novelraw Chapter 209 : Grandfather
Chapter 209 : Grandfather
The girl sat worriedly at the bedside, looking at the sky outside the window, her heart full of countless worries but not knowing how to resolve them.
She didn't know how Chen Yao and her mother's conversation was going. Although that guy did indeed have designs on her body, Lin Nan still hoped Chen Yao could continue being her friend.
She also didn't know what the situation would be like after meeting her grandparents. Although according to her mother, the two elders could accept her changes, saying so was one thing and meeting face-to-face was another.
Also, how should she explain her surgery issue? Especially the problem of surgery costs.
Lin Nan took out the document folder from her suitcase, which contained her diagnosis certificate, surgery certificate, and that ID card.
With these things, she could only prove that her surgery had indeed been completed, but couldn't explain where the surgery costs came from.
Should she say Chen Yao paid for it?
She worried about these matters, occasionally looking up at Cola who was doing nothing but watching TV.
The TV in the room was a big CRT television from over ten years ago, already covered in dust, but it still worked.
Lin Nan felt her body was somewhat itchy. It wasn't that she was particularly dirty, but being used to bathing every day, she hadn't washed last night and now felt uncomfortable having some free time.
Taking out clean clothes from her suitcase, Lin Nan left the room and entered the bathroom on the third floor.
This bathroom usually had no one using it. Although covered with a layer of dust, it was generally quite clean.
After rinsing the bathtub with the faucet, Lin Nan undressed and lay down comfortably inside, watching the water line gradually rise, then couldn't help but look at other parts of her body.
Although she had completely become a girl for some time now and her body's feminization had long begun, she had never seriously observed her own body.
Her skin was like white jade, with long legs, a slender waist, and a peachy bottom. There was no way to tell this body had once been male. Looking down at the curves of her chest and that flat abdomen, the faint disgust in her heart grew more intense.
If it had been her from before when she still had male impulses, seeing such a body would probably have caused a nosebleed, right?
But now, every time she bathed she felt some disgust, and then her mood would become irritated. If she thought about possibly having to marry men and have children in the future, she felt even more nauseous.
Not daring to continue looking, she lay in the bathtub, closed her eyes, and comfortably enjoyed the bath.
The bathtub wasn't actually very big, but fortunately her figure was becoming more and more petite. She only needed to bend her legs slightly to soak her whole body in it.
The warm water gradually covered her chest, and her chest gradually felt stuffy and oppressive.
It was said that bathing was quite dangerous. There were many cases in the news of people fainting from soaking too long, so Lin Nan turned off the water, stood up, and began applying body wash.
Before she started rinsing, she suddenly heard the sound of a door opening downstairs. She thought it was Chen Yao and her mother returning, but then heard her grandfather's vigorous voice: "Lin Nan has already come? Call her down." His tone carried grandfather's usual sternness.
Lin Nan's heart trembled. She hurried to rinse off the foam on her body, then dried herself and prepared to dress and go downstairs.
"Dad, you'll scare Lin Nan like this." Wu Guodong's voice followed, and then she heard him going upstairs.
When Wu Guodong reached the third floor, he happened to see Lin Nan coming out of the bathroom drying her hair.
"Grandfather is calling you."
He looked up at Lin Nan who was only wearing light clothing, his eye twitching, suddenly feeling that his nephew's charm after becoming female was probably no less than any girl's.
"Wait, let me dry off." Lin Nan hurried to simply dry her hair, put on her coat, and rushed to follow Wu Guodong's steps downstairs.
Her heart was full of panic, hands stuffed in her coat pockets, nervously clutching her clothes.
With her head lowered, she came all the way to the main hall on the first floor and sat at the round table with Wu Guodong.
Not daring to look at grandfather's expression, she gently bit her lower lip, listening to advertisement sounds from the TV in the hall, looking down at the tabletop.
The atmosphere was very oppressive. Wu Guodong was also somewhat at a loss. His father had always been extremely strict. As the youngest son, he didn't know how many times he'd been beaten since childhood. Even now approaching thirty, seeing his father's stern expression made him nervous.
Grandfather suddenly pushed something in front of Lin Nan. "Your favorite knife-cut noodles. I specially drove to buy them."
Lin Nan was stunned and looked up at grandfather's thin, aged face.
"You do look like your mother when she was young." Grandfather took out a bag of sunflower seeds and began eating them, putting his left foot on the chair. "What are your plans for the future?"
Lin Nan immediately relaxed considerably. At least grandfather showed no disgusted emotions on the surface.
She turned to look at grandmother standing to the side, always smiling and plump.
Instead, it was grandmother who had treated her best before, who used to like giving her money, who looked to be in a bad mood and didn't seem to quite accept her.
"In the future... I'll just take it one step at a time?" Lin Nan restrainedly picked up chopsticks to eat the noodles.
In front of her grandparents, she couldn't generate any extra thoughts.
"Plan things out properly." Grandfather usually spoke very little, but today his mouth wouldn't stop, continuing: "I don't understand any grand principles... but no matter what you become, life must go on."
"Mm."
"Take good care of yourself while studying away from home. If you have the opportunity, find a boyfriend. Since you're a girl now, don't wear these shabby clothes. Boys should look like men, and girls should look like women."
"I know..."
Wu Guodong was now relieved, stretching lazily as he got up, preparing to go to his room to play games.
"Don't learn from your uncle, thirty years old and still no plans, just wasting away every day." Grandfather looked up at Wu Guodong who was preparing to leave and scolded: "Where are you going? How's that girl from yesterday's blind date? You're already thirty and still making me worry every day! How many more years can I worry about you?"
Wu Guodong was confused, not knowing how the topic had shifted to him.
He was twenty-eight by age, but according to traditional counting he was already thirty.
"I couldn't connect with that woman." Wu Guodong scratched his head, smiling awkwardly as he explained: "Besides, I'm actually only twenty-eight."
"Such a big person and still talking back!"
Can't afford to provoke him, can't afford to provoke him.
Wu Guodong fled upstairs.
Lin Nan was relieved. Grandfather's manner clearly showed he could accept his grandson becoming his granddaughter. It was just grandmother...
Grandfather was already over seventy. Perhaps due to being well-traveled, she had thought he was a stubborn old fossil, but unexpectedly he easily accepted his grandson becoming his granddaughter.
She ate noodles while secretly glancing at grandmother who was preparing to make dinner. Expressionless, she didn't know what her attitude was, and she seemed quite cold.
"This afternoon, have your mother take you to buy clothes. Your hair too. This short, neither male nor female look. Grow it longer and get a perm." Grandfather began nagging again: "Don't worry about your father's side. Just take care of yourself.
“Jiaming is at his grandfather's house. I'll call later to have him come over to keep you company."
Although Lin Nan was very resistant to what he said, she was extremely happy about the meaning his words represented.
No matter what, at least grandfather could accept her changes.
Her restraint and nervousness gradually relaxed somewhat. She had never thought that grandfather, who usually looked particularly stern, would actually be so reasonable.
On the contrary, grandmother, who used to like her most, showed no reaction.