Fang Chi who was still in a daze and shook his head before smiling, ” no, the outing was fun. Brother Shen and the others treated me very well.” He raised his hands and showed grandma Fang the bags he was carrying, ” see, they bought me so many things. I wanted to refuse these but they didn’t even listen to me and handed me one thing after another.”

Grandma Fang smiled and her good mood elevated even more. ” that’s great, it’s good that they treat you so well. With this, you don’t have to worry about anything. Yu Dong is a good woman and her husbands are nice too, as long as they treat you well, you have to remember that you need to be kind to them as well got it?”

Fang Chi nodded his head, though his heart was a bit stifled with what happened in the town. Though he escaped the calamity and was able to return home safe and sound, Fang Chi couldn’t help but ponder over his current situation.

’ Though that woman said that the mer who paid her to ruin brother Fang’s reputation was called Fang Hao but we can never be sure and someone who can think of such a slick scheme as to kill all four birds with just one stone, I don’t think that he will be foolish enough to give his real name. It can be a lie or someone might have used Fang Hao as their bargaining chip either way you need to pay attention and take care of yourself.’ This was what Xiao Hua told Fang Chi while he was beating and kicking the woman while jumping up and down on the back of the woman who tried her best to escape.

At that moment he realised that the meeting with his cousins was not as simple as he thought, he knew that his cousins were always aiming to marry a rich woman or man in the town and because of this they stayed unmarried for so long. Now both Fang Hao and Fang Nan were in their late twenties and were waiting to get married but because they had such big dreams, they were left on the shelf for so long? What if they – what if one of them got their eyes set on Yu Dong?

Fang Chi bit his lip, he didn’t even listen to his grandma who was hurrying him to wash his hands and eat his lunch.

” Fang Chi? What’s the matter with you boy?” Grandma Fang shouted. She had been calling Fang Chi to eat but instead of listening to her, he was busying himself with sewing golden butterflies on his wedding dress?

His hands were quick thus in just ten minutes he has finished embroidering the cuff and neckline. Seeing him work so fast, grandma Fang couldn’t help but chuckle, ” darn boy, are you in a hurry to get married so soon?” And what was more he even drew a small fish on the last piece of the neckline, Fang Chi was thinking about Yu Dong while embroidering and thus before he knew it the fish has already taken shape, only when his grandmother called his name did he realised that his thoughts have gotten astray.

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/n: Yu Dong’s name meant ‘east’ but her nickname ‘ Dong Dong’ meant fish jelly.)

He blushed and put down the wedding dress, actually what he was thinking was- why did Yu Dong have to be so good that she was attracting bees and butterflies with just one appearance in the town. His brain worked fast but his hands were even faster, what was this? Was he trying to declare sovereignty or something?

Grandma Fang laughed as she handed him a bowl of millet porridge, ” Come on, just a week more then you can cross the threshold.” Then she sighed and shook her head faking melancholy, ” Ai, to think that you are actually this impatient to get married. Looks like you can’t wait to leave your grandmother.”

Fang Chi put down his needlework and then hugged his grandma, he wanted to tell his grandmother everything but he was afraid that his grandmother would go to the Fang family and ask for an explanation that’s something that they can’t afford to do at the moment and his grandmother was already so old, there was no point in doing something so useless, a week he just have to hold on for a week. But for now, he should take care of his grandma ” Grandma, is it me who can’t wait to leave or it’s you who can’t wait to send me off?”

Grandma Fang, who was hugged all of a sudden was shocked after all she remembered how this brat would always say that a woman and a mer should keep their distance even if they are related ever since he turned ten, who would have expected that this boy would hug her so suddenly? She slapped his cheek with just the correct amount of force and immediately wiped off the tears that were brimming in her eyes, ” you boy, ah.. just go and eat what are you making me cry for?”

Fang Chi smiled and nodded picking up the bowl of porridge he thought hard and long, and finally came to a conclusion that as long as he didn’t go out, no one would come and pick trouble with him, his thinking was very simple but Fang Chi who was bent on having a peaceful wedding didn’t know that he wasn’t fortunate enough to have one. And that all the sacrifices that he just made would go down in the drain.