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

Chapter 223 : Nightmare

Actually, supernatural incidents in real life were quite common, but most existed only in other people's recounting.

This kind of recollection usually carried strong deceptive qualities. People could completely change their own memories through psychological suggestion.

Just like how Lin Nan had clearly been an ordinary, unremarkable little brat when she was small, but under others' suggestions, Wu Jiaming had recalled her as a delicate and pretty little boy to support the claim that Lin Nan had always been a girl.

It was probably a form of indirect rationalization.

And no one had actually witnessed with their own eyes Wu Guodong's account of Lin Nan encountering a ghost. They'd only heard that monk say it was a ghost encounter, then looked at Lin Nan's inexplicable blank stupor at the time and reluctantly accepted this explanation.

But now when recounting it, it sounded like there was solid evidence that there really were ghosts on the back mountain.

Wu Jiaming returned to his third-floor room with worry, glanced at the clearly visible outline of the back mountain outside the window, shuddered, and hurriedly pulled the curtains in his closed bedroom.

Lin Nan and Liu Xinyi had also returned to their room.

She'd been badly frightened by that horror film. As soon as she got back to the room, she immediately shrank into the blankets. Those terrifying scenes kept flashing through her mind from time to time, making her tremble even more violently.

She didn't even dare close her eyes, afraid that the image lingering in her mind would become even clearer. She could only stare wide-eyed, trying hard to use Douyin to forget those scenes.

Liu Xinyi sat at the foot of the bed. This was the first time she'd seen Lin Nan in such a miserable state.

"Cousin, I feel like after you became a girl, even your personality seems different from before." She recalled seeing Lin Nan during last year's New Year. "Back then, although you didn't like to talk much, you weren't this timid, were you?"

"I haven't watched horror films for over ten years, okay?" Lin Nan's voice was trembling.

Even if she hadn't been possessed by Lilith, encountering this kind of scene she'd probably only be able to tremble in fear. It was just that back then her voice hadn't been this sharp and her vocal range was narrow - she simply couldn't scream.

This was probably why the general public thought males were braver than females, right? After all, when females got scared they could scream, while males could only shudder, shout "Holy shit," and then their heart rate would skyrocket.

Liu Xinyi pursed her lips and teased, "Cousin, your previous eighteen years as a man were probably wasted. Your courage is even smaller than mine."

"Wasted is wasted then." Lin Nan pulled the blanket over her head, but soon poked out her eyes again, staring straight at Liu Xinyi.

"What?"

Lin Nan shook her head but still kept her gaze on her.

She desperately needed a sense of security, but in front of her was only a cousin who was even shorter and smaller than her. Fortunately, her cousin's dress and personality were rather masculine, which could barely give her some peace of mind.

"I'll sleep on the floor tonight." Liu Xinyi jumped down from the bed, took off her outer garment and tossed it on the table, revealing the magnificent waves on her chest.

Although her dress was a bit masculine, her development hadn't fallen behind at all.

She planned to take a bath, but after a whole day she hadn't sweated at all, so she got lazy. She directly sat cross-legged on the bamboo mat, leaning her back against the wall, and yawned.

"Should we sleep?" She was a bit drowsy and raised her hand to turn off the switch above the nightstand.

"Don't! Keep the light on tonight." Lin Nan hurriedly stopped her.

Liu Xinyi complained dissatisfied, "I can't sleep with the light on."

"Then want to stay up all night with me? Play a couple games?"

Does that mean you're so scared you don't dare sleep?

She looked at Lin Nan's vigilant eyes and suddenly felt that this appearance of her cousin was actually quite pitiable.

Liu Xinyi sighed helplessly, pulled out homework from her luggage, and simply decided to use this boring time to do her winter vacation homework.

Lin Nan poked her head to look at her homework and discovered that after entering university, she had indeed completely returned all her previous math knowledge. It wasn't that she couldn't understand it, she'd just completely forgotten the problem-solving methods.

After about an hour, the horror film images that had been constantly flashing through her mind finally gradually disappeared with time. Only then did Lin Nan breathe a sigh of relief, hoping in her heart that she wouldn't be awakened by nightmares tonight.

She scrolled through short videos for a while. When she was so sleepy her eyes could barely stay open, she turned off the bedroom light, closed her eyes and lay flat on the bed, her mind wandering through various thoughts.

Her cousin quickly fell asleep. Having sat on a bus all day, she was probably quite tired too. Despite her slim figure, she still started snoring.

I feel like it's not quite right to let Xinyi sleep on the floor. Clearly I'm older, and besides I'm male... oh wait, that's not a problem anymore.

The scenes from the earlier movie began to emerge uncontrollably from her mind again, but Lin Nan quickly switched the images in her brain to the videos she'd just watched.

Then before she knew it, she fell asleep...

Sure enough, a nightmare appeared.

She dreamed that she was still male. Her parents were kind and affectionate, the family harmonious. Every day she could laugh and chat with family, discuss school gossip, listen to her parents complain about difficulties at work.

This was the scene she'd dreamed of.

But for some reason, the originally warm scene suddenly turned grayscale. She somehow suddenly became female. Crying, she truthfully told her parents about the situation, but received only their cold looks. They even waved clubs, wanting to sweep her out the door.

In shock and uncertainty, she watched helplessly as her parents' human skin and flesh gradually rotted and peeled away, revealing pale bones...

Lin Nan was scared awake.

When she woke, there were still tears at the corners of her eyes. She gasped for breath in large gulps, her heart pounding heavily and intensely. She could even hear the sound of her heartbeat bombing back and forth in her ears.

She stared blankly at the ceiling. In the pitch darkness, she seemed to see the monsters from her dream again. This made her heart instantly contract. She hurriedly wrapped herself in the blanket she'd somehow kicked off, but her mind still wasn't at peace. She kept feeling like there was someone behind her, under the bed, watching her. As if pairs of pitch-black hands were reaching out toward her from those dark corners...

Lin Nan suddenly got down on the floor and dove headfirst into another set of blankets.

"What's wrong?"

Liu Xinyi was startled awake. She struggled to open her eyes but felt like her body was being strangled by an octopus.

She turned her head to look and saw her cousin clinging to her tightly, forehead pressed against her shoulder, body still trembling violently.

"Cousin, did you have a nightmare?"

Her just-awakened brain couldn't figure out the situation at all. Liu Xinyi yawned several times in succession, wanting to roll over and find a comfortable position to continue sleeping, but was bound so tightly she couldn't move.

Forget rolling over to continue sleeping, she even suspected she might be strangled to death by Lin Nan.

"How about loosening up a bit?"

Although Lin Nan's body was very soft and there was a refreshing fragrance at the tip of her nose, Liu Xinyi had no leisure to pay attention. She pulled out a hand to pat her shoulder and advised, "Let me get up and turn on the light, how about that?"

The person in her arms shook her head forcefully several times.

"Are you really that scared..."

Liu Xinyi sighed blankly and could only continue gently patting Lin Nan's back, as if coaxing a small child to coax her cousin.

"Cousin, I'm a lesbian homosexual, you know.

"Sis, really, let me go... I'm about to be strangled to death by you."

"Cousin!" She turned on her phone flashlight and shone it at Lin Nan. "There are no ghosts! It was just a nightmare!"

Only then did Lin Nan's trembling body stop. She raised her head, tearfully crying, "My mom doesn't want me anymore..."

Huh?