Chapter 229: The Strange Son
In An Han’s memory, her father had never shown anger or irritation toward her. As a father, he had never made her feel pressured or scared.
That was why her little sister liked him so much. She caused trouble every day and was always scolded by their mother instead.
Her father cared a lot about his face. Every time he came home, he would dress up on purpose. When meeting friends or relatives, he always rushed to pay the bill, trying to look like someone with money. Because of this, her mother had argued with him many times.
The atmosphere at the dining table seemed okay. Her father was talking about what he saw and experienced abroad, smiling gently. Her sister kept asking questions with great curiosity, while her mother ate silently with no expression.
They had been fighting for half a year. The fight started because one day, during a phone call, her mother heard a woman’s voice on her father’s side.
An Han didn’t comment on their relationship. Her mind was full of worry about how to slowly make her father accept her real gender.
As she picked up more food, she looked sideways at the old man.
[Your father’s favorability +5]
She felt both nervous and excited. Nervous because if the favorability got too high and her father suddenly had improper thoughts, the whole situation could turn into some horrible adult-story plot. Excited because she wanted to quickly finish eating and check the new laptop he bought her.
“Dad, how much did that laptop cost?”
“One thousand euros. Didn’t you always say your old laptop freezes when you do homework?”
When her father smiled, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes made him look extra gentle and kind.
Actually, it only froze when she played games. She bought Dark Souls 3 on sale earlier, but it lagged so badly she had to refund it. And after experiencing the game on Su Peng’s computer, she had no desire to buy it again.
“So expensive~”
When her father heard the slightly rising tone in her voice, he frowned a little and looked at her. Why did his son suddenly sound cute?
“Brother~” Her little sister stuck her head over and whispered, “Your voice even changed.”
“Stop talking nonsense.” An Han glared at her.
Her father relaxed again, smiling as he watched his daughters whisper to each other, though his eyes kept drifting back to An Han.
For some reason, he felt something was off. Not only was the tone of her voice strangely cute like a girl’s, but her face also looked a bit softer, her hair slightly longer… she almost looked like a girl.
He asked softly, “An Han, isn’t your hair a bit too long? Cut it before the New Year?”
“No. I want to grow it a bit more and get it permed.”
Her father nodded. “Your hair is too soft. A perm would look good.”
He stopped questioning it, but then he saw An Han put down her chopsticks, pick up a tissue, and gently wipe the corner of her mouth, so elegant.
His eyelid twitched again.
“I’m finished!”
An Han couldn’t hold back anymore. She quickly stood up, grabbed the laptop, and rushed upstairs.
Her father watched her running posture. The slim back, the way her little butt moved slightly, and his eyelid twitched even harder.
“Is An Han… a bit feminine?” he asked in confusion.
Her mother had just finished eating too. She stood up and replied, “Isn’t that a good thing?”
“Good?”
The father was a bit confused and didn’t understand what was “good” about it. “If a boy is too girly, how will he find a girlfriend in the future?”
The mother quietly rolled her eyes and put An Han’s bowl and chopsticks into the sink.
“By the way, I’m planning to arrange a blind date for An Han.”
“……” The mother looked lost. “Huh?”
“He’s already twenty. After the New Year he’ll be twenty-one, and he has never even been in a relationship. Don’t you think that’s a bit too much?”
The father shook his head with worry and sighed. “If this continues, he won’t even hold a girl’s hand by the time he’s thirty. Let’s arrange something earlier. A blind date doesn’t mean marriage. I just want him to meet more girls and learn how to get along with them.”
“I also plan to buy him an apartment while he’s back this time. Where do you think is a good place?”
The little sister cut in at this moment and said, “I hold hands with my brother every day~”
Both parents glanced at her at the same time and ignored her comment.
Back in her room, not knowing that another blind date was being arranged for her, An Han locked the door, quickly took off her shirt completely, shivered from the cold, and then took off her chest binder and threw it aside.
“I almost suffocated!”
The chest binder given by the system also made her feel tight and short of breath, and her chest hurt from being squeezed.
She rubbed the marks under her arms, then quickly put on a sweater.
“The favorability is already at 71 points.” Sitting at the desk with her laptop bag in her arms, she muttered to herself, “It’s already close to the danger line.”
The side effects of the chest binder didn’t work very strongly on her father.
If it were another man, after twenty minutes of contact, the favorability would easily go up by thirty or forty points. But with her father, it went up only 15 points.
“I hope nothing unexpected happens.”
She let out a long sigh, then eagerly unzipped her laptop bag.
She didn’t recognize the laptop brand, but after checking the specs and doing a benchmark test, she was still very satisfied.
A 3070 graphics card would cost more than 8,000 yuan in China. Buying it for 1,000 euros wasn’t a loss.
Suddenly, the door made a loud bang, scaring her so much she trembled and quickly reached for the chest binder.
“Brother! Open the door~”
She let out a breath of relief, stood up, and walked to the bedroom door, complaining, “Why are you always so noisy?”
“Dad is asking if you want to go out and walk around!”
“He really has a lot of energy… I’m not going. I’m going to take a shower and get ready to sleep.”
“Eat then sleep, sleep then eat.”
An Han opened the door and glared fiercely at her sister.
The sister looked up awkwardly, then suddenly froze. “Brother, why do you look big sometimes and small sometimes?”
“Get lost!”
“I’ll come back to sleep here tonight, so don’t lock the door~”
“Got it.”
An Han didn’t plan to sleep that early. She just used her sister as an excuse to avoid her father.
Recently, her mother had been more relaxed and tolerant with her, so she could only fall asleep after midnight. Her biological clock was a bit messed up.
Speaking of which… her parents were arguing. So are they sleeping in the same room tonight?
Surely one of them won’t come to sleep in my room, right?
An Han watched her sister run downstairs, closed the door, and sat at the end of the bed while yawning.
Even though the gift of a laptop increased her favorability toward her father, it didn’t remove her wariness.
“Mind-reading needs to build up male hormones to use. Unless I live around boys every day like before in the dorm, I can only use it once in a short time.”
“I have to use it on Dad at the perfect moment.”
She had considered using it at the dinner table earlier, but was worried that using mind-reading without preparation would shock him too much, it might even be bad for his heart.
Better to wait until the favorability is maxed out.