Chapter 239: Just Telling the Truth
Zhang Xiaoling’s voice was quiet, but not too quiet. Just loud enough for the girls nearby and the homeroom teacher to hear. Then the whispers from the girls became louder. It was no longer “secret whispers” but “open discussion.”
“Yeah, that’s true. Look at Lin Muqing’s waist, so thin.”
“Really, and her legs are so slim too.”
“I don’t know what to do, I’m starting to envy her figure.”
“Too bad her chest is a bit small, otherwise…”
Hearing all these comments from the girls around her, Lin Muqing felt her eyelids twitch like crazy. She was so embarrassed she wanted to disappear.
“You…”
Her neck stiff, Lin Muqing slowly turned around and glared at the “main culprit,” Zhang Xiaoling. She wanted to scold her but the words wouldn’t come out.
“I… I was just telling the truth.”
Being stared at, Zhang Xiaoling looked a little wronged, poking her index fingers together while cautiously meeting Lin Muqing’s eyes. That pitiful look made Lin Muqing feel even more helpless. All the things she wanted to say got stuck in her throat.
“Cough cough. Actually, I think so too.”
At that crucial moment, the homeroom teacher coughed to clear his throat and gave a “deadly” follow-up.
Lin Muqing: Are you serious right now!?
“How about we give it a try?”
The teacher raised an eyebrow with a small smile, clearly interested, as he looked at the shocked Lin Muqing.
“I! Lin Muqing! Would rather jump out of this building than wear a dress!”
In that tense and pressuring atmosphere, Lin Muqing finally exploded, speaking to the teacher and all the girls with a face full of shame and anger. After throwing out that “tough” statement, she waved goodbye to the teacher and turned to head back to class to find her best buddy.
In her opinion, these people were crazy, to think someone like her, a tough guy, would compete with a group of girls for the “center spot” in a plaza dance.
“They have good taste,” Ye Ziming commented with a faint smile after hearing what happened.
“Good taste? Don’t tell me you also think I’d look good in women’s clothes!?”
Hearing her best buddy’s ridiculous-sounding answer, Lin Muqing thought about it more and then was completely shocked.
“Yeah,” Ye Ziming nodded honestly.
Before she could explode like a kitten again, he explained.
When she wore boys’ clothes, during the whole first year of high school, she stayed low-profile. Even if someone mentioned her, it was because of him. But when she wore girls’ clothes, it took less than a month after school started for her to top the school’s beauty rankings, and suddenly everyone in the school was looking for her.
That difference, Ye Ziming felt, didn’t need much explanation. Lin Muqing could feel it herself.
“This…”
Her lips pressed into a thin line, the tips of her ears slightly red, Lin Muqing lowered her head and mumbled, unable to answer. Everything her buddy said was just the truth about what had already happened. She had nothing to argue with.
“Anyway, it’ll be exposed sooner or later, so why not try it willingly?”
With a sly smile, Ye Ziming tried to persuade her. The “exposed” part referred to the jade pendant issue.
That thing was becoming unstable now, and even when Lin Muqing wore it, Ye Ziming still thought she looked cute.
Maybe because he knew her so well, he just couldn’t see her as a guy when she had that pendant on.
“No way!”
After hesitating for a moment and thinking it over, Lin Muqing firmly rejected the idea.
Right after saying that, as if to let out her frustration, she turned to the freshly served grilled fish and started attacking it.
Lin Muqing: If I can’t bully them, I can at least bully you. Hmph!
Since he had promised earlier, that evening Ye Ziming took Lin Muqing out for grilled fish as planned. When ordering, Ye Ziming was going to choose “not spicy,” but Lin Muqing said she wanted it a little spicy.
So, Ye Ziming thought for a moment and ordered a very, very mildly spicy flavor, adding a note to make it as little spicy as possible.
“Sss—ha! Sss—ha! This is a bit too much to handle.”
Halfway through eating, Lin Muqing had to stop and take a break because the spice was too much for her…
Watching her breathing heavily, Ye Ziming didn’t say anything. He just silently poured her a glass of juice, feeling a little conflicted inside. In his eyes, she was showing him the perfect example of “low ability, big appetite.”
The night passed, and a new day began.
Because she had used the massage gun the night before, Lin Muqing didn’t feel any leg pain, even though she hadn’t exercised in a long time and suddenly ran 1,000 meters. The only small problem was that there had been a little “incident” while using the massage gun last night.
Since the sore area was her thigh and she didn’t know how to use the massage gun properly, her good buddy offered to help. But after he started, she got scared of the pain and insisted on doing it herself. Seeing she didn’t know how, Ye Ziming still stepped in to help.
The scene ended up like this. Ye Ziming pressing Lin Muqing down on the sofa, forcing her legs apart, and using the massage gun to relax her muscles. The exact spot? The inside of her thigh.
“Do your legs hurt?”
In the morning, after brushing teeth, washing face, and eating breakfast, Ye Ziming asked her with concern.
“Uh… no, they don’t.”
Hearing the question, Lin Muqing’s face suddenly turned red. She quickly waved her hands in denial.
The reason for her blushing was that she remembered last night’s awkward moment and that terribly embarrassing pose. It was just too much.
“If it hurts, you can—”
“I said it doesn’t hurt!”
Like a startled kitten whose tail had been stepped on, she blurted out her reply so quickly that even Uncle Liu, who happened to walk by, was startled.
“Ahem… eat up and get ready for school.”
Seeing that the “kitten” was already all fluffed up, Ye Ziming wisely dropped the topic and didn’t continue.
“Oh.”
It was a little awkward, and after she calmed down, Lin Muqing quickly went back to being harmless and quiet, like a small kitten again.
It was another school day. After getting all her things ready, she went to school with her good buddy.
Before the big break, everything seemed normal, just like usual. But after finishing two classes, going downstairs for morning exercises, and coming back… a big problem appeared.
“Joint request for Lin Muqing to wear girls’ clothes and lead the exercises.”
Looking at the paper on Lin Muqing’s desk, Ye Ziming read the sentence with a half-smile, then gave her a meaningful look.
It was a very special sheet of paper, covered in names, including even the class teacher’s signature.
“Don’t read it out loud!”
Hearing her buddy’s voice, Lin Muqing quickly snatched the paper away, then glared at him with shame and anger. Right now, she wanted nothing more than to disappear into the ground.
She had just read the content and found out it was about what the class teacher mentioned yesterday. Each class needed to choose two leaders to guide the whole class in dancing the newest plaza dance.
Lin Muqing: Oh nooo~