ML Chapter 2

Yanshi Third Hospital.

 

Room 3011, third floor of the inpatient department.

 

Knowing that “he” was on the way, Tao Xiao couldn’t sit still.

 

He stood up from the bed, adjusted to the slightly elevated field of vision, and walked slowly a few steps in the ward.

 

Fortunately, this body is not weak. The pale face he saw before may only be due to Shen Qiaohan’s half French blood.

 

Tao Xiao walked to the window sill. Outside the window was a garden behind the inpatient building. The road from the emergency room to here was not visible. Feeling a little uneasy, he subconsciously stroked his fingers, feeling the thin layer of calluses on the fingertips of his left hand.

 

In addition to the piano, Shen Qiaohan can also play the violin, so it is not surprising that there are calluses on his fingertips.

 

Tao Xiao was thinking about some insignificant things in a very divergent way when a clear, unhurried knock on the door interrupted him.

 

The nurse opened the door to avoid him, and Tao Xiao subconsciously stood up and looked towards the door.

 

A young man was standing outside the door, with black semi-long hair hanging against his neck and shoulders, delicate eyebrows, dark eyes, and a slightly upturned mouth. He had a pleasing face that was born with a hint of smile. With his slender but energetic figure and healthy wheat-colored skin, he looked like an extremely sunny boy next door.

 

This was the first time Tao Xiao had seen his face from this perspective.

 

Although he usually took a lot of videos while looking in the mirror, mirrors reversed left and right after all, and photos and videos did not have the living, breathing effects of the three-dimensional world.

 

The feeling of life.

 

Therefore, when Tao Xiao saw his own face appear in front of him for the first time, he could not help but feel a very strange feeling.

 

Outside the door, Shen Qiaohan saw the person standing by the window with his back to the sun, and he could not help but be stunned.

 

His body from skin color to hair color was a little light, and he did not feel anything when he looked in the mirror at ordinary times, but at this moment, the sunlight from the window shone in from behind, and he looked like a statue of an ice and snow elf.

 

A smile bloomed at the corner of his mouth, gradually melting the coldness of the ice and snow, as if lighting up the stars in his light-colored eyes.

 

Shen Qiaohan heard “himself” say with a smile: “Hello.”

 

He looked away, no longer looking at the strange and contagious smile on “his”‘s face, and raised his foot to enter the room.

 

At this moment, a series of footsteps approaching quickly suddenly sounded in the corridor outside the ward door, accompanied by a slightly angry shout: “Taozi!”

 

Then, Shen Qiaohan felt his forearm suddenly pulled by someone.

 

Zhou Yamin frowned: “Why didn’t you stay in the emergency room? Why are you running around?”

 

Tao Xiao, who was about to go to the door, stumbled when he heard the shout.

 

Why did Shen Qiaohan call Brother Yamin as well?

 

Shen Qiaohan turned his wrist and broke free from Zhou Yamin’s hand without answering his question.

 

Zhou Yamin looked impatient and was about to continue scolding “Tao Xiao”, but his peripheral vision was attracted by the figure in the ward.

 

Then, he was shocked and exclaimed: “Shen Qiaohan? Why are you here?!”

 

It was not surprising that Zhou Yamin could recognize Shen Qiaohan.

 

In fact, Tao Xiao was able to get to know Shen Qiaohan because of Zhou Yamin.

 

Zhou Yamin originally had a good family background and had been neighbors with Shen Qiaohan for several years.

 

His deceased mother had served as the principal violinist in the orchestra, and had a lot in common with Shen Qiaohan’s mother in music, so the two families were once very close.

 

Until he graduated from junior high school, Shen Qiaohan moved abroad with his parents. Zhou Yamin’s mother died of illness, and his father remarried, and the two families gradually lost contact.

 

Because of this old friendship, Zhou Yamin has always regarded himself as Shen Qiaohan’s childhood friend, and is quite proud of knowing such a cutting-edge musician.

 

Of course, in addition to this, Tao Xiao also knows that Zhou Yamin has developed some kind of ignorant feelings for Shen Qiaohan since junior high school – Zhou Yamin often mentions this matter to sigh about his “bumpy” love life.

 

Even though many years have passed, even though Zhou Yamin is no longer a pure boy and has no shortage of lovers around him, Tao Xiao knows that Shen Qiaohan is still an irreplaceable existence in Zhou Yamin’s heart.

 

Zhou Yamin has always been paying attention to Shen Qiaohan, but the two are now in different positions and have too few intersections, so they have not restored their childhood closeness.

 

Thinking of this, Tao Xiao can’t help but feel a little complicated.

 

He has liked Zhou Yamin for five years.

 

It started from the first time he met Zhou Yamin, when he was rescued from a group of gangsters and brought to the bar called “Xiao”.

 

It was Zhou Yamin who discovered his dancing talent and introduced him to the job of dancing in the bar. Because of his different orientation from ordinary people, this feeling of helping each other gradually turned into a deeper dependence and admiration in Tao Xiao.

 

Tao Xiao once tried to confess her feelings to Zhou Yamin, but was resolved by a few random teasings from the other party.

 

It was from then on that Tao Xiao knew that Zhou Yamin had no thoughts about him in that aspect – even though Zhou Yamin was actually a playboy who had no taboos about sex and enjoyed sex.

 

Playboy Zhou Yamin raised his hand and pulled at the vest on his body, as if he wanted to make this unstyled dress look a little more formal.

 

He smoothed his hair again, gathered the bangs hanging in front of his eyes, and walked into the ward.

 

“We haven’t been in touch for a while. What’s wrong with you?” Zhou Yamin stood face to face with “Shen Qiaohan” very naturally with a perfect smile, looking at the gauze on his forehead, “How did you get hurt?”

 

Tao Xiao looked at Zhou Yamin who was looking at him with eyes full of concern, and felt that the person in front of her was a little strange.

 

Even though Zhou Yamin was still wearing casual clothes, his expression and tone made him look elegant and mature, and he was also cautious as if holding a fragile item.

 

This was a Zhou Yamin that Tao Xiao had never seen before.

 

However, Tao Xiao could not feel jealous of someone like Shen Qiaohan.

 

Shen Qiaohan was too outstanding and too dazzling. The gap between the two made the insignificant feeling of “jealousy” seem extremely small and ridiculous.

 

Tao Xiao sighed, lowered his eyelashes, and did not answer.

 

“Since you’ve returned to Yan City, we should keep in touch.” Zhou Yamin said with a smile, “More friends mean more ways. If you encounter any problems again, if I can help, I can help you, right?”

 

Seeing that “Shen Qiaohan” didn’t say anything, Zhou Yamin suddenly slapped his head: “Hey, I didn’t know you were here, otherwise you should have bought some fruit. Um, Tao Xiao,” he turned his head and ordered, “Go downstairs and buy some fruit so that Shen Qiaohan and I can catch up.”

 

Shen Qiaohan, who was trapped in Tao Xiao’s body, raised his eyebrows.

 

“Zhou Yamin,” he said, “you go out first.”

 

Zhou Yamin’s eyes widened, and he asked in confusion: “…Huh?”

 

Shen Qiaohan paused, as if he realized something, and softened his tone a little: “You go buy it, I don’t know what he likes to eat… and my ankle hurts.”

 

Tao Xiao injured his ankle when he fell off the stage. Although it was not serious, it was a good excuse at this time.

 

Zhou Yamin bared his teeth: “You are running around with a sore ankle!”

 

He turned his head and smiled at “Shen Qiaohan”: “This…”

 

Tao Xiao raised the corners of her mouth and showed a polite smile very skillfully: “You go.”

 

Zhou Yamin was stunned by this smile and nodded immediately: “Okay, I’ll go downstairs to buy some fruit and come back, you… Hey, this is my friend, Tao Xiao, you two chat first.”

 

Then he ran away in a hurry.

 

Shen Qiaohan closed the door of the ward, locked it, pulled the curtain to cover the observation window on the door, then slowly walked to the bedside and picked up his mobile phone from the bedside table.

 

“This matter is incredible, and the cause cannot be speculated for the time being.” Shen Qiaohan took out Tao Xiao’s mobile phone from his pocket and handed it to her, saying, “I don’t trust the people around you, and you may not trust the people around me. So, I suggest that we keep this secret for the time being, and work together to find the cause of the matter and how to return to normal.”

 

Hearing such a series of calm, clear and logical words that seemed like written language, Tao Xiao was stunned, took his mobile phone, nodded and smiled, “That’s fine.”

 

“Our mobile phones cannot be exchanged directly, and WeChat cannot be exchanged directly, otherwise someone around us will find something unusual when contacting us. If there is any privacy in the chat history, please delete it. We will notify each other of important matters on WeChat in the next two days.”

 

Shen Qiaohan said as he cancelled the fingerprint password and facial recognition of several payment and credit apps on his phone, logged out of all social accounts other than WeChat, and cleared the password records.

 

After thinking about it, he linked a debit card with a low credit limit to the payment software – his quality of life cannot suddenly decline because of the soul swap, which is too easy for people to see the flaws, so he must provide Tao Xiao with the most basic expenses.

 

Tao Xiao looked at Shen Qiaohan’s series of operations and suddenly understood.

 

He had never thought about the various problems that might be caused by the soul swap: now that fingerprint passwords and facial recognition are popular, soul swap means that everything about the original body will be completely defenseless against strange souls.

 

In other words, if the mobile phone is not protected, he can use Shen Qiaohan’s mobile payment and part of the credit management without hindrance, and can spy on all the hidden content in all of Shen Qiaohan’s social accounts, and even publish any remarks in Shen Qiaohan’s identity.

 

Although it is human nature to be vigilant, Tao Xiao still feels a little indignant that the person he secretly admires is so defensive.

 

Although he is poor, he is not the kind of person who takes shortcuts and is greedy for small gains. Even if Shen Qiaohan was not on guard against him, he would never try every means to cash out Shen Qiaohan’s wealth for himself just because of the soul swap.

 

Although he was complaining in his heart, Tao Xiao did not show anything. He followed Shen Qiaohan’s method to clean up the fingerprint passwords of several apps, leaving only a small overdraft limit in the payment software to facilitate Shen Qiaohan’s daily expenses – after all, the body is still his own, and he can’t leave no way for Shen Qiaohan.

 

Besides, the two of them are currently standing on a united front in a sense.

 

After everything was handled, Tao Xiao and Shen Qiaohan exchanged their phones again and added each other on WeChat.

 

Shen Qiaohan took out Tao Xiao’s ID card from his pocket and handed it to him, then found his wallet and took out his residence card and a credit card.

 

“I don’t know how long this situation will last, and I don’t know if it can return to normal. It’s inconvenient to say more in the hospital. After we are discharged from the hospital, we will make an appointment to meet and see if we can find the cause of the matter.”

 

Tao Xiao nodded: “Okay.”

 

At this time, a knock on the door sounded.

 

Then Liu Zhao’s voice came: “Shen Qiaohan, why did you lock the door? Open the door and eat!”

 

The author has something to say: This is the first time I write a plot about souls swapping with each other. Do you think there is a problem of confusion in the names? Is it okay to use quotation marks to distinguish?

I can’t see it myself… (Pulling my own hair jpg

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I have to catch up with a list, and I will update twice in the first three days~

 

Ivy: I can understand the names but I don’t understand why they had to switch ID cards. They only switched souls, TX will need SQH’s ID and SQH will need TX’s ID.