It wasn't that Ling Feng didn't want to, but his life as an Astral Mark Girl had already begun.
Ling Feng knew the expression magical girls wore when they saw an Astral Mark Girl, so he didn't dare have much contact with her anymore. Later on, Lan Xinyu began using *.
An Ordinary and Peaceful Daily Life
Ling Wanqing walked straight over to Zhao Lei, then gave him a look that said, "I'm sitting here."
This startled Zhao Lei. What? Was the new girl going to take his seat?
Naturally, Ling Feng saw this as well. He didn't think Zhao Lei would give up his seat for Ling Wanqing; Ling Feng knew Zhao Lei well.
He was already a somewhat famous thug around this area. He had supposedly even joined the underworld and gathered a group of brothers.
Ling Feng was still a little puzzled about how this honest, simple-minded fat guy had gotten involved with people from the streets.
No matter what, Zhao Lei was no longer the penniless nobody he used to be. Would some big shot from the streets give up his seat for someone? How could that be possible?
While he was still thinking about it, Zhao Lei had already stood up and was preparing to move elsewhere. Ling Feng was stunned by the sight.
"Brother Feng, your sister wants to sit with you, so I'll move next door."
With that, Zhao Lei actually started moving. Opportunities to talk to such a pretty girl were rare, and she was his brother's younger sister besides. Naturally, Zhao Lei wouldn't refuse.
Tang Xiaohua and Tang Ling, meanwhile, both frowned deeply and immediately went on alert as though facing a formidable enemy.
Noticing their expressions, an imperceptible smile crossed Ling Wanqing's lips.
Ling Feng took all of this in. The air was thick with the smell of gunpowder; it could practically ignite at a touch. At that moment, Ling Feng could only hope they would focus on their exams.
Heaven seemed to have heard Ling Feng's inner plea. Throughout the entire morning, Ling Wanqing behaved especially well. Other than a crowd of classmates surrounding her as soon as class ended, she didn't say anything else.
As soon as school let out at noon, Ling Wanqing used the trick she used to pull on Ling Feng before. She clung to his arm the entire way, and they returned home amid the strange looks of passersby.
Along the way, Ling Feng seemed to hear words like "puppy love" and "corrupting public morals."
How could hearing that possibly make Ling Feng happy? Damn it, even if they were dating early, what business was it of theirs?
At noon, Ling Xiaoyu was in high spirits. She made an entire tableful of dishes and kept putting food into Ling Wanqing's bowl as the two chatted and laughed.
Ling Feng, on the other hand, was left out. He simply lowered his head and ate while listening to them talk.
They said those involved couldn't see clearly, while onlookers saw everything.
Ling Feng didn't know what would happen once they learned each other's identities, but he wouldn't deliberately expose them. It would be best if everyone could get along peacefully.
"Heh..." Thinking that, Ling Feng chuckled, and both Ling Xiaoyu and the other girl heard it.
Ling Wanqing thought Ling Feng was laughing at her. Angrily, she picked up a beef ball and stuffed it directly into Ling Feng's mouth, making him cough violently. Ling Xiaoyu couldn't help laughing when she saw it.
"Cough, cough... What are you doing?"
After coughing out those words, Ling Feng hurriedly took a sip of water. He had nearly choked to death just now.
"What were you laughing at? I was only talking about something from my childhood." Ling Wanqing said unhappily.
Ling Feng was speechless after hearing that. Did his laughing automatically mean he was laughing at her?
After that, the two continued chatting and laughing. Ling Feng stopped paying attention to them. After washing the dishes, he went upstairs.
It was Friday again. Tomorrow was the final weekend before the exams, and Ling Feng believed Ling Xiaoyu wouldn't make him go to some maid café again, since she herself was about to take the college entrance exam.
With the changes of the times, Linzhou City was developing rapidly as well. Ling Feng's home was in an apartment building not far from Linzhou Ancient City, and the area was gradually improving too.
The city center, meanwhile, was packed with towering buildings. Traffic flowed endlessly through the streets, and crowds surged like tides. At night, the city was beautiful too, its lights seeming both real and illusory.
Inside and outside the bars, crowds shouted and indulged themselves recklessly. Advertisements for famous beers flashed along the antique-style streets.
The whole day passed as joyfully and ordinarily as usual. Ling Wanqing's arrival hadn't disrupted anything, and Ling Wanqing herself had been very well-behaved.
Ling Feng was rather curious. Why did it feel like this girl had changed so much? Was it just an illusion?
But he didn't think too much about it. Wasn't this a good thing? That evening, she and Ling Xiaoyu went out chatting and laughing, supposedly to relax before the exams, leaving Ling Feng alone at home.
"Forget it, it's rare to have some peace and quiet."
As it turned out, Ling Feng went to an internet café that evening with Zhao Ping and Yuwen. The two of them were both rather surprised.
"Hey! You actually have time this round? We have to play a few good matches tonight. So, are you rusty yet?"
Zhao Ping said this with an arm draped over each of Ling Feng and Yuwen's shoulders.
"You don't trust me? The number one professional gunner!" Ling Feng said proudly. He wouldn't allow anyone to question him on that point.
"What about you, Yuwen?" Zhao Ping asked.
"I'll cover you two. Just leave it to me." Yuwen pushed up his black-framed glasses, equally confident.
"Good, then it's settled."
"Pull an all-nighter?"
"Absolutely!"
Although finals were approaching, none of them cared in the slightest. Brothers went to some wild * university together!
An Unfamiliar Call
Saturday morning, at Beishangyuan Maid Café, Lin Danyue began cleaning early.
While busy with the work in her hands, she also directed the people below her.
Lately, she hadn't seen Ling Feng, and Lin Danyue unexpectedly found things a little boring. She used to be able to tease Ling Feng, but without him around, she had no one to tease. She didn't like teasing her coworkers either; it was too boring.
Now that the Magic Association's systems had gradually been perfected, Lin Danyue practically had nothing to do. There was only one task, and she still had no way to begin because she had no idea where the person was.
That task had been personally issued by the president of the Linzhou City Magic Association.
Most magical girls could only yearn for it without ever obtaining it. Only capable people could accept it. As for what it was, it was the [Special Operation to Capture "Star Dream Beneath the Moonlight"!]
"Big Sister Yue!"
Hearing the voice, Lin Danyue turned around and studied the beautiful girl Tang Xiaohua with interest. The moment this girl entered, she had headed straight toward her.
"Xiaohua? What brings you here today? Did someone bully you?"
Finals were approaching. Unless something difficult had happened, Tang Xiaohua wouldn't have come looking for her. Lin Danyue understood this, so she got straight to the point.
"Hehe, there really is something I want Big Sister Yue to help me with."
Tang Xiaohua wasn't polite about it, because the person before her was her big sister figure, an official member of the early Magic Association. Rumor had it that she was now the manager of this branch. Her strength was definitely enough to beat that Ling Mengxue senseless.
Lin Danyue, however, had no idea what Tang Xiaohua wanted help with. With Tang Xiaohua's current strength, ordinary Astral Mark Girls were no match for her at all.
Ever since Tang Xiaohua had joined the Magic Association and learned some training-level magic from Lin Danyue, she had defeated all the Astral Mark Girls at Tiannan High School.
As for transferring schools? She had simply been too bored, so she wanted to transfer to the school her cousin Tang Ling attended and clean up the Astral Mark Girls there too. But then some Ling Mengxue suddenly appeared and beat her so badly she was left dazed.
That was why Tang Xiaohua hurried over to seek Lin Danyue's help during the weekend. She might still be able to find her now. If she waited until the Spring Festival break, it would probably be next year, and Tang Xiaohua didn't want to wait.
After listening to Tang Xiaohua's description, Lin Danyue fell into thought.
"You're saying... Ling Mengxue is your new classmate's younger sister? You've mastered training-level magic. Ordinary apprentice Astral Mark Girls shouldn't be able to defeat you, right? Then she should at least be somewhat famous. Why have I never heard of her?"
"Right! She also has a title—'Star Dream Beneath the Moonlight'!" Tang Xiaohua suddenly said.
Lin Danyue was slightly surprised upon hearing that. Could there really be such a coincidence in the world? She immediately told Tang Xiaohua about the recent matter at the Magic Association. When Tang Xiaohua heard they were planning to deal with Star Dream Beneath the Moonlight, she was even more delighted.
"Don't worry, Big Sister Yue. Leave this matter to me."
Tang Xiaohua was full of confidence. Another chance to become famous in a single battle had arrived!
Meanwhile, Ling Feng was sitting alone in the living room, eating breakfast while watching television.
Because Ling Xiaoyu was taking the college entrance exam, Ling Feng was the only one at home right now. He had originally wanted to see Ling Xiaoyu off, but she had gently declined, saying Ling Wanqing alone was enough to accompany her. Sure enough, family affection could change too.
Although he was alone, Ling Feng didn't mind in the slightest.
Just then, his phone rang. It was an unfamiliar number, and Ling Feng casually answered it.
"Hello, is this classmate Ling Feng?"
A gentle female voice came from the phone. Ling Feng found the voice somewhat familiar when he heard it. It was Tang Xiaohua. What did she want?
"No."
Without thinking further, Ling Feng replied flatly and hung up.
Tang Xiaohua's Visit
Although Ling Feng was surprised that Tang Xiaohua had gotten his phone number.
That feeling vanished in an instant. She could either have asked someone for it, or found it in the school's student records.
Given Tang Xiaohua's relationship with Liu Yinxuan and the others, she could find it with a casual search.
On the other end of the line, Tang Xiaohua was stunned. "What kind of person is that? Seriously."
As time passed, Ling Feng had accumulated a few hundred points in Destiny Sign, and she wanted to exchange them for some useful items.
Returning to her room, she locked the door. After a series of embarrassing operations, she completed her transformation and opened a blue screen before her that only she could see.
This was something similar to a system, right? But it was lifeless, Ling Feng thought to herself.
She had indeed read plenty of novels about systems—countless cheat abilities, like playing with hacks enabled.
Some of the more unusual ones were rather interesting. In one, the protagonist rejected binding with the system a thousand times in a row, literally driving it mad. Then the protagonist became the system herself?! "Hey! Host up ahead, don't run away!"
300 points
The upper-left corner of the blue screen displayed Ling Feng's points, but a glance through the store showed nothing but women's clothing: dresses, stockings, and heaps of other things.
Weren't there items before?! Ling Feng refused to believe it and immediately began scrolling down, until her hand nearly cramped.
Finally, her gaze locked onto an item, and Ling Feng recognized it at once.
"Voice-Changing Pill!"
Ling Feng couldn't have been more familiar with this thing. She took several nearly every weekend, but the price...
Thinking of that, Ling Feng subconsciously glanced at it.
"Damn! One hundred points each! It's that expensive?!"
Ling Feng truly hadn't expected that. Looking at it this way, her older sister was practically a rich woman. Where had she gotten so many points?
Thinking further, Ling Feng's body suddenly shuddered, because she more or less understood.
"Let's look at the description."
[Voice-Changing Pill: Also known as the "Transformation Pill," it can gradually improve a person's body. If used by a male, it will gradually feminize him, eventually turning him completely into a girl. It is not recommended for males, unless it is occasionally needed to deal with a particular situation. Its true purpose is to alleviate discomfort caused by women's menstrual periods, improve the skin, whiten and nourish the complexion, and so on. (Suitable ages: 15–30)]
Everything had happened so suddenly and unexpectedly that Ling Feng felt like a pitiful scrap of paper, casually battered and ravaged by a storm.
The facts were right before her, yet Ling Feng still tried to comfort herself.
"Everything is for survival..."
"Everything is for survival..."
"Everything is for... for... survival my ass!"
"No wonder I've always felt weak and powerless lately, like I'm sickly. Sometimes I even have a trace of gentleness and maternal affection. My personality keeps changing, my temper is irritable, and my moods are unpredictable."
The more Ling Feng summed things up, the more terrified she became.
In a fit of rage, Ling Feng spent three hundred points in bitter resentment on an outfit.
It was all black, anyway: a black long-sleeved shirt paired with black stockings. Other than the tie and short skirt being pure white, even the hair accessory was a black bow. Finally, there were the high heels Ling Feng hated most.
Although she had spent so many points, Ling Feng didn't feel the slightest regret. She had no intention of wearing it anyway.
She had merely spent recklessly after experiencing the bitter realities of being both male and female, in order to vent the indignation in her heart.
She was still feeling depressed when the doorbell rang. Who would come at a time like this?
Ling Feng glanced down through the window.
"Tang Xiaohua? How did she find this place too?"
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