Dongfang Ming nodded in acknowledgment.
That was for the best, because he would not want to throw away their many years of friendship over this matter.
“But, I feel that Master Wang…” Ming Yan started but paused soon after.
He hoped his assumption was false. Perhaps he should not mention it, for fear of the consequences.
“What is it?” Dongfang Ming asked after washing his mouth.
Ming Yan furrowed his brows as he spoke with uncertainty. “I feel that, though Master Wang has physically taken his leave, he has not truly given up. He’ll think of other ways to get you to counsel Miss Wang.”
“He won’t.” Dongfang Ming renounced Ming Yan’s theory. “Xuan’s not someone who’d do that.”
He was quite sure of it.
Unwilling to press the issue, Dongfang Ming changed the topic. “We’ll set off for Anping Town in a few days. Get ready.”
Going to Anping Town?
It had not even been two months since they left!
Ming Yan had his doubts, but he obeyed nonetheless. “Understood.”
The thought of going to Anping Town filled Dongfang Ming with inexplicable joy. The corners of his lips curved up.
Achoo!
Liu Duo sneezed. She complained as she rubbed the tip of her nose, “Who’s talking bad about me?”
“Duo Er, I think that’s a sign that my brothers are thinking of you. No one’s talking behind your back.” Ye Ling beamed at her.
He believed that his brothers must have missed her very much, after being away for so long.
They would miss her even more now that she was pregnant with their child.
Liu Duo teased him back, “Then, don’t you think of me too?”
All this talk that sneezing meant either someone was thinking of you or talking bad about you was just superstition. She was merely following what the others had been taught to say.
“Me? Of course I think of you, but you are by my side right now, aren’t you?”
“But, Ling, even if I’m at your side, I still think of you too! But apparently, you don’t.” Liu Duo feigned disappointment.
Er…
This left Ye Ling dumbfounded and in a state of confusion.
He was not sure what he had done to upset her, yet he hurriedly explained, “Duo Er, it’s not that I don’t think of you. I do, I really do.”
Seeing him nervous like that and worried that she would get mad at him, Liu Duo truly believed she was a lucky and blissful one to meet a man like him who cared so deeply about her!
“Alright, what do you think of me?” Liu Duo decided to tease him even more.
What do I…?
He paused as he thought about how best to answer his wife’s question.
He mulled it over for a while before he finally said, “Duo Er, I don’t know how, but my mind is constantly filled with images of your face, your smile, your rage, your sorrows, your joy… In fact, I can remember everything! I can never forget them!”
Listening to his confession-like statement, Liu Duo wondered why he failed to get with the program.
Generally, the other person would reply with, ‘I think of you in body and soul,’ right?
She knew he was not a talker like Ye Liu. He could not express himself well. She went on to kiss the back of his hand.
Ye Ling’s handsome face instantly turned a furious red.
“Ling, when I ask you again how you think of me, you should say, I think of you in body and soul!”
Once she said that, she realized she was teaching her man how to flirt!
