Xu Mey left the restaurant to look for He Jian. After a bit of wandering around, she found him standing before the fountain. She slowly came behind him and placed her hand on his shoulder. He Jian turned his head to look at her. Seeing her concerned look, he tried to smile but his smile looked rather sad to Xu Mey.
He placed his hand over Xu Mey's hand on his shoulder saying, "She didn't even give me the chance to give her the last rose." He said sotto voce.
Xu Mey had no idea how to console him at all. She took a deep breath. "Weiwei's loss was of life. She lost the battle of life and death. In your case, Jian Ge, you lost a part of yourself with her even when you're alive. Somehow, your loss seems bigger to me."
He Jian glanced at her face. He was trying to remember when he met her for the first time. She was bashful, weak, timid and fearful of everything around. She said to him back then, "Life teaches you to fear death. But death actually wants us to see the worst side of life. In the end, death always wins this battle. Because no matter what, living is so scary that we happily want to embrace the death."
Right now, that same girl had changed drastically. She didn't talk about death that easily as she used to do. He Jian was glad to know that she was accepting life instead of running behind death with potency.
He ruffled her hair lovingly and gave her a sincere smile. She smiled back at him and looped her arm with his as they headed back towards the restaurant.
After the meal, when everyone left the restaurant, Ye Jie walked beside Xu Mey and bent his head to whisper, "Did they break up or-?" He didn't dare to complete his speculation.
"She died." Xu Mey replied in a flat voice without any expressions on her face. Seeing Ye Jie in a daze, she added, "She was a cancer patient. She fought for 4 years but on the night before her wedding with Jian Ge, she lost the battle of life and death."
"Your friends have really complicated love lives," Ye Jie commented reeling from the love crisis her friends had.
But his simple comment worked as oil on the fire for Xu Mey. "Says the guy whose own girlfriend left him after 8 years of a relationship without any reason or rhyme." She was spitting fire and it took Ye Jie by surprise.
"Really? You wanna go down that road?" He asked with a quirk of a brow.
Xu Mey bit her tongue for not having control on it. "The four of them are like my dragon scales. Touch them and I'll show you what going berserk means in reality."
"I'll keep that in mind." Ye Jie replied obediently.
His calm reaction made Xu Mey feel guilty for bringing up his ex. 'I really need a filter for my mouth.' She thought.
"Did I go too far?" She asked after a moment's pause.
Ye Jie stared at her head drooped down in guilty and smiled. He stretched his hand towards her asking her to take it which she took without hesitation. "You didn't say anything wrong. And I don't want you to be guilty unless you really have committed a crime."
She stared at their intertwined hands and asked, "What if I have done a crime?"
Ye Jie stopped walking, turned his head and gazed into her black orbs. "Then I'll..." He paused in a thoughtful manner. Xu Mey was staring anxiously at his face. He smiled and added, "I'll make sure to stand by you through all of it."
"What if my past's tears are like a flood?" All of a sudden, she asked.
"Then I'll stand firm against that flood with you." He replied without missing a beat.
"What if you can't withstand the gush of tears with me?" She asked again.
He brought their intertwined hands up and left a fleeting kiss on her knuckles. Then he placed the joined hands against his heart and raised his other hand to caress her soft cheek. "If I can't withstand it... Then I'll drown in that gush of tears with you."
Xu Mey was stunned at his reply. She didn't realize when a tear trickled down her face. She only realized it when Ye Jie's thumb wiped the tear away and his soft lips touched her forehead. He buried her head in his chest and placed his chin on her head while stroking her hair. "I didn't know that my wife is so sensitive. You're so easily touched. What if I was lying to you?" He asked jokingly.
"I'll cut you into pieces myself… If you said it, you should keep your word. Otherwise, don't just throw out your words like pebbles." He heard her muffled voice making him chuckle.
"That's a very dangerous outcome." He made her look up at him. "I'll make sure to keep my words at all cost."
"You better do…" She grumbled.
"I will… I will… Now, please don't let another teardrop from your eye." He coaxed her.
"Who said it was a tear? Something went in my eye and that's why it was watery. Do you really think your words were that touching? Such wishful thinking." To hide her weakness, she draped the arrogance over herself making Ye Jie amused with his wife's antics.
"You… Are… One… Amazing… Wife…" He enunciated each word and ruffled her hair rashly making her scowl.
"Don't mess up my hair." She bellowed with a glare.
Sorry for being late again today. Having some technical issues.
After their touching banter, Ye Jie held Xu Mey's hand intending to leave the park. But suddenly, Xu Mey's eyes fell on something and she stopped walking making Ye Jie halt as well.
He looked back at her questioningly but she wasn't looking at him at all. She gave the limelight to soap bubbles. The way she opened her eyes wide to look at them with desire and the way her mouth was opening, closing and turning into a smile looked adorable to Ye Jie.
At this moment, he really wanted to pull her cheeks and without even realizing it himself, his hands raised, held both her cheeks and pulled them making her growl lowly.
"What do you think you're doing?" She asked scrunching up her face.
"You looked too adorable for me to resist." Since he called her adorable and that too with a bright grin, it made her scowl and she crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"I'm not adorable," She grumbled while avoiding his gaze.
"Yes Yes… My cherry wife is not adorable…" Ye Jie bit down his laughter. He held her small face in his hands and made her look at him. "My Cherry Wife is beautiful." He said sincerely.
She looked down to hide the blush which tinted her face.
"Do you like soap bubbles?" He asked to cover her embarrassment. She nodded. "Do you want to play with them?" She shook her head. "Why? If you like them, you should play with them."
"Dear husband, at one point we all like books, music, and movies. But there comes a time when that exact book is left untouched, that music left with no listener and that movie left with no one to watch it in a big theatre. Just because I like soap bubbles, doesn't mean I want to play with them. Somethings only look pleasing from a distance." She said looking at the soap bubbles with a sad longing.
"Somethings are pretty up close as well." He started. "A rose is beautiful up close. A soap bubble gives you the illusion of watching rainbows up close."
"A rose tends to wither away with time and a soap bubble tends to burst up at a slight touch."
They didn't continue the debate and headed to the parking lot. She was a pessimistic person and turning her into an optimistic one was a difficult task. "Should we go to the KTV?" Wu Xia suggested enthusiastically.
Everyone shared a look and before anyone could say anything, they heard a voice calling out, "Bro, sis-in-law!" Ye Jie turned and saw Ye Jun waving his hand in the air like a child.
Ye Jie held his forehead as he sighed. Ye Jun ran up to him while panting. "Good thing I caught you guys here. Why did you not invite me as well?" He looked accusingly at Ye Jie.
"How did you find us here?" Instead of answering, Ye Jie asked his own question.
"I asked your assistant, Qi Guan." Ye Jun replied nonchalantly.
Meanwhile, He Jian pulled Xu Mey and bent his head to whisper, "Are you sure that this one is Ye Jie's brother?"
"I've been meaning to ask that too," Wu Wang chimed in from the side.
"That's what the world knows." She replied half-heartedly.
"Do you think there is some kind of mistake?" Lin Shen asked.
"How would I know that?" She retorted.
While they were speculating Ye Jie and Ye Jun's relationship, Ye Jun was talking animatedly to his brother. "I didn't want to follow you guys but Zhou Qi came back and she insisted on meeting sis-in-law. Then mom pressurized me and I had to bring her along. Oh, wait!" He suddenly remembered, "Where did this girl run off to?" He looked around and jogged up to a nearby place. He came back with a delicate looking girl trailing behind him.
The girl can't be described as a peerless beauty but she had her own charms. She was wearing a body-hugging dress with red stilettos. She had glistening eyes and in one look, she gave the feeling that people would want to line up to protect her.
But her arrival was akin to thunder for a certain someone. Wu Wang's gaze didn't leave her figure and Xu Mey along with Qiao, Jian, and Shen could feel the temperature dropping in the surroundings.
Xu Mey leaned back a little and asked in a low whisper, "Am I seeing things? Or the girl in front of us has the same face as-"
"As the painting in Wang's house." Li Qiao completed her sentence.
"Sh*t!"
"Fu*k!"
All of them cursed simultaneously. No matter how you run, some people just walk right back in your life. It's just a matter of when and how? And some people are like ghosts, who leave themselves but leave behind a shadow of their's to pester someone. This delicate looking girl was akin to that ghost in Wu Wang's life.
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