"Is there something wrong with your brain?!"
Li Xuan rushed forward without making a sound. He raised his hands and tightly grasped Sheng Min's waist, dragged him back to the sofa in the living room, and finally yelled.
Sheng Min was thrown onto the sofa so roughly that she felt dizzy and dazed for a moment. She looked at Li Xuan's furious face and it took her a while to come back to her senses. She tried to sit up: "I..."
"What? Don't move!" Li Xuan shuddered, supported his hands on his sides, knelt on one leg on the sofa, and pressed half of his body on him, "If you move again, I'll beat you!"
Sheng Min looked at him, and Li Xuan glared at him, not giving in. The water drops on his hair dripped onto Sheng Min's face, and his heart was beating fast, and it took a long time to calm down.
"You are really sick." He couldn't help but say it again.
"You get up first." Sheng Min avoided his eyes and said softly, "My hands are numb. We can't talk if you are like this."
"What else are you talking about? If I came out a second later, I would have to learn to perform shaman dances to be qualified to talk to you." Li Xuan stood up and took a step back to sit on the coffee table. "Is your hand numb? Look carefully, it's my hand."
Sheng Min sat up straight, smoothed his hair, and said softly, "You can use mine."
"Why? Have you asked me?"
Sheng Min hesitated for a moment: "You just said..."
"What? You look good?" Li Xuan was almost laughing out of anger. "That doesn't count as asking. Which telecom fraud gang are you from? There's no such trick to get a question."
He looked at Sheng Min and emphasized word by word: "I can't use yours. I can only use yours now, but it doesn't mean I am willing to do so. I am still thinking about how to change it back. Do you understand?"
"Don't you know how to change it?" Sheng Min knew that he was not in the right, so his voice became softer.
Li Xuan sneered, "I don't know now, but I know you're going to jump, and I'm completely hopeless. Jumping off a building? You've really been in too many TV dramas? As soon as you jump, the police will come to my house. The surveillance camera can't find that we entered the house together. How can I explain it? I have no grudges against you, and you're not only planning to smash my shell to pieces, but you're also planning to leave me with so much trouble?"
Sheng Min lowered his eyes and said after a long while: "I didn't think so much, I just thought that I was going to die at home. You will be scared when you come out and see me later."
"Thank you, that's so thoughtful." Li Xuan laughed sarcastically, "Do you want me to make you a silk banner?"
Sheng Min was silent for a moment: "I'm sorry."
He lowered his head slightly, the cold white light above his head fell on him, and his neck and hair were clearly distinguished. Li Xuan pursed his lips, and Sheng Min didn't know what he put on his lips, but he actually tasted a very light sweetness. He exhaled and tried to calm down, but his voice was still very hard: "You cut your wrists, right? Why do you have to die?"
"I don't know." Sheng Min took a cushion and hugged it in front of him, "I just want to."
"Then can't you think of something positive?" Li Xuan frowned, "Are you sick?" He paused and added, "I'm not scolding you now."
“I don’t know.” Sheng Min said the same thing, “Maybe, depression or something… Sometimes I compare it with the scales on the Internet and they are pretty similar.”
"You rely on search to see a doctor?" Li Xuan didn't know what expression to make. "You are really a precise target user of Putian. Can't you go to the hospital for a check-up?"
Sheng Min shook his head.
"I can't go." He said softly, "If I'm really diagnosed with depression, many projects won't hire me. And the company has given me a cheerful personality. If..."
"You're almost dead, why do you still care about your image?" Li Xuan's temples throbbed twice. "So are you okay now, Mr. Cha? You're occupying my body anyway."
"I don't want to."
"Why again?" Li Xuan almost wanted to go up and cut open his head to see what kind of paste was inside.
"No reason. I just don't want to." Sheng Min said in a flat tone, glanced at him, and then lowered his eyes again.
Li Xuan looked at the ceiling and sighed. He felt that the sighs he had made in the past twenty years combined were not as many as those he made tonight. "I don't care. Anyway, I have to go to the hospital at dawn... Don't look at me. You can check my mental state or not, but I must check my body. I was in a car accident. Who knows if I have any internal injuries."
"It should be fine. I don't feel uncomfortable anywhere now."
Li Xuan was probably fine. Sheng Min had lost so much blood, and he just felt a little dizzy, mostly because he was angry. The car accident probably only left some superficial injuries. Although he thought it was not realistic, he had experienced soul swapping, so everything else seemed less bizarre.
"No, for safety's sake, you still have to go." He pointed at Sheng Min, "It doesn't matter if you don't like it. This is mine, and I have the final say."
"Oh." Sheng Min responded softly. Li Xuan pursed his lips and looked at him, thinking that this man might be deceiving him, and would find the opportunity to commit suicide again, and would not wait until tomorrow...
"Why aren't you talking?" Sheng Min said unnaturally as he was reluctant to look away.
Li Xuan looked at him for a few seconds, then suddenly leaned closer. Sheng Min subconsciously stepped back, and Li Xuan grabbed his wrist, trying to make his tone sound gentler: "You want to die so much, what happened? Are you unhappy?"
Sheng Min struggled and frowned: "Let me go first."
"No, just say that. I'm afraid you'll run away." Li Xuan refused without hesitation and asked again, "Are you unhappy?"
"I..." Sheng Min didn't know how to answer this and blinked.
"Don't worry, I have no interest in other people's privacy." Li Xuan pulled the corner of his mouth, "I want to say that you are unhappy as Shengmin. But now you have changed to me, and no one else knows about this except the two of us. So no matter what happened to you in the past, it has nothing to do with you for the time being. Right?"
Sheng Min didn't really understand what he said. Li Xuan came too close, and their noses were almost touching. The pressure was too strong, and he couldn't say no, so he nodded.
Li Xuan seemed a little satisfied. "That's all. So during this time when we're swapped, you should live well. When we switch back, you can die however you want, and I won't stop you. Since we know each other, I'll send you a bouquet of flowers on Qingming Festival, okay?"
He ended every sentence with a question, but his words definitely did not convey the intention of negotiation.
Sheng Min looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar face in front of him. He himself had never had such a tough expression. He was a little absent-minded. It took him a long time to ask, "What flower?"
"Ah?" Li Xuan didn't expect his question: "What kind of flowers do you want?"
"Gerberas and sunflowers. I want red gerberas," Sheng Min said. "I also want osmanthus candy from the last dessert shop on Binjiang Road in the south of the city."
Li Xuan didn't expect that he actually had a request. He thought to himself, how unique! Who uses red flowers when sweeping graves? If I bring candy with me, can he crawl out of the grave and eat it... ...
Seeing that he hadn't said anything, Sheng Min thought for a moment and said, "Too much? Then we don't have to give you the candy..."
"It's okay, I'll buy them all for you." Li Xuan thought that he might have some problems with his brain, but Sheng Min looked at him with sparkling eyes. For some reason, there was a bit of inappropriate innocence between his eyebrows. It was much more pleasing to the eye than the look of wanting to jump off the building just now, so he readily agreed.
"Okay." Sheng Min said quickly, as if afraid that he would go back on his word.
Li Xuan nodded: "Have we reached an agreement now?"
Sheng Min hesitated for a moment: "Forget it."
"Come on, be sure." Li Xuan was obviously not satisfied with this answer. "We agreed that you must be alive before we change back."
After saying that, he pressed his thumb. This action was really inconsistent with his impatient temperament. Sheng Min looked down at his hand and said honestly, "I'll try my best."
Li Xuan was obviously not satisfied with this answer, and looked like he was about to lose his temper but was forcing himself to hold it back. Sheng Min stopped talking, and the only sounds in the living room were the ticking of the pendulum clock and the subtle sound of the remaining rain falling on the eaves.
"Why don't you finish your bath first?" After sitting quietly for a while, Sheng Min said thoughtfully, "There's still foam on your head."
"Blam me?" As soon as he asked that, Li Xuan immediately remembered the scene when he rushed out of the bathroom and saw him about to jump off the building, and his anger rose again.
Sheng Min pursed his lips: "Blame me."
"I'm glad to know." Seeing him like this, Li Xuan felt like he had punched cotton. In the end, he didn't say anything more and got up to go to the bathroom.
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