Concerned about Xia Kening's progress at Ningjiang Middle School, Song Yunshen took the opportunity to check over the test paper again.
Once he was done, he looked up at the clock on the wall. There was still half an hour left before the exam ended, so he had no choice but to keep staring blankly at the paper.
Then he inevitably recalled what had happened at the entrance to the cafeteria that morning, and his teeth began to ache.
Before today, even if he had worried about a boy confessing to him, the one he suspected would have been that bastard Xu Zhuoyue.
Yet the first time a guy confessed to him in his life, it had happened under these circumstances.
Fortunately, Song Yunshen had already heard from Xia Kening how she felt about the boy named Xu Lingcheng. Otherwise, he would have had a hard time turning him down.
After all, this body wasn't his. If Xia Kening happened to like the boy, wouldn't he have ruined things by rejecting him like that?
But then again, the girl that boy liked now had her body controlled by him. It felt strange.
Song Yunshen even felt a little embarrassed.
Fortunately, Xia Kening didn't feel that way about Xu Lingcheng, so Song Yunshen had flatly and decisively rejected him, then hurried off to breakfast with his three young roommates.
But thinking back on it now, Song Yunshen still felt he had suffered serious mental damage.
This fucking counts as a workplace injury, right?
He wondered if Xia Kening could compensate him somehow.
Forget it. As long as she didn't cause him trouble at Ningjiang Middle School, that was enough.
Song Yunshen let out a long sigh, and his thoughts returned to the matter at hand.
The situation now was that their souls had transferred into each other's bodies after they woke up.
Song Yunshen first assumed that this wouldn't go on forever. If there was some condition that could switch their souls back once triggered, what would it be?
He guessed that maybe another night's sleep would fix it.
But it was also possible that some other condition had to be met.
For example, did the two of them need to meet, or make physical contact?
Maybe they even needed to kiss before they could change back.
Hmm... isn't that how it goes in lots of novels? It's not impossible.
Or could it have been because of those couple's mugs?
Song Yunshen sank into thought, unable to come up with a definite answer for the moment. After all, all those guesses had to be tested in practice before he could know whether they worked.
But Xia Kening was a boarding student. Without a reasonable excuse, she couldn't even get permission to take time off, much less leave school.
Unless he had Xia Kening, who was controlling his body, use his aunt's connections to get into Shulan Middle School from outside after classes ended today.
But what excuse would be best?
He couldn't think of a suitable one at all.
Song Yunshen was extremely troubled. He had already started wondering what he should do if they really couldn't switch back.
If he really had to live like this for the rest of his life, should he come clean to his dad?
But what good would that do?
It wouldn't solve the problem.
He couldn't exactly have Xia Kening marry him, could he?
Hmm... actually, maybe that wouldn't be so bad.
The more Song Yunshen thought, the more the strange ideas in his head began to grow wild.
He didn't come back to his senses until the bell rang, signaling the end of the exam.
After handing in his paper, Song Yunshen returned to Xia Kening's classroom and sat down at her desk.
His deskmate, Kong Xi, was already back. When she saw Song Yunshen sit down, she said quietly, "Ningning, I'm sorry."
"Hm?" Song Yunshen was utterly bewildered by her apology. "What are you apologizing for?"
"It's all because of me that Xu Lingcheng..." Kong Xi explained in a low voice. "I caused you trouble. I'm sorry."
"It has nothing to do with you." Song Yunshen shook his head. "That guy's just sick in the head. Ignore him and you'll be fine."
The morning math exam ran from eight thirty to ten thirty.
Afterward, they had to return to the classroom for self-study and wait until eleven before heading off to lunch.
Song Yunshen sat for a little while before getting bored. Turning his head, he saw Kong Xi sneaking a look at a novel and immediately leaned over for a curious peek.
"Just Started College, and I'm Living with My School Heartthrob Husband"
Oh, she really is a young girl, liking this sort of book.
Kong Xi noticed Song Yunshen's gaze, and her face immediately turned red. "Ningning, don't you dislike reading this stuff?"
"I'm just looking." Song Yunshen looked away, then pulled out a scratch notebook. "There are still more than twenty minutes. Stop reading for now and play with me for a bit."
"Huh? Play what?"
"Five in a row."
Meanwhile, elsewhere, in the classroom of Ningjiang Middle School's first-year Class Five.
Xia Kening, who had barely managed to finish the multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions on the math paper and had written "Solution" for every long-answer problem, returned to Song Yunshen's desk looking exhausted.
Her grades in middle school weren't bad, but perhaps because of her two older sisters' influence, English was her best subject.
She wasn't as good at math. In her class, she was only about average.
An average level in the second year of middle school was nowhere near enough when it came to high school math.
She didn't know how many of the multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions she had managed to guess correctly.
She really had done her best. Hopefully Song Yunshen wouldn't be angry when the time came.
"What are we doing about lunch today?" Xu Zhuoyue had also returned to the classroom. As soon as he sat down, he asked Xia Kening.
"What do you mean, what are we doing?" Xia Kening asked.
"Betting on what dishes they'll have for lunch." Xu Zhuoyue snorted. "You've lost to me five meals in a row! Don't tell me you're scared?"
"Dumbass."
By now, Xia Kening had more or less grasped the basics of talking to Xu Zhuoyue.
Whenever she didn't know how to respond, she couldn't go wrong calling him a dumbass.
Xu Zhuoyue clicked his tongue, then asked suspiciously, "Don't tell me you're treating Xia Yunuo to another meal?"
Hearing this, Xia Kening's eyes suddenly lit up, and her interest was piqued.
She usually boarded at school and didn't get to talk much with her two older sisters. Now that she had this chance, of course she wanted to get a closer look at how they were doing at school.
But Xia Kening hadn't expected Song Yunshen to be pursuing her second sister!
You really can't tell.
He's so handsome, too.
Though my second sister isn't bad-looking either.
Who would've thought? My second sister actually accepts meals from boys.
She wondered how far things had progressed between Song Yunshen and her second sister.
Thinking of this, Xia Kening couldn't help growing curious.
So she said, "Yeah, I'm going to ask her to have lunch with me."
"Alas, once a guy has a woman, he forgets his bro." Xu Zhuoyue heaved a long sigh. "I've seen right through you."
Xia Kening said, "Dumbass."
"You fucking-!"
At eleven that morning.
Quite a few boys had already dashed out the moment they heard the bell.
Xia Kening took her time, keeping an eye on Xia Yunuo.
When her sister cleared her desk and got up to leave, Xia Kening quickly followed and came up beside her.
"Something you need?" Xia Yunuo turned to look at Xia Kening.
With her second sister staring at her from up close, Xia Kening felt a little guilty.
But the view from a height of 1.85 meters gave her a strange sense of confidence when facing Xia Yunuo.
So she said, "I'd like to treat you to lunch."
"I already told you last time." Xia Yunuo shook her head in refusal. "There's no need."
Huh?
What did she mean, she'd already told him last time?
Could it be that Song Yunshen confessed to my second sister and got rejected?
At the thought, Xia Kening silently mourned for Song Yunshen.
That was only to be expected, though. Her second sister had always been like this.
She didn't know why, but after being rejected, Xia Kening secretly breathed a sigh of relief instead.
But the next second, Xia Yunuo said beside her, "You don't have to treat me, but we can eat together."
Huh?!
Xia Kening instantly turned to look at Xia Yunuo, surprise written all over her face.
Second Sister, what do you mean by that?!