Chapter Fourteen: The Quirky Shopkeeper
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Bai Ye swore she’d never changed so many outfits in a single day.

Watching the shop manager bring over new clothes while coughing violently, Bai Ye found it really hard to refuse her.

As a result, even though Bai Ye’s face was so red it looked ready to burst, she kept changing into increasingly embarrassing outfits.

Who knew why the clothes in this shop used so little fabric?

They either showed off her chest or her legs. Was there not a single “proper” outfit in the whole place?

“Hehe~ Miss Bai Ye, how about trying this one on?”

The shop manager approached Bai Ye, holding an unidentifiable object made of black strings. From its shape, it looked vaguely like a set of lingerie.

This woman was getting more and more outrageous! At least the earlier stuff had been outerwear. Now she was bringing out lingerie!

“No!”

Bai Ye hugged her knees in the corner of the changing room. She’d had enough. She wasn’t going to wear another one of the shop manager’s weird outfits!

“Ahem, ahem!”

The shop manager started covering her mouth and pretending to cough again.

“Miss Bai Ye, please grant my wish!”

The shameless shop manager clutched the black lingerie and dropped to her knees in front of Bai Ye.

“My greatest wish in life is to see a beautiful girl wear lingerie I made! Just this once... ahem, ahem~”

“...”

Bai Ye really wasn’t good at handling this kind of “forceful” request. With the shop manager groveling in front of her, she was actually starting to give in.

“J-just this o—”

“Okay!”

Before Bai Ye could finish speaking, the shop manager sprang up from the floor.

“This lingerie is super hard to put on. Let me help you, hehe~”

As she spoke, the shop manager reached toward the buttons on Bai Ye’s chest.

“Wait! What are you doing? I never said you could help me get dressed!”

“Hehe~ It’ll be quick. Don’t be shy. I’ll have it on you in no time~”

The shop manager was practically drooling. Getting to dress a beautiful girl in lingerie she’d made with her own hands—she’d have no regrets in life.

“Stay back!”

Bai Ye was backed into a corner with nowhere to run. All she could do was watch the shop manager inch closer.

“Just a moment, just a moment and...”

“That’s enough, Manager!”

The clerk, who’d picked out clothes for Yilisi, noticed something was wrong in the changing room. She grabbed a hanger and brought it down on her manager’s head.

“Miss Bai Ye, I’m so sorry for frightening you!”

The clerk didn’t even need to ask what her manager had done. She knew her all too well. Whenever the manager saw a beautiful girl, she couldn’t take her eyes off her and always tried to make her wear the clothes she’d designed.

She had real talent as a fashion designer, but there was something off about both her personality and her sexual preferences. To put it plainly... she was kind of creepy.

“I’m sorry. I’m truly sorry. If there’s anything I can do to make it up to you, I’ll gladly do it!”

The clerk kept bowing and apologizing until Bai Ye started to feel awkward.

“It’s fine. The manager just...”

Bai Ye glanced at the shop manager, pinned to the floor by the clerk, and didn’t know what to say. Anything she said right now felt awkward.

“Could I have my clothes back? I think I should be going.”

“Of course. Let me find your clothes... Hey! Manager! Where did you hide Miss Bai Ye’s clothes?”

The clerk searched everywhere, but couldn’t find the clothes Bai Ye had been wearing when she arrived. She raised the hanger and started whacking the manager with it.

“Give Miss Bai Ye her clothes back!”

“I-if we can’t find them, then we can’t find them! Why not just have Miss Bai Ye wear the clothes I picked out for her?”

“Damn it! You’re driving me crazy!”

The clerk got tired of hitting her and tossed the hanger aside. Come to think of it, the shop manager could use magic. She wasn’t very good at it, but even so, the clerk couldn’t take her on by herself.

“I’m sorry, Miss Bai Ye. You can see what my manager’s like... and your clothes are... Well, how about leaving in something from our shop?”

“But I told you, I’m not buying a skirt.”

Bai Ye looked a little helpless. She still wasn’t mentally prepared to keep wearing women’s clothes.

“That’s fine! You don’t have to buy them!”

The manager, who’d been lying on the floor, sprang back to her feet with a kip-up.

“You don’t have to pay. Miss Bai Ye can have every outfit she tried on today!”

“Huh?!”

“Manager, you’re joking!”

Bai Ye wasn’t the only one whose jaw dropped; even the clerk was stunned. Sure, the manager liked beautiful girls, and Miss Bai Ye really was stunning—but the clerk had never imagined her manager would do something this absurd.

The manager had made Bai Ye change into at least a dozen outfits, hadn’t she? Most of them were handmade, too. Was she really giving all of them away for free?

“Of course I’m not joking! It’s an honor for my ‘treasures’ to be worn by Miss Bai Ye!”

Hearing that, the clerk pressed a hand to her forehead.

This shop was doomed!