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

Chapter 255 : First Day of the New Year

The first day of the New Year, Lin Nan was very happy.

Just after waking up in the morning, she received three hundred yuan in New Year's money. After playing on the computer for a while, she suddenly remembered to wish her mother a happy New Year. But as soon as she opened WeChat, she saw her mother had sent a five hundred yuan red envelope.

Additionally, Wu Guodong had also sent her a two hundred yuan red envelope.

This added up to already a thousand yuan!

This sum of money used to be an entire month's living expenses, but now it had easily slipped into her pocket.

When Chen Yao finished showering, ate breakfast, and returned to the room, he immediately saw Lin Nan's blissful smile.

"What are you so happy about? Tell me and let me hear."

He yawned and sat cross-legged on the floor. "My mom said if everything goes smoothly, the road to the countryside will be unblocked on the tenth day of the New Year. You'll probably have to leave then, right?"

"Mm." Lin Nan's expression immediately became guarded. She lowered her head and glanced at Chen Yao with the look one gives a pervert.

Chen Yao inexplicably scratched his aching head. "If I did something to you last night, just say it. Don't look at me with that kind of expression."

"Can't be bothered to tell you." Lin Nan snorted heavily, mainly feeling guilty about snooping through someone's privacy.

"My head, you didn't hit it, did you?" The more he touched it, the more it hurt. He asked with a grimace, "I've never seen you have this much strength before."

Nonsense! If you were pressed under some man's body suspecting you were about to get screwed, you'd have this much strength too. Lin Nan hadn't slept well the entire night yesterday. First, she was bombarded by fireworks and firecrackers until half past midnight, then listened to Chen Yao's snoring until three in the morning before falling asleep. After falling asleep, her dream actually continued the plot of being pressed under Chen Yao's body, causing her to wake up in the middle of the night drenched in cold sweat.

She yawned. Compared to Chen Yao who had already fallen asleep by midnight, she was a bit sleep-deprived.

"How did your cat run to my house?" Chen Yao's head was still a bit dizzy and swollen with pain. Holding his water cup, he drank gulp after gulp without stopping.

"Who knows? When it was in the countryside, it mixed with stray cats outside. Maybe because of the epidemic, no one fed it?" Lin Nan also felt confused. "But it should have just stayed at my grandfather's house."

"Maybe it likes you too much?"

Lin Nan thought of the scene of Cola surrounded by a group of stray cats and couldn't believe Cola had come because it liked her too much.

Could it be that it also couldn't get used to her grandfather's meals? She was too lazy to think so much. Anyway, this cat had now run to Chen Yao's house. As long as it looked healthy and disaster-free, it was fine.

Although express delivery had already stopped due to the New Year and the epidemic, Lin Nan still opened the online shopping page, preparing to buy some summer clothes online.

Winter here would last at most about a month. She estimated that by March the weather would warm up, and Lin Nan had absolutely no summer women's clothing.

But just as she clicked on the search bar, she saw at a glance several terms in the search history.

She teased Chen Yao, "Why are you searching for chocolate? Are you planning to give it to your girlfriend on Valentine's Day in a few days?"

"What girlfriend do I have?" Chen Yao scoffed. "Why don't you just make do with me?"

"You're crazy." Lin Nan pursed her lips and didn't take his words to heart, continuing to curiously check the search history.

There wasn't anything particularly strange in the searches. She turned to prepare to buy some summer clothes when Chen Yao leaned over. Seeing Lin Nan's search, he teased, "I like short skirts with black stockings. Why not buy two sets? Though you'd probably look pretty good in white stockings too, right?"

"I don't like skirts." Lin Nan snorted lightly. "Besides, why should I buy them just because you like them? If you want to see women's clothing that badly, wear them yourself."

"What kind of girl doesn't wear skirts?"

Lin Nan pointed at her own face. "Me."

She suddenly noticed Chen Yao's gaze lingering on her chest. Looking down, she quickly pulled up her jacket zipper and glared fiercely at Chen Yao.

How come I never noticed before that Chen Yao is such an old pervert?

It was the first day of the New Year, but Lin Nan didn't feel much New Year atmosphere. It was just like usual, teasing and bantering with Chen Yao. Only when looking at the street through the window could she understand from the colorful lanterns and banners hanging on the street that it was New Year.

Occasionally there would be a few sounds of firecrackers by her ears, but the streets were, for the most part, empty. It completely lacked the liveliness of previous New Years.

Uncle and Auntie had also left to do their volunteer work. Yesterday on New Year's Eve, Lin Nan had noticed worry on the old couple's faces. The restaurant being unable to open for a month or two would probably bring a fatal blow to Chen Yao's family's economy. However, Chen Yao wasn't panicked at all, sitting on the chair beside Lin Nan with his legs crossed, playing on his phone.

"My mom plans to start doing food delivery." He looked up and said, "Starting tomorrow I'll also be a delivery person. She said she'll give me three yuan per delivery."

Although all restaurants in the small county town had closed, food delivery service wasn't prohibited.

Food delivery was now all restaurants' lifeline. Auntie couldn't possibly wait stupidly for the epidemic to pass before reopening. Otherwise, during these two months, they'd still have to bear rent and employee wages. Even if they had money, they'd become poor this way.

"Should I help too?"

"What would you go for? You can't even ride an electric scooter well." Chen Yao immediately rejected Lin Nan's idea. "Don't end up not helping and breaking your own bones instead."

"I could help with packaging."

Chen Yao thought for a moment and still chose to shake his head. "There probably won't be many people ordering delivery. Where would we need four people? We'll talk about it when we need you."

While chatting, Lin Nan also bought two sets of summer women's clothing online that she was fairly satisfied with.

Actually, it was just short-sleeved shirts and long pants. Lin Nan still didn't quite dare to accept overly feminine clothing, even though she was quite interested in those fancy, elaborate clothes.

"It’s nearing summer already, why not buy shorts?" Chen Yao leaned over to look at the computer screen and asked.

Shorts?

Lin Nan casually added a pair of capri pants and several pairs of knee-length shorts to her shopping cart.

Next semester, living in the rental apartment wouldn't be like in the school dormitory where she could run the air conditioning every day with the electricity bill split. In the rental, she'd probably have to conserve electricity when using the air conditioning. Wearing shorts would indeed be a bit cooler.

"Right, right, how about buying this one too?" Chen Yao pointed at a pair of denim shorts.

These ultra-short shorts could almost only wrap around the buttocks. The model in the picture showed off her straight, long legs, making Chen Yao gulp repeatedly.

Lin Nan originally wanted to refuse directly, but seeing Chen Yao's eyes light up, some inexplicable jealousy surged up. She immediately clicked to purchase while sourly mocking the model in the picture. "These legs are thin like bamboo poles. So ugly, and they still let her do the promotion shoot."

Although her thighs weren't thick either, compared to this kind of girl who dieted every day and probably weighed less than 100 pounds despite being 1.7 meters tall, she was still somewhat inferior.

Chen Yao paused, then immediately complimented, "Right, right, your legs look much better."

"If this were last century, just for that sentence, you could be charged with hooliganism." Lin Nan glared at him.

"What? You're unhappy when I look at your legs, and you're unhappy when I compliment you too?"