Replace Your Life (28)
“Pfft.” Tong Ling, who was lying on the sofa in the villa and playing with her mobile phone, had a brisk smile on her face after receiving the message from Lu Yue.
Ye Xu, who came to the villa because he wanted to see Tong Ling, was sitting on the other side of the sofa at the moment. He looked at Tong Ling very intently and was slightly curious about why Tong Ling was smiling.
Tong Ling shook her phone and winked playfully at Ye Xu: “Lu Yue sent me a joke, little brother; do you want to read it?”
M577: [!!!!】
Since m577 bound Tong Ling, he always felt that he was always in fear, anytime, anywhere: “Host, can you stop flirting? Is this a message that can be seen by others?”
Thinking of the content sent by Lu Yue, m577 couldn’t help crying: “What the hell is he doing? What does it mean to help you become Yu Yurou? What did he do?
Tong Ling talked to the system in her head and said, “It’s very simple. From now on, my legal identity will be Yu Yurou. Lu Yue’s efficiency is quite high. It seems that he has been ignored these days. He is in a hurry.”
Legal status? m577 can’t quite understand Tong Ling’s words: “How is your stolen identity legal?”
“Don’t ask so many questions. If you have time, why not invade the monitoring room where Ye Huan held the banquet, and then you will know the answer?” Just after Tong Ling finished chatting with the system, Ye Xu asked, “Lu Yue often contacts you?”
Of course, Ye Xu would not read the messages sent to Tong Ling by others; he didn’t bother to check the phone this way. What’s more, Tong Ling didn’t feel shy at all when she received the message, which showed that there was nothing wrong with the content Lu Yue sent.
He just felt that Tong Ling seemed closer to Lu Yue than him.
Ye Xu didn’t like this feeling. Lu Yue was casual and romantic and had an extremely rich love history. Such a man was not suitable for Tong Ling at all. But nowadays, girls seem to prefer humorous men. Lu Yue will tell jokes to Tong Ling, but he won’t…
Compared to other men, was his initiative too gentle?
Ye Xu was thinking about this question when his arms were gently encircled. He didn’t know when Tong Ling sat beside him, took his hand, and half leaned over. As soon as he met her gaze, a seductive sweet smile appeared on her face.
“If I say I like chatting with him, will you be jealous?”
As if deliberately watching his reaction, the woman leaning against him had a smile in her eyes, grabbed his hand, and shook it twice. “Will you?”
Ye Xu was almost melted by this smile; he sighed silently in his heart and nodded in agreement with the other party: “Yes.”
“Wow, even you, little brother, are jealous.” Tong Ling covered her mouth with one hand and said artificially, “What should I do? If you find that I have stepped on a few boats behind your back and done a lot of bad things, then I will be finished!”
Ye Xu was amused by the woman’s charming appearance. He raised his finger and tapped the woman’s forehead, asking, “What weird thoughts are you thinking about in your head all day long?”
“Then tell me first, will you be angry?” Tong Ling looked serious and asked seriously, “Don’t lie to me.”
Ye Xu lowered his head and pondered for a while: “What bad things can you do?”
“Answer me first.” Tong Ling snorted softly, “Don’t change the subject.”
“No.” Ye Xu stared deeply at the woman in front of him and said, “As long as you are you, I won’t be angry.”
“For the sake of being so kind to me, little brother, I want to tell you a piece of news.” Tong Ling raised her body, leaned into Ye Xu’s ear, and said, “I broke up with Ye Huan.”
Ye Xu opened his eyes wide in surprise.
“Don’t you have anything to say to me?” Tong Ling raised her eyebrows.
Although Ye Xu had been keeping in touch with Tong Ling in private and they were closer than friends, the relationship between the two has always been pure. Ever since that kiss, Ye Xu has been restraining himself. He didn’t break the delicate balance between the two of them, wondering if it’s for the best that this status quo was maintained.
He didn’t want anything to affect their relationship, removing uncertainties and not changing the way they got along for the sake of his own sense of security.
However, this didn’t mean he didn’t have additional desires; morals, in the face of a special someone, could be shattered easily.
Looking at the clean and alluring face in front of him, a different sense of possession invaded his mind. Lowering his eyes, with the most serious attitude he asked, “Would you be willing to have a new boyfriend?”
“Will that new boyfriend love me and never abandon me, no matter what I do?” Tong Ling asked back.
Ye Xu replied, “Mmn, he won’t change towards you.”
Tong Ling hooked Ye Xu’s neck happily and pressed her lips to Ye Xu’s delicate and beautiful face.
“Bobo*.” She kissed hard and loudly, like a child’s prank, with a bit of innocence and cunning. [Editor’s note: * It’s a sound effect to ask for a kiss, like baby talk.]
Ye Xu wrapped his arms around the woman’s slender waist and put her on his lap. “Kissing is not like this.”
Tong Ling stroked Ye Xu’s cheek lightly. “Then tell me, what does a kiss look like?”
The woman’s sweet fragrance surrounded his senses; Ye Xu’s eyes darkened; he forgot all restraint and patience; and he kissed the other party fiercely.
Between lips and tongue, the sounds of breathing and panting gradually merged together. The woman’s moist and sweet breath burned Ye Xu’s chest hot, and before he could take the next step, the woman with flushed cheeks who was being kissed by him put her hands on his chest nudged him and whispered, “Too-too soon, shall we take it step by step?”
Ye Xu’s heart was full of tenderness; he hugged the woman in his arms and tried his best to calm down the raging desire.
“Don’t be afraid,” Ye Xu lowered his head and lightly pecked the woman’s delicate cheek, saying, “Let’s take our time.”
Tong Ling shrank into Ye Xu’s arms as if she were completely attached to this man, blushing, unable to say anything.
When m577 came back from checking the information for the banquet, he saw such a scene and was so angry that the program went into chaos on the spot: [“The plot of this small world has collapsed! I don’t know what to do with the subsequent plot and you still want to play with men here?!”]
Tong Ling was very dissatisfied with the startled and surprised system: “Isn’t it an early collapse? What’s the big deal?”
M577 said with grief and indignation: [“The previous collapse still has room for recovery. If you can still make the plot fit, then our mission is not a failure.
Now, the identity of the heroine has become “Yu Ling,” who is mentally unstable and sent to the hospital, but you, a counterfeit, have become Yu Yurou in the eyes of everyone. Tell me if the cannon fodder becomes the female lead; how does the plot go?]
Tong Ling didn’t even think about it: “Let the heroine go on with the plot. Now that she has become Yu Ling, she should go in Yu Ling’s stead.”
M577 said in surprise: [“What are you talking about?”]
Tong Ling said logically: “The plot of the cannon fodder requires the cannon fodder to follow the role; what’s the problem?”
[“But you’re the one who’s tied to me…”] The system wanted to rebuke, but realised that the node devices for the plot were still working normally.
When it didn’t notice, the story of the cannon fodder role being slapped in the face by the male protagonist even completed several pages.
[“How it this so?!”] M577 has never encountered such a situation, and since it has been surprised enough times in front of Tong Ling, it immediately asked shamelessly, “Host, what did you do?”
“It’s not what I did, but the result detected by the device is like this.” Tong Ling asked the system, “Do you know what the core of a person’s identity is?”
The program of m577 quickly searched for many answers: [“Awareness of self, perceptions of others, shaping of the environment, etc…”]
“In fact, in the final analysis, it is the trajectory of this character in society. A person who is ignored by everyone and not recognized by society—do you think she is real? When everyone around her defines an identity for a person, then her identity is the person in the eyes of everyone.”
“A baby needs to be named, and with a name, it will have an identity in the world. When it grows up, it will come into contact with all kinds of people. People’s cognition and opinion of it also constitute its identity. Relatives, friends, lovers…these are all important factors that affect the change of its identity.”
Tong Ling analyzed in a slow voice: “The heroine’s name is mine; her loved ones are mine; all her friends on social media are mine. Boyfriend, no, ex-boyfriend is mine… Even the spare tire is mine. In this small world, my identity transformation has been obtained recognition; even the equipment that detects the plot cannot reverse the consciousness of the world. Do you understand?”
M577 was so shocked that he lost his voice. He thought that the host had borrowed Yu Yurou’s identity just to live a good life for Yu Yurou. It can be imagined that she was completely prepared to replace the other party from the very beginning.
Is a heroine who has been deprived of her identity and given another name still a heroine? The trajectory of her fate has completely changed!
M577 felt just thinking about the heroine’s situation makes him feel horrified and inexplicable. What happened to the heroine in a car accident? Even the way the M577 looked at its own host changed.
It didn’t dare to speak loudly to the host anymore and said submissively: [“Sister, you will be my sister Ling from now on. You can play with any man you want. If they don’t let you I’ll fix them!”]
Tong Ling: “?”
“What is her system talking about?”
M577 conjured up a fluffy white dumpling image in Tong Ling’s mind; a pink meat pad protruded from the white dumpling, and a slender lady’s cigarette was sandwiched in the pad. [“Sister Ling, have one? A cigarette after work, and you’ll be happy like a fairy!”]
Tong Ling: “I’m fine.”
M577 laughed dryly: “Then I’ll put away the cigarettes.”
“Wait.” Tong Ling asked, “Can I smoke your cigarette if I put it in my mind?”
M577 said immediately: [“This is a prop cigarette produced by the Lord God; it does not contain any harmful ingredients; it refreshes the mind and soothes the nerves. Host, as long as you want, your soul can manifest in me. After all, you come to this small world to put your soul into it, and your body is just a container.”]
Tong Ling tried to concentrate on manifesting her soul and found that she really appeared beside M577. She took the prop cigarette from m577, pressed m577’s fluffy body with the other hand, and rubbed it twice: “Why didn’t you tell me that you could play like this before?”
M577 lighting the prop cigarette, [“I didn’t think of it. We systems are only responsible for issuing tasks, and there is no chance to meet the host.”]
Tong Ling squinted at m577 and asked, “Why did you change your mind?”
M577’s meat pads propped up on the ground, and his fluffy body lay on the ground, forming a standard on the floor seating posture: [“Boss, let’s follow the plot a little more normally in the future. With you taking such an unusual path, I, I’m scared!”]
Tong Ling exhaled a mouthful of smoke rings, squinted her eyes, and said, “Don’t worry, it’s all a normal plot; we don’t play novelty hunting.”
The item given by the Lord God lived up to its name. She flirted with Ye Xu in intimacy for a while till he was forced to take a cold shower then did she let him off the hook.
Ye Xu was both in love and angry with Tong Ling. In order not to scare her, he did nothing but kiss. After all, they had just established a relationship, and it seemed that their purpose was impure if they developed too quickly, but if they didn’t do anything, this woman could always make him lose control.
Ye Xu really had no control over her kind of nasty, childish personality.
When Tong Ling had had enough fun, she slipped into Ye Xu’s arms and said, “I heard that Ye Huan held a banquet…”
Ye Xu paused slightly with the hand stroking Tong Ling’s long hair. “…..”
“He didn’t invite you?” Tong Ling looked up at Ye Xu and said, “Lu Yue went and said that Ye Huan brought a female companion with him.”
Ye Xu’s heart tightened, and under Tong Ling’s gaze, he calmly replied, “There’s nothing to go to at that kind of banquet. After you broke up with Ye Huan, do you still care that he brought someone else?”
“I don’t care if he brings other women,but he brought my sister.” Tong Ling took Ye Xu’s hand, caressing his knuckle fingers, and asked casually, “Have you seen my sister?”
Ye Xu subconsciously denied: “No, I don’t know your sister.”
“I heard that my sister was in a bad mental state and was hospitalized.” Tong Ling put on a worried look and asked, “Would you like to accompany me to meet her?”
Ye Xu frowned instantly: “Since she’s in a bad state of mind, it’s best not to bother her.”
“That would be too unkind. I only have just one younger sister, and my parents want me to take care of her.” Tong Ling made a decision: “Go with me tomorrow, okay?”
Ye Xu wanted to refuse; he didn’t want to see that woman again.
If possible, he wanted to erase all memories of their meeting. Her appearance caused him too much trouble. When he thought of her, even his childhood memories cast a shadow.
Now that his relationship with “Yu Rou” was just getting on the right track, why would he want to meet that woman when he was so sweet and happy?
Not only should he not go to see that person, but his girlfriend shouldn’t go to see her either. What if something unexpected happens? What should he do?
Ye Xu thought so; when he saw his girlfriend’s eyes, he knew he couldn’t refuse.
“…Okay.” Ye Xu compromised: “But you must be with me; don’t contact her alone.”
“Why?”
“It’s always better to be more careful of a person who is not in a good state of mind.”
Ye Xu What he said was reasonable, and Tong Ling agreed without hesitation.
From Tong Ling’s actions, m577 smelled something troublesome: “Host, what do you want to do?”
“Help the heroine through the plot.” Tong Ling brushed her long hair next to her ear and said, “I don’t let her see me; how can I let her frame me? If I don’t let her frame me; how can I let the second male lead slap her in the face? And the ending… The ending depends on Ye Xu’s performance.”
“That’s right,” Tong Ling said suddenly. “If the heroine finishes the plot soon, do I still have time in this small world?”
M577: [“Normally, the staying period is a total of three years.]
“Very good; it looks like we have two years of unrestrained time.” Tong Ling smiled and said, “Two years is enough for me to play this world to my heart’s content.”
The next day. Tong Ling bought the fruit basket and flowers, followed the system’s prompts, and took Ye Xu to the destination.
Yu Yurou knew that she was not sick; she was just too angry—so angry that it was difficult to control her emotions.
After she was forced to be sent to the hospital by Shen Man, the doctors and nurses in the hospital were all looking after her, and Yu Yurou couldn’t find a chance to leave the hospital for a while.
Lying alone in the ward was very uncomfortable, but if she sees her own sister appearing with the man who should belong to her, her discomfort will be doubled.
“Yu Ling!” Yu Yurou’s head buzzed angrily when she saw the thief who had taken over her identity: “How dare you come to see me!”
