Since returning to the base, Li Nanheng has done much more than visiting Feng Ling’s room once in a while.
He clearly went there all the time, all right?
After evening training, as per normal, Feng Ling performed her balance training and took a shower. As she stepped out of the bathroom, she rubbed her hair dry with a towel and habitually glanced at the door.
She wondered what was wrong with Li Nanheng. Was the sun rising from the west today? For the past few days, he wouldn’t head to bed without coming by to take a few bites out of her. Yet, for some reason, he had actually yet to show up today?
Just as Feng Ling was approaching her bedside, she abruptly spun around to look at her windows. She watched as the man pulled it open from outside and directly entered.
Feng Ling: “…”
She nearly forgot that her room door was no different from her windows, because their balconies were linked. Furthermore, her windows could not be locked! He could enter from there anytime he wished!
“Why aren’t you using the proper entrance today?” Feng Ling was startled at first, but after calming down, she gave him a strange look.
The man breathed in the room full of her shower gel scent and directly approached to sit on the chair by her bedside.
As she had already revealed her gender to him, and because he was the only person who would carelessly visit her room at night, she no longer bound her chest after taking a shower. Right now, she was wearing a loose, white T-shirt. Her hair was damp and scattered across her forehead. She carelessly tugged at it before brushing it away.
“I know that you always finish taking your shower at this time, so I came by to visit you.” The man displayed the same formal and professional attitude he had a few days ago; even the way he spoke was dignified, but everytime he took a glance at her, he would carry her back to take a few bites out of her.
Feng Ling was almost used to this. She tugged at her hair again. “My hair has really grown quite a lot. It’s fine if I didn’t return to the base, but since I’m maintaining the identity of a man here, the length of my hair doesn’t match up to the base’s standards.”
“Your hair is specially approved by the Boss of this base. No one will dare say anything.”
Feng Ling: “…Boss, you’re using your authority for private interests.”
“I’ve worked my ass off for the XI Base for so many years. I’m just hiding my wife here for a while, what’s wrong with stopping her from shaving her hair? So what if I’m using my authority for my private interests?” The man stood up and directly brought Feng Ling, who was sitting on the bed, into his arms. He lowered his head and kissed her, tasting the minty toothpaste on her lips: “I’m not insisting that you grow it long, nor am I demanding for you to look for your so-called femininity, but shaving it is really too much. You’ve never had such short hair even in the base.”
“You paid attention to my hair length in the past?” Feng Ling was astonished.
The man snorted and bit her lips in punishment. He pressed her down on the bed and proceeded to nibble on her lips and neck for a long while before finally letting her off. He held her in his arms and dotingly pressed her against his chest. He spoke huskily: “Do you believe me when I say I’ve been paying attention to you since you came into the base?”
“I believe…”
The so-called attention he placed on her at the time was his suspicion.
This man never once gave up on his suspicions of her.
Other people lived with her for years but failed to discover it. He left for almost three years but actually still saw through her.
Although he didn’t say it clearly, nor did she ask about it, but when she confessed about the truth previously, he clearly wasn’t surprised.
“What’s the point in asking if you believe me? Isn’t it enough to know that you’re the only important person in my eyes? You insist on making me say it clearly.” The man placed another kiss on her forehead.
Feng Ling really wanted to refute it but her cheeks burned with his frank confession. She wanted to sit up but was held firmly by the man: “Don’t move. Let me hold you for a while longer.”
“Boss, you should return to your room now, or you’ll have to take a cold shower again tonight.”
The man snorted: “So you do know how difficult it is for me? Will you hurry and grow up already? I’ll give you three years. It should be enough for you to be ready.”
Feng Ling rolled her eyes in her heart.
He had already eaten her up cleanly once before she was ready.
It was just that he couldn’t remember it.
She had yet to seek her justice for that incident.
Feng Ling almost fell asleep leaning against Li Nanheng’s arms; the quiet room made one feel drowsy.
All of a sudden, a knock resounded against her room door. Feng Ling’s eyes snapped open and she subconsciously sat up.
Li Nanheng had also been falling asleep. He was woken up by the noise and by the young woman struggling out of his arms. He furrowed his brows and glanced at the door in annoyance.
“It’s so late. Who is it?” Li Nanheng asked.
Feng Ling was also unsure.
She had lived in the base for so long. The people she was close to all knew she didn’t like them coming this late at night. Ever since she moved to the room next to Boss Li’s, those people had become even more aware and never came to disturb her.
The people who would knock at this time, could it be…
She turned back and sent Li Nanheng a look, indicating for him to quickly crawl back to his room through the windows.
The man did not move from the bed, nor did he seem to want to comply. He raised his brows and watched as she approached her door.
The moment she opened the door, two fifteen year old young boys grinned toothily at her: “Teacher Feng Ling! I hope we didn’t disturb your rest? There are a few things we didn’t fully understand from today’s training. We gave you a call but you didn’t answer, so we came to visit you!”
Feng Ling looked at the two brats outside her door and pursed her lips.
For the past few years, the base rarely opened up to newcomers. A few days ago, however, they suddenly opened their doors again. Recently, there were quite a lot of newcomers. Most of them were just like her when she first entered. They were all young people in their teens.
On the second day of her return, the base arranged more than ten newcomers to their sniper team. Among them, two of them were placed under her and she was instructed to train them every so often.
Since then, these brats spoke as though their lips were dipped in sugar. They kept calling her, ‘Teacher Feng Ling.’
She coughed. “It’s so late. Must you come ask at this time?”
“Ah, did we really disturb your rest? We just learned that you stayed here and saw that your room lights were still on so we came over.” The two boys were slightly embarrassed. “We’re really sorry. We were just accepted into the base and actually made it into such a formidable sniper team. The excitement got to our heads and we wanted to look for you to talk…”
