Chapter 5: From "He" to "She" — Humble and Beautiful
Five minutes?
Lin Yibai looked at the countdown and felt terrified. But at the same time, she also wanted to stay and see her love rival make a fool of herself.
Time slowly ticked by.
“60, 59, 58, 57…”
Crap, I can’t hold it anymore.
The pressure was just too much. And there were only five minutes left.
He didn’t even have enough time to call a taxi and go home. There’s no way he could transform in public!
He quickly looked toward the bathroom and rushed inside before the countdown ended.
Standing in a stall, as the timer hit zero, Lin Yibai suddenly felt her breathing become heavy.
“Is someone trying to rob and kill me…?”
Wait, no—it's the chest!
Lin Yibai felt something heavy and tight, it was uncomfortable. And then her chest started swelling right in front of her eyes.
“What the heck, is this breast cancer?!”
A soft and sweet voice came out, with a hint of fear. It made her nervous.
“What?! My voice!”
Where’s my deep, manly voice?
Back then, Lin Yibai could have totally shown off his ability to make that low, creaky voice sound for a whole minute in front of his roommates. Now, her voice was delicate and gentle.
Then, with a trembling hand and a hopeless heart, She reached down… and checked.
“What—?! My little buddy is gone!”
Lin Yibai was facing a huge crisis. She couldn’t explain what was happening to her, but it seemed like she really had temporarily turned into a girl.
But... Stay calm. Don’t panic.
She took out her phone and turned on the front camera.
Snap~
Then she looked at the selfie, and gasped, “Wow… Who is this pretty girl?!”
Oh. Looks like… it’s me.
Okay then, no big deal—wait, what?! Of course it’s a big deal!
At this point, Lin Yibai even wanted to cut herself open and find out what exactly caused her to become a girl.
While she was deep in thought, someone outside the bathroom stall knocked angrily.
Bang bang bang!
Bang bang~
“Hey, brother, are you done yet? Hurry up, I really can’t hold it anymore!” The voice sounded desperate.
Lin Yibai could tell the guy outside was about to explode.
Hiding in the bathroom forever wasn’t a solution. So she unlocked the door.
Creak~
She stepped out and snapped, “Why are you yelling? You think you’re being reborn or something?!”
Normally, in a guy’s voice, this would sound annoyed and a bit threatening.
But coming out of her mouth now. It sounded kind of… cute.
The man outside blinked in surprise. “A g-girl?!”
She had a lovely face, delicate features, fair glowing skin, soft pink lips of just the right shape, stylish short black hair, and a face so utterly charming it felt almost like a cheat.
No way. Could he have walked into the wrong restroom?
But seeing the urinals behind her, he was sure, this was the men’s room.
“Gir—” Lin Yibai also panicked for a second, then quickly remembered she had transformed. She hurriedly said, “So what if I’m a girl? Is it weird for girls to use the men’s room?”
The guy couldn’t wait any longer. He rushed into the stall and started unbuckling his belt.
And then he caught a strange smell in the air. Was it left behind by that girl just now?
Wow, even fairies must smell sweet…
Then suddenly, Lin Yibai kindly called out from outside, “Hey, just so you know, I only went in there to fix my makeup, I didn’t poop.”
Man: “Huh?”
Wait—she… she didn’t poop?!
So the strange smell wasn’t from that girl? Thinking it came from another guy’s dark, stinky dump… ugh, blegh, blegh! *vomit noises.*
Did he have food poisoning or something?
Whatever!
Lin Yibai needed to go back to the restaurant first.
With how she looked now, she really couldn’t just walk around outside like nothing had happened.
“Pay the bill first, then run.”
Just then, some strange looks came from the urinal area.
A tall girl in the men’s restroom, was this really okay?
But Lin Yibai didn’t care at all. She looked at the man staring, let her gaze slide downward a little, and teased, “What are you staring at? Also, your thing is pretty small.”
Man: “Uh…”
Just as the man was feeling embarrassed and sad, he realized Lin Yibai had already run out of the restroom.
She didn’t want to waste the food she barely had two bites of.
“Waiter, could you pack this up, please…”
Just as Lin Yibai was about to slip away, the restaurant’s floor manager walked over with a group of staff.
He was holding a confetti cannon.
Right beside her, Boom! The confetti cannon went off, and the staff all clapped.
“Congratulations! You are the 100,000th customer since our restaurant opened!”
“Huh?”
“As a reward, your meal today is completely free!”
“What?” Lin Yibai was stunned. Then she asked, “You mean I can order anything?”
“Anything that’s on the menu.”
Suddenly, Lin Yibai didn’t feel like leaving anymore.
She started to guess, maybe this was the effect of the "good luck card" she got after transforming?
At first, she wanted to order everything on the menu.
But that idea disappeared the moment she heard the loud chewing sounds from the table next to her, where Gu Xiaoxue and her friends were.
Their table had sixteen dishes. It was so many the restaurant had to push extra tables together just to fit everything.
Looking at how they were eating like starved beasts…
Did she really want to become someone like Gu Xiaoxue’s roommate?
Also, both Gu Xiaoxue and her “love rival” were here. Even as a girl, Lin Yibai didn’t want to make a bad impression in front of her rival.
Hey, my rival, watch closely. This is what a polite, classy, ideal girl looks like from a guy’s point of view.
Lin Yibai pointed at the menu and ordered just one meat dish and one veggie dish.
“These are enough.”
“…Huh?” The floor manager looked shocked.
“I haven’t even finished what I ordered earlier. I’m just one girl, I really can’t eat that much!”
“But…” The manager still looked awkward.
“Excuse me, is something wrong?”
“It’s just… your order is too simple. If we treat our 100,000th customer like this, I feel like I’m not doing my job well.”
Lin Yibai thought for a moment and then smiled, “Oh, I see… In that case, can I add a roast goose and some crispy pork belly? And if you have a few cans of beer, I’d love to bring them home for my friends.”
“You can order even more if you want!”
“No need. The weather’s hot, and food might spoil by tomorrow. Just enough to eat is fine… Don’t get me wrong, I am a greedy person, but there’s really no need to overdo it.”
“Miss, your manners are truly impressive.”
“……”
Lin Yibai had once wondered, what kind of girl was her ideal? Or rather, what kind of girls do guys like?
The kind she was now: polite, well-mannered, and beautiful. Not perfect, maybe. But most guys would definitely take notice.
Lin Yibai simply thought she was just doing what guys imagine a perfect girl would do.
And the main goal? To be the complete opposite of Gu Xiaoxue’s table.
Those girls were like starving zombies, shoveling food like it was their last meal.
But Lin Yibai?
She was calm, elegant, and humble. Enough to earn respect from everyone around.