The atmosphere in the house was much better than Lin Nan had imagined.

Although her father said something about not going to pay New Year visits because it would be embarrassing, at least he didn't seem to have any extreme emotions.

Perhaps during the time she was studying at school, her father had also been mediated by someone.

But she still felt fear and unease toward her father. The atmosphere remained serious, as if the air around Lin Nan had frozen, and in her perception, even time seemed to slow down.

And indeed, it was quite embarrassing...

Not only did her father think her becoming female would be shameful, even she herself felt this way. But having it spoken directly still made her heart ache a bit.

"Where's Mom?" Lin Nan suddenly asked.

"At your grandfather's." Her father's face remained expressionless without much emotion. "The divorce went quite smoothly, except the house that was originally left for you was split in half with her."

Lin Nan wasn't interested in her father's house. If it were before, she might have been excited thinking she wouldn't need to buy a house for marriage in the future, and the pressure on her shoulders would be much lighter, at least without having to bear heavy mortgage debt.

"She should get half..." she muttered quietly, secretly glancing at her father's expression, not finding much change.

When they had argued about divorce in the hospital room, now that they had successfully divorced, her father didn't seem to harbor much resentment toward her mother.

Her father suddenly asked: "What if I have another son?"

"Then leave the house to him." Lin Nan nodded sensibly. "I have no objections."

From her father's words, perhaps he had already found Lin Nan a stepmother.

Thinking of that Liu fellow beside her mother, then looking at her father's current statement, Lin Nan suspected whether both of them had been having extramarital affairs, leading to the outbreak of conflict, and both blamed the other party, which is why they kept arguing during the divorce process.

However, Lin Nan also hoped her parents could rebuild their respective families. It would be best if this freak child who had been magically turned into a girl could be completely ignored in their eyes.

She couldn't sit on the sofa anymore. Her father was always surrounded by a low-pressure atmosphere that made people extremely uneasy.

"I'm going to my room."

"I don't like cats. Find time to get rid of it," he suddenly said.

Lin Nan was startled by the sudden voice and answered timidly: "I'll keep it in my room and not let it come out..."

"Don't let me see it."

She quickly picked up Cola and headed toward her room, afraid her father would suddenly get angry and throw Cola out the door.

Her father had done such things before. The puppy Lin Nan raised in middle school was thrown directly out the window and killed because it had urinated in his room.

That scene was still vivid in her memory and made Lin Nan even more afraid of this father.

Locking the bedroom door, all the disturbances seemed to be isolated outside the thin wooden door. Her anxious heart gradually settled, and the cautiousness in her eyes turned into deep fatigue.

Although her father's reaction was much better than she had imagined, dealing with him still made Lin Nan feel mentally exhausted.

"Cola, don't make any noise at home from now on..."

Lin Nan released Cola from the cat carrier, hugged it in her arms, climbed onto the bed while holding the cat, and muttered: "If you get thrown to death, I'll definitely be even sadder this time."

"Does this mean I finally have a chance to commit suicide?"

Cola meowed as if agreeing with Lin Nan not to make noise. Lin Nan smiled with relief. Although this cat had many problems recently, it had always been a well-behaved and quiet cat.

"If you behave well this time, I won't have you neutered in the future, okay?"

"Lina isn't around either. Wouldn't it be nice for this old lady to change bodies? Who cares about neutering or not!"

Cola seemed to be comforting Lin Nan. Lin Nan imagined some things and then hugged it even tighter with emotion.

"I'm suffocating..."

Cola struggled to break free from Lin Nan's embrace and hurriedly ran to the simple wardrobe nearby, looking down at the inexplicably moved Lin Nan from above.

This child's head must be broken.

Lin Nan was somewhat tired. She couldn't get along with her father. Just hearing the sounds her father made in the living room would make her emotionally tense.

She didn't know whether her father had actually accepted her, or if it was more accurate to say he had given up on her, otherwise he wouldn't have talked about having another child.

She took off her coat and lay down tiredly on the wooden bed.

The bedding should have been put away by her mother. Now the bed was empty, but she was unwilling to go to her father's bedroom to get bedding, at least not wanting to continue contact with her father right now.

Just lying there, Lin Nan's eyelids began to droop uncontrollably and close.

She had thought she would harbor extreme resentment toward her father, but she didn't expect that after this meeting, what she felt more was guilt as a child.

She felt her father wasn't exactly responsible toward her, but at least he had worked away from home for years to earn money for her. And her sudden transformation into a girl meant she had failed even more to fulfill her responsibility as a son.

Never mind fulfilling responsibility, she wasn't even a son anymore.

Thinking about these things in her mind, when she woke up startled again, it was already seven in the evening.

Her father hadn't called her for dinner. Lin Nan felt like she hadn't slept at all, with her mind constantly thinking about various things, but when she opened her eyes, several hours had already passed.

She didn't hear her father moving around outside the door. She tiptoed to open the door and found a pair of shoes missing from the shoe cabinet.

Looks like he went out drinking?

She immediately felt much more relaxed. Stretching and yawning, she went to the refrigerator to see if there was anything to eat for dinner. The refrigerator was mostly full of beer, but after searching around, Lin Nan found tangyuan in the freezer.

It should be leftover from what her mother bought during her last visit - it had been frozen for at least two months.

Her father wasn't someone who would do housework. Although the house wasn't cluttered due to having few things, the living room was littered with sunflower seed shells and cigarette butts everywhere. Who knows how long it hadn't been cleaned. While waiting for the tangyuan to cook, Lin Nan decided to give the house a thorough cleaning.

Also, the internet at home seemed to be cut off, and the phone that was billed together with the internet was now also suspended due to unpaid bills. Tomorrow it would be best to go to the service center to pay the fees before the Spring Festival arrives.

But the problem was money...

Lin Nan was unwilling to ask her father for money.

The house wasn't big, but sweeping, mopping, and wiping dust still took Lin Nan a full hour. When the time reached eight in the evening, her father finally came back reeking of alcohol.

Her father's drunkenness was similar to Lin Nan's. Although he would unconsciously say or do what he was thinking, he wasn't the type to go into drunken rages.

So as soon as he got home, he sat down directly on the sofa, staring blankly at the dark TV and the newly cleaned home environment.

"You'll make a virtuous wife and loving mother in the future." He sat on the sofa and instructed Lin Nan, who was standing in the kitchen trying to hide: "Go get me two bottles of beer from the refrigerator."

The evaluation of "virtuous wife and loving mother" sounded harsh to Lin Nan's ears. Her father had learned some sarcastic technique from somewhere, and his tone made people very uncomfortable to hear.

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