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.
Hope you enjoyed the chapter.
"Hello, everyone!" The girl greeted them while tucking a loose strand behind her ear.
As if on queue, Wu Wang's assistant Suzy came beside him and reminded him, "Sir, you have a flight. I think we should leave now. You might miss your flight otherwise." Suzy was an experienced person in her mid-forties, she could read the tension clearly and she's been with Wu Wang since his teenage years, which gave her an even deeper understanding of him.
The girl Ye Jun brought was stunned to see Wu Wang standing before her. Her daze was broken by Suzy's words. "Ah… Mm… You're right… We should leave now." She heard Wu Wang's distant voice.
He turned to look at his friends and said, "Honey Mey, I gotta go back. I came earlier because of you but I have to leave now. I still have matters to handle."
"It's alright… You should go… Take care Wang Ge!" She waved awkwardly trying to get him out of here as soon as possible.
But a certain someone was not getting the hint at all. "Aiyo! Ge, you can't leave like this. You haven't even visited home. Mom is really missing you. She's been complaining to me how much you're ignoring her." Wu Xia complained.
"My dear mother's lackey!" Wu Xia gaped at his choice of words while Xu Mey chuckled. "Tell mommy, I'll be back next month. But if she'd planned another blind date. Then she won't even be seeing me." Then he turned to Suzy and said, "Let's go!" With that Wu Wang left.
"Sister Mey, Ge called me mother's lackey," She made a crying face trying to complain to Xu Mey. Xu Mey just rolled her eyes at Wu Xia's old childish antics.
"Find a new way to lure me into your traps, Xiao Xia." Xu Mey said.
Although Wu Xia was aggrieved she quickly got over it. "So, should we go to KTV?"
"I think it's a good idea," Ye Jun chimed in enthusiastically.
Xu Mey nudged Sun Ju with her feet making herself clear with this action. "Shen-Shen, I'm feeling really down. Let's go home. Father also said that we need to take care of some wedding stuff." Sun Ju faked an illness with perfection. How she turned her face pale was completely out of Xu Mey's mind.
"Ju-Ju, hold on for a while… I'll take you home." Lin Shen gave an apologetical smile to Ye Jie and headed to his own car while holding Sun Ju.
Xu Mey turned her head to Yu Kim. "Sir, your mother is back and she wants you to come home right this instant." Yu Kim informed Li Qiao with a straight face.
Slowly most of the people left. Ye Jie wasn't a dense person, he could catch the slight hints. "Cherry wife, this is our cousin, Zhou Qi." Ye Jie politely introduced Xu Mey to his cousin.
Xu Mey smiled politely without showing a hint of displeasure on her beautiful face. Her heart was bitter but she didn't let it show at all. But her eyes were following Zhou Qi's every movement. The slight discomfort of Ming Qu didn't escape her eyes either.
"Xiao Xia, let's visit your mother," Ming Qu said to Wu Xia all of a sudden.
"Really?" Wu Xia got excited as Ming Qu nodded his head to show his intention.
"I'll see you later, Ah Jie!" He bid goodbye to Ye Jie as Wu Xia hugged Xu Mey like they were parting for a lifetime.
"I should take my leave as well." He Jian said curtly. He hugged Xu Mey lovingly and walked beside Ye Jie, "You have very keen senses. Don't wander around and take your wife back home. She rarely gives herself a free time." After that, he left as well.
Before Ye Jun could open his mouth to say anything, Ye Jie said, "Jun, take Xiao Qi out for dinner. I have to take Xu Mey back home." His voice didn't leave any room for discussion at all.
While driving back to Peach Estates, Ye Jie kept stealing glances at Xu Mey who had her one elbow propped on the window letting the frigid breeze hit her face. "You can just ask?" He heard her soft voice.
"I had a weird thought…" He started while keeping his face straight to look at the busy road.
"About what?"
"He Jian's girlfriend, *cough* I mean fiancé died because of cancer and Wu Wang likes to donate all his auctioned money to cancer patients." Xu Mey rolled up the window and turned her attention to him. "Is there a connection or I'm overthinking?" He asked hesitantly.
"You caught up quite fast." She commented. "There is indeed a connection." She sighed. "Let me say it this way, Jian Ge's fiancé's name was Wu Weiwei."
Ye Jie was surprised yet again. "She was related to Wu Wang?"
"Wu Weiwei was Wang Ge's elder sister." She replied. "Now that's different that she had always been sick, so she didn't come out to socialize like Wu Xia."
"Oh!" That was the only expression Ye Jie could think of at the moment. "I wasn't kidding when I said that all your friends have gone through love trials except for Lin Shen."
"Who said Shen Ge's love is simple?"
"It's not?"
"Far from that. In their case, the problem comes from external forces. So, they're holding their ground through mutual efforts and love." She explained.
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