Chapter 235: A Sudden Change in the Body
All night, Lin Muqing kept thinking about whether she should sleep in the same bed as her good buddy. In the end, she still didn’t have the courage to agree. After all, sleeping together like that felt a bit… weird, and it seemed like something only little kids would ask for.
In her mind, since she was already a “grown-up,” she needed to learn to live independently and sleep on her own.
Luckily, because she was already sleepy, she didn’t stay tangled up in her thoughts for long. Lying on the bed, she quickly drifted off to sleep. When she opened her eyes again, it was already morning.
“Morning, Big Bro.”
She got up, tidied her bed, greeted her buddy like usual, then brushed her teeth, washed her face, and ate breakfast. Everything was so natural. It was clear that Lin Muqing had completely gotten used to this kind of life.
“Big Bro, is there something on my face?”
When she was ready for school, bag on her back and shoes changed, she noticed her buddy looking at her in a strange way. Instinctively, she touched her face and checked her clothes.
“It’s nothing. Let’s go.”
Standing at the door, Ye Ziming stared at her for a while. His brows moved slightly, his eyes changed for a second, and he thought about something. Soon, he put on his usual calm expression and answered in a flat tone.
“Oh, okay.”
Seeing his eyes, Lin Muqing was full of confusion, but she didn’t ask.
If her buddy said there was nothing wrong, then it must be fine. She had already checked herself earlier and found nothing strange. As usual, they entered the classroom together and went to their seats.
On the way to school, Ye Ziming had been watching her closely, from head to toe, without missing a detail. Before, when Lin Muqing wore the jade pendant, she gave off just a tiny bit of boyish energy, just a little. But now, not only was that gone, she actually had more of a soft, girlish feeling. In simple terms, with the pendant on, she didn’t look as much like a boy anymore.
“Big Bro, hand in your homework.”
While Ye Ziming was lost in thought, Lin Muqing casually reached over, grabbed the homework from his desk, and gave it to the class monitor, Zhang Xiaoling.
But after collecting it, Zhang Xiaoling didn’t move on to the next student. She just stood there, staring blankly at Lin Muqing.
“Do I have something on my face?”
Frowning slightly, Lin Muqing tilted her head and looked up at the class monitor, confused.
“Uh… no.”
Zhang Xiaoling’s reaction was a lot like Ye Ziming’s, but she wasn’t as good at hiding her expression, so her face looked a bit stiff. She waved her hand casually, gave an awkward smile, and quickly looked away to keep collecting homework from other students.
Zhang Xiaoling’s thoughts: Oh my god, Lin Muqing looks so much like “Lin Muqing”… same name and everything! This is insane!
“Hmm…”
Watching the class monitor’s back, Lin Muqing still felt something was off. Did she have something on her face? Or maybe something stuck in her hair?
Why was it that today, besides her buddy and the class monitor, even Lin Wenbin and the “Flower Thief” were looking at her strangely?
By lunchtime, she couldn’t hold it in anymore. She smacked Lin Wenbin’s desk and asked what was going on.
“Ahem, just now I talked to him (Meng Wenwu), and we both agreed… today you look more girly.”
After two coughs, Lin Wenbin lifted his chin, sat up straight, rested one hand on his chin like some wise master, and gave a very serious answer.
“Huh? What are you even talking about!?”
Lin Muqing frowned. She didn’t know how to respond to what Lin Wenbin just said.
"Let me explain it this way," Lin Wenbin spoke seriously. "At first, I didn’t think there was anything strange about you, but I’ve met Brother Ye’s girlfriend before..."
In short, he felt that something about Lin Muqing’s “vibe” had changed compared to before. Now, she felt very similar to his cousin. And being “similar to a girl” basically meant, she didn’t look like a boy anymore.
"You’re serious?"
After hearing Lin Wenbin’s long explanation, Lin Muqing widened her eyes in shock. Her expression became complicated.
"Uh… actually, he’s the one who told me that," Lin Wenbin admitted, scratching the back of his head. Then, he pointed at Meng Wenwu, who was next to him and clearly trying to sneak away.
Lin Wenbin wasn’t very good at thinking deeply about things. He just felt that something was a little strange, so he asked Meng Wenwu.
"Haha~ so it’s you, ‘Flower Thief’," Lin Muqing smiled sweetly, no longer looking shocked, and turned her gaze toward Meng Wenwu.
"He asked me first, I just answered," Meng Wenwu quickly defended himself.
He stopped walking, his neck stiff as he turned around, then threw a desperate look at Lin Wenbin.
He was nervous, because whenever Lin Muqing looked at him like that, Brother Ye would also join in, staring at him with equal intensity. What happened yesterday was still fresh in his memory, Brother Ye was truly terrifying!
"Big Bro, what do we do now?"
After staring at the “Flower Thief” for a moment, Lin Muqing turned her head to her good buddy.
"This afternoon, we’ll talk," Ye Ziming replied with the same sweet-but-dangerous smile, also looking at Meng Wenwu.
They didn’t talk about it right now because most people in the classroom had already left, and Ye Ziming needed to take Lin Muqing home for lunch.
By the way, both of them completely trusted Lin Wenbin, because they knew he was just… a blockhead.
Lin Wenbin, confused: What did Meng Wenwu do? Why is he acting so scared?
The matter was put aside for now. After they went home and finished lunch, Lin Muqing put on her jade pendant and went to her room. She tried looking at herself in the mirror, turning left and right, and realized she really did look a little different than before… but she couldn’t say exactly what had changed.
"Let me see your jade pendant."
While she was looking in the mirror, Ye Ziming stood quietly at the door watching her for a while. Then he walked over and reached out his hand. He had a guess in his mind. He remembered that Lin Muqing’s jade pendant had a small crack on it.
Now, when he took it and examined it closely, he suddenly noticed that this crack seemed a little different from before.
"What’s wrong? Did something happen?"
Seeing her good buddy frown while studying the jade pendant, Lin Muqing became nervous too and asked quietly.
"I have some bad news."
"What news?"
"This jade pendant… it might be broken."
That was Ye Ziming’s guess, based on comparing what Lin Muqing was like more than three months ago, then at the start of school, and now. The pendant didn’t just have the old crack anymore. There seemed to be a new small branch coming off it.
The new crack wasn’t really hidden. If you looked closely, you could see it.