Floating life reflects two lotuses

"Hmm...where is this?" Chu Wanlian opened her eyes with difficulty. What came into view was a pale white ceiling, glaring lights, and a pungent smell of disinfectant.

"Lianlian! My darling! You're finally awake!" A voice trembling with tears suddenly rang out, almost startling her awake.

A plump middle-aged woman rushed to the bedside, grabbed her hands tightly, and wiped her tears and snot on her sleeves. "Waaah, if anything happens to you, how can I live!"

Chu Wanlian was completely stunned. She struggled to lift her head from the "tears attack," her face filled with shock: "Who are you?! How dare you touch this princess without permission!"

"Huh?" The middle-aged woman looked puzzled, her expression gradually freezing. "Lianlian, are you delirious from the fever after just waking up? I'm your mother!"

"Mom?" Chu Wanlian's eyes widened, and she almost choked on her breath. "My father is the Emperor, and you dare to impersonate my mother? How dare you do this!"

The air became silent for a moment.

The scene of the mother's death

Xu Nianni, who was standing to the side, was trying so hard not to laugh that she almost hurt herself: "Auntie, is she perhaps playing an immersive role-playing game after waking up?"

Xiao's mother's eyes reddened, and she turned around and pulled Nian Ni over: "Nian Ni! What's wrong with Lian Lian? Has she been watching too many TV dramas? Or reading too many novels? How come she's living in a parallel universe!"

"Auntie..." Xu Nianni tried hard to suppress her laughter and reassured her, "Maybe she just hit her head? It's okay, we can treat her at the hospital!"

Just then, the door was pushed open, and the doctor walked in, attempting to examine Chu Wanlian's pupils. Before he even got close, she shouted coldly, "How dare you! How dare you approach this princess?! Do you want to be beheaded?!"

The doctor was stunned, and the nurse even took a half step back in fright: "Family member, this condition is a bit special. How about we sign a consent form first?"

Xiao's mother's legs went weak: "Doctor, are you saying... my daughter might really have brain damage?"

"It's a bit risky..." The doctor pushed up his glasses, his expression complicated. "Given her condition, I suggest she be hospitalized for observation first, and then we can try to get her into a mental health department."

Soul Involution: Two-Player Battlefield

Just as Chu Wanlian was coldly staring at the doctor, a voice suddenly exploded in her mind:

"Hey! Who are you?! Why are you inside my body?"

Chu Wanlian's pupils dilated in shock: "Who goes there! Get out here right now!"

"You're the one who should get lost! This is my body! Where did you come from, you monster?! You've been watching too many time-travel dramas, haven't you?!"

"A monster?" Chu Wanlian sneered, "I am the eldest princess of the Great Chu, how dare you be so insolent!"

"Princess?" Xiao Jinlian's voice rose eight octaves. "Who gave me the wrong script?! I'm Xiao Jinlian, just an ordinary working person. How did you manage to usurp my place for no reason?!"

"What working class?" Chu Wanlian was completely confused.

"It's just manual labor! I spend my days slacking off, writing, clocking in, and just going through the motions, and then I wake up to find myself the protagonist of this ridiculous story?!"

Chu Wanlian gritted her teeth in anger: "Nonsense! It must be that evil concubine used sorcery to trap this princess here!"

"A vixen?" Xiao Jinlian was in despair. "If you keep making this up, it'll be on the front page! I don't care who you are, give me back my body, I still have to meet my KPIs!"

The two were exchanging words and pulling at each other, the scene resembling a group of elementary school students fighting.

A magical start to modern society

Chu Wanlian, unable to bear it any longer, coldly said, "Your name is Jinlian, right? Since things have come to this, this princess will allow you to share this body with me and assist this princess in finding out the truth."

"Share it? Sis, I don't want to share it!" Xiao Jinlian was almost in tears. "This is my birthday! Do you know there's a mid-year review meeting tomorrow? If I show up like this, I'm afraid I'll be fired immediately!"

"Fried squid?" Chu Wanlian frowned. "Are you perhaps a chef?"

Xiao Jinlian was so angry she almost had a heart attack: "Chef my foot! I'm just an ordinary office worker! Okay, enough talking, let's figure out how to switch back! This script has absolutely no sense of ethics!"

Chu Wanlian sneered: "Since that's the case, don't spout nonsense. This princess will investigate the truth and then set you free."

Xiao Jinlian: "Big sister, can't you use a more modern term? What do you mean by 'you'll set me free'? It's giving me a headache."

The ruthless clash of reality

At this moment, Xu Nianni peeked out from outside the ward and cautiously asked, "Lianlian, are you alright? The doctor said all your indicators are normal, you're probably just a little disoriented from the fall. Should we go home?"

Chu Wanlian gave her a cold glance: "When did I, the princess, allow you to address me by my real name?"

Xu Nianni froze on the spot: "Uh... Lianlian, have you really traveled back to the Qianlong era?"

Chu Wanlian ignored her, turned around and stared at the moonlight outside the window, murmuring softly, "Where exactly is this place... If it is truly the work of the evil concubine, this princess will definitely sever this ill-fated relationship with my own hands!"

Behind her, Xu Nianni sighed and turned to whisper to Xiao's mother, "Auntie, this plot is getting more and more outrageous. Are you sure this isn't because Lianlian has been too engrossed in watching palace dramas lately?"

Xiao's mother sighed, "Heaven knows, this child is becoming more and more surreal..."

The corridor lights flickered on and off. Chu Wanlian stared at the blurry image on the glass window, and Xiao Jinlian's frantic voice echoed in her mind again: "Hey, please figure out what's going on, my head is about to explode!"

Chu Wanlian gritted her teeth: "My head is throbbing terribly! You mortal, shut up!"

The two continued their back-and-forth banter, creating a chaotic scene that seemed destined to be a protracted farce.