"I'm going to take a shower first."
A man's deep, magnetic voice came from behind her, sending a jolt through Song Yunfei.
Her eyes snapped open. What met her gaze was a mottled, aged wall, covered in colorful graffiti drawn by who-knows-who.
Song Yunfei was confused. Wasn't she just in a taxi? Where on earth had she ended up?
Before she could figure it out, an intense hunger pang hit her, making her feel dizzy and faint.
Catching the scent of food in the air, Song Yunfei struggled to push herself up.
Only then did she realize she was lying on a bed.
It was a fairly large studio apartment, with the dining table and bed sharing the same room. Diagonally across from her was the bathroom.
Not far behind her, a man was taking off his jacket.
The man was broad-shouldered and long-legged, with deep-set eyes and sharp, three-dimensional features, giving off an aloof demeanor.
It was just that the mustard-yellow food delivery uniform he wore clashed rather awkwardly with his aura.
Song Yunfei blinked, staring at the man for a good while.
The man seemed to notice her gaze. He hung the delivery jacket on a chair and glanced up at her.
"You should eat first. After my shower... I'll come."
His face was expressionless. After saying this, he headed into the bathroom.
Song Yunfei, still in a daze, decided to fill her stomach first and think later.
However, just as she was about to get out of bed, a buzzing filled her head, and a flood of memories that weren't her own surged forward.
She froze on the spot.
T-transmigrated into a book?
She remembered! She remembered everything now!
She had been on her way to the airport in a taxi, killing time by reading a novel, when the taxi collided head-on with a sports car that ran a red light. Then, she had transmigrated into this very novel she was reading.
The man from just now was the male lead of the book, Chu Jinhan.
And the body she had transmigrated into was also named Song Yunfei.
The original host had once been a minor employee at Yanjin Group in Haishi City. Six months ago, she went to the airport to pick up a client.
She didn't find the client. Instead, she bumped into someone.
And that someone happened to be the company's CEO, Chu Jinhan, whom she had only met once before.
On the way to the hospital, Chu Jinhan suddenly woke up... and had lost his memory.
Terrified of going to jail and feeling anxious, the original host made a bold decision: she lied to Chu Jinhan, claiming she was his girlfriend.
She spun a tale about them being childhood sweethearts, both growing up in an orphanage, with her supporting him through school and studying abroad, waiting for him for five years.
She claimed he had just returned and provoked some enemies, got beaten up and lost his memory, and that she had barely managed to rescue him. Astoundingly, Chu Jinhan believed it.
The original host immediately quit her job, didn't even collect her final paycheck, and took him to this remote Qingcheng overnight.
Once in Qingcheng, using the excuse of hiding from his enemies, she made him stay in this rented room for over two months.
She confiscated his phone and prevented him from accessing any new media devices.
Only after the news died down and reports of his disappearance stopped did she allow Chu Jinhan to look for a job.
She even forbade him from applying to big companies, saying she was afraid his enemies might recognize him.
After all sorts of psychological manipulation, she accompanied him to find a job at a small company as a low-level clerk, earning a monthly salary of 3,500.
But 3,500 was far from enough for their monthly expenses. Left with no choice, Chu Jinhan found an additional night job delivering food.
As for the original host, her mind was solely occupied with having a child with Chu Jinhan.
That way, even if he recovered his memory in the future, for the child's sake, he wouldn't make things difficult for her. She might even have a chance to marry into wealth, or at the very least, get a large sum of money.
So she never got a job herself, not knowing when Chu Jinhan might regain his memory. She spent all day scheming about how to sleep with him.
But although Chu Jinhan had amnesia, his brain still worked. Despite the original host's seemingly sincere story, he still had his doubts.
The fact that she gave him a new phone and number, with no contacts other than her, was suspicious in itself.
Moreover, Chu Jinhan couldn't feel any affection for the original host.
On top of that, over the past six months, her controlling behavior was extreme—throwing a fit if he didn't reply to a message within a minute, checking in on him over a dozen times a day.
Besides that, she was lazy and gluttonous, doing nothing all day except thinking about sleeping with him.
When Chu Jinhan returned from his delivery shifts at night, he still had to clean the apartment and bring her food.
His feelings towards the original host slowly shifted from guilt to resentment, and he often stayed out delivering food until midnight before coming home.
Then, just two days ago, they had a huge argument over this.
In a fit of anger, Chu Jinhan blurted out his true thoughts, demanding to know if she was hiding something from him.
Panicked, the original host, in a rage, went on a hunger strike... and ended up starving herself to death. When she woke up again, it was Song Yunfei inside.
Furthermore, this book was a rebirth novel where the female lead of a tragic story gets a second chance.
In her previous life, the female lead, who was Chu Jinhan's fiancée, waited for over a year, finally getting news of his return.
What followed was the plot where Chu Jinhan, having lost his memory, returned with a pregnant woman.
That woman was Song Yunfei.
Chu Jinhan stated that she was pregnant and he had to take responsibility.
Song Yunfei thought she had it made. She acted outrageously, bullied Chu Jinhan's mute sister, caused the death of Chu Jinhan's grandfather (by provoking a heart attack), and framed the female lead for it.
Heartbroken, the female lead finally decided to let go, only to die in a car accident soon after.
Chu Jinhan also regained his memory, and the whole truth came to light.
He had a sudden awakening, was grief-stricken, and took fierce revenge on Song Yunfei.
The reborn female lead simply didn't wait around this time. She turned around and got together with Chu Jinhan's younger brother.
Naturally, the plot changed too. Chu Jinhan became the second male lead. Then, upon learning his former fiancée had married someone else, the shock triggered him to regain his memory earlier.
Song Yunfei's miserable ending naturally arrived earlier as well, dying the same death in both lifetimes.
First, Chu Jinhan forcibly aborted the baby in her womb, then sent her to prison. After serving five years, upon her release, she met a tragic end on the streets under Chu Jinhan's continued vengeance.
But Chu Jinhan was the same in both lifetimes—he never won the female lead back. In the previous life, she died. In this life, he became the scumbag male lead-turned-second-male-lead, stuck in a "chasing his wife to the crematorium" scenario.
After absorbing all these memories, Song Yunfei felt like the sky was falling.
These details weren't written in the book. When she was reading earlier, she had thought this Chu Jinhan was too ruthless.
After digesting the memories, she realized the original host was truly the author of her own misfortune.
But now that she had transmigrated into Song Yunfei, she also felt that the punishment didn't quite fit the crime...
Why did she have to bear the consequences for the original host's sins?
There was less than a year left before Chu Jinhan would be found by his family.
No! She had to find a way to run away before he was found.
But where could she go?
Given the Chu family's influence, no matter where she went within the country, they could find her in minutes.
Although she didn't understand why such a powerful family took over a year to find Chu Jinhan in the first place.
Don't ask. The answer is: plot convenience.
Then going abroad was the only option.
But she had no money. The original host had only graduated a year ago, was a spendthrift, and had used online loans to cover the rent when she came here with Chu Jinhan.
She still owed over twenty thousand, unpaid.
After turning it over in her mind, Song Yunfei couldn't come up with a good plan for now.
Better eat first.
She got out of bed, walked to the small table, sat down, and began eating from the takeout container.
Not long after, the sound of running water from the bathroom stopped.
Chu Jinhan walked out, dressed in grey pajamas.
In his hands was a plastic basin containing the clothes he had just washed—not only his own, but also Song Yunfei's.
Song Yunfei's habit was to toss her clothes into the basin to soak each day. With the hot weather, by the time Chu Jinhan returned, they had usually already begun to smell.
After his shower, he would routinely wash hers along with his own. Over time, Song Yunfei had grown increasingly lazy.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say she lived a life of being waited on hand and foot.
Chu Jinhan glanced at the woman eating her meal, remained silent for a moment, then turned to hang the clothes on the balcony.
Hearing the movement, Song Yunfei glanced back at him.
There was no denying it, the man was truly diligent.
He worked a day job, delivered takeout in the evenings, and still came home late at night to do the housework. For a full six months now, he hadn't uttered a single word of complaint.
It was a shame that the man he became after regaining his memory was a completely different person. The more considerate he was now, the more callous he would become later.
After finishing with the laundry, Chu Jinhan tidied up the room before finally walking over and sitting down on the bed, his expression blank as he stared at Song Yunfei.
Song Yunfei hurriedly averted her gaze and looked down, focusing on her boxed meal.
Chu Jinhan had always slept on that worn-out sofa, using the excuse that he returned too late and didn't want to disturb Song Yunfei.
To this day, the two of them hadn't even kissed.
Now, however, he had taken the initiative to sit on the bed. Song Yunfei guessed it was because the original host's hunger strike these past couple of days had forced him to compromise.
