The girl’s expression darkened. “This one doesn’t count.”
Immediately, she drew another card and slapped it onto the floor.
Dare: Challenge to swallow until suffocation for one minute, give your boyfriend the ultimate experience.
“This one doesn’t count either.” The girl gritted her teeth and drew again.
Dare: 10-minute endurance test, to see if your boyfriend can withstand your sharp tongue.
“This… let me draw again!”
Ji Yueniang, like a small loser failing her gacha pulls, entered a frenzy of wild card draws.
The following dares were all sorts of bizarre and unique, but the core was always centered on “verbal sparring,” “sweet words with hidden knives,” “war of words,” “silver tongue,” and “sharp wit.”
“Damn it!”
Ji Yueniang stared at the pile of more than half the cards scattered on the ground, like a shut-in gamer looking at an emptied gacha pool but never getting the character she wanted, burning with anger and on the verge of exploding.
Fuming, she pointed at the man’s nose. “Jiang Chi, are you messing with me on purpose?!”
To this, a certain dog-man whose tail could almost wag up to the sky, shrugged his shoulders with utter innocence, his blue eyes blinking, pure and harmless: “Weren’t you the one who asked me to play with you?”
“You!” Ji Yueniang ground her teeth so hard it seemed they might shatter.
“What about me?”
“I’ve played with you so many times, can’t I just enjoy it for once?”
The man put away his pure and innocent act, his face turning sly and playful. Facing Ji Yueniang in her “Ji Qingchan” disguise, she had the appearance of a pure and cute girl, yet inside she was rough and very spicy. Playing with her had its own special appeal, especially in this tug-of-war between desire and pride.
“No way, absolutely not.” Ji Yueniang shook her head desperately. “We’re just regular friends-with-benefits. If I really agreed, how would I be any different from your **… No way, absolutely not, this is not happening.”
“You say we’re friends-with-benefits.” Jiang Chi didn’t try to comfort her, but instead switched the topic.
“Right.”
“Then, the relationship between friends-with-benefits is equal, right?”
“Yes.”
“So, the last few times you just lay there while I did all the work to make you comfortable. Now, if I just sit and do nothing while you do the work to please me, isn’t that kind of mutual benefit reasonable?”
“Very reasonable.” Ji Yueniang was so dazzled by the logic that she nodded in confusion, a trace of bewilderment in her eyes.
When it came to the art of language, all her skill points were dumped into brute force—no match for this dog-man who had probably read through game theory more than once.
“So, come here.” The man turned slightly and patted his thigh gently, his posture both relaxed and inviting, as if there was an invisible tail swaying softly behind him.
Confused by his words, Ji Yueniang instinctively crawled forward, but as soon as she met those smiling blue eyes, it was as if cold water had been poured over her. She immediately sobered up, her head shaking wildly like a rattle-drum.
“No, no, this is not reasonable, absolutely not reasonable.”
“How is it unreasonable?” Jiang Chi raised his eyebrows slightly, staring intently at Ji Yueniang, his tone curious and puzzled.
Ji Yueniang was immediately stumped, her mouth opening but unable to come up with an answer.
Yet her attitude was unshakable—she absolutely refused to go any further. “It doesn’t matter, unreasonable is just unreasonable. That is impossible, absolutely impossible, don’t even think about it. We’re just pure and equal friends-with-benefits!!”
“Then what about last time…?”
The man, of course, had to bring up the sorest topic, and couldn’t help but recall those rosy scenes from the villa in his mind, making the girl’s face flush as red as the evening glow.
But she still kept yelling, “Last time was last time,” “You forced me that time,” “Absolutely not this time, not now, not ever again.”
In the end, Jiang Chi reluctantly gave in. He picked up the remaining cards, sorted out all the “mouth” related dares, and handed the deck back to Ji Yueniang, signaling her to draw again.
“Aren’t you a hand-fetishist? Since when did you start liking biting?” Ji Yueniang grumbled, unwillingly drawing another card.
Dare: Nighttime outing in a blindfold and women’s clothes.
“Want to pick another?” Noticing the girl’s slight tremble, Jiang Chi kindly offered a swap.
“No!” The girl shook her head fiercely, raising her swan-like neck to look at him, licking her dry red lips, a flash of longing in her eyes.
“Actually, I’ve always wanted to do cross-dressing outings. This dare hits my XP just right. Only you, Chi-bao, understand me.”
She stared at the dare card and swallowed.
“Um… Chi-bao, want to make it harder for me? Like in those novels on those indecent sites, maybe add some, you know, toys?”
“……” At this, Jiang Chi fell silent.
These dares and truth questions had all been customized by him for Ji Yueniang in private, with the goal of subtly probing her current level of feminization.
But from what he’d seen so far, Ji Yueniang saw TS, gender-bending, and feminization as a personal desire and kink—nothing that had sunk into her bones and soul.
*****
“Chi-bao, which looks better, this dress or this one?”
In the changing room, having switched back to her “dominant lady” mode, the tall beauty with flowing long hair was holding up two dresses, asking Jiang Chi for his opinion from a man’s perspective.
“Is there a difference?” The man glanced at the two similarly styled dresses and asked with rather little tact.
“Of course there is.” The beauty was displeased, glaring at him with almond eyes. “One is Valentino, the other is Balenciaga. Aren’t you a top student? How can you not even tell the difference?”
The man was speechless, but didn’t argue, instead changing the subject. “Then why are you going out with this face? Aren’t you afraid someone you know will spot you by accident?”
“What do you know.” Ji Yueniang looked at him with disdain.
“‘Ji Qingchan’ is the anima image in my heart. In other words, she’s the perfect girlfriend I daydreamed about. Would you let your own girlfriend go cross-dressing in public? But this ‘dominant lady’ mode is different.”
“Tall as one-eighty, fair-skinned, beautiful, long legs, and the face is ninety-nine percent similar to my original. Basically, this is my gender-bent version.”
She smoothed the long hair by her ear, cheeks flushing. “And cross-dressing in public is just to satisfy my own sense of shame and exhibitionism. If I wore ‘Ji Qingchan’s’ face, where’s the fun and thrill in it?”
After hearing Ji Yueniang’s lengthy lecture, Jiang Chi fell silent.
He’d never thought he’d ever use the word “extraordinary” for someone else.
But in a way, Ji Yueniang truly was extraordinary.
“Chi-bao, what are you spacing out for?” The crisp voice of the dominant lady sounded beside him. Ji Yueniang glanced at him.
“Go fetch me those studded Valentino heels from my shoe cabinet. I want to try them all on.”
*****
20:00, the real nightlife was just beginning. Against the backdrop of neon lights and wine-red glow, men and women laughed and sang in pairs. The street stalls were filled with all sorts of snacks, and distant neon signs cast a bewitching pink.