Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 229 Gender Issues

Fortunately, Shui Furong was quick and put her clothes back on before the guards broke in, so she didn't expose her "spring light". Ji Anni, who had just witnessed Shui Furong's half-naked figure, sat on the ground like a body without a soul...

Man, man, Shui Furong is actually a man...

They slept in the same bed last night, and Shui Furong just hugged him like a pillow. What's more terrifying is... he changed his clothes last night! Wouldn't he be naked?

Although this is Soji's body...but, but...

Oh, never mind. Just think of it as a situation forced upon me and a last resort.

But Shui Furong had also bullied Yizhen, and using such a little woman's means of revenge made him seem like a real man.

After thinking about it, I couldn't think of anything that was unfeminine about him, except that he was too bold. Especially that beautiful face, which was as beautiful as a flower, would make others feel inferior if it was on a woman's face, but now it was on a man's face, which was simply intolerable.

By the way, Ji Anni suddenly thought of Liu Yingying from Xi Congfei Palace. It was said that she was Shui Furong's rival since she was a child. If Liu Yingying knew that her feminine charm from childhood to adulthood had been lost to a man, she would be so angry that she would die.

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Ji Anni's thoughts were all over the place and she fell into extreme confusion. She forgot what happened afterwards and was taken to the Empress Dowager's Palace by the guards in a daze.

It is said that the Queen Mother had already ordered that if the whereabouts of Ji Anni and Shui Furong were discovered, they should be brought to the Queen Mother's palace to see her immediately.

The Queen Mother heard about the disappearance of Ji Anni and Shui Furong from Taoist Yuan Rong last night. She was so angry that she could not sleep all night. Until early this morning, she could no longer bear the tiredness and returned to the palace to rest at the persuasion of the palace maids.

When Ji Anni and Shui Furong were taken to the Empress Dowager's palace, the Empress Dowager had not yet woken up, so they had no choice but to kneel on the ground and wait.

In the silent lobby, there was no one else except Ji Anni and Shui Furong. No matter how quiet it was, Ji Anni's mind was in a mess. She turned her head from time to time to look at Shui Furong beside her, but she didn't think he was a man. Ji Anni even suspected that the half-naked scene she saw was an illusion. She must have been so deeply possessed that she could see hallucinations even when she was awake. Yes, it must be like this, it must be like this... Ji Anni tried to convince herself.

At this moment, Shui Furong, who was kneeling beside her, suddenly whispered, "Concubine Zhao Congfei, you must keep this secret for me."

The word "confidential" completely shattered Ji Anni's self-hypnotic thoughts.

Ji Anni beat her chest and stamped her feet in her heart, howling in pain: Why, why, why did you let me see such a shocking scene? Why did you let me know the secret of Shui Furong? I had obviously changed my opinion of him and really wanted to make friends with him, but I didn't expect to suddenly find out that he was... he was... a shemale...

Countless thick black lines hung on the back of Ji Anni's head.

Although she really didn't want to use the word "shemale" to summarize Shui Furong's gender characteristics, she really couldn't think of any other words to replace it...

No wonder Shui Furong said that he had no interest in men or women. It turned out that he was not cold-hearted, but was hiding such a huge secret...

Well, as a new generation of people born in the new century, I shouldn’t be scared by such things.

Ji Anni regained her spirits.

Since Shui Furong did not abandon me after seeing me transform twice, I must not abandon him!

Shui Furong knew the secret of her transformation, and she also knew the secret of his gender. It seemed fair when she thought about it this way.

Ji Anni, who was in the Empress Dowager's Palace awaiting punishment, completely forgot to care about her own life or death, and focused all her attention on Shui Furong.

"Shui...Shui Congfei..." These three words that I used to say very smoothly, now always sound very awkward.

"What's wrong?" Shui Furong asked coldly. In fact, she had already guessed what Ji Anni wanted to ask.

"Shui Congfei, you, you...why are you dressing up as a woman?" It would be fine if he was only dressing up as a woman in his own home, but this is the imperial palace. If he's not careful, it would be a capital crime of treason and rebellion. Is this a joke?

Recalling the gossip about Shui Furong that I heard from Yun Zhen, I knew that he was a world-famous beauty, and it seemed that no one had ever doubted his gender. Could it be that... he has been playing the role of a woman since he was born?

Ji Anni was lost in thought when she heard Shui Furong answer, "I'm not dressed as a woman. I'm just a woman."

The more I listen, the more it sounds like a shemale's speech...

Ji Annie laughed dryly, thinking that maybe she could quote a theory like "Although I am a man, I have a heart as pure as a girl" here?

"Since you've seen everything, I'll tell you briefly. But you must remember not to leak a single word to anyone else." Shui Furong's eyes were as gloomy as a gangster killer.

"Yeah." Ji Annie nodded continuously like a chicken pecking at rice.

Shui Furong then continued, "My mother believed in Buddhism. It is said that not long after I was born, she asked a monk to tell my fortune. The monk sighed as soon as he saw me and wanted to accept me into Buddhism. My mother asked why, and the monk told her that one day in the future, I would die for the woman I loved, so he advised my mother to convert to Buddhism as soon as possible and give up all worldly thoughts. Although my mother believed in Buddhism, she was reluctant to send me to become a monk, so she came up with a plan, which was to raise me as a girl and teach me from a young age that I must never fall in love with any woman."

"So it doesn't matter if you like men?" Ji Annie asked curiously.

"The man didn't say..." Shui Furong told the truth. Perhaps Shui Furong's mother didn't consider this at the time.

Ji Anni had already broken into a cold sweat after hearing this, thinking that the monks in this world were really strange, always like to predict the life of children when they are just born. I still remember hearing Hua Rong say that Yizhen was also predicted by a monk when she was a child.

Shui Furong continued, "Originally my father disagreed, but my mother insisted again and again, crying and making a fuss, and my father really had no way to deal with her, so he nodded and agreed. He originally agreed to raise me as a girl until I was six years old, but when I was six years old, Qingzhou and Cangzhou suffered a sudden drought. In order to appease the people, the governors of the two states, that is, my father and Liu Yingying's father, decided to hold a rain-praying ceremony to select a virgin girl from the two states to serve as a divine medium. My mother hid it from my father and asked me to participate in the selection. Unexpectedly, I was selected on the first try, and I became a goddess. Not long after the sacrifice, the heavens finally sent down sweet rain, saving the people of the two states. Originally, my father had been complaining that my mother's behavior was blasphemous to the gods, but after the rain, my mother turned around and refuted my father, saying that the gods accepted the fact that I was a girl, so even after the agreed six-year-old period, my mother was still unwilling to let me return to male clothing, and it has been delayed until now."

"So do you still want to be a man now?" Ji Anni asked curiously.

Unexpectedly, there are so many stories in this. Ji Anni really admires Shui Furong's mother's courage to challenge fate. At the same time, she also deeply sympathizes with the henpecked Qingzhou governor.

"I think I'm fine the way I am now, no matter whether he is a man or a woman." Shui Furong is quite open-minded.

Ji Anni turned her head away and whispered, "But I feel uncomfortable watching..."

"Oh, right, it was that rain-praying ceremony that caused me to offend Liu Yingying." Shui Furong became more and more cheerful as she spoke, completely forgetting that they were still waiting for the empress dowager's punishment, and immersed herself wholeheartedly in the joyful atmosphere of the tea party.

"Does she also want to be a goddess?" Ji Anni guessed casually.

Shui Furong nodded and said, "Yes. She really liked the goddess's dress, but she didn't expect that I would wear it in the end, so she hated me. We met a few more times after that, but she lost to me every time. Over time, she hated me to the core."

"You must not let her know that you are a man..." Ji Anni decided to keep Shui Furong's secret to the end.

If Liu Yingying's accumulated resentment over the past ten years suddenly erupted, the destructive power would be no less than that of an atomic bomb.

Shui Furong added: "In fact, until I was twelve years old, I always thought I was a girl."

"What about after the age of twelve?" It seems that twelve years old was an important turning point, allowing Shui Furong to finally realize her gender.

"I knew I was a man after I turned twelve." Shui Furong deliberately skipped the most important part in the middle.

"How do you know you are a man?" Ji Anni kept pressing.

"Girls shouldn't ask so many questions!" Shui Furong's face suddenly turned red, looking very embarrassed.

Is this really such an embarrassing topic? Ji Anni blinked her big, sparkling eyes innocently.

It turned out that Shui Furong also knew the differences between men and women, and she thought that he had been a woman for so long that he could no longer tell the difference between the two sexes.

Since he felt embarrassed, it must be related to physiological changes.

After guessing the answer, Ji Anni stopped dwelling on this question and asked, "When you entered the palace, did your parents not object?"

"They objected, but they all wanted to know, like me, why my sister died three years ago."

"What if your identity is exposed?"

"Anyway, I am already sixteen years old, and it is time for me to return to my manhood. If I still cannot find out the cause of my sister's death after I am crowned queen in September, my father will take the initiative to ask the emperor for forgiveness and make my secret known to the world. If the emperor does not pursue the matter, he will take me home directly. If the emperor pursues the matter, he will not dare to do anything to my father."

No wonder Shui Furong was so bold. The governor of Qingzhou was a high-ranking official, and even the royal family did not dare to deal with him easily.