Chapter 227: Planning With Her Mother
“Sister? What’s wrong?”
Her little sister noticed that her sister suddenly stopped moving, staring blankly into the distance. She followed An Han’s gaze but only saw the small decorative plant in their house.
“Sister?” She waved her hand in front of An Han’s eyes.
“No… nothing.”
An Han shook her head, curled up on the sofa, and said, “I feel sleepy. I’ll lie here for a bit. You go upstairs and watch TV.”
“If you’re sleepy, why don’t you just sleep?”
“I’m waiting for Mom to bring me some late-night snacks!”
“Then remember to call me when we eat later!”
She already ate three bowls of rice at dinner and still wants to eat more?
An Han glanced sideways at her. She couldn’t believe that her small-bodied sister could eat so much.
Usually, at home, their mom had to coax her sister to eat. So clearly, she just wasn’t hungry enough before.
She didn’t think too much about her sister. Curling up her petite body allowed her to fit perfectly on the sofa. She kept staring at the three lines of text shown by the system, trying to understand what each mission meant and what might happen.
The simplest one was Mission 3, telling the truth directly, just like she did with her mother.
But she was only able to confess to her mother because she genuinely wanted to. Her mother and sister had been her whole support for so many years, she was willing to take that gamble.
But her father…
She barely had any memories of him when she was little. He only came home once a year, and although he was always good to her when he came back… although he gave her her own allowance in high school… although he paid for all her university expenses… she didn’t trust him the way she trusted her mother.
She liked him, but mostly because he provided money.
She even held some resentment, because recently he had been arguing with her mother.
She and her father were practically “the closest strangers.”
“An Han, I bought you stinky tofu and a stuffed pancake.”
The door opened. Her mother came to the sofa with two bags of snacks. Seeing her daughter curled up, she smiled and pulled down the hem of the skirt that had rolled up to her waist.
“Your skirt is all lifted.”
“It’s fine, I’m wearing shorts inside.”
Even if she weren’t wearing shorts, her leggings were the type that could be worn alone outside. But they were too tight and showed too much of her body shape, so she didn’t dare wear them outside.
Her mother set the snacks down with a smile. Seeing her worried face, she asked, “What are you worrying about?”
“What do you think Dad will do if he finds out about me?”
An Han needed advice. She didn’t understand her father’s personality well.
“If I tell him the truth like I told you back then…”
Her mother hadn’t expected that question. She thought for a moment and answered.
“He’ll probably find it very hard to accept.”
“It might shock him and make him say something hurtful… So you’d better not be too direct. Even I, with my strong heart, almost couldn’t handle it when you told me.”
“Oh~”
Mission 3! Crossed out!
An Han agreed, her little heart might not survive any harsh words from her father.
“But no matter how hard it is for him, after a few days he’ll still accept it,” her mother said with a comforting smile. “You’re his daughter, after all.”
“I know.”
An Han moved her gaze to Mission 1: completely hiding her gender.
If she chose to hide it, then she’d have to keep doing it for her whole life.
She would have to hide it from her father… and from the wife she would receive as the reward…
Wasn’t that what people call a “fake marriage wife”? Don’t most of those end badly?
“Then… what if I slowly tell Dad a little bit at a time?”
An Han looked up at her mother, who was already sitting in front of the old computer, ready to play online mahjong.
“That should be okay. Step by step won’t shock him too much. But it might be troublesome to do.”
Her mother started giving her ideas.
“Maybe you can first make your dad believe things like… raising a daughter is great, sons cost money because you have to buy them a house and a car, sons are a bad deal, that kind of thinking?”
“Mom, that sounds super unreliable.”
An Han opened her snacks, picked up a piece of stinky tofu with a toothpick, and still had the mood to tease her mother.
“Did you used to think I was a bad deal?”
After suffering from the system for so long, she felt like her mental strength had grown. She could still laugh at a time like this. Her bottom line for shame and dignity was dropping lower and lower.
But no matter how strong she had become, she still didn’t want to face her father’s anger…
Talking secretly with her mother made her notice how close the two of them had become, and it eased her nervousness a lot.
She glanced at the mission countdown. This time she had a full three hours. Probably because her father would come back in two days, and the mission would officially start then.
Looked like she didn’t need to rush.
She could think carefully…
The reward for Mission 2 was something she really needed right now: a reasonable and legal reason for her transformation.
But her mother never asked in detail why she became a girl. Her relatives might ask, but she could trick them. Su Peng was suspicious before too, but she also managed to get past that.
She needed it, but not urgently.
“Mom, let’s go with the slow method?”
An Han was already leaning toward Mission 2.
“When the time comes, I’ll wear boy’s clothes for a few days. You just don’t expose me.”
“Okay, I’ll listen to you.”
“And also… you and my sister need to help me. Pretend my being a girl is a secret.” She thought carefully and added, “If Dad discovers this secret by himself, maybe he’ll accept it a bit more when the truth comes out?”
“Really? I’m not so sure about that.”
Her mother didn’t agree with her plan. She needed to add more details…
An Han herself also felt this plan was too rough. She couldn’t predict what her father would think.
“When the time comes, just say I was born with a condition… that illness… what was it called?” She searched her phone for a long time before confirming. “Intersex! Like ambiguous genitalia!”
She thought this term would confuse her mother, but her mother nodded as if nothing was strange.
“Isn’t that the real reason?”
“Uh… yes…”
An Han lowered her head guiltily.
Using that condition meant she could blame everything on the hospital instead of the system, and people wouldn’t assume she had surgery on purpose.
The problem was how to make her father accept it.
Suddenly she remembered Mind Reading.
Mind Reading was actually two-way, if she used it on her father, she could hear his thoughts, and he would hear hers.
During Mind Reading, if she kept repeating in her heart, “An Han is a girl,” then her father would definitely hear it.
Since he didn’t know the ability existed, he would probably think it was just a random thought, or a sudden feeling.
Back then, Su Peng and Ren Chi also learned she was a girl through Mind Reading, and they accepted it very easily.
Excited by her own genius idea, An Han slapped her thigh.
I’m such a smart genius!
“But even in winter, you can’t cover yourself completely in front of your dad, right?”
Her mother turned her head and pointed out the biggest problem.
“No matter how much you cover up, your face can’t be hidden. You’re too pretty, one look and people will know you’re a girl.”
“Uh…”
Was it time to bring out the chest binder, makeup, and beauty camera?