Sister... Sister?

"Mmm..." Su Li frowned, her head feeling like it was stuffed with mush, swollen and aching.

"My head hurts so much..." Her memory was still stuck on the moment before she fainted.

"What happened?" Su Li subconsciously tried to raise her hand to rub her temples, but found her arms too weak to lift.

Then, Su Li's vision gradually focused, and a face filled with worry and complex emotions appeared in the center of her sight.

"Yueyue?" Su Li opened her mouth, wanting to speak, but no sound came out.

Then she blinked, looking at Su Lin Yue with a hint of confusion.

"Brother! You're finally awake! Wuwuwu..."

Su Li grunted as she was tackled, feeling a tightness in her chest and a strange pressure?

Wait? Pressure? Su Li subconsciously looked down.

Beneath the loose t-shirt collar, two unfamiliar mounds gently trembled with her breathing.

"!!!" Su Li's pupils dilated instantly.

"No way..." Su Li stiffly lowered her head, refusing to believe the impossible mounds.

Then, as if suddenly realizing something, Su Li, with a sliver of hope, tremblingly reached beneath the sheets.

"Please, at least be alive..."

Closer... closer.

As she got closer, Su Li's hand trembled more and more...

Finally, Su Li touched it, the thing that should have been there...

But there wasn't even a single hair!!!

"Boom--!!!" Su Li felt the sky instantly collapse.

Gone? That good brother who had accompanied her for over twenty years, who had saluted her even on the coldest winter nights, was just gone?!

Without even a farewell ceremony, without even seeing him one last time, he had disappeared inexplicably?

"I'll be damned..." Su Li's whole body was shaking, a sense of immense absurdity and grief surging through her.

"I'm still a virgin!!"

"Brother! You died so tragically! You never even went to the battlefield! Your life, how stifling, how unrecognized was your talent!"

"Even dying on the charge would have been better! But you just disappeared without a trace? What is this? Dying before you even set out?"

The immense blow made Su Li subconsciously want to pull her hair, a habit when she was agitated.

However, as soon as her hand was raised, countless strands of black silk threaded through her fingers.

Smooth, cool, with a faint fragrance, she grabbed a strand and brought it to her eyes.

Clearly long and black, the ends even reached her chest.

"..."

Su Li stared blankly at the long hair in her hand, then looked down at her slightly raised chest.

What would she do from now on? Would she have to squat to use the toilet? Would she have to wear a bra when she went out?

Would she have to experience that legendary pain of a drill drilling into her stomach every month?

Why did this plot, which only existed in manga and transformation novels, happen to me?

Was it because I liked playing female characters in games? But that was just to treat the character as a waifu, I never thought I'd become one myself...

Su Li wanted to bury her head in the covers and cry, or just faint and pretend none of this had happened.

Just then.

"Brother... why aren't you talking? Don't scare me..."

Su Lin Yue looked at her with red, swollen eyes.

Su Li's body trembled.

Yes, Yueyue was still here. Her parents had passed away early, and the siblings had relied on each other for the past few years. In Yueyue's eyes, she was the pillar of the house, the mountain that shielded them from wind and rain.

If even she collapsed, then this family would truly be finished.

"No... I can't break down. If I break down, what will happen to Yueyue?"

Su Li took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the collapse within her heart, and tried to force a confident smile.

"I'm fine, Yueyue..."

The air suddenly fell silent, and the smile on Su Li's face froze.

The worry on Su Lin Yue's face also froze for a moment.

After two seconds of dead silence, Su Li was internally smashing tables:

"Do I sound pretty? Whose voice is this?! Is this my voice?!"

The voice that came out was crisp and pleasant like a silver bell, soft and sweet like a mochi, with even a slight upward inflection at the end, possessing a natural, bone-melting "clip" voice effect.

This wasn't just a normal girl's voice; it was a top-tier loli voice with four plus signs of sweetness!

Even the most clingy soft girl in real life probably couldn't make such a cutesy sound.

"Gulp."

Su Lin Yue subconsciously swallowed, looking at the delicate older sister before her, and for a moment, she forgot to cry.

"Brother... you..."

Su Li closed her eyes in despair. Destroy me, hurry up.

If the previous event was just the death of her brother, then this was social death.

But she still relied on her tenacious willpower to open her eyes again and said through gritted teeth with that damned sweet voice, "It's really... fine."

Every word sounded like it was squeezed from between her teeth, but to others, it sounded like a coy complaint.

Su Lin Yue was clearly a bit dazed by the huge contrast. She stared for a while before cautiously asking, "Brother, are you really okay?"

Su Li had completely given up now. She flashed a broken smile and tried to make her tone sound like a man's:

"Do I look like I'm not okay? Other than missing a few parts, I feel so good I could kill a cow."

Su Lin Yue: "..."

Although the words sounded ridiculous, this familiar, slightly flippant way of joking was definitely her older brother.

Confirming this, Su Lin Yue's fear finally subsided by more than half.

She sniffled and looked at Su Li, a little wronged and a little curious:

"Then Brother, you really turned into a girl..."

Su Li's facial muscles twitched. This girl was really poking the bear.

"Yeah, I changed," Su Li sighed, looking utterly defeated. "This must be fate. I'm very adaptable, really."

Adaptable my ass. Right now, I just want to find a place to be alone!

Su Lin Yue looked at Su Li, confirming that her brother didn't have any suicidal thoughts due to the loss of his manhood, and finally put her mind at ease.

"Then why did this happen?" Su Lin Yue couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know."

Su Li shrugged helplessly and casually tucked a strand of long hair that had fallen onto her chest behind her ear.

"Who knows? It's not like it's like those third-rate novels where I accidentally signed a contract with some alien creature and became a magical girl, right?"

Su Li suddenly thought of something and tentatively shouted into the air:

"System? Kyubey? Are you there? I want to make a wish to get my manhood back."

The air was silent, only the sound of the wind blowing outside the window.

"..."

Su Li rolled her eyes. "See, no little white creature jumped out to ask if I wanted to become a mahou shoujo. What kind of situation is this?"

Seeing her brother's depressed and comical expression, Su Lin Yue finally couldn't help but let out a chuckle.

With that laugh, tears started to flow again.

"Brother!" She could no longer control her emotions and rushed forward, hugging Su Li tightly.

"Wuwuwu... You scared me so much... I thought you were going to die..."

"Ah, this..."

Feeling the warm body in her arms and her sister's trembling shoulders, Su Li's momentary awkwardness slowly softened.

She slowly raised her hand and gently patted Su Lin Yue's back.

Just like when she was scared by the neighbor's dog and cried as a child.

Just like the night their parents died, when she shivered under the covers.

"It's okay, it's okay."

Su Li comforted her softly. Although her voice was sweet, the firmness in her tone was as unwavering as ever. "Brother is here. No matter what I become, Brother is here."

After crying for a long time, Su Lin Yue's emotions finally subsided. She withdrew from Su Li's embrace a little embarrassed, wiping her tears.

Since they grew up, although she and her brother had a good relationship, they hadn't hugged so intimately in a long time.

After all, there was a difference between men and women, and siblings should avoid suspicion.

But now...

"Brother..."

Su Lin Yue's tone suddenly became a little strange. "Looking closely, you seem even prettier than me now."

Su Li: "?"

"Look at this skin, you can't even see the pores," Su Lin Yue poked Su Li's cheek with her finger, looking envious. "And these legs, they're white and straight, even longer than mine, and this waist... mmm, so thin."

Su Li's face instantly darkened to the bottom of a pot. "Thanks, but I'd rather not have that kind of compliment."

She impatiently swatted Su Lin Yue's hand away. "Stop touching me, or I'll charge you!"

"Tch, stingy." Su Lin Yue forced a smile through her tears, and the atmosphere finally completely eased.

"So..." Su Lin Yue tilted her head, her eyes mischievous. "Should I call you 'sister' now?"

"Call me 'Ge'!"

Su Li flatly refused. "This is a man's last shred of dignity! Even if my appearance has changed, my soul is still male!"

"Nyah nyah nyah, you're clearly a sister."

"Call me 'Ge'!"

"Okay, sister, no problem, sister."

"Su Lin Yue, are you itching for a beating?"

"Ah, no, Ge, I know I was wrong!"

After a bout of banter, the heavy, suffocating atmosphere finally dissipated.

Although the problem wasn't solved, at least they could bicker with each other like before.

Dinner was takeout. Su Li didn't dare to go out.

If she went out looking like this, by tomorrow, rumors would be flying all over the neighborhood:

<Shocking! The seemingly upright son of the Su family is actually a cross-dressing big boss!>

<Moral decay! The academically gifted younger sister turned her older brother into a sister to satisfy her selfish desires!>

Just thinking about it made her want to die of embarrassment. After dinner, it was late.

Su Li tidied up the takeout boxes and was about to retreat into her room like an ostrich when Su Lin Yue tugged at her sleeve.

"Ge..." Su Lin Yue, hugging a pillow, stood at the bedroom door looking at her.

"Can I sleep with you tonight?"

"No!"

Su Li instinctively refused, frowning. "How old are you and you still want to sleep with Ge? Do you understand the principle of 'men and women should not touch'? Go back to your own room."

However, Su Lin Yue didn't obey as she usually did. Her lip quivered, and her eyes instantly turned red again.

"But I'm afraid you'll disappear when I wake up tomorrow, or turn into something else strange..."

She sniffled and retorted righteously, "Besides, we're both girls now! What's wrong with touching? Can't sisters sleep together?"

"Uh..."

Su Li was caught off guard by this direct hit. She opened her mouth but found herself speechless.

Yes, they were both girls now.

That kind of barrier no longer existed on a physical level.

But... Su Li looked down at herself, then at Su Lin Yue.

"You don't mind, but I do! My psychology is still that of a grown man!"

But seeing her sister's "if you don't agree, I'll cry for you" stance, Su Li's heart finally softened.

"Fine," Su Li said, helplessly holding her forehead. "Just this once, and never again."

"Yay! Ge, you're the best!"

Su Lin Yue's expression changed instantly. She cheered, hugging her pillow, and burrowed into Su Li's covers with a practiced ease that was heartbreaking.

Night deepened, and the bedroom lights were off, leaving only the faint moonlight filtering in from the window.

Su Lin Yue fell asleep quickly, perhaps exhausted from the day's fright and crying. She clung to Su Li's arm like an octopus, her breathing steady and deep.

Su Li, however, couldn't sleep. She didn't even dare to look in the mirror, afraid that seeing the unfamiliar face would make her break down again.

She lay stiffly on the bed, feeling the warmth of her sister beside her and the strangeness of her own body.

Memories surged like a tide.

From the moment her parents died, she had forced herself to grow up. She learned to cook and learned to deal with those snobbish relatives.

She was used to being a protector, a hard shell, and games were her temporary refuge...

She had imagined her future countless times: finding an ordinary girl, getting married, having children, and living a simple life.

But now, fate had played a huge joke on her.

What would she do from now on? Could she return to her old life looking like this?

Su Li turned her head and, in the moonlight, looked at the sleeping Su Lin Yue.

With a sense of confusion about the future, Su Li slowly closed her eyes.

And in her dream, she seemed to return to that summer when her parents were still alive, and she was still that boy in big shorts, fearlessly sweating it out on the court with his brothers.