Dealing with Tigers

I’m temporarily settled in Lyon, a French city with 2,000 years of history, where ancient Roman, medieval, and modern industrial civilizations merge. Almost all cultural heritage here is still the stage for people’s lives. Here, I’m both capturing scenes and enjoying myself; it should help with prenatal education, right? Gao Miao can easily find me because I need to submit my drafts, but someone else has a hard time finding me. He says, “Do you know…” That’s his opening. “I don’t know.” “Of course, you don’t know. Qi Yufeng has been quite manic recently.” Every time Gao Miao comes, he’s forced to cook for me, looking handsome in an apron, busy in the kitchen, talking to me, a true homemaker. Such scenes are heartwarming, and I sigh every time, “Brother San Shui, marrying you would definitely be a blessing!” And then he, he would come out with a cleaver, “Marry your head!” Chasing me to chop… “Are you even a woman! Too lazy to cook! Eating takeout all the time is unhealthy! You heartless single mother!” “Brother Gao! For the sake of my unborn child, please put down the cleaver!” “Tell me! Are you going to cook the nutritional meals I prescribed?” “I’ll cook! I’ll cook!” “Will you dare to sleep on your stomach?” “No! No!” “Alright, come sit down.” He pointed at the couch beside him with the cleaver, sitting down himself. “You, you’re not cooking anymore?” A fierce glare from him made me shut up and resignedly sit down…

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