Maybe because she rarely wore women’s underwear, Song Qiuyu almost forgot to put it on.
Just like now, she quickly closed the room door, shrank back inside, took off the small skirt, and rummaged out a white lace bra that was also buried at the bottom of the suitcase.
She fumbled to put it on, slipped the white puffy dress back on, then did a final check to make sure everything was perfect, and let out a sigh of relief.
Only then did she step forward, extending her fair little hand toward the door handle again.
With a creak, the summer heat wave carried five pairs of eyes that landed on her, causing her delicate eyebrows to furrow and her whole body to feel uncomfortable.
This wasn’t the first time she had worn women’s clothes in front of them, but wearing a skirt today held a completely different meaning! Today, she was no longer the old Song Qiuyu; she was a brand new Song Qiuyu as a girl.
Once the matter of her condition was made public, she could truly and thoroughly say goodbye to the past.
Although, she might still not be quite used to being truly seen as a girl by everyone.
Just thinking about that would make her extremely shy.
And—
Didn’t know how Sang Tian and the others, and everyone else, would view a girl like her.
She desperately wanted to be recognized.
This feeling of wanting approval had become so intense it felt like it was about to explode.
Her heart pounded, and she was so nervous she could barely breathe. She quickly clenched her hands, parted her lips, and took a hurried breath.
Her ink-black long hair fell from the side, gently tracing circles in the air.
For the past half year, she hadn’t cut her hair, letting it grow long.
Maybe in another half month, it would reach her waist.
She bit her lip, closed the room door, and shyly stepped forward with her long legs in white stockings, walking toward them.
Then she stopped in front of them.
“I’m sorry for hiding this from you for so long.”
“?”
Three people had big question marks pop up in their minds.
Under their shocked gazes, Song Qiuyu bashfully lowered her head.
The urgency for approval gave her the courage to stand, but the inferiority and shame welling up from within made her unable to meet anyone’s eyes.
She didn’t know if it was because she had dressed too hastily, but the bra clasps seemed to be fastened too tight.
‘So stuffy…’
And also, is the fan in the living room really turning? Why is it getting hotter and hotter?
“Lao Lin, Xia Qi, Sang Tian, we’re going to tell you something very important.”
Jiang Xiao stood up from the sofa, walked over to her, and then firmly yet gently took her small hand, holding it in his palm.
“Mmm…”
Feeling the very intense gazes from Sang Tian and Xia Qi, Song Qiuyu pursed her lips and took a shallow breath.
Their gazes were like judge’s gazes, especially sharp, judging her, a person who had just learned to be a girl.
They subconsciously evaluated her with their innate strengths.
Because the result was unknown, the feelings of indebtedness buried deep in her heart were also drawn out.
She forcefully suppressed the urge to run away and stood still, letting Jiang Xiao envelop her with a gentleness that didn’t allow refusal.
“Jiang Xiao, why don’t I say it?”
She didn’t want to hide behind Jiang Xiao; that would only make her more shy and more inferior.
“No, let me do it.”
It wasn’t that he didn’t trust her; Jiang Xiao simply felt that as a man, at a time like this, he had the responsibility and duty to stand up for his girlfriend and protect her.
“No, let me do it.”
Song Qiuyu bit her lip and insisted.
“No, let me.”
Jiang Xiao tightly held her hand, his eyes filled with determination as he looked at her.
Then, a gentle smile traced across his handsome face.
“At a time like this, leave it to me, your boyfriend. Don’t force yourself. Trust me to handle it, Xi’er. I want to do more for you.”
Hearing this, Song Qiuyu’s eyes widened slightly, and she was moved.
That’s right, how could she forget again.
Although she wanted to show she wasn’t so weak and wanted to do everything within her power on her own, now she was no longer alone.
She now had a boyfriend, and this boyfriend thought every day about taking care of her, his girlfriend, and doing more for her.
But he wasn’t the only one with this thought.
She also wanted to do more for Jiang Xiao, her boyfriend, from the position of a girlfriend.
To think that for most of this semester, she had offered to help him with that kind of thing, but Jiang Xiao always found various excuses to decline.
She wasn’t unable to understand that Jiang Xiao cherished her, didn’t want to push her too hard, and also worried about losing control, so that’s why he did it.
But the more he did that, the more she felt inferior and aggrieved.
She always felt like she was about to be turned into a useless person by Jiang Xiao.
From initially enjoying and being addicted, she had become anxious now. This feeling of facing everything with a single shout, having her boyfriend help solve everything—
“Alright, alright, you two young lovers, stop arguing.”
Xie Zhuran took a bite of a pear and swallowed the juice.
“Let me do it.”
Song Qiuyu and Jiang Xiao were both choked up.
Then, Xie Zhuran preemptively said everything he knew.
To accommodate Sang Tian, who had the least information, he deliberately explained the matters about Song Qiuyu and Shen Xi in great detail.
“So Song Qiuyu really is a girl?”
Xia Qi’s pupils contracted violently.
Although she had always subconsciously mistaken Song Qiuyu for a girl, now that Song Qiuyu truly admitted it, she couldn’t fully believe it.
She pulled out her phone and repeatedly confirmed the date.
“But today isn’t April Fools’ Day. April Fools’ Day is long over.”
“Uh, don’t you believe it? This is real.”
Xie Zhuran threw away the pear core and wiped his hands with a paper napkin. Then he pretended to be magnanimous and said:
“Don’t worry, I won’t hold it against you two for tricking me. It’s all in the past.”
Song Qiuyu was stunned for a moment, as if she saw a sparkling angel halo on her roommate’s head! She rubbed her eyes and looked again, only to find that the halo was real.
Xie Zhuran had somehow pulled out a prop from somewhere and had put it on his head at some point, as magically as a magic trick.
This move also shocked the other four people. But everyone understood and accepted it in an instant.
That’s the Director Department for you. They are not only hounds bound to a system that gets stronger by constantly carrying things back to the dormitory, but also people who can pull unexpected props out of their pockets at any time to cause mischief…
As if!
Jiang Xiao hesitated to speak about it. Lao Xie had been looking forward to this day for a long time, prepared in advance.
No wonder he was so excited when he heard that he and Xi’er were going to confess!
Lin An suddenly took off his glasses, closed his eyes, pressed two fingers to his brow, sighed, and said:
“Lao Xie, I’ve always known you really want a girlfriend and you hoped Qiuyu was a girl, but you can’t do this—”
Hearing this, Song Qiuyu was very helpless.
Actually, this kind of reaction was expected.
Everyone has their own worldview. Even psychotics have their own bizarre worldviews.
Lin An and the others are ordinary people, and in their worldview, what she had experienced was too bizarre.
More absurd than someone who was laughing and talking one second and then suddenly turning into a paper effigy the next. After all, the latter was already a cliché, while the former was still rare.
“Come on, what benefits did you give Qiuyu and Lao Jiang to make them cooperate with you?”
Lin An sighed again, with an expression of an old father raising a foolish son, looking at the angel halo on Xie Zhuran’s head.
“Also, that angel halo should be borrowed from the Drama Department, right? Don’t forget that the president cherishes his props the most. Take it off quickly after you’re done. If it gets broken, you’ll be the one paying for it.”
Song Qiuyu pondered for a moment, suspiciously eyeing her usually sneaky roommate. Then she felt like there was a smell of lies in the air and immediately frowned.
No! Lao Lin must have believed it. He’s planning to counterattack, determined not to see Lao Xie’s smug face.
“Oh, when I borrowed it, the president did repeatedly warn me not to break it and said this prop is very expensive!”
Xie Zhuran seemed to take the bait and obediently took off the angel halo.
“Hmm, is that angel halo really that expensive? It’s only about twenty-something yuan online.”
Song Qiuyu thought for a moment, then suddenly realized and said:
“Could it be the same style angel halo as Exia?”
“Yes, yes! So it’s especially expensive, several hundred yuan!”
Xie Zhuran carefully placed the angel halo lightly on the table, as if it would break at the slightest bump.
Song Qiuyu sighed. Money in the second dimension was so easy to make. She should indeed trick them into cosplaying female game characters later.
They would definitely get a surge in fans.
“Lao Xie, you were too careless. Have you considered one thing?”
Lin An put on his glasses, and the lenses glinted.
“That stingy president, how could he lend such a valuable prop… no, this could be called a collection, to you? Lao Xie, you—you haven’t been tricked, have you?”
Xie Zhuran was taken aback, and his expression turned pitiful and world-weary. He thought about it carefully.
It did seem logical.
The figurines at his own home were hidden away by all means, and he would die rather than let relatives’ children touch them.
After all, once they got their hands on them, they would mostly be left as wreckage. And cats, those creatures, were also malicious and dangerous!
Seeing that Xie Zhuran looked like he would never smile again, Song Qiuyu sighed inwardly. Ha Ji Xie in this state, it was very likely he wouldn’t catch on.
Sigh, the men’s dormitory. Even if you don’t mess with your roommate, there will be plenty of others who do.
The only difference is whether there will be retaliation later.
She thought of herself and looked at the person who had been silent all along.
“Sang Tian, I…”
Song Qiuyu was extremely nervous.
Actually, she wasn’t too worried about Lin An and Xia Qi.
What she worried most about was Sang Tian’s reaction.
After all, Sang Tian was the one who knew nothing the whole time and had always supported her and Jiang Xiao’s relationship.
She was afraid that after Sang Tian found out she was a girl, her illusion would shatter and they would completely fall out.
But then again, there was also a girl in their short video shooting group who especially liked writing fan fiction about her and Jiang Xiao.
That person had been busy with transferring majors and hadn’t shown her face for a long time.
At most, she usually helped them write scripts, adding little plots that the censors liked to see and could pass review.
When everything is made public, that girl will probably have her illusion shattered too.
It wasn’t just them, but too many other people…
“Classmate Song.”
But Sang Tian suddenly stood up from the sofa, walked over, took her hands, and a smile rose on her face.
This surprised Song Qiuyu so much that she was stunned.