The next morning, Xingsheng South Street, Maid café.
There were a few customers in the café, but Xia Yu didn’t pay them much mind.
She sat in her boss’s chair, leisurely scrolling through her phone. Before long, a few messages finally came back.
“Miss, I’ve finished looking up all the information you requested.”
Attached below were several files. Xia Yu flipped through them briefly and found that only a few people met the criteria.
However, these people usually only had the nickname Vivi, or had the characters for “Vivi” somewhere in their names.
Xia Yu searched for quite a while before finally seeing a name at the very end that consisted only of the two characters: Vivi.
Name: Vivi
Gender: Female
Age: 15
The information was more or less the same as what Vivi had told her, with only a few differences in the details.
“Are you sure this information is genuine?”
“I’ve checked these materials carefully. I can guarantee they are real.”
“Hmm, okay. I understand. Good work.”
“It was nothing, Miss. It is my honor to serve you.”
Their conversation ended there. Xia Yu looked at the data on her phone, lost in thought.
She always felt like something wasn’t quite right, but she couldn’t put her finger on it.
Xia Yu rested her chin on her hand and pondered for a moment, still feeling uneasy.
‘Maybe I should go to Xia Xiaoling’s house and test Vivi.’ It just so happened that today was Xia Xiaoling’s day off.
Deciding to act, she briefly tidied her desk, gathered some necessary items, greeted the other staff members, and hurried out the door.
On the way, as she drove, Xia Yu tried to think of an excuse so that Xia Xiaoling and Vivi wouldn’t get suspicious.
Then, her gaze caught a glimpse of her bag, where she saw a piece of white paper.
Her eyes flickered as she pulled it out. It was the complete results of Vivi’s psychological diagnosis from yesterday.
Seeing this, a smile tugged at the corners of her mouth.
It seemed she had a perfectly valid reason to visit them.
***
*Knock, knock, knock.*
Hearing the sound at the door, Vivi, who was currently writing in her diary in the room, trembled slightly.
She hurriedly hid the diary at the very bottom of a stack, poked her small head out, and asked.
“Sister Xia, who’s at the door?”
“Hmm? I don’t know. I’ll go take a look.”
Xia Xiaoling was also a bit confused. She first checked through the peephole. When she saw the familiar figure, she opened the door in a mix of surprise and delight.
“Sister, why are you here?”
Xia Yu stood at the door with a smile on her face. In one hand, she carried a bag of small pastries, and in the other, a bag of clothes.
“Oh, it’s nothing major. There was just a small flaw in Dr. Xu’s psychological report from yesterday.”
“She asked me to bring it over to you today.”
“Huh? Is that so?”
Xia Xiaoling was a bit suspicious. Logically, that kind of mistake shouldn’t happen.
But well, this was her sister after all, and there was no reason for her to lie.
Enthusiastically welcoming Xia Yu inside, Xia Xiaoling busied herself while calling out to Vivi.
“Vivi, my sister is here! She said there was a small flaw in yesterday’s psychological report. Come out and take a look.”
“Oh, coming.”
Vivi frowned, finding the whole thing rather strange. However, she didn’t think too much about it. After confirming that her diary wouldn’t be found by anyone, she finally walked out.
The moment she entered the living room, her eyes met Xia Yu’s.
A trace of unease inexplicably rose in her heart. Vivi cautiously sat down at the edge of the sofa, her pink eyes full of vigilance.
“So, are you getting used to living here?”
“Ah? Me? You mean me?”
Vivi pointed at herself, not expecting Xia Yu’s first words to be directed at her.
Xia Yu smiled and nodded.
“Well… it’s fine, I guess.”
“That’s good. Here, I specially bought a set of clothes for you. Why don’t you try them on?”
As she spoke, Xia Yu placed the bag of clothes on the coffee table. When she opened it, she actually pulled out a blue and white sailor suit, complete with a light blue skirt.
“Ah? Wait, wait, wait! Sister, why did you buy me clothes?”
In an instant, Vivi’s mind began to buzz. The sense of crisis in her heart grew stronger, and she instinctively leaned back several inches.
Vivi’s reaction was all caught by Xia Yu’s eyes, and a faint smile played on her lips.
“Because Vivi is cute, of course. I want to see you wear this.”
“Ugh!? I can’t!”
Vivi shook her head desperately. Because she was so agitated, her knee banged against the coffee table, making her face turn various shades of blue and red.
*Pfft—*
Seeing her like this, Xia Yu’s eyes crinkled, and the smile on her face deepened.
Xia Xiaoling, watching from the side, also found it a bit funny, but she was mostly confused.
“Sister, stop teasing her. She’s never really liked wearing skirts.”
“Oh? Is that so?”
Xia Yu raised an eyebrow and took a sheet of paper out of her bag.
“I was originally a bit skeptical about whether Dr. Xu’s diagnosis was wrong, but looking at her now, Dr. Xu’s diagnosis actually makes a lot of sense.”
“Hmm? This is…?”
“Here, take a look.”
Xia Xiaoling took the report curiously. In addition to a symptom of mild schizophrenia, there were a few glaring words on it.
“Gender cognitive error.”
A boom went off in her head. All of Vivi’s previous reactions suddenly became perfectly logical.
Because she believed she wasn’t a girl, she was unwilling to wear female clothing. Because she believed she wasn’t a girl, she was unwilling to take a bath with her.
It seemed like everything had become clear.
Xia Xiaoling glanced at Vivi and then at the report in her hand, a flash of heartache appearing in her eyes.
The reason she was like this must be related to her past suffering.
Because she had suffered too much, she imagined herself as a boy to make herself strong.
She was really—she was really so pitiful.
Xia Xiaoling was currently imagining an epic tragic drama in her head, with Vivi as the protagonist.
Meanwhile, Vivi, the star of this tragic drama, was completely unaware.
She just looked at Xia Xiaoling in confusion, then turned her gaze toward Xia Yu as if questioning her.
“Hmm? What are you looking at me for? Look at the report. You’ll understand everything after you read it.”
“Tch, I can’t even look?”
Vivi pursed her lips and took the report from Xia Xiaoling’s hand.
“Isn’t this the same as before? Where is the…”
Before she could finish, she noticed the new line of handwriting at the bottom.
“Gender cognitive error.”
Gender cognitive error? How was that possible?
Wait, no, no. Her outward appearance was that of a girl now, so what was written here probably meant that her cognition was that of a male.
*Hiss—* This Dr. Xu was actually quite capable.
Vivi sucked in a breath of cold air. To be able to infer this result from such a brief encounter and only a few words was indeed a bit terrifying.
“Sister, how should this gender cognitive error be treated?”
Xia Xiaoling leaned in close to Xia Yu’s ear and whispered her question.
Xia Yu raised an eyebrow and looked at the sailor suit on the coffee table.
“It’s simple. Just let her do things that only girls would do.”