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"Xu An, what are you doing there? Hurry and...Yun Lui?". The source of the voice rushed to the group and held Yun Lui's shoulders.
Yun Lui pried the strangers hands away from him.
"It seems you might be acquaintances of Yun Lui. Why don't we find a place to sit and talk?". Chi Muchen said.
"No, we're already late. We need to go home now before mama gets worried". Yun Lui said worriedly.
"Then how about we schedule for a meeting here tomorrow? What do say?", Muchen asked looking at the strangers. Yun Lui has left his brother to deal with the two strangers.
"Yes. Yes. Tomorrow is great. Will nine O'clock in the morning be okay then?", the first stranger asked.
It seemed the second dude was still speechless. His eyes were fixed on the spot where Yun Lui's two hands were attached to his brother's left arm, with his head slightly tilted towards his shoulders.
"Sure. We're leaving then.", Muchen said. He disengaged Yun Lui's hands from his arm and held his hand instead. "Let's go home."
Yun Lui responded with a nod.
Just then, Papa Gu showed up infront of his shop with one of his employees walking towards the ground with a wrapped box in his hands.
"Hey, Yun Lui. Your husband left his item here.", Mama Gu shouted.
Yun Lui rushed to take the box from the employee's hands and quickly returned to Muchen's side.
Muchen took the wrapped box and held it in his right hand while he held Yun Lui's right hand with his free left hand and together they walked away. Leaving the two strangers behind.
"Husband? How?", Xu blurted out his thoughts.
"Let's leave here first.", Xu An who had noticed his brother's behavior during their short encounter with Yun Lui and the other man, decided to drag his confused brother from the market before he does anything that would embarrass them.
"I've found him. I've found him.", Xu Wu kept shaking his brother's as he said excitedly.
It seems he has now come back to his senses after the shocking encounter at the market.
Xu An had dragged him all the way home to their paternal uncle's house in the capital.
"So now what are going to do? We are to meet them tomorrow. What's your plan?", Xu An asked his older brother.
Xu Wu's mood fell. He was just jubilating after finding his long lost love but now that he was asked what he planned to do, he was lost for words. He doesn't know what to do now.
He knew what he wanted but he doesn't know how to get that. He knows he wants his lover back. In all those past four years he had never thought of Yun Lui as a past lover.
For him, Yun Lui was still his lover. He had only run away from home because of his indecisiveness. A moment of weakness that he never thinks he will ever forgive himself for.
"I don't know how, but I am going to win him back.", he stated firmly as he answered his younger brother. "This all would have been a lot less difficult if only he wasn't married to that man.".
"They're married?", Xu An asked.
"Didn't Papa Gu call that man as Yun Lui's husband?".
"Oh that. He could've been joking. You know Papa Gu by now. He likes to tease people a lot.".
"Really? But Yun Lui did not refute that."
"Is there anyone that was ever able to stop mama Gu from teasing them? He would only do worse as you complain. Perhaps same thing happened with Yun Lui."
"Really?!", Xu Wu excitedly asked.
Xu An turned to see his eldest brother smiling like a fool and with his hopeful eyes looking at Xu An, earnestly waiting for an answer.
As if Xu An's affirmation will make it a reality, that indeed Yun Lui was not married to the man they had met him with at the market earlier today.
Even though his brother had come clean to their parents about his relationship with Yun Lui, he still could not believe it.
Now seeing how his eldest brother, whom he admire a lot and look up, behave like a teenager in love finding out that their crush was now single, is quite unimaginable to him.
He wondered if he should perhaps change his role model from his brother to their father instead, at least he's never seen his embarrassing side before.
He smiled at the burly man before him now acting like a cute puppy and said, "Yes. Really.
I believe mama Gu was only teasing them and they were already used to Papa Gu's teasing way. Perhaps why they didn't bother to refute.
It's not like he would change just because they complained. You should know how he is by now.". Xu An said.
"They could be together as lovers but as for marriage, I hardly doubt that".
"Okay. Then, why do you seem so sure that they were not married?", Xu asked.
He did not like to hear the last statement that his brother made.
It made his heart ache but at least that was still better than hearing that his Yun Lui was married to that man or any other man at all.
"Well, for starters I did not see wedding band on Yun Lui's ring finger and neither did the man have any ring on his too. Also, the usual address of Yun Lui would've changed.
He would have called Yun Lui's name with his husband's attached as per the customs.
He would've addressed Yun Lui as either Mama or Papa with the family name of the supposed husband attached especially in the presence of said husband.
He did not do that and yet they too did not react to that, so it only meant that they were not actually married.
Papa Gu, in all his teasings would never disrespect a man by not addressing him properly when he was with his wife at that.".
Xu Wu was going over his brother's analysis and was convinced that his brother was right. He was filled with happiness upon arriving at this conclusion.