When Sonnet arrived home from work at night, she ran into Johnson, who had just gotten off work. Johnson seemed to be acting differently from usual. However, Sonnet could not tell what the difference was. She felt slightly bad for him since she had only just rejected him last night. She forced herself to act naturally and greet him. “Did you just come home from work?” Johnson smiled at her and said, “Yeah.” Both fell silent again for a short stretch. Johnson was always rather chatty in front of her. However, he was not acting himself today. Sonnet guessed that he probably felt slightly uncomfortable after being rejected by her. She cleared her throat and told him, “Well…I wanted to clarify what I told you last night. My father previously asked me if I was planning to date you because of the children or because of my feelings for you. I thought about this for a long time. Finally, I concluded that I only considered dating you because of the children. I think that this
Sonnet’s heart instantly filled with guilt. The truth had slipped her mouth. She immediately coughed a couple of times and said, “Maxwell is the children’s legal parent. He got along with the children very well in the past.” “But Maxwell is dead.” “He’s not dead!” Sonnet shouted emotionally. She then tried to explain herself. “Cough cough. He has always been alive in my heart.” Lindy stopped talking. She shook her head lightly. In the past few months, she thought that her best friend had gotten over her relationship with Maxwell. However, that did not seem to be the case…She must have buried all her pain and sadness deep within her heart while forcing herself to smile and act happy in front of everyone else. Lindy instantly felt guilty. She had been so focused on her relationship with Marcus lately that she had forgotten to spend time with her best friend. She had been paying more attention to her lover than her best friend! With this thought in mind, she put her arm a
Myles was looking at his phone intently. Sonnet walked over to him and noticed that he was browsing through an online shopping site. “Oh, dad, have you started shopping online now?” Sonnet asked in a tone of feigned surprise. Myles put down his phone in slight embarrassment. “It’s getting cold nowadays. Aunt York has poor blood circulation. Her hands and feet get cold really easily. I’m thinking of buying an electric foot bath for her. That way, she can use it to take a foot bath every day.” “When it comes to things like this, you can just let me know. I can help Aunt York make the purchase.” Sonnet took his phone from him on purpose and looked at the online shopping site. Myles immediately said, “You’re all busy. I’m free anyways, so I wanted to take a look online. I can spend some of my free time doing it.” Of course, Sonnet understood her father’s intention. He wanted to purchase something for Aunt York personally. She glanced at her father and pretended to be nonc
Myles rubbed his hands together anxiously.Sonnet smiled secretly when she saw the expression on her father’s face. After a while, someone sat down at the table next to theirs. Sonnet secretly took a glance at the table and told Myles, “Lindy and Aunt York have arrived. He’s not here yet.” Both of them waited for a while. A loud voice then rang out at the table opposite them. “Hello, nice to meet both of you!” Myles froze slightly. He then told Sonnet, “Can you help me adjust my position? I’d like to take a look at the man.” Sonnet moved his wheelchair to a position where he could see the man from a gap in the screen. She could see that the man was tall and plump through the gap in the screen. He had a large beer belly. Sophia had a stiff expression on her face. She had not expected her daughter to bring her for a blind date. The man started asking Sophia questions after he sat down. “How old are you?” “I’m forty-seven years old,” Sophia told him. “Oh, you’re fiv
Myles and Sophia registered their marriage on a whim. On Monday, Lindy drove Myles and Sophia to the Civil Affairs Bureau. They registered their marriage there. At night, Sonnet and Lindy booked a table at Grand Harbor City Hotel. Both their families, Marcus, Johnson, Vespa, and her daughter, had a meal together. They considered the meal a wedding ceremony. During dinner, Marcus asked Myles and Sophia to show them their marriage certificate. Sophia took out the certificate and showed it to everyone in a slightly bashful manner.Marcus took the certificate and looked at it in detail. He then showed Lindy an obedient smile and said, “What a pretty certificate. When can we get one for ourselves as well…”Lindy smiled and said, “I know someone that prints fake certificates. I’ll introduce him to you soon. He can print as many marriage certificates as you want!” Marcus’s face crumpled at once. Everyone then burst out into laughter.They all returned home after dinner. Lindy in
The next morning, Sonnet and Lindy left the house to fetch Lune to kindergarten. They ran into Johnson downstairs. “Mr. Yates, you seemed busy with work, so I don’t want to give you any trouble. Moving forward, I’ll fetch Sonnet to her classes in the morning instead,” Lindy spoke up first. “I still have time to fetch Sonnet to work. Aren’t you busy with work as well? I don’t want to trouble you,” Johnson said. Lindy glanced at Sonnet. She held Lune’s hand and said, “Come on, let me compete with you. Let’s see who’ll run faster and arrive at the kindergarten first, alright?” Lune was immediately attracted by Lindy’s suggestion. “Sure, I’ll definitely run faster than you.” Both of them ran off quickly. Sonnet and Johnson were left standing there. Johnson said in a slightly worried tone, “Didn’t we agree to maintain our prior relationship? Why won’t you let me drive you to the university?”As Maxwell, he could not be with his wife often. Therefore, he had to accompany her mor
When Sonnet showered Jaybie at night, Jaybie asked her, “Mom, does a man’s mustache grow quickly?” Sonnet laughed and said, “You’re asking me the wrong person. You should ask your grandfather or Uncle Johnson instead.” After a momentary pause, she asked curiously, “Why are you asking me such a question all of a sudden?” “It looks like Uncle Johnson’s mustache grew longer again.” Jaybie and Lune had headed over to Johnson’s place to play for a while at night. “Huh?” Sonnet stopped showering him. “Don’t make things up. How can one’s mustache grow so quickly?”Although she did not have a mustache, she had basic common sense. She knew that it was impossible for one’s mustache to grow that much within a day. “I find it odd as well. However, Uncle Johnson’s mustache has really grown longer.” “You’re really observant,” Sonnet said casually.She did not think much about it. She guessed that Jaybie had assumed wrongly. However, she could not help but feel shocked after seeing Johnso
Maxwell finally put away his phone and continued working after Sonnet stopped replying to him. However, he realized that Gemma had stopped reporting to everyone. “Why did you stop again?” He asked with a frown across his face. “Mr. Yates, I’ve finished my report,” Gemma replied anxiously. She had finished her report a minute ago. Johnson had disregarded her all along! “Oh, I see. Who’s next?” Maxwell said calmly.Everyone in the room stared at each other.After a while, the employee taking down the meeting minutes reminded him softly, “There’s no one else. Everyone has finished reporting on their work statuses, Mr. Yates.” Maxwell coughed twice. He had been overly immersed in the text from his wife that he had forgotten that Gemma would be the last one to speak in the meeting! “Oh, alright. Let me say something then…” He recomposed himself and started getting to work again. When class was almost over, Sonnet received a text from Maxwell. The text read: [Let’s have lunch