"Both sides of the voice call fell into a long silence. Only then did the other party speak awkwardly.
"J-just because my voice sounds like a woman's, that's all! A voice changer! Right, I used a voice changer."
Xu Qi took a deep breath.
"Theresa, are you treating me like an idiot?"
"...I didn't mean to... No one believes me when I say I'm a girl online these days... I might as well pretend to be a guy."
"Then why didn't you send a voice message?"
"I'm socially anxious."
For fuck's sake!
"Don't blame me for not telling you, okay? You were the one who kept calling me 'bro,' and I... I was too embarrassed to shatter your illusions, so I just let you keep calling me that."
Now, all of Theresa's strange comments before and after Xu Qi came to Guangcheng finally had an explanation...
So you're actually a girl?!
Theresa! Give me back my bro!
73. So you know the Ballad of Mulan
"Oh, come on! What's wrong with me being a girl? You're not happy about it?"
Xu Qi sat cross-legged on the balcony's wooden floor, leaning against the railing with a look of despair.
"Opening the east chamber door, sitting on my west chamber bed, taking off my wartime robe, putting on my old clothes. By the window I arranged my hair, before the mirror I pinned on my makeup."
"All right, all right, stop reciting it. I know you know the Ballad of Mulan."
Xu Qi waved at the bright moon.
"Goodbye, my dear bro Theresa. May you rest in peace in heaven."
"There's never been any such person! I've been a girl from the very beginning!"
"But he was my dear bro!"
"And you're still my dear sis!"
"Hmph! So you're finally showing your