Chapter 237: Father’s Love?
An Han originally planned to do things slowly, just like how some people who want to come out as gay will first change their parents’ thinking little by little in daily life.
She wanted to show small hints from time to time to test her father’s reaction, and only when the time was right, when his affection toward her was high enough, she would reveal the truth together with her mother and little sister.
That way, the shock to her father would be much smaller.
But now, his affection was only a bit above ninety, and she had barely started testing him, yet she had already been caught red-handed.
Her mind went blank. At this moment, An Han couldn’t think of any reason to explain her chest!
She looked into her father’s confused eyes, but she didn’t know how to answer even after a long moment of stuttering. So she could only pretend nothing had happened and looked back at her computer, trying very hard to hide her completely red face.
Don’t ask… don’t ask…
Her ears felt hot, her fingertips were shaking, her pupils tightened, and her heartbeat was so fast it made her dizzy.
She could feel her father’s examining, confused gaze moving over her body. From her lightly made-up face, down to her slim white neck, slowly downward, pausing on her chest for a moment, and finally falling on her tightly pressed-together legs.
Her heart jumped a little. She quickly moved her legs slightly apart to make her sitting posture look a bit more like a boy’s.
“What’s going on with your chest?” Her father’s voice sounded unusually calm.
But she was so frightened she jolted. Her legs, which she had just opened a bit, squeezed back together again. Her shoulders curled up timidly and she buried her head, unable to lift it.
Her shy, feminine posture made it hard for her father to accept.
How did my son—yes, short, but still cheerful and lively—turn into this?!
His breathing grew heavier. Seeing that An Han planned to stay silent like a duck pretending nothing happened, he spoke more sternly.
“If something happened, just say it! Don’t wait until you can’t handle it and then come crying to me!”
An Han kept her head down and said nothing. Her father took a few deep breaths, forcing himself to stay patient.
“Does your mom know?”
“……”
An Han tightly gripped her pants with both hands. Her lips pressed into a thin line.
Suddenly there was a small sound beside her, and it immediately triggered her already tense nerves. She trembled all over and instinctively looked up.
Her watery eyes, already filled with mist, met her father’s gaze for just a second, then she hurriedly lowered her head again, frightened.
“Sitting here without talking, what problem can that solve?”
Her father walked out of the room angrily. He originally wanted to slam the door shut, but just as he was about to, he suddenly softened his movement. He turned back and looked at An Han’s still-trembling shoulders, then gently closed the door instead.
He sat on the steps between the second and third floors, one hand rubbing his temple, the other searching on his phone.
“Most likely, the mother doesn’t know either.”
After all, An Han usually lived at school and rarely came home. This winter break had only been a few days.
Father let out a long sigh. He wanted to go ask, but then thought he should keep this secret for An Han. Even though his wife looked elegant and gentle on the outside, her temper was actually worse than his.
If she blew up, it would just make things worse and make it harder for him to think calmly.
He decided to handle this problem himself.
Soon, his phone showed some news similar to his son’s situation:
“Boy grows female-like chest after sharing shampoo with his mom…”
“Man develops abnormal chest swelling after using women’s shampoo…”
Father fell into deep thought. Then he found more professional terms.
“Feminization”
“Male breast hypertrophy.”
To him, these conditions seemed to be the most reasonable explanation for An Han’s situation.
When he thought about it carefully, he remembered that some of his friends had similar situations, but theirs were not serious, so they just treated it as normal fat.
He searched online and roughly found one answer. Then he looked through the contacts on his phone to find a friend who worked at a hospital. After a long time, he finally found a friend from medical school and planned to ask him for more details to confirm his guess.
Inside the room, An Han could faintly hear her father talking on the phone outside. She had been pretending to be an ostrich hiding its head, but only now did she timidly lift her head. She quickly put on the coat she had thrown over her shoulders and began to regret her decision.
If she had known earlier, she would have worn the chest binder for a few more days and raised her father's affection first.
Even though her father acted quite calm, who knew what he was really thinking?
An Han tiptoed to the door like a thief, and with a “click,” locked the door. But she seemed to be scared by the sound of the lock itself, and quickly ran back to the bed, wrapping herself tightly in the blanket. Only her eyes were shown, staring nervously at the door.
But if his affection gets too high… what if fatherly love becomes… strange?
System, what’s my dad’s affection score?
An Han asked in her heart, not daring to speak out loud in case her father outside heard her.
[Father: Affection 85]
It only dropped by two points.
She finally let out a sigh of relief. If his affection had dropped sharply because of this, then she would definitely have to face her father’s storm-like anger later.
This was still within her expectations, since she had practiced getting herself into trouble before with Long Xing and Su Peng.
“What am I supposed to do next…”
Her father had found out that his son’s chest was bigger than his wife’s.
This was way too embarrassing.
The burning feeling on her face still wouldn’t go away. An Han turned over, buried her face in the pillow, and whispered to herself, “Should I just tell the truth now?”
“Will it be too much of a shock for Dad?”
A gentle knock suddenly came from the door. An Han trembled and immediately turned her head toward it.
Outside, her father’s helpless but gentle voice came through.
“Are you okay? In a few days, let’s go to the city hospital for a check-up.”
“Ch-check-up?” Her lips shook. She didn’t understand for a moment.
She already had a medical report, and it was very detailed…
“This kind of illness is not a big problem. Maybe your shampoo or face wash caused it. I’ll replace everything for you.”
“Don’t be scared or feel ashamed. It’s just an illness.”
Changing from male to female… is not a big problem?
An Han’s already chaotic brain froze for a moment, but soon she realized that her father probably never considered that direction at all.
She took a deep breath and tried her best to calm down. She replied softly, “Okay.”
At this most embarrassing moment, she unexpectedly felt a kind of fatherly love she had never felt before…
She pressed her lips together and pulled the blanket over her head, hiding inside completely.
“I’ll keep this from your mom for now…” Her father paused, as if checking whether her mother was home. “She should be at the market with your sister.”
“Okay,” An Han answered, her voice cracking because of nervousness.
Her mood finally started to calm down.
But then An Han suddenly realized, if her father treated this as a real illness and put in all this effort, only to later find out that it was something she and her mother were hiding…
Wouldn’t he think she tricked him and get even angrier?