“How should I put it? Sister Shan is straightforward, hot-tempered, and a classic impatient person. When she finds out I took leave today to bring you to see Lawyer Qin, she’ll definitely call right away to interrogate me.
I had you praise her to soften her anger first. Sister Shan loves hearing flattery. No matter how mad she is, if you say nice things, it has some ‘fire-extinguishing’ effect.
But I told you to say flattering words—not to speak in that forced, cutesy voice. Just now it honestly grossed me out. I didn’t even know I could make a sound like that.”
Luo Ming scratched his head. Apparently his understanding had gone wrong this time.
Luo Ming had thought that when a girl says flattering things, adding a bit of a cutesy voice would make it better.
Who knew both Lin Shuwen and Sister Shan would find it uncomfortable?
“Sister Shan guessed I invested more than 500,000, so she’ll definitely dig to the bottom of it. Sister Shan is actually pretty good to me—like an older sister.”
” cough cough, is there any chance Sister Shan treats you like a daughter?”
This time it was Lin Shuwen’s turn to be stunned: “Huh? No way, right?”
“Sister Shan let it slip before. She said your relationship isn’t just artist and manager—it could also be mother and daughter.”
Lin Shuwen: “(╯‵□′)╯︵┴─┴ I treated her like a sister, and she actually wants to be my mom!”
“Calm down, calm down!”
“Originally I still felt a little guilty about scheming against Sister Shan. Well, now I feel zero guilt.
Once Sister Shan knows I threw my entire fortune in, she’ll definitely agree to help me. At that point, all I need to do is mix truth with a bit of deception and put myself in a weaker position. Sister Shan will definitely agree.”
“So that’s how it is. You really are good at reading people!”
“This is just simple psychology. Remember when we first swapped bodies and I called you?”
Luo Ming nodded. That phone call had left a deep impression on him—it was also the call that laid the foundation for their cooperation.
“Do you know why I called you?”
“Were you afraid I’d do something weird with your body?” Luo Ming guessed.
“That reason was probably only about 10%. Even if you stripped me naked, what you’d see would still be my own eyes. I’d feel a bit uncomfortable, but it’s not like I couldn’t accept it.
The most important reason I called you was my assets and my image.
When we swapped, I woke up a little earlier than you. After the initial panic, I first checked some things about you and learned you’d just graduated and were unemployed.”
“Wait! What do you mean unemployed? I clearly took orders on computer forums to support myself. At the very least, that counts as freelance, right?”
“Freelance equals unemployed. Think about it—if one day something happened to you and the police took you in, after hearing about your work, would they register you as freelance or unemployed?”
Luo Ming’s expression turned a little awkward. In that kind of situation, he really would be considered unemployed.
Actually, it wasn’t just people like him who supported themselves by taking orders on computer forums. Streamers, web novelists, self-media creators—all of them would be counted as unemployed.
“All right, all right! Unemployed it is. Go on.”
“After confirming you were unemployed, my first reaction was to stabilize you, so I chose to call you and preemptively propose cooperation.
When I proposed cooperation, I was actually testing you too. I voluntarily told you my WeChat payment password, and you without hesitation were ready to tell me yours.
Throughout our conversation, I always held the initiative. In that kind of situation, your answers were infinitely close to subconscious reactions.
So I was able to confirm one thing: you’re a good person. And since you’re a good person, things become easy. After that, I just needed to interact with you normally.
The only thing I miscalculated was that you, you bastard, turned out to be unexpectedly outstanding. You can write songs, program, plan variety shows—you’re practically omnipotent.
No, wait—you can’t ride a bike, and you can’t cook. You’re pretty much an idiot when it comes to life skills.
That’s only natural. When God opens such a huge door for you, He has to close a couple of windows.”
Luo Ming’s mouth twitched. This woman really was…
“It’s exactly because you’re too outstanding that I inevitably developed feelings for you. And because of that, I changed my attitude toward you. I was willing to abandon part of my rationality in front of you and become a bit more emotional. I think you probably like me a little too, right?”
Luo Ming nodded.
“That settles it. Leaving everything else aside, this face of mine is still quite something. Oh right, big breasts should count as a plus in you men’s eyes too.”
“I’m not that shallow,” Luo Ming retorted righteously.
“Are you going to say you’ve never looked? Never touched?”
” cough cough, who can avoid touching their own body? Right?”
“Mr. Denial! Relax. I just said I don’t care much about that sort of thing. After all, whether it’s looking or touching, it’s still my own eyes and hands. But if it were your hands and eyes, then I couldn’t accept it.”
Luo Ming felt it necessary to defend himself: “Wenwen, you might not believe me, but I really wasn’t attracted just by your looks. Looks are at most 20%.”
“Only 20%? My face is that unimpressive?”
“30%. No more than that. Beautiful faces are all alike, but a fascinating soul is one in ten thousand.”
“That line’s kind of interesting. Seeing how eager you are to explain, and for that line, I’ll believe you.”
Luo Ming let out a sigh of relief. Lin Shuwen was truly too rational—not like an ordinary girl at all. She calmly admitted she had feelings for him, and even because of those feelings, she had shown some feminine charm in front of him.
For example, cooking for him, going on dates with him, staying by his side when he was sick…
“Knock knock knock—Miss Lin, Mr. Luo, your food is here. Is it convenient to open the door?” The sudden knock interrupted Luo Ming’s thoughts.
Before Luo Ming could react, Lin Shuwen had already stood up and opened the door.
A young girl who looked about the same age as the two of them walked in carrying two boxed meals.
One boxed meal was potato beef + minced meat vermicelli + fried eggplant boxes.
The other boxed meal was stir-fried lettuce + cold seaweed salad + scallion tofu.
One look was enough to tell whose meal was whose.
After lunch, at two in the afternoon, Lawyer Qin, Luo Ming, and Lin Shuwen went together to Fudan University.
Sure enough, Professor Wu had invited a professor from Fudan’s law department to act as his lawyer.
This professor actually knew Lawyer Qin, and Lawyer Qin seemed quite respectful toward him.
But respect was respect—Lawyer Qin was still very professional when working. When the two discussed the contract, Lawyer Qin also did his utmost to fight for benefits on Luo Ming’s side.
After an afternoon of negotiation, both sides redrafted a contract, and then “Luo Ming” and Professor Wu signed it respectively. The cooperation between the two sides was officially reached.
