“Are you sure they were possessed?”
Liu Jiaying took a small sip of her coffee, her expression revealing a hint of worry.
Back then, her mother had dragged her off to a blind date. When she returned, she happened to run into those rude relatives—every single one of them was down on all fours, barking like dogs. Meanwhile, her own little sister was just munching on some fruit, enjoying the show.
And of course, her little sister got a serious scolding from their mother for it.
“Yeah, what else could explain it other than possession?”
Xia Xi mimicked Liu Jiaying’s mannerism, taking a small sip of her coffee while crossing her legs, trying her best to appear elegant.
“If you ask me, those people totally had it coming. Who told them to bully me like that? Now they’re getting their karma, right? Possessed.”
Xia Xi thought about her cousin, who had swapped bodies with a mangy dog that often rummaged through the trash outside, and she couldn’t help but laugh.
Back when the swap first happened, that mangy dog tried to control the cousin’s body and follow its most basic instinct—to go to the bathroom and eat something “delicious.”
Xia Xi didn’t stop it, but maybe because the human body instinctively feels disgust toward such things, the mangy dog eventually gave up on that idea.
“Sigh, you’ve really been through a lot these past few days.”
Liu Jiaying actually wished she could take her little sister back to their small town, but her parents just wouldn’t let her go.
It’s not like she could get into a fight with them—they were still the ones who raised her, after all.
Xia Xi hadn’t expected that Liu Jiaying, the big boss who used to act like such a lovestruck girl around him, would become this sentimental.
Come to think of it, ever since Luo Xinyu moved into his house, it seemed like Liu Jiaying had been in contact with him a lot less.
Especially now that he wasn’t working part-time at the maid café anymore—they barely crossed paths these days.
“Xia Xi, Xia Xi, please convince my sister to come back to the small town with me! It’s not just me, you know. Those relatives have been giving her a hard time too, saying she only knows how to take money from the family and never gives anything back.”
Even though Xia Xi had never admitted to his identity, Liu Yiyi in his mind was already certain that he was Xia Xi.
But he didn’t need Liu Yiyi to tell him that—Xia Xi was already planning to find a way to persuade Liu Jiaying to go back to the small town, since one of his tasks was exactly that: bringing Liu Jiaying home.
“Sis, how about you don’t stay here anymore? Let’s leave together.”
Putting down his coffee cup, Xia Xi looked at Liu Jiaying with a serious expression.
He had to admit, Liu Jiaying was truly beautiful. No wonder her family wanted to keep her around for arranged marriages instead of Liu Yiyi.
“I can’t. If I leave with you, they’ll just come after us and cause more trouble.”
Liu Jiaying knew exactly what her role was in the family.
She also understood that if her little sister wanted to leave, she could do so anytime—after all, the family had never valued her much anyway. But if she tried to leave, her family would do everything in their power to stop her. As such a valuable tool for marriage alliances, they would never let her go so easily.
The only reason her little sister had stayed and endured all that humiliation at home was because of her—because she, as the older sister, had dragged her into this mess.
If she hadn’t been so good to her little sister in the past, Liu Yiyi would never have agreed to come back to this family with her in the first place.
Thinking this, Liu Jiaying shook her head at her sister, whose eyes were full of nothing but her.
“Yiyi, I’ve decided not to leave for now.”
What those relatives said was actually true. She had taken so much money from the family over the years—it was about time she contributed something in return.
As soon as Liu Jiaying said this, not only Xia Xi but even Liu Yiyi inside his mind panicked.
Anyone with half a brain could tell that Liu Jiaying had decided to marry herself off for the sake of this so-called alliance.
“What about Xia Xi, then? Sis, don’t you like him? Why are you letting him go now?”
Xia Xi didn’t know what else she still cared about, so he gritted his teeth and brought the matter out into the open.
“Him…”
At the mention of Xia Xi, a smile flickered across Liu Jiaying’s face.
“Back then, I only hired him because I felt sorry for him. I never expected that the more I looked at him, the more handsome he became… and before I knew it, I had fallen for him.”
But then…”
Her voice trailing off, Liu Jiaying looked at Liu Yiyi with a hint of sadness.
“Yiyi, you like him too, don’t you? So I’ve decided to be generous and give him to you!”
With that, without waiting for Xia Xi to react, she scanned the QR code on the table to pay, grabbed her purse, stood up, and walked out of the café.
By the time Xia Xi snapped out of it and ran after her, she was already nowhere to be seen.
Liu Jiaying stopped at a corner near the café, pulled out a tissue, and dabbed at her beautiful eyes. Then she dialed a number.
“Hello? Qin Chuan? I’ve agreed to what you said.”
If Xia Xi had heard this, he would have been shocked—because the young master Qin Chuan, who had been set up on a blind date with Liu Jiaying, should have been turned into a young lady by him.
But since both families were desperate to make this marriage alliance happen—caring more about the web of interests and connections than the relationship between the two individuals—it didn’t really matter that they were both girls now…
…
Xia Xi returned to the small town, to Liu Jiaying’s home.
This house originally belonged to Liu Jiaying, and later she brought Liu Yiyi to live with her.
For some reason, even though Liu Jiaying didn’t have much to do with him, Xia Xi still felt a little sad.
“Xia Xi! Why didn’t you go after my sister?! She couldn’t have gone far—we could still catch up to her!”
Liu Yiyi shouted inside his mind.
She had no control over the body and could only watch helplessly as Xia Xi used her body to return to the little home that held so many memories for the two sisters.
Xia Xi really wanted to ask himself the same question—why hadn’t he kept chasing her? Right now, he was Liu Jiaying’s little sister. He had every right to go after her and convince her otherwise.
Ding, ding, ding.
The phone suddenly rang.
“Liu Jiaying’s calling?”
“Hello? Yiyi, where did you run off to? Why aren’t you home?”
The “home” Liu Jiaying referred to was probably that house full of nasty, ugly-hearted relatives. Xia Xi hadn’t told her that he had come back to the small town.
“Ah… Sis, I’m already back in the small town… I was going to take you with me…”
As soon as Xia Xi finished speaking, a scolding laugh came from the other end of the line.
“Silly girl, I said I’m not leaving right now. I never said I wouldn’t leave later. Besides, my marriage alliance is with Qin Chuan. You know Qin Chuan, right? That young lady from the Qin family. I don’t really dislike her, so don’t worry about me.”
Before, Liu Jiaying had really been annoyed by the male Qin Chuan. But now that Qin Chuan was a girl, things were different. Between girls, becoming good sisters is easy enough~
“Anyway, that’s how it is for now. You stay there by yourself for a while. Once I’m done with things here, I’ll bring Qin Chuan back with me. Then the three of us can live together—it’ll be a lot livelier.”
