Chapter 2: After the soul swap, I switched back.
When Si Qi used the formation, this body was sleeping.
He sat up in bed and used the biochip implanted in his body to turn on the bedroom light.
The bedroom was spacious, and unlike the dormitory which was so basic that only the basic infrastructure remained, the living environment here was undoubtedly superior.
Rather than a bedroom, this place feels more like a suite. Sitting on the bed, you can vaguely see a spacious living room a dozen meters away through an art-themed partition. The living room is furnished with sofas, coffee tables, and various luxurious decorations and cutting-edge technology products.
Si Qi couldn't see the further away, but based on the original owner's childhood memories, there should have been a washroom, a dressing room, and a private balcony. The study was in another room after opening the door, and the space was equally spacious.
Ever since the original owner and Wu Ding swapped souls, as if to prevent something, the original owner's mother had never allowed the original owner to enter his old room again. So this was the first time "Si Qi" had come here in twelve years.
The layout of the house was exactly the same as I remembered, but all traces of the past had vanished, replaced by the presence of another person. It was as if the person who once lived here had been erased along with those traces.
"Ring ring," the cell phone suddenly rang. At one in the morning, no one else would be calling him except that person.
As soon as Si Qi answered the call and the projector lit up, a scream rang out first, making Si Qi burst out laughing.
"You... Ah—!!" The boy lying on the ground struggled to lift his head, looking at Si Qi's smiling face with resentment, and cursed painfully, "You, give it back... give it back!"
He struggled, managing to squeeze out a few words between gasps of breath. After saying them, he seemed to have used up all his strength and collapsed to the ground, his body already soaked in cold sweat.
Si Qi leaned back against the soft, elastic headboard, admiring the other person's ferocious appearance—his face streaked with tears and his forehead covered in bulging veins—as if watching some kind of pleasing performance.
The boy was convulsing in pain. Knowing that talking was useless, he kept shouting, "Medicine...give me medicine...medicine!"
"Your sister took the medicine." Si Qi said softly, resting his chin on his hand and smiling in his eyes, "Go ask her for it."
The boy made a hissing sound, drool dripped from the corner of his mouth, and looked at Si Qi, who seemed indifferent, with resentment in his eyes.
He had countless words he wanted to curse, but he couldn't bear the excruciating pain. He could only concentrate and hang up the phone with trembling hands, then open his contacts to search for Si Nan's name.
However, the number of contacts stored in this body's address book is pitifully small. The contact page has only a few lines, and no matter how many times you flip through it, you can't find another person with the surname Si besides Si Qi.
Realizing he had been tricked, the boy's eyes turned bloodshot. He went to Si Qi again, roaring incoherently, "No...no!!"
"No contact information? Of course she wouldn't have Wu Ding's number saved." Si Qi said with interest, "Isn't that something you know perfectly well? Wu Ding."
The boy opposite him clenched his teeth, his face contorted with pain. He whimpered uncontrollably, every muscle feeling as if it were being torn apart, and he cried out in agony.
"Please...please...find...Mom..."
Si Qi sighed and said, "Yeah, you'd definitely go to your mom at a time like this. It's a pity she's blacklisted you."
The boy sobbed, "Find...her...to save..."
"Save you? Then why didn't you ask her to rescue me from the slums back then?" Si Qi retorted.
"Waaah..."
"While I was enduring the pain inside your body, you were having a great time shopping with her, weren't you?" Si Qi continued.
"Waaah...please...please..." the boy sobbed and begged, sounding incredibly pitiful, but Si Qi just watched, observing the boy's disheveled appearance with an expressionless face.
The boy cried for a long time, then probably lost consciousness completely and fell into a coma, making no sound. Si Qi got sleepy while watching, yawned softly, turned off the communication, lay back down on the bed, and drifted off to sleep.
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The next morning, his biological clock woke Si Qi. He threw away Wu Ding's toiletries, told the steward to bring a new set, and after washing up, went downstairs.
In the restaurant, the Si family of three took their seats. Si's mother greeted Si Qi with a smile, "Son, come here quickly. Today's breakfast is good; it's your kind of breakfast."
Si Qi pulled out a chair and sat down. His younger sister next to him looked at him with sparkling eyes, cupping her face in her hands and gushing over him, "Wow~~ Brother, you look so handsome today!"
As everyone knows, Si Nan, the youngest sister in the Si family, has been a brother-obsessed child since she was little.
When his parents were often away from home, only six-year-old Siqi and his younger sister, two years his junior, lived at home. The older brother took on the responsibility of caring for his sister and doted on this only family member he could see regularly. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he spoiled her rotten, which made the little girl very attached to him and could only see him.
Therefore, when he fell and hit his head on his sixth birthday and was hospitalized, the little girl cried her heart out. Her parents were at their wits' end, not knowing how to discipline their little daughter. But then, her brother, who had just woken up, simply yelled "Shut up!" and the little girl immediately quieted down, crying as she went to check on her brother. This surprised both parents greatly.
At that moment, the little girl wiped away her tears, held her brother's hand, and pitifully asked, "Brother, does it hurt?"
The boy, upon waking, looked around with a strange expression, shook his head, and said, "It doesn't hurt." Then, with his head wrapped in gauze, he stared at the two adults opposite him with unfamiliar eyes.
This expression inadvertently stung the hearts of the two parents.
Looking at the boy across from them who politely said, "Hello, thank you for taking me to the hospital," they reflected for the first time in their lives on whether they had been irresponsible enough, causing the boy to look at them with a guarded and suspicious gaze, as if they were looking at two complete strangers who were overly familiar with each other.
They unconsciously softened their tone, awkwardly comforting the child who had just been injured, but who, after opening his eyes, neither cried out in pain nor shed a tear, was so sensible that it broke their hearts.
Not knowing how to interact with their child, they offered a dry apology, saying that Mom and Dad shouldn't be away from home all day and neglecting their child.
However, the boy just stared silently at his fair and soft hands, without any complaints about his parents being away from home for so long. He even smiled as if surprised when he heard this, slowly raised his head, and said a lot of sweet words to comfort his parents, saying that he didn't mind at all.
This reaction clearly made the two adults feel even more sorry for him. They handed the boy a plate of sliced fruit. The boy looked as if he had never seen such a thing before, his expression one of utter shock. He ate each bite of fruit with great care, and sweetly thanked them.
That polite, subtly ingratiating attitude made the two parents feel even more guilty.
Recalling their worries when their child was unconscious, and looking at the boy in front of them who seemed to have grown up without them noticing, the two parents, unusually, changed their previous indifferent attitude and personally took care of the boy for a few days after he was discharged from the hospital.
This was almost the longest the boy had spent with his parents in the past six years.
Over the past few days, they gradually sensed the boy's attitude towards them shifting from unfamiliarity to warmth. For the first time, they understood the satisfaction parents felt when caring for their children, and they greatly appreciated the boy's gentleness and affection.
The family changed from then on. Although the couple's relationship remained respectful but not intimate, the presence of their son gradually gave the family the feel of a home.
They started to worry about their child's studies, asking how the boy was doing at school. Whenever they had free time, they would take him shopping at the mall and to the amusement park. They smiled happily as the boy repeatedly said sweet words like "Mom and Dad, you are so good to me, I love you the most."
Si Nan is happy every day because of her parents' return. The memories of the past four years when only her brother accompanied her are quickly replaced by new memories. The only thing that remains unchanged is that she still likes her brother as always, and likes this boy who brought her parents home and speaks to her gently.
Therefore, she naturally only acknowledged and recognized this brother. The skinny, ugly, and suddenly crippled man only disgusted her from the bottom of her heart, and his status as the eldest son of the family, several years older than her brother, made her extremely wary, fearing that the man would infringe on her own brother's interests.
Targeting and rejecting them became a natural consequence.
Even if the other person is a short-lived person with a genetic disease, destined to die young, and has never received any care from this family since birth and has suffered a lot, his status as an illegitimate child also means that he can never get her forgiveness, that is his original sin.
If her parents hadn't said that his genetic disease required proper rest and treatment, and that he could only live at home, she would have definitely made a scene demanding that her parents kick him out and never let him appear in front of her again.
Therefore, even though that person repeatedly expressed a desire to get close to her, and his words and actions were all friendly and trusting, she only felt disgusted and scoffed at this ulterior motive of ingratiation.
Compared to the tarnished reputation of the Si family, whose education and background were both rotten to the core, her elegant and perfect older brother, Si Qi, was her true pride.
Her girlfriends all envied her for having such an outstanding brother, and the upperclassmen also took good care of her at school because she was the student council president's sister.
In her eyes, the whole world knows how outstanding Si Qi is, and everyone envies that she is Si Qi's sister.
This made her incredibly proud to have such a brother.
Especially today.
Even though it was the exact same face as before, Si Qi looked stunning today, exuding an indescribable air of nobility. She couldn't help but emphasize again, "Brother, you look very different today!"
Si Qi held a knife and fork, cutting into the pastry in front of him that oozed beautiful golden egg yolk, and said casually, "How is it different?"
"He just feels... incredibly handsome!" The girl couldn't find the words to describe it, so she couldn't help but gesture with her hands: "Really! None of the male celebrities I invited to hang out with before can compare to your charisma!"
"You little brat, who do you compare yourself to your brother with!" The lady glanced at the girl with annoyance. "He's only doing this because he has a good temper."
"Oh dear... Mom, I was wrong." Realizing she had said the wrong thing, the little girl put her hands together in apology and begged Si Qi for forgiveness: "Brother, don't be angry."
"What do I have to be angry about?"
He ate his breakfast with a casual demeanor, but the elegant temperament that emanated from his very being, and the languid air of desire that could always be satisfied, made him look like a classical painting that had been steeped in the long years, drawing the eye involuntarily.
This side of him, which she had never seen before, made the little girl stare wide-eyed, and she couldn't help but whisper, "Brother, you look like a prince..."
Seeing that her daughter kept commenting on how her son looked, Si's mother finally began to seriously observe Si Qi.
With just one glance, she could tell that Si Qi was different today.
That calm and composed aura was very much like the child's father, and even seemed to surpass him due to her age and good looks. It was the kind of nonchalant attitude that comes from someone who has held power for a long time, an attitude that most people, unless they are in that position, simply cannot imitate.
She couldn't help but laugh and said, "It really is true, Xiao Qi looks quite different today."
Upon hearing this, Si's father looked Si Qi up and down, and after noticing something, nodded with satisfaction: "You've grown up."
Si Qi simply lowered his eyes and ate at his own pace, ignoring the praise from the three people around him.
Just then, a phone call came in to Si Qi. He shifted his gaze to the left and tilted his head slightly. Si Nan, who had been secretly watching Si Qi, asked curiously, "Brother, who is it?"
Si Qi chuckled, his voice carrying a strange undertone: "It's Si Ding."
"Ugh..." the girl let out a long, clearly disgusted sound, and said unhappily, "What does he want from you?"
Si Qi didn't answer, but asked instead, "You lost his medicine yesterday?"
"No way!" the girl retorted instinctively, her two dark eyes shifting guiltily to the side as she said, "I wouldn't bother with him, why would I touch his things? They're filthy."
Mrs. Si frowned, displeased, and said, "He came to you about something like this?"
I've warned Si Ding countless times not to bother Si Qi, but it seems that guy still hasn't learned his lesson.
Si Qi: "It was only yesterday. Usually, it's 'me' who contacts him."
“Brother, you’re just too kind,” the girl protested. “I’m your sister, you only need to care about me.”
Si's mother chimed in, "Yes, Xiao Qi, don't worry about these things. I'll handle his affairs."
The little girl pouted and muttered, "That kind of guy, let him die."
Even though she knew that her parents' attitude towards that guy was already quite indifferent, far less so than towards her, let alone her brother, she was still very unhappy.
Especially when that person actually complained to her brother about the stolen pills, she couldn't help but grit her teeth, filled with anger.
Once she gets to the school, she'll definitely treat that guy well and teach him what he should and shouldn't say.
Thinking of this, the little girl smiled sweetly at Si Qi and said coquettishly, "Brother, are you done eating? If you are, let's go!"
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