I let go of Ze Yu's hand and saw the Qi family out. As soon as they left everyone pounced onto me asking if we were dating. I shook my head in reply. "Ze Yu, I'm so sorry I used you in the moment. I just wanted Qi Yan to get off my case," I muttered. "It's fine, I don't mind being used by you. You know I love you. I don't mind," he assured me as I blushed. "My parents are still here," I whispered. "Oh, it's fine we always knew he liked you. It was very obvious. You were the only one oblivious to all of his intentions," muttered Mum. "How oblivious was I?" I laughed. "Very," retorted Huai Zhan.
"Wait so you guys aren't mad?" I asked. "Why would we be mad? We always wanted you to be happy with whoever you want," assured Dad as I smiled. Their reaction seems so different to what I expected. In my journal, it states that after Qi Yan and I got a divorce the two went crazy. They disapproved of my decision and wanted Qi Yan and I to get married again. "Hui Qing, we love you very much, so we will always support your decision. Even when we don't agree with it," Mum announced whilst hugging me.
"Ze Yu, do you have anything you need to do?" I asked as he shook his head. "Then stay and have dinner with us," I ordered as he nodded. We continued some small talk before Hui Yun suggested we play a card game to pass the time. My cute nephew was with his dad. And besides dinner wasn't ready yet. Hui Yun went to grab a deck of cards. "What game shall we play?" I asked. "Go fish or old maid," asked Dad. Everyone agreed on old maid. It was simple and competitive.
Hui Yun came back with the cards and asked what game we were playing. "Old Maid," I replied as she began to shuffle the deck. She took out one of the Queens and began giving out the cards. "How do you play?" Ze Yu sheepily whispered to me. "Have you never played?" I asked as he shook his head.
"Basically, you make pairs with all the cards you have. The player to the left of the dealer goes first. They offer their cards face-down to the player on their left, who randomly picks a card to take. So in this sense, Hui Yun is the dealer and Huai Ning is the player. Huai Ning takes a card from Hui Yun and tries to make a match with his deck. This goes on and on until someone finishes their deck of cards. But make sure you aren't the person who ends up with the remaining queen. The person who ends us with the queen loses," I explained as Ze Yu nodded.
Hui Yun finished giving out the cards and we all grabbed our deck. I looked at my deck and thought fuck I have one of the queens. I need to get rid of it as soon as possible. "Just saying I'm very competitive," I announced to Ze Yu as he took a card from my deck. "Sadly, he didn't get the queen. "I know but so am I," he replied. We continued playing the game until it was just me and Ze Yu left. There had already been one pair of queens and I still had the last queen in my deck.
"Yes," I screamed when Ze Yu took the queen from me. "You haven't won just yet Hui Qing, there's still a chance I win," he muttered holding out 2 cards for me to choose. One of them was the 7 black spade and the other one was the Queen of Hearts. One chance to win this idiot, I thought. I took the left card and took a look at it. It was the 7 black spade. "YES!" I shouted as Ze Yu smiled at me. "Looks like I lost," he admitted as I smiled and teasingly ridiculed him.
"You're so cute," he whispered quietly but not quiet enough because everyone in my family heard him. They started to make the 'aww' sound whilst looking at both of us. "You know you should just make it official already," suggested Hui Yun as I glared at her. "I am working on that," Ze Yu winked whilst smiling at me.
I ignored all their looks whilst collecting the cards for another round. Although I looked perfectly fine but my heart was beating like crazy. I didn't even noticed that I was blushing a little as well.