Wait... what did she mean, another one?
"Aren't you surprised?" Song Yunshen was full of questions when he saw her reaction.
"What's there to be surprised about?" Xia Kening counted on her fingers. "Including the one you mentioned, this should be the fifth one this semester."
Good grief, five boys had confessed to her in a single semester?
Song Yunshen was a little taken aback. He hadn't expected Xia Kening to be so popular at school.
Then again, it made sense.
He instinctively looked down, then thought of Xia Kening's face and proportions, and found the result unsurprising.
Generally speaking, girls with large breasts tended to be a little fuller in figure.
On top of that, they wore ordinary school uniforms, not fitted clothes, so girls with large breasts could look a little bulky in them.
And among middle school boys, some were just discovering romance, while others were still uncivilized, stupid pigs. The latter might even make fun of busty girls, making them more likely to feel insecure at this stage.
But Xia Kening didn't fall into that category at all. She was a textbook example of a slender branch bearing abundant fruit.
He had no idea how she maintained that figure. Maybe she had some superpower that let her direct nutrients, sending everything she ate to exactly where it needed to go.
But!
None of that was the point!
"Then do you know who confessed to you?" Song Yunshen let out a long sigh. "You'll never guess."
"Of course I can't guess." Xia Kening sounded exasperated. "You have no idea who the first four people who confessed to me were."
"Is there a story there?" Song Yunshen raised an eyebrow, quite interested in the subject.
"I didn't even know the first boy." Once Xia Kening started talking about it, she got worked up, clearly having bottled up the urge to complain for a long time. "He was on the school's flag-raising team, and he insisted he'd noticed me watching him during the flag-raising ceremony."
"I'm just a little short, so I happened to be second in line. I was bored during the ceremony and didn't even know where my eyes were looking."
"But he decided I was interested in him, so he came and confessed to me. What's wrong with him?"
"The second one was a bit better. He wrote me a love letter, but he didn't put his name on it. He even said he'd had a crush on me for ages. I still don't know which one he was, and for a while I kept feeling like someone was watching me. It was really creepy."
"The third was the sports committee member from the class next door. I think he was on the basketball team. Mengdie dragged me to watch a school basketball game once, and since another school had come to play ours, of course we cheered for our own school."
"Then he came to confess to me the next day, saying my cheering had inspired him during the game and helped him win."
"I don't even know which one he was on the court..."
"The fourth was a ninth-grader. I found his meal card on the road and took it to his classroom to return it, and he latched onto me."
"He kept saying it was heaven's arrangement, that we were bound by fate and just had to be together."
"Tell me, how ridiculous is that?"
After listening to all her complaints, Song Yunshen was struck by the thought.
There really were a lot of dumbasses in the world. Normal people like him were pretty rare.
"It should get a lot better once you're in high school." Song Yunshen laughed. "A lot of middle school boys are still halfway between dogs and humans. This kind of thing is pretty normal."
"What do you mean, halfway between dogs and humans?" Xia Kening asked curiously.
"Sometimes they're normal people, but sometimes they're like dogs, going into heat and biting people for no reason."
"Uh... that's pretty accurate."
"But you'll never guess who the fifth person to confess to you was." Song Yunshen sighed again.
"So which great hero was it?" Xia Kening's lips twitched.
"Xu Lingcheng."
"Huh? Who?"
"Xu Lingcheng." Song Yunshen repeated the name, looking helpless. "That guy you punched until he cried."
"Huh?!" Xia Kening cried out in disbelief, her expression extremely strange. "Is there something wrong with his head?"
"Right? You think so too." Song Yunshen clicked his tongue. "He said he likes the way you beat him up, so I suggest you ignore him. And definitely don't hit him again, or I'm afraid he'll fall so deeply in love with you he won't be able to pull himself out."
Xia Kening said, "...Is it really that ridiculous?"
"You can try it yourself once our bodies are switched back."
"I'd better listen to you..." Xia Kening covered her forehead, her head aching a little. "How is he even more bizarre than the others?"
"Little boys just don't understand." Song Yunshen shook his head with an air of profundity. "A confession isn't the bugle call to charge; it's the gong that signals a victorious withdrawal. Who confesses without any emotional foundation at all?"
"So you know all about it, huh?" Xia Kening shot him a sidelong glance. "Is that your plan for pursuing Xia Yunuo too?"
"I told you, I'm not pursuing her!" Song Yunshen said irritably. "You believe rumors so easily. I don't think you're much better than those boys."
"I'm not that stupid, la!"
"I told you, stop adding 'la'!"
"La la la! La la la! Hmph!"
"I'm taking my clothes off!"
"Stop!!!"
The two childishly exchanged attacks once again, then immediately backed off.
After calming down, Song Yunshen leaned against the wall at the end of the dormitory corridor and sighed wistfully. "We still don't know when we'll be able to switch back. We can only take it one step at a time."
"It'd be fine if we didn't switch back," Xia Kening muttered.
"What did you say?"
"Nothing!"
"Do you think I'm deaf?"
"Then why ask if you heard me?" Xia Kening huffed. "I don't think being a boy is so hard to accept."
"That's because you got lucky and switched with a handsome guy like me. Try switching with Fat Dragon."
"Eww~" At the thought of Zhong Long, who sat behind her, Xia Kening rubbed the goosebumps on her arm. Then she said with perfect confidence, "But didn't you switch into the body of a beautiful girl like me?"
"What's there to be happy about?" Song Yunshen looked speechless. "Rather than turn into a beautiful girl, I might as well just pick you up."
"Wh-what do you mean, pick me up..." Hearing him speak so bluntly, Xia Kening immediately flushed and began to stammer. "Don't even think about it. I-I'd never fall for you!"
"Why are you so flustered? I'm not interested in a little brat in eighth grade." Song Yunshen scoffed. "I was just saying."
"Hmph!" Xia Kening immediately bristled at that. "Who are you calling a little brat? My figure is much better than Sec... than Xia Yunuo's!"
"You're shorter than her."
"Ahhh! Stop calling me short!"
"Isn't it the truth?"
"Shut up!"
"Someone's getting worked up."
"Tomorrow I'm going into the girls' bathroom at your school!"
"You fucking-!"
The two bickered back and forth, but in the end, they both compromised and called a temporary truce.
"If we still can't switch back, let's meet on Saturday," Song Yunshen said. "We can see if there's a way to switch back."
"What way could there be?" Xia Kening asked.
"Maybe we need physical contact to switch back, or perhaps we need to kiss or something..."
"K-kiss?!" Xia Kening's face turned bright red at his words. "No! Absolutely not! You pervert! You creep!"
"Don't blush with my body!" Song Yunshen said irritably. "I was just saying. What the hell are you blushing for?"
"It's all your fault!"