It's terrible. Mr. Lu is too clingy.

Xie Xingran picked up the clothes, put them on his shoulders again, and held them tightly to prevent him from throwing them off.

After these few times, she also realized how dangerous her previous behavior was.

"I'm sorry." She said, her eyes full of apology.

"I shouldn't have risked your life. I was too radical and didn't consider you. There won't be a next time. Please don't be angry, okay?"

She unconsciously added a coquettish tone to the last sentence.

Lu Ciye's expression instantly relaxed. He stopped resisting, wrapped his coat tightly around him, looked at her and said in a deep voice:

“Xie Xingran, not only should you not take risks with my life, you shouldn’t take risks with your life either.

We are one now, and to hurt you is to hurt me, and I think you should understand this deeply."

Xie Xingran's pupils trembled slightly because of his words "hurting you is equivalent to hurting me".

If they had not exchanged bodies, the meaning of these words would have been a thousand pounds heavier.

After a while, she pursed her lips and nodded: "Well, I will keep it in mind in the future."

"You know—Aqiu! That's good." Lu Ci also sneezed, hugged his arms and continued:

"Treasure your life. I don't want to die young, nor do I want to be a woman for the rest of my life."

[You're so weak! You caught a cold after just a short soak. Unlike me, who has a strong and robust body, I don't catch a cold easily.]

Xie Xingran: ...If I sneeze now, I wonder if he will feel slapped in the face.

Half an hour later they returned to the hotel and immediately took a hot shower.

Xie Xingran washed his hair very quickly and it dried in just two minutes of rubbing.

After thinking for a while, she found a box of cold medicine from her luggage. She always had the habit of bringing medicine with her whenever she went on a long trip.

After making a cup of instant medicine, she personally brought it to Lu Ci.

When she opened the door, Lu Ci happened to be drying his hair. When he saw her coming, he threw the towel to her and naturally took the cup from her hand.

"Thank you. Since you're here, I'll help you dry your hair before you leave."

He said, emphasizing the words "your hair".

Xie Xingran did not refuse. He followed her into the room silently, stood behind her, and used a towel to absorb half of the water from her hair before turning on the hair dryer.

Lu Ci also drank the cold medicine in the cup in one gulp, then sat still and waited for her to blow dry her hair.

Except for the sound of the hair dryer, the room was silent.

Lu Ciye: [If I don’t get it back, will she marry me?]

"Hiss, be gentle!" he cried out in pain.

Xie Xingran finally realized that he had pulled his scalp, and immediately eased up, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

Lu Ci also snorted, but didn't say forgiveness.

She's always quick to apologize, but she doesn't seem to be more attentive to me. If we ever become husband and wife, I wonder how much I'll hold in her heart as a husband.

Xie Xingran: ...

After drying her hair, she wanted to leave, but Lu Ci stopped her and said:

"Won't you sit down for a while?"

So she didn't leave, but sat on the sofa next to him.

The atmosphere became inexplicably weird.

Lu Ciye: [The look on her face shows she definitely doesn't want to marry me. Oh, she doesn't like me... Is she still thinking about her cheating ex-boyfriend?]

Lu Ci thought about it and didn't know how to ask her if she was willing to marry him.

Xie Xingran listened to his inner thoughts, but his mind wandered elsewhere.

After a long while, she tilted her head and asked him confusedly:

"Lu Ciye, do you think the rebirth in novels really exists?"

"Ah?" Lu Ci didn't follow her thoughts and looked at her in surprise.

When I finally reacted, I was shocked and scared again.

If people could go back in time, wouldn't that mean there are spirits in the world? That means there are ghosts!

Thinking of this, Lu Ci kept shaking his head in denial: "Impossible, impossible. Novels are all about wild imagination. People can't be reborn. Let's just cherish the present."

Hearing him say this, Xie Xingran lowered his eyes.

"But I think it does happen. Look at what happened to us. Even such bizarre things as soul swapping have happened. Maybe there really are people who are reborn in parallel time and space."

Lu Ci became more and more frightened, and his hair stood on end.

"No, no, no, absolutely not! When a person dies, he is dead. After death, he returns to nothingness. There is no soul, and there will be no rebirth!"

His firm denial shattered her expectations, making it hard for her to accept.

Tears suddenly welled up in Xie Xingran's eyes, but he refused to let them fall stubbornly, and his voice couldn't help but choke.

"Why? Soul swapping has already happened, so why can't there be rebirth? Can't we give good people a chance to start over?

They are so good, but they have suffered so much. Can't they be reborn to have a good ending? Why can't they have a good ending..."

At the end of her words, the tears in her eyes slid down her face, and she looked at him with tearful eyes and questioned him.

It was as if Lu Ci also prevented the good guys from having a good ending, and the questions he asked left him speechless.

Lu Ci is also a normal person who doesn't care about anything, but when faced with the tears of a woman he cares about, he will find ways to comfort her and make her happy.

Now Lu Ci was sensitively aware that she was grieving the death of her relatives, and more than one relative.

He had not investigated her background, so he did not know whose death had such a great impact on her besides her grandmother.

Seeing her crying silently, Lu Ci's first reaction was no longer that it was shameful to watch her cry on his face.

Instead, there was a vague dull pain in the chest, as if smoke had entered the lungs and he couldn't cough it out.

"Don't cry, I said something wrong, I said something wrong, okay, don't cry."

Lu Ci also hurriedly took out tissues to wipe her tears, his face full of anxiety.

Xie Xingran sniffed and said, "Then tell me, is there any rebirth in this world?"

Lu Ci also sighed helplessly.

"Yes, I also think that there is rebirth in this world. Well... after all, the world is so big that there are all kinds of strange things.

If something as miraculous as soul swapping can happen, then rebirth is just a matter of a word from God.

"Tell me who you want to be reborn, and I'll ask God to help you get it, okay?"

Xie Xingran: "Really?"

Lu Ciye: ...Can I say it’s fake?

"Forget it, it's good that you have this intention." Xie Xingran wiped away his tears and returned to his expressionless look.

"I know you're afraid of ghosts, so you don't want to believe in rebirth."

From the moment Xie Xingran exchanged with him on the first day and heard his inner voice,

She was fantasizing whether her brothers would encounter strange things like her.

For example - reborn in a parallel world.

She was looking forward to her brother breaking the deadlock after his rebirth and living a good life with his sister Ayan.

Lu Ci also felt relieved when he saw her calm down.

But the next moment, when he heard her revealing her own shortcomings and still vowing that there is rebirth in the world, he couldn't help but twitch his lips.

"Yes, yes, I'm afraid of ghosts, I'm timid. You're not afraid, you just need to be brave, okay?" He said with a hint of sarcasm.

Xie Xingran ignored his sarcasm and gave a sincere suggestion:

"Think of it this way: the ghosts you fear are people others miss day and night. And even if your deceased relatives become ghosts, they will definitely be ghosts protecting you. So, would you still be afraid?"

It seemed like he had heard about this before, so Lu Ci was not comforted at all. Instead, he was in the mood to joke:

"Thank you, but my dad said he will turn into a star, not a ghost. If you miss him, just look up at the sky, instead of performing a ritual to make him appear."

Xie Xingran was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "What a coincidence, my sister Yan also said that."

Lu Ci was also puzzled: "You have a sister?"

Xie Xingran didn't hide it anymore and nodded:

"To be precise, she was my sister-in-law. My brother liked her, and she liked my brother too... It's a pity that they were never officially together until they died."

Lu Ci was also shocked and silent, not knowing what to say.

[It turns out she has a brother. With so many relatives gone, it's no wonder she doesn't like to smile.]

[…But I really hope she can smile more.]

Xie Xingran stared into his sincere eyes, in which she was fully reflected.

The corners of her lips suddenly smiled, and she said to him:

"Lu Ciye, let's get married."