Chapter 315: Birthday
Knock knock knock!
“I’m coming, I’m coming!”
Around ten in the afternoon, An Han was watching TV on the sofa. When she heard the knocking, she didn’t even have time to put on slippers. She ran over with her bare feet in quick little steps.
She first opened the door just a crack, showing only her eyes.
“Lin Yi, Kexin, you two came so early?”
Only then did she open the door fully and take out the slippers Su Peng bought in the morning, placing them by the door. “Come in, come in.”
“We came early to help.”
Lin Yi still had her usual bright smile. She lifted the supermarket bag in her hand and shook it lightly. “We bought a lot of meat too. It should be enough for all of us.”
Behind her, An Kexin leaned sideways to peek in, holding two gift boxes. Her curious and slightly jealous eyes looked around the small rented apartment. “And your birthday gifts.”
“Oh! Thanks!”
An Han casually took the boxes and placed them on the shoe cabinet.
“Do you want something to drink? I have sugar-free Coke and Genki Forest (Chi Forest).”
Su Peng couldn’t stand the taste of sugar-free Coke, so she prepared other drinks for him. Today she could take them out to serve the guests.
In the afternoon, An Han also went to the supermarket and bought a bunch of seafood and meat for hotpot. With the extra things Lin Yi brought, they would probably still have leftovers after dinner.
After leading the two girls inside, An Han placed two drinks on the table. When they all sat on the sofa together, she suddenly didn’t know what to do next.
If a male classmate came over, she would probably watch anime or play games with him. But this was the first time she ever invited female classmates home.
Even though she knew these two girls fairly well, they hardly interacted in daily life. She also didn’t know what they liked…
“Um…” An Han felt a bit awkward, but then suddenly remembered why she invited them today.
“Wait for me a second.”
She quickly went into her bedroom and took out the system item, the medical report.
This was the tool she used the most. Anyone who read the report would be hypnotized and accept the logic that she had always been a girl. The side effects weren’t strong either.
Letting girls read it helped her grow her hair longer. Letting guys read it didn’t charm them, it was just a milder version of hypnosis.
“Take a look at this.”
An Han brought out the medical report and put it on the sofa.
“What is this?” An Kexin peeked curiously. “A medical checkup report? We don’t understand those.”
“You will understand it, trust me.”
Lin Yi picked up the report first. She scanned through it quickly. Soon, her expression changed to something surprised, and she looked up at An Han.
An Han’s heart tightened immediately.
She had used this item many times, and the people who read it always showed a “sudden realization” expression. But this was the first time she saw a strange, shocked look.
Just like the expression on An Kexin’s face right now.
Did it not work on Lin Yi? Did she notice something?
Feeling guilty like a thief, her body tensed up. She could only force an awkward but polite smile and nervously ask in a tiny voice, “What’s wrong?”
Lin Yi widened her eyes, full of curiosity and surprise. “I have two distant older female cousins who are almost exactly like you!”
“C-cousins?”
An Han froze, looking at her with a completely confused face.
Could it be that there were other people in the world who had a system?
And in the same family, too?
She instinctively asked the system in her mind, but no response.
Her system was even dumber than an AI toy. Other than kicking her when she was down, it was basically useless.
“Yeah. They’re relatives from my grand-uncle’s side. We don’t really keep in touch. I only heard about it.”
“Really…”
“I think one is named Lin Nan, and I forgot the other one.”
“That’s a coincidence.”
An Han kept doubting it in her heart. She guessed maybe Lin Yi’s two cousins had some other condition, like having two sets of biological traits, or maybe they were misdiagnosed at birth because of a congenital issue…
There couldn’t be other system users, right?
Now that they had a topic to talk about, An Han also became curious. She finally didn’t feel awkward anymore. She brought out the snacks Su Peng bought in the morning, eating while asking more about Lin Yi’s two cousins.
Even though she had seen gender-related stories in novels or manga online before, and sometimes gender-related news, this was the first time she heard about someone in real life who was “like her.”
According to Lin Yi, her distant cousin named Lin Nan got married two years ago. Lin Yi even went to the wedding. Both the cousin and her husband were very good-looking.
This made An Han even more curious.
“Your family doesn’t have some kind of genetic problem, right…? You hardly see this on the news, but your family has two cases.”
“Maybe?” Lin Yi didn’t sound sure.
An Kexin interrupted from the side, “So Lin Yi might actually be a boy?”
“If I were a boy… I’d trick you into bed!” Lin Yi suddenly jumped on her, grabbing An Kexin’s cheeks and rubbing them. “A soft and silly girl like you, I’d trick you and you’d even help me count money!”
“No way~”
Forced onto the sofa, with Lin Yi on top of her, An Kexin’s face was squeezed into a weird shape. Her voice sounded funny and distorted.
They seemed like roommates, so this kind of rough play was normal for them.
An Han quietly lifted her butt and scooted away a bit, completely agreeing with Lin Yi’s words in her heart.
After all, it was a boy trying to get help chasing his crush, but somehow she became the wingman without realizing it… If she and Su Peng could get together, An Kexin definitely helped a lot.
While they were still messing around, someone knocked on the door again.
Lin Yi immediately froze, quickly crawled off An Kexin, pulled down her shirt that had ridden up and exposed her stomach, and sat properly like a quiet lady, legs together, hands neatly on her lap.
An Kexin’s face was still red from being squeezed. She muttered angrily, “Act all you want, you’re still a crazy woman.”
Ignoring the two girls’ bickering, An Han ran to the door. When she opened it, the first person she saw was Su Peng.
“……”
Behind him were her two male roommates, except Wang Sheng was missing.
“Wang Sheng didn’t come?” An Han leaned out to check the hallway, but instead saw Wu Dongming standing on the stairs. “Hey! Dongming, why are you here?”
Wu Dongming didn’t speak. Instead, Su Peng explained,
“Wang Sheng went out with his girlfriend yesterday afternoon and still hasn’t come back.”
“Oh… okay…”
Did that guy sense the “danger” and escape early?
Looks like the cleanup would be left to her…
“Come in, come in.”
An Han smiled as she invited them in, but her eyes kept drifting toward Wu Dongming. This guy could chat freely with her online, but in person, he turned into a shy little boy.
“Xiao Han, your gift.” Long Xing took off his shoes and handed her a thermos cup.
“Thanks.”
An Han casually took it, then looked at Chen Junjie.
Chen Junjie rolled his eyes. “Already sent it to your Steam library, Crystal Maiden’s Arcana.”
“Nice~ It’s more than a hundred yuan! You’re pretty generous!”