Wu Guodong had never imagined that the so-called intersex condition would appear around him, especially in his nephew.
He looked at Lin Nan hesitantly. If he thought carefully, he could indeed find traces in his memory of Lin Nan's delicate, girl-like face from childhood.
Although he wasn't sure if memory was misleading him, Wu Guodong still believed Lin Nan's words. After all, you couldn't just make up something like this - he could call Lin Nan's mother and ask for clarity.
He didn't quite understand this condition, so while Lin Nan was busy gaming and ignoring him, he simply searched online for related news and educational content.
The more Wu Guodong read about such news and education, the more alarmed he became. Those patients who were examined and found to have deformities as children or just after birth were relatively fortunate, living basically the same as normal people. But cases like Lin Nan's, discovered in adulthood or even at marriage, were much more tragic.
He sighed softly. Looking at Lin Nan, whose appearance now seemed little different from a female, he no longer felt disgusted.
He'd originally wanted to give some advice, but thinking from Lin Nan's perspective, he felt he couldn't immediately accept the notion that "you're actually a girl." Or rather, any normal adult male would be unable to accept such a thing.
"When winter break comes, will you really obediently have the surgery?"
Lin Nan paused. If he could confirm that Lilith would revive through his complete transformation into a female, then he did plan to use surgery to solve the problem.
After all, nobody wanted their body to be mysteriously replaced by someone else.
"Mm." He felt guilty and didn't dare look Wu Guodong in the eye, trying to change the subject. "Where's the takeout? Why hasn't it arrived yet?"
"I just ordered it five minutes ago." Wu Guodong felt Lin Nan was just trying to delay and avoid surgery. He wanted to earnestly persuade him, but thinking that if such a thing happened to him, he'd probably be even more resistant than Lin Nan. In the end, he opened his mouth but couldn't say the words of advice.
Lin Nan's mother had surely said it many times already. Having him say it again would only make Lin Nan more averse.
Wu Guodong stood up, planning to get cola from the fridge, but suddenly remembering Lin Nan's stomach pain that day, he froze and turned back to ask: "That day when your stomach hurt, it wasn't your period coming, was it?"
"..." Lin Nan paused, then frantically shook his head. "Definitely not! If it was, my mom would have already tied me up and dragged me to the hospital. She wouldn't let me sit here listening to you nag at me."
"Your mom probably doesn't know about this, right?"
Wu Guodong looked at Lin Nan suspiciously. Lin Nan pretended to be calm, looking peacefully at the TV screen.
"It was just ordinary stomach pain. I ate something bad." Lin Nan sighed and said worriedly, "I'd just bought a computer with my classmate then, and my living allowance hadn't been transferred yet. Before coming here, I ate some bread that had been sitting for several days. It was probably because that bread went bad."
"If it went bad, shouldn't you have gotten sick the first day you arrived here?" Wu Guodong wasn't stupid. He looked seriously at Lin Nan's fluttering big eyes, trying to maintain a stern expression rather than getting lost in his nephew's beauty. "This is your own body. If something happens, it has nothing to do with me or your mom. It's entirely your own business, understand?"
"I know, I know."
Seeing Lin Nan's perfunctory attitude, Wu Guodong held back a surge of anger, but couldn't vent it on him. Frustrated, he paced back and forth in the living room.
Lin Nan knew he meant well, but he really didn't know how to explain the situation clearly.
"I naturally know what's going on with my body, and I've had a full physical examination. There's nothing wrong." Lin Nan turned around to comfort the furious Wu Guodong. "Don't be angry, I've thought it all through."
"Then you must go back for surgery during winter break!"
"Mm."
Hearing Lin Nan's answer, Wu Guodong's anger subsided somewhat. He went to the fridge and got two bottles of cola, placing them on the coffee table: "I'll assume you haven't gotten your period yet, otherwise I'd have to boil water for you."
Seeing that he didn't seem to have much reaction, Lin Nan felt more at ease.
The grilled fish takeout also arrived. Lin Nan had thought it would just be simple foil packaging, but unexpectedly the delivery person brought over a grilling tray with charcoal.
"Remember to open windows for ventilation. Call me when you're done eating to collect it."
The delivery person placed the grilling tray on the coffee table, left these two sentences, and hurried away. Lin Nan, who had never had grilled fish takeout before, was completely bewildered.
Takeout is this high-end now?
"Let's eat. Having such a good lunch means dinner will have to be simple."
"Mm mm!" Lin Nan quite liked eating grilled fish, but except for group meals and such situations, he basically had no chance for grilled fish. He'd only eaten it twice in his entire life.
For him, money and food tied for first place in his heart. Previously, with his thousand yuan monthly allowance, he could spend over nine hundred on food. If his allowance were three thousand, he'd definitely calculate meals at a hundred yuan per day.
Taking a bite of grilled fish and pairing it with ice-cold cola, Lin Nan sighed comfortably, feeling that life at his uncle's house was as beautiful as heaven.
Games, good food, and the ability to be lazy - perfect.
Wu Guodong, sitting beside him, twitched his eyebrows a few times. That sigh sounded to him exactly like a girl's moan, utterly captivating.
There was only one sofa in the room. To eat the grilled fish on the coffee table, he had no choice but to move closer to Lin Nan, almost shoulder to shoulder. At this distance, he could smell the milky fragrance emanating from Lin Nan amid the rich aroma of grilled fish.
Images of Lin Nan's sleeping face and posture from last time involuntarily appeared in his mind...
The blanket on the sofa had also been messed up by Lin Nan. He simply pulled the blanket over and covered his legs with it.
"How come you also like covering only half with the blanket?" Lin Nan, seeing the familiar action, turned around and asked in surprise. "One of my roommates does the same thing."
"Really?" Wu Guodong choked up, not knowing what to say for a long time.
Should he remind Lin Nan not to get too close to his roommate? But that would seem like covering his ears while stealing a bell.
He could only try not to pay attention to Lin Nan, focusing on eating the grilled fish and white rice, but the faint milky fragrance kept drilling into his nose.
"My feet are just a bit cold." Wu Guodong found a reason he didn't even believe himself.
"Your feet are cold on such a hot day?" Lin Nan looked down at his uncle's calves exposed from his shorts, clicking his tongue in amazement. "Uncle, you're not even thirty yet and you're already this weak?"
Damn it, if you weren't my nephew! I'd pin you to this sofa and show you whether I'm weak or not!
Wu Guodong roared internally, but his face had to maintain the kindly demeanor of an uncle: "Too much overtime. You haven't seen my colleagues—their hairlines keep getting higher and their health keeps getting worse."