Chapter 6: Exposed

In the restaurant, the boys fantasized about having such a girl as their girlfriend.

What a blissful thing it would be to have such a perfect woman as a partner.

Although their imaginations ran wild, perhaps they had already thought of names for their children, not a single one actually stood up and tried to get to know Su Xuan.

“Hmph, men!”

Su Xuan didn’t even need to use his brain to know what these guys, whose eyes were darting towards him, were thinking.

After all, he was once a man himself.

Su Xuan couldn’t help but sneer in his heart at this group of men who had the guts of a thief but not the courage.

“Wait!”

Su Xuan suddenly realized that his own self-perception was a bit off.

At this moment, he seemed to be facing this group of men with the complete mentality of a girl, enjoying their gazes from a woman’s perspective, and mocking their timid lecherousness from a woman’s perspective.

‘Why am I placing a girl’s perspective on myself, identifying as a girl? Has the influence of the Phantom Soul cultivation already reached this point? I’ve already worked so hard, desperately resisting something. I’ve already made concessions and put on women’s clothes. Is even the core thought of being a man going to be corrupted?’

Su Xuan’s temperament suddenly changed.
That pitiful, heart-wrenching aura made the man sharing his table, who was about to finish eating, sigh involuntarily.

“What a good, what a pitiful girl…”

However, he had no idea what she was sorrowful about at this moment.

If he could, the man sharing the table would willingly go through fire and water for her without hesitation!

At this thought, he mustered his courage and stood up! He shouted it out!

“Boss, the bill!”

“Twenty yuan in total!”

Then he scurried out of the shop.

At the door, he still looked back reluctantly at the beautiful woman, haggard and lonely.
The thousand words he had prepared all turned into one sentence: Boss, the bill!

The departure of the man sharing the table didn’t attract Su Xuan’s attention in the slightest.

Perhaps from the moment he sat down, the man had completely shielded himself, eating carefully, afraid of disturbing this beauty.

So he succeeded.

Su Xuan had no impression of him whatsoever.

Su Xuan looked at the steaming chicken soup and couldn’t help but sigh in his heart.

Perhaps the moment he put on these clothes, the moment he relented and let her assist him… the moment he awakened his Phantom Soul, he had already lost.
So what was the meaning of his resistance?
One day in the future, he would become completely unrecognizable, would take pride in his beauty, would joyfully enjoy the adoration of men, and might even be pleasing someone in some corner…

The meaning of his resistance was to preserve his core as a man in this smokeless war, to not completely forget that he was a man, to not forget his former dreams.

Regardless of whether he wore women’s clothes, whether he put on lipstick, whether his front was perky and his back was curvy, at the moment he was about to be completely lost as a woman, he would suddenly remember that he was once a man, and he would hold fast to that piece of land in his heart, not letting others defile his dignity as a man.

Perhaps, this was the only thing Su Xuan could fight for.

“Phew~ I won’t think about it anymore. The food is getting cold!”

Su Xuan shoveled rice into his mouth, hoping the delicious food would wash away the fatigue in his mind.

“Mmm, so fragrant~”

Su Xuan ate in big mouthfuls, completely ignoring the gazes of others.
He didn’t know that this way of eating in big mouthfuls looked incredibly cute to others.

“Ah Wei, you’re dead!”

“Ah Wei, you’re dead again!”

“I’ve been… melted by the cuteness!”

The boys’ hearts were pierced by a constant barrage of small pink arrows, but they could only secretly lick their wounds in the shadows.

A boy about the same height as Su Xuan pushed open the door.

If Su Xuan had looked up, he would have instantly recognized this guy.

It was his best friend and bro, Zhang Xun.
This guy with a lecherous look on his face looked around as soon as he entered the shop and immediately locked onto Su Xuan, who was eating with his head down.

“Top quality… definitely top quality!”

Although her head was down and he couldn’t see her face clearly, his years of experience allowed him to roughly deduce the girl’s appearance from some details.

“At least a ninety!”

Zhang Xun kept staring at Su Xuan, completely unabashed.

This was completely different from the others who darted their eyes away.
At least in this aspect, Zhang Xun indeed had the capital to be proud, and it was precisely this shameless character that had allowed him to succeed time and time again.

“Hmm?”

Su Xuan felt something constantly sizing him up, so he looked up.

It was fine not to look, but this one look gave Su Xuan a big shock.

The two of them locked eyes.

After recognizing who that person was in an instant, Su Xuan quickly withdrew his gaze and continued to eat with his head down.

After a very brief moment of being stunned by her beauty, Zhang Xun was puzzled by this very unusual eye contact.

In Liu Song’s view, this series of actions was highly unusual.

‘Interesting, she seems to know me? And we should be very familiar.’

‘If not a familiar person, why would she be so scared as to lower her head, why would she instantly switch from initial panic to calmness?’

The initial panic was unexpected, an uncontrollable emotion, but the subsequent pretense of calmness was worth pondering.

She didn’t want him to recognize her.
She was scared.

A playful smile appeared on his face.
There was such a beauty in the world who would be afraid of him, Zhang Xun, recognizing her.

He searched his mind for all the women he had come into contact with and found that none seemed to match… except for a certain male, who looked a bit similar.

‘Could it be that I, Zhang Xun, am truly the Son of Heaven, and the real female lead has appeared? So she was stunned by my mighty presence?’

And Su Xuan, who was eating with his head down, panicked.

He had been caught red-handed by his best friend.

If he was discovered, it would be utterly embarrassing.

His mind was in a mess.

The dreams he had before, the doujinshi he had seen before, all surged up from the depths of his memory.

Su Xuan sped up his eating, preparing to break through quickly later and not give him a chance to observe.

And Zhang Xun, seeing that the seat next to this beauty was empty, immediately had an idea.

After ordering his food, he sat down next to Su Xuan, brazenly sizing up Su Xuan’s appearance.

“F*ck, this kid has guts, how dare he make a move on the goddess!”

“D*mn it, does this lecherous man have no shame? Aren’t there any other seats?”

Countless thoughts arose in the minds of the boys.

It seemed that Liu Song had inadvertently broken this unwritten rule.

“Hmm?”

Zhang Xun suddenly discovered that there seemed to be something very familiar on the beauty’s neck.

“No way… Got it!”

Zhang Xun took out his phone, opened his contacts, and clicked on his best friend’s avatar.

“I have died every day waiting for you, Darling, don’t be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years, I’ll love you for a thousand more~~”

The sound wasn’t very loud, but it definitely came from the “girl” sitting next to him.

“Heh heh~”

A playful expression appeared on Zhang Xun’s face.

Then, under the watchful eyes of everyone, he actually leaned over, pressed close to Su Xuan’s ear, said something, and then reached out to touch Su Xuan’s cheek.

“A**hole…”

“I’m calling the police!”

Some boys were already prepared.
As long as the beauty cried for help, they would rush over and beat that man up!

“Su Xuan?”

“Mmm…”

Su Xuan’s face quickly turned red, and his body couldn’t help but tremble.

“You… how did you find out?”

Su Xuan asked in a soft, original voice.
Since he was discovered, there was nothing more to say.

As long as it wasn’t spread around, he wouldn’t suffer a social death.

“That mark on your neck, I’ve never seen it on a second person.”

Su Xuan suddenly remembered the heart-shaped red birthmark on the back of his snow-white neck.

“You even discovered this?”

Su Xuan said with a bitter smile.

“Heh heh, of course. Actually, it was from the first glance we exchanged. I noticed you seemed a bit flustered, so I came over to take a look. It’s not like it’ll kill anyone.”

The two of them, their faces pressed close together, whispered to each other.

The men around, who were rubbing their fists, stared blankly at the harmonious pair.
The imagined scene of a hero saving the beauty did not appear.

Instead, they were fed a large mouthful of dog food.

“My youth is over…”

“To hell with this braised chicken and rice restaurant, let’s just call it the Dog Food Sprinkle Shop…”

“Suddenly, I’m full…”

Countless boys glared fiercely at Zhang Xun with their eyes.

If looks could kill, Zhang Xun would have died tens of thousands of times already.

They just couldn’t figure out how such a lecherous, cheeky-tempered man could pick up such a beautiful girl.

Has the era changed?

It was just a pity that this group of onlookers, who didn’t know the inside story, couldn’t possibly understand Zhang Xun’s wonderfully strange pain.

“I originally thought I was going to escape singlehood today!”

Zhang Xun said teasingly.

Regarding his friend of many years suddenly cross-dressing, aside from finding it amusing, he had no other thoughts.

And having been tempered by countless girls, his face, which could block a gun, allowed him to chat with Su Xuan without any awkwardness.

“Oh, so I should say sorry to you?”

“Heh heh, of course. You owe me a girlfriend. Look…”

Zhang Xun looked at Su Xuan with a cheeky expression and said.

“Get lost… I’m just not into that!”

Su Xuan couldn’t help but roll his eyes.
He wasn’t bent at all, he was the steel-straight type, who liked the mature, black-stockinged older sister type.

“This afternoon, go shopping with me. Let me experience what it feels like to have a beautiful girlfriend, how about it?”

Zhang Xun asked, his face close to Su Xuan’s.

His nose caught a whiff of an extremely pleasant milky fragrance, making Zhang Xun unable to resist the urge to take a big sniff.

“Is there any reward?”

Su Xuan wiped his mouth, all the food finished.

“No…”

“Let’s find another time then. I still have to cultivate this afternoon. After all, the test is coming up soon.”

“Alright… but what’s with this getup? You never showed any signs of this before.”

Although Zhang Xun felt a little disappointed, it was understandable.
These invitations were just on a whim or a playful impulse.

They came quickly and went quickly.

“Hmm… it’s hard to explain clearly. Anyway, it’s a very complicated problem.”

Su Xuan thought for a moment and decided not to tell him.

After all, a cross-dressing enthusiast and a person with a female soul were two different concepts.

In this era, saying one had a feminine Phantom Soul was no less than saying in his past life that he had been tested and found to have a complete set of female reproductive organs, and that his genetic test was female.

“Alright… sigh, remember to find a chance to let me experience it, the feeling of being a beauty’s boyfriend.”

“Hey, you d*mn pervert.”

Su Xuan’s cute little foot stomped on Zhang Xun’s leg.

“Ohh~~”

“Pervert… how can I have a best friend like you? By the way, don’t spread this around, or else that group of crazy girls will have new material.”

“Good… okay, a few more stomps.”

Zhang Xun looked at Su Xuan with a dazed expression, his face full of lechery that was amusing to look at.

“Go to hell!”

Su Xuan fiercely kicked his thigh a few times and then got up to leave.

“Don’t forget!”

“Got it!”