“Wait, Zhi-ge, what did you just say?”

In the room thick with the aroma of food and alcohol, Liang Zhiming’s words were followed by a brief silence. Quite a few people looked stunned.

One of the guys even questioned him. “Someone confessed to you? Seriously? Wang Qian told me you spend practically every day holed up in the dorm playing games. How’d you two even meet?”

“Don’t say that.”

Another guy kept shooting warning glances at him and lowered his voice. “She just broke up. And you’re still bringing up Wang Qian…”

“Oh, right, right. My bad. I forgot.” The guy quickly changed his wording. “I mean, Zhi-ge, how did you get a girl like this to confess to you? This makes no sense. She’s so cute!”

He turned to me. “Miss, could you… tell everyone about it? Your love story.”

“We met in a game.”

I put on a deliberately “shy” expression. “Battlegrounds Mobile.”

“Oh… So it was an online romance.”

The guy stood up and picked up a glass of alcohol. Then he turned to Liang Zhiming.

“Zhi-ge, she was willing to date you online and meet you in person. That must be true love. You’d better treasure this relationship.”

“Of course!”

Liang Zhiming also picked up a disposable paper cup and poured himself some alcohol. After clinking cups with the other guy, he downed it in one go.

“In that case, brother, I won’t say anything else. I wish you two happiness. Haha.”

“Thanks.”

“Xiaoxue, let’s sit over here.”

After clinking cups with the guy, Liang Zhiming led me to two empty seats and sat down with me.

“Eat whatever you want. Don’t be shy. We’re all classmates and brothers here. Haha.”

The guy beside me, Liang Zhiming, seemed to be enjoying the envious looks from the other men. He took a bowl and chopsticks for me.

“What do you want? Rice or congee?”

“Hmm… Congee, I guess.”

“Okay. I’ll get you some.”

As he spoke, Liang Zhiming carried my bowl over to the large basin of congee nearby.

“Man, this girl’s got an amazing figure. I’m jealous of Zhi-ge.”

“Her legs are so slim too. How does that make sense? Girls with large chests are usually a little heavier. She only looks a little curvy, but she doesn’t look fat at all.”

“Her skin’s so pale too. And she doesn’t seem to be wearing much makeup. My girlfriend brings out a whole army of cosmetics every time she leaves the house…”

I sat in my seat and listened to the single guys around me whispering all kinds of comments. On the surface, I pretended to be indifferent.

Deep down, though, I was enjoying it quite a lot.

Had I been influenced by this body’s subconscious?

Normally, if I were still a man… wouldn’t I feel uncomfortable hearing people talk about my large chest and slim legs?

And then…

I glanced beneath my skirt at my lower half, which was sitting in an extremely ladylike posture.

There, my elegant legs in black stockings and my short skirt formed a perfect absolute territory.

It seemed that both my walking posture and my usual mannerisms had followed this body’s habits.

I thought back to when I’d walked out of the hospital and chatted with Liang Zhiming while strolling along the shopping street.

“Here.”

Liang Zhiming happened to return with my congee. “Eat whatever you like. We’re all friends here.”

You’ve said something like that at least three times already…

You might as well write “I’m nervous” across your face.

Even though I’d already mocked him ten thousand times in my head, I still put on a delighted expression and accepted the small bowl filled with congee.

“Thank you, Brother Zhiming!”

This money was really easy to earn.

It was much more comfortable than delivering plates and packages in my previous life. I didn’t have to endure dirty looks or get yelled at. I wasn’t tired, and I could eat and drink for free.

It was practically money for lying down.

According to the contract, I’d set my rental price on Huālímao at a minimum of fifty yuan per hour. At that rate, if I had eight free hours every day and someone rented me for all of them, I could make four hundred yuan a day.

That would be over ten thousand yuan a month.

For a college student, that was an extremely high monthly income from a part-time job.

“By the way, where’s Brother Wang Lei?”

After I tore open my chopsticks’ wrapper with a sharp pop and began eating, Liang Zhiming asked a guy beside him who seemed to be a classmate.

“He hasn’t arrived yet?”

“He came ages ago. He should be outside making a phone call.”

The guy glanced cautiously at the entrance.

“Wasn’t Brother Wang Lei’s family relocated because of a demolition project? They used the compensation to start a company. He’s the general manager now, so he’s incredibly busy.”

I listened from the side. Then I dipped my chopsticks into the congee and quietly wrote the character for “Xue” on a plate nearby.

Sure enough…

Looking at the familiar yet strange handwriting of a young girl, I reached a conclusion.

Even though I had the memories of my previous life, and my consciousness was now controlling Bi Xinxue’s body, I was no longer the person I used to be.

Not with all these subconscious habits and various forms of muscle memory.

Put another way, I could no longer remember how I used to walk in my previous life, how I sat down, or what my handwriting looked like.

All of that had been inherited from this body’s original owner.

I could naturally walk with Bi Xinxue’s girlish steps. When I sat down, I instinctively kept my legs together so nothing beneath my skirt would be exposed.

Even my handwriting had nothing to do with the messy scrawl of the grown man I’d once been. It had become neat and adorable instead.

With that thought, I swept my eyes over the food on the table and roughly noted what my body instinctively wanted to eat.

Yep. They were all foods Bi Xinxue liked.

None of them had anything to do with the me from my previous life.

This was really…

For a moment, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Without a doubt, this situation would benefit my future life. After all, I was a girl now. If I’d also brought over all my former male habits, I’d be careless and boorish. I might even sit down in a skirt with my legs spread wide.

That would cause countless misunderstandings.

Having this body’s original habits would certainly make daily life much easier. But at the same time, I worried that, as time passed, I might completely come to think of myself as Bi Xinxue.

I might even start seeing nearly thirty years of male memories as nothing more than a dream.

If that happened, then… who exactly was I?

Well, never mind.

Even if I really began thinking of myself as a girl, it wouldn’t be so bad. Nobody knew the truth anyway.

Besides, while gathering memories, I’d discovered something else.

Bi Xinxue and I were worlds apart. One of us had been a nearly thirty-year-old man, while the other was a seventeen-year-old underage college student.

Our personalities were completely different.

But we did share one thing.

We both seemed to be foodies.

With that thought, I followed my body’s appetite, picked up a brown-sugar bun from the table, and happily began gnawing on it.

Right then, the door to the room was pushed open.

“Brother Wang Lei!”

“Brother Wang!”

In that instant, the atmosphere in the entire room became a little strange.

“Haha, I just went to negotiate a million-yuan deal. It took a little longer than expected.”

The man who entered was around six feet tall, considerably taller than Liang Zhiming. He wore a formal business suit.

Beside him stood a woman with noticeably heavy makeup. She looked to be around twenty. As for her appearance, I wasn’t sure how to describe it.

Anyway, she wasn’t as pretty as me.

“Hey, isn’t that… Brother Zhiming?”

The suited man noticed Liang Zhiming and me as soon as he entered.

“Is this… your younger sister?”

“My girlfriend.”

Liang Zhiming looked obviously nervous. “I… I confessed to her a few days ago.”

The suited man was shocked. “You actually took the initiative and confessed to a girl?”

“She confessed to me.”

“Huh?”

The suited man looked at Liang Zhiming, then at me. With disbelief written all over his face, he walked over and stared at me curiously.

“What should we call you, miss?”

I hurriedly stood up and raised a smile.

“Xiaoxue is fine.”

“You’ve got a lovely voice, Xiaoxue.”

The suited man nodded.

“My name’s Wang Lei. I’m… well, I used to be the class monitor for this class. Zhiming said you confessed to him?”

“Mm-hmm.”

I pretended to be shy.

“Xiaoxue has noticed Brother Zhiming for a long time.”

“I don’t believe you.”

Wang Lei shook his head.

“You must be his sister or one of his friends, and you’re just here to mess with everyone.”

“Huh?”

I pretended to look a little troubled.

“But I really do like Brother Zhiming. He’s amazing at games.”

“You met through a game?”

Wang Lei looked at Liang Zhiming.

“What game?”

Liang Zhiming looked a little tense.

“Battlegrounds Mobile.”

“How did you two meet?”

Wang Lei raised an eyebrow and looked at me as if he were testing me.

“Can you tell us?”

“Hmm… We met in the game. We got matched together, won the match, and added each other as friends.”

I deliberately made it sound casual.

“When I used to play alone, my teammates always complained about me. But Brother Zhiming didn’t complain that round. He even gave me lots of supplies.”

“He didn’t even want the level-three helmet from the airdrop.”

“And… he looked super cool using a single-shot sniper rifle.”

“So I added Brother Zhiming as a friend. That’s when I found out that he liked anime too, just like me. He liked Re:Zero and Rikka Takanashi too.”

“And then… then I confessed to him.”

“This…”

Wang Lei looked stunned after hearing me describe the details of the game and anime so fluently.

“People can actually meet like this? So you two were dating online? And it just so happened that you lived in the same city?”

“Liang Zhiming and I grew up together. I just don’t remember his gaming skills being this…”

I turned around and unzipped the bag I’d brought with me. Inside, I found the sesame candy from my hometown that Mom had given me after I left the hospital.

“You two probably haven’t known each other for long, right? I’ve seen plenty of couples meet in person on impulse, only to discover that their values don’t match.”

“Take cars and housing, for example. If you haven’t planned those things out yet, you’d better discuss them properly before entering society.”

“Especially if you’re planning to get married.”

From the corner of my eye, I saw Liang Zhiming’s entire face turn pale.

Just as I thought.

These two had probably fought over the matter of a girlfriend before.

If I was right, this man called Wang Lei was trying to save face—or perhaps humiliate Liang Zhiming one more time in front of all their classmates.

Two former close friends had fallen out over a woman who wasn’t even as pretty as me. They’d gone so far as to set up this Hongmen banquet.

Men…

They really were pathetic.

It was probably immoral to think this way, but I still had to thank him.

If these two hadn’t had a conflict, that shut-in Liang Zhiming probably never would’ve ordered me from a rental-girlfriend website.

And I wouldn’t have made any money today.

“Hmm… We’ll plan things out properly.”

Holding the sesame candy Mom had given me, I walked over to Wang Lei.

“I have my own company and plenty of stocks. I won’t need to worry about these things after graduation. But you two…”

Wang Lei looked at me with a strange expression.

“You should—”

I held out the sesame candy.

“But do you have this?”

Wang Lei froze.

“What’s that?”

“A specialty from my hometown.”

“Uh…”

Wang Lei scratched his head awkwardly.

“I don’t have that, but I could probably buy some…”

“Then…”

In front of the entire room full of people, I broke the sesame candy in half and handed one piece to the man before me.