Chapter 81: Ye Ziming’s Suspicion
After taking a shower and finishing her homework, Lin Muqing also took the clothes from the washing machine to hang them up and did a quick clean with the vacuum.
After smoothly completing all this, she looked at the clock on the wall and figured she still had time to play games for a while.
So she sat down at her computer desk, pressed the power button, and at the same time, picked up her phone to message a friend to come online.
Earlier, to help herself focus on homework, she had put her phone far away. Only after finishing did she pick it back up.
[Mumu-chan: The figure looks really good. I like it a lot. Thank you for the gift. 😁]
This was the last message she sent before putting her phone away.
Now that she opened it again, the other person had already replied.
[Old Iron: What about the cosplay outfit? Does it fit?]
There were many messages, but this one caught her eye the most, especially with that silly meme face, which made it obvious he was up to no good.
[Mumu-chan: What cosplay outfit? I don’t know what you’re talking about.]
“Hmph, like I’d tell you.”
Looking at her phone screen, Lin Muqing muttered, full of annoyance.
After sending the message, she turned to look at the figures on her desk. After a moment of thought, she stood up, grabbed her phone, and took a picture.
She sent the photo to her online friend, letting him see the figure.
She also made sure the desk was clearly shown, hoping the other person would notice that she was a "boy," and the way the desk was set up looked very “manly.”
So there was no way she’d let her friend know that the swimsuit was now lying deep inside her closet.
[Mumu-chan: It’s really cute~]
While sending the message, Lin Muqing sat back down at her desk, opened the game, and clicked the login button.
As soon as she got online, her friend sent her a party invite.
[Old Iron: Do you have other figures?]
She opened the chat window again and saw her friend’s question.
[Mumu-chan: Yep, a friend gave them to me. 😏]
In the photo she sent, besides the figure her online friend gave her, another one, gifted by her “bro”, was also visible.
After receiving that figure, she worried it might get dusty if left out in the open, so she painfully spent money on a glass case to keep it safe and clean.
[Old Iron: Your friend a guy?]
[Mumu-chan: Yeah, why?]
Seeing the question, Lin Muqing felt it was a bit random, but she didn’t think much of it and replied right away.
[Old Iron: No reason. Just thought that figure looked kinda familiar.]
That was the end of the chat, since the game dungeon had opened and they were about to start a run.
As for her friend saying the figure looked familiar, Lin Muqing didn’t think twice about it.
In her mind, figures were easy to get. If you wanted one, there were tons on Taobao. As long as you had money, you could get whatever you wanted.
What she didn’t know was that the figure Ye Ziming gave her was a limited-edition official release. There were only a few in the whole world.
And she also didn’t know that Ye Ziming had spent a lot of time and effort to get it, only managing to bring it to her place on Saturday after much trouble.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, Ye Ziming was playing games with a friend while thinking back to the photo he just saw.
“…That can’t be, right?”
Thinking about it, he couldn’t help but talk to himself.
The more he thought about that figure model, the more unbelievable it seemed. Could his online friend really be Lin Muqing? That would be way too crazy.
Logic told him the chance of that was really small, so small that he’d rather believe Lin Muqing had somehow turned into a girl because of him.
After all, in his mind, Lin Muqing was someone completely unrelated to anything perverted. A pretty innocent girl.
But... when he remembered the massage gun incident last week, he suddenly felt like, maybe it wasn’t so crazy after all.
Thinking for a bit longer, he picked up his phone again and opened Lin Muqing’s WeChat.
[Ye Ziming: Can you show me your desk?]
[Lin Muqing: ?]
Lin Muqing was confused when she saw the message. She scratched her head, not understanding what her buddy was up to.
But since the game was still loading, she took a picture of her computer desk in front of her and sent it to him.
[Lin Muqing: What’s up?]
[Ye Ziming: Nothing much. Go to bed early, don’t forget we have class tomorrow.]
After seeing the photo, Ye Ziming’s suspicion eased a bit, but not completely.
Funny enough, at that moment, Lin Muqing had put the figure model on the computer desk and had even taken off the glass cover so she could “appreciate” it better.
Appreciate it in a gentlemanly way.
Hehe~
[Lin Muqing: Mm-hmm, I’m going to sleep now.]
After glancing at the last message on WeChat, Ye Ziming felt a bit more at ease and didn’t keep nagging her to sleep early and wake up early.
He went back to gaming with his online friend.
Thinking back to the cosplay outfit he sent, that was actually meant for Lin Muqing at first.
But before sending it, he remembered something, Lin Muqing really didn’t like girly clothes. If he sent something like that, who knows how she’d react?
But if he didn’t send it, he had nowhere else to put it. So he thought, might as well send it to his online friend instead.
Money wasn’t a problem anyway.
[Mumu-chan: Going to bed now, goodbye. I still value my life.jpg]
They played a while longer, and just before logging off, Muqing sent him a few meme stickers.
[Old Iron: Okay, good night.]
He sent a sticker back and ended the chat, getting ready for bed.
As Ye Ziming drifted off to sleep, one thought kept circling in his head, was there a connection between his online friend and Lin Muqing?
He started noticing that, in many small details, the two actually overlapped quite a bit.
Tiny little things, things that are hard to fake or hide.
With those strange thoughts in mind, Ye Ziming slowly lost consciousness, and soon, the next day arrived.
“Ahh~”
In Lin Muqing’s room the next morning, a soft little yawn could be heard.
First, her head popped out from under the blanket, then she slowly pulled the covers off and stretched her arms up in a big lazy stretch.
While doing that, she tugged her shirt down to cover her pale, skinny belly. After a while, she finally got out of bed.
“Mmm~ That felt nice.”
While brushing her teeth at the bathroom sink, she looked at herself in the mirror, spat out the last bit of toothpaste, and spoke to herself.
Right now, she was wearing a cosplay outfit, a light blue short-sleeved top with matching shorts.
But to sleep more comfortably, she didn’t wear the shorts. In other words, she only had panties on her lower half.
Two nights ago, on a whim, she decided to try sleeping in it.
And to her surprise, the fabric felt amazing. Just one night wearing it, and she was hooked.
It totally beat any of the pajamas she’d worn before. This thing was unbelievably comfy!