“My Aunt Wen is also very satisfied with him. He was my previous blind date match, but now he’s already taken. I don’t want to compete with my friend for a husband. He’s with my friend, the one who went on a blind date with you, Lu Yiyi. They’ll get engaged in spring and married soon after.” Xia Bing, having teased enough, told Xia Hou Zun the truth.
“So you’re just using me as a substitute because they didn’t like you,” Xia Hou snorted coldly.
Xia Bing glanced at Xia Hou Zun, “If I were choosing a substitute, I definitely wouldn’t choose an unqualified one like you, with such a terrible temper, always ordering me around. I must be possessed. How could I possibly like a cold person like you? One day I’ll go to the temple and ask the gods how this happened… I clearly don’t like icy pretty boys, preferring those with bright smiles. How did I end up falling for this domineering man? What a karmic entanglement!
Listening to her, it seemed like liking oneself was some kind of misfortune. Xiahou Zun frowned, “What a lazy woman you are, you should be grateful if someone wants you…”
“Don’t you know how imbalanced the male-to-female ratio is now? Rest assured, three-legged toads are hard to find, but two-legged men are everywhere…” When she mentioned legs, Xia Bing paused, realizing she was being careless, forgetting about his leg.
The room fell silent.
The silence was broken only when Xiahou’s assistant entered. Xiahou Zun told Xia Bing to go back and come again tomorrow, instructing her to bring something.
The next day, when Xia Bing arrived, she found that Xiahou Zun had already left the hospital, and his phone was off.
Holding the item in her hand, Xia Bing said, “Since you dared to deceive me, don’t expect me to forgive you easily.” She sat in the garden, eating what she had painstakingly prepared, something she had bought and stewed before dawn…
That despicable Xiahou Zun… making her go through all this trouble, with something seemingly torn from her heart… eating, yet unable to taste anything.
The Last Day
Winter grew increasingly cold, and Xia Bing mostly stayed in bed, with Mo Yan joking that she looked like a hen brooding eggs.
