Chapter 355: – Regarding her relatives
Actually, Liu Shengqi had a way to refute Lin Jin’s accusations. After all, he was certain that Lin Jin wasn't present in the screening room he went to with Xiao Meng. He just needed to compare his movie screening time with Lin Jin to clear himself of this false accusation. Even though Lin Jin had handled his movie ticket, he didn't believe she could remember that detail.
But the problem was, when he saw Lin Jin’s cute smug face looking as if she had already won, he couldn’t help but smile. Just to see more of that expression on her face, he chose not to reveal the truth and hung his head in defeat, looking like a lost dog.
Lin Jin hmphed triumphantly. She was unaware of what Liu Shengqi was thinking and naturally assumed she had won a great battle.
"Liu Shengqi! How could you do this? Didn't I tell you long ago about this blind date?" Liu Shengqi’s mom angrily glared at him.
She was quite pleased with Lin Jin. Even though Lin Jin’s sitting posture and what not were not very ladylike, appearing very casual, these habits could be cultivated later. But you couldn’t do that to the face, okay? Even though there was plastic surgery, it couldn’t go and modify the genes.
Actually, Liu Shengqi's mom still had some doubts about Lin Jin before. She had heard from Lin Jin’s mom that the child had psychological issues in the past, believing she was a boy and always dressing as one. It was only recently that she had begun to embrace her female identity. Initially, his mom was worried Lin Jin would be too tomboyish, but when they actually met, she was pleasantly surprised by her appearance. Though some male mannerisms still remained.
She was initially quite happy, but her son failed to meet expectations.
After glaring fiercely at Liu Shengqi, she sighed. She was about to say something when a waiter came with the hotpot and slices of fish, pushing over a cart full of hotpot ingredients.
“The food is all served. Please enjoy your meal" The waiter boy politely bowed to the four guests.
"Let's eat" Feeling the atmosphere was a bit awkward, Lin Jin’s mother could only announce that it was time to start eating.
So Lin Jin was happy. She didn’t care if her mom was telling her to eat, it was all good as long as she wasn’t forced into a date with Liu Shengqi!
The meal wasn't too expensive, the four of them ate for just over three hundred. Aside from Liu Shengqi, everyone else had a good meal. Only Liu Shengqi felt that when they were eating, he suddenly felt like he had become a lower class citizen. As a man, even reaching for the chopsticks first would get him scolded by his own mother…
"Lin Jin, let’s go out and talk?" After the meal, seeing Lin Jin's mom about to pull her away, Liu Shengqi looked at Lin Jin eagerly and asked, "just a quick casual chat, how about it?"
"Oh." Lin Jin, who had been eating happily just moments ago, immediately darkened her expression. She stood up, not wanting to seem too unreasonable in front of her mother.
The two walked out of the restaurant and headed to the man made lake next to Walmart.
Lin Jin leaned her hands on the stone wall. Turning her head to look at Liu Shengqi, she casually asked: "What?"
"Why have you already started going on blind dates?" Liu Shengqi sighed softly, knowing that although he had expended quite a bit for Lin Jin, perhaps because he hadn't made a good impression on her during middle school, pursuing her now was incredibly difficult.
Lin Jin rolled her eyes: "Who knows."
"But, does your mom not even know you're a guy?" Liu Shengqi looked at Lin Jin in confusion. He couldn’t imagine how Lin Jin's mom could let her son go on a blind date with another man.
Oh, that’s true. This thing about him becoming a woman was only known to her family right now, right? Wu Min and Wen Xuan on the other hand had long since treated Lin Jin as a woman, her changing wouldn’t have mattered.
"I had surgery." Lin Jin turned her head away. She always felt saying such words herself was quite embarrassing.
Liu Shengqi was completely baffled.
After a moment, Liu Shengqi's shocked expression finally eased. He thought for a moment and suddenly realized that this didn’t seem to be a bad thing for him.
"So what you mean is, liking you now is not considered gay anymore?" He said with sparkling eyes.
What the f*ck? Why was his way of thinking so weird?
But Lin Jin couldn't really argue with that, so she just nodded helplessly.
"So I can openly pursue you now?" Liu Shengqi was as happy as a two hundred kg fatty.
"But you can't catch up" Lin Jin shrugged. "Look, my mom has a really bad impression of you."
"What about your impression of me?"
Lin Jin paused. She hadn't really thought about this before. After some thinking, she realized she didn't have much repulsion towards Liu Shengqi. It was just that in the past, since she considered herself a man, she found it somewhat disgusting to be pursued by him. As for now... it was mainly annoying, then followed by disgusting.
Although she had changed to a woman and her mindset seemed to align with that of a typical woman, the idea of having a boyfriend or being pursued by men still instinctively felt weird and gross to her.
Maybe it would get better in a few years?
"Gross, annoying" Lin Jin said bluntly. "Even though I'm a woman now, I'm still not interested in men."
Liu Shengqi shrugged in resignation, feeling like he still had a long way to go.
After parting ways with Liu Shengqi’s family, Lin Jin's mom took her to her grandparent’s house, planning to have Lin Jin stay there for a couple of days. Fortunately, Lin Jin had brought along her change of clothes and charger, so she didn’t object to the sudden plan.
Though she didn’t have a single friend at her grandparent’s house. There was also no computer Wi-Fi. At most, there was air conditioning and a TV. Although the room was spacious and well decorated, the problem was that there were no friends around to talk to.
Moreover, it seemed that her grandparents were unaware that she had become a woman. They weren’t considered by the black cat to be immediate family members so when Lin Jin arrived at the house in a full set of women’s outfit, the elderly couple mistook her for Lin Chen or maybe Lin Jin’s girlfriend.
And her mom didn’t plan to explain either, even giving Lin Jin a look. So, Lin Jin immediately assumed the identity of Lin Chen’s girlfriend. With her hands clasped behind her back, she bowed her head, not daring to look at the two elders.
Lin Jin and her mother were given the best decorated bedroom on the second floor. So she immediately made the excuse of habitually taking afternoon naps and ran to the second floor bedroom.
So this meant that her grandma and grandpa could not accept her at all, right?
Lying on the soft bed, Lin Jin suddenly thought of this thing.
If they could accept it, her mom wouldn’t have stopped Lin Jin from revealing the truth.
Although she didn't have much contact with her grandparents, Lin Jin assumed they were the kind of old people with rigid views. In fact, it wasn’t just the older generation, even modern society’s younger generation rarely accepted things like transitioning from male to female.
So, did she have to keep her identity hidden from now on, never to appear in front of relatives and friends from middle and high school?