Trapped in Paradise (In a Hentai World, as a Trap)

Chapter Vol. 1 Ch. 78

8:00 PM

Ning Chu pushed open the dorm room door right on time, his punctuality almost a ritual.

He didn’t enter immediately, though. Instead, he turned to glance at Wen Yang, who had gone next door to borrow a basketball. Only when Wen Yang emerged from the neighboring dorm did Ning Chu finally step inside, satisfied.

Even in the all-male dormitory building, Ning Chu had to be cautious!

Though officially, no women were allowed inside the boys' dorms, Ning Chu had seen girls sneaking around the building more than once.

“What are you waiting for?”

Wen Yang, just entering the room, casually stripped off his sweat-soaked T-shirt. Instinctively, Ning Chu’s gaze fell on Wen Yang’s sun-kissed skin.

As Wen Yang stretched his arms above his head, revealing his toned waist, the faint outline of his six-pack abs became visible with each breath. The V-shaped muscles on either side of his lower abdomen, known as the Adonis belt, stood out prominently, accentuating his broad shoulders and well-defined deltoids.

His physique was muscular yet maintained a natural aesthetic, the kind of inverted triangle body shape that would make any girl swoon…

Damn, I’m so jealous!

It was like a shock of electricity; Ning Chu quickly averted his eyes after just a brief glance, a surge of envy and frustration bubbling up inside him.

He grabbed the can of cola on his desk and chugged half of it in one go before casually asking, “Are you showering first, or should I?”

“Why don’t we shower together?”

“…”

After spending so much time with Zhang Shaoqing, Wen Yang had picked up the habit of teasing Ning Chu every now and then. It was becoming apparent that this once straightforward guy was starting to show signs of being influenced by bad company.

Thankfully, Wen Yang and Ning Chu were close. If he had spent too much time with Zhang Shaoqing outside, Wen Yang might have turned into a harem protagonist by now.

But Wen Yang was just joking. When he didn’t get a response, he continued, “Alright, I’ll go first. Ten minutes.”

He walked over to the wardrobe, grabbed a set of shorts and a T-shirt to use as pajamas, and asked casually, “You don’t look too good. Are you feeling okay?”

“Just a bit of a headache. Probably from not exercising for too long.”

By now, Ning Chu had a pretty good grasp of how the penalties in this world worked.

When he disrupted the initial storyline involving Wen Yang, or when he prevented Zhang Shaoqing from fully turning evil, the penalties were particularly severe. Once, he suffered from intense, short-lived abdominal pain, and another time, he endured a half-day-long high fever.

For less critical storylines, like minor date interruptions, the penalties were lighter—just a mild stomachache, akin to catching a slight chill. For Ning Chu, who had once suffered from chronic gastritis, these were hardly worth mentioning.

The more crucial the storyline, the harsher the penalty.

Ning Chu couldn’t help but think that some unseen force was raging against him in impotent fury, and it almost made him want to laugh.

When Wen Yang stepped into the bathroom to shower, Ning Chu suddenly stood up from his computer, lifted his shirt, and peeled off the makeshift chest pads—Band-Aids—that he had been wearing. He tossed them into the trash and threw on a light jacket.

Wearing those Band-Aids just felt weird.

But going out with his nipples exposed made him feel as embarrassed as a girl going braless in public.

Soon enough, Wen Yang emerged from the bathroom, wearing nothing but a pair of boxers.

Ning Chu glanced at him casually but noticed Wen Yang’s face flushing red at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Why the hell are you embarrassed?

Wen Yang, feeling flustered, hurried over to his desk and quickly put on his T-shirt and shorts, only calming down once he was fully dressed.

He suddenly realized that, at some point, he had started seeing Ning Chu more and more as a girl.

But who could blame him? Ning Chu had the face of a girl, his chest had gradually swelled into small apples, and his entire body seemed to radiate an elusive, feminine charm.

And to think, at the beginning of the semester, he still had the face of a young boy…

Wen Yang was lost in thought until he heard the sound of the balcony door closing. He turned to see that Ning Chu had gone to shower.

The next moment, an image of Ning Chu showering, completely naked, popped into his head.

“I’m not really into guys, am I?” Wen Yang muttered to himself, quickly searching online, and breathed a sigh of relief. “Phew, I’m not.”

People who are truly into guys would be into real men, not beautiful traps like Ning Chu. At worst, I’ve just got a… unique preference.

Or maybe I’m just a pervert.

He sighed helplessly. Living with such a beautiful roommate, how could he not become a little twisted?

And who knows what Zhang Shaoqing and Wang Jie think.

Wen Yang had originally planned to visit the library after basketball to familiarize himself with the place for future study sessions, but Ning Chu had unexpectedly rejected the idea. This threw off his plans, leaving him at loose ends.

With nothing else to do, he grabbed the broom from the corner and started sweeping the dorm room floor. “Hei Dou, move out of the way. Stop pouncing on the broom.”

The little black cat in the dorm spent most of its time eating and sleeping, and the rest of the time getting into mischief.

Wen Yang gently tapped Hei Dou’s backside with the broom, and the cat darted away, knocking over Ning Chu’s trash can in the process.

With a resigned sigh, Wen Yang went over to clean up the mess, only to discover two used Band-Aids among the trash.

“Did he get hurt? When did that happen?”

Wen Yang frowned, but before he could dwell on it, a loud, pained cry from the bathroom caught his attention, making his heart race with concern.

Without hesitation, he rushed to the balcony and knocked on the bathroom door. “What happened?”

“…”

“Are you okay? Did you hurt yourself?”

“I’m fine…”

The response from inside was weak, as if life had lost all meaning.

Wen Yang sensed something was wrong and asked nervously, “What really happened?”

“I just slipped and fell.”

That cry didn’t sound like an instinctive yelp from falling.

“You…”

“I’m showering! If you have something to say, wait until I’m out!”

Ning Chu’s voice suddenly rose, becoming sharp and filled with anger and frustration, with a hint of a sniffle.

Wen Yang obediently leaned against the railing, muttering to himself, “Why did he get so snappy all of a sudden…”

“From that tone, is he crying?”

The bathroom was filled with steam, the sound of running water drowning out everything else.

Ning Chu stood under the showerhead, his pale body motionless as he stared down at his lower half, letting out a heavy sigh.

I’d rather just have a bigger chest…

What was once a childlike “worm” had shrunk to the size of a bean, making it nearly impossible to aim when using the toilet—he had to squat.

He had even instinctively learned to retract it into his abdomen.

The psychological impact was overwhelming.

If it had just shrunk, Ning Chu could have reluctantly accepted it, but upon closer inspection, he noticed that his external equipment seemed to be transitioning to internal.

This isn’t even scientifically possible!

If he kept disrupting the storyline and derailing the plot, he might soon be a girl, through and through.

Leaning weakly against the tiled wall, Ning Chu stared up at the orange light, his face blank.

“They might as well have just turned me into a female side character,” Ning Chu thought, a tightness in his chest making it hard to breathe, and his heart felt like it was being squeezed in pain. “This slow transformation is like torture…”

Even though he had long known that he couldn’t change his fate of becoming female, now that the day was approaching, he couldn’t help but feel a rising panic, fear, and dread. His head drooped, his shoulders trembling as he covered his face with his hands.

He wasn’t nearly as brave or optimistic as he thought.

Damn! Writing this book has gotten to me—I actually dreamt last night that I turned into Ning Chu and got caught in a situation where I was stuck between being a man and a woman!

Woke up terrified~