Chapter 28 Chapter 28: The Culprit
The bathroom door opened. Su Yuan groped in the dark, pulled a tape measure from a drawer, and returned to measure her chest. The result shocked her. Her bust had grown three centimeters since the last time.
“No wonder it feels so swollen. It really grew three centimeters.”
She stared at the mirror with a strange expression. Her shirt was pulled up to the armpits, exposing most of her chest. With arched brows, bright eyes, delicate nose and ears, and cheeks faintly flushed, her face looked exquisitely pretty.
Her skin in the cool air was pale and smooth. Faint outlines of ribs showed between chest and abdomen. Her youthful chest, though not yet fully developed, already had the shape of a young woman.
The sight left her confused, shy, and curious. Was the person in the mirror truly herself.
For days she had measured her chest almost daily, noticing small increases. But never had it jumped three centimeters at once.
Before, she could only describe it as a slight rise. Now it had a definite shape.
Her gaze returned to the green jade. She held it under the bathroom light, staring intently.
It looked no different from ordinary jade. At least to her untrained eye.
She set it down, leaned against the marble sink, one arm folded across her chest, the other hand at her chin, legs crossed slightly, brows furrowed in thought.
Transformation itself was bizarre enough. Now this jade seemed equally strange.
Something abnormal must have a cause.
“The chance of two events happening together is unbelievably low.”
She looked again at the jade, sorting through the logic. “First the jade glowed and heated. Then a warm current entered my body. After that…”
Sweat.
Whole body fever.
The heat was strongest in her abdomen, radiating outward. Most intense was the private area, itching as if ants were biting.
Her chest swelled. Three centimeters larger.
“And that sudden urge to urinate.” She recalled with embarrassment. If she had not clamped her legs, she might have lost control.
“Could it be… this jade has the power to enlarge the chest and stimulate urination. If I ever run out of money, I could open a clinic for breast enhancement. As for urination, that is absurd.”
Suddenly her eyes widened. She shivered, horrified, and dropped the jade. “Could this jade be the culprit behind my transformation.”
Jade equals transformation.
Jade equals development.
The green stone seemed like a demon, its eerie glow like ghost fire.
If it truly caused her transformation, it was unbelievable. Could such a small object hold such power.
Thinking carefully, the timing of acquiring the jade matched the timing of her changes. And tonight it had clearly behaved strangely.
The conclusion was almost certain.
“This is insane. Not aliens, not genetic mutation, but a jade I bought by chance.”
Her anger turned toward the Taoist who had sold it.
The greatest hatred in life is being tricked into buying jade that changes your gender. “If I ever meet him again, I will beat him until he crawls on the ground.” She clenched her teeth and swore.
After a while, she picked up the jade again. It lay quietly, showing no odd behavior.
It only gave a soothing warmth, nothing aggressive.
Like a pet dog, soft and gentle in the arms, impossible to imagine as a fierce mastiff.
She knew it was dangerous, yet she still indulged in its comfort.
…
Su Yuan stayed in the bathroom nearly an hour. She wiped herself with a damp towel. Just as she wrung it dry, the door opened.
Ji Yehao entered. Su Yuan had already finished cleaning herself.
Seeing her at the sink, he asked in surprise. “Su Yuan, what are you doing here.” He looked her up and down. She did not seem to be using the toilet. Was she hiding here to think.
He saw the basin with a white towel, the jade, and a tape measure. She wore a loose thin shirt, arms bare, shorts hidden partly under the shirt, pale legs exposed.
From behind, her waist and hips showed graceful curves.
Combined with her reflection in the mirror, the sight was so alluring that Ji Yehao nearly had a nosebleed.
“She looks thinner…” he thought.
“Ah, Yehao, are you here to use the toilet.”
Su Yuan asked a foolish question.
To cover his embarrassment, Ji Yehao chuckled. “Yes, the thunder woke me. I came to the toilet. Were you woken too.”
Su Yuan nodded. Realizing her outfit was too revealing, she coughed lightly, picked up the basin, and left.
After she left, Ji Yehao touched his nose, dismissed the thought, finished his business, and returned to bed.
By four in the morning, Su Yuan lay comfortably under her blanket. She thought, if the jade was the culprit, then its function must be to push her toward becoming a complete form.
The hospital check had already confirmed her transformation was real. So the jade’s effect might only be to accelerate development, especially her chest.
She wondered if reverse thinking could undo the transformation and restore her to her former state.
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