Free Web NovelThe morning sun, carrying a hint of warmth, shone upon her body, while the scent of green grass and the faint moisture of evaporating dew lingered in the air.
Lu Yibei, facing east and bathed in the morning sun, froze in place, her mind filled with question marks.
Lu Yibei, bathed in the morning sun, had her mind full of question marks.
What the heck? What happened? What should I do?
Didn't they say that bathing in the morning sun would restore me to my original form?
Why is the actual result inconsistent with the description?
She originally thought that being able to briefly experience life as a beautiful girl, and then returning to normal, was like having a seven-day May Day holiday, which was incredibly refreshing.
However, reality told her that everything comes at a price.
The beautiful girl experience card expired, and she followed the 'instructions' but didn't return to her original form. It was like a seven-day holiday being changed to three days, with required compensatory days off, making the 'refreshment' suffocating.
Lu Yibei looked down at her hands.
Those delicate, fair fingers seemed to be whispering to her, "Don't look at us, we're not the problem, you are. Your original form was like this!"
It was exactly like buying something inconsistent with the description on Pinduoduo, and the after-sales customer service being perfunctory, evasive, and playing tai chi.
"Original form my foot! Don't I know what my original form was like?"
Lu Yibei cursed under her breath, her mood involuntarily becoming heavy as she thought about the various situations she might face next.
Leaving aside the various troubles in the distant future, even now, a huge crisis was rapidly approaching her.
Seriously, in a daze, Lu Yibei even saw lines of scarlet WARNINGs flying around in front of her eyes, without any FBI disclaimer.
She had previously arranged to meet Nanling Yaohua and Su Mi today to book a restaurant for their graduation dinner, but in her current appearance, she absolutely could not show up in front of them.
Not to mention whether Nanling Yaohua could accept her boyfriend suddenly becoming a sister.
And let's not talk about how, in her youthful recklessness, she had sworn an oath with Su Mi that if either of them turned into a beautiful girl, the other brother would definitely get to enjoy it first.
Just thinking about how to explain this situation to them made Lu Yibei's cheeks burn, and countless possibilities and endings flashed through her mind like playing a galgame.
...
If she pretended to be sick, Nanling Yaohua would definitely drop everything and rush over to see her immediately.
At that time, if she took out the spare key, opened the door, and walked in to see a strange beautiful girl in the room, she would likely make this strange beautiful girl swallow the humidifier that Gu Qianqian failed to swallow.
【The End. Caught Cheating at Home】
If she contacted Su Mi first, asked Su Mi to help cover for her and buy time, and then tried to find a way to return to her original form, two different situations would arise.
Branch Line 1: Su Mi eagerly comes to Lu Yibei's house and demands she fulfill her oath.
【The End. Brother's 'Bullfighting' Carnival】
Branch Line 2: Su Mi's acting is clumsy, his phrasing is inappropriate, and his lie is exposed by Nanling Yaohua.
【The End. Brothers Walking the Road to the Underworld】
...
Lu Yibei spent more than ten minutes, using her usual galgame-playing mindset, hypothesizing over a dozen endings, and found that she currently had no way to achieve a "happy end."
It was as if an incredibly sharp long sword was hanging over her head, inscribed with words like 【Social Death】, 【Mental Breakdown】, 【Life Derailed】, 【No Longer Human】...
That sword could fall at any moment, and once it fell, her existence as the identity "Lu Yibei" would be shattered into pieces and vanish from this world.
"Damn! What kind of garbage is this game?!"
Therefore, people who seek realism in games and try to apply it to reality have problems in their heads.
Do you really think that just because you've played hundreds of romance simulation games, you can actually find a girlfriend? Girls in reality are much more complicated than in games!
You tell her, "Post-partum care for sows should start before giving birth." She might still, without fail, turn it into, "Do you not love me anymore?"
"According to common tropes, in this situation, unless an omnipotent heavenly maiden suddenly appears, I'm probably only heading for a dead end, right?"
Lu Yibei muttered to herself, looking up at the eastern sky.
The sun had completely risen, and her dream of returning to her original form...
was utterly shattered.
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A moment later.
Under the bright morning sun, the large house was unusually quiet.
It was so quiet that it felt as if the small vendors who usually collected furniture and appliances in the courtyard, the big brothers who pedaled tricycles selling fresh vegetables, and the grandmas who sold handmade steamed buns were all on holiday.
Even the elderly people doing morning exercises and the children playing seemed to have disappeared.
In her ears, only the gentle "tick-tock" sound of the living room wall clock's hands turning could be heard.
In the bedroom, Lu Yibei lay on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling, lost in thought, like a salted fish that had lost its dreams.
The "tick-tock" of the wall clock kept reminding her that time was slowly approaching the agreed-upon meeting time.
With a rustling sound, Coat snuggled up to her, rubbing against her cheek as if to comfort her.
Devil Woman, are you not feeling well?
(｡•ˇ‸ˇ•｡)
Lu Yibei sighed silently, turned her head to look at Coat, and mumbled, "Coat, do you know what I'm thinking right now?"
Coat sat obediently beside her like a well-behaved elementary school student, raising its hood, nodding gently twice, and then slowly shaking its head.
Lu Yibei stroked Coat's hood, saying listlessly, "I'm thinking, I wish the end of the world would suddenly come right now."
If it were the end of the world, would anyone still care if "Lu Yibei" had turned into a beautiful girl?
I just hope that where I'm buried, there isn't a particularly enthusiastic neighbor. I have mild social anxiety, and I'm worried... ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
Worried that the neighbor won't be able to stand me and will put on a resurrection armor overnight, flash away, and move their grave. Lu Yibei thought.
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It's impossible for the world to suddenly end without warning; some things still have to be faced.
So-called growth is about accepting any situation that happens in life.
Lu Yibei felt that she had grown when she prepared to send messages to Nanling Yaohua and Su Mi, and attempted to bluff her way through to buy a day or two to find a way to return to her original form.
She crawled to the bedside table, mustered her courage, picked up her phone from the table, and as soon as she unlocked the screen, she frowned.
Something seemed wrong.
In the upper right corner of the phone screen, the three icons for cellular signal, WiFi signal, and battery indicator were neatly arranged, but none of them were normal!
Cellular signal: None.
WiFi signal: None.
Battery... can twelve percent battery level be called normal?
In today's world, charging a phone with a low battery is no longer just charging for some people; it's extending their life!
Looking at the worrying battery level, Lu Yibei quickly got out of bed and walked to the desk.
The moment she watched the data cable plug smoothly enter the phone's body, she felt completely relieved, as if every part of her body was cheering, celebrating this wonderful moment.
However...
The wonderful notification sound that the phone was charging did not ring as expected, and Lu Yibei instantly fell from heaven to hell.
"What's going on?"
Lu Yibei picked up the phone, switched to a different data cable, and plugged it into the phone, but the charging notification sound still didn't ring.
So, after using different data cables to enter the phone's body in rotation, she looked at the upper right corner of the screen, lost in thought.
No cellular signal, no WiFi signal, and it won't charge... freēwēbnovel.com
Could it be that this broken phone is damaged?
This phone was originally her phone, a backup found after her body's terrifying high temperature caused her previous phone to explode.
It's perfectly normal for a phone that has been idle for so long to have issues during use.
If that's the case, I can only log in to a certain goose social software on the computer first and send messages to Xiao Hua or Su Mi... Lu Yibei thought.
While thinking, she pulled out a chair, sat down at the desk, and turned on the computer.
One minute later.
As a certain goose social software popped up a login failed dialog box, Lu Yibei frowned, her gaze slowly shifting to the network connection icon in the lower right corner of the screen.
In the lower right corner, on the icon shaped like a small computer, there was a bright red cross, indicating that there was an abnormality in the network connection.
"Strange, how could this happen?"
If the computer also has a network connection abnormality, then it's very likely not just a problem with the backup phone.
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But...
Under what circumstances would there be simultaneous loss of internet, power, and cell phone signal?
Could it be that I spoke it into existence, and the world is really ending? Lu Yibei thought jokingly, then immediately got up and walked towards the main door.
She prepared to check the power distribution box in her home.
Leaving aside the issue of the mobile phone signal, if the power distribution box tripped, it could also cause loss of internet and power.
She took the key to the power distribution box from the shoe cabinet in the hallway, opened the door, and opened the power distribution box in the corridor.
Seeing the indicator light off inside the power distribution box and the electric meter stopped, Lu Yibei frowned. "Did the power go out? Why wasn't there any notice before?"
"Or was there some sudden incident that caused a temporary power outage?"
She muttered softly to herself, locked the power distribution box again, and retreated back into the house.
"Knock knock knock... Knock knock knock..."
Lu Yibei had just closed the door and hadn't even left the hallway when a knocking sound reached her ears, and her heart immediately jumped into her throat.
How could she meet anyone looking like this?
Even if the person outside was Granny Wang again, it was impossible to open the door wearing a bathrobe, right? Being in the middle of a bath twice in a row would be too coincidental.
But if she didn't wear a bathrobe, she couldn't hide the fact that her figure was abnormally meager compared to Ms. Wang Meili's.
The difference in their figures was roughly the difference between the Gobi Desert and the Mount Tai mountain range.
"Knock knock knock... Knock knock knock..." The knocking continued.
Lu Yibei suddenly sensed something was wrong and narrowed her eyes slightly.
The knocking sound was very light and faint, as if someone wanted to knock but was afraid the sound would be too loud and startle something.
"..."
Xiao Hua's house has my spare key, so she wouldn't knock.
This kind of knocking sound couldn't be Granny Wang, Su Mi, or the neighbors in the compound; they wouldn't be so reserved or so cautious.
But if it wasn't them, who could it be?
Lu Yibei thought doubtfully, leaned against the door, and looked out through the peephole.
Then...
She saw a pair of clear, bright, wide-open eyes and heard a faint call coming through the door.
"Lu Yibei... Lu Yibei... Are you home? Can you let me in?"
Damn! In broad daylight, what kind of ghostly stuff is this?
Wait, this voice sounds a bit familiar... It seems to be Gu Qianqian?
She just discovered she had a fiancé yesterday, and unexpectedly, she showed up today.
Realizing that the person outside was Gu Qianqian, Lu Yibei's face immediately turned red.
Before reading Gu Xinian's diary, she could still treat Gu Qianqian as a ghostly girl or a big trouble who always wanted to scheme against her.
However, after knowing that Gu Qianqian was the childhood sweetheart arranged by her Old Dad, seeing Gu Qianqian again, her mindset suddenly underwent a subtle change.
This feeling was like suddenly realizing that the girl she usually bickered with, fought with, and generally didn't get along with, was actually secretly in love with her.
Simply put, it was shyness, awkwardness, and being at a loss.
Under the onslaught of intense shyness and awkwardness, Lu Yibei's body temperature uncontrollably rose, and soon a few wisps of white smoke drifted from the top of her head.
"Pfft—!"
The next moment, she heard a scream from outside the door.
Through the peephole, she could see Gu Qianqian suddenly jumping back a step, stumbling a few times, and falling to the ground, her small hands looking as if they had been scalded with boiling water, her palms red and full of blisters.
Lu Yibei's gaze slowly moved down to her hands pressing against the door, and her eye twitched.
As her body temperature soared, the security door had... turned red hot.
Lu Yibei, "..."
This... shouldn't count as domestic violence, right?
—
A moment later, in Lu Yibei's home, in the living room.
"I'm going to poke it in, okay? Just bear with it, it'll only hurt for a moment."
"No, no! It's my first time, I'm not mentally prepared!"
Lu Yibei put down the disinfected acne needle in her hand, looked at Gu Qianqian sideways, and said irritably, "What kind of psychological preparation do you need for popping blisters? Just grit your teeth and bear it!"
When burns cause blisters, theoretically, after disinfection, the blisters should be broken to allow for sufficient drainage and prevent the wound from becoming infected by the blister fluid, deepening the wound, and affecting wound healing.
Considering that others couldn't see Gu Qianqian and going to the hospital would be useless, Lu Yibei could only do it herself.
"But, just thinking about it hurts..." Gu Qianqian weakly retorted.
"..." Lu Yibei pondered for two seconds, then said seriously, "How about this! I'll find you some painkillers first, guaranteed to work with one pill! It won't hurt after you take it."
"How about I help you deal with the blisters then?"
"Hmm..." Gu Qianqian pouted and quietly asked, "Is that medicine you mentioned bitter?"
"Don't worry, it's not bitter, it's sweet!" Lu Yibei said.
How could calcium milk tablets be bitter... Lu Yibei secretly added in her heart.
"Eh? Really?" Gu Qianqian's eyes lit up. "Then, then can I have one more?"
Lu Yibei, "..."
My Old Dad, what exactly did you see in her? Couldn't you have been more selective?
She doesn't even doubt that the painkiller is sweet, nor does she doubt whether I really plan to give her painkillers, and she even wants two tablets.
It's a good thing I don't have any ** on hand, otherwise I would have knocked her out on the spot, and then I could have unscrupulously, completely disregarding her feelings... Hehehe! Popped her blisters for her. Lu Yibei thought.
Completely unaware that Lu Ming was using the "I'll take them all, no need to choose" strategy, Lu Yibei, after complaining in her heart for a couple of sentences, got up expressionlessly, walked to the bedroom, took two calcium milk tablets, returned, and handed them to Gu Qianqian.
Gu Qianqian looked at the "painkillers" in Lu Yibei's hand, then at her hands full of blisters, and said pitifully, "Um, in my current state..."
Lu Yibei rolled her eyes and interrupted, "Got it, open your mouth!"
As she spoke, she picked up a calcium milk tablet and brought it to Gu Qianqian's slightly opened mouth.
"Awwm—!"
Subtly smelling the sweet scent of the calcium milk tablet, Gu Qianqian couldn't wait and took a bite, including both the calcium milk tablet and Lu Yibei's finger, into her mouth.
Since she had secretly run away from Lu Yibei's house last time, she hadn't eaten for two days.
A warm, moist sensation suddenly came from her fingertip, and Lu Yibei's body instantly stiffened.
She stared blankly at the girl in front of her, only to see Gu Qianqian also tilting her head and looking at her, the seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl's entire face was rosy.
Both pretty and rosy.
Her big eyes, full of spiritual energy, her eyelashes fluttering, were as bright as a baby's, looking extremely pure.
Her rosy lips held Lu Yibei's finger, her face slightly puffed up, making her small round face a bit more charmingly naive and heartwarming.
Lu Yibei, "..." Who am I, where am I, what should I be doing?
Gu Qianqian, "..." Why hasn't the Disaster given it to me yet? Is she playing tricks on me again?
Seeing that Lu Yibei didn't move for a long time, Gu Qianqian, who was skilled at using her mouth, slightly furrowed her brows, felt that something was fishy, and then made up her mind to "snatch" that sweet painkiller from Lu Yibei's hand.
So, her soft tongue was like a nimble little snake, Drillinto the gap between Lu Yibei's fingertips, and she flicked it slightly.
The next moment, Lu Yibei's body surface emitted astonishing heat.
"Pfft—!"
Accompanied by a slight sound like pork being put into a red-hot iron pot, a scream echoed in the room.
"Ah—!"
The scream stung her eardrums, and Lu Yibei suddenly came back to her senses, looked at Gu Qianqian, and her eye twitched.
She saw Gu Qianqian looking at her with teary eyes, and in her slightly open mouth, there was a large blister on her tongue.
"Wuwu, you, you lied, your painkiller isn't a painkiller at all..." Gu Qianqian said indistinctly.
Is it my fault? I did tell you to open your mouth, but I didn't tell you to hold it! Lu Yibei rubbed her forehead.
"Stop talking quickly, look at your mouth, what has it become... At worst, I'll make you a good meal later?"
Hearing this, Gu Qianqian remembered the extraordinarily delicious roasted pig trotters that Lu Yibei had made before, hesitated for a moment, then held up five fingers and said indignantly, "I want five meals of roasted pig trotters!"
Lu Yibei, "..."
What kind of ingredient is this pig trotter...? It's not some urban legend, is it?
