"Xiaoxia, tonight..."
"It's getting late. I'm staying here tonight and leaving tomorrow."
"Okay."
"I want to sleep by myself. You should have A-Ze find you another room."
"Okay."
When I went to find Liang Ze, he firmly insisted that I share a room with him.
I figured Liang Ze was probably afraid Changxia would come looking for him.
While Xu Zhi was a playboy, Liang Ze was certainly well-behaved.
If Changxia were a good woman, being with Liang Ze actually wouldn't be a bad thing at all.
Liang Ze's master bedroom was huge, and the bed was also huge, but there was only one quilt on it.
"Do you have a couple of extra quilts here?"
"I do, but what do you need them for?"
When I took the two extra quilts—using one for myself and placing the other right down the middle of the bed—Liang Ze burst out laughing.
"How many times have we slept together? And you're still putting a quilt between us."
"Cut the chatter and go to sleep," I urged him to turn in. After all, I had no way of explaining that the current Xu Zhi had a man's body and a woman's soul.
Late at night, I was startled awake by a fixed gaze.
"Why aren't you sleeping?"
"I can't sleep. Did I wake you?"
Liang Ze hadn't actually woken me up, but his gaze had—a rather strange occurrence.
"No, I'm just going to the bathroom."
When I came out of the master bedroom's bathroom, I accidentally caught sight of Liang Ze having kicked off his quilt, lying there stark naked while the moonlight shone in with lethal brightness.
"Why aren't you wearing anything?" I gasped aloud.
"It's hot. Besides, I'm used to sleeping naked. Didn't you use to sleep naked too? You're the one who got me into the habit."
Just as I wanted to say more, the door was knocked on, followed by a gentle voice.
"A-Ze, can you open the door?"
Liang Ze hurriedly put on his clothes and looked at me.
I whispered for him to get the door, and looking somewhat speechless, he went and opened it.
"A-Ze, I'm scared sleeping by myself. Can you..."
"Zhi, your pampered wife is scared alone. Aren't you going to come over?"
Changxia hadn't expected me to be here too, and she glared at me.
I had no choice but to walk over. "Xiaoxia, are you scared?"
Perhaps caught between a rock and a hard place, Changxia nodded, and I was dragged back into the room with her.
"Can I sleep on the bed?" As an unwelcome man, I still asked politely.
"No!" Changxia answered without a moment's hesitation.
I shook my head. Being a man had its drawbacks; I could only sleep on the sofa. Fortunately, Xu Zhi had thick skin.
After all this tossing and turning, I didn't feel sleepy at all.
The person on the bed, however, fell asleep quickly, though she was pouting as if harboring some dissatisfaction.
The moonlight was as clear as water, her skin like congealed lard, and her figure graceful—no wonder a butterfly like Xu Zhi couldn't get her out of his mind.
A Changxia who wasn't being aggressive was indeed very pretty. If I had possessed such beauty and figure back when I was Qiu Zhi, I wouldn't have had to worry about finding a high-quality partner!
Then I suddenly remembered that matter still had no leads; hopefully, Qin Di could bring back some good news.
"Why aren't you sleeping?" Changxia suddenly spoke up.
"Huh? Ah..." I was startled, not knowing how to answer.
"Are you not used to sleeping on the sofa?"
I thought about it for a moment. "I'm really not."
Since we were both women, I hoped Changxia could show some great mercy and let me sleep on the bed.
"Come up."
She actually agreed! Feeling as though I'd received a royal pardon, I quickly scrambled to the edge of the bed, promising not to disturb this bodhisattva.
"Why are you sleeping so far away? Move over here."
I inched a little closer.
"Move closer."
I crept closer still.
"So slow. Just sleep right next to me."
Fearing this young lady would get angry and kick me off the bed, I nimbly scooted right next to her.
As a result, the beauty pressed directly against my chest. I was startled at first, but remembering she still held a grudge against me, I calmed down again.
"Why isn't your heartbeat as fast as it used to be?"
"Huh? What?"
"Are you getting tired of me?" And just like that, she was back to her aggressive stance.
This reminded me: when facing Changxia, this body had actually turned out to be an "upright gentleman."
I hadn't expected that before I even fully adapted to Xu Zhi's identity, mindset, and awareness, I could already control Xu Zhi's body first.
Truly a joyous occasion!
"Speak!" The great beauty put her hands on her hips and glared angrily at me.
"That part of me hasn't healed yet." In order to keep sleeping on the bed, I hurriedly fished up an excuse.
"Hm? Oh." Changxia seemed to remember something; she lay down to sleep and said nothing more.
The moon, big and round, hung before the window. Buoyed by the joy of already being able to control Xu Zhi's body, I drifted into a deep sleep.
When I woke up, the beauty was in my arms, but my heartbeat was normal and devoid of worldly impulses. I was truly able to control this body now, and I was overjoyed.
At the dining table, Liang Ze had already cooked breakfast—what a devoted husband.
For several days in a row, Changxia stayed at Liang Ze's place and refused to leave. Whenever she could see Liang Ze, she would flirt with him intentionally or otherwise, and whenever she couldn't see him, she would come cozy up to me.
Liang Ze's attitude was polite yet distant, while I figured having an extra sister wasn't a big deal.
I quite understood Changxia's reluctance to leave; after all, I didn't want to leave either. Devoted husbands weren't something you could run into just anywhere.
By this day, Liang Ze had already gone to work, and Changxia had curled up in my arms again.
"Why are you always so calm?" Changxia pouted again. She had been pouting every time she cuddled up to me these past few days, looking extremely displeased.
"What do you mean?"
"What else could I mean? Whenever you used to see me, your eyes would light up like a ravenous wolf about to pounce. Now when you see me, you're all cool and collected, as if the two of us have nothing to do with each other."
"..."
"How long has it been since we've done *that*?"
Good thing I couldn't get it up right now.
"You're zoning out again, always zoning out. Tell me, do you have someone else on the side?" Changxia grabbed my ear and twisted it.
"How could that be? I only have you." Kidding aside, I couldn't even handle one woman; why would I want more?
"Mom and Dad said you haven't been to see them since you woke up, so they want us to go have a meal together today."
Come to think of it, having been in this space for several months, I still hadn't met Xu Zhi's parents-in-law.
I hailed a cab to a villa district. Villas, villas, and more villas—rich people probably only hung out with other rich people.
After becoming Xu Zhi, seeing that the most ordinary housing was a four-bedroom apartment in Liang Ze's upscale residential complex, what was someone like me—who in my past life couldn't even afford a bathroom—supposed to say?
Entering the villa, I remained very calm because, hehe...
"You haven't come to visit for months, and when you finally do, you come empty-handed. Truly polite." This must be Chang Sheng, the difficult brother-in-law Xu Zhi had mentioned.
"We're family, let's skip the empty formalities." I put on a brazen face.
The expressions of the Chang family instantly soured.
"Dad, Mom, Brother, stop it. Didn't A-Zhi get hurt again? He's been recovering all this time." Changxia unusually spoke up on my behalf.
Father Chang and Mother Chang broke into smiles the moment they saw Changxia, pulling her close and calling her their precious heart. Seeing his sister, Chang Sheng's expression also softened a little.