Chapter 340: – Lin Jin in the eyes of her family
Early in the morning, Lin Jin tied her hair into a long ponytail before stepping out of her bedroom still in her pajamas.
Her mom was up early and sitting on the couch watching TV. Hearing Lin Jin, she turned around and saw Lin Jin’s long hair reaching all the way down to the waist. With a smile, she said: "My daughter is really getting more and more beautiful."
Huh?
Lin Jin was momentarily stunned. She thought for sure her mom would question how her hair had grown so much overnight, but her mom acted as if it was totally normal? Did she think she was wearing a wig or something?
"Is there food?" Since her mom didn't ask, Lin Jin naturally wasn’t about to seek death herself. She stood by the couch and said, "I’m a bit hungry."
"The dining room already has soy milk and fried dough sticks prepared. Just heat them up yourself." Her mom went back to watching the morning news on TV as she casually replied "Lin Jin, you've just been discharged from the hospital. How about you take another week off school. I’ll help you sort out your ID and stuff this week."
What’s this about being discharged from the hospital?
Lin Jin stared blankly at her mom, who was wearing a long white nightgown. She was completely clueless about what was going on.
"Got it" Lin Jin blankly nodded, then sleepily made her way to the dining room for breakfast.
Soy milk with fried dough sticks was a combination Lin Jin often ate as a child. She basically hadn’t had this since starting high school. After all, she got up late every day. So if she wanted to go to class, there would be no time to have breakfast. Although she woke up slightly earlier when he started college, the college’s canteen did not have this classic breakfast combo.
After quickly finishing her breakfast, Lin Jin walked out of the dining room and glanced at the still closed door of Lin Chen's room, asking her mom "Lin Chen’s still not up?"
"He sleeps in on weekends."
Her mom looked up at Lin Jin and patted the seat next to her, signaling her to sit down. To which Lin Jin very obediently sat down next to her mother.
"Lin Jin, you're a girl now" her mom’s eyes were very serious. She looked into Lin Jin’s eyes and said with a serious tone. "That means you can’t play so intimately with your roommates anymore. You go take another week off, mom will teach you more things girls should know."
"Ah?" Lin Jin wanted to ask how her mom knew she had turned into a girl, and why her mom thought she had just been discharged from the hospital.
Could it be the black cat’s shenanigans?
When this thought crossed her mind, Lin Jin urgently wanted to rush back to her room and interrogate the black cat.
"Although your dad is still in the dark about it, I'll handle that part. You don’t worry too much. In a week, I’ll go with you back to school to update your school and ID records. Then you'll officially be a woman" her mom sighed lightly, her serious tone finally eased a little. She stroked Lin Jin’s long hair and sighed "It’s all mom’s fault. If mom hadn’t made you always wear girls' clothes growing up and spent so much time with your dad on business trips, you wouldn’t have suffered such a thing."
"You’ve just had surgery so your body isn't good right now, mom won’t go to the store for a while. We’ll have some soup for you to drink tonight. Mom has learned how to make soup here in Guangdong, the taste is quite good."
Feeling the gentle strokes on her head, Lin Jin raised her head, still clueless.
Huh?
Why was it that the more she listened, the more it seemed like her mom believed she had come to Guangzhou this time for surgery? And the situation now was that she had already had the surgery and was discharged to recover?
"Oh, I got it. I’ll stay home during this period" Although Lin Jin was confused, she still nodded in agreement.
"Since you’re now a girl" her mom’s gaze suddenly shifted from Lin Jin’s face to her legs and she fell silent.
Lin Jin looked down and realized she had habitually sat with her legs spread over ninety degrees, a very masculine posture.
Without hesitation, she closed her legs and looked at her mom with a sheepish smile: "It was so sudden I’m not used to this yet."
"When you’re wearing pants, it’s whatever. But remember not to sit like that when you’re wearing a skirt or you might expose yourself without realizing" her mom seriously advised.
Just then, Lin Chen’s room door swung open and he walked out with his chicken coop like hair. He looked a bit awkward when he saw Lin Jin, but still managed a clumsy greeting: "Sister, good morning."
"What morning? It’s already past nine! Your sister just got discharged from the hospital and she’s already up so early. But you! It’s already your senior year and you’re still so lazy!" Her mom didn’t hold back in her scolding.
"Alright, alright" Lin Chen nodded helplessly, "I finally have a day off and I can’t even sleep in a bit, and I was doing homework in there."
"Go eat!"
"Yes." Lin Chen suddenly felt like his status in the family had become the lowest. When it was just him and their mom at home, as a senior high student, he was their mother’s dearest treasure. He was allowed to sleep as long as he wanted on Sundays. But now, things had become like this.
Sure enough, sister came to compete for favor, right?
Watching Lin Chen walk into the dining room with a defeated look, Lin Jin decided to head back to her room as well.
"Mom, I'm going to lie down for a bit."
"Sure. In the afternoon, come learn some makeup with me. It’s too much of a waste if a girl didn’t know how to use makeup" Mom nodded and said, "My daughter is so beautiful, you'll be absolutely stunning with makeup."
Okay, maybe mom has something with her head today.
Lin Jin returned to her bedroom. She first searched all over for the counselor’s number and then called to ask for another week of leave. This time, taking leave was a bit more troublesome, requiring her mother’s verification. After that was sorted, she laid down on her bed and looked at the black cat on her phone screen.
"What happened with my mom?"
To Lin Jin, her mother’s reaction was the most strange, though Lin Chen was also a bit weird. He actually looked somewhat shy when calling her "sister" today.
"You must have done something, right?" Lin Jin wasn’t a fool. Any abnormality would surely be linked to the equally strange black cat, "What did you do to my mom?"
“Didn’t you ask me to sort out the suddenly turn into a woman thing?” The black cat had also been acting weird lately, as if it had been chewing catnip non stop everyday. Lying on the ground, it would constantly move its legs and twist its body. Its tone would also be filled with glee, completely like an idiot.
"So you made Lin Chen and mom think I just got out of surgery?" Lin Jin furrowed her brows, the black cat had never mentioned how it would handle the surprise from others after she suddenly changed into a woman.
“I implanted a bit of memory in your family. In reality, the memories were just dreams, but they will believe them as true" the black cat grinned proudly, full of pride, “Only this cat could accomplish such a feat.”
So what’s this memory you implanted?
Seeing Lin Jin’s inquisitive look, the black cat began to explain.
"In your family’s eyes, you chose to become a woman three years ago and have been living dressed as one ever since. Over a month ago, you came to Guangzhou for the final surgery preparations."
"After the surgery, you were discharged from the hospital yesterday. Oh right, your hair has been growing out since three years ago, so now it’s down to your waist…”
So to recap, the black cat meant that in the eyes of her family, she became a woman normally through surgery, not mysteriously overnight.