***
"Let's put this in our room,"
said Qiao Chutian as he picked up the vase.
Mai Xiaomai nodded and just let him be.
Qiao Chutian placed the flowers on the table near the window and then came down to have dinner with her.
After dinner, the couple, hand in hand, took a stroll on the roads of the Imperial Garden Community.
As for what others might say about them showing off, they didn't care at all.
Show-off or not, they knew in their hearts that's all that mattered.
At the community's leisure area for the elderly and children, they saw Mai Xiaomai's father playing chess and went over to watch.
His opponent was a well-known chess player from the neighborhood, quite skilled in the art.
Therefore, with Mai's father being an average chess player at best, he was being routed, retreating step by step.
"Son-in-law Qiao, come and help me out, see if we can turn defeat into victory,"
