Fang Chang slowly opened her eyes.

She was tall and muscular. In clothes, she looked much like she had at first—the only real change was her face.

She was so much better-looking now!

Just a few subtle changes, combined with a shift in her aura, had transformed her so completely.

But this body was really weak. It probably wasn’t much stronger than an ordinary person.

And right now, there was one big problem to deal with: her male body had nothing to wear.

Li Zirong had said before that only her real body could wear the matching gear. Her walking stand-in couldn’t, so once the male body had taken shape, it was left completely naked.

Fortunately, she’d had the foresight to lock all the doors and windows.

But then came a knock at the door.

Chen Xiaotan’s voice came from outside. It sounded slightly androgynous. “I’ve finished my homework. I want to talk to you about The Game.”

Fang Chang was completely naked. There was no way she could let Chen Xiaotan in. She hurriedly said, “No! Don’t come in!”

Hearing her voice, Chen Xiaotan’s gaze sharpened. Without a word, she drew on the vampire magic within her, unlocked the door, and shoved it open.

How could a little girl suddenly have a man’s voice?

The door opened, revealing a muscular man.

Fang Chang quickly pulled the covers free and wrapped them around herself. “I told you not to come in,” she said, looking utterly wronged.

Chen Xiaotan had probably been through many worlds, because she didn’t react too strongly to this sort of thing. She raised both hands like claws as vampire runes lit up one after another. “So you were a man?”

Fang Chang nodded.

“You know the conditions for renting my place, right?”

“I do.”

“Then why did you come here dressed as a woman? What are you planning?”

Fang Chang froze.

What could she possibly be planning? She’d just needed a place to form a male body!

Chen Xiaotan stepped closer. Her eyes turned bloodred, and a pair of bat wings slowly took shape on her back.

A dangerous aura radiated from her.

“Did you look into my family’s situation and use your power as a player to deliberately bully my little sister and me?”

Fang Chang was stunned. What was this, some kind of hentai? An 18+ story?

She hurriedly protested, “I’m not planning anything like that!”

Chen Xiaotan stepped closer again, a murderous glint in her eyes. “Then what are you planning?”

Fang Chang instinctively backed away. “My body changed, and I couldn’t let anyone who knew me see it. I just needed a place to get back to how I looked before!”

Chen Xiaotan gave her a scornful smile. “You think I’m going to believe that? Why would you come here if you just needed a place to change back?”

“I found it online!”

Chen Xiaotan clenched her fists, seething with anger. “Liar! You’re just trying to take advantage of me! You think I’ve never been on certain websites? Stories about a cross-dressing tenant and a landlady…”

“Hey!”

Fang Chang’s forehead practically bulged with anger. But Chen Xiaotan didn’t give her a chance to say another word—she was already attacking. She relied mostly on hand-to-hand combat. One step, and her fist was flying toward Fang Chang’s face.

Fang Chang didn’t have time to worry about being naked. She raised an arm to block, but Chen Xiaotan’s punch was so heavy she couldn’t stop it.

One punch sent her staggering backward, leaving a footprint with every step.

Seeing that, Chen Xiaotan let out a sharp shout. The vampire runes beneath her feet spread out, quickly covering the entire room.

With the runes as her base, she stepped forward again. She saw Fang Chang exposed where the covers had fallen away, and her anger only grew. Her sweeping kick changed direction, turning into an upward strike aimed straight at…

Fang Chang’s face went pale. If her male parts were destroyed, she might end up traumatized by male bodies for the rest of her life. She hurriedly raised a leg to block, but it felt like she’d just been hit by a semi-truck. With a crack, her leg bone broke.

Pain flared, but it wasn’t severe—about as bad as a scrape. That was partly because Fang Chang’s mental power had improved, making her more resistant to pain, and partly because this was only a walking stand-in. The pain didn’t feel very strong to her real body.

But before she could take it all in, Chen Xiaotan swept her leg forward. It slammed into Fang Chang’s chest, sending her spinning through the air three times before she crashed into the wall.

This time, the vampire runes reinforced the wall. Its surface remained smooth, without a single mark.

The wall was fine. Fang Chang wasn’t.

The kick caved in Fang Chang’s chest. Shadow power seeped from the wound, staining her until she looked like some kind of demon.

She fell helplessly to the floor.

“It’s just a hastily shaped stand-in, and I haven’t infused it with any other energy yet. It’s too weak…”

Chen Xiaotan also looked puzzled. “Something’s wrong. You were named by the Shadow-Devouring Lord. You shouldn’t be this weak—so why don’t you have any blood?”

Fang Chang struggled to get up, but it was useless. The wound in her chest tugged at the rest of her body. Her arms and legs were limp, and she couldn’t move.

“Damn it! I worked so hard to make it…”

“A stand-in?”

Chen Xiaotan approached one step at a time. “What are you scheming now?”

Now Fang Chang was truly furious. Lying about who she was had been her own fault, but it didn’t deserve a death sentence. Chen Xiaotan kept pressing her, clearly intent on killing her.

“That’s it! You’ve made me mad!”

Fang Chang’s true body began to descend. The stand-in was wrapped in a spatial bubble and flung into the shadows.

From Chen Xiaotan’s perspective, Fang Chang’s body was torn in half: a little girl appeared, while the original male body was swallowed by the shadow space.

The auras of two extreme combat forms burst out. Fang Chang’s long hair lifted in the force, and the vampire runes beneath her feet couldn’t withstand it—they began to crumble.

Chen Xiaotan’s expression changed. She sensed the immense energy within Fang Chang.

“You…”

“You kept accusing me of scheming, but you wouldn’t even listen to my explanation! And you ruined the stand-in I worked so hard to make. Making me put on a little skirt again was the biggest mistake of your life!”

Under that overwhelming aura, Chen Xiaotan was like a lone boat in a storm, on the verge of capsizing at any moment.

She bit down on her teeth. She knew that retreat meant certain death, while pushing forward gave her at least a slim chance.

Her vampire magic surged. A dazzling orb of lightning gathered in her palm, its central current compressed into liquid plasma. She didn’t even need to look to know how powerful it was.

“Die!”