NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 28
Page Twenty-Seven: Top Secret Album, Public Execution
“If I don’t dress you up as a girl, I won’t be able to hide that you’re Kǎi-Chan… But I’ll try my best to make you look like a boyish beauty!” Tán Lǐn Huā’s makeup artist soul was ignited, and her eyes were filled with determination.
After bidding farewell to Tán Lǐn Huā, I returned to the classroom where only Zhào Zhào remained.
He was doing push-ups aimlessly… Was it strange for him to kill time this way? Should one do push-ups when bored?
“Finally back, bruises haven’t faded, my whole body aches from a set of push-ups.”
“Then stop!”
With both hands pushing hard, he sprang up from the ground.
“Anyway, we’ll proceed with the plan this afternoon, let’s head to my place first…”
“Wēi-Zuò!”
Zhào Zhào suddenly shouted loudly, interrupting me. His stern face leaned towards me, and I retreated out of fear, eventually leaning against the blackboard at the back of the classroom. At that moment, I was completely overshadowed by his towering figure.
“What are you going to do?”
I am Cháng Kǎi, and I’m quite panicked right now.
Bam! He slammed his hand on the blackboard behind me, sending white chalk dust flying like snow, covering my head in white.
His other hand grabbed the nose bridge of my sunglasses and pulled them off effortlessly.
He looked intently at my face, holding his breath silently, his eyes seemingly brewing some profound emotion… This tense atmosphere made me almost suffocate.
This lasted for about thirty seconds before he sighed, seeming to give up, and his tight emotions eased.
“It’s fine, indeed, there’s no problem.” He brushed off the chalk dust on his hands and even brushed mine.
“You really scared me! This sudden shock!” I was almost in tears! Not boasting, but I am really cowardly!
He clasped his hands together in an apologetic gesture, “Sorry, Wēi-Zuò, I scared you. I just wanted to confirm if I’ve truly become a ‘guy’.”
“So, what’s the conclusion?”
“I’m normal. Although I think you look beautiful without your glasses, it would be better if you were a girl. This means I’m not a ‘guy’, I like girls. However, the accelerated heartbeat last night wasn’t fake. If I were to turn into Zhào Lěi, I might develop feelings beyond friendship… The notebook’s power to correct the mind is really terrifying, I’m starting to hesitate about transforming.”
“Then let’s not use it…” I suggested.
After all, I also found it somewhat frightening. What if multiple transformations influenced Zhào Lěi, causing him to become a ‘guy’?
“No way!” Zhào Zhào refused firmly. At this moment, he seemed to forget his pain. He raised his arm, looked up proudly, his eyes full of enthusiasm for revolution, and spoke passionately, “I still have the mission to assist you in saving unfortunate people! Wēi-Zuò, am I not your divine envoy?”
“Comrade Zhào Zhào, I never thought you had such understanding. I must have misjudged you!”
Just as he said that, he suddenly twitched again. Before I could react, he took out his iPhone from his pocket… Is your phone in discharge mode?
Curious, I leaned closer. He turned on the screen in front of me, then quickly turned it off, leaving the dark screen reflecting his embarrassment and my surprise.
True, he reacted quickly, but I’m not blind! Even though it was less than a second, I still saw his desktop background.
It was a photo of Zhào Lěi wearing a hoodie, poking his cheek cutely with his right index finger, taken on my bed.
Because it was cute, I kind of wanted it.
“Regardless of how noble what you said was, this is the real reason you want to transform…” Zhào Zhào, whose forehead was sweating coldly, was seen through. “Unlock it, let me see more~ and send me this one.”
“That’s not good, looking at girls’ photos casually, and there’s something else…”
“Something else? What kind of something else? Could there be some stimulating photos? Ah, if they’re too spicy, I won’t look…”
Could Xiao Lěi have saved R18 photos in Zhào Zhào’s phone?
Thinking further, Xiao Lěi has bathed several times, and the unedited scenes are now stored in Zhào Zhào’s brain named “Obscene Data Center”. Even such and such scenarios, he might have secretly done them.
Seemingly noticing my thoughts, Zhào Zhào exaggeratedly denied, “Don’t think too much, there’s nothing so bad! Though it’s strange for me to say, Xiao Lěi is really pure… Anyway, to prove Xiao Lěi’s purity, here it is.”
Zhào Zhào unlocked his phone and opened a folder named “Selfies”, containing around ten photos.
The first few were relatively normal, similar to Zhào Zhào’s desktop background of him being cute on the bed, very adorable, and I wanted to keep them.
But the latter ones were more stimulating, showing Zhào Lěi taking selfies after bathing, wearing only underwear, with a flushed face in the bathroom… Although they were mostly upper-body shots, the creamy skin still moistened my dry eyes.
Although Xiao Lěi tried to pose seductively, due to the weak chest curves, it didn’t look lewd but rather cute.
As Zhào Zhào said, it wasn’t anything too bad, because the chest wrap was still conservative compared to the free photos online.
“How is it? There’s nothing too outrageous, right?”
Indeed, Xiao Lěi, born from the mud of spice, is a pure lotus.
But my intuition told me it wasn’t so simple.
My detective mind, Cháng Luò Kǎi, was working rapidly. If these were the only things, why was Zhào Zhào so nervous?
I retreated to the parent folder and saw Zhào Zhào’s expression change. I knew my guess was pretty close.
“Don’t scroll! Give me back my phone!”
I dodged his grab… Seeing his excitement, could there be even more stimulating content?
I swallowed, noticing a folder named “My Love,” which was updated yesterday night.
At this moment, a battle raged within me between the devil and angel… Oops, the angel defected at first glance, really spineless.
“No! You can’t open that!”
“I refuse! One of the things I enjoy most is saying NO to self-righteous guys!”
Ah, this joke seems to have been played once already.
Encouraged by both sides, I opened the “My Love” album and saw a picture of a sleeping beauty…
No! That’s not a beauty, it’s me?!
“This folder was created by Xiao Lěi…” Zhào Zhào attempted to explain dryly while supporting his head.
My hand holding the phone trembled, and I needed deep breaths to flip through the album…
Next, a selfie of Xiao Lěi kissing my forehead.
Next, a selfie of Xiao Lěi smelling my neck.
Next, a selfie of Xiao Lěi lowering herself and resting her head in my arms.
Too terrifying, she did so many things while I was asleep.
Didn’t I remember her going to sleep earlier than me? Was she pretending to be asleep?
These seemingly lesbian photos weren’t deleted, and I quietly returned the phone to Zhào Zhào. The air was filled with awkwardness, making it hard to breathe.
“Sorry.” Although I didn’t know why, I felt I should apologize, perhaps for the awkwardness.
“…No, I should be the one apologizing.” He took the phone, opened the album menu…
For Zhào Lěi, these photos were like video materials on teachers’ hard drives for boys, and Zhào Zhào was her ‘wise time.’ To avoid regret, Zhào Zhào hesitated but couldn’t bring himself to delete them.
Zhào Lěi liking me was clear, but we both knew it wouldn’t end well.
If I asked her to stay by my side forever as Zhào Lěi, the first female lead of this book would be decided, and Zhào Zhào would become a transparent shadow in the sunset.
No matter how much Zhào Zhào and Zhào Lěi denied it, they were still the same person, with clear memories and behaviors, a contradiction for him. His inner turmoil was surely more complex than I imagined.
“In short… please don’t do such things in the future…”
“I’ll try… No, should Xiao Lěi try?”
Just as I thought the awkwardness was suffocating…
“You two, why are you still here so late after school!”
The homeroom teacher’s voice echoed behind us, and I snatched the sunglasses back onto my face.
“Teacher, we were just leaving.”
“Be careful, go straight home, don’t detour to strange places, okay? Don’t get caught by troublemakers again.”
There was concern in his words. Unexpectedly, he was a caring teacher.
At this moment, the homeroom teacher’s head seemed even more radiant.