Chapter 978: The Story of Ling and Heng (241)
Qiao Fei did not force Feng Ling to change clothes. Although there were a few hours before the dinner party, he did not offer to take her to a room to rest.
Instead, he ordered the VIP lounge beside the banquet hall on the ground floor for her to rest in.
Feng Ling sat on the sofa and played with her cell phone. Qiao Fei answered the calls from his family and his subordinates from time to time. There was not much communication between the two.
Or to be exact, Qiao Fei wanted to speak to her, but Feng Ling kept looking down at the phone and didn’t speak to him.
She just wanted to do him a favor in return and didn’t want to talk about anything else.
Although Feng Ling seemed easy-going, she was actually very stubborn. No one could easily make her change her mind. If she didn’t want to do something, no one could make her do it.
She didn’t like to explain or be polite.
An hour before the dinner party, Feng Ling was so bored that she was even a bit sleepy. She closed her eyes and rested for a while. Hearing the footsteps approaching, she opened her eyes, only to see that Qiao Fei brought her a cup of coffee.
“Drink a cup of coffee?” Qiao Fei put the coffee cup on the table next to her. Seeing that she finally stopped looking at her phone, he sat on the chair next to her. “I barely contact the people in the base after leaving the base. I just received a call from the base and asked about you. They said you suffered a serious injury in Cambodia. No wonder you don’t look well. Has the snake venoms in your body been cleared? How about your shoulders and arms? Are there any sequelae?”
“I’m fine. I feel much better than when I just came back. At first, one of my arms was numb, but now, it’s no longer numb. I think I should be fine if I do some rehabilitation,” Feng Ling said while looking at him: “Does your family also do business? So you won’t have any connections with the base in the future?”
“Probably, I was sent to the base just because I was too weak when I was a child. My parents wanted me to have a place to build up my body,” Qiao Fei said with a smile.”They didn’t expect that I didn’t want to leave the base in the end. If it weren’t for the fact that my parents are not in good health, maybe I would have continued to stay in the base and compete fairly with Li Nanheng for a year or two.”
He never mentioned when Li Nanheng had learned her secret. It seemed to be a tacit understanding between men. Needless to say, they could understand each other.
Compete fairly?
Feng Ling looked away from his face and continued to look at the screen of her phone.
Qiao Fei knew that she was rejecting him but he was used to it, so he just smiled and said, “Stand beside me during the dinner party. When I introduce you to others, you just need to smile and nod. You don’t even need to speak.”
“OK.”
“Many famous Chinese families in Los Angeles will come here today. Have you ever seen the Feng family people? It’s a coincidence that your surname is also Feng?” Qiao Fei said while looking at Feng Ling’s face. “They will also come today. Perhaps you were relatives a hundred years ago. Are you glad to see your relatives?”
Feng Ling thought he was joking. “Are they my relatives? If the word engraved on my jade pendant is Qiao, I must be your sister!”
Qiao Fei raised his eyebrows. “What jade pendant?”
“Nothing. It’s the jade pendant that I have been wearing since I was a kid. There is a word on it and I took that word as my surname.” Feng Ling smiled. “Maybe this is not my surname at all. Maybe I’m an orphan or my parents hated me so they abandoned me? There are too many explanations for this word. It is not necessarily my real last name, so I don’t think the Feng family people are my relatives, and… if a famous family like the Feng family lost a daughter, how could people not know it?”
“I never heard they lost a daughter. In fact, the larger the family is, the more they’re inclined to conceal their scandals and secrets. I only know that the Feng family has a daughter named Feng Mingzhu and this family is as powerful as the Li family and the Mo Ffamily.”
Before Qiao Fei finished speaking, someone knocked on the door. He got up and went out. When he came back, he said, “The dinner party is about to begin. My parents’ car is outside. Now go out with me?”
Feng Ling stood up and looked down at her clothes. “Is it OK for me to be dressed like this?”
“It’s okay,” Qiao Fei said, taking her arm. “Don’t push me away if I hold you or take your hand later. Otherwise, I will lose face. .”
Feng Ling: “… I’ll try my best.”
“No, baby! You are my girlfriend now.” Qiao Fei gave her a wink.
Feng Ling’s mouth twitched because he called her ‘baby,’ and she glared at him, but Qiao Fei laughed, took her hand, and took her out of the lounge.
Two SUVs of the Qiao family drove over and stopped outside the hotel.
Qiao Fei’s parents walked out of the car, and before they walked into the hotel, two figures in front suddenly drew their attention. They first saw Qiao Fei, and then saw the short-haired girl who stood next to him holding his hand.
“Huh…” Mother Qiao froze for a moment. “A-Fei, this is…?”
“My girlfriend.” Qiao Fei replied and smiled, showing his white teeth. He looked no longer as serious and reserved as when he was at the base, but looked relaxed and happy, and a little bit genteel and cute.
Mother Qiao looked at Feng Ling in surprise. When Qiao Fei said that he had a girlfriend, she didn’t believe it.
How could her son find a girlfriend in XI Base where there were only men?
Even if he did have one, it must be a sweet, innocent girl, but she didn’t expect the so-called girlfriend was a short-haired girl wearing sportswear and with no makeup.
But this fair-skinned girl was quite pretty. Her short hair couldn’t conceal her beauty and femininity.