Gender Reassignment Surgery1
“Ren… Chenxi?”
After hearing Ren Chenxi’s words, Mu Ning snapped her gaze back to her. She stared fixedly at Ren Chenxi in disbelief. Her thumb, which had been about to wipe the bloodstains from Ren Chenxi’s cheek, unconsciously rubbed twice more with force. It was as if she wanted to see if there was another layer of skin underneath.
“Ren Muhui! What nonsense are you spouting? This face of yours… forget a few drops of blood, I’d recognize it even if it were burned to ash!” Mu Ning wiped the bloodstains from Ren Chenxi’s face bit by bit. Only then did she caress her cheek and pull her lips into a strange smile. “Don’t even think about using such a clumsy excuse to shake me off!”
This was the first time Ren Chenxi had ever seen the wooden goddess2 smile at her. To be honest, with the wooden goddess’s looks, the smile certainly wasn’t ugly, but… for some reason, it sent a chill down her spine.
As luck would have it, the car’s headlights that had been illuminating the area suddenly went out again. In the dim gloom, Mu Ning’s bizarre smile once again overlapped with the life-claiming female ghost3 from Ren Chenxi’s nightmares.
“N-No, I really am…”
“Mu-xuejie,4 Xi-jie5 is Ren-xuezhang’s6 younger sister!”
Just as Ren Chenxi was about to crash7 from the fright of Mu Ning’s smile, Tang Ying8 ran over from behind to save the day.
“Mu-xuejie, Xi-jie is a girl!”
“A girl???”
“Yes! I’m a girl!” Ren Chenxi silently thanked Tang Ying in her heart as she hurriedly replied, “I’m Ren Muhui’s twin sister. My brother and I look very similar, but you should at least be able to tell if I’m a man or a woman…”
Before Ren Chenxi could finish, Mu Ning’s hand, which had been on her face, shot down to her chest.
“…”
Everyone who had rushed over to watch the spectacle was stunned by Mu Ning’s bold move. More importantly, everyone clearly saw that Mu Ning’s hand, which was groping her chest, even gave two very obvious squeezes!!!
Was this still the same proud, cold, and unapproachable iceberg goddess they once knew!!!
“Hey! You…”
Mu Ning’s surprise attack instantly scattered the fear Ren Chenxi felt toward the blackened goddess. So what if she’s a blackened goddess? She can’t just take advantage of me! She fiercely slapped Mu Ning’s hand away while taking several steps back.
“Don’t go too far!”
“You’re really a girl?”
Ren Chenxi’s angry shout and Mu Ning’s question rang out at the same time.
Ren Chenxi met Mu Ning’s shocked gaze and, after a moment, suddenly smiled.
“Well, aren’t I? Didn’t you just get a hands-on experience!!!”
Her right hand still seemed to carry the soft sensation from just now. Meeting the mockery in Ren Chenxi’s eyes, Mu Ning whooshed her hand behind her back, her pretty face instantly flushing red.
But even after feeling it for herself, Mu Ning looked at Ren Chenxi’s incredibly familiar face and asked, still unwilling to give up, “Ren Muhui, did you not dare to come back to school because you went abroad over the summer for gender reassignment surgery?”
“…”
This time, the horrified gazes of the companions behind Mu Ning shifted to Ren Chenxi.
How had I never realized before that this wooden goddess’s brain circuit9 was so bizarre?!!!
Ren Chenxi took two deep breaths and retreated another step. Her body suddenly swayed, and before she could recover from the abrupt wave of dizziness, her vision went black. In the last second before she passed out, Ren Chenxi finally remembered that she was a wounded person who had been bitten by a mutated wolf!10
“Xi-jie!”
“Xi-jie!”
“Ren… Chenxi?” Mu Ning caught the falling Ren Chenxi before anyone else could. She supported Ren Chenxi’s shoulders, only to feel a dampness on her left shoulder. “This… this is… she’s injured?”
Ren Chenxi was wearing a black windbreaker, so even though blood was constantly seeping from the wound and soaking her shoulder, it was truly difficult to notice in such a dark environment. Mu Ning had indeed smelled a strong scent of blood on Ren Chenxi at first, but she had assumed it was coming from the dead mutated wolves on the ground. She never thought… that this person was actually hurt?
“Mu-xuejie, Xi-jie was bitten by a mutated wolf! Do… do you have any injury medicine?”
“Injury medicine? Right! Injury medicine, didn’t we just find some from a pharmacy today?” Mu Ning asked the group behind her, half-holding Ren Chenxi.
“Ah… yes, the injury medicine is in the van, but… but…”
“Then I’ll take Ren… her to the van to treat her wound. Chen Gu,11 go get the injury medicine for me.”
As she spoke, Mu Ning carried Ren Chenxi horizontally in her arms12 and turned toward the minivan with the dead headlights. The boy named Chen Gu followed beside her, saying anxiously, “But Boss, we only found this much injury medicine… Little Jia’s injury is still acting up…”
“Use it on her first. I’ll go to the neighboring city tomorrow to look for more medicine for Sun Jia!13“
Mu Ning impatiently cut Chen Gu off. Already at the side of the minivan, she bent down and got in with Ren Chenxi. Seeing this, Chen Gu could only shut his mouth and follow her into the van, digging out the small, precious bit of injury medicine they had worked so hard to find. Before handing the injury medicine to Mu Ning, Chen Gu surreptitiously14 shot a glare at the Ren Chenxi in her arms.
“Give me the medicine. Turn on the interior light, then get out!”
“Turn on the light??? Boss, our gas…”
“Turn it on!”
“Yes, Boss…”
The overhead light in the dim van flickered on, and Chen Gu was kicked out by Mu Ning with a sour look on his face. Despite his sour expression, he obediently pulled the van door shut after getting out.
“Chen Gu…” two girls surrounded him. “Is the Boss really going to give the injury medicine to that woman? What about Little Jia…”
“Hah, can you sway the Boss’s decision? Why don’t you get in the van and try to persuade her?” Chen Gu shot the girl who spoke a sideways glance.
“…Never mind then.” In their group, the Boss’s word had always been law.15 Even if they were unwilling now, they could only let her use up that precious injury medicine. “Tsk… honestly, if I’d known this would happen, I wouldn’t have come over to see what was going on…” the girl complained, throwing a glare at Jian Dan’s16 group.
It wasn’t just this girl; all five people who had gotten off the bus were giving Jian Dan and the others dirty looks. Originally, they didn’t have a problem with them. They had even followed their Boss to help deal with a few mutated wolves that were confronting them. But… they had dealt with the mutated wolves, and now they had to pay out of their own pocket17 by giving up their only precious dose of injury medicine. How could they be okay with that?
In this apocalypse, water and food were precious, but similarly, all kinds of life-saving medicines were also extremely precious. Therefore, facing the hostile gazes of Chen Gu and his group, Jian Dan and the others could only endure it in silence. Just a moment ago, when they had opened the door and rushed out of the house, they had been entangled by several other cunning mutated wolves that hadn’t been blinded. It was these people who had stepped in to rescue them.
After a while, perhaps unable to bear the stiff and awkward atmosphere, Yang Xiangrui,18 prompted by the others, cautiously spoke up. “H-Hello, everyone? You’ve been standing for so long… why don’t you come in and sit down?”
“…”
Now, the atmosphere was even more awkward. The others completely ignored Yang Xiangrui’s invitation. Besides, were there even any chairs left in this dilapidated house for people to sit on? Their bus had plenty of seats, but would these people be willing to get on?
Under Tang Ying’s eye-roll, Yang Xiangrui uncomfortably scratched the back of his head. He stole a glance at the quiet-looking minivan, then scanned the sour-faced men and women. They were clearly on the same team as Mu-xuejie, so was it possible they were also students from S University?19 With that thought, Yang Xiangrui asked just that. If everyone was from S University, maybe they could close the distance a little?
Unexpectedly, as soon as the other party heard they were students from S University, their expressions not only soured further, but one of the girls even sneered at them sharply, “Tsk, another bunch of those giant babies20 from S University. What? Did you come to Nanhai Base21 to leech off our Boss too?”
“Hey! You… how can you talk like that? What do you mean, leech off Mu-xuejie? We… we just came to seek refuge with her!”
Pfft! Tang Ying’s weak rebuttal only made the other party more certain of their intentions. “To put it nicely, you’re ‘seeking refuge.’ To put it bluntly, you’re just leeching off our Boss, right? Treating our Boss like a mobile reservoir, coming to her whenever you need water, without a shred of gratitude or conservation. You even ask our Boss for water to flush the toilet, and with such an entitled attitude! On what grounds? Just because our Boss is your senior? She’s your senior, not your mom, why should she have to take care of you like this? Besides, S University is probably gone by now, and you’re still calling her ‘Xuejie’!”
“You… I… we call her Mu-xuejie because we’re her juniors! Even if S University is gone, she’s still the senior we respect! Besides, we haven’t been as outrageous as you claim, asking Mu-xuejie for every little thing. We just got to H City today!”
“Hah! Maybe you haven’t, but a batch of S University giant babies who have already reached Nanhai Base are doing just that to our Boss! We can see the quality of you S University students just from them!”
“What bullshit are you spouting!22” Even though these people had rescued them from the mutated wolves’ encirclement in a moment of crisis, the escalating insults made several of the S University students’ faces darken. Yang Xiangrui shot back rudely at the group, “You kill all of us S University students with one stick,23 so I’ll say that you people are just a bunch of blood-sucking insects24 leeching off our Mu-xuejie all day long!”
“Hahahaha! That’s hilarious! Us, blood-sucking insects leeching off the Boss? Even if we’re always with the Boss, whenever she goes out on an adventure, whether it’s to find people or supplies, we are always duty-bound25 to follow her! Do you giant babies from S University dare to do that? Hiding in the base all day, you even shamelessly try to take a share of the supplies we find!”
“Whoa! That’s seriously shameless!” Chang Ling,26 who had been listening in on the side, couldn’t help but interject.
Yang Xiangrui and the others were also stunned by the shameless behavior of the “S University giant babies” that Chen Gu’s group described. “W-Wait, guys, among those S University giant babies you mentioned, is there one named Li Jie?27“
“Who cares what they’re called! They’re all ‘Boss,’ ‘Xuejie,’ this and that. Ptooey! Seeing the way they leech, they might as well just call our Boss ‘Mom’ instead!”
Those giant babies were nothing but trouble every time they came looking for the Boss, so Chen Gu couldn’t be bothered to remember their names. However, the sharp-tongued girl standing next to him nodded. “There is one named Li Jie, and he’s the most disgusting and annoying one! He leeches off our Boss while also kissing up to Fan Juntian!28 He’s a total traitor who lives off one person while helping an outsider!29“
“Fuck! So it really was that piece of trash who ruined the reputation of us S University students!” As soon as Li Jie’s name was mentioned, Yang Xiangrui rolled his eyes hard. “That dog cunt thing30 was originally traveling with us to seek refuge with Mu-xuejie, but halfway here, he and his trash friends stole all our water and food! Because of that garbage, we nearly died of thirst and starvation on the road!”
“…” So they were also victims of a group of S University giant babies? Now, Chen Gu and his group’s feelings toward Yang Xiangrui’s party became complicated again.
“But, given Mu-xuejie’s personality, how could she let that bunch of trash leech off her endlessly?” the quiet Lu Ping31 suddenly voiced her confusion.
“Hah! With the Boss’s ruthless… ah no, her… her cold personality, she really couldn’t be bothered with those people at first! But there’s a guy who’s good friends with Li Jie, what’s his name again…”
“His name is Liao Lan.32“
“Right, that guy named Liao Lan. He said he’s the Boss’s boyfriend’s—uh, Ren Muhui’s—roommate, and that he’s on very good terms with Ren Muhui! He was the one who told the Boss that Ren Muhui might have come to H City for a trip! The Boss only reluctantly takes care of them a little more because he’s good friends with her boyfriend. After all, she doesn’t want that guy to go tattling to Ren Muhui behind her back after she finds him, right?”
“Liao Lan? He’s on good terms with Ren-xuezhang?” Tang Ying asked, looking doubtfully at Yang Xiangrui.
Yang Xiangrui scratched the back of his head again, speechless. “How would I know if they’re on good terms or not? Anyway, Ren-xuezhang is already dead, so there’s no need for Mu-xuejie to take care of those giant babies, right?”
“What? The Boss’s boyfriend is dead?!!!”
The moment Yang Xiangrui’s words fell, Chen Gu’s entire group stared in collective shock.
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