Blood Neon

Chapter 54

Chapter 54

Wrong Demonstration

Faced with the dazzling array of target items on the shelf before her—some colorful, some plain and unadorned, some ornate and elaborately decorated, and even their shapes and styles seemed to each have their own merits...

Faced with these clothes, each piece carrying the fantasies of boys of a certain age group...

Faced with the random combinations of numbers and letters on the signs in front of her...

She felt as though she had stepped into a blind spot in her knowledge.

What even was all this...

...

And so.

A few minutes later.

“Hello.”

Lin Ying circled back from the shelves to the counter and asked the person inside a question.

The landlady raised her eyes to look at her, then continued fiddling with her phone as she asked,

“What is it? Picked something out?”

“No...”

The girl paused for a moment and organized her words.

“May I ask... um, can you measure, uh, sizes here?”

she asked cautiously.

.

“Sizes?”

After taking a moment to react, the auntie still did not quite understand what she meant.

“You mean what size the clothes are?”

“No, no.”

Lin Ying waved her hand. “I mean... what size the body is.”

After hearing that, the landlady finally understood, so she nodded and said,

“You want your measurements taken? Sure, that’s fine.”

As she spoke, she pulled out a tape measure from the side and placed it on the table.

“Here, take it.”

“Mm, thank you.”

The girl nodded, thanking her as she took the tape measure.

After that, she began looking around left and right, as though searching for something.

The auntie guessed what she was thinking and raised a hand to point toward the corner of the room as a reminder.

“The fitting room is over there.”

“Mm! Thank you.”

She trotted over in a flash.

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In the corner of the little shop, there was a crude partition made of wooden boards.

The entire little room probably did not even take up two square meters, and at the entrance there was only a sliding curtain that did not fully reach the floor to keep it separated from the outside.

There was no helping it with a place of this size. After all, she could not expect a street-side shop of this scale to have some large and spacious fitting room. Rather, the fact that this place even had this setup at all was already a miracle.

Lin Ying walked into the partition with the tape measure in hand, and casually pulled the curtain shut behind her with her backhand.

Thankfully, there was no one else in the shop at this time. Otherwise, no matter how she thought about it, it would have felt very embarrassing.

Not just changing clothes, but also having to negotiate with the owner to borrow things while under other people’s gaze.

When other people were watching, she would feel uncomfortable for some reason.

Seeing a stool of middling height placed in the corner of the rectangular partition, the girl simply sat down on it directly, then began taking off her top.

The hoodie she had been wearing as an outer layer was still too thick. Before measuring, she had to take it off first at the very least.

After all, what she was measuring was her body, not her clothes.

So she grabbed the hem of the garment with both hands and quickly pulled it upward, then after some effort, tugged her head out from inside the shirt.

The scene did not look very ladylike, because subconsciously, she still retained some of her old habits when putting on and taking off clothes.

The girl shook her head from side to side twice, smoothing down some of the fluffed-up hair she had tousled, then hung the white hoodie she had taken off on the clothes rack beside her.

Now she only had a black T-shirt on her upper body, and although the chill continuously coming through the air made her somewhat uncomfortable, she could only fold her arms and rub them.

...This body still felt as bonelessly soft to the touch as ever.

Nice to touch was nice to touch, but in this season, she felt it would still be better if she had a bit more fat on her.

But somehow it did not feel as cold anymore?

She did not know whether it was because she had just taken off her outerwear, or because the indoor temperature was a bit high, or for some other reason, but Lin Ying felt that her body temperature now seemed a little higher than it had been a few days ago.

It was probably just an illusion.

Thinking that, she picked up the tape measure placed beside her.

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In order to shorten the time she had to endure the cold as much as possible, she decided to make it quick.

Even though she had absolutely no experience.

Even though she did not even know how she was supposed to measure.

Even though she did not even know which side of the tape measure she was supposed to read.

But she believed she could do it!

...There was no helping it. For boys, as long as their build did not differ too much from the standard weight, buying clothes according to height was enough. Where were there so many variables to pay attention to?

For the vast majority of people, it was enough to aim for XL or XXL. Being a little bigger or smaller usually was not much of a problem.

And besides, other than during physical examinations, most men would not pay much attention to their chest circumference, would they?

It was completely a useless body measurement.

But after breezily leaving the checkup back then, how could she possibly have imagined that now she really would need to measure this parameter...

It was fine, not a big problem.

Lin Ying was confident that, relying on her intelligence and wit, she could overcome these problems.

She just had to recall how the doctors and nurses had measured her chest circumference during physical examinations in the past.

Imitating by analogy, then dealing with each move as it came.

That should do it... right?

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She picked up the tape measure with both hands and tried wrapping it from behind her back to the front of her chest.

Okay.

So what came next?

Was it time to read the measurement?

Struggling to maintain that posture, the girl pulled the tape measure as snugly as she could while also trying to align the markings enough to make them easier to read.

The soft layer of flesh, not especially thick to begin with, shifted slightly under the pressure of the external force. The sensation of being compressed felt very uncomfortable.

Lowering her head, Lin Ying tried with difficulty to make out the numbers on it.

For someone who had not used a tape measure in who knew how many years, finding the right place to read the number at a glance was indeed a bit difficult.

She chose the side with the larger numbers. The unit was probably centimeters, right?

In any case, from what she remembered, whether it was during physical examinations or in the sizing details on those clothing shops on Taobao, the measurements were always two-digit numbers, so using the larger-numbered side had to be right.

Although she likewise was not sure exactly where she was supposed to measure, by common sense, she should obviously measure the place with the largest circumference, right?

Then naturally, that meant wrapping it once around her body after passing over the markers at the tops of the peaks.

And so, after all that trouble—

“76... 78?”

she read out a number hesitantly.

It somehow did not feel very accurate.

Still, at least she now had a data point to use as a reference for buying clothes. Next, she just had to pick one casually based on that and take it home, right?

Now that the measuring was finally over for the moment, and feeling deeply cold, she quickly pulled her hoodie back on.

Sigh, she was just too sensitive to the cold now.

She twisted her body around for quite a while before finally getting her little head out through the collar. After that, Lin Ying reached up and removed the hood that had ended up covering her head, then smoothed out her hair.

Hair that was a little longer really did come with these troublesome parts. It felt like no matter what she did, it would get messed up.

But maybe that was also because she had not tied it up. In that case, should she just do the full set later and pick up a hair tie or elastic while she was at it?

.

After pulling the curtain open, the girl first stuck her head out and cautiously looked around.

After scanning the shop and seeing that it was still quiet and there was not a single other person there, she finally walked out with peace of mind.

Considering she might need to use it again later, she was not in a hurry to return the tape measure. Instead, she first walked to the underwear section, preparing to grab one piece and try it on.

In the end, buying clothes was all about trying them on. Whether it fit or not, whether it was a mule or a horse, one try and she would know.

Anyway, she had already asked the shop owner earlier, and trying things on for the upper body was allowed.

And now that she had returned to the bra section, facing the army of bras with their many styles once again, this time Lin Ying at least had her own... number in hand.

Though she did not know whether she had measured it correctly.

Rubbing her somewhat cold palms together, she began studying the mysterious codes written on them.

80B... 85C... 75B...

Uh, anyway, the larger number in front was centimeters, and the letter after it represented the cup size, right?

She felt like she had grasped the key point.

“What, it wasn’t that hard after all.”

“As expected of me.”

Although she had no idea how to choose this thing called cup size, since she was this flat, picking an A surely could not go wrong.

Thinking that, she decisively stopped in front of the item marked 80A.

Very good—plain white, and the style was also very simple, without any fancy frills.

“...Then it’s decided. It’s you.”

Lin Ying decisively took it down, then quickly and silently returned to the fitting room.

When she briskly pulled off the pullover hoodie again, she could not help feeling that she had miscalculated.

Had she known the trip would go this smoothly, she should have just gone out wearing only the T-shirt earlier.

Very soon.

The white hoodie and the black T-shirt were both hung to one side by her.

Inside the little partition, the girl stood bare on her upper body in front of the mirror, hugging her arms and habitually rubbing them because of the cold.

It had to be said, making people change clothes like this in this season was really too much suffering. Did this shop not know how to turn on the air conditioner or something?

Lin Ying grumbled inwardly.

Now the only fabric left on her upper body was the band-aids serving as a guarantee for a wholesome image. It had to be said, the scene looked very suggestive.

Even though no one would see it, for some reason she still felt a little embarrassed.

But, since things had already come to this point.

There was nothing left to hesitate about.

Lin Ying took out the bra she had prepared to one side and decisively put it on.

It felt about the same process as putting on a vest or undershirt. After both arms passed through where they were supposed to go, naturally the next step was to fasten it in the back.

Honestly, thanks to the fact that her field of view was broader than that of a normal human, she could complete the hooking operation behind her back even with her eyes closed.

Easy, easy~.

There were three hook positions to choose from, so it seemed the design itself was pretty accommodating to begin with.

Thinking this casually, Lin Ying fastened it to the innermost hook position.

She adjusted the strap length a little. This seemed to be about what it meant, right?

She turned her body in front of the mirror.

It looked pretty good, maybe?

But then again...

Mm...%

...

Why did it feel like...

The girl gathered the front with both hands.

It was clearly already tightened as much as it could be, so why did the lower part of the bra not feel snug against her body at all?

She raised her hand and tried slipping her fingers into the gap in the garment, only to find that she could fit almost her entire palm inside.

Too strange. This definitely was not right, was it?

How could it be this loose...?

Somewhere in the whole process, had she guessed something wrong?