When Earth Awakened, I Became a Sword Saintess

Chapter 6 : The Night

6: The Night

Finally, she found her room. The number 3012, on a mottled, peeling, and faded sign, took her a second try to read clearly. When unlocking the door, she was truly worried she would break the key.

Inside, it was a studio apartment with the bathroom adjacent to the corridor.

She turned on the light. It was a rarely seen incandescent bulb that sometimes crackled.

Under the dim light, the room was dilapidated. There was only a creaking old wooden bed and a plastic-covered wardrobe that looked like it cost eighty yuan from a cheap store.

Several properly packed cardboard boxes were piled up in the room. They were probably her luggage.

Yuyin locked the door and first lay down on the mattress-less wooden bed.

Today, she had really been through too much. This place, although much more dilapidated than the public rental house she lived in with her parents before her rebirth, was at least a place where she could shelter from the wind and rain.

Yuyin looked up at the peeling ceiling, her towering chest rising and falling.

"I... I've... become... a woman?"

Change back? At least if she changed back into a boy, there would be fewer troubles. But based on what she knew so far, there should be no way, right?

Since there was no way, there was no point in wasting time thinking about it.

Struggling over it was meaningless.

Yuyin's hand unconsciously rested on her chest.

That softness and height, impossible to grasp in one hand, seemed as deep as an ocean containing the essence of femininity.

It was hard to imagine. For a body like that of a campus belle, others could only admire from afar, yet she... could do this? Could this be considered a rare blessing amidst all the misfortunes of her rebirth?

Although Yuyin's constitution might be truly good and she didn't feel tired, it was still time to rest.

"Organize things, take a shower, rest, and there's class tomorrow."

Yuyin got up.

"First... a shower?"

Maybe she should organize her things first.

Most of the contents of the cardboard boxes were various clothes she usually wore. As expected of a former young lady of Lingdu, these clothes were all delicate and beautiful, far more than she had in the past. There was even a whole box of various types of underwear.

Probably more than all the women's underwear she had seen in her real life before her rebirth.

"The bras are so big..."

It was too late. If she were to organize these one by one, Yuyin was afraid she wouldn't be able to sleep. She took out a change of clothes, pushed the boxes aside, and decided to organize them another day.

Besides clothes, there were also books, an ID card, a student ID, a driver's license, and other things. Even a driver's license...

Next came what might be a rather severe challenge.

Yuyin first checked the bathroom.

It was old and small, with yellowing tiles, and only a showerhead, but at least there was hot water.

She returned to the side of the bed, not realizing she hadn't pulled the curtains.

Yuyin took a deep breath, as if it were some kind of ritual to escape loneliness, and decisively undid the button under her armpit.

This white, ancient-style fashion might be difficult to put on, but she knew how to take it off.

Gradually, the incomparably delicate dress and skirt cascaded down from her jade-like, slender legs.

That pair of jade-like feet, wrapped in thin, shimmering stockings yet without losing their agility, arched and slipped out of the high heels.

"What on earth am I doing..."

As she progressed, Yuyin became more and more nervous, as if she were undressing someone else.

Calm down... calm down...

"This, no matter what, is my own body now. Even if I'm not calm, what can I do?"

What can I do? Whether this was a rhetorical question or not, one could only guess.

At last, she was down to just her underwear.

The room, originally lifeless, was now filled with a feminine aura, as if the mottled walls had become a series of ambiguous paintings.

Yuyin put on the slippers that had been sent, and was suddenly moved. Even at a time like this, her mother was still so thoughtful. She even sent slippers.

She walked into the narrow bathroom, but froze in front of the mirror above the sink.

"This... is me?"

It was unimaginable. That frail and delicate young boy had now become the nearly perfect, healthy, tall woman in the mirror, her body like a living work of art, a captivating beauty.

Even in such a dilapidated bathroom, with this woman's presence, it seemed to have become some kind of extraordinary art.

That height, that slenderness, that firmness, that fullness...

It was a shy concealment, a blossoming of life.

Yuyin's face couldn't help but flush red. She suddenly had a feeling, was this the most perfect life form in the universe? The things this life form could nurture must be far beyond her imagination.

For some reason, she had this inexplicable intuition.

If she looked any longer, Yuyin was afraid she would not be able to control her own hands.

But there was an even more daunting challenge: her underwear. She couldn't shower in her underwear, could she?

The first time she was taking off a woman's underwear, and it was her own.

It was enough to make Yuyin want to cry but have no tears.

But, perhaps it wasn't necessarily without tears...

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Reborn as a beautiful girl, one not only had to face external challenges but also had to conquer oneself.

About half an hour later, Yuyin walked out of the steam-filled bathroom.

Toiletries, and even those items for women's exclusive use, had all been sent by her mother.

Yuyin had no experience washing hair and didn't know she had to tie it up to avoid getting it wet while showering. As a result, her hair was soaked. Even after changing into her underwear, her body got wet again.

But her mother had even sent a hairdryer!

Xia Youxue must be her real mother in this life.

Taking a shower was like experiencing a sacred war.

Yuyin panted, wrapped in a towel, and sat on the edge of the bed. Relying on the body's own memory, she somehow skillfully combed her long hair.

Unfortunately, no bedding had been sent.

Suddenly, Yuyin had an intuitive feeling of being watched from outside the window.

She immediately turned around, her hands instinctively pressing down the towel between her legs. Outside the window, a strange creature with a head that looked like a dragon's but was a bit rounder, the body of a carp, but with four small legs, was swimming over, wagging its long fins and tail, peering at her.

Yuyin didn't know how to react.

But this spirit creature just stared blankly at Yuyin for a few moments before swimming away.

Yuyin mustered her courage and ran to the window. In the deep of the night, she could vaguely see some spirit creatures and ghosts coming and going in the streets and alleys. In the alley, there were three little ghosts patrolling the night, walking and swaying while striking a clapper. Their faces were ugly, and their postures were somewhat absurd.

Yuyin quickly closed the window and pulled the curtains.

Although to this day these strange things had never actually harmed Yuyin, she always had an uneasy premonition.

Could it be that in this world, I am the only one who can see these things?

Yuyin squatted down and rummaged through the books that had been sent. They were all high school textbooks and materials. There were no books related to cultivation.

She might get through today, but not necessarily every day.

Right now, she still didn't have the slightest bit of power to resist, whether she encountered a villain or something else that might harm her.

And whether she could truly get through this night safely was also uncertain...

Yuyin didn't dare to turn off the light. She directly lay down on the bed, using two silk scarves as a cushion, not daring to fall asleep.

But, perhaps this body was just too good. She didn't suffer from insomnia at all. Not long after she lay down, she fell asleep.

This night, there were no dreams.