughter, who had studied under Mr. Xue for years.

To soothe her, Ann Jue planned to cook dinner himself. Once he was sure she was sound asleep, he grabbed the shopping basket and left the house.

But soon after, Ann Jue's eyes fluttered open, and she sat up in bed.

She blinked a few times, then opened her eyes wide. To her surprise, there was a peculiar green object in her right eye—something that had never been there before and certainly wasn't part of her room. Could it be that some foreign body had appeared on her cornea?

Touching her eye, Ann Jue found the sharp pain that had penetrated deep into her eye socket was completely gone. Now, there was a refreshing coolness, much like the sensation after using eye drops. Yet, unlike the initial discomfort that eye drops can cause, she felt only relief.

"How odd..." she murmured, pulling a small mirror from her drawer to examine her right eye closely. But as she peered into the mirror, the mysterious green speck in her right eye had vanished!

"What on earth is this?" Ann Jue shuddered, her mind flashing to the ghost movie "I Left Eye See Ghost."

Yet, as she glanced around, there were no ghosts to be seen. Ugh, spit, spit, spit—she refused to believe in ghosts! Despite not being superstitious or fearful of ghosts, Ann Jue had no desire to encounter paranormal phenomena. It was just too eerie, wasn't it?

She set aside the mirror and blinked again, noticing the persistent green dot in her right eye. It wasn't visible in the mirror, but it was definitely there! And as she focused on it, whispering to herself, the dot began to grow larger and larger!

"Ah!" Ann Jue exclaimed, quickly clamping a hand over her mouth.

She stepped out of her room to check the hallway and, seeing that it was empty, breathed a sigh of relief. She locked her door and resumed her investigation of her peculiar right eye. Before long, the green dot had expanded to the size of her palm, filling her entire field of vision in that eye, which was incredibly disconcerting!

It wasn't that her eye was hurting again, but the visual obstruction was seriously inconvenient for seeing anything clearly.

"What in the world is this thing?" Ann Jue grumbled, ruffling her hair in irritation.

She walked around her room, muttering under her breath, "Can't it just shrink a bit? Now I can hardly see anything... huh?"

To her surprise, the green dot actually did shrink.

Could she really control its size? Ann Jue was quick to catch on. After several attempts, she confirmed that she could indeed manipulate the size of the green dot. Whenever it became a nuisance, she found that mentally commanding "green dot, shrink" would reduce it to a more manageable size. Still, the nature of this anomaly eluded her.

Shaking her head, Ann Jue decided to let it be for the time being and just observe it over the next few days.