Inside a fairly tidy bedroom.

The morning sunlight was mercilessly blocked outside the thick curtains, only leaving the windowsill warmed by its glow.

The air conditioner hanging on the wall had been diligently running the entire night, leaving the bedroom with a faint trace of coolness.

On the single bed by the window lay someone still immersed in dreams, the blanket long since kicked onto the floor, her whole body spread out like a starfish, drool leaking from her parted cherry-like lips and soaking a small patch of the light-blue pillowcase.

“Hakimi——Hakimi——Nanbei mung beans ashi hayaku——”

The phone on the bedside table suddenly began vibrating, emitting a string of unbearable ringtone noises.

The ringtone had barely been on for two seconds before the person on the bed was awakened, opening watery bright eyes and casually turning it off.

After lying there for a few seconds, she reached toward her chest and grabbed, feeling the familiar weight there as always, let out a sigh.

Could it be that she really couldn’t go back?

A year ago she had still been male and then for some unknown reason, after waking from sleep once more, she became female.

The most outrageous part was that everyone around her seemed completely accustomed to it.

In their memories, Fang Tong had been born a girl.

‘An evil experiment by a black-clad organization? A secret experiment by a research institute? A prank by an advanced civilization? Come forth, my golden finger! Oh no, wait, transformation! Even turning into a magical girl to destroy the world would be fine!’

The result was Fang Tong being sent to the hospital by her worried mother, examined thoroughly, and the doctor concluded it was just excessive middle-school entrance exam pressure and the child needed to relax.

Her mother believed it immediately and looked at Fang Tong with aching concern.

After all, the current environment was famously competitive, and Fang Tong had attended cram classes for three straight years during middle school and never experienced what could be called a holiday.

Thus Fang Tong obtained her first game console in life, a PlayStation4!

This was the only good news after crossing into a parallel world.

One year after arriving in the new world, Fang Tong gradually became accustomed to everything.

Facts showed that aside from her gender mutating like a bug, every other aspect of this world was identical to the previous one.

So what else could she do?

People can’t change the world, so change yourself instead.

Fang Tong silently bore everything, hiding the secret in her heart, alone in solitude…

Well, actually after getting used to it, she realized nothing really changed.

She kept going to school, kept slacking off in class, and kept going home to play video games after school.

For someone determined to be a salted fish for life (someone unambitious who just coasts through life or avoids effort) gender simply couldn’t alter her path of slacking off!

Knock knock knock——

Before Fang Tong could get up, the bedroom door was knocked, and a crisp voice came from outside.

“Sis, are you up yet? Today’s the first day of the new term, you didn’t forget right?”

“I’m up, I’m up, I’ll come out after I get dressed.”

Fang Tong tapped her phone screen and glanced at the time, 6:23.

Thinking that in her final high-school year she would have to arrive half an hour earlier than now, Fang Tong couldn’t help sighing.

Such is the life of a high-schooler, not even the right to sleep in.

Especially when there was an overachieving younger sister at home who, despite only being in second-year middle school, woke earlier than her.

‘And didn’t middle school not start today yet? Was she grinding even during summer vacation? Acting like this already in second year, how were others her age supposed to survive?’

Getting up, she picked up the blanket she’d kicked away during the night, walked barefoot to the wardrobe, looked at the various undergarments hanging inside, hesitated, and ultimately took out a box of nipple covers from the lower drawer.

Underwear was still too uncomfortable, giving a restrained feeling. Even after a year, this was the one thing she couldn’t get used to.

Thinking back, she’d previously been skinny as a stick, truly washboard-flat, yet now this body was unexpectedly full.

Conservatively speaking it was at least a C cup, she felt it was way too big.

Fang Tong had to admit she liked them big before, but having them on herself was another matter.

Her height and skin tone hadn’t changed much though. In the original world she wasn’t tall and had fair skin, often mocked as a bean sprout.

Now at 1.63 meters she wasn’t considered short among girls and her pale skin had become an advantage.

Because of this pretty appearance she often suffered harassment from various gazes.

Though she still liked pretty girls, it was hard to feel anything toward herself.

Coming back to her senses, she casually pulled on sleepwear and pushed open the bedroom door.

Her younger sister Fang Xi was brushing her teeth in the bathroom next door, and upon hearing Fang Tong, she held her toothbrush in her mouth and handed over another toothbrush with toothpaste already applied.

“Brush!”

“Okay, okay, can I use the toilet first?”

Originally Fang Tong didn’t have a habit of brushing teeth in the morning, but…

With a younger sister who liked supervising her it became inevitable.

In the original world, her sister hadn’t been this nagging.

‘So you supervise the sister but not the brother, huh that’s gender discrimination!’

Fang Xi naturally didn’t know what her sister was muttering inside, but judging from the look, she rolled her eyes and stepped aside to clear the corridor.

“Give me your phone! Otherwise you’ll squat on the toilet forever. It’s the first day of school and you’ve already been assigned new classes, don’t be late.”

Seeing the phone still in Fang Tong’s hand, Fang Xi stepped forward and tapped her arm.

Fang Tong turned around with a speechless face yet obediently handed it over.

She knew if she took the phone inside she’d easily spend half an hour there.

Today was the first day of second-year high school. Before summer break the school had already divided arts and science tracks and classes were rearranged accordingly.

She remembered being in Class 3 and with many unfamiliar faces she shouldn’t be late.

What she hated most was becoming a public spectacle.

Watching her sister lock the bathroom door, Fang Xi then looked at the seized phone.

Though knowing nobody was around, she still guiltily checked all directions and tiptoed to press her ear against the door.

After confirming her sister was truly using the toilet, she lit the screen.

Lucy wallpaper filled her view.

She knew the character from the derivative anime Cyberpunk Edgerunners; her sister loved it and dragged her to watch twice.

She herself had cried several times during it.

But seeing Lucy’s outstretched hand beneath the unlock key, Fang Xi’s mouth twitched.

‘So unlocking meant holding hands each time, huh?’

She could imagine her sister’s lecherous look when setting it.

She used to like Lucy’s character setting, yet now felt a bit annoyed.

Time was short. Without hesitation she pressed her left index finger on the under-screen sensor.

Buzz buzz——

The icon shook with vibration and displayed unlock failure.

What, hadn’t she secretly registered her fingerprint before!?

That innately evil sister actually deleted it!

‘Wait——If it was deleted, didn’t that mean she already knew about the snooping?’

Thinking this, Fang Xi stiffened, hairs rising like a cat stepped on its tail.

Then recalling her sister’s usual laziness, she relaxed.

‘With that salted-fish personality, even if she knew, so what? This morning she hadn’t mentioned it at all, meaning she didn’t care. Yes! She only periodically cleaned harmful information from the phone out of concern!’

Surely her sister thought the same.

Being biological sisters, checking phones wasn’t excessive.

Besides her sister probably couldn’t bother clearing cache; if left too long the phone would lag, how uncomfortable.

She was helping!

The final unease vanished and she skillfully entered the six-digit passcode.

Buzz buzz——

Incorrect password.

‘What!? Even the password was changed!?’

Unwillingly locking the screen, Fang Xi vented frustration on her toothbrush, brushing fiercely.

Inside, Fang Tong didn’t know her sister was suffering setbacks.

She knew about the phone use. Before high school Fang Xi was in primary school and family didn’t want early exposure, so she often borrowed Fang Tong’s phone until it became shared.

It had been the same in the original world, except then Fang Tong had been male and stopped sharing after second year middle school.

In this world perhaps due to gender she hadn’t prevented access until high school.

But now in her second year, with Fang Xi having her own phone yet still snooping, it felt uncomfortable.

Thus Fang Tong reset the password.

Although due to gender she could watch harem anime openly without being scolded as a dead-otaku, privacy was still needed; she valued boundaries even with family.

Without the phone beside her, sitting felt uncomfortable; she quickly finished washing and exited.

Fang Xi blocked the door with a displeased face.

“Handling breakfast yourself again?”

Ignoring the mood, Fang Tong knew it’d pass.

“Mm, Mom left today’s meal money on the table, don’t forget.”

Their mother worked long shifts, often absent all day, so since middle school meals were often outside.

“Fang Xi, let me ask, can you give me ten yuan from yours today?”

They each received fifty yuan daily for three meals, modest but sufficient to fill her appetite.

Yet Fang Tong wanted a novel since phones were banned in class; extracurricular books were the slacking tool.

Asking Mom meant trouble, so she targeted her sister’s funds.

Observing her spending about thirty daily, savings likely accumulated.

“Are you a pig? Fifty isn’t enough?”

Though rolled eyes came, no refusal was heard, and she pressed on.

“You usually save some anyway and have nowhere to spend, give it to me, I’ve been oddly hungry lately.”

“You’re so shameless! I’m growing too. You’re already overnourished, eat more and you’ll be pig-headed!”

She suddenly grabbed Fang Tong’s chest.

“Hey, you pervert.”

A tingling sensation shot along nerves; Fang Tong jumped back.

‘Are female bodies this sensitive?’

Glancing at Fang Xi’s flatness…

‘Better not ask.’

Seeing the pitying glance at her chest, Fang Xi exploded.

“Eat eat eat! Soon you’ll grow three heads!”

She poked again.

‘Very springy! Delightful!’

Though inwardly pleased, her face stayed composed.

“Take your dirty hands off, even as my sister you can’t grope me.”

Fang Tong tried an elder-sister tone but it failed.

“If you keep eating you’ll be tricked away by some blond punk, might as well benefit your sister first!”

She lunged again.

“Then I’ll take sixty today!”

Dodging, Fang Tong dashed back, dressed, took the money and left.

“Hmph, ten yuan for one grab, such a loss next time it’ll be two!”

Watching her sister flee, Fang Xi smacked her lips savoring the memory.