Chapter 142: Wait a Little Longer, I'm Almost Done Controlling the Little Brother
Was it time to receive a guest now?
Lin Yibai couldn’t help but find that thought funny. Receive a guest? Come on, it was just an old friend coming over.
She glanced at her transformation progress bar, it was already 80–90% full. Should she try to speed it up somehow? But when she looked at herself in the mirror again, she gave up on that silly idea.
Lin Yibai sighed and quietly said, “As long as no one touches the little dragon... no one will know I’m actually a guy, right?”
After all, who would randomly try to touch a peach?
But still, it was important to hide the "mountain."
First, she ruled out all tight-fitting clothes.
Jeans, cropped pants, short shorts, denim shorts... anything that might show the shape of the "mountain", she put them all away.
That only left skirts.
Lin Yibai didn’t have many skirts. Just a short skirt and a knee-length skirt. There was also a spaghetti strap dress
The best options were the dress and the knee-length one. But unfortunately, with all the typhoons lately, those had been hanging outside for several days. They were still damp and smelled a little sour.
So only the short skirt was left?
“Ugh!” Lin Yibai hesitated and mumbled, “Wearing a short skirt seems kind of risky... One gust of wind or one bad squat, and the mountain might be exposed.”
She really didn’t want to wear a short skirt like this in front of that annoying love rival. But all the other clothes would only make things worse, so... she didn’t have much choice.
Her underwear was black, and it had a boxer shape.
Even if someone accidentally saw it, she could just say it was safety shorts, right?
To be honest, Lin Yibai had never gotten used to wearing triangle-style underwear. It felt way too awkward.
She was firmly in the “boxer camp.”
Triangle-style ones always felt like they dug into places they shouldn’t, like between the legs or in the butt.
What? You say triangle ones look cute or sexy on girls?
Well, too bad!
Lin Yibai swore.“Even if I died, even if I jumped off right now, even if my boxers were full of holes. I would never betray my beliefs!”
…Even though, yeah, she did think the lacy ones looked nice.
But what did that have to do with her? Why wear something that cute?
For that annoying love rival to see?!
After choosing what to wear, Lin Yibai started tidying up her room.
She threw out the trash, made the bed, and washed the dishes.
She even sprayed some cheap perfume to replace that awful air freshener.
The whole room smelled sweet and soft.
It looked clean, tidy, and kind of cozy too.
Meanwhile, following the address Lin Yibai had sent him, Xia Changyu arrived outside an old residential building.
He looked at the faded walls, built in a style from decades ago, and seriously wondered if he had come to the wrong place.
He couldn’t help but mutter.
“There’s no way Baiyi lives in a place like this… At least among the girls I know, none of them would ever live somewhere like this.”
Most girls had basic rules when choosing a place to rent.
1 ) No old buildings.
2 ) If it’s ugly, don’t rent it.
3 ) If it’s far or isolated, don’t rent it.
4 ) No privately owned village houses.
Xia Changyu just couldn’t believe Lin Yibai actually lived here.
On top of that, most of the people in the neighborhood were retired seniors. Near the entrance, there were still ashes from recently burned joss paper. Clearly, someone had passed away not long ago.
He didn’t really know why…
But suddenly, he felt a bit sad and touched.
Following the address and house number, Xia Changyu knocked on the door of the place Lin Yibai rented. Knock knock knock~
Creak—
The door opened a little, and a light, pleasant smell came out.
Xia Changyu thought the scent smelled familiar. When he pushed the door open more, what he saw inside was completely different from the old, worn-out walls outside.
Inside, the room was decorated in a clean, modern style.
The whole place had a soft pink, girly look.
But what excited him the most was the girl standing at the door, looking a little nervous.
She smiled sweetly and said, “Hi! Long time no see!”
Xia Changyu couldn’t help but smile too. With a bit of mock complaint, he replied, “Yeah, long time no see.”
She teased him again, “Don’t tell me you’re going to say something cheesy like, ‘One day without you feels like three years’.”
Xia Changyu chuckled and said something even cheesier, “Yeah, yeah, one day without you feels like three years. So that means we haven’t seen each other for over thirty years.”
She smiled too and argued back. “Nonsense! It’s only been a little over ten days!”
But still… even though he was just her annoying love rival…
And even though it really had only been a few days…
Lin Yibai didn’t understand why it felt like it had been forever. Why did it feel like something had really changed?
Then she noticed Xia Changyu was holding a lot of stuff. A small cake, a box of chocolates, a big bag of snacks, and even a box of pork knuckle, which she loved.
Anyone would feel a little awkward receiving that many gifts, right?
Lin Yibai was no exception. She asked, “Are… all these things for me?”
Xia Changyu replied seriously, “Hey, trust me. I don’t have any other girl to give them to. Really, you’re the only one.”
Lin Yibai said, “Isn’t that a little too much?”
Xia Changyu answered, “Why is it too much?”
Lin Yibai hesitated for a second, then accepted the gifts and said, “It just feels kind of strange… to get so many presents like this. Are you really treating me like a girl?”
What did she mean by that?
If she wasn’t a girl, what else could she be, a boy?
Once again, Lin Yibai felt how nice it was to be seen as a girl.
See? Gifts!
But at the same time, she also felt a bit troubled. She quietly said, “You’re giving me so much… now how am I supposed to return the favor? I don’t even know how to.”
Xia Changyu looked surprised. “Wait, what? Why are you even thinking like that? You always want to give something back right away. That’s what’s weird! You’re such a strange girl, you know that?”
Lin Yibai: “…”
Am I… really that strange?
She let him inside the apartment. She had already done her best to hide anything that showed signs of her being a guy, like clothes, daily items, anything like that.
But even so, there were still a few things she missed.
Why was there a pair of men’s shoes in the corner? And why were there black men’s socks stuffed inside the shoes?
That felt really strange, what if… no! Not that kind of situation!
Lin Yibai went to the closet and took out a dry towel. She was planning to give it to Xia Changyu so he could dry his hair, which was soaked from the typhoon rain. But just then, she also saw the shoes she used to wear back when she was still living as a boy, shoes she had completely forgotten about.
She told herself, “Don’t panic.”
Xia Changyu said, “Baiyi…”
Lin Yibai quickly threw the towel to him and said, “I use this towel when I take showers, but don’t worry, it’s clean. I have two and I take turns using them.”
Actually, maybe it would’ve been better if she hadn’t washed it. The towel only had a faint scent of laundry detergent left. What a shame!
But the reason why the shoes were there was still unanswered.
Before Xia Changyu could ask anything, Lin Yibai quickly said,
“Oh, those shoes? They were left behind by the last person who lived here. They’re Nike and still look new, so I didn’t want to throw them away.”
She felt like that explanation might not be enough, so she added,
“And there’s no way I would wear shoes like that. Especially the socks, I wouldn’t wear those either.”
He didn’t actually care about those things. But the way Lin Yibai said it, it was like she wanted to make sure he didn’t get the wrong idea, even though there was still nothing between them. For some reason, that made him feel happy.
Xia Changyu asked without thinking, “Then what kind of socks do you wear?”
Lin Yibai thought: Can you not ask things you shouldn’t? This stupid rival is really nosy!
But thankfully, she didn’t panic too much. She went back to the closet and started digging through it. After a moment, she pulled out a very soft, white, and kind of strange-looking pair of leggings…
To be more accurate, most people would call those pantyhose.
Or just stockings.
She swore, those were left behind by the senior who used to live there before her.
They were completely unopened, pure white stockings.
Lin Yibai thought it would be a waste to throw them out, so she kept them.
She never imagined it would lead to a situation like this.
Did she save them just to wear them in front of him?
While explaining, she even started putting them on, saying, “So I wear stockings like this… uh, hmm… mmm…”
But honestly, how were you even supposed to wear these? It was her first time, and she was nervous too!
In general, it seemed kind of like putting on pants. But as she was struggling with it.
She didn’t realize how big of a shock this was for Xia Changyu.
Just imagine, a beautiful and charming girl standing in front of you, trying hard and looking confused while putting on white stockings…
That’s crazy. Any guy would have trouble staying calm. Xia Changyu was trying his best to sit still and act normal.
Meanwhile, Lin Yibai kept scratching her head.
‘You can’t really put these on in front of someone, right? Otherwise, do I have to lift my skirt to wear them?’
She pulled the stockings up to her knees and thought that was probably enough. Then, looking a bit suspicious, she asked, “Changyu, what’s wrong with you?”
Xia Changyu: You’re seriously asking that??
People said putting them on from the feet up to the knees felt about the same as taking them off from the top down to the knees.
So in the end, it’s not a big deal. It’s just…
He was really, really trying to control his “little brother”.
Just wait a little longer… He would get it under control soon.