Chapter 356: – Run away, run away
Lin Jin’s mood wasn’t great. She stayed in her grandparent’s house’s second floor bedroom, frowning and thinking about random stuff.
Honestly, most of her older relatives were those without much education and had spent their entire lives in the county town. As for those cousins of the same generation as her, although she wasn’t much contact, she could still occasionally hear them joking about Thailand ladyboys when they did gather during the new year.
So, it was still better to hurry and run away! Never come back again! During the new years, she could just say she was outside working or something!
Lin Jin immediately rolled over and got up from the bed. This favorite place of hers back when she was a child now seemed like a death flag in her eyes.
"First book a high speed rail ticket…" Lin Jin swallowed down some saliva. She sat on the bed and quickly purchased a ticket for a train leaving in two hours. Then, grabbing the stuff on the table, she turned to leave.
However, the bedroom door suddenly opened.
Her grandma walked in with a bowl of fish balls and just so happened to see Lin Jin holding her bag, looking like she was about to leave. She asked in confusion: "You’re leaving already?"
"Yeah, there's an emergency at home, they want me to go back." Lin Jin looked like she was full of embarrassment, shyly saying "I really have to quickly go. I can't leave the family matters unattended."
"Then eat some fish balls first?" Grandma smiled kindly. Lin Jin seemed to have never seen her grandma angry or upset in her entire life.
Of course, if her grandma knew that her most beloved grandson had become a woman, she might have exploded in anger.
"Alright then." Lin Jin couldn't refuse her grandma and could only set the bag down. She took the bowl of fish balls and sat at the square table in the room.
The fish balls in Lin Jin's hometown were famous throughout the province and tasted great, but she had eaten them since she was a kid and had long gotten tired of them. Now, eating them didn't feel special, she just felt a bit restrained with her grandma standing there watching her eat.
If it were in the past, she naturally wouldn’t have felt so restrained. Lin Jin might even have asked her grandma to help her with stuff, like fetching some vinegar from the kitchen or something. But now, all she wanted was to peacefully and quickly finish off the bowl of fish balls and then escape.
"Little girl" Grandma asked Lin Jin in their dialect, "Why do I feel you look so much like Lin Jin?"
"It's normal to look alike, right?" Lin Jin's heart tightened, but she still pretended to be calm.
"Mm." Grandma nodded thoughtfully, continuing to look at Lin Jin's face and overall appearance. Her face still wore a kind smile, but Lin Jin always felt as if she was being targeted by an evil dragon.
After quickly finishing the fish balls, Lin Jin quickly stood up, grabbed her bag filled with various small items, smiled at her grandma and politely said: "I have to go now."
"Go ahead."
Lin Jin let out a big sigh of relief in her heart. She quickly walked from the second floor to the first floor living room. She glanced at her mom who was chatting with her grandpa and notified: "Auntie, I have an emergency at home, I’m leaving first."
Auntie? Her mom was stunned for a moment, but she quickly reacted and nodded with a smile: "Then you can head back first."
"Okay." Lin Jin hurriedly rushed out of the house, hailed a taxi on the street, and arrived at the high speed rail station in less than half an hour.
Only then did the pressure in her heart disappear.
After passing through the ticket check, Lin Jin dejectedly sat in a chair. Looking at the time, she found there was still over an hour until the train arrived.
She sighed. Although the pressure and urgency she felt were gone, her mind couldn't help but imagine the chaos that would ensue if her identity was exposed to her conservative relatives.
Especially her eldest maternal aunt's husband. That uncle was your standard misogynistic man. He even thought Lin Jin’s appearance looked too feminine and suggested he get plastic surgery before.
Although such extreme misogyny was relatively rare among her relatives, Lin Jin believed none of them would accept the situation of a man turning into a woman.
Sigh, feels bad.
When Lin Jin was initially bewitched by the black cat into becoming a woman, she was only about the problem of marriage in the future. Now, however, she realized that being a woman required not just a good physical appearance but also strong mental fortitude, facing skepticism from her family, and dealing with the opinions of relatives and friends.
If those relatives and friends didn't change their views, then she might never be able to appear at family gatherings for the rest of her life. Or maybe when her grandparent’s pass away, she wouldn’t even dare to attend the funeral as "Lin Jin."
Although that was a bit far into the future, it was indeed the case.
Feeling a headache, she covered her hand and patted her head with her palms.
"Lin Jin, you're here too." Suddenly, a slightly chubby figure sat down next to Lin JIn.
She turned around and found it was Liu Shengqi, whom she had just parted ways with at noon.
"Why do you seem upset? Is something wrong?"
Liu Shengqi's tone when speaking was always gentle. Of course, when Lin Jin had talked to him in middle school, he had been quite rough. It was only after he started showing interest during winter break that his tone softened. It seemed he was only this gentle when facing Lin Jin, even making her feel like he was completely a bottom.
"It's nothing. What are you doing here?" Lin Jin lifted her head to look at him. Her previously weak expression quickly disappeared, pulling back her emotions just like an iceberg.
Seeing Lin Jin’s expressionless face, Liu Shengqi shrugged. He knew she didn't want to share so he just replied: "My train’s in thirty minutes, to Xiamen. You?"
"In an hour." Lin Jin hadn’t expected to run into him at the train station.
"Oh." He scratched his head, unsure what else to say so the atmosphere quickly turned awkward.
After racking his brains, Liu Shengqi finally said: "You said at noon that Xiao Meng and I seemed very intimate. That was a lie, right?"
"Maybe." Lin Jin wasn't really in the mood to chat, her mind was still occupied with how to get her relatives to accept her.
"I didn’t do anything that day. I just went to see a movie with a girl. The theater was packed and we didn't even sit together." Liu Shengqi guessed, "You probably got the wrong person, right?"
"Mm."
This guy was so annoying...
"Want KFC? How about getting it to go to eat on the train?" Liu Shengqi stood up, habitually preparing to feed Lin Jin, "I’ll go get you a portion? My train’s almost here."
"If you want."
Keep eating anymore and she’ll really fatten up like a pig... God knows when Lin Jin’s mind actually stopped having those annoying thoughts. Instead, it turned to complaining about Liu Shengqi.
A moment later, Liu Shengqi returned with two large bags of KFC, completely ignoring the ghastly expression on Lin Jin's face as he stuffed the bags into her arms and immediately turned to leave.
"My train's coming, I'm going to line up now, bye."