When Lu Mi woke the next morning, large stretches of the muscles in his back and legs ached.
At first, he thought it was because he had not quite adjusted to a female body.
Only when even a simple action like putting on his shoes felt stiff did he realize something was wrong with his body.
What was going on?
Dragging his stiff body through his morning wash, Lu Mi quickly went over the previous night, searching for any details he had missed.
When Zheng Sinian had entered, he had been holding a glass of water.
Then, as though caring for a sick partner, he had urged Lu Mi to drink it.
He had even taken the glass away afterward... There was probably something wrong with that water.
But how could he refuse to drink Zheng Sinian's water without arousing suspicion?
Coming out of the bathroom, Lu Mi found himself facing the hourglass on the bedside table. His eyes widened.
The hourglass had still been in its normal position when he got up.
Now, somehow, it had turned itself over, and the sand inside was quietly trickling down.
Thinking back to the previous night, he guessed Zheng Sinian would come in within two minutes at most.
He would soon be able to verify whether this was a rule of the instance.
Before he was forced to spend time with that volatile man, Lu Mi went to the window to test something.
Yesterday, the message on it had said not to let him discover that he was not her.
With a night gone by and the hourglass reset, would the message have changed? Lu Mi grabbed the curtain and pulled it aside-
There were still blood-red words on the window.
Only this time, the message had changed:
"My beloved, she is