In a clean single room, a slightly thin young man sat cross-legged on the bed.
He held a mobile phone in his bony hands, and his pale eyes were staring at the face reflected in the front camera – the skin was pale and slightly sickly looking, and there was a piece of even paler gauze on the forehead, slightly covered by dark brown hair.
This face was filled with disbelief, as if there was a monster on the phone screen that was enough to destroy his worldview.
After a moment, he closed his eyes, exited the camera function, and after several confirmations, clicked on the camera icon again.
The camera still reflected his pale face with a bit of Western features.
The light-colored lips stammered twice, and slowly let out a sigh: “…Fuck!”
The other man who was leaning on the windowsill and talking beside the bed suddenly paused and sighed: “Shen Qiaohan, how come I didn’t know you could swear? The doctor said that the wound on your forehead is not deep, it won’t leave a scar, and it won’t disfigure you… Can we discuss business first?”
The man on the bed ignored him.
Because, at this moment, he is not the “Shen Qiaohan” in the other person’s mouth.
His actual name is Tao Xiao, 23 years old, and he currently dances in a bar called “Xiao” to make a living.
Because of his good looks, talent, and hard work, he has always been a very popular top dancer in “Xiao”. That’s why, although his performance schedule is dense, the boss will occasionally agree to his leave to go out.
Yesterday, he just returned to Yan City from his hometown and danced a “return performance” in the bar.
However, whether it was due to aging equipment or personnel error, when he was performing, the light stand on the ceiling of the stage suddenly fell and almost hit him on the head.
Although he was not hit, he still fell off the stage in panic.
Who knew that when he opened his eyes again, he was in this obviously expensive single room, and… he had become another person.
Tao Xiao took a last glance at the strange yet familiar face on the phone screen, locked the screen, and cursed.
How could he become Shen Qiaohan?
Why did he become Shen Qiaohan!
This is too fucking like a fantasy!
Shen Qiaohan is not in the same class as Tao Xiao.
His mother was born in a scholarly family in Jiangsu Province and was an excellent opera singer. His father was from France. Although he was a businessman, he loved the art of opera.
Shen Qiaohan had a great talent for music since he was a child. After graduating from junior high school, he moved to France with his family and was later admitted to a famous music college. While at school, Shen Qiaohan became a new star in the Western symphony circle with several good musical works.
Since Shen Qiaohan is half Chinese, the Chinese music industry has paid a lot of attention to him. Two months ago, the news of his return to China was reported.
He was a person who was completely different from Tao Xiao.
Whether it was his identity background, education, or class, he was completely different from Tao Xiao, who was a petty citizen at the bottom of society.
Although Tao Xiao often fantasized that he could become someone as good as Shen Qiaohan, it did not mean that he really believed that he could “become” Shen Qiaohan.
If it were not for the throbbing pain of the wound on his head, Tao Xiao would definitely think he was dreaming.
If it were not for his hand looking wrong, his vision being a little blurry in the distance, and a few missing ear holes in his ears, he would definitely suspect that someone was playing a prank on him.
But the facts were in front of him: he seemed, probably, maybe, possibly… to have really become Shen Qiaohan.
The man at the windowsill leaned forward slightly, stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers in front of Tao Xiao’s eyes.
“Hey, come back!” He frowned, “The hood of your car is completely blown off. I have contacted your insurance company to tow it away. It will probably take three or four days to repair it. The other party was driving against the traffic and is fully responsible. I will handle this matter, don’t worry about it.”
Tao Xiao didn’t know how to deal with these things, so she could only nod blankly.
After playing with her phone for a while, he suddenly said something irrelevant: “Call me.”
The man by the window was stunned: “Huh?”
“Don’t ask why,” Tao Xiao raised her hand and pressed the wound on her forehead, with an expression of headache and no need to explain, “Call my phone.”
The other party looked at him suspiciously, took out his phone and dialed.
After a while, the phone rang, Tao Xiao glanced at the screen, and the caller ID was: Liu Zhao.
After silently memorizing the name, Tao Xiao hung up directly.
This person should be a good friend of Shen Qiaohan. He would come to the hospital alone to accompany Shen Qiaohan, and he could dispose of Shen Qiaohan’s car at will.
But, perhaps he was not a particularly close person, otherwise he would have noticed the abnormality of “Shen Qiaohan”, and he did shown any concern that a relative should have.
Tao Xiao pondered and thought: Shen Qiaohan is a rising musician who has received a lot of attention. How come he was alone when he had a car accident? If it were him, all the guys in the bar would have gathered around…
Wait!
Tao Xiao sat up straight and his face changed drastically.
– He has become Shen Qiaohan now, so what about his own body?!
After a moment of stagnation, Tao Xiao raised his phone to his eyes. The phone detected his face and the screen lit up.
He stared at the piano photo on the phone desktop for a while, then turned to Liu Zhao and said, “I’m hungry, go buy me something to eat.”
Another irrelevant sentence.
Liu Zhao frowned and looked at “Shen Qiaohan” who had been acting strangely since he woke up. After looking at him for a long time, he couldn’t see any problem, and finally attributed the reason to the other party’s concussion.
“…Okay.” Liu Zhao said, turned and walked out of the ward, and pressed the nurse bell by the way, as if he was worried about Shen Qiaohan staying alone in the ward in this state.
After confirming that Liu Zhao had gone far away, Tao Xiao took a deep breath to calm his mind.
He picked up his phone again, unlocked it, and quickly entered a string of numbers. His finger hovered over the green phone icon, hesitating.
No matter what his physical condition was, it was always right to call to confirm. At least… even if “he” had an accident and couldn’t answer the phone, there would always be someone around who could answer the phone and confirm his situation.
But the situation maybe good or bad, so Tao Xiao was still somewhat afraid.
After hesitating for a long time, Tao Xiao gritted his teeth and pressed the phone icon with the belief that “whether you stretch or shrink your head, there will be a knife”.
(Usually, this statement depites situations where if you move backward there is a bad thing waiting for you and if you move foward you face the same situation, you can only move foward)
At this moment, the phone screen suddenly jumped, accompanied by the ding-dong ringtone, showing a string of phone numbers that Tao Xiao was extremely familiar with – exactly the same number he had just entered.
Tao Xiao’s hand trembled and he almost threw the phone away.
After staring at the screen for a long time, Tao Xiao pursed his lips, swallowed his saliva, cleared his throat, and then picked up the phone.
There was a strange silence on the other side at first, and then a voice that Tao Xiao was familiar with but unfamiliar sounded: “Hello, may I ask…”
Hearing this voice, Tao Xiao subconsciously sighed: “Fuck!” The other side immediately became quiet.
Although the voice on the phone sounded a little distorted, Tao Xiao could still tell that it was his own voice.
He breathed a sigh of relief: at least his body was fine. Then he thought that he had become Shen Qiaohan now, and received a call from himself, which proved that there must be another soul occupying his body.
His soul was in Shen Qiaohan’s body, and whose soul would be in his body, Tao Xiao had a vague guess.
“Are you Shen Qiaohan?” Tao Xiao asked carefully.
After a moment of silence, the man said, “Yes. Are you Zhou Yamin’s friend ‘Taozi’?”
Tao Xiao exhaled heavily, “It’s me, my name is Tao Xiao.” After a moment of silence, he hesitated and said, “The current situation…”
“I don’t know the reason for this situation.” Shen Qiaohan’s tone was very calm, and it was completely impossible to tell that he was facing the same strange situation as Tao Xiao. “I am now in the emergency room of Yanshi Third Hospital. According to the location of the car accident, you should also be in Yanshi Third Hospital. We need to meet and see what’s going on.”
Originally, there was some confusion, anxiety, and complex emotions, but it seemed to be soothed by the calm and determined tone on the phone, and slowly calmed down.
Tao Xiao took a deep breath, glanced at the words printed on the pillow of the bed, and her tone was much calmer: “I am also in Yanshi Third Hospital, uh, inpatient department. Where shall we meet?”
Shen Qiaohan paused for a moment and said, “Give me the room number, I’ll find you.”
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On the first floor of the inpatient department, in the small supermarket in the corner of the hall, Liu Zhao sighed helplessly. Although this small supermarket is not big, it has a complete range of snacks, drinks, fruit baskets, bouquets, etc., which is convenient for patients’ relatives and friends who come to visit. However, the food sold here is industrially produced biscuits, bread, instant noodles, sausages, etc.
Shen Qiaohan is a picky eater and hardly touches these things.
Liu Zhao decided to find a cleaner restaurant outside and pack up the food.
When he walked to the door of the supermarket, he ran into a man who ran in in a hurry.
The man was tall and wore a black tight vest, revealing two bare arms. There was also a bunch of unknown thorns tattooed on the deltoid muscle of his left arm.
Although he looked like a gangster, he was quite polite and immediately apologized with a smile: “Oh, I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”
Liu Zhao was not a nosy person. He said “It’s okay” and turned to leave.
Zhou Yamin turned his head indifferently, glanced at the shelves of the small supermarket casually, and sent a voice message on his mobile phone: “Taozi, there is no spicy beef noodles or braised beef here… Damn, there is no spicy food here! I’ll just buy something randomly…”
After that, he reached out and took two boxes of seafood instant noodles and threw them to the counter to pay.
Carrying the things he bought out, passing the lobby of the inpatient department, Zhou Yamin’s eyes suddenly flickered, and he looked back at the stairwell in surprise.
Why did he seem to see Tao Xiao?
Why did this guy come to the inpatient department when he could just stay in the emergency room? Or did the doctor suggest that he be hospitalized again, and this silly kid agreed?
The figure that looked like Tao Xiao quickly disappeared around the corner of the stairs. Zhou Yamin frowned and decided to chase after her to confirm.
The author has something to say: Next, I’ll broadcast “Three Men and a Drama” for you (Hey
I’m writing a new story, I’m writing a new story~ Little angels, long time no see~
There’s another chapter tonight~
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