In the end, Bai Yao bought two pairs of the same women’s pants…
They were Women’s Straight-leg Pants, and the waist and hip measurements were a perfect fit.
They were comfortable to wear and weren’t the common slim-fit or stretchy style of women’s clothing, so they didn’t show off his figure much.
At most, they would outline the curve of his buttocks whenever he bent over.
Most importantly, they didn’t look out of place when he wore them.
Although the cuts for men’s and women’s pants were different, there wasn’t a significant difference in their outward appearance.
By the time he returned to the dormitory, Bai Yao felt half-dead again.
His feet already had blisters, making it painful to walk, and he wasn’t good at dealing with overly enthusiastic shop assistants.
Thankfully, Qiu Ye had been there; otherwise, he might have absentmindedly bought clothes he didn’t even like.
“It hurts…”
As soon as he sat down, Bai Yao urgently took off his shoes and lifted his feet to inspect the blisters.
The blisters had already burst, leaving nothing but a layer of shriveled skin.
He applied some Iodine Antiseptic to disinfect the area and tossed his socks into a plastic bucket.
“Huh?”
Bai Yao noticed Qiu Ye’s gaze.
Turning his head, he saw the guy rubbing his chin and sizing him up with the grin of a mischievous devil.
“What?”
“You already bought the women’s pants, and they fit, right?”
Qiu Ye slapped his thigh and declared, “Next time, I’ll go with you to buy a dress! It’ll definitely suit you!”
“No!”
“Buy a pair of Black Silk Stockings, wear some leather shoes, put on some makeup, and I’m sure a ton of men will be chasing after you for your WeChat!”
Bai Yao couldn’t maintain his expressionless, cold face.
He cursed, “You’re insane!”
Hearing him curse only made Qiu Ye more excited.
“It would be a crime against nature if you didn’t start cross-dressing! You’re wasting the talent God gave you, okay? Learn how to dance and start live-streaming suggestive content, and you’ll make money easily.”
“Get lost!”
‘That perverted bus driver had a mountain of mortgage debt, and even he didn’t resort to suggestive content to make money!’
Bai Yao had long ago mastered the skill of remaining unfazed by any kind of teasing.
However, he couldn’t keep his composure around Qiu Ye.
He simply turned his back to Qiu Ye and focused on his computer.
The phone on the desk lit up.
Bai Yao looked at the caller ID and helplessly picked it up, heading toward the balcony.
“Hello? Mother?”
“Yao, your Elder Cousin should arrive tomorrow around 7:00 PM. Remember to pick him up from the airport.”
“Yeah, okay…”
Bai Yao hated tasks!
He hated tasks without rewards even more!
But since this was an order from his mother, he could only agree.
Afterward, he anxiously searched for the airport’s location on his phone.
It was actually in the city center.
A taxi would cost forty or fifty yuan, so it was better to take the subway.
At 7:00 PM, he probably wouldn’t make it back in time.
He might have to stay at a hotel with his cousin for one night.
He continued searching for tutorials on how to pick someone up at the airport…
“Do you have enough money for your living expenses?”
“Uh…”
Bai Yao hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and nodded.
“Enough! I’ve been working a part-time job lately, so it’s enough.”
“A part-time job? That’s good. Spend less money and spend less time on the computer. It’s so hard to make money these days. My monthly salary isn’t even 3,000 yuan, and the whole family doesn’t even spend 2,000 yuan a month. Usually, I just buy some vegetables and cook at home; it’s nutritious and clean…”
Mother began to nag again.
Bai Yao responded expressionlessly to her words, nodding every now and then.
‘I didn’t even ask for money! Why is she nagging again?’
‘I feel like I need an entire day to recover every time I call home…’
Qiu Ye came to the balcony, glanced at Bai Yao leaning against the railing, and then went into the bathroom.
By the time he finished and came out, Bai Yao had already hung up.
“Who was that? Your mother?”
“Yeah.”
Bai Yao sighed.
Logically, he didn’t want to talk about it, but he couldn’t hold back the frustration in his heart.
He vented to Qiu Ye, “Anyway, it’s just ‘no money, no money’ every day. I didn’t even ask her for money this month. It’s so annoying.”
He didn’t usually have anyone to talk to, so Qiu Ye became his emotional trash can.
Qiu Ye leaned against the railing next to him and nodded in sympathy.
“Exactly!”
“My parents didn’t even want to buy me a computer. I earned the money for my laptop by working over the summer, yet they still say I’m wasting money. I’m a science major in college; how could I not use a computer?”
“Exactly!”
“I have to go to the airport to pick up my cousin tomorrow. It’s so annoying. We haven’t been in touch for years.”
“Ex—”
Bai Yao kicked Qiu Ye in frustration.
“Are you the ‘Exactly’ type of personality?”
“Better than the ‘disagreeable’ type, right?”
Qiu Ye grinned and hooked his arm around Bai Yao’s shoulder.
“My parents are the same. I have to beg for 2,000 yuan for living expenses, and the moment they see me touch a computer, they think I’m playing games.”
This time, Bai Yao only glanced at Qiu Ye’s hand on his shoulder.
With Qiu Ye repeatedly breaking through his psychological boundaries, his bottom line was inevitably lowering.
It seemed that physical contact, like putting an arm around his shoulder, was no longer unacceptable.
It was just like how, after wearing a skirt once, he didn’t feel much resistance to wearing women’s pants now.
“I have to go pick him up tomorrow night.”
Bai Yao began to talk more, and his expressions became more varied as he wrinkled his nose in distress.
“I’ll probably have to stay out for one night with my cousin.”
“A little femboy should stay safe while out. Don’t wake up with a sore butt.”
Bai Yao rolled his eyes.
“I’m going to shower.”
When faced with something he had never done before, he was always habitually anxious.
Picking someone up at the airport…
He had never even been to an airport, so he could only repeatedly look for tutorials and videos online to figure out the entire process beforehand.
Before he had come to the university by himself, he had stayed up all night making a complete guide for taking the high-speed train, the subway, and reporting to the school.
His elder cousin…
Elder Cousin’s parents had been working hard abroad for years and had finally obtained legal status with a Green Card.
They even opened a restaurant and brought Elder Cousin over a few years ago.
In his memory, Elder Cousin was quite handsome, but he had dropped out of high school and dyed his hair yellow.
He was the “delinquent-chic” type.
‘I wonder how he is now.’
After showering, Bai Yao returned to his bed with a worried mind.
He pulled the bed curtain shut and tossed and turned in the small space.
‘I wonder how Elder Cousin will react when he sees me like this.’
‘It should be fine, right?’
After all, he had looked more like a girl when he was a child.
It was only after puberty that his “pretty” looks turned “delicate,” and then, with the addition of acne, acne marks, and hereditary spots… delicate had become ordinary.
Qiu Ye also went to bed, lying head-to-head with him, separated only by a railing and the thin fabric of the bed curtain.
“You’re sleeping this early?” Bai Yao took the initiative to ask.
“Nah, just lying down for a bit.”
Qiu Ye paused.
“Do you remember? When we were buying clothes earlier, there was a beauty with super long legs!”
“I didn’t see her… Were you keeping her all to yourself?”
“You didn’t see a beauty like that? I even had to remind you. Are you blind?”
Bai Yao tried hard to recall, but he still couldn’t remember the long-legged beauty Qiu Ye was talking about.
“The person at the milk tea shop called you a beauty too. I almost laughed out loud.”
“That person was truly blind.”
It had to be said that Qiu Ye was quite a chatterbox; once he started talking, he couldn’t stop.
Bai Yao was already starting to feel sleepy.
“I’m tired…”
“This early? Which era of Historical Web Novels do you usually read?”
“I read all of them. The Three Kingdoms, the Ming Dynasty?”
The conversation somehow veered from history to other random topics.
“I’m going to sleep…”
“My family is still telling me to drop out and repeat twelfth grade. Anyway, I’m not going. Anyone who wants to repeat twelfth grade can go ahead, but I’m not doing it.”
“Oh! I have a relative who repeated for a few years… I don’t think they ended up with a very good score anyway.”
Even though he wasn’t a talkative person and usually couldn’t squeeze out more than a few words a day, he was dragged into a conversation by Qiu Ye until midnight.
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