"Su Yun, I forgot to ask, do you urgently need your ID card right now? If it’s urgent, I’ll have your uncle drive us back to our hometown tomorrow."
Su Yun was sitting on the edge of her bed, talking to her parents on the phone.
"Not too urgent, I guess. I just need it for an exam next month."
"Baby, don’t be scared, okay? We’ll definitely find a way."
"Mm."
Changing the gender on an ID card probably isn’t that easy.
Even if it’s not easy, as long as her parents are around, Su Yun feels completely safe.
After finishing the call, Su Yun leaned against the headboard and started thinking about tomorrow.
She was “a guy,” yet she had to go up there in a skirt and sing a super lovey-dovey song.
She could already imagine certain people in the audience fantasizing about her as their girlfriend.
“Ugh...”
“Ding-ling-ling~”
Just as Su Yun was spiraling into anxiety, her phone rang with a cheerful ringtone.
“Little Yun, still awake?” As soon as the call connected, she heard Qin Xue’s pleasant voice.
“You’re still up too.” Su Yun flopped down onto her bed like always, expecting another hour-long chat.
She figured this would just be another casual conversation like usual, but after about half an hour of chatting...
“Little Yun, have you ever been in love?”
“Eh?” Su Yun froze, puzzled why the other suddenly asked something like that.
But now that it came up, she actually was kinda curious whether Qin Xue had ever been in love.
Qin Xue was just so... big, so fair, so round. If someone got to be her boyfriend, it’d probably feel amazing…
Jealousy clouded Su Yun’s mind.
Still, she didn’t dare to ask. She figured that, as a maid, it wasn’t her place to pry.
“Little Yun, you’re hesitating... so that means you have?” The voice on the other end noticeably cooled down.
“No, no, not at all. I totally don’t want to date right now. Gotta focus on studying first.” Su Yun replied helplessly.
“That’s good, then.”
“Uh?”
Su Yun frowned, even more confused.
“So, do you prefer black stockings or white stockings, Little Yun?”
“Black, I guess? Why’re you asking this?” The moment she was asked, Su Yun replied almost on instinct—because her mind immediately conjured an image of Qin Xue wearing black stockings.
“No reason~”
Qin Xue didn’t explain, just smoothly returned to their casual chat as if those two questions had never happened.
Su Yun didn’t think too much of it and kept chatting while lying down.
Then halfway through their conversation, there was a knock at the door.
“Little Yun, who is it?”
“Meow~”
Su Yun walked to the door with her phone in hand and heard the sound of a cat meowing outside.
Click.
She opened the door and saw that little orange cat curled up in a girl’s arms.
“Hello.” The girl froze for a moment when she saw Su Yun’s red eyes, but quickly composed herself.
“Little Yun?” Qin Xue’s voice held a note of confusion.
“Um, something came up here. I’ll call you back in a bit.”
“Oh.”
Beep... Su Yun hung up and focused her gaze on the girl before her.
“Um, is something the matter? Do you know me?” Su Yun stood at the doorway, sizing up the girl in front of her.
The girl was wearing a thick sweater that wrapped her thin frame tightly.
“Mm, Aunt Liu told me it was you who saved me. Thank you.”
The girl’s sweet smile caught Su Yun off guard for a moment.
Looking at her like this now... she’s actually quite pretty.
Seeing her pure smile, Su Yun suddenly remembered the scene from yesterday morning.
Though she looked skinny, when you lift the covers... it’s actually pretty good.
...Uh.
“...” Su Yun immediately felt dumb for even thinking that.
The girl had almost died, and here she was thinking about that?
While zoning out, a slender hand suddenly waved in front of her face.
“What’s wrong?” The girl tilted her head, her long, elegant black hair falling over her chest.
“Ah, sorry...” Su Yun saw the girl again and reflexively apologized.
“?”
“No, not like that, haha... I mean, how’s your health? Will that kind of thing happen again?” Su Yun asked awkwardly.
“I’m okay.” The girl hesitated for a second or two before answering.
“Mm, that’s good then.” Su Yun nodded.
If that’s the case, she wouldn’t feel as guilty.
After chatting a bit at the door, Su Yun invited her in—it wasn’t good to keep someone standing.
The girl’s name was Xia Rou, also a first-year student at Summer’s End University. She had an older brother named Xia Hongxuan.
“I don’t really have any friends in class... Can you be my friend?”
Looking at Xia Rou’s slightly pale face, Su Yun couldn’t bring herself to refuse and nodded in agreement.
Su Yun wasn’t sure what to talk about with girls, so they just played with the cat together.
The kitten’s name was Little Orange. Xia Rou was smiling nearly the whole time while playing with it—it was obvious she really liked the cat.
...
After about half an hour, Su Yun saw her off at the door.
Back in her room, she immediately picked up her phone, ready to call Qin Xue back.
(Qin Xue: Goodnight)
But the moment she opened her phone, she saw a message Qin Xue had sent ten minutes ago on WeChat—just two words: Goodnight.
(Me: That was the girl who lives next door. She’s not feeling well, so I was a bit concerned and asked her some questions.)
Su Yun sat on her bed, looking at her phone, waiting for Qin Xue’s reply.
After all, Qin Xue had said “goodnight” before and still replied instantly even an hour later—so ten minutes this time should be nothing, right?
But in the end, Su Yun waited ten whole minutes, and Qin Xue didn’t reply again.
“She really fell asleep? Alright then.” So Su Yun also sent a goodnight message.
Making someone wait for twenty minutes wasn’t very polite—she’d explain tomorrow.
Looking at the time on her phone—12:23AM—it was already late. Su Yun turned off the lights and lay in bed.
Her mind wandered back to the girl from earlier.
Xia Rou didn’t really look completely healthy, yet she had insisted she was fine—was that true?
Also, she actually really pretty, loved cats, and was such a gentle girl... yet somehow had no friends in class?
Though not as naturally seductive as Qin Xue and without the same figure, she was still very attractive. At the very least, way better than that “dog trainer” Chen Tingting in their class.
Hmm... if Xia Rou already looked that good, then looking at Qin Xue must be enough to send someone straight to heaven.
Su Yun’s mind started drifting to some not-so-good places.
Say, about that reward... What if I asked Qin Xue to take a bath with me? She was gonna get thrown away anyway—might as well enjoy herself before that, right?
With that thought, her brain flooded with excitement, discomfort, anticipation, reluctance—so many complicated emotions that she started breathing heavily.
“Su Yun, what are you even thinking!?” Though lying in bed, the next second Su Yun shot straight up, practically flying two meters into the air, then crashed hard to the floor.
“Ow...” Su Yun rubbed her sore butt, her lips scrunched up—just one step away from crying.
“Oww, okay, no more weird thoughts... Let’s just sleep...” She took that fall as karma for her dirty thoughts.
And she also realized something else—she was apparently not very resistant to falling.
...
...
“Sis, aren’t you going to sleep yet?” In a villa, on a fluffy pink bed, a tiny little thing was rubbing up against the big softness in front of her.
(End of Chapter)