I Don’t Want to Be Turned into a Girl by Magic

A few tranquil days passed.

Chen Yao's basketball game ultimately ended in defeat. Due to the somewhat unbalanced tournament structure, his team hadn't encountered any strong teams along the way. It was good luck that got them to the finals, only to be thoroughly crushed.

However, making it to second place already exceeded Chen Yao's expectations, so he was quite happy about it. Plus, he no longer needed to train, so he could focus on gaming.

But for Lin Nan, while life was peaceful, his mental state was becoming increasingly unstable.

Ever since unlocking invisibility magic, he had been having dreams about becoming Lilith every night, and these dreams were extremely detailed, starting from when Lilith first had memories all the way to last night when she killed her father and abandoned Lina to walk toward darkness.

Her childhood memories were tragic: a father so strict it bordered on abuse, teachers who seemed like perverted child abusers, nearly endless magic practice... Her only friend Lina could only occasionally meet and play with her.

Lilith's family belonged to the nouveau riche in the other world. On Earth, they'd be roughly equivalent to coal baron nouveau riche families. Therefore, her father was extremely strict and harsh, hoping to make Lilith an excellent mage so their family could gain recognition from established noble families.

Later, the corrupted Lilith ended up slaughtering countless nobles.

All things considered, Lilith was actually a progressive anti-feudalist fighter in the other world. Yeah.

The continuous dreams troubled Lin Nan greatly. Although the dreams didn't leave him as confused about his identity as when he first encountered Lilith, his personality and behavior were becoming increasingly similar to hers.

In class, the consecutive nights of deep dreaming left his sleep quality poor. Mentally exhausted, he lay on his desk. He wasn't sleepy, but just couldn't muster any energy.

"Speaking of which, the Top Ten Singers finals are starting too, right? Tonight, I think?"

Tu Junhui was chatting with Chen Yao about competitions. Lin Nan had no interest in this, thinking watching those Top Ten Singers would be worse than randomly finding a concert online.

"I heard there's also a lottery at the venue?"

Now you've got my attention!

Lin Nan immediately perked up and urgently asked: "What lottery? What are the prizes? Can anyone participate?"

Chen Yao was startled by Lin Nan's sudden interruption, but he'd only heard rumors, so he could only answer uncertainly: "Supposedly each contestant will throw red envelopes into the audience when they go on stage... Whether there are vouchers or money inside, I can't say."

"!!!"

Lin Nan's eyes lit up. Tu Junhui beside him rolled his eyes, quite rationally: "Probably just a few yuan or a few cents, just a gimmick. Only fools like you would believe it."

"Believing it won't cost me anything! What if my luck is just that good!"

If someone told Lin Nan that believing in God could get him one yuan, he'd immediately abandon atheism and shout "God bless" every day.

"That's exactly what people who fall for pyramid schemes think," Chen Yao complained.

Lin Nan had heard of pyramid schemes and knew they were quite scary, but he'd probably never fall into such a trap. After all, most of them involved schemes like "invest one thousand, get ten thousand back"... The money in his pocket could only go toward food and necessities, never just handed over to others!

Finally making it to the end of class, Lin Nan, who had been listless during the lesson, immediately became energetic and dragged his three roommates to watch the Top Ten Singers finals. It wasn't really for the music, mainly for the red envelopes.

Xiong Da had no objections. Usually after class he'd just play on his phone anyway, and it didn't matter where he did that.

Chen Yao knew Lin Nan was a girl and was much more tolerant of him, plus guilt about lusting after Lin Nan's body naturally made him go along.

Tu Junhui was a complete gaming addict, currently obsessed with Paradox's grand strategy wargames, looking completely hopeless when Lin Nan dragged him to the athletic field.

The Top Ten Singers was a school-hosted competition. Not only were there three or four more promotional banners than the esports competition, they'd even set up a row of desks and chairs in the front for the judging teachers. The scale was incomparably larger than the esports competition.

Though the scale was grand, with the competition about to start, there were still only about a hundred audience members.

"With so few people, we'll definitely grab some red envelopes when they throw them!"

Arriving at the athletic field, Lin Nan was extremely excited, full of fighting spirit and planning to make a fortune tonight.

The three beside him were all yawning, completely uninterested in the anticipated few yuan or cents. So they simply sat down on the grass at the edge of the field and huddled together to start a game of Honor of Kings.

Lin Nan could do nothing about them and could only run off alone to join the excitement.

There was still half an hour until the competition started. Staff on stage were making final adjustments, and more and more students were gathering around. Soon it had exceeded the attendance of the esports competition.

At this moment, that underclassman from a few days ago appeared before Lin Nan again.

"Senior!" As soon as the junior saw him, his face lit up with a smile as he hurried over. "Senior, those support games you played last weekend were really amazing!"

"Of course!" Lin Nan put his hands on his hips, nose practically pointing to the sky. "My Pyke was one-shotting kids left and right!"

Previously at the classroom door, Lin Nan had agreed to duo queue with him on the weekend, and later that evening they did indeed play several games. Although it was just normal matches, with his skill level he could still dominate even when playing support.

"Worthy of a championship support!"

The junior's appearance was refined and scholarly, and his words seemed much more credible than the three straight steel men in Lin Nan's dorm.

"Absolutely! Next time when I'm free I'll carry you again!" Even though Lin Nan knew the junior's praise was somewhat exaggerated, he was still extremely pleased. But suddenly he froze, embarrassedly asking the junior: "You... what's your name again?"

"Didn't I tell you before, senior?"

"Did you?" He was stunned, feeling somewhat guilty for ignoring the other person so much.

Lin Nan suspected his memory had really deteriorated to the level of dementia. Even if he couldn't remember the junior's name, logically he should at least remember having known it before, right?

"I'm called..."

Chen Yao suddenly appeared from nowhere and rudely pushed him aside. Glancing at that frail build, he didn't bother paying much attention and turned to Lin Nan: "Alipay has an activity. Every day the first time you use Huabei you can enter a lottery, maximum 999, minimum guaranteed is several cents. Tu Junhui just won five yuan."

"Really?!"

Lin Nan had been a bit annoyed at Chen Yao for interrupting his conversation with a friend, but now he immediately abandoned the junior and followed behind Chen Yao like a little tail: "Weren't you just playing Honor of Kings? How did you suddenly come looking for me?"

"When I discovered there was a lottery, I thought I should tell you immediately," Chen Yao explained without changing expression.

Damn, if I didn’t arrive in time, you would’ve been tricked into bed!