Chapter 12: Going to Class
Although An Han was the first person in his dorm to wake up that morning, he was also the last one to leave.
After watching his roommates all head out, he quickly opened his wardrobe to check whether his women’s clothes had been touched.
“Too unsafe,” he muttered.
Grumbling to himself, he pulled the entire outfit out from the bottom of the closet and nervously looked around for another hiding spot.
Right now, he felt just like a kid secretly buying a game console behind his parents’ backs. No matter how well he hid it, he still felt anxious every day, scared that one day they’d find out.
After thinking for a long while, he decided to hide the clothes, wig, and shoes behind the inner side of his desk, figuring that unless someone’s things happened to fall into that corner, they wouldn’t be discovered.
By the time he finally went downstairs, there were less than ten minutes left before class started.
It took at least twenty minutes to walk from the dorm to the classroom.
If he ran, maybe he could still make it. But as soon as he got downstairs, he saw Su Peng about to ride away on his bicycle.
Without hesitation, An Han sprinted over and plopped sideways onto the back seat.
The sudden impact made the whole bike wobble left and right. Startled, Su Peng quickly put his feet on the ground to steady the bike, turned his head, and sighed as if he had expected this.
“Can you please at least say something before jumping on next time?”
“What if you hear me and start pedaling away?”
An Han grinned, holding onto the seat with one hand to keep his balance and pressing his books against his thigh with the other.
“Hurry up! We’re gonna be late!” he shouted dramatically.
“You could’ve just gotten up earlier,” Su Peng replied helplessly as he started pedaling toward the teaching building.
Sitting sideways on the back seat, An Han watched the students rushing along the road and asked with a teasing smile.
“You didn’t go around telling people about my secret, right?”
“I did.”
“You’re asking for a beating!”
An Han smacked Su Peng on the waist, the easiest target from his position on the bike.
“Come on, we’ve known each other for years,” Su Peng said with mock pain. “Don’t you trust me by now?”
“I trust you! Otherwise, would I have let you go so easily yesterday?”
Even though the system’s mission asked him to seduce Su Peng, he hadn’t done that. He only made Su Peng promise to keep his secret.
Thinking about it now, he felt like he’d lost out on a huge deal.
Leaning back comfortably, he swung his legs lightly and said with a grin, “Hey, apprentice, are you interested in trying women’s clothes?”
“No.”
“Come on, handsome guys always look good in them!”
Su Peng’s voice turned ice cold. “Get lost.”
What a pity.
Ever since he’d been tricked into crossdressing that one time, An Han had been dying to get someone else to do it too. Otherwise, it just didn’t feel fair.
But whether it was Wu Dongming or Su Peng, they both refused him without hesitation.
Suddenly, the bicycle started bumping violently. An Han yelped and immediately wrapped his arms around Su Peng’s waist.
Then he looked down and realized, they had entered a section of stone-paved road.
“Every time I ride through this road, my butt hurts from all the bumps.” He complained while hugging Su Peng’s waist even tighter.
Su Peng didn’t reply, but he did notice that An Han’s body felt especially soft today.
He didn’t think too much about it. After they passed the bumpy stone road, the classroom building was already in sight.
“We’re here.” Su Peng braked and stopped the bike, turning his head toward An Han.
At that moment, he suddenly thought that the way An Han sat sideways on the back seat looked surprisingly quiet and pleasant, almost like something you’d call graceful.
“What’s the rush?” An Han jumped off the bike, cursing while rubbing his sore butt. “Damn it, that really hurts.”
But the moment he opened his mouth, all that “graceful and pleasant” feeling disappeared completely.
Why did someone so good-looking have to talk?
Su Peng silently crouched to lock the bike, only to see An Han quickly come bouncing over again.
“Hey, my dear disciple, don’t you think I’ve gotten more handsome lately?”
When Su Peng looked up, the smug grin on An Han’s face looked oddly adorable.
“Nope.”
“Then you must be blind.” An Han huffed.
He thought to himself that once his body stats improved, he’d walk around shirtless all day. Add that to his charm attribute, and he’d basically be a walking girl-catching machine. If his body stats didn’t mess up somehow.
Su Peng couldn’t be bothered with An Han’s random nonsense. After locking the bike, he picked up his textbook and walked into the classroom building.
An Han hugged his books and hurried after him, still talking non-stop.
“Can’t you tell I’ve gotten way more fit? I used to be skinny like a monkey, now I’m obviously much more handsome, right?”
“Yes, yes, sure.”
“You’re so damn perfunctory. I’m not taking you to play Dota anymore.”
“I already uninstalled it.”
“Why’d you uninstall it! Isn’t it fun?”
Su Peng shook his head. “It’s fine. I just think watching matches is fun, but actually playing is too tiring.”
“Old man,” An Han muttered. “Even if you don’t play anymore, you can’t change the fact that I taught you. So you still have to call me Master.”
If their relationship were a bit closer, An Han would’ve made him say “Dad” instead, but since they weren’t dormmates, their bond was just good friends, not that close.
When they arrived in class, the teacher had just started roll call. An Han quickly ran over to sit next to Wu Dongming.
“Dongming, did you give Brother Long my WeChat?”
“Yeah, check your phone.”
An Han immediately pulled out his phone and checked the hidden corner of his WeChat. Sure enough, there was a friend request.
“But just chatting online with Brother Long might not be enough,” Wu Dongming advised. “Even if you’re not planning to meet him in girl’s clothes, you should at least learn some voice acting, make your voice sound like a girl’s.”
“Why does this small thing keep getting more complicated…”
“It’s Chen Junjie’s fault, okay?”
Even though Wu Dongming started it, if Chen Junjie hadn’t been the first to doubt An Han, things wouldn’t have gotten this messy.
What made it worse was that Long Xing had started doubting him too. He didn’t even know where he slipped up, but the situation was definitely getting more serious.
And besides… the system mission to meet Long Xing in girl’s clothes still hadn’t failed yet.
“An Han!”
“Here!”
After responding to his name, An Han took out his wireless earphones and put them on, then started searching online for tutorials on how to fake a female voice.
Hmm, it didn’t look that hard.
After watching for about ten minutes, he wanted to give it a try. But looking around the classroom filled with students, he decided to keep quiet for now.
He glanced toward the front, wondering if his increased Charm stats had made any girls take interest in him.
But nope.
Maybe his Charm stat wasn’t high enough? Or maybe he had to make the first move?
After all, he was already a third-year student. He’d never thought seriously about finding a girlfriend before, but now he was starting to feel the pressure.
Otherwise, once he graduated, his family would start arranging blind dates for him.