At this moment, Shen Zhou in Luochuan City had fallen asleep directly on his computer desk after pulling an all-nighter playing Delta Force.
The sudden drop in temperature, combined with the twenty-three-degree air conditioner, chilled him from head to toe, making him shiver all over.
“Why is it suddenly so cold…”
His mind groggy, he opened his eyes, turned his head half-awake, and saw snowflakes floating outside the window.
His pupils contracted.
But this is July! How can it snow in July? This weather is seriously wrong…
Puzzled, he scratched his head.
The next second, his expression changed abruptly.
He sneezed violently, his whole body shaking with it.
He pulled two tissues, pinched his nose, and quickly picked up the AC remote to turn off the air conditioner.
“Huh?”
“What’s this?”
He stared at the computer screen that had lit up again, at the sudden pop-up window, and at the trending Weibo hot search inside it.
He was slightly stunned.
Uh…
“Experts have recently discovered a difficult-to-cure disease that causes the patient’s gender to change…”
“Currently, the high-risk group is mostly male. Male citizens are advised to be extra careful and avoid staying up all night, especially those who are weak, prone to obesity and illness, or have the three highs?”
“Huh?”
“This must be another marketing account. When will those damn marketing accounts finally die out? They spread fake news about public figures’ deaths every day, and now they dare to lie about this?”
“Absolutely ridiculous, beyond ridiculous!”
Shen Zhou sneered contemptuously.
He completely dismissed this so-called explosive trending topic, but his hand honestly clicked on the pop-up.
Even if he knew it was dog food, he had to taste whether it was salty or bland.
He glanced at the remaining Hualaitu brand chicken wrap on the table, frowned, and felt a little melancholy.
‘If only I had a girlfriend,’ he thought.
At times like this, a girlfriend would heat up the chicken wrap for him and wouldn’t bear to see him eat it cold.
He sighed involuntarily, picked up the wrap, hesitated for two seconds, then put it back on the table—the chili oil had already solidified.
With this regretful thought, he looked at the details of the hot search.
At first glance it was fine, but after a careful look, he immediately became unsettled.
“It’s an official account?”
He shot up from his chair, gasped in shock, and his astonished face was almost pressed against the computer screen. “So this disease is real?”
He rubbed his eyes and quickly scrolled down with the mouse to the comment section.
Sure enough, the comment section was in an uproar. Sure enough, there were still many people like him who doubted this disease.
He scrolled through the comments.
“This disease is extremely special—it turns boys into girls. Those infected usually hide among the crowd. Either they continue pretending to be boys, or they simply start a new life as girls.”
“Their common trait is that they all hide this condition from everyone.”
“However, after this hot search broke out, those patients have popped up like bamboo shoots after the rain, one after another!”
Shen Zhou’s eyes widened. Gu Beichen, the National Husband, was actually a patient of this disease and was really a girl? The overbearing heiress of a conglomerate was also a patient, formerly a despised illegitimate child, and was a boy?
Shen Zhou chuckled. It seemed there were really quite a lot of people with this disease.
Countless people’s worldviews were being reshaped. The comment section became even more chaotic.
“Are you kidding me? My love rival turned into a beautiful girl?”
“No meow, I’m completely affected meow, the legendary captain is going down meow!”
“Oh, really? Like hell I believe that. I’ll try it tonight. I don’t believe a muscle-bound guy like me can actually turn into a delicate little girl!”
“Wow, so exciting, then I have to try it!”
“Unless my roommate Lu Mingming turns into a beautiful girl tonight, I won’t believe it.”
“Oh crap, uncle here, I’m also fully affected. I hate girls the most, I don’t want to become a girl!”
“Please, you monsters, don’t go out randomly, okay? Stop disrupting the marriage market! Quack, just come to my house, my house is big enough!”
The complexity of netizens was all clearly displayed in the comment section. Abuse, doubts, and slander against the patients were also increasing.
Watching this made Shen Zhou sweat profusely. It was still night, and these people only dared to jump around online.
Once daylight came tomorrow, the outside world would probably turn upside down. A rough thought was extremely terrifying.
Looking at the comment section again.
These harsh voices vanished from the comment section in an instant, as if they had never existed.
It was as if there was one, no, countless large hands controlling the entire comment section.
In the blink of an eye, the comment section had only uniform warm words and various patients’ confession sessions. But this situation didn’t last long.
Whenever a different voice emerged, it would quickly be silenced.
“What is wrong with this world? I must still be asleep, probably dreaming.”
Having said that, Shen Zhou sneezed heavily again.
Not good, could it be that he got chilled… Wait!
It seemed that staying up all night plus being sick could trigger it with probability?
Shen Zhou moved his mouse with some fear, looked at the precautions at the top, and his pupils shrank violently. He almost couldn’t catch his breath.
He quickly fished out the cold medicine and was about to mix it with water and take it, but after a second thought, he changed his mind.
“Since being a boy isn’t exciting, why not try a different life?”
“Anyway, the comments said there’s a way to change back later.”
“Just treat it as experiencing life. After being a captain for so long, one might want to change jobs to a gardener.”
“But a man turned into a woman—isn’t that a transformed woman from some gender-bender manga? A transformed woman is the best standard for a spouse!”
“Damn, this world is simply too wonderful. But some people might be jumping with anxiety.”
If possible, he would still prefer to have a transformed woman as his wife, rather than becoming a transformed woman himself and being someone else’s wife.
He looked at his reflection on the computer screen, frowned, and resolutely put down the cold medicine.
Come to think of it, although many people in the comments had confessed their past as boys, these people were basically strangers. There probably weren’t any patients of this disease around him…
At this moment, a trendy rock ringtone sounded. It was a call from Xiao He.
“Shen Zhou, are you asleep? Hurry and open your phone or computer and check the number one Weibo hot search!” Xiao He said.
“I’m already looking at it. It’s really shocking.”
Shen Zhou held the AC remote and silently turned the air conditioner back on.
Countless night owls had already become the popularity and comments, likes, and shares on Weibo.
There were also many who had already fallen asleep, woken up by a phone call from relatives or friends, groggily got up, opened their phones, and looked at the hot search.
With just one look, they were completely jolted awake from their dreams, and even luckily found the names of acquaintances or their own crushes in the comment section.
They immediately broke down and turned into keyboard warriors on the spot.
Even though the “big hands” were constantly controlling the comments, different voices were still increasing.
As the forwarding rate grew, those who summoned the courage to self-reveal their past were also increasing.
In just half an hour, the hot search had not only stopped at the national level but had already set off a huge wave all over the world.
Different countries, different places, similar experiences, vastly different emotions.
Many people, the moment they self-revealed, were kicked out by their families, leaving a trail of footprints alone on the snow.
Then they sought some comfort online.
The hot search heat continued to climb.
Amidst this wave, Jiang Xiao frowned.
Sitting in front of his computer, he looked at his girlfriend’s QQ chat page and held his breath slightly.
[Wife]: Jiang Xiao, I’m ready!
“Xi’er…”
Even though many patients who self-revealed their past were treated gently by the world, the voices attacking them never stopped.
Jiang Xiao turned his face, glanced at the hot search comment section beside the chat page, and his frown deepened.
“Xi’er, believe in yourself, and please believe in me.”
After sending this message, Jiang Xiao resolutely shut down the computer and left the room.