Chapter 57: Are You a Pervert?
If Li Mu used to be 18 centimeters "down there," now it was probably only about the size of a thumb.
As a guy, Little Li Mu used to react like most men, he’d get excited when seeing anything slightly related to his preferences. But now it was like his whole system had changed. No matter what kind of stuff he looked at these days, there was no reaction at all.
This made him, someone who was already kind of cold, even more uninterested in anything romantic or sexual.
On the first day of class after the National Day holiday, Li Mu couldn't focus at all. His mind was filled with thoughts like: ‘What if I really turn into a girl, or a futanari in the future, what should I do then?’
What would his parents say if they came home one day and found their son had become their daughter?
And what about his super old-fashioned grandpa? He’d probably break his legs.
“Let’s go,” Yu Fan said as school ended in the evening, walking over to Li Mu’s desk again.
“When did you two become so close?” Wu Lei asked, curious.
To most classmates, the sunny and handsome Yu Fan didn’t match at all with the quiet and cold Li Mu. Their personalities were so different that people thought they wouldn’t even talk to each other.
But unexpectedly, Yu Fan now often came over to chat with Li Mu between classes.
Yu Fan happily put an arm around Li Mu’s shoulder. “He and I are brothers who’ve been through life-and-death stuff together!”
“Ohhh,” Wu Lei said with sudden understanding. “Did Li Mu help you win the ranking match?”
“Kinda!” Yu Fan grinned, wanting to pull out his ID to show off, but held back.
Even though he was just a regular vocational school student, he already had an auxiliary police assistant ID.
Aside from wanting to be a shaman, he used to dream of being a policeman, a soldier, and of course, a scientist.
Later, when he started learning art, he also dreamed of becoming a painter.
Li Mu packed up his things, stood up, and adjusted his long pants. “Let’s go.”
He really needed to get a belt.
His waist had gotten slimmer lately, so the pants kept slipping down and hanging off his hip bones.
He wasn’t sure if it was because his hips had gotten wider or his butt had more fat now. A normal mid-rise pair of pants somehow ended up looking like low-rise on him.
As he slowly followed behind Yu Fan, Li Mu still felt worried about the changes in his body.
“What’s Chen Yi up to lately?” he asked.
“He just helped me register and took some police officers around to look for the chopping knife,” Yu Fan said, pulling a pair of gold-rimmed glasses from his pocket. “Nothing new in the past couple days, they're probably not too busy.”
Once he put on the glasses, his usual bright and cheerful look toned down a bit, making him look more like a smart young man.
The glasses were one of the things Li Mu had given him, something passed down from Yu Fan’s grandfather, to let people see ghosts.
“What do you think? Cool, right?”
“Ugly.” A real man never admits his friend looks good.
“You’ve got no taste.”
Yu Fan muttered as he led Li Mu to the parking area outside the school. After finding his electric scooter, he handed a pink helmet to Li Mu.
“So… your little brother likes to wear girls’ clothes, huh?”
Li Mu had been wanting to complain about that helmet, especially with the cartoon character printed on it.
“He was only eight that time. That’s normal,” Yu Fan said with a yawn as he wheeled the scooter out. Li Mu put on the helmet and swung his leg over the seat.
His pants seemed tighter than before, making him worry they'd rip when he lifted his leg.
Maybe his legs had gotten thicker?
………………………………………
“Xiao Jing, set it to sixteen degrees.”
As soon as Yu Fan walked in, it felt like he was back in his own house. He called out to the air conditioner right away.
“I feel like you guys just treat me like an air conditioner unit,” Xiao Jing mumbled to herself as she lowered the room temperature. She glanced at the two boys curiously. “Didn’t you say you could only come home on weekends because of school?”
“There’s going to be a singing competition. I came back to ask you something,” Li Mu said, walking in with slippers on. “I’ll go change clothes first. We’ll talk in a minute.”
Yu Fan sat down on the floor in front of the table, grinning at Xiao Jing. “Change the channel. Let’s watch ‘Go Fighting’.”
“No way.” Xiao Jing stared at the idol drama on TV, looking annoyed. “What, you think I’m a smart home system or something?”
“I can put a mirror next to every appliance, then you’d really be a full smart home.”
“No thanks!”
Yu Fan actually had a good impression of Xiao Jing. After all, she had never scared him. Other than the weirdness of seeing her reflection speak in a girl’s voice or move in a girly way, this ghost was basically perfect for home life.
Li Mu had been annoyed with his tight pants for a while. As soon as he got home, he changed into shorts. But when he came back to the living room, he saw Yu Fan teasing Xiao Jing with a grin, and a hint of displeasure appeared on his face.
“Don’t bully her.”
“Yeah, yeah, I got it,” Yu Fan said, turning to look at him, then suddenly froze.
His eyes landed on Li Mu’s long, slender calves, with a hint of soft flesh, emerged from his knee-length shorts.
They were straight and pale like lotus roots, with slim ankles. There was no way anyone could look at those legs and think they belonged to a guy.
Li Mu didn’t notice Yu Fan staring. He simply sat down cross-legged next to him and looked at Xiao Jing. “Do you want to join the singing competition?”
“Singing competition?”
“Yeah, it’s called the ‘Top Ten Singers.’ The winners get to sing on stage in front of thousands of people,” Yu Fan chimed in. “I heard they’re combining it with the New Year’s event this year. A lot of school leaders will be watching.”
While he was talking, his eyes kept sneaking glances at Li Mu’s legs.
If those were a girl’s legs, he could admire them for a whole year…
Oh wait, Li Mu was kind of turning into a girl anyway. Guess it’s fine.
Xiao Jing looked hesitant, then suddenly pointed at Yu Fan and said, “He’s drooling while looking at your legs!”
Li Mu looked shocked. He turned his head, only to see Yu Fan wiping the corner of his mouth.
“…..”
“Nonsense! I wasn’t drooling!” Yu Fan glared at Xiao Jing, frustrated.
She tricked him, he really thought he had drooled for a second!
“…Are you a pervert?” Li Mu asked in a quiet, serious tone.
Yu Fan quickly defended himself, “No way! I just… noticed that your legs changed too. They didn’t look so… beautiful before?”
“You are a pervert,” Li Mu sighed. What kind of guy says another guy’s legs are beautiful?
He gave Yu Fan an inexplicable expression, then decided to let it go. He turned to Xiao Jing again. “Can you come out of the mirror and, like, possess me for a bit?”
Xiao Jing’s eyes went wide. “Isn’t that kind of… wrong?”
“I swear ghosts only think about dirty stuff,” Yu Fan muttered.
Li Mu shot him a glance. “Xiao Jing’s question was totally normal. You’re the one with a dirty mind.”
After all, Xiao Jing had only been a teenager when she died. How could she be anything like that filthy-minded Lin Xi?
He turned to her again. “Just try it. If you can’t possess me, then I can’t take you on stage to sing.”
Xiao Jing tilted her head, then did something that made the mirror ripple slightly. The reflection of Li Mu inside the mirror suddenly froze, and a faint, almost invisible mist surrounded the real Li Mu.
He felt the temperature drop a little more.
But after a moment, the mirror version of himself started moving again.
Xiao Jing looked troubled. “Too tight. I couldn’t get in.”
“See?! I told you, she’s just thinking pervy stuff!” Yu Fan nodded like he’d won the argument.