The Clothes Crisis and a Stubborn Soul

Huang Xiu was rolling back and forth on the bed.

On the other side, Huang Xiaoxian was looking around under the table, as if searching for something.

Soon, the small green ball’s eyes lit up. It found its target.

It toddled on its short legs, huffing and puffing, to the windowsill, then lightly jumped up.

“Good brother, let’s talk. Make room for me, okay?” Huang Xiaoxian said to the spider plant on the windowsill.

The spider plant: “……”

“Alright, since you’re not saying anything, I’ll take it as agreement.” Huang Xiaoxian nodded contentedly. “Truly a good brother.”

The spider plant: “……” MMP.

“I’m coming in now!”

With that, it jumped into the flowerpot and burrowed its lower half into the soil.

“Ah, home sweet home! This is the feeling of home!” Huang Xiaoxian squinted its eyes comfortably.

Although the outside world was nice, soil was still the most comfortable.

Watching Huang Xiaoxian’s funny antics, Huang Xiu, who was lying on her side, burst out laughing.

“Be careful, or I’ll mutate it and make you two fight in an octagon.”

“Hmph, I’m not scared!”

Huang Xiaoxian acted tough, but it still quietly moved aside to give the spider plant more room.

After playing around, Huang Xiu was a bit tired. She turned onto her back, folded her hands behind her head, and fell into thought.

The second round of exams wouldn’t start until tomorrow. For check-in, she just needed to go in the afternoon, it wouldn’t take much time.

So she had plenty of time today.

“So what to do later?”

Go online?

Huang Xiu shook her head.

No, the exam was tomorrow. If she indulged in pleasure and lost her ambition, what if she failed?

And whenever she thought of League of Legends, Shi Lei’s face with pursed lips and closed eyes would flash before her.

It instantly killed her desire to play games.

Maybe just sleep? She hadn’t slept well last night anyway.

That’s settled!

Huang Xiu happily made her decision.

She was going to catch up on sleep. Last night she hadn’t slept well, waking up in the middle of the night because of the base relocation.

Although Huang Xiu had planned her next steps, man proposes, God disposes.

She was ganked by that old geezer Professor Yuan!

“What?! Buy clothes???”

In a rather luxurious restaurant, a slightly panicked girl’s voice suddenly rang out.

Huang Xiu shook her head frantically like a rattle-drum, crossing her arms in an X gesture.

“No, no way, dame, I don’t agree!”

What a joke!

Buy clothes! And women’s clothes at that!

Even though her gender was now female, she still had a soul as steel-like as a man’s.

This was as shameful as making her cross-dress as a sissy.

And even before the transformation, she hated shopping for clothes. She mostly bought a few sets online and wore them in rotation.

“Ahem, Student Huang, keep your voice down!” Yun Ning coughed lightly, cupping his right fist in front of his mouth.

Although he didn’t care about the stares of those around, Huang Xiu’s high-pitched outburst had indeed startled others.

“Ah?”

Belatedly, Huang Xiu realized their table had become the focal point of the restaurant’s attention.

The nearby customers were all looking at them.

But they didn’t show any disgust or aversion, more curiosity.

A few young ladies even covered their mouths and giggled.

Huang Xiu had a face that adapted its thickness; in some aspects, it could be thicker than a city wall.

But this situation clearly wasn’t one of them.

She nervously retracted her head like a turtle, and her chubby cheeks turned visibly red.

“Anyway, absolutely not!” Huang Xiu mumbled again to emphasize.

This kind of thing that compromised her purity absolutely couldn’t be done.

“I have to check in this afternoon! When would I have time to buy clothes?” She found an excuse for herself.

“It’s not that I’m forcing you, or that I want to see you in nicer clothes…”

Professor Yuan sliced his steak slowly and methodically.

The restaurant they were eating at for lunch was a small Western restaurant Professor Yuan had brought them to.

It only served reservation customers.

The prices were high, and the taste was excellent.

The cut steak had an extremely rich fatty aroma that would burst in the mouth with a gentle press.

He raised his right fork and pointed at Huang Xiu. “But you have to look at what you’re wearing yourself.”

Hearing this, Huang Xiu silently lowered her head.

Because her height had shrunk after the transformation, her school uniform and pants didn’t fit; they were several sizes too large.

The short-sleeved uniform hung loosely on her, so loose she could pull it down and wear it as a skirt.

The shoes on her feet didn’t fit either, dragging as she walked, and her socks always slipped down.

Not to mention…

She wasn’t wearing underwear, leaving her chest always unoccupied.

Huang Xiu actually knew all this, but she didn’t want to face it, so she had no way to refute.

She could only lower her head and pretend to be dead.

“If you don’t buy this time, will you never buy? Always wear this same set? And tomorrow is the exam. You need to dress properly to leave a good impression on the examiners! That’s the least respect you can show.”

Professor Yuan put down his knife and fork and sighed.

This child’s problem could be said to be the most severe among all the students he had taught.

At the most sensitive age, she was suddenly forcibly changed into another gender.

This made her unable to form an effective gender identity, unable to change her previous psychological gender.

This was a terminal illness that only time could cure.

Fortunately, both he and Huang Xiu had a very long time to slowly resolve this issue.

Glancing at Yun Ning, who was burying his head in devouring steak, Huang Xiu looked up stubbornly. “I can buy men’s clothes…”

This was her bottom line.

Compared to a man wearing women’s clothes, a woman wearing men’s clothes was no big deal.

Even if she wore men’s clothes for the rest of her life, that was fine.

But making her wear women’s clothes, those sexy or cute skirts, hot pants, and the like…

Might as well kill her.

“Fine, men’s clothes it is. We’ll go buy clothes this afternoon.” Professor Yuan clapped his hands, looking pleased.

Good, her attitude had loosened; it was a good start.

“As for check-in, I happen to have some business at the Administration Bureau, so I’ll help you check in.”

The check-in location was at the Yunshang Province Administration Bureau headquarters.

“Give me your ID card.” He extended his hand.

“Alright…” Huang Xiu knew that since things had come to this, she had to buy clothes.

She had no choice but to obediently hand over her ID card.

“Are all three of us going this afternoon?” Huang Xiu asked while cutting her steak.

How to put it… Three grown men.

No, two and a half men and half a woman shopping, and all at men’s clothing stores, it was just too weird.

“No, neither Yun Ning nor I are going. Your senior female student will take you. Did you think I was that free?”

Professor Yuan had a dead-fish look on his face, full of speechlessness.

Meanwhile, Yun Ning, who had been burying his head in his food, secretly breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

It was great that he didn’t have to go.

He really didn’t like shopping.

With that time, he’d rather go back to the hotel to exercise. The hotel they were staying at had a gym and a swimming pool.

And going clothes shopping with Junior Huang… just thinking about it, he felt it would be very awkward.

Hearing Professor Yuan say that, Huang Xiu quickly denied it.

“Professor Yuan, I didn’t mean that. I was just concerned about you being too tired after last night’s hard work.”

Emotional intelligence, mastered!