"If you want my life to be all about you, then I'll also have to get involved in your life."
"Could it be... that you've grown too big for your britches and are no longer willing to take responsibility?"
Zi Xi walked around to his front and poked his chest with her finger. She suddenly leaned in so close that she could count his eyelashes.
Xue Xunzhi's ear tips turned red instantly.
He opened his mouth, but before he could organize his thoughts, he suddenly felt a numbness in the back of his head.
"Tsk, why waste words with this old fogey?"
"How can you call money from your future wife an investment? It's clearly a loving offering!"
"Right, my dear wife?"
When he spoke again, his voice had changed. He lightly hooked Zi Xi's chin with his fingers, and his alternate personality, Xun Ge, narrowed his eyes like a cat that had just stolen some fish.
They agreed that the primary personality would be named Xue Xunzhi, and the secondary personality would have Zixi call him Brother Xun, so as to distinguish them.
Zi Xi chuckled, while Xue Xunzhi in his mind was furious, jumping up and down: "Who the hell gave you permission to call me 'wife' like that?!"
"What, you don't want to marry me?"
"Then the wedding will be a special one for me and Xixi..."
Xun Ge retorted.
"You dare!!"
In reality, Zi Xi only saw Xue Xunzhi's ever-changing expressions and found them amusing.
Finally, his expression settled into a helpless yet gentle smile: "Okay... my wife gave me the start-up capital, so I'll give you 90% of the company shares."
"It's not entirely because of Xixi's start-up capital, it's because..."
Xue Xunzhi gently held her hand, and his alternate personality suddenly popped up again, whispering in her ear to finish the sentence: "Because I want to be tied to you, inseparable for the rest of my life."
The laboratory window reflected the two intertwined figures, while maple leaves fluttered down outside.
The robot's indicator light quietly illuminated, capturing the moment when feelings deepened in a corner where no one was watching.
*
Wen Wan stood in front of the small dressing mirror in the room, her fingers tightly gripping the frayed logo embroidery on the hem of her skirt.
The knock-off dress, which cost her half a month's living expenses, gleamed with a cheap pearlescent sheen under the fluorescent lights.
The reflection in the mirror was unfamiliar to her; the waves created by the popular Taobao curling iron had collapsed by half; the makeup, reminiscent of a popular Douyin influencer, was patchy on her oily T-zone; and the edges of her colored contact lenses were bloodshot, as if she had stayed up many nights.
"Why should I..."
Wen Wan suddenly yanked her collar hard, and a button flew off, bouncing on the tiles and rolling under the bed.
Her plan was so simple: find a decent boyfriend and shut up those who mocked her.
But the reality is that the student council president is holding the school beauty's hand and feeding her in the cafeteria, the entrepreneurship competition champion has read her WeChat messages saying he's busy but doesn't reply, and even that studious bespectacled guy who always spends time in the library is posting photos with his childhood sweetheart on his WeChat Moments.
The "high-quality men" she met through social media were even more ridiculous. A bald man who claimed to be an investment banking elite slipped a hotel room key into her bag as soon as they met. A returnee who showed off his luxury car was found to have rental records on a car rental app.
The most outrageous thing was that company executive last week, who just gave her a bottle of Haha mineral water at a convenience store in the urban village and thought he could take her home!
"Hold!"
Wen Wan kicked her high heel away, and the heel slammed against the door frame with a thud.
The sounds of a couple laughing and joking drifted in from outside the window. She grabbed the powder compact and smashed it against the glass. With a few crashes, the distorted face in the mirror suddenly shattered into countless fragments.
Wen Wan once gritted her teeth and vowed to become a successful career woman.
But rebirth isn't a magic bullet; in her previous life, she knew nothing but celebrity gossip.
stock market?
She can't even understand candlestick charts.
Lottery?
She can't even remember the winning numbers for that draw.
Real estate?
She had no start-up capital to buy a house, and her family was just an ordinary family with little savings.
"I want to start from scratch!"
Wenwan cheered herself up in front of the bathroom mirror, then bought a box of Korean-style earrings for 9.9 yuan with free shipping. The product details page of her online store used photos stolen from Instagram influencers.
As a result, the first batch of orders were returned en masse, and some negative reviews even included close-up photos of ear piercings oozing pus.
Then, not to be outdone, she wore a trendy, alluring dress from PXX and posed for half an hour in front of the camera.
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