After their playful interaction, the mother and son sat in the shallow water area.
Or perhaps it should be mother and daughter now - Lin Nan's transformation magic still had about ten minutes left.
His mother looked at Lin Nan's chest with some heartache and sighed deeply: "When did you discover it?"
"Hm?" Lin Nan's emotions had finally calmed down considerably, no longer feeling overwhelming shame, though he still felt extremely guilty beside his mother.
"Your chest." His mother said with heartache. "What girl uses a chest binder? Doesn't it feel constricting?"
"There's no choice living in the dorm." Lin Nan could only use this excuse to deflect his mother's questions. In reality, while he did have some chest development, just wearing a sun protection shirt would be enough to conceal it - he didn't really need a chest binder.
Using magic to temporarily become a girl now was just hoping to disguise his lower body, but unfortunately he'd forgotten that becoming a girl would also give him breasts.
But his mother didn't know the inside story and felt deeply sorry for Lin Nan: "Mom will help you borrow money for surgery as soon as possible, then you won't have to make things so difficult for yourself."
But I don't want surgery!
He could clearly use magic to become female, and later use magic to handle identity documents too. Why did he have to spend money on surgery? What if the doctor made a mistake - wouldn't that be the end?
"Should I save up money myself? The family isn't well-off right now." Lin Nan lowered his head, not daring to look at his mother.
But his mother misunderstood, thinking Lin Nan was being considerate and didn't want the family to go into debt.
His mother heartachingly ruffled Lin Nan's hair, but suddenly noticed that Lin Nan seemed to still have long hair.
"Your hair... how did it suddenly get so long?"
Lin Nan was startled. Fortunately, from living with Tu Junhui for so long, he'd learned some of his smooth-talking skills: "Wearing this kind of swimsuit, I put on a wig. Otherwise if people took me for a guy, what if they thought I was a pervert..."
"Really?" His mother remembered that Lin Nan's hands had clearly been empty when he got in the car, but hearing him say this, she began to doubt whether she'd habitually overlooked Lin Nan.
She really wasn't a competent mother.
She sighed deeply and was about to say something when she felt the seawater getting increasingly cold, so she suggested: "Let's go back to the tent to dry off, then change clothes and prepare to sleep?"
"Alright."
The time to unlock the magic was almost up. After drying off, it should be exactly thirty minutes, but the problem was that on the way back to the changing room, he would transform back to male appearance.
Not exactly transform back to male - more like transform back to male characteristics?
Covering up with the bath towel should help, right?
Lin Nan returned to the front of the tent, drying his legs while using his peripheral vision to observe the conversation between Uncle Liu and his mother.
They looked just like an ordinary couple.
He wondered if his parents' divorce was related to his mother having an affair? Although his parents had no feelings for each other, they were still legally married, which made Lin Nan feel somewhat disgusted.
But his mother should be aware of this too, which is why she hadn't revealed the truth during Lin Nan's previous questioning. His mother's relationship with Uncle Liu was still just Lin Nan's speculation.
After drying himself off, Lin Nan glanced at his magic and found it was already available for use. His hair was also beginning to gradually shorten, and his chest was rapidly deflating, making him immediately feel hopeless about life.
Why the hell am I so flat... this must be Lilith's thoughts, yeah.
Checking Lilith's memories, this woman seemed to be obsessed with large breasts. Under magic's modification, her bust was around D-cup, so not accepting a flat chest was quite normal.
But Lin Nan didn't have such fixations. Before encountering Lilith, he'd rarely even thought about male-female concepts. Although he'd seen various adult manga, he'd always been unable to accept real people, finding them particularly disgusting.
The only thing Lin Nan really liked was probably... games, right?
He had no interest in women - after all, women couldn't compare to games. A single game had at least hundreds of thousands invested, some even tens of millions. Why did some women think they could compete with games?
"Mom, going to the changing room!"
After drying off, Lin Nan stood up and draped the bath towel over himself, trying to cover his short hair, flat chest, and lower body as much as possible.
"Got it."
Hearing the response, Lin Nan didn't wait specially for his mother and headed straight for the changing room, trying to walk ahead of his mother so his changes wouldn't be easily discovered.
Fortunately, his mother knew almost nothing about him, and due to guilt was now extremely tolerant and trusting of him. Otherwise Lin Nan couldn't explain why his chest kept changing size and his hair kept changing length.
Taking advantage of his mother still preparing to get up behind him, Lin Nan hurriedly walked toward the changing room.
It had been half an hour since he'd put on the swimsuit. Unfortunately, this was a tourist town with still many tourists lingering, either eating late-night snacks or strolling the streets. Seeing Lin Nan's figure, they stopped one by one, curiously looking at him.
"Someone's still going in the water this late?"
"Beauty, add me on WeChat!"
"Why does that look a bit like a guy?"
"Those legs are fucking long!"
Although his face had almost none of the lines and flaws a male should have, some experienced observers could still spot clues from certain details.
Like Lin Nan's overly guarded eyes that lacked any softness, or his joints and bone structure that were still somewhat thick compared to females.
Though Lin Nan couldn't hear these voices, he could keenly sense those gazes, making the shame he'd finally suppressed surge up again.
So stimulating...
He pressed his lips together, lowered his head, and tried to use the bath towel to cover the sensitive parts of his body, but there was no way to hide his legs. So those gazes gradually focused on his well-proportioned, slender legs that could tempt someone into three years of imprisonment.
When would he get used to these kinds of looks?
Lin Nan couldn't understand why natural-born girls would like wearing short skirts and could calmly accept wearing three-piece bikinis at the beach. To him, such things were embarrassingly unspeakable.
Soon his mother caught up, following closely behind the fast-paced Lin Nan. She knew Lin Nan wanted to quickly pass through this area, so she didn't say much, just followed closely behind him.
Finally, when Lin Nan's sense of shame was about to explode, he reached the changing room.
He pushed open the men's changing room door and saw no one inside. Just as he was about to enter, his mother grabbed his arm and forcibly pulled him into the women's changing room.
"What are you doing going over there looking like this! Pay more attention!" his mother scolded with a dark expression.
"Didn't think it through..."
If entering the changing room earlier might have led to suspicion of being a crossdresser, going in now wearing a school swimsuit would probably make people think he was a pervert.
Lin Nan felt his face burning hot. Without responding much to his mother, he quickly turned and entered one of the stalls.
The magic had been unlocked.
He checked the magic in the stall and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He just didn't want to go on the operating table - how had things become this troublesome?
And this magic might not even work on his mother.