CHOICES

CHAPTER EIGHTY THREE

Yuan stood at the platform staring admiringly at the spectacular and glorious view in front of him.

The sky is painted with the explosion of florid orange and rosy blush as the sun lit up the scene below him.

Yuan smiled wrily.

He never thought a day would come when he would simply see things creatively on a different perspective.

Feifei gave him a whole new world of light and beauty.

Meeting him is like appreciating and seeing things for the first time.

So this is what having a mate feels like. Yuan contemplated.

The powerful attraction, the intense lust, the profound feelings. All rolled into one overpowering connection.

Yuan stiffened for a moment.

He felt Feifei's presence even before Feifei wrapped his arms around his waist.

Feifei looked up at him with an enchanting smile on his lips and a satisfied glint in his eyes.

Feifei was giving him deathly daggers earlier for torturing him to the point of death.

But now, he is smiling brightly at him.

He really can't understand how Feifei's mind turn.

"Yuan?"

Yuan also wrapped his arms around Feifei's waist and kissed his lips then his forehead.

With a subtle gentle look on his face, he took Feifei's hand and gently led him down the stairs.

They walked in comfortable silence until they reached the threshold of the front door.

Stopping at the door, Yuan looked down at Feifei and kissed him with a hot, torrid, open mouthed tongue action that left Feifei breathless and disoriented for a moment.

Yuan inclined his head to the door.

Feifei smiled as he instantly understood Yuan's meaning.

"You take care."

He stood on tiptoe and kissed Yuan again and closed the door.

He wants to stick all day, all night with Yuan.

There is no making sense on their attraction towards each other. It is simply out of this world. Feifei smiled at his thought.

Then he hurriedly went to the platform and followed Yuan's steps with his eyes.

"Yuan." He uttered softly.

"I love you." Then he added in a whisper.

Yuan unexpectedly turned to him and smiled.

Did he hear me? Feifei was astonished.

He panicked and quickly ran into his room to hide!

He was ashamed by his sudden declaration. Especially when he was caught red handed by the person he professed it too!

Taking a deep breath, he took his body wipe, his essentials and the two soiled blankets.

As he opened the kitchen, he was surprised there was already porridge with two boiled eggs and hot water on the stove.

Both the porridge and boiled water was kept warm by the small embers left by the firewood.

Yuan really knows how to touch his heart.

A smile slowly spread on Feifei's lips.

He grinned like a silly cat.

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"Yanyan, I want to get the barrel I left at my house in Hisoki. Can you help me find someone who can deliver the bath barrel to Guhya?"

Yanyan nodded while eating a chicken leg.

"Let's go to town first. I want to buy clothes. Help me look for a suitable one."

Its work pay today! Of course, Yanyan has to go buy, buy, buy!

"Okay. I also have to send my work pay to cousin Shen. He has two children and his wife is still in a coma. Aunt and Uncle may help and support him but knowing Shen's pride, he must be at his lowest right now. His hands are all tied and he has no source of income." Feifei sighed.

"I feel sorry for their family. Giving birth to children should have been a happy event." Feifei added softly.

Yanyan was dumbstruck.

"Do you always send your pay to your cousin?!"

"This job, I'm doing it for him. Not for money. I have my own resources." Feifei smiled lightly.

Then he hurriedly directed their subject to it's original point.

"I will help you choose a dress that would surely take Nan Sheng's breath away!"

"Mind you, I'm not staying at Hisoki. I will have to return to Guhya before dark." Feifei warned.

Feifei is so good! Yanyan is impressed by her friend. She smiled while she continued to eat.

Before long, her body froze as Feifei's last statement finally penetrated her mind.

Then Yanyan glanced at Feifei with a complicated look.

"What do you mean by that look?"

"I can't imagine you and the devil dating." Yanyan muttered.

Then she giggled all of a sudden.

"On second thought, both of you are the same. You may not wield any weapon and take lives like the devil but your tongue is sharp enough to slay people. Both of you are the same on this aspect. Each of you have their own unique set of style in killing people. An obvious killer and a silent one. A match made in heaven...or hell."

Yanyan is laughing uproariously with the judgment she came up with.

Feifei coughed and almost splattered out all the food from his mouth.

He felt the food went up his nose!

Ugh!

Yanyan handed him a cup of water while laughing.

Feifei glared at Yanyan. Then frowned.

"Yanyan, how do you know your partner is sincerely into you?"

"Before I was married, Nan Sheng and I were classmates in Highschool. Way back then, we already had feelings for each other. But my marriage was already set even before we met. So we had to hold ourselves back. But when I needed help from the abuse of my previous husband, it was him who offered to look for the right people who then assisted me on my divorce. When I got divorced, it was also him who helped me get back on my feet." Yanyan answered with a far away look on her face.

Silence.

Feifei did not expect Yanyan would dive straight into her past. He doesn't even know how to react for awhile.

He is caught unprepared!

He wildly thought of some comforting words to ease up the awkwardness he felt.

Or would silence be the right response?

Feifei looked at Yanyan and carefully considered his answer.

A good friend should give his all out support!

"You are a brave person. Despite knowing how others have a preconceived notion against divorced women, you still chose to stand by your own decision and worked yourself out from your shackles."

"But Nan Sheng's mother doesn't like a divorced woman like me."

Feifei wanted to swallow his tongue. He just started a simple question.

How did they end up with a scene loaded with heavy emotions?

Feifei wants to cry!

Earlier, he spent considerable time on how to meticulously open his heart out and earn an advise! He had it all planned out!

Planned!

His lines are even ironed to perfection!

His scheme to earn an advise...

Ended up with him giving it.

He wants to face the sky and wail his loss.

He looked back at Yanyan, his gossip partner, his all out friend.

Feifei lamented inwardly.

"Yanyan, I will risk your criticisms and be presumptuous." Feifei blinked his eyes and held his breath.

Then Feifei blasted Yanyan with what he has in mind.

"You not only lost your time and youth, you also wasted your opportunity to be with Nan Sheng when you were given the chance to choose and fight for him. The door has already closed, you married the wrong man. You have made your bitter decision and lived with the bitterness of your choice." Feifei bit his lips.

"Now, a window of opportunity has opened up for you. This is another chance to redeem what you have lost. Would you choose again to be passive and accept things as they are and regret it all over? Or would you rather fight and grab the opportunity for a life of happiness that you once had missed?" Feifei added in a soft voice.

Silence.

Then Yanyan burst out crying.