I Don’t Want to Be Turned into a Girl by Magic

Chapter 212 : Past Embarrassments

During Lin Nan's elementary school years, she lived in the countryside and had a pretty good relationship with her cousin Wu Jiaming.

The two of them were Wu Guodong's little followers, while she was Wu Jiaming's little follower. During that period, they attended the same elementary school, playing and fooling around together on the way to and from school every day. Lin Nan's first time watching an adult film was also from a disc he accidentally found in a video store.

Back then, when Lin Nan stayed at grandfather's house, she basically slept with Wu Jiaming. Grandfather's house also had an old CD player, and they would usually watch movies and anime together at night. Occasionally there were horror films, which left Lin Nan with her timid, afraid-of-the-dark personality.

The two were only three years apart in age. Cousin, who was studying at junior college, was already in his internship period this year, but judging from what he said at the dinner table, he hadn't achieved much since starting his internship.

After dinner, the sky had already darkened. Wu Jiaming and Wu Guodong discussed going to the internet cafe on the street. Grandfather also went out to play mahjong. Mother originally wanted to take Lin Nan to buy some women's clothing, but she strongly refused.

Mother also wanted to take a bath with Lin Nan to examine her and teach some feminine hygiene knowledge, but Lin Nan blushed and refused that too.

After going upstairs to change the cat's water and food, Lin Nan returned to the first-floor hall. Glancing at the two people waiting for her to go online together, she felt uncomfortable all over.

Especially that cousin. He seemed to keep staring at her.

Although suddenly learning that she was female would indeed make Wu Jiaming curious, there was no need to keep staring, right?

They had a good relationship when they were little, but ever since Lin Nan went to the county town for middle school, they lost contact and their relationship had long since faded. Meeting again now, there weren't many topics to chat about, especially since cousin looked very different from before.

But he definitely hadn't changed as much as she had...

"Are we walking over there? It's about half an hour away." Wu Guodong pulled out his wallet and flipped through it, saying helplessly, “I don’t have cash left. In such a small place the three-wheelers don't have QR codes to scan."

"It's not far anyway." Wu Jiaming was the first to get up and put on his coat.

He put on a black cotton coat, making his whole body look somewhat bulky. That face no longer had its former handsomeness, and with the added weight, he now looked like a black bear.

Both Lin Nan and Wu Guodong wore black coats, but due to height differences, Wu Guodong's coat hem only covered his thighs, while Lin Nan's coat covered half her calves.

The three set out together, walking on the rural streets.

Compared to the densely packed vehicles in the city, this remote rural street had almost no traffic. There were still some fields on both sides of the street, and judging by the weeds on the field ridges, they probably hadn't been cultivated for a long time.

Night had already fallen, and the winter wind cut at faces like knives. Although Lin Nan didn't mind the temperature, she could still feel the stinging on her facial skin.

She wrapped the scarf her mother had prepared around her, hiding half her face under the scarf, revealing only a pair of bright, large eyes.

Lin Nan looked toward the end of the street, then turned to look at the low buildings on both sides. Her gaze followed the gaps between buildings to look at those patches of field ridges, and her thoughts involuntarily returned to her early childhood.

Back then, she was still a carefree country bumpkin, and what she loved most was roasting sweet potatoes over fires in the fields with her cousins, occasionally setting traps to catch frogs and fishing for crayfish.

There were no computers then, the TV couldn't pick up many channels, and the anime they watched basically all came from rented CDs. The material conditions couldn't compare to now, but she missed those times immensely.

"Do you still remember? When we were roasting sweet potatoes in the field and burned Lin Nan's clothes?" Wu Guodong put his hands in his pockets and teased with a laugh. "And during the parade, Lin Nan's hand was injured by firecrackers and she cried, asking me to take her to the hospital. Turned out it was nothing serious, just the blood flow looked scary."

Past embarrassing incidents now made for good conversation topics. Hearing him bring herself up first, Lin Nan naturally counterattacked without hesitation: "Why don't you mention when you peeked at the neighbor girl bathing and grandfather chased you down several streets beating you?"

"That was Jiaming's instigation! Jiaming, you've been a pervert since childhood."

Wu Jiaming pouted: "At least I never got caught, unlike you. I heard you even got caught in class back then."

The three suddenly fell silent for a moment. Wu Jiaming glanced at Lin Nan and awkwardly touched his nose. Little uncle also stepped back two paces, indicating he didn't know this pervert.

Lin Nan stepped back even further. Everyone present was a pervert.

She was the youngest and couldn't remember many things from back then clearly. She hadn't expected Wu Guodong to be perverted to such a degree.

The topic suddenly broke off. Lin Nan suspected that if she were still a boy, the conversation just now would have become increasingly perverted until it reached an unbearable level.

After about ten minutes, the three walked out of this quiet rural path.

The streetlights on both sides suddenly became dense, their vision opened up, large numbers of pedestrians strolled the streets, roadside food stalls were wreathed in heavy smoke and fire flavors, and the crowds suddenly became dense. Lin Nan began unconsciously searching for Chen Yao's figure, but after looking around, she could only choose to hide behind Wu Guodong.

Compared to cousin Jiaming whom she hadn't seen for a long time, Wu Guodong obviously gave her a stronger sense of security.

Wu Guodong glanced at Lin Nan who quickly hid behind him and scratched his head, feeling like this scene looked familiar.

When she first arrived, didn't Lin Nan also hide behind her friend?

Seeing Lin Nan's timid expression, his protective instincts immediately exploded. He tried hard to straighten his slightly hunched back, attempting to make his thin body create enough of a sense of security.

Lin Nan followed the two men, walking silently to the side of the Walmart supermarket. Through narrow steps they went upstairs, only then discovering that there was actually a luxuriously decorated internet cafe hidden here.

This internet cafe charged a minimum of ten yuan per hour, with three hours including a free milk tea. Prices that were outrageously expensive.

Even then, the internet cafe was crowded, with almost all computers occupied. The three searched around and were lucky to find a private room that happened to be empty.

Although the private room was a bit expensive, Lin Nan had never liked crowded, lively places. After becoming female, she felt even more disgusted and guilty about densely populated places, always worried that if people paid attention to her, they might discover her secret.

This was a two-person private room, enclosed and cramped, with seating consisting of a small sofa for two. Wu Guodong hesitated for a moment and decided to give this spot to Lin Nan and Wu Jiaming.

He had a smoking addiction, and if he sat in this kind of enclosed private room with Lin Nan and smoked, he'd probably get beaten.

But Lin Nan wasn't comfortable being alone with her cousin who had become a stranger, nor could she accept inhaling secondhand smoke in the private room.

Lin Nan sat in the innermost position of the private room, glancing somewhat uneasily at the departing Wu Guodong, then sighing deeply and trying to focus her attention on the game as much as possible.

"Where's that milky smell coming from?"

Probably due to the enclosed space, Wu Jiaming quickly noticed the faint milk scent emanating from Lin Nan.

"Probably the smell of milk tea?" Lin Nan pulled at her scarf, covering half her face with it, and made up an excuse, then casually changed the subject: "Cousin, what rank are you in LOL now? I haven't seen you online lately when playing games."

"Where do you find time to play games after work? I always wanted to play when I was studying, but now I can only work myself to death."

Perhaps because Lin Nan didn't look like someone who could lie, Wu Jiaming was led off topic without any wariness.