My Dating Sim Just Got an Update - Chapter 82

Just as Liao Lan was nervously trying to explain to Mu Ning that he was a straight man through and through—that he had no interest in men, much less Ren Muhui—Ren Chenxi was called downstairs by Zhang Tongqi. Zhang Tongqi was afraid that the scoundrel Liao Lan would try to spin some old tales about being the “boyfriend’s best friend” to gain sympathy, so she specifically fetched Ren Chenxi to expose his lies.

At the same time, Yang Xiangrui, Zhu Kang, and Fang Hong boys from the neighboring building who had old grudges with Liao Lan—hurried over. They weren’t just there to stop these leeches from begging for water; they were there to watch the comedy of the parasites failing to get what they wanted and leaving in disgrace.

When Ren Chenxi came downstairs, she walked right into Mu Ning’s suspicious gaze and felt a brief wave of confusion. However, seeing the frantic Liao Lan outside the door, she understood. So, Mu Ning had finally gotten around to asking about Ren Muhui’s gender! Hmph, she certainly took her sweet time!

Giving Mu Ning a defiant look, Ren Chenxi walked up to Liao Lan and asked irritably, “What are you two talking about?” It’s just a question of gender—is it really that complicated?

“Senior Mu asked if I’d ever seen your brother change clothes…” Liao Lan’s voice sounded aggrieved. “But I shared a dorm with Ren Muhui; it was impossible not to see him change!”

Seeing a grown man acting so pathetically made Ren Chenxi want to slap him with an Explosion Card. But considering she was in the base and couldn’t kill people on a whim—and that wasting a card on such trash would be a shame—she suppressed the urge. “Can you just speak normally? Answer what she asks. Just tell the truth!”

“Tell the truth?” Mu Ning stared intensely at Ren Chenxi. Perhaps because she had already convinced herself of a certain conclusion, the more she looked at Liao Lan, the more suspicious he seemed. She even felt that Ren Chenxi’s simple sentences were hidden signals to help him keep up a ruse. “How can you be sure he’s telling the truth?”

“…” Ren Chenxi thought that Liao Lan must have used his “friend of the brother” excuse to beg for water so often that he’d left Mu Ning with psychological scars. No wonder Mu Ning wouldn’t believe a word he said. This was going to be difficult. If Mu Ning didn’t believe him when he said Ren Muhui was a man, who else could prove it?

While Ren Chenxi was feeling stuck, Liao Lan spoke up defensively: “What do you mean ‘be sure’? Why would I lie about seeing Ren Muhui change? I was his roommate for so long… It’s just changing clothes; do I need to be all secretive and deny it?”

“And what did you see?” Mu Ning’s eyes grew even colder.

“I saw everything there was to see…” Noticing Mu Ning’s expression turning dangerous, Liao Lan shuddered and dragged Li Jie down with him: “B-but it wasn’t just me! Li Jie saw Ren Muhui in the shower! He even joked with me that for a pretty boy, Ren Muhui had a pretty white butt…”

Suddenly called out, Li Jie jumped. Seeing Mu Ning’s murderous gaze, he explained frantically, “N-no! It wasn’t like I was peeping! Ren Muhui was in the public showers, and his stall door wasn’t closed tight. I just happened to glance over as I walked by!”

However, this explanation didn’t lessen the killing intent in Mu Ning’s eyes one bit. A Level 6 ability user releasing her full aura made the Level 2 Liao Lan and Li Jie shake like leaves. In their panic, they looked around desperately for someone else to blame to divert her attention. They spotted Yang Xiangrui and Zhu Kang looking on with smug faces.

“Senior Mu! I wasn’t the only one! Yang Xiangrui and Zhu Kang saw him too!” Liao Lan already disliked Yang Xiangrui; seeing his punchable face now made him drag the other boy in without hesitation. Besides, he wasn’t lying. Since they were in the same college, they lived in the same dorm building and as luck would have it, on the same floor!

Yang Xiangrui and Zhu Kang, who had been laughing at the two parasites, were suddenly stunned by the accusation. Mu Ning, exactly as Liao Lan hoped, turned her cold gaze toward the two confused boys.

“You saw Ren Muhui in the shower too?”

“…” A murderous Senior Mu was terrifying! Yang Xiangrui and Zhu Kang instinctively huddled together, trembling. But even in fear, they didn’t dare lie. They nodded honestly: “Senior Mu, we were on the same floor as Senior Ren. He often walked past our door shirtless, carrying his washbasin to the showers…”

Hearing this, Mu Ning’s brow furrowed even deeper. She glanced at Ren Chenxi again, then glared at Li Jie and Liao Lan. She lashed her vine against the ground with a crack so loud it nearly made their souls jump out of their bodies.

“Get out!”

As shameless as they were, Li Jie and Liao Lan didn’t dare linger under that lethal gaze. The moment she spoke, the whole group scrambled away.

Once they were gone, Mu Ning stood there with a dark face, her eyes moving between Yang Xiangrui and Zhu Kang, occasionally darting back to Ren Chenxi. This suspicious behavior finally made Ren Chenxi lose her temper.

“Hey! If you don’t believe Li Jie or Liao Lan, do you not believe Yang Xiangrui and Zhu Kang either? They’ve never lied to you!”

Mu Ning’s attitude softened when facing Ren Chenxi, but she simply shook her head. She looked back at the boys and asked directly, “Are you absolutely certain Ren Muhui is a man?”

“???” The two boys, who hadn’t stopped shaking, thought she was going to ask something world-shaking. But… this? Despite their confusion, they nodded sincerely: “Of course! How could we not be sure? We saw Senior Ren several times a day…”

Mu Ning looked at Ren Chenxi again, focusing specifically on her chest, and continued asking the boys: “Did Ren Muhui have breasts?”

“…” Why were her questions getting weirder and weirder? Had Senior Mu suffered some kind of mental break? Yang Xiangrui and Zhu Kang exchanged a glance and answered hesitantly, “He… he had a chest…”

Hearing the word “chest,” both Mu Ning and Ren Chenxi’s faces darkened. Ren Chenxi was about to scold him for talking nonsense, but Yang Xiangrui quickly added: “…pecs.”

“…” Brother, can you please not take such long pauses in your sentences?!

Just as Ren Chenxi breathed a sigh of relief, Mu Ning pressed further: “Are you sure they were pectorals and not breasts?”

“…”

Now, everyone fell into silence. It wasn’t just Yang Xiangrui and Zhu Kang wondering if Mu Ning was alright; even Chen Gu and Zhang Tongqi, her most loyal followers, were looking at her strangely. They felt their Boss was acting very out of character tonight. Could some shifter have impersonated her? But… if someone went to the trouble of impersonating the Boss, why would they ask such perverted questions?

Yang Xiangrui looked to Chen Gu for help, but Chen Gu could only give him a helpless look. He had to grit his teeth and answer: “I… I’m certain…”

“What proof do you have?”

“…” How the hell am I supposed to have proof for that?!

At Mu Ning’s relentless questioning, Yang Xiangrui’s eyes widened in shock. He wanted to roar at her: “I saw it with my own damn eyes! Isn’t that proof enough?!” But facing the oppressive aura she was emitting, he could only shake his head weakly: “I don’t…”

Just as he was about to say he had no proof, Zhu Kang tugged on his sleeve and whispered, “Didn’t you take a photo of Senior Ren once?”

“Hey! Don’t talk nonsense! I’m not a pervert, why would I take…”

Halfway through his denial, Yang Xiangrui remembered! The old Ren Muhui loved walking around the dorm shirtless, as if he wanted to show off his physique. Yang Xiangrui, being competitive, used to complain about it to his friends. Once, a friend from another school was curious about the “perfect body” Yang Xiangrui kept complaining about and asked for a photo to compare him with the guys in their PE department. Yang Xiangrui had taken a sneaky photo of Ren Muhui going down to get a delivery, intended for that friend… and he’d just never deleted it.

Mu Ning couldn’t hear their whispering clearly, but she caught the word “photo.” She asked in a cold, impatient voice, “What photo!”

“Just… a photo of Senior Ren with… with no shirt on…”

“You took a candid photo of his naked torso!!!” Mu Ning sounded furious.

“And you’ve actually kept a photo like that all this time!” Chen Gu and the others were now looking at Yang Xiangrui with judgment.

“No, no! It’s not what you think!!! It’s just a regular photo of Senior Ren being shirtless!” Seeing that he was about to be labeled a creep, Yang Xiangrui frantically explained the origin of the photo and why it was still on his phone.

The reason was simple: he had switched to a new phone and forgotten about the pictures on his old one. But he hadn’t thrown the old phone away; he just kept it around. When the apocalypse hit, his new phone broke in the chaos, but the old one was fine. He kept it to check the time or play simple games like Snake or Tetris.

He never bothered looking through the gallery, but Zhu Kang had seen the photo while borrowing the phone for games. Out of a bit of mischief, he hadn’t mentioned it to Yang Xiangrui. It wasn’t until Mu Ning started demanding “proof of pecs” that Zhu Kang remembered it.

After hearing the explanation, Mu Ning held out her hand without expression and said coldly, “Show me the photo.”

Yang Xiangrui always carried the old phone to check the time. He pulled it out of his pocket, found the picture, and carefully handed the device to Mu Ning.

The non-smartphones of that era were small and light, but the camera resolution was pitifully low. However, even with the low quality, the photo clearly showed a man’s body topped with a profile that bore a strong resemblance to Ren Chenxi.

Mu Ning’s eyes flickered with disbelief. Quickly, she turned the screen toward Ren Chenxi and said with absolute certainty: “This person is not you!”

Of course it’s not me, you idiot, that’s Ren Muhui!

Mu Ning has finally seen the evidence!

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