After getting dressed, I took her hand and led her out, then sat her down at the table while I went to the kitchen to serve the dishes.

"Eat quickly!" They kept piling food into her bowl, and soon it was overflowing.

Ruan Ruan didn't say anything to remind him, just wanted to see how long he would keep adding more. When he picked up a chopstick of stir-fried dried cowpeas and was about to put them in her bowl, he realized that her bowl was already piled high with them.

"Heh, heh, um, hurry up and eat," she said, putting the food into her mouth to cover up her embarrassment.

Seeing that he was eating properly, she picked up her chopsticks again and began to finish off the small mountain of food in her bowl.

During the meal, Huo Haocheng glanced at her several times, as if trying to confirm that this was indeed his wife.

After dinner, Huo Haocheng went to wash the dishes, while Ruan Ruan sat on the sofa to digest. He would glance at her every now and then. Later, when she went to take a bath, he carried a stool and sat outside the bathroom, waiting for her and occasionally saying a few words to her. Only after receiving her response did a smile appear on his face. 'Thank goodness, my wife is still here.'

When we slept at night, I held her tightly in my arms the whole time.

"What did you dream about?" Given his unusual behavior, she couldn't help but wonder what he was dreaming about. Did he dream that he disappeared?

"...I...I..." He didn't know what to say. In his dream, they weren't engaged, and she didn't like him. At home, she always kept herself out of the picture, as if she were all alone. That loneliness made even a grown man like him feel heartbroken.

"It's nothing, I just dreamt that you didn't want me anymore. No matter how I called you, you couldn't hear me or see me. I was so scared." As she spoke, she tightened her grip on her hand.

Sensing that he was genuinely frightened by the dream, I didn't ask him to loosen his grip. Oh well, tighter is fine; he's not going to strangle me anyway.

Thinking this, she closed her eyes and yawned. She was really sleepy. Last night, she didn't fall asleep until almost dawn while waiting for his message. Then, worried that he wouldn't have anything to eat when he came back, she got up early again and didn't dare to sleep any longer. She was really too tired now.

Before long, she let him hold her like that and fell asleep.

Looking at the sleeping girl in his arms, Huo Haocheng gently stroked her eyebrows, then her eyes, and continued down, etching her face deeply into his mind.

He watched for an unknown amount of time, and could faintly hear the crowing of roosters coming from the neighboring Zheng's house, before he finally fell asleep with someone in his arms.