Chapter 5
On this end of the video call, I quickly covered my mouth and took a deep breath.
So I was right–that poodle really could talk.
In my previous life, I had accidentally overheard Theodore talking to the poodle and heard its response. At the time, I thought I was having auditory hallucinations, but now my suspicions were finally confirmed.
After I died in my previous life, Theodore was furious. He frantically rushed me to the hospital for emergency treatment, and even after learning I was dead, he insisted they continue trying to save me.
I thought at the time that he couldn’t accept his wife dying at their wedding. But then I heard him say to the poodle: “It’s all Sofia’s fault, that idiot ruined our plan. Now that Liliana is dead, her body is useless. We need to find another target.”
The poodle lay in his arms, its voice filled with anger: “That woman is driving me crazy. You must make Sofia suffer. We planned this for so long, and it all fell apart like this.”
At the time, I thought that because I had died and become a spirit, I could hear animals speak. I never imagined that the poodle could actually talk and had human thoughts and emotions. No–she was originally human.
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I was reborn before I could fully accept that I was dead.
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Although I hadn’t figured out exactly what Theodore was trying to do, I understood they definitely had some grand conspiracy, and this was why Theodore suddenly wanted to get married.
But I never expected Sofia to be reborn too. She had gotten ahead of me and done everything I had done in my previous life. This gave me the perfect opportunity to figure out what was really going on.
Right now, Sofia was completely terrified. She pointed at the poodle in horror, trembling all over: “Isn’t it just an animal? How can an animal talk?”
Theodore sneered: “You’re the animal! Lucy just accidentally got her soul trapped in this poodle’s body, so she temporarily needs to depend on its flesh to live. Once she gets her body back, she’ll naturally become human again.”
The poodle also let out a cold laugh, staring greedily at Sofia’s body with terrifying eyes: “If you hadn’t been such a disobedient idiot, I would have succeeded by now.”
Sofia seemed to finally understand something, trembling as she said: “Where are you going to find her body? Are you planning to let this animal take over my body?”
In my previous life, Sofia had only seen how I became successful
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because of this poodle. So in this life, she only thought about money and jewelry, never imagining something like this could happen. Her mind was nearly collapsing now.
“Bullshit!” Theodore couldn’t help but kick her again. “You’re the animal! Hurry up and put on those clothes, then go stand in the bedroom like I told you. Once your souls swap at midnight, your job will be done.”
Sofia’s face went pale, and her mind finally started working: ‘Soul swap? You mean this animal’s–no, this woman’s soul will go into my body, and my soul will go into this dog’s body?”
She finally understood Theodore’s purpose completely, then frantically stood up and pleaded loudly: “Mr. Jones, I was wrong. I shouldn’t have been so vain. Please let me go.
“No, you’ve got the wrong person. The person you really want is Liliana. Liliana was the one who adopted this poodle. I stole it from her. That’s how it was in the previous life. Please! Please go find Liliana to swap souls with. Don’t come after me. I don’t want to become an animal!”
Seeing Sofia figure everything out and turn to run toward the phone, I quickly ended the video call. I gripped my phone tightly, my face pale.
This was indeed a brilliant scheme. So even if Sofia hadn’t killed me in my previous life, I wouldn’t have had a good ending anyway.
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