After leaving the banquet hall, Zhong Ruanxing received a license plate number from Song JinXing: Get on this car and let the driver take you here.
Zhong Ruanxing texted back: I'm lost! Your mansion is too big!
Song JinXing: Keep heading south, cross a lotus pond, and you'll see a jade screen at the front gate.
Zhong Ruanxing: I'm from the south.
Song JinXing: So?
Zhong Ruanxing: I can't tell directions.
Song JinXing: ......Take a photo of what's right in front of you.
Zhong Ruanxing hurriedly stood in place and took a photo. Song JinXing quickly texted back: Go left.
With his guidance over text messages, Zhong Ruanxing finally made her way out of the grand mansion. The car Song JinXing described was indeed already waiting at the gate—a black Bentley, with the driver wearing a suit and white gloves. Seeing her approach, he respectfully opened the door for her.
Zhong Ruanxing: So this is the world of the wealthy?
The car had a faint cool pine scent. The driver started the engine and asked, "Mr. Song, taking you home?"
In a low voice, Zhong Ruanxing responded, "To the seaside villa."
Damn, what a sexy voice.
The nightscape flashed by outside the windows as they gradually left the city center. The seaside road ran alongside the sea, cool and breezy up in the hills. The standard seaside mansions in that area were mostly vacation homes for the wealthy. Zhong Ruanxing rolled down the window and heard the sound of waves breaking over rocks.
The car continued uphill until finally stopping in front of an estate at the peak of the mountain.
It was a summer night. The estate's front gate was lined on both sides with climbing roses in full bloom under the moonlight. The sea breeze blew their fragrance everywhere. Zhong Ruanxing took a deep breath and stepped into the estate.
A sturdy figure stood on the stone path at the front door. Seeing her approach, he greeted in a low voice, "Boss."
Zhong Ruanxing guessed this was probably Song JinXing's assistant, Fu Ling.
She nodded. Fu Ling said, "The young miss is already inside." He hesitated, then added, "She hurt herself and got into your medicine cabinet."
Zhong Ruanxing was shocked. "She's hurt? Where? Is it serious?"
Fu Ling: "......"
The boss had always disliked others touching his things. Fu Ling had hesitated again and again before finally not stopping the young miss. And to be honest, that young miss had such a cold demeanor, just like his boss, that he hadn't dared interfere.
He just hadn't expected the normally steady and aloof boss to have such an emotional side—that young miss must be very important to him!
Fu Ling quickly said, "It's not serious, just scraped her knee when she fell. The young miss has already treated it."
Zhong Ruanxing waved her hand and hurried inside.
Watching his boss's worried back, Fu Ling's face was grave as he thought: Am I going to have a boss's wife soon?
Pushing open the door, the spacious living room seemed extremely empty. The first thing Zhong Ruanxing saw was a magnificent floor-to-ceiling window overlooking the shimmering sea under the moonlight. The lights were on in the living room, and a slender figure was projected onto the window.
As Zhong Ruanxing turned her head, she saw herself sitting properly on the sofa.
They froze as their eyes met, both stunned.
Perhaps seeing yourself from another's perspective felt too bizarre. Neither spoke for a long moment, with only the distant sound of waves filling the silence.
Song JinXing: "You——"
Zhong Ruanxing: "You——"
They both halted. Song JinXing said, "You go first."
After thinking for a bit, Zhong Ruanxing said, "Did you put on my bra front-to-back?"
Song JinXing: "?"
He looked down at his chest.
When he'd put it on earlier, he'd felt it was oddly tight and constricting. He'd thought it was just because he wasn't used to it. So he'd put it on backwards?
What kind of bra has buttons in the front? Unbelievable!
Zhong Ruanxing said, "Mine fastens in the front. The supportive side is obviously meant to go in front." She walked over and naturally reached out to touch his chest, "Take it off and I'll help you put it on properly..."
Song JinXing's body stiffened as he reflexively blocked her hand.
Zhong Ruanxing chuckled, "It's my body!"
Somewhat awkwardly, Song JinXing withdrew his hand. The joking around had lightened up the atmosphere considerably. Zhong Ruanxing sat down beside him and tilted her head to look at him. "What did you want to say earlier?"
Song JinXing regained his composure. "What were you doing tonight? We need to figure out why we switched bodies and change back as soon as possible."
Zhong Ruanxing thought for a moment. "I went with my agent to an investor's cocktail party to try and get the lead role in Director Zeng Mingcong's new drama. Afterwards..." She suddenly realized she didn't remember what happened next clearly. "I had two drinks at the party. Did I get drunk? I don't usually get drunk so easily."
Song JinXing said, "You were drugged."
He recounted what had happened after he awoke. Zhong Ruanxing went from shocked to furious. Song JinXing watched a whole spectrum of vivid expressions play across his normally expressionless face, which felt quite strange.
Song JinXing asked, "Do you know who harmed you?"
Zhong Ruanxing's expression turned ugly as she gritted out, "I have some idea." She continued earnestly, "Thank you for saving me. If I had been alone, I wouldn't have been able to rescue myself in that situation."
Song JinXing waved off her thanks. "I didn't drink, just went back to the old mansion and took a nap because I was tired. It seems the only thing we have in common is that we were both in deep sleep at the time."
Why and how they had switched remained a mystery, and switching back was even more uncertain.
After thinking for a while, Zhong Ruanxing suggested, "Should we find some metaphysics master to take a look? I know a pretty capable one, I heard lots of celebrities go to him to raise ghosts! He's quite amazing."
For the first time ever, the unflappable Song JinXing experienced what it felt like to be at a total loss. "We could try that." He asked solemnly, "Until we find a way to switch back, can you live as me for now?"
Zhong Ruanxing said, "Acting as a cool, domineering CEO will be easy. The real issue is you now. I'm about to start shooting, and have a bunch of appearances and variety shows scheduled after that. Can you handle it?"
Song JinXing: "......"
This was the first time Zhong Ruanxing had seen such a grim and stoic expression on her own face, and found it quite novel.
Come to think of it, this new image was pretty cool.
Song JinXing took a deep breath and quickly accepted reality, handing over her phone. "Let's exchange basic information first."
It was already very late into the night.
Outside the door, Fu Ling watched the two figures in the living room. Worried, he thought: Given such a sexy beauty, boss isn't just going to sit here chatting with her until dawn, right?! You two should at least watch a movie or something!
An hour later, Zhong Ruanxing interrupted him in shock: "Wait, it's your uncle Xinwen who's already a grandpa, not Jingwu. Xinwen is Song Xinwen, Jingwu is Song Jingwu. Your eldest brother is Song Jiaci, second brother is Song Lecheng. The one with kids is your eldest brother Jiaci. Lecheng is still single!"
Song JinXing's expression was wooden. "As I said, I've only been back in the country for half a year and am not familiar with them."
Zhong Ruanxing exclaimed, "Oh my god! You know even less about the Song family than me!" She pulled up the wiki links of all her meticulously researched background info on the Song family: "Here, let me brief you on the Song family members. You're the third child, you know that much, right?"
Song JinXing: "......"
Oh, I know that very well.
