Chapter 9: Did I just hit his weak spot?!
Great! Finally, the guys in the dorm had all fallen asleep.
Lin Yibai finally let out a small sigh of relief. The way she looked right now was just too strange, wasn’t it?
Fucheng’s weather was way too hot. After tidying up, Lin Yibai went to take a shower. But standing in front of the full-length mirror she had bought from the street and stuck to the wall, he hesitated again.
In the reflection, she could see a girl with an incredibly sweet face. She had star-like eyes that blinked as she struggled with her thoughts, a small delicate nose, red lips, and a smooth, slender neck.
“This?”
Lin Yibai took a deep breath.
Even her voice now sounded a little soft and cute because of how nervous she was.
“This is bad. Not just the guys, I myself feel like pushing me against the wall and doing... things?”
How could he feel safe staying in the dorm like this?! Just thinking about the guys finding out his secret...
Tsk!
That would be... very dangerous.
Focus on the shower! Why are you thinking about this stuff?
Lin Yibai took off her white T-shirt. Because she’d been sweating so much, the shirt was sticking to her skin.
As she struggled to pull it over her head, she suddenly heard: Plop. Plop.
It felt like two... weird things had fallen from the shirt and landed right on “his” chest.
“What the heck...?”
Lin Yibai froze and then it hit her.
She realized exactly what had landed on her chest.
But she didn’t dare to look.
Still, even though her eyes were trying to avoid it, they couldn’t help but sneak a few glances...
They were... big. And the shape looked... really nice.
At the same time, a deep regret and guilt rose in his heart.
“Damn it, I’ve dated Xiaoxue for years. But who would've thought... the first girl’s body I’d ever see... would be my own?!”
Ahhh—no! Don’t look!
Lin Yibai kept telling herself that she wasn’t some kind of pervert.
Even if she had become a girl, it was only temporary.
There were so many girls out there in the world, why would she have thoughts about her own body?
That’s messed up, right?
But... It really did look good. And they felt heavy too.
“Uh... I mean, a girl’s... chest, what does it really feel like? Ah—no! I’m not trying to be weird. I’m just... curious.”
“But no. I must not.”
“Ugh, why not?!”
“This is my own body. What’s wrong with being curious?”
“No way! Don’t be curious, or you’ll just go further down the wrong path—and there’s no turning back!”
“But—shut up!”
It was like she had two little voices in her head arguing with each other.
As a normal guy, being curious about a girl’s body, wasn’t that pretty normal?
Just one touch.
Just one small touch would be okay, right?
A sense of guilt slowly filled Lin Yibai’s heart, but she still moved her hand.
She even thought of a song lyric.
“Holding you gently in my hands, quietly admiring...”
Should she try squeezing them just once?
But this time, even the two voices in her head said no.
“You can’t do that. If you do, you really won’t be able to go back.”
Lin Yibai shook her head, pushing down the dangerous thought.
She told herself, this is just a simple shower. That’s all.
She turned on the shower. Cold water poured down.
She’d heard that the girls’ dorms all had water heaters, but the boys’ dorms definitely didn’t have that kind of luxury.
Cold tap water splashed onto Lin Yibai’s face.
She had been at this university for a few years, but this was the first time she realized that the cold water in Fucheng during summer could be this cold.
“Hiss~”
Lin Yibai took a deep breath.
It took a while before she finally got used to the icy water hitting her body.
When she started wiping herself dry, she turned off the lights on purpose. Otherwise, she was afraid she wouldn’t be able to sleep at all tonight.
Especially when she put on her black boxer briefs. No matter how she looked at it, it just felt wrong.
On top of that, she wore a black shirt, she’d heard that black was good for hiding things.
But if someone looked carefully...
They could still faintly see two tiny dots.
And since most guys' clothes were made with rougher materials, she was already starting to feel uncomfortable.
Lin Yibai took a deep breath and said to herself.
“Guess I’ll just deal with it for now... As for tomorrow, I’ll think about it when it comes. Worst case, I get, uh... ‘enjoyed’ by the guys or something?”
She tiptoed out of the bathroom. Then climbed into her bed and pulled the curtain shut.
Inside the small, stuffy, and slightly hot space, she finally found a bit of comfort.
She opened her phone and logged into her small TikTok account.
She refreshed the feed and the first thing she saw:
Her ex-girlfriend Gu Xiaoxue’s roommates had just posted new videos. The short clips showed all kinds of expensive dishes. Then Yang Yueping suddenly appeared in the video, making a peace sign and pouting her lips.
The caption read: “When someone truly loves you, they’ll spend money on you.”
If someone didn’t know better, they might think Xia Changyu was chasing her.
The second roommate struck a cool, queen-like pose and added the caption:
“Just another boring day of being treated to a meal. Sigh... So annoying. I’m tired.”
The third one posted:
“Just being a cute and stylish little princess girl~”
And all of them had one thing in common. They only filmed the food, not the people?
Even though Xia Changyu was a rich second-gen and one of the top guys on campus, he couldn’t even make it into their camera shots?
For a second, Lin Yibai actually felt a bit bad for his love rival. But then he smiled bitterly and said, “They acted the same way whenever we ate out too. Always taking pictures of the food and never me.”
Then she looked at Gu Xiaoxue’s own post. It was a hand-holding photo under the sunset.
With music in the background and a caption that said, “Holding hands and growing old together. Today was a really happy day.”
Seeing that made Lin Yibai feel jealous again.
She scrolled like crazy through all of Gu Xiaoxue’s posts from the past year, until she finally gave up and lowered her head.
She had to admit something.
“The number of posts Xiaoxue made in just three days of dating Xia Changyu... was more than what she posted in an entire year while dating me.”
Or maybe even more than the past three years combined?
Following the mentions in her account...
Lin Yibai found her way to Xia Changyu’s account, and she had just posted something new too.
It was a simple sketch from behind. The person in the drawing wore short shorts and a T-shirt.
It looked kind of familiar to Lin Yibai.
The caption said: “I hope to meet a girl like her on campus in April.”
Wow, really? Showing off your love right in front of me?
Even though it was just a back view, with short shorts and a T-shirt. It looked almost exactly like what Lin Yibai had worn earlier that day.
But it clearly had details that reminded her of Xiaoxue!
And actually...
Over in the dorm of Xia Changyu’s roommates in the economics department, one of the guys looked at the sketch and said:
“Hey, didn’t you say this sketch was of your new girlfriend? Why does it look kind of different now?”
“Huh? Really?”
“But seriously... short shorts, T-shirt, big chest... You really nailed my preferences with this drawing.”
Xia Changyu laughed and said, “Get lost!”
That was because the drawing did start as a sketch of Gu Xiaoxue. But somewhere in the middle, Xia Changyu’s hand seemed to just... go its own way. He ended up adding in features from the girl he saw at the restaurant earlier.
Like the short shorts, the T-shirt, and the part he didn’t draw. But clearly remembered those two tiny dots showing through her white shirt.
“Her...?”
Xia Changyu thought of that girl. Just like his roommate said, she really hit his preferences.