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

Chapter 231 : Afternoon Nap

Chen Yao's home had a two-bedroom, one-living-room layout, probably around seventy or eighty square meters. If Lin Nan remembered correctly, this was the house Chen Yao's family had bought during his high school years.

The apartment wasn't particularly large, but with fewer rooms, Chen Yao's bedroom seemed surprisingly spacious to Lin Nan. There was even a small bathroom inside the bedroom.

After a few rounds of gaming, Lin Nan quickly started feeling drowsy.

When she was at her grandfather's house, due to the lack of entertainment options, she had developed the habit of sleeping two hours in the afternoon to kill time. Now at Chen Yao's house, she couldn't avoid this routine she'd formed over the past few days.

"Tired?"

Chen Yao heard her yawning.

"A little..." Lin Nan rubbed her eyes drowsily. "I'll sleep for a bit. Your aunt should be back by then, right?"

"Probably."

Hearing the affirmative answer, Lin Nan stretched and stood up, hurrying toward Chen Yao's bed. She climbed right on and unceremoniously shooed him away: "You get down! I'm commandeering this bed!"

He'd never seen such a domineering guest.

Chen Yao rolled his eyes and sat directly on the wooden floor with his laptop, then turned to look at Lin Nan, who had thrown herself onto the bed, with a slight smile playing at his lips.

"Your bed is so soft..." Lin Nan rolled around on the bed a few times. The soft spring mattress pleased her greatly.

At least whether it was the school dormitory, her own home, or her grandfather's house, the beds were basically all wooden plank beds with no soft feeling at all.

As for the spring mattress in her rental apartment, that was just a cheap, low-quality product.

"As long as you like it." Chen Yao came back to his senses, resting his chin on the bed surface, staring blankly at Lin Nan's movements as she prepared to take off her jacket after finishing rolling around.

But Lin Nan suddenly looked at him alertly, buttoning back up the jacket she'd already unfastened: "What are you doing!"

"What could I possibly be doing?" Chen Yao gave her a look, then stood up and went to the wardrobe to pull out a bamboo mat. "I'm also going to sleep on the floor for an afternoon nap."

"But honestly, you should just stay until tomorrow. There's a high school class reunion tomorrow. Don't you want to see our homeroom teacher?" Chen Yao asked while quickly laying out his floor bedding.

Lin Nan shook her head. She didn't want to spend a night sleeping in the same room as Chen Yao.

It wasn't that she was afraid of anything happening, she was just worried that after one night, both Chen Yao's parents and her various relatives would misunderstand something again.

"I can just sleep on the sofa tonight."

"In the middle of winter..."

She looked at the gloomy sky outside the window. Today's temperature had already dropped to around five degrees Celsius. She wouldn't feel the cold, but the bedding would be icy and damp, and with the weather typically rainy without sunshine, it wasn't a comfortable season at all.

She'd be fine, but Chen Yao didn't have magic. In this kind of weather, sleeping on the sofa would probably give him a cold.

Casually taking off her jacket and folding it neatly on the bedside table, Lin Nan covered herself with Chen Yao's blanket, but somehow her drowsiness receded a bit.

The pillow and blanket carried Chen Yao's scent...

This scent was familiar, fresh and elegant, with a faint mix of tobacco smell. Breathing it in made Lin Nan's head spin a little.

Her face inexplicably started burning and heating up, making her restlessly squirm on the bed from time to time.

Last time Lin Nan had slept here, her drowsiness had been too overwhelming to pay attention to the scent on the bedding, but this time...

She closed her eyes, trying to let what little drowsiness remained wash over her brain, but her brain grew more and more excited, even producing some colored thoughts and images she couldn't suppress. Like the Eri she'd seen on the computer earlier...

Her body began having some unusual physiological reactions that made her rub her legs together restlessly in discomfort.

How disgusting.

Lin Nan was extremely repulsed by the female body's instinctive physiological responses, yet both her body and thoughts were trending in an uncontrollable direction.

"Why aren't you sleeping yet?"

Lin Nan's occasional movements and tossing kept Chen Yao from sleeping too. He simply sat up, looking curiously at Lin Nan, only to see the girl's skin was faintly flushed, her forehead covered in fine beads of sweat.

"It's nothing..."

She didn't even realize her voice had become soft and coquettish, her eyes gazing at the ceiling somewhat unfocused, looking dazed.

"Did you catch a cold from the wind?" Chen Yao frowned and opened the bedside table drawer, taking out a thermometer to hand to her. "Here, take your temperature. If there's a problem, we should hurry to the hospital."

"I said it's nothing!" Lin Nan's tone suddenly became much fiercer. She threw off the blanket and sat up, hurrying toward the bathroom inside the bedroom.

"???"

Chen Yao looked completely bewildered as she splashed cold water on her face in the bathroom.

What was going on?

He looked down at his phone to check the time and realized it was already the end of the month. If he remembered correctly, in a few days it might be time for Lin Nan's period to arrive?

Could it have come early?!

Suddenly understanding, he turned and left the bedroom, running to the living room cabinet to grab two packages of sanitary pads before returning.

When Chen Yao got back to the bedroom, he found the flush had completely disappeared from Lin Nan's face. She was now lying on the floor.

"Do you need these?" Chen Yao walked over and crouched down, waving what he was holding.

"No."

Lin Nan couldn't be bothered with him, her tone angry as if she'd eaten gunpowder.

"Then you should sleep on the bed. The bamboo mat is cold and you'll easily catch a cold."

"I don't want to! Absolutely not!"

Chen Yao couldn't figure out what was wrong with Lin Nan. He felt troubled discovering that his close friend's emotions had now become as changeable and hard to fathom as a normal girl's.

Previously, although Lin Nan had been psychologically sensitive, she'd never reached the point of suddenly losing her temper during an afternoon nap, had she?

"Then at least cover yourself with a blanket?" he asked tentatively.

"No need!" Lin Nan turned over to face the wall, not daring to let Chen Yao see her expression.

Although she'd known early on that after becoming female she'd react to males, when this situation actually occurred, Lin Nan had no idea how to handle it.

The psychological revulsion made her completely unable to accept that blushing, heart-racing reaction.

"I don't understand what's going on with you." Chen Yao muttered, watching Lin Nan's back as she seemed to gradually fall asleep. He sighed lightly and lay down directly on the bed, casually rubbing against the pillow.

The fragrance Lin Nan had left behind... though why did the scent seem different today?

The milky fragrance seemed much fainter, replaced by a pleasant floral scent.

He didn't have to wait long before hearing Lin Nan's slightly heavy breathing.

Afraid Lin Nan would catch cold, he peered over to see Lin Nan already sprawled in a spread-eagle position on the floor, then got up and carefully covered her with his blanket.

This should prevent a cold, right?

He sat beside Lin Nan, legs crossed, chin propped on one hand, looking at that delicate face.

The bedroom door was knocked on. A moment later, the aunt who had returned home poked her head in to look, saw Lin Nan sleeping on the floor and Chen Yao sitting beside her, and immediately glared at Chen Yao with angry eyes.

"Why did you let her sleep on the floor!" The aunt scolded in a low voice. She had planned to take Lin Nan to get her ears pierced, but looking at the current situation, that was unlikely now.

"What can I do if she doesn't want to sleep on the bed? Maybe she thinks my bed is dirty?" Chen Yao shrugged, then asked, "What about the electric scooter?"

"I punctured the tire."

She made an OK gesture, then pulled her head back and closed the door.