Extra 2

By the time Wei Linxuan finished his business and returned to the Hilton Hotel, Lu Heng was already asleep. The driver had also taken care of everything as instructed.

"...I had a doctor come take a look. Lu Heng probably took a muscle relaxant with hallucinogenic effects, possibly with some aphrodisiac properties too. Combined with too much alcohol, that left him weak all over and unable to move. But this kind of drug generally wears off within twenty-four hours. The doctor said a night's sleep should do it."

Wei Linxuan nodded and waved the driver away.

After a full day of work, Wei Linxuan had no energy left to spare for Lu Heng. He went straight to wash up, then returned to the master bedroom and lay down. He had thought he would fall asleep right away. But after tossing and turning for a while, he found himself growing more and more alert—

Not only that, for some inexplicable reason, he began recalling events from several years ago.

He had been fifteen that year, and Huaxia Imperial Entertainment was still just a neglected entertainment company under the Wei Group. With Star Entertainment deliberately targeting it, the company's biggest stars had left one after another, dealing it a devastating blow. His eldest uncle had made matters worse at the group's shareholders' meeting by proposing that they sell Huaxia Imperial Entertainment. Faced with trouble both inside and out, Wei Linxuan had personally devised the project Exchanging Lives. To give the show a selling point, he had even made himself a guest on its first episode. The household he would be "exchanging" with was the Lu family, in a distant little village in Northeast China. And the person he would be "exchanging" with was Lu Heng.

Because of that connection, Wei Linxuan had