Shen Yan was very quick in the shower. Su Aoxue didn’t have to wait long before he walked out of the bathroom in a bathrobe.
“I’m done. Your turn.”
“Yeah…”
Su Aoxue took her clothes with a hint of guilt and headed into the bathroom.
After locking the door, she sat on the toilet and let out a sigh.
“Calm down, calm down. I can’t let Old Shen catch on.”
Murmuring to herself, Su Aoxue pulled a hidden pill bottle from her clothes, shook out a pill, and swallowed it.
“There are less than twenty of these Appearance Pills left. I wonder if Sister Ling Feng still has any in stock.”
Then, Su Aoxue stripped off her clothes and prepared to shower.
Come to think of it, this was the first time she’d seriously examined her body since becoming a girl.
Suddenly realizing something, Su Aoxue froze for a moment. “Am I going to get that thing too?”
“Do high-level warriors have immunity or something? If I actually get a Sustained Damage Buff, that’d be a disaster…”
Biting her lip in frustration, Su Aoxue sank into thought.
“I’ll ask Sister Ling Feng about it later.”
…
Just as Shen Yan was dozing off on the bed, the bathroom door finally creaked open, releasing wisps of white steam.
It was clear that the temperature in the bathroom had been very high.
Shen Yan, who had been lying with his hands behind his head, opened his eyes and teased, “I thought you’d passed out in there.”
“My hair was full of dirt. It was hard to wash.”
With a fluttering heart, Su Aoxue carefully picked up the hair dryer on the table and moved to the side to dry her hair.
Out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at Shen Yan. Seeing that his expression hadn’t changed much, she relaxed a bit.
Her mind began to wander with other thoughts.
‘Hmm, soaking in hot water is really comfortable, but it would be perfect if there wasn’t anyone else in this room.’
Just then, whether to lighten the mood or not, Shen Yan suddenly spoke up, “Long hair is indeed hard to wash. Hmm, very artistic!”
“Heh…”
Sitting on the chair with her back to Shen Yan as she dried her hair, Su Aoxue’s expression was a bit unnatural.
At least he didn’t tease her about looking like a girl. That would’ve been really awkward.
Before long, Su Aoxue, having finished drying her hair, came to the other side of the bed.
The oversized double bed wouldn’t feel cramped even with two people.
Suppressing her nervousness and unease, Su Aoxue pretended to be nonchalant as she lifted a corner of the blanket and slid in, her back to Shen Yan.
“It’s getting late. Turn off the lights and go to sleep?”
As she spoke, Su Aoxue had already reached for the light switch and turned off the bedroom light.
She didn’t give Shen Yan a chance to refuse. In an instant, darkness swallowed the entire room.
Of course, despite saying they’d sleep, Su Aoxue instinctively didn’t want to actually doze off tonight.
She was afraid Shen Yan would discover something off about her.
She planned to stay awake all night.
After getting this far, having her best friend find out she was a girl would be way too awkward. Didn’t she have any pride?
If that happened, Shen Yan would probably think she was a pervert!
But Shen Yan looked at Su Aoxue in the darkness with some confusion. “Why do you seem so tense?”
“You’re being too distant. Aren’t we brothers who share everything?”
“…”
Su Aoxue fell silent.
After a moment, she slowly replied, “Of course we’re brothers who share everything. But maybe I’m just used to sleeping alone.”
“Suddenly having to share a bed with someone again, I’m not used to it.”
“Really? Then you’d better get used to it fast. This won’t be a rare occurrence.”
Though he found it a bit odd, Shen Yan chose to believe her and offered his advice.
“Huh?”
Su Aoxue rolled over in confusion and looked at Shen Yan in the dark. She could only make out a faint outline of his figure.
“When we go on long missions in the future, sleeping conditions won’t be this good. For safety, everyone sleeps in the same tent.”
But as soon as Shen Yan finished saying this, Su Aoxue instinctively asked, “Do women sleep with men too?”
Surprised by her strange line of thinking, Shen Yan paused before answering, “Well… no. Most of the time, men and women sleep separately. But if conditions don’t allow it, they might share a tent.”
At that, Shen Yan suddenly grinned and teased, “What, are you fantasizing about sleeping with a woman?”
“Looking for a girlfriend?”
“No, not that. As for a girlfriend, that’s still way off, way off…”
After replying, Su Aoxue fell silent.
Today, just as she was about to share a bed with Shen Yan, she suddenly realized she had become a girl.
Finding a girlfriend was utterly out of the question.
Thinking back on her experiences over this period, Su Aoxue felt like she was in a dream. It still didn’t seem real.
First, she was one step away from death, then she gained an unimaginably powerful ability, but right after that, she encountered a City-Destroying Disaster and endured six days of escape and turmoil.
In such a short time, too many life-changing things had happened, but at least her family was still alive.
Just as Su Aoxue was lost in thought, Shen Yan tentatively asked, “Among the people we escaped with this time, there was an S-rank Martial Artist escorting us. Do you know her?”
Shen Yan’s sudden question interrupted Su Aoxue’s thoughts. In the darkness, she showed a surprised expression, wondering why he was asking.
“Yeah, what about it?”
“Have you seen another Ice Ability User wearing a cloak, roughly at the A-rank Martial Artist level?”
“Yeah, they wore a similar cloak to that S-rank Martial Artist. They probably know her too.”
But this question stumped Su Aoxue.
From Shen Yan’s description, it sounded like he was talking about her.
‘That description… it’s talking about me, isn’t it?’
‘Should I say I know her or not?’
‘Tch, why is Shen Yan asking this?’
In the darkness, Su Aoxue’s mouth twitched.
Maybe she shouldn’t have shared a bed with Shen Yan tonight. The questions were piling up!
But what Su Aoxue didn’t know was that Shen Yan, who asked the question, was actually extremely nervous.
After all, that was the Frost Calamity Witch!
In his past life, he couldn’t defeat her no matter how hard he tried.
Unexpectedly, after being reborn in this life, Shen Yan had accidentally discovered that Su Aoxue had known the S-rank combat Witch for a long time.
And he had even gotten the Mo Stone.
It was hard for Shen Yan not to suspect that Su Aoxue had already met the Frost Calamity Witch, the one who would kill him in the future.
“Yeah, I know her. What about it?”
After a long, hard thought, Su Aoxue finally chose to admit she had seen the so-called Ice Ability User.
‘I am myself. In a way, looking in a mirror counts as meeting, right?’
Upon hearing this, Shen Yan’s head immediately started throbbing. Without thinking, he blurted out, “Tch, then be very careful. That person in the cloak with the Ice Ability is not a good person.”
But right after saying that, Shen Yan realized his words were biased and might actually put his best friend in more danger.
So he added, “No, don’t provoke her either. Stay away from her. Don’t get too involved with her.”
However, upon hearing what seemed like Shen Yan’s heartfelt advice, Su Aoxue was completely stunned.
‘What do you mean I’m not a good person? What do you mean stay away from me?’
‘Come on, Old Shen, what’s wrong with you? What did I ever do to you!’
‘No wait, in my Frost Calamity form, I think I only saw you once when we left the city, right?’
‘And you immediately assume I’m the bad guy?!’
‘If I remember correctly, weren’t you the one who came over to give me medicine back then!’
Su Aoxue didn’t even know what to say anymore.