Chapter 26: Day 26 of Transmigrating into an Object

Jiang Shiyang looked at Shen Wenyi. Shen Wenyi looked at Jiang Shiyang.

How was she supposed to answer that question? Tell the truth? No, she’d rather die than tell the truth. This woman Shen Wenyi was utterly treacherous. Jiang Shiyang had treated Shen Wenyi to dinner and a movie, even helped her hang hooks, and Shen Wenyi could still turn around and frame her. One could only imagine the consequences of telling her the truth.

She could almost picture it. If Shen Wenyi knew she was currently sharing a soul with a piece of underwear, Shen Wenyi would absolutely, immediately, take off that underwear, and then grab, entangle, and torment her relentlessly until she was barely clinging to her last breath.

Trusting an enemy was handing them a knife to stab you!

While Shen Wenyi probably wouldn’t stab her to death, she definitely wouldn’t let her complete her tasks easily.

Since telling the truth would only make the tasks harder, she’d be a fool to confess everything.

The truth absolutely could not be told, and this situation wasn’t something easily dismissed. That meant she had to make something up.

But how should she fabricate it?

Jiang Shiyang was still looking at Shen Wenyi. Shen Wenyi was still looking at Jiang Shiyang.

Shen Wenyi’s red lips lightly curved into a smile. “Done fabricating yet?”

Jiang Shiyang tactically rubbed the back of her head where it still stung slightly, let out a sigh, and put on a sincere expression more lifelike than the hatred for the landlord in her graduation performance of The White-Haired Girl.

She said, “Does this even need fabricating? How can you not understand?”

Shen Wenyi said, “What am I supposed to understand? That you’re a homosexual with a hand fetish?”

She: ………………

Could they not have a pleasant conversation anymore?!

She said, “I just felt things were a little awkward last night. I originally wanted to thank you, but I never expected the gift would turn out like that. I felt very sorry. I thought about it all day and couldn’t figure out how to apologize properly, so I figured, since we’re both film people, I’d treat you to a movie. Because of work, we could only catch the midnight showing, so… you understand now, right?”

Shen Wenyi narrowed her eyes at her. “Really?”

No, it’s not!

But what grounds do you have to suspect such a sincere gaze?

Suspecting me is questioning my acting skills.

She nodded, the sincere look reflected in the car window behind Shen Wenyi almost moving herself.

She said, “Otherwise, why would I be bored enough to drag you to a movie? I was honestly just trying to ease my conscience.”

Shen Wenyi nodded slightly. “It seems I misunderstood.”

She smiled. “It’s fine, I don’t mind.”

Shen Wenyi said, “Then let me treat you to dinner, as an apology for the misunderstanding.”

She said, “No need, I said it’s my treat.”

Shen Wenyi said, “How could I accept that so shamelessly?”

She said, “It’s just a simple meal. Just don’t be picky.”

Shen Wenyi said, “Shall we go then?”

She said, “Let’s go. Get out of the car.”

She turned to open the car door, silently letting out a long breath of relief.

Seems like she managed to bluff her way through.

That was really not easy.

After getting out and looking back, Shen Wenyi was still sitting in the car, not having moved an inch.

She held the door and said, “What’s wrong? Get out?”

Shen Wenyi sat back in the car, looking at her with a meaningful gaze. “Jiang Shiyang.”

Her heart inexplicably skipped a beat. “Hm?”

Shen Wenyi lowered her eyes and rubbed her hand, which had been kissed twice. Her long lashes lifted. Whether it was the lighting or something else, the corners of her eyes were inexplicably seductive, like the crimson stamens of red spider lilies, exuding an alluring charm.

Shen Wenyi said, “Lately… you’ve really been… a little strange.”

She let out an awkward laugh. “Where’s the strangeness? You don’t still think I’m a homosexual, do you? I really am not.”

Shen Wenyi’s lips curved into a smile, her lips glossed by the streetlights outside the car, sensuous and ambiguous.

Shen Wenyi said, “Let me think. First, you suddenly PM’d me in the middle of the night telling me to kiss a ring. Then you suddenly started paying attention to my water cup. Then you showed great interest in my lipstick…”

Thump!

Her heart suffered 8 million points of critical damage.

As expected of her nemesis, she hit the nail on the head! She had only changed into these few items, and Shen Wenyi had caught every single one, missing only the underwear currently in progress!

It’s fine, no worries. No normal person could ever imagine objects having human souls.

She blinked, putting on a confused expression. “So? What are you trying to say?”

Shen Wenyi narrowed her eyes, clearly observing her expression. She stared at her for a moment before continuing, “Also, you suddenly asking me to scratch your back in public, refusing to leave my room, giving me that weird… Fortune and Longevity Rod, and kissing my hand…”

No way! Can Shen Wenyi actually connect all these dots?!

Shen Wenyi’s sharpness made her heart pound with alarm. But luckily, no matter how sharp she was, Shen Wenyi could absolutely never guess she had transmigrated into an object!

Within a single breath, she maintained her composure, still unmoving as a mountain.

“So? What exactly are you trying to say?”

Shen Wenyi crossed her legs and leaned back against the car seat, crooking her finger at her.

She hesitated a moment, then still deigned to lean into the car. Professional caution made her instinctively close the car door again tightly.

Shen Wenyi suddenly hooked her arm around her neck! Before she could react, Shen Wenyi pulled her directly into her arms!

She: !!!!!!!!!!

Thump! Thump! Thump!

She reflexively and hurriedly braced her hands on either side of the car seat, one knee landing on the seat to avoid crushing Shen Wenyi. Her heart was practically jumping out of her throat, yet her voice remained as composed as ever: “What are you doing?”

Shen Wenyi’s nose was only a few centimeters from hers. It was no exaggeration to say that if her hand slipped even slightly, she would directly kiss Shen Wenyi—though whether it would be her face, nose, or mouth was hard to say.

Shen Wenyi didn’t speak. She just held her neck like that, looking at her with half-lowered eyes.

She: …………………………

Clearly, Shen Wenyi was the abnormal one here, hooking her neck. Why was she the one feeling guilty???

Jiang Shiyang didn’t even dare to meet Shen Wenyi’s eyes. Even though she was 99.999% certain in her heart that Shen Wenyi couldn’t guess the truth, she was still damned guilty like a thief, always feeling that 0.001% misfortune had befallen her.

Shen Wenyi didn’t speak, so she had to speak again: “What exactly are you doing? Has your brain been flushed down the sewer?”

As she spoke, she tried to break free from Shen Wenyi. Just as she moved, Shen Wenyi tilted her head close to her ear and lowered her voice. Her clear, melodious voice was wrapped in honeyed softness.

“You thought I really didn’t know anything? Actually, I… know.”

Her pupils trembled. In that instant, her legs went weak, nearly collapsing into Shen Wenyi’s arms.

No way? Surely not? Impossible?!

Shen Wenyi, are you bluffing me?!

But… thinking back to everything before, hadn’t those tasks been completed just a little too coincidentally? Especially the lipstick task. How was it such a coincidence that, in the very last hour, Shen Wenyi applied lipstick and kissed her?

The more she thought, the more panicked she became. In just a few seconds, tens of millions of boats once again sailed through her mind, thousands of times more than the last fleet.

No, don’t panic, Jiang Shiyang. Losing your composure is the worst thing. First, figure things out clearly.

She blinked her eyes, which hadn’t blinked for a while due to shock, looking at Shen Wenyi, who was right before her eyes. She was racking her brains, thinking of how to discreetly probe Shen Wenyi for information, when Shen Wenyi released her neck and even reached out to pat the wrinkled shoulder of her jacket.

Shen Wenyi said casually, as if nothing had happened, “Aren’t you treating me to hot pot? I’m actually a little hungry now. Let’s go.”

Jiang Shiyang: ………………

So, you’ve had your say, and now you’re just going to leave everyone else hanging, dead or alive, is that it?

She said, “Why did you hook my neck? Are you homo—”

Shen Wenyi cut in extremely quickly: “I’m not a homosexual. I was simply returning the hook.”

She frowned. “Huh? What do you mean, returning the hook?”

Shen Wenyi said, “You hooked my chin, I hooked your neck.”

She: ????????

Is that how a normal person thinks? If a dog bites you, do you bite it back for revenge?

No, that analogy is flawed. It should be: if a rapist assaults you, do you assault them back for revenge?

The flaw seems even bigger now.

She said, “Then I kissed your hand just now. Why didn’t you kiss mine back?”

Shen Wenyi looked at her. Her cheeks, which had just calmed down, suspiciously flushed red again.

Shen Wenyi said, “You really are shameless.”

Heh?????

She said, “Can’t win the argument so you start insulting me? Isn’t that a bit inappropriate?”

Shen Wenyi ignored her, pushed the car door open, and got out.

Well then. She had tried to get out several times and failed, but Shen Wenyi managed it in one go.

So unfair.

She got out after Shen Wenyi and pressed the remote lock. Shen Wenyi had already entered the hot pot restaurant. She hurriedly followed inside, almost forgetting her mask. Shen Wenyi, of course, hadn’t forgotten.

They found a private room, ordered a split pot, and a few dishes. The two of them couldn’t eat that much, so they didn’t order too many.

She kept laughing while they ate. Shen Wenyi glanced at her, unable to bear it. “Can’t all this food shut up your perversion? What’s with that creepy smile?”

She laughed, “You’re the only one who says my smile is creepy. Others would kill for me to smile at them like this.”

Shen Wenyi said, “Thick-skinned. Stop laughing. Weren’t you hungry? Eat your hot pot properly.”

She ate a piece of tripe and said, “I haven’t stopped eating. I just find it funny that the two of us can actually sit down and eat together alone. Truly one of the strange anomalies of the 21st century.”

Shen Wenyi said, “You say that as if you weren’t clinging to me while eating your boxed lunch at noon.”

She said, “That’s different. The whole film crew was there.”

She added, “Do you still remember the last time we ate together?”

Shen Wenyi paused. “I don’t remember.”

She said, “I remember. It was fifth grade. That day, my parents suddenly ran off on a trip, just threw me a house key without telling me where they kept money. I had no money for food. You ran out from your house, dragged me to eat wrapped cold noodles. We each had one, squatting by the roadside, our hands covered in chili oil. You could already eat really spicy food back then.”

Shen Wenyi didn’t even lift her eyes, reverting to her unattainable demeanor. “I never dragged you to eat wrapped cold noodles. My family never let me eat things like that. You were the one who insisted on dragging me.”

She said, “Didn’t you still eat it quite happily?”

Shen Wenyi said, “Yes, and I was quite happy having diarrhea that night too.”

She said, “You got diarrhea? Then your stomach is too delicate. I ate it and was fine.”

Shen Wenyi said, “Dogs can eat from the trash without problems too.”

She clicked her tongue. “See, there you go insulting me again.”

Considering Shen Wenyi had helped her complete her task smoothly, she’d let it slide today.

Actually, it wasn’t complete yet. The eight hours of contact time weren’t up. But it should be about done after the meal.

After dinner, there were still over twenty minutes left. She dilly-dallied driving back to the hotel, dilly-dallied going upstairs. By the time she reached the door of Shen Wenyi’s room, there were only three minutes left. Shen Wenyi’s manners were for others; towards her, all she got was the back of her head.

“See you tomorrow.”

Tomorrow? Tomorrow won’t do!

But the System countdown still had 2 minutes and 32 seconds. She couldn’t wait until tomorrow to see her again!

She reached out and pressed against the door Shen Wenyi was about to close. Shen Wenyi frowned at her.

Shen Wenyi said, “Is there something else?”

I don’t know, what am I supposed to say?!

She: “I…”

Shen Wenyi said, “Hm?”