Chapter 3
"Alone?"
"Yeah, just set up a beauty-filtered webcam, play one game in my room, and record yourself. That's all." Seeing Lin Nan seeming to waver, Chen Yao immediately pressed his attack, "I've already prepared all the materials. You can record while I watch TV in the living room, how about that?
"And I guarantee you'll look good! Look at those streamers who get exposed online, they're all ugly and fat in real life, but with beauty filters they look like goddesses. I'm sure you'll be better than them!"
If no one would see him doing it, then maybe it wouldn't be so bad.
Lin Nan was fighting an intense battle in his mind, his expression alternating between extreme conflict and resignation. His hands fidgeted with the hem of his clothes, his head unconsciously tilting thirty degrees.
Watching Lin Nan act this way, Chen Yao instinctively reached out to feel his forehead: "You're not still running a fever, are you?"
"Huh?"
Only then did he come to his senses, hurriedly suppressing all the messy little gestures.
"Your mannerisms are so girly now, like a young woman. You were never this feminine before, were you?" Chen Yao looked Lin Nan up and down in confusion.
This observation made Lin Nan, who was already shy and extremely embarrassed about accidentally revealing feminine gestures, turn bright red. He flailed his arms, trying to cover up the truth: "I'll do it! Let's go, let's go! Let's go to your place and cross-dress!"
"But..."
"But what? Let's go!"
Chen Yao's home was quite far from here, but since the urban village was in the center of the county town, they took a private tricycle for half an hour and arrived at Chen Yao's house.
Walking inside, Lin Nan pursed his lips, his body tense with nervousness.
"The women's clothes are in my bedroom closet." Chen Yao, forgetting about earlier, said with some excitement, "I was originally planning to cross-dress myself, but thinking about it, my face would probably scare away all my followers. You're more suitable."
"I'll scare away your followers, too," Lin Nan retorted.
Chen Yao's face was leaner, with a distinct bone structure. Even with beauty filters and photo editing, it probably couldn't be saved.
"You're fine. I downloaded several filters. You can try them one by one when you're dressed up."
Lin Nan's expression wasn't great. He wondered how he'd gotten himself into this situation, but since he was already here, trying on women's clothes wasn't completely unacceptable.
Actually, if this had happened a few days ago, Lin Nan wouldn't have been so resistant to Chen Yao's request. While cross-dressing was embarrassing, having seen it so much online, he'd also had some curiosity about how he'd look dressed as a woman.
But the problem was that now he was being influenced by that inexplicable soul.
He hadn't even cross-dressed yet, but he was already unconsciously showing feminine behaviors. If he cross-dressed now, what if the influenced version of him hopelessly fell in love with cross-dressing and ended up becoming some kind of pervert with a male body and female heart?
Carrying some fear of the unknown and clearly foreign feelings of excited anticipation, Lin Nan walked into Chen Yao's bedroom, opened the messy closet, and immediately spotted the maid outfit.
"Why a maid outfit?"
"Because it looks good!" Chen Yao replied righteously, "Try it on first. Call me when you're done."
Who would have thought that his first novel experience as an eighteen-year-old adult would be cross-dressing?
Lin Nan's hands trembled as he grabbed the maid outfit. The costume seemed to be a proper outfit from a maid café, not particularly revealing. The upper part of the maid dress showed a bit of shoulder, while the lower part reached the knees, and it came with white stockings. Except for the part above the shoulders, it covered everything quite thoroughly.
Though it was his first time wearing women's clothes, perhaps due to Lilith's memories, Lin Nan managed to put on the maid outfit quite smoothly and then donned the shoulder-length coffee-colored curly wig.
With the clothes on, Lin Nan noticed his body seemed to become softer. His movements were gentler.
"Damn, I really won't awaken some weird preferences, will I?"
He cursed out loud, but from deep within came another wave of joy that clearly wasn't his own.
Then, that joy vanished instantly, replaced by an urgent impulse to walk to the mirror and look closely.
Damn, so ugly!
Lin Nan felt his eyes were being assaulted.
His skin tone was actually a bit fairer compared to other men, but the problem was that he hadn't taken care of his skin during his acne-prone teenage years, leaving patches of acne scars and dullness, plus the sparse facial hair near his lips that he hadn't shaved...
Even with the wig framing them, his features still looked distinctly masculine. He looked basically like... a pervert who'd stolen women's clothes to wear on the street for some kind of shameful play.
"Hey? Aren't you done yet?"
"Wait, wait!"
Lin Nan started to panic, suddenly overwhelmed by sadness from nowhere.
Probably Lilith's unwillingness to accept that she'd gone from being a great beauty in her past life to becoming so ugly?
He hurriedly tried to take off the women's clothes but suddenly remembered about magic.
Right, I can use magic...
Fire magic needed burned hands to unlock, so what about magic to become a girl?
He'd discovered this type of magic before.
"Transformation Magic, unlocked by cross-dressing."
This was it!
Since he was already cross-dressing, this magic could be unlocked immediately.
Lin Nan took a deep breath, imitating the memories in his mind as he began to use magic.
A strange, warm current gradually flowed from within him, slowly spreading to his limbs. Throughout his body, this warm current suddenly vanished without a trace in an instant.
This must be what they call magical power?
Moments later, the bones throughout his body seemed to make tiny, subtle clicking sounds, his skin felt slightly stretched, and his muscles began to ache and twitch.
Finally, the physical changes gradually settled down. He curiously looked down to check, couldn't help touching to feel, and found the realistic sensation was something this virgin boy couldn't possibly ignore.
His face couldn't help but turn red and hot, yet a strong excitement surged up, making his emotions increasingly intense and hard to control.
"Wait, does transformation magic need to be this realistic? This has to be at least a B-cup, right?"
He swallowed, feeling extremely uncomfortable, but the joy in his heart made him feel dizzy like he was drunk.
Pulling off the wig, a cascade of black hair fell down like a waterfall.
Lin Nan felt along his ears downward, discovering that this long hair reached about to his buttocks, smooth to the touch like a Pantene commercial—truly the epitome of long, straight black hair.
Although he hadn't seen his transformed face yet, just the feminine characteristics that had appeared on his body were enough to make Lin Nan's emotions surge.
He knew this was an illusion caused by the other soul. However, his brain was still secreting large amounts of dopamine, making the previously nervous, ashamed, and embarrassed Lin Nan somehow feel traces of joy in his heart.