"No way, no way, no way!"
"Shen Xinbai, you actually applied that possession-and-rebirth nonsense from fantasy novels to reality? Is there seriously nothing wrong with your brain?"
"You flap your lips, and suddenly I've successfully possessed someone? Ha, I could just as easily say I'm the God of Literature descended to earth, or Erlang reborn. Well? Would you believe that?"
Xu Chao looked perfectly relaxed, his tone as infuriating as ever. Only he knew he was trembling, his whole body shaking uncontrollably.
After those few remarks, everyone who had been harboring suspicions just moments ago was now looking at Shen Xinbai as though he were an idiot.
Shen Xinbai gritted his teeth in fury. "You know perfectly well whether you've got something to hide."
"Sowwy, buddy, I'm a staunch materialist. No idealism here," Xu Chao said with a smile.
He had transmigrated into the book less than two months ago and had deliberately kept his distance from both male leads. Apart from his drastic personality change, he hadn't given anything away.
No, even the personality change wasn't a giveaway. He already had a brilliant plan.
Xu Chao's expression relaxed a little. "Accuse me of whatever you want, but you need evidence first, not just empty claims."
Evidence?
If he had anything like that, he would have found a Taoist priest to exorcise Xu Chao long ago.
It had only come out when "Xu Chao" drunkenly confessed his feelings to Lou Jun. Just as Xu Chao had said, transmigration into a book and systems were plot devices found only in novels and on-screen, so Lou Jun had only told him about it as a joke.
If they hadn't recently found themselves cornered, on the verge of losing everything, and gone back over events together, how could they have considered that most