Chapter 318 315. Birthday
“Knock knock knock!”
“Coming, coming!”
A little after ten in the afternoon, An Han was watching TV on the sofa. Hearing the knocking, she hurried over in small steps without even putting on her slippers, running barefoot to the door.
She first opened it a crack, only revealing her eyes as she looked outside.
“Lin Yi, Kexin, you two came so early?”
Only then did she open the door fully and place the slippers Su Peng had bought that morning on the floor. “Come in, come in.”
“We came early to help.”
Lin Yi still had that energetic smile on her face. She raised the supermarket shopping bag in her hand and shook it. “We bought a lot of meat too. Definitely enough for us to eat.”
Behind her, An Kexin leaned out from the side and took out two gift boxes. Her eyes were full of curiosity and envy as she looked around An Han’s rented apartment. “And your birthday gifts.”
“Mm! Thanks!”
An Han casually accepted the boxes and placed them on the shoe cabinet beside the door.
“What would you like to drink? I have sugar-free Coke and Genki Forest.”
Su Peng couldn’t stand the taste of sugar-free Coke, so she had prepared other drinks for him. Today they could finally be used to entertain guests.
That afternoon, An Han had also gone to the supermarket and bought a pile of seafood and meat for hot pot. Together with what Lin Yi brought, there would probably still be leftovers even after dinner.
After welcoming the two girls inside, An Han placed two bottles of drinks on the table. When they all sat down on the sofa together, she suddenly didn’t know what to do next.
If male classmates came over, she would most likely watch anime or play games with them. But this was the first time she had hosted female classmates.
And although she was fairly familiar with these two girls, they basically had no interaction in daily life, so she didn’t know what they liked…
“Um…”
An Han felt a little awkward, but suddenly remembered why she had invited them.
“Wait a moment.”
She hurried into the bedroom and took out the System Item Inspection Report from the wardrobe drawer.
This item was the prop she used most often. Anyone who read the report would be hypnotized into accepting, with self-consistent logic, the fact that she was female. The side effects weren’t strong either.
Showing it to girls could help them grow their hair longer. Showing it to men didn’t produce any charm effect either—it was only a weakened version of Viagra.
“Take a look at this.”
An Han brought the inspection report out and placed it on the sofa.
“What’s this?” An Kexin leaned forward curiously. “A medical report? We can’t understand that.”
“You can. Don’t worry.”
Lin Yi picked up the report first and quickly scanned it. Soon, she raised her head to look at An Han with a somewhat surprised expression.
An Han’s heart tightened instantly.
She had used this item several times before. Every previous “victim” had shown a sudden look of realization. This was the first time she had seen such a strange, astonished expression.
Just like An Kexin’s right now.
Could the item not work on Lin Yi? Had she noticed something?
Feeling guilty, An Han instinctively became nervous. Her body stiffened slightly. She could only force an awkward but polite smile and ask in a small, uneasy voice:
“What’s wrong?”
Lin Yi’s eyes widened, full of curiosity and surprise. “I have two distant cousins whose situation is almost exactly the same as yours!”
“C-cousins?”
An Han froze and stared at Lin Yi with a confused expression.
Could it be that other people in this world also had systems?
And they even came from the same family?
Almost subconsciously, she asked the system in her mind, but received no response. Her system was dumber than artificial stupidity—it basically had no use except kicking her when she was down.
“Yeah, relatives from my great-uncle’s side. We don’t really keep in touch. I only heard about them.”
“Really…”
“One of them seems to be called Lin Nan. I forgot the other one.”
“That’s quite a coincidence.”
An Han secretly wondered if those two cousins had some other situation—maybe two systems in one body, or maybe they were born with congenital abnormalities and were assigned the wrong gender when they were young…
It couldn’t be that there were other systems too, right?
Now that they had a topic, An Han grew curious as well. She finally stopped feeling awkward, took out the snacks Su Peng had bought that morning, and while eating, asked Lin Yi about her two cousins.
Although she had seen novels, comics, and occasional news about such conditions online, this was the first time she had heard about her “kind” from someone so close in real life.
According to Lin Yi, her distant cousin named Lin Nan had gotten married two years ago. Lin Yi had even attended the wedding, and both the cousin and her husband were extremely good-looking.
That made An Han even more curious.
“Your family doesn’t have some kind of hereditary disease, right… This kind of thing rarely even appears in the news, yet two people in your family have it.”
“Maybe?” Lin Yi wasn’t sure either.
An Kexin suddenly chimed in from the side, “So Lin Yi might also be a boy?”
“If I were a boy… I’d trick you into bed!” Lin Yi suddenly pounced on her, grabbing An Kexin’s cheeks and kneading them. “A girl like you who’s soft and a bit silly—I could trick you and you’d even help me count the money!”
“No way~”
An Kexin was forced onto her back on the sofa, pinned under Lin Yi. Her cheeks were squeezed until her face looked distorted, making her voice sound strange.
The two of them seemed to be roommates, so this kind of playful fighting was pretty normal.
An Han silently lifted her hips and scooted a little farther away. In her heart, she completely agreed with Lin Yi’s words.
After all, An Kexin had been the one helping a guy pursue the girl he liked, acting as a wingman—yet somehow she herself became the wingman without realizing it… She had actually helped quite a lot in bringing An Han and Su Peng together.
Just as they were still messing around, the door was knocked again.
Lin Yi immediately became alert. She quickly climbed off An Kexin, pulled down the shirt that had ridden up during the scuffle to reveal her belly, and adopted a quiet, ladylike posture—legs together and tilted to one side, hands resting on her thighs.
An Kexin’s face had turned red from being pinched. She muttered unhappily, “Even if you pretend, you’re still a crazy woman.”
Ignoring their little quarrel, An Han jogged to the door and opened it. The first thing she saw was Su Peng standing outside.
Behind him were two of her dormmates, but Wang Sheng was missing.
“Didn’t Wang Sheng come?” An Han leaned into the hallway to look around, but unexpectedly noticed Wu Dongming standing on the staircase. “Oh! Dongming, why are you here?”
“….”
Wu Dongming didn’t say anything. Instead, Su Peng explained.
“Wang Sheng went out with his girlfriend yesterday afternoon and hasn’t come back yet.”
“Alright then…”
That guy wouldn’t have realized the “danger” and run away in advance, would he?
Looks like she’d have to handle the cleaning herself now…
“Come in, come in.”
An Han smiled and welcomed them inside, but her gaze kept drifting uncontrollably toward Wu Dongming.
This guy could chat freely with her online, but when meeting face-to-face he became shy like an innocent little boy.
“Xiao Han, gift.” Long Xing took off his shoes and directly handed An Han a thermos cup.
“Thanks.”
An Han casually accepted it, then looked at Chen Junjie.
Chen Junjie rolled his eyes at her. “Sent it to your Steam library. Crystal Maiden’s Arcana.”
“Nice~ That’s over a hundred yuan! Pretty generous!”
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