As night approached, she retired and drove back home. The roads were filled with pedestrians that day as the streetlights shone brighter than ever.
She found the front gate opened. Hu Le Qi was organising and directing, with obvious shortness of temper, the loading of two ten-ton lorries. He was gesticulating violently, apparently reprimanding loaders for being slow and inept in carrying out the task before them.
Yan Xinyi first drove to park her car in the lot before she came back carrying her own stuff and squeezed it in the lorries. It took her ten rounds before everything was complete for she never wanted Hu Le Qi to know that she was doing that.
After the packing,she made sure to follow the lorry at a safe distance to where it would stop at and unpack.
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Hu Le Qi was sleeping in his new mansion's master bedroom when he heard some slippers moving in and out of every room. He was very displeased with the sound and decided to go out and check who it was.
The scent of blooming flowers wafted throughout the peaceful place. It originated from a group of tall sturdy trees, under which a family read worn, adored books, leaning against the comforting, uneven surface of the bark.
The sound of water dripping from a statue's mouth at the center of a glistening white fountain pleased the groundsmen chatting away their worries while inattentively watching over the baby birds playing in the clear luscious liquid.
The mansion that Hu Le Qi had just moved into was large and spacious that it attracted Yan Xinyi to go round each and every room.
He threw his bedsheets aside and put on his slippers before he set for his journey. Just as Hu Le Qi opened the door, he found a young lady standing before him.Yan Xinyi was dressed in a spaghetti strapped drapped neckline ivory coloured long night dress and a coat to cover it.
"You scared me to death you know!" Yan Xinyi exclaimed as she patted on her chest.
"What are you doing here?" He asked, he then closed the door behind him and leaned on the walls behind him.
"What is the meaning of that question? Shouldn't a married couple live together, so I came here to fulfill my duty as a wife." She answered.
"Fulfill your duty as a wife?"
"Yes! Exactly! Without an extra statement added on it."
"Fulfilling your duty as wife means, me paying extra transport fees for your load last night? You scaring me to death by those slippers of yours which sound like hissing of snakes? You waking me up from my sleep to check out who is walking around my house? If that is fulfilling your duty as a wife then please do it elsewhere."
"Elsewhere, where? Am I not supposed to wake you up? I did, but you still scold me? Are we not supposed to accompany each other even in death? Am I not supposed to make sure that the house is good enough? Then please tell me how I am supposed to live in a place like an alien? If you dreamt of being chased by a dog, that is you, do not bring your moody mood swings to me and ruin my day, please."