Fang Chi shushed her as she raised her voice at him and then tipped his chin at the children who were sleeping, ” Don’t make unnecessary noise Dong Dong, the kids are asleep, if you wake them up, you will hinder their growth so shhh.”

” You are just having fun!” accused Yu Dong as she looked at the children who were sleeping at the shore, in fact, she didn’t blame them with the cool ocean breeze and sand under their bodies, it would be a shame if they didn’t take a nap here but the only problem was that she was the only adult who can bring them home.

” I am having fun,” agreed Fang Chi as he tittered gently. ” Who asked you to make them work so hard? See, they all went down one by one, now you need to work hard carrying them. In fact even I think my feet are hurting a little after walking for so long.”

Yu Dong stared at Fang Chi in disbelief with her mouth open as she gaped at him. ” Please tell me you are kidding me.”

” I am not, I really feel like my feet are killing me, Dong Dong,” whined Fang Chi as he dropped his head in Yu Dong’s lap and buried his face against her thighs. ” I just want to sleep here as well, ne, Dong Dong if you are going to build a house in the capital then make one that’s facing the ocean so that I can sleep like the kids with ease.”

” You want me to buy land closer to the ocean?” chuckled Yu Dong as she threaded her finger in Fang Chi’s hair. ” It might feel good now but when it gets cold you will hate it a lot.”

Fang Chi thought about how cold the ocean used to be when he came here with his grandmother to catch a few fish when the lakes and rivers would freeze in the winters and shivered down to his toes. Yeah, Yu Dong was right… the ocean was only good for summers but in winters not so much, he wouldn’t fancy spending six months on Kang. ” Forget about it then, we will think of something else.”

” Hmm, like a summer resort or something but for now, I am thinking about moving to the town first,” she said all of a sudden causing Fang Chi to sit up straight from her lap. ” What? When? How? You didn’t tell me, why so soon?”

” I found the right house, didn’t I tell you?” said Yu Dong with a frown.

” No, you didn’t!” A bit horrified Fang Chi looked at her. ” You only told me one thing and that was —— you got the perfect space for a shop, not a house! When did that shop become a house all of a sudden?”

” Ah, you are right, I told you about the shop huh?” mused Yu Dong as she rubbed her chin. ” It is a big house, big enough for all of us to stay in separate courtyards and have our own privacy… I am thinking about hiring a few workers and leaving our house in the village to them as well as the fields so that no one will make a mess of it. And I was also thinking to bring grandma Fang with us.”

Fang Chi sucked in a breath as he looked at Yu Dong in surprise, she was willing to take her in-law with her? ” My grandma?”

Yu Dong nodded. ” Didn’t you say that her health is declining and she can no longer climb up and down the mountains? I think I will bring her along with us but don’t worry I am not bringing her just for no reason, the house will have a lot of kids soon, with you already being pregnant and Shen Li and the others getting their treatment, they will soon fill the house to the brim, that’s why I think it will be good to have your grandma with us, didn’t you say that she was the one who raised you because your daddy got sick after giving birth to you?”

He nodded, feeling as if his heart was going to burst out of his chest, though he was happy, really happy because of the fact that he was with Yu Dong. His life was blissful and Yu Dong treated him really well but he was also very worried about his grandmother who despite being hail and hearty was getting old. But he never said anything to Yu Dong because he knew the world stated that the parents of the mers can never leave with their daughter-in-law, so he stayed silent but to think that Yu Dong will suggest to him this on her own, he was really very fortunate.

He waited for a very long time to get married but he naturally got married to the best.

Fang Chi twined his fingers with Yu Dong’s and whispered, ” Thank you, Dong Dong.”

”It’s not something that you should be thanking me for, I am the one who is going to trouble your grandmother,” said Yu Dong as she smiled and patted Fang Chi on the head. Then she looked around and slowly whispered, ” If you are that thankful, what about waiting for me in the bed …naked?”

” You ….” There she went destroying the entire atmosphere at once but even though he found her adorable as he said, ” I will do that if you can carry me to the house along with the kids.”

” Are you challenging me?”

” I am challenging you.”

And that night as Fang Chi was peeled off every piece of clothing on his body, he realised that he should have never challenged his wife.