Chapter 15: Going Further and Further Down the Path of Turning Into a Girl
It turned out that unless something really emotional happened...
Trying to trick his body into crying like a girl? Yeah right, not gonna happen.
Trying to cry from watching shows to increase his “girl points” clearly wasn’t working, and with not much time left, Lin Yibai couldn’t help but mutter, “Looks like I’ll have to try something a little extreme.”
For some reason, every time he thought about doing stuff like this... He felt a strange kind of sadness and helplessness.
First, he wanted to go to Binhai to make money. Then, he decided to take the "bad path", pretending to be a girl to become a greeter at the expo and earn fast cash.
Then, in order to become more like a girl and get that job... He had to find ways to raise his "female correction values."
Looking at the whole situation, step by step, it all felt so connected, like he was being forced into turning into a girl, even if he didn’t want to.
Lin Yibai told himself he didn’t want this either!
But... he had no choice!
If he didn’t earn this quick cash, he couldn’t go to Binhai. If he didn’t go to Binhai, Xiaoxue might fall into the hands of that disgusting rival. To stop that from happening, he had no other way... he had to walk this path of slowly becoming more like a girl.
Lin Yibai slammed the table hard and said angrily. “So no matter how I look at it, this is all that rival Xia Changyu’s fault!”
If it wasn’t for Xia Changyu...
Would Lin Yibai have ended up on this path? And even worse, started branching off into this path of slowly turning into a girl?
That guy seriously deserved to die!
Torn into pieces! Gone forever!!
Lin Yibai rubbed his chest and told himself, “Calm down. Don’t get mad. Once I defeat that stupid fish-faced loser, I’ll make him pay, really pay. But right now, I should think about how to slowly become a gir— cough, I mean, how to raise my girl value points!”
Since crying didn’t work, Lin Yibai still had other ideas in mind. But mentally and emotionally, he was really resisting them.
For example, fake voice? Or even worse, cross-dressing?
His heart was in total conflict. He had even hidden the disposable panties he once bought deep in his suitcase, too embarrassed to even look at them.
And now he was suddenly jumping to cross-dressing?
It’s not that Lin Yibai couldn’t do it... it’s just that it was hard to accept all at once.
What if his roommates saw him?
What would they think of him?
Would they see him as some kind of pervert?
Definitely they’d 100% see him as one!
“No way, no way!” Lin Yibai shook his head hard and cried out, “There’s just no way I can do that, no matter how you look at it!”
Last time, Yang Chenjun accidentally got sent a pink towel when shopping online, and the guys teased him for over six months.
If he wore girls’ clothes, wouldn’t that be even worse? Just thinking about that miserable life made Lin Yibai feel sick.
He’d probably never be able to lift his head again. There’s no way I’m going down the cross-dressing path!
While Lin Yibai was feeling hopeless inside, a new post suddenly popped up in Gu Xiaoxue’s Moments feed, a social media update.
【Cute swimsuit ready! Countdown to May Day: 1/5.】
(Attached: a photo of a three-piece swimsuit.)
Lin Yibai: What the hell!?
Suddenly... cross-dressing didn’t seem so bad.
Now it was simple. Either dress up as a girl, get those girl points, and go make money at the expo. Or just sit there and watch Gu Xiaoxue wear that new swimsuit… and show it only to his love rival!
“It’s just cross-dressing!”
“What’s the big deal!!”
“Wearing it won’t kill me, I just…”
Lin Yibai gritted his teeth hard, but in the end, sighed in defeat.
“…Maybe I should just start by practicing a fake girl voice first.”
If he jumped straight into cross-dressing, Lin Yibai was afraid he’d be taking too big of a step, and might end up hurting his balls.
Also, buying girls’ clothes costs money.
But practicing a fake voice? He could learn that for free on Bilibili.
Well… technically not free, since he was a premium member. So how could you call it freeloading?
He searched “fake voice practice” on Bilibili. Then clicked on the most viewed video.
The next moment, Lin Yibai stared at the screen with a weird expression. “Whoa, 400,000 likes, 300,000 coins, 500,000 saves, and 80,000 shares?!”
He gave the video a strange look, then asked from deep in his soul. “What is happening to this world?”
At the same time, he also felt a little comforted. It meant that learning a fake voice… wasn’t such a weird thing after all!
I mean, just look at all those likes, coins, saves, and shares. What does that tell you?
It tells you that this is… A normal social trend, thank you very much.
“So many people are learning fake voice stuff. If I learn it too, what’s the big deal?” Lin Yibai gave himself a reason, and finally started practicing without feeling guilty.
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So-called “fake voice,” huh?
It’s just a way of changing how you speak, kind of like a basic skill that many voice actors use.
He took a deep breath… Then followed the techniques taught by the video creator.
“Eee-yaa-yaa, ah-yee-ah…”
Hmmmm... it sounded like a squeaky eunuch voice, absolutely awful!
Lin Yibai was honestly grossed out by his own voice.
But for the sake of going to Binhai, for the sake of becoming a girl and making quick money, for the sake of beating that damn rival. He gritted his teeth and started a new round of practice.
Maybe it was because he had already turned into a girl once before, but Lin Yibai was learning this fake voice thing surprisingly fast. It almost felt like he had real talent for it.
On the first day, he was still squeaking like a dying duck.
But by the second day, his voice had already softened, like a girl with a bit of a rough voice.
Still… it wasn’t enough.
Tomorrow was the interview for the expo greeter job, and his “girl points” had just passed 50%.
Lin Yibai quietly said, “Looks like I’ll have to work extra hard tonight.”
After saying goodbye to his roommates, Lin Yibai took some water and two bottles of iced pear drink, and disappeared.
About a few hundred meters behind the boys’ dorms, there was an old, three-story building that hadn’t been used in years.
You could tell it was an old school building just by looking at the cracked wooden window frames.
There were lots of scary rumors about this place, and even during the day, barely anyone went near it.
Of course, Lin Yibai was scared too!
But then he thought about Gu Xiaoxue and Xia Changyu together...
And really, is anything scarier than your ex-girlfriend going to the beach with your love rival?
He didn’t dare go inside the classrooms, so he just sat at the sunny stairwell on the third floor. He opened a bottle of iced pear drink and took a small sip.
Then he took a deep breath and began to hum softly. “Hm~ hm~~ hm~ hmm~~~”
No, it wasn’t some weird moaning or sleep talk.
Anyone who thinks something like that, go stand in the corner and reflect!
Everyone has their own way of practicing. This just happened to work best for Lin Yibai.
What he was humming right now...
Was actually the [Judy Humming] from Cyberpunk 2077, a calm and quiet tune.
Even though people had a lot of complaints about the game, Lin Yibai really liked this little humming part.
He was now able to hum in a feminine voice quite well, and he could see his girl points going up.
“Hm~ hm~ hmm~~~”
Lin Yibai was completely lost in his humming. His voice was becoming softer and more beautiful.