Strictly speaking, Duanmu Ai's body in this world was extremely deceptive.
If she didn't speak and simply sat there, she was the standard sickly beauty, looking so frail that a gust of wind might knock her over. If she added a melancholy expression like Lin Daiyu's, she would be quite the lovable, pitiful character.
No one could imagine that she was a terrifying monster capable of lifting a steamroller and going ora ora on it.
Of course, she had barely grown at all as a woman, which was also a good thing for Duanmu Ai. At least she didn't have to worry about buying bras in different cup sizes or anything like that.
As for playing male roles, Duanmu Ai had... all right, she had actually done that quite a few times.
It was rare to see men disguised as women in movies, but women disguised as men were fairly common. Duanmu Ai wasn't particularly tall, but she wasn't short either, so she could pass for a teenage boy. As long as she changed her hairstyle, put on some makeup, changed her clothes, and wore colored contacts, she could indeed play a pretty boy.
Duanmu Ai had played similar roles before, and not just once or twice. After all, many hit Japanese manga and anime adaptations were set in schools, often with superpowered battles and the like. The problem was that if high school students who could act were hard to find, high school students who could act in fight scenes were even harder to find. So a few times, major directors had asked Duanmu Ai to step in herself, and she had reluctantly done so, even taking on some stunt work.
But those were battle scenes!
Romance scenes?
That was a little...
"I'm not cut out for it, am