Talking to an old friend makes you realize how much your life has changed since the last ti you saw them. That's what Shui Xian felt today. After eting Cui Xukun, he really got to see how far he had co because that old friend reminded him of all those tis that they spend together.
He had so many mories since childhood with those people he once called his best friends. With Cui Xukun and with... Her.
They had the most beautiful mories together and now the people who gave him those mories had beco just a mory. The saddest part was that they beca a part of the mory that he didn't want to recall.
Sitting face to face with Cui Xukun today, he caught glimpses of those tangled mories and it left a sour taste in his mouth. Once they were best friends and now they might even be worse than strangers. And because of that, the rest of the day he spent in a bad mood. Even his assistant had to be extra cautious around him.
As he walked through the door of the house, he took off his coat and passed it to the maid in a routine manner. He ascended the stairs to go to his room but stopped when he saw Raelle sitting in the lounge on their floor.
She had her feet perched on the coffee table before her. There was a cushion on her legs and on top was her laptop. She was wearing shorts with an oversized knitted sweater and had tied her hair in a high ponytail. There was no makeup on her face which made her face look youthful.
While her eyes moved from the docunts in her hands to the screen of the laptop, she was so engrossed in her work that she didn't even realize soone had been staring at her for a while now. And of course, Shui Xian didn't make any sound to announce his arrival as well.
But it wasn't intentional though. Seeing her, he found himself lost in his own thoughts. That suffocating feeling that all those old mories evoked within his heart slowly evanesced as he gazed at his wife. They say life doesn't always give you the people you want. He finally understood the aning of it. She was definitely not soone he wanted but she was becoming soone he needed; To help him grow out of everything that had been tornting him.
He stepped closer to her and sat down right beside her on the couch. Only then did Raelle lifted her eyes and noticed his presence. "Oh, you're back?"
"I guess I'm late again," replied Shui Xian although he was right on ti today. But she was already here, he felt like he was still a step late.
Raelle looked at the ti on her laptop screen and shook her head, "Nope. It's . I'm early."
"And you decided to work right after coming back?" asked Shui Xian.
Raelle gathered the docunts and closed the lid of the laptop as she told him, "It's because when I ca you weren't here. Bà is also not ho. So, I decided to keep myself busy in this way."
"When did you co?"
"It's been an hour," replied Raelle. "I had to sign a contract with MH but their VP had so health issue because of which the eting had to be canceled. So, I left work around 5 o'clock today." She took a pause before adding, "And that's the earliest I have ever left work. It's my new personal best."
Shui Xian chuckled softly as her 'personal best' before he placed his arm behind her. Her personal best was actually the ti people would usually leave work. That ant it was her very first ti leaving work right on ti like a normal white-collar worker.
Without realizing it, while talking she leaned into his side. Shui Xian placed his chin on the top of her head as she continued to tell him about her day.
"Yanyan ca to see at the office today. I didn't even know she made an appointnt. But it was because Cloe wrote her na as MC."
"Even your Yanyan has to make an appointnt to see you?" he asked in surprise.
"Rules are for everyone," retorted Raelle. "I don't even break my rules myself."
"And what if I decided to co to see you? Do I also have to make an appointnt?"
Raelle had opened her mouth to say 'yes' but she was suddenly reminded of what Mu Chenyan said to her during the day. She had said, 'I don't want to be that exception. You keep it open for soone else.' Only now she understood that even if she had to make soone an exception in her set rules, it had to be her husband.
"You can co anyti you want," she told him and Shui Xian's brows raised slightly in surprise. "I'll make an exception for you."
"Oh? You'll go against your rules for ?"
"As my husband, you should get so privilege."
Shui Xian smiled at her, "So, this is my privilege?"
"You don't want it?"
"Want! Who doesn't want that? I definitely want it!"
"I can give you that privilege. It's not like you'll have ti to co see at the office anyway."
Shui Xian moved his arm that was lying behind her on the sofa to her shoulder and turned her slightly to face him as he asked, "What do you an? You think I won't co to find you at your office?"
Raelle blinked at him as she said, "But why would you? You see in the morning and in the evening. Is there a need to co and find during the day as well?" She took a brief pause and went on, "Besides, do you even have ti during the day, Mr. I-skip-my-lunch-for-work?"
Shui Xian pursed his lips before he touched her nose and said, "It's not about whether I have ti or not, it's about whether I want to make ti for you or not. And sothing tells , I'd gladly make so ti for my wife."
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