Chapter 14: Day 14 of Transmigrating into an Object

Jiang Shiyang caught a glimpse of her own body from the corner of her eye. Half of her head was on the nightstand, while the rest of her body was held in Shen Wenyi’s hands.

Shen Wenyi was drinking water. Her lower lip wrapped around the rim of the cup, while her upper lip enclosed the spout. The soft silicone stopper brushed intermittently against Shen Wenyi’s philtrum.

She remembered Shen Wenyi’s philtrum well. Because Shen Wenyi’s cupid’s bow was so defined, the groove of her philtrum was also quite prominent. The stopper was pressing right into that groove.

Jiang Shiyang finally understood what was underneath her tongue.

Jiang Shiyang: ……………

There were so many things she wanted to complain about, but for a moment, she didn’t even know where to begin. What did it feel like to just give up and say “whatever”? Probably exactly how she felt right now.

Anyway, she’d already been kissed against her will and seen things she shouldn’t have. There was no point in being squeamish now. She might as well just consider it like licking a dog. One day, she would settle all these old and new scores with Shen Wenyi.

That was what she told herself, but this sensation was just too… too bizarre.

Her heart was pounding. Thump, thump, thump.

Her body temperature kept rising.

A curse word was on the verge of bursting out.

Look, it’s fine if you want to drink water, but when you’re done, put the cap on and set it aside! Why are you biting the stopper? What kind of weird habit is that? Are you three years old? Two? Do you have to be this childish?!

Jiang Shiyang was about to go crazy, just one step away from becoming hysterical.

Jiang Shiyang screamed internally, her heart tearing, her arms flailing.

Biting it once is one thing, but what the hell does it mean when you just keep holding it in your mouth without letting go?!?!

Shen Wenyi held the water cup in one hand and slid her fingers over the laptop’s trackpad with the other, reading a document while drinking. Every couple of sips, she would gently bite the soft stopper. She didn’t bite hard, just nibbled and rolled it softly between her lips and teeth, treating it exactly like a straw. Occasionally, she even made little sipping sounds.

Jiang Shiyang: …………

Merciful Buddha, please consider that Shen Wenyi is young, ignorant, dumb as a rock, and missing a screw in her brain. Please, make sure she gets a good taste of what karma and instant retribution feel like! What goes around comes around!

Phew.

Saying so much in one breath, even her soul felt out of breath.

How had she never noticed before how childish Shen Wenyi was? You can even make drinking water look like a whole performance?

“Is the water cup broken? Why is the body of the cup so hot? Does it not keep heat anymore?”

Shen Wenyi spat the soft stopper out of her mouth, looking down at her with a strange expression. Her warm breath sprayed against the rim of the cup, and Jiang Shiyang’s hairs instantly stood on end.

Don’t ask. If you ask, it was from the cold.

Jiang Shiyang’s soul couldn’t help but shiver, while the water cup remained motionless, just like any ordinary water cup.

Shen Wenyi took another sip. The soft stopper brushed past her philtrum and grazed the bow of her lip before leaving Shen Wenyi’s bright red lips, moistened by the warm water.

“The water isn’t even as hot as the cup. Looks like it really doesn’t keep heat anymore. Time to replace it.”

Shen Wenyi finally stopped playing with the soft stopper like a straw. She pressed the stopper to seal the spout, then turned and placed it on the nightstand, not forgetting to snap the big half of her skull back onto the smaller half.

She was finally whole again. Even though they weren’t aligned properly, with the back of her head facing her lips, this grounded feeling still made her feel much more at ease.

Shen Wenyi continued flipping through her documents, editing from time to time. When she finished, she opened some website or another. Jiang Shiyang’s skull was facing the bed, so she could only catch a glimpse of some blurry images from the corner of her eye.

Shen Wenyi fiddled with it for a moment and uploaded the document. After uploading, she still didn’t sleep. She opened the uploaded document and slowly read through it from start to finish.

Jiang Shiyang couldn’t help but feel a bit emotional. Shen Wenyi’s character might be flawed, but her work ethic was truly impeccable. If it were her, after staying up late just to finish writing, even one more glance would give her a headache. She would immediately, right away, without a second’s hesitation, toss it aside, lie down, and go to sleep.

She couldn’t see the screen clearly, but she could see Shen Wenyi’s face clearly.

Shen Wenyi’s expression grew increasingly strange. First, she pursed her lips in a secret smile at the screen. As she kept reading, she bit her lip, and then, her face inexplicably flushed red???

This was truly a wonder of the century, a sight rarely seen in a hundred years!

Who had ever seen Best Actress Shen blush? Not even during filming, okay?

Shen Wenyi’s looks belonged to the cool and aloof category. She had a serene, detached, and unapproachable air about her, and the roles she played were mostly like that. Only during publicity events did she put on a posture of being approachable, gentle, and warm.

Shen Wenyi’s fans were madly obsessed with this contrast. They even called Shen Wenyi the Goddess of Abstinence. Whether on stage or off, she presented an image as pure as the bright moon, inviolable. Even when smiling gently, she made people think, “My idol is noble! Not to be trifled with!”

Pah!

She had accidentally mimicked the tone of Shen Wenyi’s fans.

But such a noble moon in the sky actually bites the stopper of a water cup and even blushes? If Shen Wenyi’s fans saw this, would they be thrilled or disillusioned?

Probably thrilled. The thought processes of fans nowadays were bizarrely unique. She could never quite figure them out.

She had originally thought Shen Wenyi would only ever get a red face from a fever in her lifetime. Who knew… Tsk, tsk, this was definitely a “once in a lifetime” kind of event.

But why would Shen Wenyi blush while reading a document?

She strained to roll her eyes, trying to see what exactly was on the screen. She was just too curious. But alas, her spirit was willing, but her strength was weak. She was almost giving herself glaucoma, yet she still couldn’t see anything.

Before she could retract her gaze, the laptop suddenly snapped shut.

Was she done and preparing to sleep?

Made sense. It had to be at least five in the morning by now. She could barely sleep two hours before she’d have to get up.

She had dozed off for a bit earlier, so she didn’t feel too sleepy. Still, out of habit, she yawned a soul yawn, waiting for Shen Wenyi to turn off the lights so they could sleep together.

But Shen Wenyi didn’t move. No one knew what was going through her mind as she leaned her back against the headboard, staring blankly at the ceiling without blinking for a long time.

What was going on? A pre-sleep mental review?

Some people like to mentally review problems from work or knowledge they’ve learned right before sleeping to help deepen their memory.

But who does a mental review that ends with tears streaming down their face?

Shen Wenyi stared fixedly at the ceiling, blinking only occasionally after a long while. With just that one blink, tears silently and unexpectedly rolled down from the corners of her eyes.

Jiang Shiyang: …………

Th-this… was she running through a script in her head and reached a tragic plot point?

Other than that, she really couldn’t think of anything else that would make Shen Wenyi, in the middle of the night, not sleeping, hug her blanket, stare at the ceiling, and sob quietly.

After staring at the ceiling for a moment, Shen Wenyi casually wiped her tears with her hand, then smiled a self-deprecating little smile. She lifted the covers and got out of bed, put her laptop away, and the rustling sound of her putting on slippers indicated she was heading to the bathroom.

She yawned. Just as her soul opened its mouth, her body suddenly felt light. Shen Wenyi had picked her up.

Drinking water right before bed? Not afraid of wetting the bed?

She wickedly imagined Shen Wenyi, ashamed after wetting the bed, hiding alone in the bathroom washing the sheets. It was actually quite a comical image.

But Shen Wenyi didn’t take her to get water. Instead, she walked straight to the trash can.

Wait, what are you doing?!?!

Clang!

She was thrown into the trash can, bouncing twice against its walls.

Jiang Shiyang: ………………

Even though the trash can was very clean, with no trash inside it at all, a trash can was still a trash can.

Shen Wenyi had thrown her away.

Just like that, thrown her away.

Thrown away.

Thrown…

How was she supposed to complete her mission now?!?!