Chapter 124 122. I Was Clearly the One Who Came First
The afternoon sports meet was just as lively as before.
But An Han sat quietly in a corner of the track, legs drawn up, arms wrapped around his calves, chin resting on his knees. Hidden in the shadows, only his eyes were visible as he stared gloomily ahead.
He watched the energetic students roughhousing, watched the athletes sprinting down the track. Yet his slightly pale face suddenly flushed a deep red.
He lowered his head, burying his entire face between his knees and arms.
That tingling, numbing sensation—an almost suffocating pleasure—lingered inside his body like a demon clinging to him.
After a moment, the sensation gradually faded. An Han discreetly glanced at his crotch and let out a sigh of relief.
“Good thing… I haven’t turned into a girl yet.”
“Maybe it’ll happen when the mission time limit ends? Or maybe there’s some other process?”
“But even if I haven’t turned into a girl, my eighteen centimeters look like a caterpillar now.”
He muttered softly to himself, comforting his own heart. “It’s fine. Think positively—if I turn into a girl, at least I won’t have to go to the proctology department, right?”
“I’m just worried I’ll end up in gynecology…”
He exhaled lightly, forcefully pushing Su Peng’s figure out of his mind. His gaze grew firmer.
“Even if I turn into a woman, I won’t give in! I’ll keep finding ways to fight the system, find a way to turn back into a man! I absolutely can’t let the system mislead me into thinking I like Su Peng!”
“At the very least, I have to stay psychologically healthy and normal—”
Suddenly, he heard footsteps. He quickly shut his mouth and turned his head.
It was Su Peng!
Joy flashed through his heart—only to be replaced instantly by panic.
He sprang up deftly and turned his back, walking away from Su Peng.
He had already decided to give up on the sports meet anyway, so there was no need to care about Su Peng’s thoughts, and no need to keep pretending to be enthusiastic and interacting with him.
Su Peng looked at his graceful retreating figure and sighed in distress.
“So I really did scare him… what should I do now?”
“And he kept insisting he doesn’t like men…”
Then why did he seem pretty happy when we were spending time together recently?
Su Peng helplessly turned and walked back to the class gathering area, his expression troubled.
“Su Peng, where’s An Han?” Counselor Ren Chi walked over leisurely and stopped beside him. “Why did he disappear right after roll call? It’s almost time for your event.”
“Over there.” Su Peng pointed toward the distant ping-pong court, where a figure could be faintly seen sitting on a table. He added, “An Han said he’s not participating.”
“???”
Ren Chi looked at him with a head full of question marks. “What happened?”
“We had an argument… he’s angry.”
It probably counted as an argument, right?
Su Peng felt a little guilty. He couldn’t exactly tell the counselor that An Han stopped talking to him after being forcibly kissed—that would likely get him escorted straight to the police station.
Ren Chi froze, curiosity piqued. “How did you two end up arguing?”
He clearly remembered that Su Peng and An Han had a great relationship; during the National Day holiday, the two were always hanging out together.
“This…”
“Hurry up and find a substitute partner to run with you,” Ren Chi said impatiently, frowning as he shoved Su Peng by the shoulder. “Go. Don’t affect the competition.”
Su Peng stumbled from the push, then scratched his head helplessly. “Alright.”
Originally, if An Han wasn’t participating, he didn’t plan to either. But seeing how much Ren Chi seemed to value this competition, he could only obediently go grab a temporary teammate.
Ren Chi, on the other hand, was simmering with anger. An Han had promised him long ago that he would participate in the sports meet, yet now, at the last minute, he was backing out.
Meanwhile, An Han sat on the ping-pong table in a daze, his calves dangling in midair and gently swaying. Suddenly, he felt an angry gaze on him. Turning his head, he saw Ren Chi striding toward him aggressively.
This…
He’s here to question me.
An Han had no interest in doing anything right now. His mind was filled with fear and anxiety about turning into a woman. He glanced at Ren Chi, then lowered his head again, dejected.
“Explain,” Ren Chi said as he came to a stop in front of him. “The race is in half an hour. You say you’re not participating just like that?”
“Mm…”
An Han kept his head lowered and responded softly, looking dispirited.
Seeing his absent-minded state, the anger Ren Chi had just built up eased a little. He leaned against the ping-pong table, arms crossed, his tone gentler.
“What did you fight with Su Peng about? You look like you’ll never speak to each other again.”
“I… anyway, we just argued.” An Han turned his head aside. “Brother Ren, I want to move out and live on my own.”
“No!”
【Ren Chi’s affection toward you -5】
“Alright then…”
As expected, skipping the competition caused the counselor’s affection toward him to drop.
Affection levels probably had a threshold every ten points. Ren Chi’s affection for him had been a bit over seventy; after the decrease, it was now only in the low sixties. Requests that might have been approved before were now completely out of the question.
An Han had anticipated this outcome long ago and let out another mournful sigh.
He was about to turn into a woman, yet he still had to live among a group of guys… Thankfully, becoming female would probably only change his physiology, not his outward appearance too much.
As long as no one saw him squatting to use the toilet or barged in while he was showering, it should be mostly fine.
His only real worry was that after becoming female, the pheromones he gave off might become much stronger…
“If you live on your own and something happens, I’ll be fully responsible, you know?” Ren Chi said, still wearing that “I’m doing this for your own good” expression.
“I know…”
At that moment, the loudspeaker announced, “Participants in the two-person tied-leg race, please proceed to the 100-meter starting line to prepare.”
An Han lifted his head and looked toward the starting line, where Su Peng was walking over. He then noticed An Kexin following closely behind him with quick little steps.
His eyes narrowed slightly as he curled his lips in disdain.
Damn it! That scumbag!
He force-kissed me and then immediately went off to flirt with another girl!
Ren Chi also noticed Su Peng and nodded with satisfaction. “Looks like it works fine even without you.”
“……”
Those words made An Han’s gaze toward Su Peng turn even colder.
【Mission completed. Reward obtained: Advanced Mind-Reading Skill】
The referee was already confirming the participants, and the system issued its completion notification.
An Han had no interest in studying any so-called magic. His eyes were locked firmly on Su Peng in the distance, his fingers unconsciously tightening against his thigh.
“Why are you pinching my leg—are you crazy?” Ren Chi, standing beside him, cried out in pain and jumped several steps away.
“Pinching my own leg hurts.”
“You have no manners toward your counselor at all!”
Ren Chi glared at him and walked off.
Looks like with affection still in the sixties, Ren Chi’s impression of me is still pretty good. Otherwise, after I pinched his leg, he wouldn’t have responded in such a half-joking way.
An Han’s gloomy gaze continued following Su Peng. He saw that Su Peng had already tied his leg together with An Kexin’s, standing with the other contestants in the middle of the track, fully prepared.
That spot should have been mine…
Suddenly, he felt a bit of regret.
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A transitional chapter.
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