[Gender transformation + devoted romance + funny everyday life + gap moe + shared rental + a touch of whimsy]
“Xu An, open up. I’m at your door.”
I’m crouched on the beach, scrolling through short videos about “What should you do if your buddy turns into a girl?” when a stunning young woman in a white T-shirt suddenly appears at my door.
Chen Fan used to be a rough-and-tumble construction worker, 188 centimeters tall, able to crack red bricks with one punch and carry two bags of cement straight up to the eighth floor. Then he wakes up one morning as a 170-centimeter, strikingly handsome older woman.
She loses her construction job and is endlessly squeezed dry by her birth parents, who treat her like an ATM. With nowhere else to turn, she can only seek help from me, her one and only childhood friend.
After we start living together, I realize that apart from the huge change in gender, she’s still the same rough guy at heart:
She still locks in Sett and dominates in LOL, slaps me on the back of the head whenever we argue, and easily puts away three bowls of rice at every meal.
Then one day, she puts on that pink T-shirt stretched tight over her figure, the tips of her ears turning red as she mutters:
“Xu An, I can’t afford the rent... I’ll do anything for you, okay?”
The beginning was so-so, but the later parts were so cringeworthy, which fits the title of the book. It's all about the characters pulling each other along, but the pace picks up pretty fast towards the end.
Thumbs up for this excellent work! It's a great story that avoids clichés. Keep it up, author!
Keep going, author, keep writing!