Ou Xiaoxiao in front of her... had mories only till her childhood.
There was no other mory...
How was that possible? No... it was possible only if Ou Xiaoixao in front of her... wasn’t the real Ou Xiaoxiao.
The soul of the real Ou Xiaoxiao... either died, or her soul has been swapped.
Then who was she?
Ou Xiaoxiao, on the other hand, was completely unaware that her reality had been exposed.
"You! Leave ! Let confront him!" She shouted.
Yu Holea massaged her temples and reached a conclusion. Without hesitation, she knocked out Ou Xiaoxiao.
Earlier, she still had so mixed feelings about Ou Xiaoxiao being her cousin, but now? None.
This wasn’t just a scandal.
This was sothing far, far worse.
She reached into her coat and tapped her communicator, calling her supervisor.
"Director," she said quickly, keeping her voice low. "I need ergency leave. Starting now. dical reason. I’ll submit the form later."
Before he could respond or ask questions, she cut the line.
No ti to explain. No ti to argue.
...................
In no ti, Yu Holea found a hotel nearby and carried Ou Xiaoxiao there.
Yu Holea laid the girl carefully onto the bed. Her expression hardened as she closed the door and locked it with a soft click.
Then, she moved.
From her coat, she pulled out a long, thin talisman covered in glowing script. Her fingers traced the markings before she whispered a short chant.
The paper lit up with a cool blue light and drifted gently above the unconscious girl’s chest.
"Show ... if the soul belongs," she murmured.
The talisman hovered for a mont, then dropped.
Right onto Ou Xiaoxiao’s chest.
And turned blue.
If Ou Xiaoxiao’s soul was already in her body, then it would have turned white; if Ou Xiaoxiao’s true soul had died, the talisman would have turned golden.
But if the talisman turns blue, then it ans that the real soul was swapped by soone.
Holea’s stomach twisted.
So it was a swapped soul.
She leaned forward, frowning. "But who the hell are you...?"
No answer ca. Not yet.
Instead of wasting ti chasing shadows, she took a breath and let her own energy pulse outward, wrapping the girl’s body in light restraints—thin threads of mystic power that would keep her still.
Then, with a snap of her fingers, she jolted the girl awake.
"AHHH!" Ou Xiaoxiao scread, jerking upright. Her arms twitched, but the restraints held firm.
"What the hell?! Let go of !"
Her eyes darted around the room, then locked onto Yu Holea.
"You crazy bitch!" she shouted. "What is this?! Where am I?!"
Yu Holea didn’t react. Her arms were folded, her expression unreadable.
"I saved you," she said calmly.
"You kidnapped !"
"I stopped you from getting yourself and your family dragged through the mud."
The girl scoffed. "This is because of him, isn’t it? You just can’t handle that I’ve finally found soone better than your precious Qiao Jun."
Holea’s brow twitched. "Excuse ?"
"Yeah, that’s right! You saw how handso ng Nanhao is. Admit it! That’s why you stopped . You wanted him for yourself."
"...Pig brain," Holea muttered under her breath.
"What did you say?!"
"I said, you’re not acting like the daughter of a prestigious family. You’re acting like a brainless drama extra from a bad soap opera."
The girl turned red, not from sha, but from sheer fury. "How dare you! Just because you’re a bitter—"
But Holea wasn’t listening anymore.
She was staring at her.
Really staring.
No refinent. No grace. No upbringing. This girl wasn’t just acting childish—she was completely lacking the poise and self-awareness that Ou Xiaoxiao had been known for.
This wasn’t immaturity.
This was a completely different person.
Soone is too loud. Too delusional. Too... simple.
Yu Holea narrowed her eyes.
"You... You’re not just a swapped soul," she whispered. "You’re a soul from sowhere else entirely. Maybe not even this world."
That shut the girl up. For a mont.
Then she laughed—shrill and mocking.
"You’ve gone nuts! What’s next? You gonna say I’m a demon princess too?!"
Holea stepped forward, her voice low and deadly serious.
"I don’t care if you think I’m crazy. But you’re not leaving this room until I figure out who you are... and where the real Ou Xiaoxiao went."
Ou Xiaoxiao’s mouth was still twisted in a mocking grin, but her eyes flickered—just for a second.
How did she know?
How could this woman, this sharp-eyed, annoying woman, tell that her soul didn’t belong?
It wasn’t possible... right?
She had been so careful. She had practiced the expressions, the posture. The giggles. The sweetness.
Even the way the real Ou Xiaoxiao tilted her head when she laughed. She had watched every mory, copied every detail.
But sohow, this Yu Holea... had seen through it all.
’Did she sense sothing earlier?’
’Did I slip up... back at the tracks?’
’No... that can’t be. She’s bluffing. Just trying to ss with .’
Her mind raced, panic swelling in her chest like a storm cloud. Still, she kept her expression defiant and bold.
"I get it now," she scoffed, voice dripping with disdain.
"This is about ng Nanhao. You want him, don’t you? That’s why you’re locking up like so villain—so you can take him for yourself."
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Yu Holea didn’t respond at first. She simply looked at her, quiet, unreadable.
Then she blinked slowly, like soone who had finally confird a long-standing suspicion.
"You’re just pretending to be dumb," she said flatly.
She reached into her coat again.
This ti, she pulled out a different talisman—sharper, darker in its script. Without warning, she flicked it toward the restrained girl.
"No—!" Ou Xiaoxiao twisted, but the talisman stuck directly to her collarbone. A surge of energy rippled through her, causing her body to jolt.
"Get it off!" she scread, clawing at it, but her fingers slipped right through the glowing seal. It wouldn’t budge.
Yu Holea stepped closer, gaze locked and hard as iron.
"Now," she said quietly, "tell who you are."
For a second, everything went still.
Then it burst out of her mouth—like sothing she’d been holding in for too long.
"Yu i!" the girl shouted. "My na is Yu i!"
Yu Holea froze.
The air in the room changed.
It was like soone had opened a window to the dead of winter. Cold. Still. Sharp.
Yu Holea’s expression darkened slowly, her jaw tensing as her mind reeled.
Yu i?
That na wasn’t unfamiliar.
But it wasn’t possible. It couldn’t be.
She stepped back, studying the girl—this thing—in front of her.
"You... you’re Yu i?" she repeated carefully, voice quiet and dangerous.
The girl’s chest was heaving slightly, her face pale now that the words were out.
Yu Holea narrowed her eyes.
"You are Yu i’s soul... no... it ans you are the real Yu i, and your body has been taken over by soone else?"
The more Yu Holea talked, the more she felt that her words were making sense.
A flicker of confusion and fear crossed the girl’s face.
"I... I don’t know."
"You don’t know?" Holea’s voice dropped.
"I swear I don’t!" Yu i, trapped in Ou Xiaoxiao’s body, cried out.
Yu Holea’s fingers curled tightly at her side, her eyes unblinking as they bore into the girl before her—Yu i.
The na still echoed in her head like a warning bell.
"Tell ," she said coldly, "what do you know? Everything. Don’t leave anything out."
Yu i hesitated, her lips trembling.
"I... I don’t know much," she stamred, her voice hoarse. "I really don’t..."
Holea’s expression didn’t change, but sothing in her aura grew darker, heavier. "Try."
Yu i shut her eyes, biting her lip, and for a mont, she looked her age again—young, lost, afraid.
"It happened just a decade ago," she began quietly. "I was still... . In my real body. Just... living my normal life in the Yu household. I an, it wasn’t perfect."
She swallowed hard.
"...a woman ca to . I don’t know how she found . She was just there one day. In the garden. I thought she was a guest or sothing, but she looked at like she already knew everything."
Yu Holea didn’t interrupt. She just listened.
"She told ... I wasn’t the real daughter of the Yu family."
Yu i’s voice cracked.
"I thought it was a cruel joke. But then she showed this paper. It had... records. Hospital files, birth logs. She said I was switched at birth. "
She let out a shaky breath. "I didn’t want to believe her. But when I asked soone to conduct a DNA test, everything ca to light."
Yu i kept going, her voice softer now, almost like she was ashad of what ca next.
"I didn’t know what to do. I wanted to scream. Run. Tell the Yu family everything... or maybe just disappear. But then..."
Her fists clenched against the glowing restraints.
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