"Ouch!" Ye Jie slapped the back of Ye Jun’s head.
"Nothing happened last night." Before Ye Jun could open his mouth, Ye Jie added, "Xu y was helping clean up the wound and a small shard in my hand hurt her. Okay?" Ye Jie had to think of a lie in a hurry and that was the only thing that ca to his mind.
But the lie he told to save Xu y from trouble made her feel even more guilty. "Oh... Mom, Dad, what brought you to my place?" Suddenly rembering, Ye Jie asked.
"We thought we should spend the Sunday with our son. And we’d also have lunch prepared by our daughter-in-law." Mother Ye replied as she looked at Xu y standing at the side with her head down.
"But mom, Xu y hurt her hand. So-" Before he could avoid the impending task of cooking, his mother interrupted him.
"It’s only a few small cuts. If she can’t even handle that much, how is she going to take over the Ye Family in the future?" For everyone, her words were reasonable but Xu y could feel the dislike in her voice.
"Mom..." Ye Jie was about to argue but Xu y held his hand as he looked at her, she shook her head. So, Ye Jie stayed quiet.
"I’ll cook. Mother-in-law is right. It’s my responsibility to cook for them." Xu y’s soft, polite voice took both Mother and Father Ye by surprise. It felt like cherry blossoms were falling in April.
Xu y ascended the stairs back to freshen up before coming down to enter the kitchen. The mont she picked her cellphone, she saw two text ssages. One was from Ye Jie and the other from Ye Jun. Both brothers wrote the sa thing: ’Do you need help?’
Xu y: ’Nope.’
Both replied at the sa ti with the sa words again: ’Should I order food and say that you cooked it?’
Xu y laughed at their synchronization. But her heart felt warm. She replied: ’It’s alright.’
Then only Ye Jie sent a ssage: ’I’m sorry!’ Xu y frowned.
’For What?’ She sent but no reply ca.
Ye Jie knew that she could cook western food but his parents wanted Chinese traditional food. He was worried about two things; first that she didn’t know how to cook and second that she was emotionally exhausted. ’What if she fell sicker? I can’t even argue with mom.’ Ye Jie loved and respected his mother the most. There was no way that he would allow even himself to be rude to her.
Xu y took a deep breath and decided to call Auntie Li Man before she starts panicking again. Li Man, Li Qiao’s mother picked the call within seconds. "Oh my little y, how are you?" Her voice was not the usual stern one but instead, it was warm brimming with love.
"Auntie Li, I’m fine. I needed your help with sothing." She replied straightforwardly.
"Auntie will help little y with anything she wants." Xu y knew that’d be her reply. Her Auntie Li never said no to her. Being a famous researcher herself, she was always busy but she still found ti to call Xu y every other day. Even Li Qiao had to complain that his mother loved Xu y more than her only son.
"Before I start panicking again, tell what should I cook for my in-laws?" She heard Auntie Li’s amused chuckle making her purse her lips.
"First tell , what’s the deal with ’panicking again’?" She asked with amusent.
Knowing that Auntie Li won’t let it go. Xu My described the scenario of her dinner date making Auntie Li laugh. "Dinner or dinner date? Aren’t both the sa thing, darling?"
"Well, apparently, they are not. Sun Ju told once that on dinner dates, there is dinner, then holding hands, then leaving with a goodnight kiss and if the relationship is old then it ends with rolling on the bed." Auntie Li loved Xu y for her honest-to-goodness behavior.
"Do you know what rolling on the bed ans darling?" Auntie Li asked.
Xu y scowled. "Doesn’t it literally an rolling on the bed?" Her innocent reply received a loud cheery laugh at the other end. But she felt soone else was there as well. "Where are you, Auntie?"
"I’m in Country A, little y. I ca here to see my sister-in-law and she is amused by you. She justs said that she would love to et you."
"Auntie say hello to her. But doesn’t rolling on the bed literally ans rolling on the bed?" She asked cautiously.
This ti Auntie replied with seriousness. "Let’s forget that little y. Next ti, just don’t listen to Sun Ju at all."
"Okay... What about the food?"
"Mmm... Let think... It’s your first ti cooking for your in-laws... You have to impress them... What do you think, Xiao Qian? What should little y prepare?" She heard her voice probably talking to her sister-in-law for the suggestion. The other woman’s voice was faint but it still felt pleasing to hear. It took about 5 minutes before deciding on the list of what to prepare.
Mother Ye didn’t allow anyone to help her which left Xu y alone to make all the food by herself. Cooking for Ye Jie and his parents were both totally different things. Xu y said ’Fighting!’ to herself and started out with the food.
Ye Jie was accompanying his parents in the back garden when he noticed that Ye Jun was not around. He ca back inside to look for him and found him staring at the phone screen with eyes as wide as saucers.
"Jun! Why do you have my phone with you?" Ye Jun looked up at his brother in a daze.
"Bro, this..." Ye Jun turned the screen to show the video which he received last night. Ye Jie’s face lost it’s color before he briskly ca and snatched his phone from Jun.
"Who told you to check my phone without my permission?" Ye Jie’s voice was louder and evasive.
"Bro, we never had any secrets between us... And that video... It actually concerns our whole family." Ye Jun replied with a stern face which was rare for him.
"It doesn’t concern anyone. She’s my wife and it only concerns ." Ye Jie’s voice was definite.
"Bro, but if what is in that video is true than sis-in-law-" Ye Jie interrupted him.
"The video only showed one side of the story. It doesn’t even have audio. Because of that ’if’ I almost lost my wife last night." Ye Jie ran his hand through his hair in frustration. "I won’t be able to forgive myself for doubting her for just a second. Saying sorry for a lifeti is not enough. And you’re asking to believe in that video. She’s with . She’s real. That video. I wasn’t there. So, I won’t judge my wife for that clip." His firmness and self-repentance startled Ye Jun.
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