Chapter 300 297. So It Was Him!
When the two arrived at the classroom door, they discovered that Ren Chi was standing in the corridor, peering into the classroom through the window.
Seeing An Han and Su Peng, Ren Chi’s face darkened. “You only show up after roll call is finished! Hurry up and get inside!”
An Han hurried nervously to the classroom door and lightly knocked on the wooden door. After the unfamiliar middle-aged teacher signaled her, she walked up to the podium and told him her name.
Then she watched helplessly as a late mark was drawn behind her name on the attendance sheet.
It’s fine… two late marks only count as one absence…
She could feel the classmates’ gazes gathering on her. Slightly nervous, she lifted her head and glanced around at everyone, then followed Su Peng and sat down in the empty seats in the same row as Long Xing and Chen Junjie.
Most of the classmates’ eyes were still following her. Only after she sat down did the classroom suddenly sound like it had a thousand mosquitoes buzzing, the noise almost lifting the roof.
“Quiet! Quiet!”
The teacher on the podium tapped the desk with a triangle ruler.
An Han lowered her head and secretly observed the expressions of nearby classmates and the faces of her roommates. She didn’t notice anything particularly strange.
“Did she lose a truth-or-dare game or something?”
“She’s way too pretty!”
“You got turned that quickly?”
“Wasn’t An Han’s cross-dressing last time not this good-looking?”
Last semester An Han had already worn women’s clothing to class once, so this time the classmates’ reaction wasn’t as intense as she had imagined.
She barely let out a sigh of relief, but then began worrying about being discovered that she was actually a woman.
For people who didn’t know the truth, a man turning into a woman only had one explanation: gender dysphoria and sex-reassignment surgery. That was far harder for people to accept than simply being a femboy or a pretty boy.
An Han could already imagine the scene—classmates whispering, looking at her with strange eyes.
But she had already lost the necessary condition to keep pretending to be a boy—her chest was too big. Once summer arrived, it would definitely be exposed.
Hiding the truth wouldn’t solve the problem. It would only delay it.
She sighed and simply laid her head on the textbook, staring gloomily at the podium.
Actually, she wouldn’t care too much about classmates’ gossip or even discriminatory looks. After all, most of them didn’t interact with her much. What she worried about was whether the few friends she actually had would react the same way.
Just like Wu Dongming, who barely spoke to her anymore, and Chen Junjie, whose affection toward her had dropped after learning about her gender…
And there was also Wang Sheng.
【Wang Sheng: Favorability 45】
Last semester Wang Sheng’s favorability toward her had been over fifty, but now it had dropped to the low forties.
As for Wu Dongming…
【Wu Dongming: Favorability 21】
An Han had no idea what she had done to Wu Dongming, yet the favorability kept dropping rapidly.
She sighed again. Up until now, she had never told Su Peng about the system, yet she had confessed everything to Wu Dongming from the very beginning.
After all, he had been her best friend in college.
Unfortunately, now the word “former” had to be added to that description.
Among An Han’s former friends, only Long Xing still treated her the same as before. The others didn’t say anything directly, but they all had a subtle sense of distance now. The worst was Su Peng—his friendship with her had directly turned into a romantic relationship.
Feeling lifeless, she pressed her cheek against the desk, listening to the quiet discussions around her and feeling the various gazes directed at her, completely unable to focus on the lecture.
“An Han.”
With Su Peng sitting between them, Long Xing leaned forward and asked in a low voice, “Are you going to wear women’s clothes to class from now on?”
“Yeah.”
He looked a little worried. “Once or twice is fine, but if you wear it every day, won’t people start saying things?”
“What are you afraid of?” Su Peng cut in with a cheerful smile. “Beat them up once and they’ll know what they’re allowed to say and what they’re not.”
Long Xing froze for a moment and turned to look at Su Peng’s still gentle and friendly smile.
He had always thought Su Peng was a sunny and warm guy, even a bit of a people-pleaser. But what he just said didn’t quite match that image.
An Han, however, knew about Su Peng’s shady history as a little delinquent in middle and high school. She also knew how forceful he could be when he wanted to be. She raised her head and shot him a glare before ignoring him and lying back down on the desk.
At that moment, Ren Chi walked into the classroom.
He had clearly communicated with the course instructor beforehand. As soon as he arrived, the teacher greeted him with a smile and then moved to stand by the classroom door.
“Since it’s the beginning of the semester, there are some things I need to tell you all.”
“This semester our school is launching a ‘Civilized Campus’ campaign. Breakfast isn’t allowed in the teaching buildings, sleeveless shirts and slippers aren’t allowed either, the student union will patrol during breaks, smoking will be checked…”
An Han was already quite “civilized,” so aside from remembering not to bring breakfast into the building, there wasn’t much she needed to worry about.
She was listening half-heartedly to Ren Chi when she suddenly heard Chen Junjie whispering quietly:
“Why does the counselor’s back look kind of like the girl Long-ge likes?”
An Han’s heart instantly shot up into her throat!
Especially when Ren Chi turned around and wrote “Building a Civilized Campus” on the blackboard. She became even more nervous, afraid Long Xing would agree with Chen Junjie.
“How does it look alike? You just can’t stand seeing me happy.” Long Xing replied disdainfully. “My luck can’t be that bad, right?”
As he spoke, he turned his head and glanced at An Han’s tense little face, suddenly stunned.
“An Han, you obviously know that girl—why wouldn’t you tell me? Don’t tell me she’s actually a guy?”
“……”
Earlier Long Xing had thought An Han was just joking, but seeing her expression of not knowing how to explain, his own expression gradually stiffened.
“She’s really a guy?”
“Probably?” An Han answered uncertainly.
She hoped this information would make Long Xing give up, but she was also worried it might reveal Ren Chi’s identity.
“I told you those legs looked like a man’s. You just didn’t believe me.”
Chen Junjie’s “assist” made Long Xing completely believe An Han’s words.
But he still asked unwillingly, “Then who exactly is it? If you know him, I should know him too, right?”
“I really can’t say!” An Han shook her head rapidly.
“A guy, about 1.7 meters tall, thin legs, pretty skinny. Judging from the photo, probably around 110 pounds. And since he looks pretty in women’s clothing, he’s probably the clean and handsome type in men’s clothes too.” Chen Junjie analyzed seriously. “And he’s An Han’s friend, so there’s a high chance we know him too. Or we could check An Han’s circle of friends…”
The more An Han listened, the more panicked she felt.
“Could it be Wu Dongming?!” Su Peng suddenly asked in surprise.
An Han immediately broke into a bright smile.
“……”
The few of them looked at each other, then Long Xing and Chen Junjie hesitantly turned their heads to look toward the back of the classroom, at Wu Dongming who was sitting there with his chin propped on both hands, yawning sleepily.
Long Xing shook his head. “Doesn’t look like him.”
“Ghosts can be turned into people with makeup. Does resemblance matter?” Chen Junjie rubbed his chin, gradually becoming excited. “No wonder An Han refused to say it—turns out it’s her best friend~”
He had already dismissed the guess about Ren Chi, because he was the counselor, and normally that possibility seemed unlikely.
Oh nooo... I like where this is going 😏