“How does it feel?”
Cai Xiaotong asked the two beauties who had returned about their feelings regarding the cosplay costumes on their bodies.
“It feels pretty good.”
Ning Mu answered truthfully.
Although she did not watch anime and did not really understand what cosplay was, she truly and clearly knew that she looked very good wearing this outfit.
Just earlier, when she had finished changing in the small room and looked in the mirror, even she herself had been stunned.
It was as if she had become another person.
If not for her own signature face, she probably would not have been able to recognize herself.
In the past, although she had also been very beautiful, the study pressure during the three years of high school had been too great.
Even when people saw a beautiful girl, they would only be surprised for a moment or two before putting their focus back on studying.
But today, when she appeared at the anime convention venue wearing this cosplay costume, visitors continuously cast their gazes of attention toward her and crowded over to look at her.
At the very beginning she had been a bit at a loss, but gradually she began to enjoy this feeling, proactively striking poses and taking photos with the visitors who came for photo requests.
This feeling of being praised and recognized by everyone made her feel a bit of pleasure.
This kind of positive mood was something she had not experienced for a long time since Lin Ye’s death.
“It really is not bad. The quality of this outfit is very high, and it also looks very beautiful on me.”
Bai Yurou also praised.
“Of course. After all, this was something I specially had someone custom-made.”
Cai Xiaotong put her hands on her hips and said proudly. She seemed very happy about Bai Yurou’s recognition.
“Just in time. I myself am already dazzling enough. Just earlier quite a few people specifically came because of me and bought doujinshi.”
“Yurou, Ning Mu, can you two stay here for a while? With your looks that are not inferior to mine, I believe this booth will quickly become the most popular booth in the entire anime convention, and my doujinshi will also be sold out very quickly.”
Cai Xiaotong requested the two of them to act as her poster girls.
“So you tempted me into wearing the cosplay costume just to attract popularity for you?”
Bai Yurou seemed to have discovered some tremendous secret and threw out her question with a teasing tone.
After all, she had already subconsciously started thinking of Cai Xiaotong in the direction of being black-bellied, so she could not help but suspect whether this was something Xiaotong had designed long ago.
Actually, Bai Yurou had no intention of blaming her. She was just a bit curious.
Who would have known that the moment these words left her mouth, she would feel regret—the atmosphere abruptly changed.
The surrounding noisy sounds seemed to have been cut off by an invisible hand.
The hot midsummer day seemed to have instantly become a few degrees colder, and even the bright lights of the anime convention appeared a bit gloomier.
The moment Cai Xiaotong heard these words, the cheerful smile on her face instantly froze, then transformed into a wronged expression.
She looked like a puppy that had done something wrong, tucking its tail, ears drooping, her wet eyes filled with panic, and she hurriedly explained with a whimpering tone:
“Yurou, I did have that thought, but more than that, I wanted to see what you looked like wearing the cosplay costume.”
“Today I truly wanted to invite you out to play. After all, you are one of the few online friends I’m closest to. Moreover, I didn’t know you before. The moment I saw you, I felt you were very beautiful and very cute, and wanted you to try my cosplay costume—this is the main reason.”
She seemed truly afraid that Bai Yurou would misunderstand her, and hurriedly added:
“I did think that if you could wear this outfit, many people would definitely be attracted over by your looks, but this was only a request. Yurou, if you’re not willing, then forget it. I guarantee I absolutely did not scheme against you.”
Bai Yurou had not expected that a question of hers that was almost like a joke could make Cai Xiaotong react so intensely.
It seemed that the loli in front of her, although on the surface optimistic, cheerful, and rough around the edges with a bit of black-belliedness mixed in, actually cared a lot about her relationships with others.
“Alright, that sentence of mine just now was only a joke. Sorry, Xiaotong. I apologize to you.” Bai Yurou hurriedly explained. It seemed that in the future when interacting with Xiaotong, she needed to pay more attention and not casually suspect her again.
“You want to invite me to be a poster girl. Of course I have no objections. After all, you invited me to wear the cosplay costume today, and you’re also treating me to dinner tonight.”
Hearing that Bai Yurou did not seem to truly blame her, Cai Xiaotong finally let out a breath of relief.
She was truly afraid—afraid that she would once again, just like in the past, lose this good friend she had only just made because of her own self-righteousness and lack of boundaries.
“Then what about you, Ning Mu? Can you help me with this favor? Look, I don’t have many of my books left. As long as they’re sold out, I won’t trouble you anymore, and you can continue walking around the anime convention.”
After all, she was inviting the two of them to help her attract popularity. Since Bai Yurou had agreed, she naturally also needed to obtain Ning Mu’s agreement.
Because of that joke-like questioning from Bai Yurou just now, Cai Xiaotong’s current tone had lost the energy and confidence from earlier and become much more humble.
Being refused is also very normal. After all, she’s Dandan-jie’s good best friend, not mine. We’ve only just gotten to know each other.
Cai Xiaotong thought.
“Alright.”
Unexpectedly, Ning Mu agreed.
Originally she had been brought out to play by Zhao Dandan, yet now Zhao Dandan had abandoned her to go play by herself.
In that case, she would just follow Bai Yurou and Cai Xiaotong.
Moreover, she was not an otaku to begin with, so she naturally did not have any great obsession with walking around the anime convention. Staying here was just fine.
“Thank you.”
Cai Xiaotong put her hands together and thanked the two of them.
Just as Cai Xiaotong had expected.
With three absolute beauty cosplayers sitting at the booth, Cai Xiaotong’s booth instantly attracted quite a few people.
Many people would use buying doujinshi as an excuse in order to take photos with the three beauties.
Under the efforts of the three of them, in less than an hour, Cai Xiaotong’s doujinshi were completely sold out.
During this period, Cai Xiaotong also recommended Magical Girl Witch Trial to quite a few visitors who had never played it and had simply been attracted by the three of them’s looks.
Even the poster girl Ning Mu standing to the side was attracted by Cai Xiaotong’s recommendation speech and silently memorized this name.
She was also very curious what kind of person the girl she was cosplaying as was.
“I’m so tired. This is the first time I’ve sold out my own doujinshi this quickly.”
After finishing her main mission for coming to the anime convention, Cai Xiaotong said.
“Yurou, Ning Mu, thank you both.”
Cai Xiaotong once again thanked the two of them.
Seeing that Cai Xiaotong was still putting on such a polite appearance, Bai Yurou helplessly smiled: “Xiaotong, actually you don’t need to be so polite. We’re good friends.”
It seemed that the unintentional joking words from earlier had hurt her a lot.
She had probably experienced similar things in the past that had hurt her.
On the other side, Ning Mu also let out an “mm.”
“Since my mission is also completed, then let’s go walk around the other booths. We can also look for Dandan-jie while we’re at it.”
As an illustrator, Cai Xiaotong normally liked to sell her own doujinshi at anime conventions.
Although she could attract quite a few visitors with that loli face of hers, every time she still had to wait until near the end before selling out, and sometimes she could not even sell them all.
As a result, today, because of Bai Yurou and Ning Mu’s help, the anime convention had not even reached halfway yet and she had already closed her booth.
She also had enough time to walk around the other booths.