novelraw Chapter 287 : Eating Lemons
Chapter 287 : Eating Lemons
My three-dimensional Hideyoshi is gone?
Zheng Qian was completely stunned. Looking at Lin Nan's mother's serious and solemn face, he realized she probably wasn't joking.
So he took out the documents from the folder to examine them carefully, only to discover that Lin Nan was actually a fake boy.
Something inside his heart seemed to collapse.
He forced himself to raise a smile: "Changing gender information requires quite troublesome procedures. I also have to report to my superiors. I can't make that decision."
"However, since Lin Nan's ID card is already female, aside from the procedures being troublesome, there shouldn't be any problems." Zheng Qian's enthusiasm immediately cooled down.
"Then with Lin Nan's situation, can she continue living off-campus?" Lin Nan's mother said worriedly. "It's also my fault. I never discovered she was actually a girl. I raised her as a boy for eighteen years. If I make her live in the girls' dorm directly now, it might not be very good..."
"She already has my off-campus living permit, so that's no problem." The corner of Zheng Qian's mouth twitched. "But it would be best to transfer her to another class for courses. Otherwise, the students in our class are quite familiar with her, and there might be some gossip."
Though she might still need to stay in the girls' dorm for a while. I'll communicate with her new counselor, and after a few days she can live outside."
"Mm, if possible, that would be best." Lin Nan's mother took out an envelope from her pocket. Seeing no one around, she secretly tried to stuff it into Zheng Qian's chest. This was her first time doing this kind of thing, and she appeared very uneasy.
But Zheng Qian raised his eyebrows and unhesitatingly refused the envelope, his expression becoming even more serious: "Auntie, are you trying to ruin my career?"
"Besides, Nan Nan and I are so close. How could I take your money?"
"It's nothing, just asking you to have tea." Mother was startled by his words.
"Take it back. This isn't the old era. Who says things won't get done without money?" Zheng Qian shook his head and pushed the envelope back. "I'll keep the documents here. Within three working days... before next Thursday, it will be done. I'll notify Lin Nan then."
After Lin Nan's mother finished her business and walked out of the teaching building, she found herself confused and lost.
This school was of course smaller than Tsinghua or Peking University, but as a university it still occupied a huge area. Coming for the first time without anyone to guide her, it was indeed very easy to get lost.
Fortunately, at this moment, Lin Nan happened to encounter her with three roommates.
"Mom." Lin Nan came over. She was a bit worried that guy Zheng Qian might have said something strange to her mother.
"Everything's taken care of." Mother smiled and ruffled Lin Nan's head, then looked up at Chen Yao and the other two young men not far away, asking quietly, "Are those two your friends?"
"Roommates. That chubby one is Tu Junhui, and the other thin one is Xiong Da. I mentioned them to you before when we chatted."
"I see." Mother took out that envelope that hadn't been given away and tried to distribute some meeting gifts to these first-time acquaintances, but was stopped by Lin Nan again, who pushed the envelope back.
She gave her mother a dissatisfied look. Who gives money to their child's classmates when they meet? Are you burning through money?
"Mom, I'm planning to go out for a meal with them, so you..."
"I won't go. Give me your keys. I'll go clean up your rental apartment. I'll just eat something outside tonight."
Lin Nan nodded hesitantly: "Well, that's fine too... Should I pack some good food to bring back for you?"
After first sending Mother back to the rental apartment, Lin Nan and the others got on a bus heading to the walking street in the distance.
This was the same place where Lin Nan had previously worked part-time handing out flyers.
"You look quite similar to your mom." Tu Junhui was seeing Lin Nan's mother for the first time.
"Mm, I've taken after my mom since I was little."
Mainly it was because the genes from her mother's side were good. When the entire family was young and hadn't gained weight, they were basically all handsome men and beautiful women. When Lin Nan was still in middle school before developing acne, she was practically a male template of her mother.
However, now that she'd become female, although her appearance was still similar to her mother's, the details of her face actually had more of Lilith's appearance. The similarity actually wasn't as high as before.
A long winter break had passed, but Xiong Da was still the same as before, obsessed with being an idol producer, basically keeping his head down playing on his phone the entire bus ride.
Tu Junhui would curiously ask a question or two from time to time. Gone was his previous unrestrained teasing. Lin Nan noticed he seemed a bit nervous getting along with her. Sitting beside Chen Yao, she yawned and subconsciously leaned her head toward Chen Yao's shoulder. But the moment her head touched his shoulder, she noticed Tu Junhui's gaze examining her, and immediately sat up straighter.
Showing affection with Chen Yao in front of her roommates still felt embarrassing.
Chen Yao was also a bit embarrassed. Both of them were somewhat constrained.
"It's fine, I'm first-rate at eating lemons!" Tu Junhui crossed his arms and huffed. "This old man will sooner or later find a girlfriend and show you two up!"
"Mm, then I think you'd better lose weight first." Lin Nan reflexively jabbed at him.
"Nonsense. What if someone just happens to like me being this fat?" Tu Junhui retorted to Lin Nan in dissatisfaction. "You can be blind enough to like Chen Yao. Who knows, maybe some girl will be blind enough to like me too."
"Chen Yao is much better looking than you, okay?"
When Chen Yao heard this, he immediately rolled up his sleeves proudly and flexed his biceps: "Whether my face is handsome or not aside, at least I'm thinner than you. Look at your arms, fatter than Lin Nan's thighs."
"Isn't this just 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'?" Tu Junhui looked down at his own chubby arms and sighed. "Can't out-argue you dog couple. I'm going to go cry for a bit."
As he spoke, he really did put on the appearance of a weeping little girl, wiping tears that didn't exist.
Lin Nan always ended in defeat when arguing one-on-one with Tu Junhui. Before, she liked to pull in Xiong Da or Chen Yao for a group attack. Now she didn't need to pull anyone in anymore. Chen Yao had already become her most solid teammate.
After fooling around for a while, Lin Nan was also somewhat tired. She had sat in vehicles almost the entire day today, which had long since made her full of drowsiness.
She no longer cared about the two roommates' gazes and directly leaned on Chen Yao's shoulder. Finding that shoulder uncomfortably hard against her head, she simply turned sideways and lay in Chen Yao's arms.
Chen Yao suddenly remembered the scene from when he took Lin Nan to work part-time handing out flyers.
At that time, Lin Nan had also been like this, sleeping in his arms on the bus.
He subconsciously supported Lin Nan's waist and abdomen, and also leaned his own head toward Tu Junhui's shoulder beside him.
Tu Junhui glanced at the two of them, and beautifully leaned toward Xiong Da as well, but his huge head was slapped away.
"Your head weighs at least fifty pounds, and you still have the nerve to lean on my shoulder?"
Xiong Da gave him a look, his face full of disdain. "Politely, just eat your dog food. Don't think about this and that."
With that, he quite straightforwardly leaned on Tu Junhui's shoulder as well, yawning several times.
"I..."
Tu Junhui looked at Chen Yao on his left shoulder, Xiong Da on his right shoulder, then at the beauty in Chen Yao's arms.
Speechless.