Summer Dawn sent you a video call request.
A moment later.
The Timid Young Lady has declined your video call request.
Luo Xinyu raised an eyebrow at the notification that popped up on her phone.
Could it be that Xia Xi is still teasing Little Chen, and that’s why she’s too embarrassed to start a video call?
“Xia Xi, who are you video calling? It actually got declined.”
Liu Yiyi walked over to Luo Xinyu’s side, holding a bag of potato chips that An Xiaoyu had fried herself.
But she didn’t lean in to look at the other’s phone screen.
Except for people you’re very close to, it’s impolite to stick your head over and look at someone else’s phone. Everyone has some privacy they don’t want others to see, so it’s important to restrain your curiosity.
“Oh, it’s just Xinyu. She said she missed me.”
Luo Xinyu turned her phone toward her chest, clearly not wanting others to see what was on it.
Her own little brother’s crossdressing photos — it was enough for her and Xia Xi to see them. There was no need to show them to anyone else.
“Wow, the Young Lady has already been trained to be completely obedient by you, huh?”
Trained to be completely obedient?
Luo Xinyu thought back on Xia Xi’s behavior.
It did seem like the other was quite obedient to her.
But she also knew that the reason Xia Xi was obedient was because they both shared a vague, indescribable affection for each other — they both had feelings for one another — not because the other was weak by nature.
Xia Xi was fundamentally just a slacker kid, no different from the vast majority of young people in this new era. As long as you don’t provoke him or cross his bottom line, he won’t get angry with you. If you replace “slacker” with another word — “gentle,” “good-tempered” — it fits perfectly well too.
It was precisely because Luo Xinyu knew Xia Xi had this kind of personality that she never used his obedience as an excuse to demand he do anything outrageous, and she had never asked him absurd questions like “If your sister and I fell into the water, who would you save first?”
Of course, Luo Xinyu herself was a gentle young lady with perfectly normal values — fundamentally different from the domineering version T0 — so even if Xia Xi wasn’t obedient, she wouldn’t be dramatic and do anything pretentious.
The reason Xia Xi felt so at ease exchanging bodies with Luo Xinyu for such a long time was partly because he knew Luo Xinyu wouldn’t mess around with his body.
Mm… it was definitely not because the Young Lady’s body and lifestyle were really nice!
“What do you mean ‘trained’? My Xia— my Xinyu has always been very well-behaved, okay?”
“Ooh, ooh, ooh, so she’s ‘yours’ now?”
Liu Yiyi said teasingly, but the potato chips in her mouth had already lost their earlier flavor. She knew Xia Xi and Luo Xinyu were close, but she hadn’t expected them to develop so quickly.
She and Luo Xinyu had started interacting with Xia Xi around the same time, yet the other’s relationship with Xia Xi was growing closer and closer, while she was gradually fading out of his sight.
Though they still kept in touch day to day, it was nothing more than friendship. But what Liu Yiyi wanted had never been just friendship!
Back when Xia Xi pulled her into one wondrous story world after another, telling so many heartwarming love stories, she had already been longing for that kind of deeper relationship.
Oh well. Since he ultimately chose Luo Xinyu, she would just quietly wish them well from behind. She wouldn’t deliberately do anything to sabotage their relationship — she couldn’t debase her own morals just because she also liked him.
Ahem, that said, if one day the Young Lady didn’t want Xia Xi anymore, she would still be very willing to step up and take in a certain pitiful little creature who told excellent stories~
Luo Xinyu ignored Liu Yiyi and continued chatting with Xia Xi.
Liu Yiyi, meanwhile, went back to Natsukawa Mirai and Tachibana Rin’s side, telling them some things about Xia Xi — ordinary things, mind you, not including special abilities.
Summer Dawn: “Little Xi Xi, your courage has gotten bold, huh? You actually dared to hang up on me~”
The Timid Young Lady: “Ahem, Xinyu, listen to me try to talk my way out of this — no, wait, listen to my explanation.”
Summer Dawn: “Alright, go ahead. I’m listening.”
The Timid Young Lady: “If I said that just now, Little Chen grabbed the phone and hung up because he was afraid you’d see him in girl’s clothes — would you believe me?”
Summer Dawn: “No.”
Luo Xinyu could now be certain that Luo Xingchen was definitely not in the room at this moment. After all, she had seen him in girl’s clothes face-to-face last time. If she video-called now, he might even strongly insist on answering, because the Xia Xi she was playing had, last time, pulled him out of the abyss of crossdressing.
The Timid Young Lady: “Okay, okay, actually I was taking a shower. It’s inconvenient to video call while showering, right?”
Summer Dawn: “I don’t think that’s right. That’s my body anyway — what haven’t I seen? What haven’t I touched? Pick up the phone!”
Summer Dawn sent you a video call request.
Xia Xi, sitting at the desk, had intended not to answer the call — to exploit a loophole and avoid the punishment of “must obey what Luo Xinyu says during the video call” from the options. But he hadn’t expected the other to keep calling persistently.
His eyes darted around, and he flopped onto the soft bed, covering himself with the fragrant blanket and leaving only his head exposed.
Video call connected.
“Hello, hello, Xin— Xia Xi, I was just about to go to sleep. Why are you calling me?”
On the phone, Xia Xi wasn’t sure whether the other was wearing earphones. He couldn’t say anything that would make the visiting Natsukawa Mirai and the others find it strange, so he had to change how he addressed her.
“Don’t worry, I’m wearing earphones.”
Luo Xinyu looked at Xia Xi’s face, which clearly hadn’t been washed yet, and immediately understood what the other was up to.
Honestly, do you really not want to video call me that much? Do you really not want to see me that much? Hmph!
“Oh, Xinyu called back, so I’ll head back to the room now. Xiaoyue, stay in the living room and play with your Yiyi sister and the others. Don’t make them angry, okay.”
After saying that to the others, Luo Xinyu returned to Xia Xi’s room.
“Alright, there’s no one else here now. You can switch the way you address me back. Being called Xia Xi by you still feels weird.”
Even though Luo Xinyu and Xia Xi had been body-swapped for several days, she still wasn’t used to the way they addressed each other.
One was a name she’d been called for years, the other a name she was only occasionally called — it was normal to feel unused to it.
“Yeah, yeah, Xinyu, what did you want to tell me? You suddenly called.”
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“What I want to say isn’t urgent. Let’s first talk about… you planning to sleep at three in the afternoon~”
Oh no!
He’d only thought about using sleep to fool Xinyu so she’d hang up quickly to avoid disturbing Xia Xi’s sleep, but he hadn’t considered the time!
Who in their right mind sleeps at three in the afternoon?!
“Mm-hmm~ Little Xi Xi, didn’t you just say you were taking a shower~”
