If Xia Yan Turned into a Girl, Part 10

Actually, going out isn't that scary.

After swallowing the bitter liquid and letting it slide down her throat into her stomach, Hua Xin, feeling a slight dizziness that seemed to be slowly rising in her brain, drifted off into thought.

Although beer isn't exactly delicious, since I've already bought it, I might as well try it.

There should be absolutely no waste of food.

Hua Xin calmed herself down and then finished the rest of the wheat juice in her glass. The aroma and still-warm temperature of the fried chicken in front of them meant they hadn't missed the best time to eat it.

With great solemnity, Hua Xin picked up the hard-won fried chicken and slowly put it into her mouth. For a moment, she couldn't imagine what words to use to describe her current feelings.

Crispy?

Tender and smooth?

Actually, just one word, "delicious," is enough to sum it all up.

"So? Going out isn't so scary, is it?"

It was a rare treat to enjoy a meal other than the special dishes made by Hua Xin, and Xia Yan couldn't help but smile. Paired with an ice-cold beer, perhaps only barbecue could rival this scene on a summer night.

This was the first time I had been able to feel happy for a short time since I became a girl.

Since that incident, Xia Yan has lost all sense of beauty in this world; the whole world seems to be pressing down on her with malice.

If Xia Yan hadn't been too tired to live, she really would have jumped off the building.

"Um..."

"If I could eat fried chicken every time I went out, it wouldn't be so terrible."

Hua Xin nodded, then solemnly put the fried chicken, which had been reduced to bones, into a bowl, and said to her with a very obvious sense of satisfaction.

Actually, he wasn't afraid of going out.

Rather, it's because there's no reason to go out.

For Hua Xin, only this house was a true "defense shield" that allowed him to withstand everything in the outside world.

As long as he doesn't step out of this defensive shield, he will naturally not be harmed.

For Hua Xin, the biggest shadow she has suffered since childhood is probably the fall apart of her once complete and warm family, which gradually turned from laughter and joy into cold silence.

Xia Yan was the same.

"..."

"When you're starving and have no money for food, will you go out and find work?"

Xia Yan gulped down the beer in his glass and then said somewhat fiercely.

The cold and bitter sensation did not disgust her; on the contrary, it brought her a sense of pleasure and comfort.

When a man has something on his mind, he likes to drink alone and stare blankly at something, like an e-sports game, a ball game, or a bustling street.

Xia Yan, who used to need to exercise and maintain a healthy diet, would never indulge in drinking.

But now none of these things matter.

No matter how much weight she lifts now, she can never go back to how she used to be.

"At present, we won't starve to death."

"But..."

"That's also a possibility."

A faint blush appeared on Hua Xin's pale face, but his words did not reveal that he was drunk; his mind was still able to calmly analyze what Xia Yan was saying.

If he didn't receive any game boosting orders and had no income to support himself, he might actually be hiding in his house drinking tap water and enduring the cold until he died.

The manner of their death will certainly be extremely cruel.

They starved to death, after all.

Hua Xin couldn't help but take another big bite of the large hamburger in his hand. The satisfying feeling brought by the delicious food almost brought tears to his eyes.

If I could eat my fill of fried chicken and hamburgers like this before slowly starving to death, I would die without regrets.

"Tch, can't you go out and get a job?"

"If all else fails, can't you just beg me? Brother, do you think I'd let you starve to death?"

Xia Yan wiped her mouth with her greasy little hands, feeling rather disappointed, and then, without any ladylike manners, lifted one of her white legs and placed it on the stool.

Although she has become a girl, none of her habits have changed at all since she was a boy.

It seems that Xia Yan still considered himself a man from beginning to end.

Perhaps under the influence of alcohol, Xia Yan, now quite "bold," continued slowly in her Tian Tian voice:

"Laohua, although my brother and I are both about to enter university, I still have some family wealth compared to you."

"At the very least, I can guarantee you'll have enough to eat."

"How many years have we known each other?..."

Hua Xin once again poured the bitter liquid from the bottle into her stomach, reducing the step of pouring it into the glass and making the beer foam even more.

He was somewhat dazed after hearing Xia Yan's words.

They've known each other since they were six or seven years old.

They then attended the same primary school and the same junior high school.

Although they weren't in the same class and couldn't be together every day, the short time after school still allowed them to play around and joke with each other.

I remember that Xia Yan had a very strong personality back then. Several times when someone tried to bully him, he would help him intimidate those bad kids and then pull him away to run away.

It's obvious that the two of them couldn't possibly defeat four or five people.

But once again, those naughty kids deliberately blocked Xia Yan, who had repeatedly defied them. Hua Xin didn't think much about it and rushed up to fight them.

As a result, Hua Xin and Xia Yan were beaten badly, their bodies covered in bruises.

However, this kind of thing will not happen again after that.

Because those who bully the weak and fear the strong will not attack those who can resist; they will only bully the lambs who silently endure without resistance, and will not challenge the authority of those who are stronger than them.

"It's been about ten years."

Hua Xin said softly.

When he looked up at the person sitting opposite him, he vaguely mistook the beautiful girl with the unladylike posture for the talkative child from his memory.

I have a friend.

It's actually quite rare.

"You still know it's been ten years?"

"We've known each other for so long. I know you'll be upset and unable to accept what happened, but at least it shouldn't be this difficult to even see me, right?"

Hearing Hua Xin's answer, Xia Yan seemed a little angry. Her questioning tone made her seem not scary at all, but rather quite cute.

This incident clearly still bothers her.

"..."

Hua Xin lowered her head in silence for a moment, then said softly:

"I'm just afraid that being friends with someone like me will cause you trouble."

Xia Yan was taken aback.

After a moment of silence.

She lightly scolded Hua Xin.

"Fool."