He opened his phone and saw that the top message on vx was Tencent News, followed by a contact saved as Huang Jie, who used a cute anime avatar.
—Actually, it was Huang Ge.
Yes, the thirty-three-year-old programmer who turned into a stunning beauty in women’s clothes and makeup.
[Xiao Jiang, why didn’t you come to work today? Are you sick? Or did something go wrong on your blind date? If you see this, send me a message. I’ll help you take a leave.]
As a colleague, Huang Ge was a pretty decent guy.
If only he didn’t always make girls feel a chill and seem even more manly than men, he’d be a great friend.
After all, the other drinking buddies in the company who often hung out with him didn’t bother to message her.
Of course, maybe they didn’t think a coworker skipping a day was a big deal. In this era of corporate grind, who hasn’t stayed up late, overslept, and decided to skip work once in a while?
[It’s fine, Huang Ge, just a little fever. I just woke up. I’ll go to the Community Clinic for an IV drip soon.]
[Help me take a leave. I’ll treat you to a drink sometime.]
Replying with social niceties he wasn’t sure he could keep, Jiang Yin suddenly felt a little dazed.
What had made him gradually turn into this?
He used to never make promises he knew he couldn’t keep, nor would he be so cold to those who cared for him, not daring to show a bit of sincerity.
The more she adapted to adult life, the more she felt at thirty, she’d already entered middle age even before the crisis hit.
‘Ha…how ironic.’
Looking at the phone she could no longer hold in one hand, and her fair, slender fingers, the girl lowered her head slightly, feeling a bit sad, a bit afraid.
She hadn’t noticed it before, but this incident made her realize she had to say goodbye to the past thirty years.
Now…
She had to face a brand new, completely unknown life.
What would the future be like?
Would the end still be death?
‘Thinking about it, nothing has really changed~’
“What are you thinking about?”
The Old Police Officer interrupted the girl’s belated sadness with a chuckle.
“The people here to pick you up have arrived.”
“Uncle.”
“Hm?”
“That’s not how you use that word.”
“Oh, fine, I just thought you young people liked to joke around. I’ll remember next time.”
“Okay.”
Walking out of the Police Station, they entered a small alley. The Old Police Officer stopped and made a call.
Without saying a word, a BYD Tang slowly approached, the window rolling down to reveal a woman’s tightly wrapped face.
Oversized sunglasses and an N95 Mask… Jiang Yin glanced up at the August sun, worried she’d suffocate herself in the car.
“I’m handing her over to you, comrade.”
Both sides verified their IDs and saluted each other.
The Old Police Officer patted Jiang Yin on the shoulder.
“Get in.”
“This really isn’t some human trafficker handoff?”
The girl joked instinctively. The Old Police Officer laughed.
“What are you thinking? Get in.”
“Okay…”
She nodded, saluting the officer who was both strict and gentle.
“See you next time.”
“See you next time, comrade.”
The Old Police Officer hesitated, then spoke as she was about to get in.
“…Try not to browse too much. The Cyber Police keep records.”
“Bang!”
Jiang Yin slammed the door shut!
Then, she opened her phone and frantically deleted her browsing history, pink and blue apps, and cleared every risqué image group.
She couldn’t keep these things anymore!
She had a psychological shadow!
Who could understand the fear of human self-pollination!
The car started slowly, making almost no sound.
Like the August sunlight, silent but scorching the earth.
The air conditioning inside was strong. Jiang Yin sat quietly for a while before she couldn’t help but glance around, using the window’s reflection to observe the woman with fiery red hair.
“Um…Sis…”
“You’re thirty, older than me.”
“Oh, then little sis?”
“….”
Hearing a little sis with a Northeastern accent come from such a cute white-haired girl was just too weird. The woman couldn’t hold it in and finally compromised.
“Just call me sis. It sounds younger.”
“Alright, sis, how are the benefits at your place? Is it dangerous?”
The woman was clearly surprised that the first thing a new Magical Girl asked about was job benefits, but thinking of Jiang Yin’s previous identity, it made sense.
She gave up holding back, took off her mask, shrugged, and smiled.
“That depends on your position. Frontline combat jobs have higher benefits and protections, support roles less so. The pay is a level above the Military, and promotions are faster. If you have talent and work hard, you can rise even quicker.”
Only then did Jiang Yin notice she was a stunning beauty, but she didn’t care about that now—only whether she could support herself in the future.
“Did the Bureau assign you this car too, sis?”
“I saved up and bought it myself, but if it’s for work, you can get one from the Bureau. Just ask.”
“Oh, oh…”
From this short conversation, Jiang Yin could already guess the general situation at the Magical Girl Administration Bureau.
High pay, dangerous work, but it’s a government job. Considering this lady could afford a three or four hundred thousand yuan car, the salary wasn’t as low as an ordinary civil servant.
Plus, maybe you didn’t need seniority, and management was more streamlined. Because of the nature of the work, positions had more authority, and there weren’t so many complicated rules.
Overall, it was a great job, aside from the danger.
But Jiang Yin had already accepted it—what else could she do after being exposed?
She couldn’t rebel against life, her master, so she might as well lie down and enjoy it. Besides, an official organization wouldn’t send a Magical Girl with no fighting spirit like her to the frontlines.
If she worked hard and passed the tests to get into support, she could have a lifetime of stability…
But should she count her age as thirty or a teenager now?
Her body felt light and strong, with none of the chronic aches from years of work. She just wasn’t sure about her lifespan.
If her age really reset, didn’t that mean she got an extra ten or more years for free?
And went straight into the system?
She was practically a winner at life—a lifetime of peace as long as she behaved.
‘Thinking about it, being a Magical Girl is kind of nice?’
Like they say, if you can’t resist, enjoy it.
Anyway, Jiang Yin was an optimist—take life one step at a time.
What else could she do?
The probability of human self-pollination was low, but not zero.
No one knows whether tomorrow or the unexpected comes first, just like Jiang Yin never expected her mother to leave so early, leaving her to wander this world alone.
She also never thought being a single child would make her best romance fall to reality.
‘What a shame.’
Thinking back, maybe if she’d tried harder, she’d already be married with kids and wouldn’t have turned into a girl.