"Wow! That girl over there is so pretty!"
"Tsk, tsk, that outfit is so daring!"
"Heh, cool and elegant, what a beauty from Jiangnan!"
"Holy crap! It's Ruan Mei! Family! I came to the exam site to pick up my brother and ran into the most incredibly awesome Ruan Mei! Wuwuwu, I don't dare go up and talk to her!"
…At the bus stop outside a certain experimental middle school in Pingjiang City, people came and went. Many parents of college entrance exam candidates were anxiously waiting here, and among them, a black-haired girl was the most striking.
The girl wore an ink-wash black gauze cheongsam, her hair lightly pinned up, adorned with plum blossom hair ornaments. Her shoulders were hollowed out on both sides, decorated with two tassels, and she wore gloves.
A ruby and pearl necklace adorned her collar, and she wore a white shawl with tassels, holding a custom-made Ruan Xian zhongruan, truly embodying a Jiangnan oriental beauty.
Her temperament was cool and elegant, her posture graceful, and her skin fair. She seemed to have stepped out of another dimension, like a crane among chickens compared to the other students' families around her, completely on a different level.
At this moment, this "girl" was looking at her reflection in the semi-transparent sign in front of her, somewhat lost in thought.
The "girl" was named Mo Yu.
In fact, he was not a girl, but a boy through and through. Compared to a normal boy, he was just a bit thinner, had fairer skin, didn't look as rugged, and his voice was a rare youthful tone.
He had a male body with a feminine appearance, a true innate male cross-dresser saint body.
Besides this, he was also a university student majoring in a terrible field. This time, he was invited by his best friend to come to the exam site to pick up his best friend's sister, who was a fresh graduate. Because his sister was a big fan of anime and Mihoyo games, he chose to cosplay a character.
Therefore, Mo Yu was not an experienced cosplayer, but a complete novice.
As for why he chose to cross-dress as Ruan Mei, it was because, according to his best friend's idea, he only had two characters to choose from—Dr. Ratio and Ruan Mei.
The character Ruan Mei was a somewhat tailor-made, deliberate choice for him.
Why not choose Professor Ratio? Mm… because it wasn't the original Dr. Ratio, but a privately designed Dr. Ratio wearing a cheongsam.
After all, it was to cheer on the college entrance exam, and as the saying goes, 'may you achieve victory.'
Cross-dressing was certainly hard to accept, but if both options involved cross-dressing, then he naturally had no choice.
Moreover… he also really wanted to see what his best friend would look like cross-dressing, especially a male character cross-dressing. Although they hadn't met yet, he always felt a strange sense of humor about it.
Now that we've talked about why he cosplayed Ruan Mei, let's talk about why he did it so accurately.
On one hand, for this support event, he had prepared three months in advance. Makeup, wig, cosplay costume, props… every step was meticulously done, striving for perfection.
His cheongsam was even purchased as a common item and then custom-made by a professional tailor.
After all, in his opinion, this might be the last time he cross-dressed in his life. You ask why it's not the only time? Because as a child, he was also raised as a girl by his family, so skirts and such… he had indeed worn them.
Of course, just that alone would not be enough to make his cosplay effect reach its peak this time.
This was because he inexplicably bound a character role-playing system.
How to put it, at first, Mo Yu rejected this system because all the playable characters in the system were female, but—the system offered too much.
Just like this time playing Ruan Mei, in addition to Ruan Mei's external appearance, which is the surface cosplay bonus, there was also—
"Ding! Detecting that the host is role-playing Ruan Mei, the host is now rewarded with master-level Ruan Xian playing technique, absolute rational thinking, master-level Chinese pastry cooking technique…"
For Mo Yu, immortal arts like flying and escaping were out of reach, and he didn't dare to imagine them, but these… were all within his scope of understanding and cognition. If he could possess them just by cosplaying a character… that would truly be… amazing.
"Buzz buzz—"
A vibration from his handbag broke Mo Yu's contemplation. Mo Yu blinked, bent down, and took his phone out of the handbag embroidered with plum blossom patterns. It's worth mentioning that his phone case also featured the same genome pattern as Ruan Mei's in the game.
As the screen lit up, a message from a contact named "Good Son" in a certain green bubble app appeared on the screen.
"I'm here. (Picture) Where are you?"
"You didn't chicken out, did you?"
"I'm at the bus stop."
Mo Yu's fingers moved, quickly sending this message, and then he put his phone back into his handbag.
In fact, this was also one of the inconveniences of cosplaying. Most cosplay costumes don't have pockets, which means that if you want to get your phone, either you have a friend from the crew help carry other miscellaneous items so you can keep your phone in your hand, or you prepare a handbag or something similar to carry with you.
But just as he put the phone back, another vibration came from inside the handbag, forcing Mo Yu to take the phone out again.
"Should I come find you?"
"To be my coolie?"
"Forget it then… You should come find me. It feels chilly under this cheongsam, it's so uncomfortable."
"Are you going commando?"
"How could I… Do you think I'm a pervert?"
"Aren't you?"
"The way you say that… I'm so hurt."
"Heh heh heh…"
Mo Yu didn't say anything more. This time, he decisively put his phone back into his handbag, not bothering with the phone's vibration that came from inside the bag again.
He put the instrument back into its case, picked up his handbag, and with his other hand, dragged a suitcase, walking towards the exam site school entrance not far away… "Today is the last day of the college entrance exam. I am currently at the entrance of Pingjiang City's First Experimental Middle School exam site. As the papers are about to be collected, many students' parents are anxiously waiting here…"
At the entrance of Pingjiang City's First Experimental Middle School, a reporter from Pingjiang City Television was conducting an on-site interview. There was nothing special to say about this; TV interviews are a traditional art form during college entrance exam periods in every region.
Although traditional, many prodigies have emerged from related interview segments across the country, which makes local TV stations even more enthusiastic. What if they could encounter another one?
Unfortunately, perhaps it is already the Age of Dharma Decline, and there are now few rising stars who can surpass the prodigies of previous generations.
Therefore, for these reporters responsible for interviews, it was just a matter of going through the motions for the station's work.