Chapter 849: The Story of Ling and Heng (112)
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Feng Ling thought she had heard it wrong and froze. Then she looked blankly at the man in front of her. “Huh?”
Li Nanheng had no intention to waste any time. “Take off your clothes, understood?”
Feng Ling: “…Why?”
“A few years ago, the year you came to the base, I visited an orphanage in Los Angeles and met a girl disguised as a boy in it. I didn’t see her face, so I still don’t know who she is.” With that, Li Nanheng’s eyes fell on her body and moved to her chest without warning.
Although the man was stained with blood and dust, he still looked handsome and noble.
Any of his words had absolute power of deterrence and made people obey him.
Feng Ling heard he suddenly mentioned that matter. Although she wasn’t sure yet, she had a feeling that Boss Li was already doubting her.
Having no evidence and not being sure before, he wasn’t so obsessed with digging out the truth of this matter that seemed to have nothing to do with him, but at this moment, Boss Li apparently had no intention to let her off or give her a chance.
He must know the truth.
“Boss, do you mean you think I’m someone you met in that orphanage?” Feng Ling looked at him calmly. “How did you find she was a girl? Did you strip her? Or did you force her to take off her clothes in front of your eyes like what you’re doing to me?”
Feng Ling said calmly as if the person Nanheng mentioned was not her and she didn’t feel anything about this matter. She just asked him, “Or do you think the entire base, including all the drillmasters whom I have had contact with, are all so stupid that they don’t even know whether I’m a man or woman after living with me for so many years, so you have to come over yourself and force me to undress in front of your eyes?”
“I just ask you to take off your clothes. Do it if you’re a man. What are you afraid of?” Li Nanheng casually asked, “Have you ever taken a bath with anyone in the base? Have you ever been to the public bath in the base? After training for a long time in the summer, everyone else stripped to the waist and sweat profusely, but you never even unbuckled your belt. Besides, you’re not as tall as a normal man and have a lot of strange behavior. As the person in charge of the base, I think I should figure this out, which should not be considered as an insult to you.”
Feng Ling burst into laughter. “Boss, you should know that there is an eccentricity in the world called exhibitionism, and I am on the contrary. I hate exposing my body. Or, you can take it this way…”
Feng Ling looked at the trash can beside the bed and said lightly, “When I was a child, I wandered around because I had no father or mother. I was born like a girl, my skin is too white and I’m too small, so I was often bullied by the local homeless people in the street. Once I was even humiliated by several homeless people who dragged me into an alley and stripped me. Since then, I had this eccentricity. I’m on my guard against anyone and hate meeting people, especially taking off my clothes in front of others.”
Listening to her explanation, Li Nanheng looked at her deeply and did not speak. Then he followed her gaze and looked at the trash can beside her bed.
Stacked in the trash can was the white dress that Feng Ling wore during the mission today. The skirt was stained with dirty blood, and on top of it were a pair of high heels, flesh-colored stockings, and the flesh-colored fake silicone breasts.
Seeing the stuff made of silicone in person, Li Nanheng froze for a while.
Feng Ling stood in front of him, watching her boss’s eyes gradually turned cold.
She lifted her arms expressionlessly and made a posture to let him undress her. “If you must see me naked, Boss, as you said, we’re both men, I won’t have any loss if I let you see me naked.”
The room fell into an eerie silence because of Feng Ling’s words. Li Nanheng looked away from the trash can, glanced at her, and then at her oversize T-shirt and her opened arms. When his eyes turned to her flat chest, his eyes suddenly became colder, and his deep voice also revealed an irresistible coldness. “So in your eyes, I’m just a pervert who insists on stripping you, ignoring your psychological shadow, or a pushover who is easily fooled by you? Do you think I will believe what you said just now?”
Feng Ling’s eyes were calm. “The boss is the boss. The base gave me a place to stay. If you insist on it, of course, I will not refuse it. As for whether you’ll believe me or not, it is your business.”
Her eyes were firm without any evasion.
For her, it was not important whether Boss Li thought she was a man or a woman. What mattered was whether he trusted her.
They had been working together for so long and going through fire and water for so many times. Gender was not important to her. Yes, she was a woman, but so what?
At first, she didn’t want to be driven out of the base because she was a woman. Now, of course, this was also the reason, but when Xiao Xu told her that Boss Li liked her, she felt an upsurge of rippling thoughts even now.
If he insisted on being the one to uncover the secret, she might not refuse.
She was very calm.
She kept her arms open and looked at him calmly and fearlessly. “Boss, are you going to take off my clothes?”
What a shrewd person was Li Nanheng?
The long-standing suspicion in his heart and the countless clues he had noticed were reminding him that Feng Ling was not a man.
No matter Feng Ling’s strange behaviors or the touch he had felt, he was telling him that this was a woman. If he still couldn’t tell whether this was a man or a woman, then he must had lived in vain for more than two decades.
But Feng Ling’s eyes were too calm.
The truth was right in front of him. Uncover it or not?
Li Nanheng looked away and took a look at her bed and all the furnishings in her room. There were a few books on the table. The bed was neat and clean and there were all black or white T-shirts and uniforms in the cabinet, without any feminine stuff.
Perhaps it was too cruel to reveal the truth. Trust was needed between people, so was frankness.
Li Nanheng looked at her again, his eyes serious. “I only give you this chance. Just tell me the truth. Are you are a man or a woman?”
Feng Ling answered without hesitation, “Feng Ling, male.”
The air in the room seemed to freeze in an instant.