Overnight Hit: Vicious Stepmother and Genius Son
Chapter 531 - 528 (first update~)

Chapter 531: 528 (first update~)

Ye Zhenzhen was considering which hotel to stay in when she received a call from Su Xi.

"Zhenzhen, are you out?"

Ye Zhenzhen puzzled, "How did you know?"

She had just thought that it was so late, Su Xi must be resting and didn’t contact her.

Naturally, Su Xi called Ye Zhenzhen after just receiving a call from Cheng Zheng, who learned that Song Jinze was looking for his wife.

"Of course, President Song was anxious and called everyone to find you, that’s how I knew, come to Dihao Hotel, I just took a bath and it’s inconvenient for me to come down, I’ll have someone pick you up."

Ye Zhenzhen checked the navigation map on her phone, Dihao Hotel was not far ahead, she responded, "Okay, I’ll be there soon."

At the entrance of the hotel, Ye Zhenzhen got out of the car and someone immediately came to park it for her.

Su Xi’s secretary smiled at her politely and said, "Our President Su is waiting for you in the room."

Ye Zhenzhen nodded, "Okay."

—"Zhenzhen!"

The moment Ye Zhenzhen saw Qin Lang, the slight smile on her face immediately vanished. It was truly annoying to encounter him at this time and place.

Qin Lang smiled, "It really is you, I thought I saw wrong."

"Mm."

Ye Zhenzhen just replied indifferently and did not continue the conversation.

Qin Lang pointed to the secretary next to Ye Zhenzhen and asked, "Are you here for something?"

"Mm, I have something, I have to go."

After dropping this sentence, Ye Zhenzhen left with the secretary.

Qin Lang watched Ye Zhenzhen leave until she entered the elevator. He looked at the elevator floor indicator changing until it stabilized at the top floor.

The presidential suite of Dihao Hotel?

The next morning.

Liu Rui learned that Ye Zhenzhen was in the downtown area, so she came to the hotel early to meet her, and then they headed to the set together.

During the drive, Liu Rui suddenly slowed down and stopped the car, suggesting, "Zhenzhen, let’s eat beef noodles there before we go."

Ye Zhenzhen looked through the window, wasn’t that the same place she and Song Jin had eaten a few days ago?

The taste was indeed good.

Liu Rui continued, "Haven’t you been there for a long time? Let’s go, I’ll accompany you today."

Ye Zhenzhen was puzzled; had she been here before?

It was still early, and it was winter, so there weren’t many people in the shop.

Two bowls of spicy beef noodles were served; the fifty-something owner’s gaze lingered on Ye Zhenzhen, looking over and over again, until finally, he couldn’t help but ask, "Miss, has anyone ever told you that you look a lot like the celebrity Ye Zhenzhen?"

Ye Zhenzhen: "..."

Liu Rui was just lifting noodles with her chopsticks into her mouth and almost couldn’t help laughing out loud.

Perhaps since it wasn’t busy, the owner went on, "Let me tell you, that Ye Zhenzhen used to come to our shop very often before she became famous, she was so beautiful!"

Ye Zhenzhen picked up on a very crucial piece of information — often come?

The original owner used to come here often?

Soon, the owner’s wife came over and pulled her husband away, "Old man, what nonsense are you talking about? This person is Ye Zhenzhen~ She and her husband were here eating noodles at our shop the other night, you weren’t around!"

"Oh~ really, my apologies, I have old eyes and couldn’t see clearly!"

The owner’s wife noticed that the vinegar bottle wasn’t placed on the table where they were sitting, so she quickly turned around, fetched a bottle of vinegar, and put it there, "Miss Ye, please enjoy!"

Ye Zhenzhen stared at the beef noodles in front of her and the bottle of vinegar with a blank expression, believing that her last visit here with Song Jinze was her first time.

Liu Rui reminded her, "Zhenzhen, add some vinegar and hurry up to eat, the place will get crowded soon."

Ye Zhenzhen picked up a chopstick full of noodles, "You know I like to add vinegar to my noodles?"

Liu Rui laughed, "Didn’t you bring me here before? You said you can’t eat noodles without vinegar, of course, I remember."

"..."

Ye Zhenzhen’s heart gave a violent squeeze, and at that moment, she seemed to understand Song Jinze’s abnormal behavior over the past few days.

Moreover, it seemed he also knew she liked to add vinegar to her noodles which meant that these memories of the original owner were not present in her.

Then what she had told him that day about not liking vinegar...

"Zhenzhen, did you run off to the hotel again in the middle of the night? What if the reporters catch you again? Have you forgotten the scandal you caused the last time you stayed at a hotel? Isn’t living in the quiet Qingquan Villa better than this noisy downtown area?"

"I caused a scandal last time?"

Ye Zhenzhen grasped another key point.

Even though she knew the memories in her head did not match up with the original owner’s past events, and it could be said that she had completely forgotten, she had not expected to forget so many crucial things.

"After you went viral for staying in the hotel last time, you told me you’d temporarily move to Qingquan Villa. I even had your former assistant send stuff over for you."

Ye Zhenzhen: "..."

Had the original owner been to Qingquan Villa before?

Liu Rui saw Ye Zhenzhen’s reaction and just assumed she had forgotten due to being too busy, smiling she said, "You know, if I didn’t see you right here in front of me, real as ever, I would actually think someone snatched your body and replaced your soul."

Ye Zhenzhen inwardly cursed her fate, realizing what was happening.

That’s why, after Jinze picked her up from Lemon Channel that night and they ate here, and then went back to Qingquan Villa, the next day he suddenly changed.

It wasn’t that the man had changed suddenly, but rather, he had realized his wife had changed.

So, it wasn’t that he was trying to scheme against her!

If forgetting other things from the original owner’s past could still be explained, then this habit of eating noodles with vinegar, and the fact that she had stayed at Qingquan Villa and was connected to Song Jinze, made his suspicions completely reasonable.

Even Liu Rui had mentioned twice recently that it was as if her soul had been swapped.

The critical point was that her soul had indeed been swapped.

Thinking about how troubled she had been over this the past two days, Ye Zhenzhen couldn’t help but laugh bitterly, so what should she do next? How could she come clean to Song Jinze about this?

Should she say that she had actually transmigrated into a book? And that these people were merely characters, and this was another world entirely separate from reality?

Liu Rui noticed the person beside her had not touched her food and reminded her, "Zhenzhen, aren’t you eating?"

"I am."

Only by eating her fill would she have the energy to think things through.

With so much crammed into her heart and mind, Ye Zhenzhen felt full after just a few bites.

When she got back to the car, she checked the time and saw it wasn’t even 7 a.m. yet, and she made a significant decision.

"Huahua, turn around at the front and take me to Huanya Group."

Going there now, she should arrive just in time to catch that man starting his workday.

Liu Rui cautioned her, "Your shooting starts at 9 a.m. today. Going there now, you’ll hit traffic and might not make it back in time."

"Then help me ask for a couple of hours leave from Director Yang, I have something important I must sort out this morning," she said.

Having considered in depth what Su Xi had said the previous night before sleep stole over her, if Song Jinze truly intended to control her, he wouldn’t have bothered to coddle her before.

Now that she knew the issue arose because of her, she would go and clear things up proactively.

She had no desire to live her days with both of them constantly second-guessing each other, which would be too exhausting.