Chapter 50: Cross-dressing Props
An Han pulled his pant leg up to his knee, holding an ice pack while cold-compressing his swollen ankle with a hopeless look on his face.
Ren Chi, seeing that he could take care of the injury himself, let out a long sigh. “Really, how do you even twist your ankle just by walking down the stairs?”
“It was an accident, okay?”
“If your foot still isn’t better by the time you have class, call me and I’ll help you ask for leave.”
“Mm.” An Han turned his head away and rushed him, “Hurry up and go continue your moving. I can handle this myself.”
“Try not to use your left foot these next two days.”
He nodded impatiently. “I know~”
Ren Chi had repeated the same reminder countless times, making his head hurt.
“Then I’m leaving?”
“Hurry up and go!”
Even then, Ren Chi was still worried. He checked An Han’s ankle again and confirmed that the swelling had gone down a little after the ice and the doctor’s massage. Only then did he leave the dorm room, looking back again and again.
As soon as the door closed, An Han immediately tossed the ice pack onto the desk, stood up, and hopped on one foot toward the mirror.
When he finished the earlier task, the system gave him a brand-new attribute.
“‘Skin and bone’?” He moved his face close to the mirror and carefully looked at his skin.
It really did look different…
This attribute appeared after the system updated, and it seemed to fix some flaws in his skin.
An Han’s skin was already pretty good, but his face still had some unavoidable signs of puberty. From far away, it looked smooth, but up close you could see some blackheads on his nose and faint acne marks on his cheeks.
But now, those little flaws were gone. Some pores were still a bit big, but another upgrade would probably make them unnoticeable.
Also, his once slightly yellowish skin had become whiter.
“Did I turn on beauty filters?”
He touched his smooth chin and muttered, “My beard is completely gone too?”
Before, after receiving the system’s attribute boosts, his usually thick, fast-growing beard had slowed down a lot. After a week, only some thin fuzz appeared.
But now, it was totally gone.
An Han lifted his head again and touched his jaw.
The natural dark mole he had was also gone.
There was still a small, faint mole on his face, but it was under the corner of his eye, flat and smooth. Instead of looking ugly, it even made him a bit more attractive.
Judging by the system’s weird habits, that mole was probably here to stay.
Holding onto the metal bunk bed next to him, An Han straightened up and stepped back, looking at his full reflection in the mirror.
“It looks like… my body is smaller…”
“My hips seem wider?”
“My shoulders narrower?”
“My face looks softer too?”
“Like… porcelain skin and jade bones?”
This phrase appeared in his mind without thinking, and he immediately got angry.
If it weren’t for his short hair, the person in the mirror would basically be a girl! Damn it!
The skin-and-bone attribute is probably a mix of appearance and body-shape attributes! So the system just changed the name and now it can add two attribute points at once?!
Thankfully, his chest didn’t get any bigger. The changes on his body were really only in the skin and bones.
Before this, even though two “body shape” points made him look a bit smaller, he was still small for a man. Compared to girls, there was still a clear difference.
But now, he basically looked like a woman with a slightly bigger bone structure!
“It’s over, it’s over… When Brother Long comes back, won’t I be done for?”
“When winter break comes and I go home, won’t I also be done for?”
An Han grew more and more anxious. Before, he was just a guy who looked slightly feminine. But now, he was basically a girl with a little masculine feeling left!
Panicking and completely losing his calm, he suddenly remembered the item the system gave him after the update.
A camera that can change his appearance however he wants…
Besides changing clothes and hairstyle, it also automatically puts makeup on his face.
If I import my old photo… will it put makeup on me to make me look as close as possible to the old version of me?
But what is the side effect?
An Han anxiously hopped on one foot to his desk, opened the drawer, and took out the camera.
The customizable camera had many functions. Anything a normal camera could do, it could also do. An Han found a data cable and tried to import photos from his phone into the camera.
He didn’t actually have many photos on his phone. The most recent one was from six months ago, a selfie taken with beauty filters.
The beauty filter made his skin lighter, smoothed out the flaws, and slightly changed the face shape to make his chin sharper and his face more like an oval.
Back then, he thought he looked so handsome. But now, looking at that filtered photo only made him uncomfortable.
“How did I even take photos with beauty filters before?! Didn’t I think it looked girly?”
He complained about his past self while importing the selfie into the camera, then turned on the transformation function.
His vision blurred for a moment, and he felt like something had suddenly been added to his face.
He stood up and hopped back to the mirror to look at himself.
“Perfect!”
“Amazing! I look exactly like the guy in the photo! This makeup level is at least as good as an international celebrity’s makeup artist, right?”
Since the selfie only showed his face, only his face now had makeup on it.
He leaned closer to the mirror excitedly. “Compared to two weeks ago, I’m just a bit whiter and my skin is better. How did it do that?”
The makeup made his already soft-looking face look sharper again, making him look more like a man.
But the excitement faded quickly. An Han lowered his head and whispered to himself: “But what’s the price for this…?”
The chest-binder’s side effect was passively attracting men. Then what about the makeup tool?
He couldn’t feel anything yet, so he raised his head and looked toward the door.
Hmm… should I test it on someone?
But Su Peng wouldn’t be back until the evening. And going out wasn’t convenient since his foot was injured.
So An Han called his counselor again. “Brother Ren~”
The moment Ren Chi heard that tone, he knew something was wrong. “Spit it out if you have something to say!”
“I’m thirsty~ I can’t go downstairs to buy drinks. Can you bring me two bottles?”
“Can’t you boil water and drink that?”
“I want Coke. Coca-Cola. Sugar-free. Thanks.”
“You sure have a lot of requests.”
“I injured my foot helping you, remember?”
Ren Chi had no comeback. After a moment, he finally said, “Give me twenty minutes. I just moved a box home.”
“Okay!”
An Han sat down with his left leg raised, the corners of his mouth lifting into a mischievous smile.
He had to admit, it was really fun watching other people fall for his tricks.
But now, he was the one being tricked by the system.
“So miserable~” His smile disappeared instantly. He collapsed onto the desk with a groan.
As time passed, he grew even more worried about the transformation tool’s side effect…
What if it was something he couldn’t handle?