Oh, that's a good thought. It would be just typical for the Merit Brush to twist things to be more malicious and terrible!

Also, that was kinda crap game design...
The game mostly seems like a farce designed to degrade/psychologically torture Zhao Yunlan (and the SID and the hospital staff), but it did give us Zhao Yunlan playing Russian roulette and cheating to lose, which is quite a moment.