Chapter 166: Lin Shasha
Oh no, oh no! Su Peng’s blind date was way too beautiful!
An Han stared fixedly at the girl in the photo, even forgetting to breathe for a moment. Whether it was her figure or her looks, she couldn’t compete at all!
Her expression slowly stiffened as she suddenly realized, maybe she should just leave.
“She’s pretty, yeah,” Su Peng said, rubbing his chin as he judged the photo carefully. “The plastic surgery is pretty good too. Almost didn’t notice it, see? Her nostrils are uneven.”
“......”
“Must’ve cost a lot. Really high-end work, though, almost fooled me at first glance.”
When he turned and saw An Han’s blank face, he chuckled. “What, getting scared just because someone looks better than you? That’s normal, isn’t it?”
“Even with makeup, I still can’t beat her...”
“You’re really underestimating yourself,” Su Peng said.
He looked at An Han’s face, then at the photo again, and shrugged. “She’s not that much better than you.”
Of course, in truth, the girl in the photo was more attractive, but once beauty reached a certain level, everything depended on personal taste anyway.
An Han looked up at Su Peng’s serious eyes and realized he wasn’t lying.
Right, that was the effect of her “Charm” stat. Just two points were enough to make men see her through a beauty filter, like that saying, “love makes you blind.”
Resting her chin on her hand, she thought lazily,
It’s fine. As long as I’ve got the system, I just need some luck to max out my Appearance stat, and then no one in the world could beat me in looks…
Wait… Why am I even comparing myself to another woman?
An Han suddenly realized something was wrong with her thoughts. No matter how pretty Su Peng’s blind date was, what did that have to do with her?
Then it hit her again. Not only was she comparing herself to another woman, but she was also feeling jealous!
She had only been living as a woman for less than a month, yet her mind was already starting to think more and more like one. Or maybe it was because she was wearing women’s clothes right now?
Her expression grew heavier. Even after breakfast, she still looked down and listless.
Su Peng just assumed she was upset by the situation and smiled kindly. “What’s wrong? Want me to take you somewhere to have fun?”
“What’s there to do... go to an internet café and play games?”
Su Peng’s smile froze for a second.
Sure, An Han’s mix of male thinking and female appearance made her unique and fun, but did she really have to think of internet cafés as the first idea for a date?
“Uh... how about an amusement park? Or maybe the mall?” He tried to think of something nearby. “Or we could go to the walking street?”
“Not interested. I don’t have money for shopping, and amusement parks are for kids.”
So much for being romantic...
Su Peng shook his head helplessly. “Then let’s just find a place to sit for a while and wait for the blind date at noon?”
“Whatever,” An Han sighed, clearly still not in the mood. “That girl’s really pretty though. Maybe you should just go for her.”
Is she testing me?
Su Peng immediately became cautious. Even though An Han wasn’t the jealous type, this kind of question needed a careful answer.
“I…”
They weren’t officially dating yet, so saying he only liked her might backfire.
“I don’t like people who’ve had plastic surgery,” he said finally. “And besides, there’s no real connection, I’m not interested.”
“Feelings can grow over time. So what if she had plastic surgery? She’s still beautiful.”
An Han muttered that under her breath, but deep down, she couldn’t help wondering. If my body was changed by the system… does that count as plastic surgery too?
It’s not just plastic surgery, she had literally changed gender.
Right now, Su Peng thought she was just a girl who, for some reason, had secretly moved into the boys’ dorm. But if he ever found out that she had actually lived as a man for the first twenty years of her life…
It probably wouldn’t be a big problem. After all, Su Peng’s affection for her was already over 100 points. Even if she were still a man, he probably wouldn’t care, that guy’s basically into both men and women now.
“Liking someone isn’t just about their looks,” Su Peng said with a smile.
Oh really? As if your affection for me didn’t shoot up because of my appearance in the first place.
Wait, maybe it really didn’t…
Back then, she had accidentally used the system’s chest-binding feature wrong, which caused Su Peng’s affection to skyrocket.
So it wasn’t just her emotions being controlled by the system, even Su Peng’s were affected too.
An Han suddenly felt like the two of them were fellow victims, both tricked by the same thing. She shook her head and looked at Su Peng with pity in her eyes.
Poor clueless guy…
After breakfast, they went to a nearby milk tea shop.
An Han sat there in a bad mood, hugging her phone, while Su Peng kept bouncing his leg nervously, afraid the meeting between An Han and his blind date would turn into a total disaster.
“An Han, when we meet, you just need to eat, okay…” Su Peng reminded her carefully.
In truth, just bringing another girl to the blind date would be enough to make it end early. But Su Peng was more worried that An Han might pull some unexpected stunt.
“Relax, I’m already thinking about going back to the dorm,” An Han said, puffing out her cheeks as she took a big sip of milk tea, looking like a pufferfish.
She had been outside wearing women’s clothes for a while now, and she was slowly getting used to people’s looks.
As she spent more time with Su Peng, her body and behavior also became more relaxed and natural.
But even though she sounded calm, Su Peng knew she was the type to say one thing and feel another.
“Don’t cause trouble, alright…”
“How could I~?” An Han mumbled, glancing around at the milk tea shop’s decoration. “Why are you meeting here anyway? What happened to the fancy steak restaurant?”
Now the only thing she was actually looking forward to about the blind date was the high-end steak.
“We’ll meet here first, then head to the restaurant,” Su Peng explained.
Just as he finished speaking, An Han suddenly looked up at a girl walking into the shop. The girl seemed to be around twenty, wearing sunglasses and a neat, mature-looking business outfit. Even though the large sunglasses covered half her face, An Han still recognized her by the slight curve of her red lips.
“Your date’s here!” she quickly tugged on Su Peng’s sleeve and nodded toward the door.
“She’s my blind date,” Su Peng corrected, standing up. But the next second, his expression froze.
Behind the girl walked a tall, handsome man, at least 190 centimeters. Although they kept a small distance, their eyes and gestures clearly showed closeness.
Uh-oh…
Su Peng’s expression grew complicated. He stepped forward, glanced at the man behind the girl, and offered a half-smiling handshake. “Hello, I’m Su Peng.”
“Hello~” The girl’s voice was soft and sweet as she took off her sunglasses, her face looked exactly the same as in the photo.
An Han slumped onto the table, completely deflated. She had thought the photo might’ve been edited, but now that she saw her in person, her confidence crumbled.
Even after asking Lin Yi to help with her makeup and wearing Lin Yi’s favorite dress, her best look yet, she still fell short compared to that girl. Not just in appearance, but also in aura.
She knew comparing like this was such a “girl thing” to do, but she couldn’t stop the feelings of inferiority and envy rising in her heart.
“Hello, I’m Lin Shasha,” the girl introduced herself, her eyes shifting to the slouched An Han. Then she looked back at Su Peng, both of them wearing the same knowing smile.
“Well, I guess this makes our blind date pretty simple.”
“Yeah, it sure does.”
An Han looked up in confusion, not understanding what just happened.