” Fine, If that is what you think then I will not say anything but .. it’s better for you to at least get engaged first,” Li Hanjing noticed that he seemed to have overstepped his boundaries. He sighed and then warned Xiao Hua one last time before he turned around and walked out of Xiao Hua’s room.

Once he was gone, Xiao Hua closed the door behind him and then went back to his bed where he sat down and then stretched his hand under the pillow from where he took out the note that was left behind by his stalker.

‘ No one can love you as I do,’ Xiao Hua read the note again and finally, after listening to Li Haning the realisation struck him. His stalker was telling him that no one other than her would be able to love an ex-courtesan like him.

…

” Yu Dong are you busy?”

Yu Dong was heading to her house when someone whispered behind her in a sort of misty voice causing her to jump in the air, in surprise. She whirled around and looked at Li Li who was standing behind her with a dazed look on her face, that was calm and serene, it would have been fine if only the woman wasn’t carrying a machete in her hands.

” I am not, do you need me for something?” Yu Dong patted her chest, chiding herself in her head for losing her focus by thinking about Xiao Hua. How in the world did she not sense Li Li? The woman was standing like a ghost behind her and she didn’t even sense her coming. What the hell?

Li Li stared at her for a long time and for the first time Yu Dong felt that her patience was getting tested, but she still waited for Li Li to speak as the winds rustled past them. Finally, after staring at Yu Dong for quite some time, Li Li parted her mouth and said, ” I was thinking of going hunting, today my stars are telling me that I am going to get a big haul if I was to go hunting, would you like to come with me? I usually don’t share my big hauls but since you gave me a place to stay at, I am willing to return the favour.”

” Li Li, the sky is covered with clouds,” deadpanned Yu Dong as she pointed to the clouds that were still rumbling harder than ever over their heads, though it wasn’t raining but the sky wasn’t clearing up either.

Li Li tilted her head back and then looked at the cloud-covered sky and then let out an ” Oh.” Before she dropped her head back and then looked at Yu Dong with blank look. “It is my instincts that are yelling at me that we are going to have a great haul today then.”

Yu Dong simply blinked at her.

” Oh for goodness sake,” Xiao Zimo who was listening to their conversation rolled his eyes from the open kitchen and exhaled loudly. ” She wants to eat boar meat because there is none in the kitchen, she wants to go hunting but her greedy self does not want to share her hunted boar with anyone, that’s why she is asking you to go with her. Apparently, she is an ‘expert’ when it comes to hunting boars.”

” You want to eat boar meat?” Yu Dong asked feeling a bit guilty, she has indeed hunted three boars but she was selfish and didn’t share the meat with anyone other than her family. She was worried that others would find out that she was cooking boar meat if she was to use it which was why she left the boar meat in her space but in case everyone got a chance to eat boar meat then she wouldn’t have to hide it.

Li Li licked her lips and gave a stiff nod. ” Something like that.”

” Very well then,” Yu Dong gave her a nod and then jutted a thumb over her shoulder as she said, ” I will go and pick up my hunting tools and then the two of us can go and hunt boars.”

Yu Dong was used to disasters while dealing with them in the apocalypse world and knew that after every natural disaster an epidemic will follow suit. If such a thing was to happen this time too then storing more fresh food wouldn’t be stupid on her part.

” I will wait for you.” Li Li nodded and then she turned around to walk towards the open kitchen where Xiao Zimo shot her a disgruntled look and said, ” I am not cooking anything for you.”

” I am not coming to you because I want to eat, I just like hearing your voice,” said Li Li just as calmly as if she was asking Xiao Zimo to cook some porridge for her.

This was why Yu Dong didn’t blame Xiao Zimo when the latter flushed in shame and embarrassment as he swung the ladle sitting on the kitchen counter at Li Li. ” You foolish woman! Do you even know what you are saying?”

Yu Dong chuckled at their antics before she turned around and walked towards her own house, as soon as she pushed the door open, she caught sight of Chen Mi and Fang Chi who were talking with each other. Seeing that the two were busy talking, Yu Dong walked over to their personal kitchen and then picked up her machete and bow that were sitting on the side before she washed her face and hands in the water vat that was used to clean dirty clothes and rags.

” Li and Liu went downstairs?” She asked when she didn’t see the two of them in the tree house. She picked up the bow and the machete before hitching one on her back and tucking the other by her side.

” They did go down,” Chen Mi replied as he looked at Yu Dong who was gearing up to go hunting and asked, ” Are you going hunting again? We have so much food, isn’t it okay for you to take a break?”

“It’s all right, we should store as much food as possible.” Yu Dong smiled at Chen Mi before she headed over to the small wooden long seat covered with comfortable cushions and patted Fang Chi’s belly. ” Is he treating you all right?”

” I feel nauseous as always but I feel better now,” Fang Chi smiled as he watched Yu Dong caress his belly. ” I bet our daughter too doesn’t want to trouble her daddy.”

” Of course,” Yu Dong straightened up as she patted Fang Chi on the head. What she missed was that when Fang Chi spoke those words his eyes were secretly looking at her with yearning. It has been so long since he got together with Yu Dong, she was being very careful with him now that he was advancing with his pregnancy but the thing was that he was feeling more and more stifled each day!

He needed her to touch him like she used to but now that he was yearning for her touch, she was acting like a gentlewoman! Where did that hooligan in her go?

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