What Should I Do After Waking Up as a Girl?

Lu Xingci never imagined that falling into a deep sleep after staying up all night would send his life completely off course. There were no earth-shattering phenomena, no System notification, just unfamiliar changes quietly spreading through his body.

At first, his skin simply grew softer and his shoulders slimmer. His loose T-shirt hung off him, and even his mom started bringing him slim-fit jeans and pink hair ties. Gradually, his Adam's apple disappeared and his eyelashes grew longer. Shen Yufeng, the friend he'd once played video games with, began looking at him with gentle curiosity instead of treating him like a sworn rival.

In class, someone mistook him for a girl and handed him a love letter. He was left panting after running the 800 meters in gym class, and even the braised pork he'd always loved tasted too greasy to swallow. He resisted his increasingly feminine self and avoided the unfamiliar outline in the mirror, all while being forced to get used to skirts and deal with his period, struggling again and again between his "straight-as-a-rod" soul and his gradually softening body.

This slow, irreversible transformation helped him see the sincerity in his friends and led him into unexpected romantic tension. As his former "brotherly friendship" stirred with something new and the course of his old life veered completely off track, Lu Xingci realized that worrying about how to change back was easier than finding his place anew in the maze of a mismatched gender identity.

This is a story about self-acceptance and tender growth, full of both the hilarious awkwardness of a gender transformation and the delicate emotions and excitement unique to youth.