The lingerie shop was just behind the bus stop outside their community. It wasn’t very big, but it had been open for years—Ning Chu vaguely remembered it being around since her middle school days.

Hand in hand with Black Bean, she followed her mother inside.

It was just a small street-side shop, not spacious, with the walls lined with rows upon rows of bras and underwear in every color imaginable. The dazzling sight almost made her dizzy.

Black Bean, having never seen anything like it, gawked with her mouth open, craning her little head back.

“Wow so many”

“Ah Juan? What brings you here?”

The shop owner, a lady who had been lounging behind the counter scrolling through her phone, stood up in surprise when she saw Ning Juan.

“Buying underwear for my daughters,” Ning Juan replied with a smile, glancing back at Ning Chu and Black Bean.

“Daughters?”

The owner was fairly familiar with Ning Juan, but she’d never heard she had two daughters. If anything, she’d heard she had two sons.

“Didn’t I mention it before?”

Ning Juan covered her mouth with a laugh, feigning ignorance.

“You really didn’t.” The owner’s eyes lit up as she looked over at Ning Chu. “Such a pretty little beauty. And this little one’s adorable too~”

“Right? Not surprising, since I gave birth to them.”

Ning Chu silently rolled her eyes at the back of her mother’s head.

‘Sure, me being pretty can count as good genes from you. But what’s Black Bean got to do with you? That’s all thanks to her cat parents.’

She’d been a girl for a while now, so underwear shopping no longer carried the awkward shame it once had for her as a clueless former virgin boy. Calmly, she drifted to the side and let her gaze wander over the bras hanging on the wall.

She liked black, but black lace lingerie wasn’t her thing. After a few glances, she moved on to other styles.

Her succubus instincts, however, immediately honed in on the erotic lingerie tucked away in the corner.

One glance was all it took for her cheeks to flush pink. Like being zapped by electricity, she quickly averted her eyes elsewhere.

“Ning Chu, come here and get your measurements taken.”

“Yes~”

Obediently, she walked over, raising her arms like a doll as the owner looped a soft measuring tape around her.

She had no concept of bust-waist-hip measurements, but from the owner’s sharp inhale, she figured the numbers must be pretty impressive.

“Between a B and a C. You should wear a C cup. A bit looser will feel more comfortable,” the owner suggested professionally, then muttered under her breath, “Such a tiny waist…”

“Mm.”

Still didn’t catch up to the average succubus, huh?

But if she was wearing C, then that meant she is C!

“You go pick out a few sets you like. I’ll choose some for Ning Xin.”

Ning Chu frowned. Most of the underwear was lace-trimmed, and she had zero interest in lace. After struggling for a while, she turned to her mother for help.

“Mom, could you just pick a few for me too? As long as they’re comfortable.”

“Sure.”

Afraid of her mother pulling a prank, she tagged close behind, watching her like a hawk.

But before she could follow for long, her pocket buzzed.

At this time of day, Wen Yang should’ve been napping. Zhang Shaoqing, then?

Running through possibilities, she pulled out her phone—only to see it was an old high school classmate.

“Ning Chu, we’ve set up a reunion the evening after tomorrow. You coming? 50 yuan per person, we’ll settle any difference.”

“Not going.”

“Our homeroom teacher will be there too.”

“Forget it.”

She typed out her refusal. When she looked up again, her mother had already picked out her underwear and was chatting at the counter while the owner packed it up.

Ning Chu leaned in for a peek.

Thankfully, her mother still knew how to keep up appearances in public. No ultra-risque lingerie snuck into the pile…

‘Why do I feel a little disappointed by that…?’

“Mom! This one looks so cute!”

Black Bean’s voice piped up from the side. Ning Chu turned her head and saw the little cat holding up a small vest printed with a white cartoon cat face, eyes sparkling with excitement.

“Buy this one!”

“Alright, put it there first. Any others you like?”

“More cats?!”

The shop owner, amused by her lively cuteness, walked over and affectionately ruffled Black Bean’s hair.

“I’ll help you look.”

“Thank you, big sis~”

“What a sweet mouth. How about big sis gives you a pair of socks for free?”

Ning Chu’s lips twitched. Since when did this cat’s EQ get so high? Must’ve been Mom’s teaching.

She grumbled silently in her heart—but just then, footsteps sounded at the entrance. Instinctively, her eyes were drawn over.

‘Holy crap! What a gorgeous girl!’

A succubus?!

Ning Chu gave her a couple of quick glances, then realized it wasn’t polite to stare. She smiled faintly and shifted her gaze away.

The newcomer looked maybe twenty or so, but already carried the mature allure of a married woman. Her peach blossom eyes were long and slightly upturned at the corners, foxlike, with a tiny beauty mark at the corner that made her even more seductive.

Her face still held a trace of baby fat, and when she smiled, a pair of sweet dimples appeared on her cheeks. She was curvy but not heavyset, every gesture brimming with charm. Her chest was even fuller than Ning Chu’s.

‘Damn! She’s stunning! She’s even prettier than Lily!’

Whether it was her breathtaking looks or the gentle warmth of her smile, this woman left Ning Chu with an incredibly favorable impression.

‘Should I… go introduce myself later?’

But then, a chill ran down her spine. She snapped back to her senses, retreating a step, eyes narrowing warily at the dangerous beauty.

This kind of woman required constant vigilance—how had she almost been bewitched just now?

‘That allure! If it were Wen Yang standing here, no way he’d resist!’

Since transmigrating, this was the first time Ning Chu felt a true sense of crisis from another woman.

This girl is definitely one of the potential heroines! The pampered air about her screamed “rich ojou-sama being tamed by the protagonist” short-story arc.

‘I’ll have to check my draft when I get back.’

Ning Chu watched her cautiously, already plotting how to trick her into revealing her name.

The woman noticed her guarded stare and tilted her head in faint confusion, but didn’t dwell on it. She simply lifted her gaze toward the rows of lingerie on the wall.

“Big sis, you’re so pretty~”

Ning Chu jolted. Without her noticing, Black Bean had already scampered over, looking up at the woman with pure admiration.

‘Crap! Black Bean’s already bewitched?!’

Her charm worked on both men and women! And her looks weren’t even much higher than mine!

The sense of crisis flared hotter.

‘Wen Yang must never come near this area. If this vixen ever tries to seduce him… I don’t even dare imagine that disaster.’

“Hmm?” The woman looked down and smiled, gently rubbing Black Bean’s head. “What’s your name, little one?”

“Black—no, Ning Xin!” Black Bean corrected herself quickly, purring as she leaned into the touch. “What’s big sis name~? I’ve got a very handsome big brother!”

“I’m already married, with two kids.”

“My name’s An Han.”

The moment Ning Chu heard that name, her brain kicked into overdrive, frantically scanning through every single hentai novel arc that she’d ever written.

Even when her mental CPU overheated, she still couldn’t find a match.

‘Impossible! How could I not have written her?!’

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