Chapter 21: Band-Aid?
On Sunday morning, as the sun slowly rose, sunlight slipped through a gap in the curtains and shone onto Lin Muxi’s sleeping face.
“Mmm…”
The light made her eyelashes twitch a little, but soon she stopped moving again under the blanket. After a while, she lazily turned over, finally opening her sleepy eyes and slowly climbing out of bed.
She scratched her messy hair and yawned. Now fully awake, though still looking delicate and soft, her brain finally started working.
“Mm… what time is it…? Ah! How did I sleep this late?!”
Still not fully awake, she saw the clock on the wall pointing to 10 o’clock and froze for a second.
Since when could she sleep this much?
Rubbing her head, she tried to remember what happened last night after looking at her phone. She realized she must have fallen asleep while scrolling.
“No wonder I forgot to set an alarm… but I’m still so tired…”
Even though she had slept until ten, she could still clearly feel the exhaustion in her body.
After rubbing her eyes, Lin Muxi grabbed her phone. When she looked closely, she saw that all the unread messages were from Xiao Luyu.
[Xiao Luyu: Check the forum, someone posted that Mo Ziyang’s girlfriend is a student from our school.]
[Xiao Luyu: Picture]
[Xiao Luyu: …]
??? What’s going on? I just woke up, and I’ve already been exposed?
The messages made Lin Muxi wake up completely, but also left her confused. She quickly opened her chat app to check the pictures Xiao Luyu had sent.
But when she saw the post in the picture, with a photo of three people talking and a “proof process” written as seriously as a textbook, she was stunned.
Who the heck is this?! Are they out of their mind? Not only did they take a photo, they even wrote a step-by-step proof?! Did studying fry their brain?!
Fuming, Lin Muxi decided she had to find this person and have a serious talk. But when she looked closer…
Great, they posted as a guest. No way to find them.
Just perfect. She could already imagine her peaceful study days at school coming to an end.
[Lin Muxi: Shut up!]
She sent a short, bitter reply to Xiao Luyu. Her mood already on the verge of exploding, she noticed something even stranger, the dorm group chat, which had been silent for ages, was suddenly active.
What was happening today? Did the sun rise in the west?
When she opened it, she saw they were also talking about Mo Ziyang’s girlfriend.
[Zhang Hao: Did you see the forum? Turns out Brother Mo has had a girlfriend for a while.]
[Li Bin: @YoungMasterMo, Brother Mo, aren’t you going to explain?]
[Zhang Hao: He’s probably busy controlling the rumors about his little maid.]
[YoungMasterMo: Don’t talk nonsense. She’s just a friend, and she’s not a student at our school.]
[Zhang Hao: @StudyMachine, stop studying and come enjoy the gossip.]
[Li Bin: We get it, we get it. Of course we believe Brother Mo, she’s definitely not from our school.]
[Zhang Hao: Yep, yep, that’s what Brother Mo said.]
……………………….
But right now, with the biggest crisis of her life unfolding, Lin Muxi had no mood to reply to anyone. Honestly, the fact she hadn’t gone to slam her head into a wall was already impressive.
“Sigh… Heaven really wants me gone.”
Frowning, her small hands quietly opened her phone contacts. Her slender finger hovered over Mo Ziyang’s number.
She knew this was probably her best option right now.
Of course, she also knew what would happen if she called him. After a brief struggle inside, she still gave in.
After all, he had already seen her in girls’ clothes before, wearing them one more time wouldn’t make a difference.
Between protecting her clean reputation and avoiding crossdressing, she knew which was more important.
Beep… beep… beep…
“Hello? What do you want?”
Hearing Mo Ziyang’s voice through the phone, Lin Muxi’s heart jumped into her throat. She adjusted herself, lowered her tone, and tried to make her voice sound as deep as possible.
“Mo Ziyang, about that thing on the forum.”
“Oh? What thing?”
At home, when Mo Ziyang heard Lin Muxi bring it up, his expression immediately became a little strange, like he already had everything under control.
Hmph, the fish took the bait. Controlling Lin Muxi was just too easy.
“It’s… go on the forum and manage the comments and posts. Also, help clear things up for me.”
“I’m the young master of the Mo family. If I just follow your orders like that, wouldn’t it be a bit… wrong?”
She knew it! This Mo Ziyang never had good intentions. Always finding new ways to mess with her, so hateful!
Lin Muxi clenched her fists and hit the bed a few times. But in this situation, she had no choice. After all, she was the one asking for help.
“Monday… I’ll wear girls’ clothes to school and walk home with you.”
She gritted her teeth as she said it, feeling her whole face heat up… So shameful!
If she kept giving in like this, she felt like one day she might really fall into corruption.
But before she could finish imagining that sad future, Mo Ziyang’s voice pulled her back to reality.
“That was yesterday’s price. Today it’s gone up.”
“You… you’re raising the price?!”
Yep, she’d been tricked again.
But with the person right there, she couldn’t explode in anger. No matter how much she wanted to.
“Say it. What’s the condition?”
“Monday and Tuesday, two days.”
“You… you…”
His calm tone made her even angrier. If she could, she’d tape this shameless guy’s mouth shut.
But after thinking it over, she realized there was no other way. She could only take this path.
“Fine… I agree.”
“I’ll come by this afternoon to bring you the clothes. Make sure to open the door.”
??? Was he crazy? He actually wanted to come over?!
“Can’t I just pick them myself…”
“No way.”
Beep beep beep…
Before she could say anything more, Mo Ziyang hung up.
“Ahhh! This guy makes me so mad!”
Seeing the call end, Lin Muxi smacked the soft blanket with her small fists, letting out all her frustration.
Still, even though she was angry, having Mo Ziyang’s help meant the problem was basically taken care of.
Not thinking about it anymore, she checked the time. Since it was already so late, she figured she might as well go out and have brunch.
Yes, she’d do that! And anyway, no one would recognize her. She didn’t even need to hide her hair. Even though it was the weekend and there’d be more people around, it should be fine.
With that thought, she took off her pajamas and put on her usual going-out clothes, long pants and a hoodie.
Standing in front of the mirror, looking at her cute reflection, Lin Muxi’s cheeks turned a little pink. She was very happy with this unisex, casual style.
Tsk, if she got any cuter, she might not be able to control herself.
Wait, would anyone in the world really go crazy over her…? No, why was she even thinking about that?
Realizing her thoughts were dangerous, she quickly shook her head to throw out the embarrassing idea.
No way. Absolutely impossible. As a proper guy, there was no way she’d go crazy over herself.
After slowly getting ready and putting her phone in her pocket, she was about to head out. But just as she opened the door—
“Eek~”
“Ugh! How is the sore spot from yesterday still not healed?”
Thinking about what she’d done in her room yesterday, Lin Muxi instantly blushed and ran back inside.
If she didn’t fix the problem with her chest, she could forget about going out.
Sitting on her bed, thinking and thinking, she finally decided to do something even she found super embarrassing.
Face burning red, she ran to the medicine cabinet. After searching for a while, she found an unopened box of Band-Aids.
Emmm…
Well, no one would see anyway…
Trying it should… be fine, right?
Her eyes darted away nervously, and grabbed the Band-Aids like a thief, she ran back to her room and took off her hoodie.