“Still like watching meteor showers? You still like it now?”
“How was I supposed to know touching a meteorite would turn me into a beautiful girl?”
A young man and a young woman walked under the streetlights at night.
The girl had annoyance written all over her face. She casually kicked a stone out of the way. “And my clothes changed too—who can deal with that? Does that even make sense? Besides, forget about turning me into a pretty girl, the meteorite itself disappeared! How is that fair? I was going to sell that meteorite for money!”
The young man spread his hands. “There’s nothing to be done about it. Maybe that’s the price of greed!”
The girl leaped up and kicked him. “I think you’re just gloating, you bastard!”
“That’s slander, Chen Tang. It’s also troublesome for me that you turned out like this—when Uncle and Aunt ask, how am I supposed to explain? ‘We came to watch the meteor shower and make a wish together, and then their son turned into a daughter’—how do I explain that? Maybe you should go explain it yourself?”
“Liu Yan! If you do that, I’ll cling to you! That girlfriend of yours, right? I’ll make sure you can’t keep dating!”
Liu Yan’s face was hard to read.
He never imagined that just watching a meteor shower and wishing to stay with his girlfriend until the end—how could this greedy bastard spot a meteor that seemed to have landed nearby and insist on dragging him to find the meteorite, saying they could sell it at a high price…
And then one touch of that meteorite turned him into a beautiful girl.
His gaze fell on Chen Tang.
The guy used to be a sturdy man, 182 centimeters, seventy-five kilograms. Now he had become a slender girl, about 165 centimeters tall, weighing no more than forty-five kilograms—not very curvaceous, but a beautiful girl nonetheless.
She truly was a beautiful girl.
A slender body, delicate skin, delicate facial features, long eyelashes, and small, rosy lips.
At first glance, anyone would want to kiss her.
But thinking this was Chen Tang, he felt it wasn’t really necessary.
This was Chen Tang!
That Demon Pill!
His extremely wicked childhood friend! A guy who would kick any passing dog!
Even if she turned into a beautiful girl, it was hard to find anything commendable.
She opened her mouth to threaten him, to mess up his love life.
“All right, first, let’s go back and explain to your parents.”
Liu Yan offered his suggestion. “I’ll back you up, and with some details from our childhood, I think your parents will believe it. Otherwise, I can’t just say I took their kid out and sold him—but then again…”
Chen Tang turned to look at him at the pause. “Then again?”
“If we tell Uncle and Aunt that I traded their son for a beautiful girl, they’d probably celebrate with drums and gongs.”
“Try my Brazilian Cross Arm Lock!”
The girl suddenly leaped and jumped straight onto Liu Yan’s back, then wrapped her legs around him from behind, her arms forming a cross arm lock.
After only ten seconds, Liu Yan raised his hand in surrender.
Chen Tang finally let him go.
Liu Yan asked incredulously, “Didn’t you turn into a petite girl? How are you still this strong?”
“Hmm… if I had to say, it’s a bit weaker, since my body size shrank. A lot of martial arts techniques rely on weight, but strictly speaking, my strength hasn’t changed much.”
Chen Tang gave her professional analysis. “Were you trying to get back at me because I turned into a girl? Hehe~ Impossible! Never!”
Liu Yan felt a little embarrassed.
But…
He asked further, “Aren’t you panicking about suddenly becoming like this? You seem pretty calm.”
“Panic? What’s the use of panic? The most important thing in life is to be happy!” Chen Tang replied immediately. “Turning into a beautiful girl isn’t necessarily a bad thing~ If I ever run out of money, maybe I can find some rich guy and get him to give me money. You know I often pretend to be a beautiful girl online to scam money, and now I don’t even need to pretend. I don’t have to find pretty pictures online—I can just take a selfie.”
“You’re really wicked.”
Liu Yan thought about how his own game account only had five or six skins, while this guy had over seven hundred skins in his account by using a voice changer while gaming to trick rich guys into spending money. He wondered how he ended up with such a friend.
The two returned to “Happy Community.”
As childhood friends, they lived across the hall from each other, in the same building, on the same floor. So they were opposites.
Building 3, Unit 3, 3rd Floor, No. 1 and No. 2.
No. 1 was Liu Yan’s home, No. 2 was Chen Tang’s home.
They first knocked on the door of No. 2.
Although Chen Tang had the key, under these circumstances…
“Hey! Xiao Yan! Tangtang, you’re back!”
Something unexpected happened.
Chen Tang’s mother, Li Hui, didn’t seem to notice anything unusual at all. Instead, she wore a big auntie grin. “How was watching the meteor shower today? Did you make any wishes? Xiao Yan, come in and sit down. There’s frozen watermelon at home.”
Li Yan and Chen Tang both froze.
“Mom, I’m going to my room first,” Chen Tang said tentatively.
Li Hui waved her hand. “Go ahead! Why tell me? Come on, Xiao Yan, sit on the couch.”
Liu Yan sat down on the couch in a daze, and then Li Hui sat next to him.
Auntie, what are you doing? I know Uncle Chen isn’t home, but sitting this close makes people misunderstand…
“So? Xiao Yan, did you seal the deal?”
Seal the deal?
What deal?
Seeing Liu Yan’s blank expression, Li Hui pouted. “Didn’t you two go on a date today? And you watched the meteor shower together. I said Xiao Tang finally got enlightened after all these years. She used to run around like a tomboy, but today she went out on a date with you… She finally understands…”
Huh?
What does that mean?
Liu Yan didn’t rush to speak. He thought he might need to gather more information.
“Our two families have been close for so many years. As they say, ‘Don’t let water flow to other fields.’ You know Xiao Tang’s personality. I think she listens to you. Since you went on a date, you must have some interest… I think you’re freshmen now… how about getting engaged in your sophomore year?”
“!”
That meteor changed the world line too?!
Liu Yan finally understood what was happening.
“Wait, Auntie…”
“Liu Yan! Come to my room!”
Chen Tang’s voice came from the bedroom.
Li Hui grinned wickedly and patted Liu Yan’s shoulder encouragingly. “Xiao Yan! Don’t worry about too much! Auntie suddenly has someone inviting me to play mahjong all night tonight. I’m heading out now. Ah… the nightstand in the master bedroom has what you need.”
What you need?
What on earth are you talking about?
Auntie Li left like that.
Liu Yan vaguely heard her calling Uncle Chen on the phone, telling him not to come back tonight.
Wait—what?
After hesitating for a moment, Liu Yan still walked into Chen Tang’s bedroom.
It was the same as always, with all sorts of weird stuff—like lizard specimens, like a clown box specially designed to scare people.
This relieved Liu Yan. It felt familiar.
But Chen Tang was silent.
She said nothing, just handed Liu Yan a small card.
It was, of course, an ID card.
Liu Yan looked at it.
He also fell silent.
Name: Chen Tang
Sex: Female
He didn’t need to look at the rest. The digit for sex on the ID number had changed, nothing else.
Chen Tang, no, Chen Tang now looked at Liu Yan seriously. “It’s proven—something big happened. That meteor, or meteorite, is really a treasure. It didn’t just turn me into a beautiful girl; the world line changed. I became a character who was born a beautiful girl.
You talked to my mom just now. Did you learn anything?”
To be honest, such a serious Chen Tang was rare. She must have realized the gravity of the situation.
So Liu Yan became serious too. “Your mom said you used to be like a boy—so it seems your past experiences didn’t change much, but you were considered a tomboy. And tonight, going out with me was treated as a date between the two of us. From what she said, she thinks we’re dating.
Because you didn’t act like a tomboy and instead dressed up and went on a date with me, she’s already gone out to play mahjong all night and told your dad not to come back. And she told me the nightstand in the master bedroom has what we need. We’re not kids anymore—you understand what she meant.”
Chen Tang was speechless. She rolled her eyes. “Normally, encountering something like this, a person would panic. But according to this situation, it doesn’t really affect me. Think about it—we’re already studying at the local university. We bike to school every day. We don’t live in the dorms; we stay at home. In that sense…
Turning into a beautiful girl just makes it easier for me to scam money online.”
“If you put it that way, I guess you’re not wrong.”
“Whatever, no big deal.”
Chen Tang lay directly on the bed. “Small problem! Maybe that meteorite is some kind of Golden Finger or something. If one day I become Homelander, you can just latch onto my thigh!”
“Sounds good.”
After a while, Liu Yan asked, “I heard girls have no cooldown on mining. Want to try it tonight?”
“Hey! You’re right!”
Chen Tang sat up immediately. “Don’t rush, I’ll go try it in the bathroom. You play games here for a while, and I’ll tell you when I get out.”
Then she really went to the bathroom.
Liu Yan took the chance to quickly escape from 3-3-3-2 and return to 3-3-3-1.
“Xiao Yan! You’re back from your date with Xiao Tang?”
Liu Yan saw his old father sitting on the couch. “How did it go?”
“You know what she’s like.”
His father’s expression became complicated. “Xiao Yan, you and Xiao Tang are childhood sweethearts—our two families are close—but Dad wants to give you some honest advice: if you can’t handle Xiao Tang, let her go… She’s not someone an ordinary person can control. Your dad here—now that I’m older, I don’t think I could handle it…”
Liu Yan could understand his father’s feelings.
That was Chen Tang!
The one who put a toad in the New Year’s Eve dinner when she was six, making both families run around in panic!
Although she got beaten badly in the end, she didn’t learn her lesson. At seven, she replaced the toad with a frog, saying, ‘This one isn’t gross, right?’
“I… I know what I’m doing.”
Liu Yan returned to his bedroom.
Then he opened his messaging app and sent the photo of the meteor he took tonight to a contact named “Sweetie.” “I caught a meteor tonight! I wonder if you saw it too! I miss you so much!”
After a gap of more than ten minutes, the other side replied, “I miss you too. But I’m going to sleep. Good night.”
Liu Yan quickly typed back, “Good night, good night~”
Then he lay on the bed, planning to play on his phone for a while before sleeping.
…
“Liu Yan? Girls don’t have no cooldown—girls have a very short cooldown!”
Chen Tang returned to her room and saw that Liu Yan was gone.
That bastard!
She thought of something.
“He must have gone back to being a lick dog!”
She remembered that Liu Yan got a girlfriend after starting college, and it had been half a year now… From what she heard, they’d only gotten to holding hands. What a useless guy… She was originally planning to steal her from him.
But now she had turned into this.
That bastard definitely went back to being a lick dog.
Hey, after this Mid-Autumn Festival break ends, I’ll go pretend to be his girlfriend and mess up his relationship!
A wicked smile spread across Chen Tang’s face. And that guy said his parents meant… they want him to be with me?
Sigh, just another Xiao Chunan.
He had such a good opportunity but didn’t take it?
Not that he would have gotten anything but my violent ‘hit’.
But on the other hand.
She stood up and looked at the mirror attached to the wardrobe. She had no idea why her parents had bought that wardrobe—it looked really creepy at midnight.
But it was useful now.
She looked at herself in the mirror.
Sleek, jet-black hair reaching her waist, delicate features like a masterpiece of creation, a slender figure giving off a fragile impression.
“I really turned into a girl! Hmm… a bit like Lin Daiyu. If I cosplay…”
She studied her body.
“How should I scam people’s money?”
Thinking, she opened the computer in her bedroom.
Then logged into her account.
Looking at her ID.
“Strawberry Soft Candy Bear.”
She smiled and dragged through her friends list.
Soon she gathered five people.
Then, the one who never turned on her mic before finally did today.
“Big brothers~ I can play support, can I play Yuumi?”
Then she heard several men’s surprised voices in her headset.
“Strawberry Soft Candy, you really are a girl! Come on! I’ll play Kayn, stick on me!”
“Dammit! I’m the ADC, what’s the point of Yuumi sticking on you?! Sis, I play Lucian, stick on me, I’ll carry the bottom lane.”
“With your skill level, just play Ezreal and farm. Watch me carry!”
A sinister smile crept onto Chen Tang’s face.
“Big brothers, don’t argue! Let’s just play the game nicely, okay?”
“Ah! My Yuumi doesn’t have a skin… I’ll switch heroes… The default skin is too ugly…”
“Sis! I’ll buy you one!”