Chapter 348: Social
An Han still didn’t understand what her system actually was. In short, the system had never brought her any real benefits or improvements. Most of the rewards were strange and unusual things.
The attributes could indeed change her appearance, but in the end they turned her into a girl. The system’s items were useful, but their side effects were too much for her. The skills sometimes had a few helpful ones, but most of them had weird effects.
A perfectly good, almost 1.7-meter-tall slim man had now been turned into a girl with a C-cup chest and a nicely shaped body.
“It really is a hentai–female-protagonist system!”
An Han cursed with anger.
After testing the stamina attribute many times and removing all other possibilities, she had already confirmed what it actually did.
It was really for that kind of thing. A stamina attribute that made her hard to “get plowed to death” like a cow…
Back when she realized her endurance didn’t increase at all while running, she already guessed this might be the case, but she didn’t expect the system to be so shameless!
Letting out a sigh, An Han lay on the desk, staring blankly at the empty seat next to her.
Before, she and Su Peng always sat with their old dormmates. Later, the two of them slowly drifted away from the dorm group. They preferred to sit in a quiet corner where no one would bother them, so they could talk about… things they didn’t want others to hear.
But now, even Su Peng was skipping class.
It had only been three days, but Su Peng had already found an internship that suited him.
Now, An Han sat alone in the corner of the classroom. She didn’t dare join Long Xing and Wang Sheng’s table either. After becoming a girl, she knew it didn’t look good to always hang around with male friends.
So now she was completely alone during class. She kept silent, listened to the lecture, and didn’t even feel like touching her phone.
Classes that used to pass in the blink of an eye now felt unbearably long, like being in jail. She counted the seconds, listened to her own breathing, and time moved painfully slowly.
The short class bell rang, but An Han still lay weakly on the desk.
There were still three more classes before lunch break.
“An Han~”
But to her surprise, Lin Yi came over and sat next to her during the break.
Just moments ago she felt lifeless, but now she suddenly became alert. She stared at Lin Yi’s face full of “bad intentions,” lifted her butt, and moved one full chair away from her.
“What do you want?”
So many missions had been triggered because of this girl!
And they were always missions that pushed right up against her shame limit! Even if her shame tolerance could “adjust,” she couldn’t handle it happening again and again.
“Nothing~ I just thought you looked bored sitting alone, so I came to keep you company.”
Seeing An Han look at her like she had seen a ghost, Lin Yi pretended to be heartbroken and wiped away imaginary tears. “Why are you so scared of me~”
“Don’t make me do another weird thing.”
“What do you mean another?” Lin Yi rolled her eyes, then leaned closer with curiosity. “Did Su Peng take leave today?”
“He went to his internship job. He can only come to class three days a week.”
“I knew he wouldn’t skip class for no reason~”
Lin Yi nodded, then lowered her voice like a sneaky gossip and whispered in An Han’s ear,
“Are you and Su Peng already living together?”
An Han froze, then quickly shook her head. “No!”
“I heard he hasn’t gone back to the dorm for almost a week.”
“Where did you hear that?” She defended herself, saying, “Su Peng just rented another room outside, that’s all.”
Since the two-bedroom apartment she was renting had a spare room and Su Peng was sometimes staying in the smaller bedroom, this explanation was very reasonable.
But Lin Yi looked at her expression and showed a smile that all women understood. “I see~”
That meaningful look made An Han blush. She lifted her head and rolled her eyes at her.
“Don’t gossip about me.”
She quickly changed the topic. “Why don’t you think about what you want to do after graduation? You gossip all day long like an old lady in a village.”
“Graduation… I’m planning to take the civil service exam.”
“You?”
Could someone as unreliable as Lin Yi really become a civil servant?!
“What? My grades are much better than yours, okay?”
An Han had never paid attention to that. She thought about her own grades, which were always in the lower-middle range, then collapsed weakly onto her desk like she had lost all hope.
Lin Yi rested her chin on one hand and looked at her. After thinking for a moment, she changed the subject again. “Do you have a favorite celebrity? Yiyang Qianxi? Yang Yang?”
“My little sister likes Yiyang Qianxi a lot…”
An Han shook her head. “If I really have to say I like someone, maybe Hu Ge? And those older actors. At least their shows are usually watchable. Mm… but I don’t really watch dramas. I usually just read novels.”
“You don’t follow celebrities and don’t watch dramas~ judging by your look, you probably don’t wear makeup either… Then what kind of novels do you read? Romance?”
“I like historical fantasy.”
“Games? Honor of Kings? PUBG Mobile?”
“I don’t play those. I prefer DOTA or single-player games.”
“……”
Lin Yi felt a little headache. Even though An Han was quite pretty, her hobbies were extremely masculine.
Because of that, the two of them had no shared topics. They just stared at each other blankly for a moment before Lin Yi finally gave up trying to chat and awkwardly stood up to leave.
As An Han watched her walk away, she blinked her big eyes. Her feelings suddenly dropped a little.
Humans are social creatures. Her old friends had grown distant because of her change in appearance and gender, and now she couldn’t blend into the girls’ group at all.
Lin Yi counted as her friend, but they had nothing to talk about.
She might now qualify as one of the prettiest girls in class, but she had surprisingly few friends. When she still had Su Peng around, it didn’t bother her much, but now that Su Peng was busy and didn’t have time for her…
An Han looked around the classroom and let her gaze stop on the male classmates.
She would rather hang out with male friends, but a girl surrounded only by men…
“Maybe I should start watching dramas and take the initiative to make friends with girls.”
She frowned and searched on her phone, “how to fit in with girl groups.” Very quickly, she found an answer on the internet that looked reliable.
“Change your mindset, don’t feel inferior? Make yourself shine and become better? Be optimistic and confident. You can also pay more attention to clothes, food, entertainment, gossip…”
An Han blankly read the whole answer. After thinking a bit, she opened Lin Yi’s Moments page.
Lin Yi’s posts were full of discount ads for products. She hadn’t realized before that Lin Yi was doing online sales. There were also some photos of Lin Yi traveling.
An Han rubbed her head in frustration.
Back when she was still male, she barely had any female friends at all. If she met a girl in a game, she even felt annoyed, afraid of being dragged down.
Other than her mother and sister, she barely interacted with girls her whole life.
Even now, after turning into a girl, she still felt a little distant toward unfamiliar women, as if they were not “her type of people.”
“Maybe… I should invite Lin Yi to go hiking this weekend?”