Breakfast frenzy
Ji Yu woke up in the morning panicked because he did not see Ru Ran. He hopped out of bed and ran into the toilet, his heart race because the toilet was empty. He ran downstairs and almost tripped but he continue to run in search of her, he fears that she has disappear. Her returning to normal and able to be back home felt surreal. That is why there is a lingering fear that their happiness might be short lived.
He called out for her anxiously, the servants were surprised to see such a distraught master, they never seen him in such state. Ru Ran who was in the kitchen quickly rushed out hearing him calling. She was wearing a yellow apron under her maternity dress, her clean pretty face had some flour on it, and her hair tied up neatly in a bun. His racing heart calmed down in a instant the moment he set his eyes on her figure. He rushed to her, held her shoulders and pulled her into his embrace. She could hear his strong erratic heartbeats calming down.
"Silly man, didn't you read the note I left on the dresser as well as the bathroom mirror?" she asked after she hurriedly pulled back from his embrace, with a blush on her face, because she was shy of them being intimate in front of others.
"Nope. I panicked when I saw your weren't by my side," he said breathlessly.
"Oh no!!!" she said after she smell the burnt smell coming from the kitchen.
"My pancake!" she said while hurrying to the kitchen.
He stopped her from rushing into the kitchen and told the servants to settle it. Instead he carried her upstairs despite her protests.
"My soup!! My eggs!! Yu put me down!!!" she protested.
The servants all turn a blind eye to her protest and they all disperse away with a smile on their face. It has been some time already that the residence had been to quiet. Now since mistress is back, it is once again lively and filled with warmth.
Once they were in their bedroom, Ji Yu put her down gently. "Woman, have you any idea, how distress I was??"
She stared at him blankly, she had already placed a few notes as to avoid him from having this sort of reaction. Plus she had old father Lim to sit guard at the room door to inform him once he came out of the room, but because he was in a frenzy state, old father Lim could not catch after him the moment he rushed out of the room. How is it it was her fault?? Her heart softened when she stared at his messy appearance. He literally jumped out of bed to look for her, even his top was buttoned wrongly with one end higher than the other. She stared at her toes feeling guilty for causing him to be so worried.
She then blinked a few times before she said in a small voice, "I just wanted to make you breakfast, I felt I haven't been a good wife and I wanted to surprise you. You slept so soundly and I didn't have the heart to wake you up."
He sighed and pulled her back into his embrace, "I am afraid. So afraid when I don't see you, I am afraid that weird spirit master will take you away, you know I don't believe in God and in the supernatural but when it comes to you, I will believe in anything as long as I can keep you beside me from harm's ways."
Far far away, a certain spirit master sneeze out loud, as if his nose was to blow away. Damn, must be someone talking bad about me, thought the spirit master to himself.
Ru Ran did not know how to respond the vulnerable Ji Yu. She held him tight and said, "I came back didn't I? If there is another time, as long as there is life in me, I would find my way back to you, my heart belongs to you now and forever."