Let's Get Married

Lily is totally dumbfounded at that question. It is just another ordinary sentence, but for some reasons she can’t face it head on. She is completely at a loss in this situation.

Just as she is lost in her thoughts, the man in front of her suddenly brushes past her, and lowers himself to put a stop to the awkwardness. “I’m your mother’s good friend.”

“Friend?” The little boy’s eyes light up instantly as he looks like he understands what Rex is saying. “I know! I have a lot of friends too in the kindergarten!”

Rex carefully studies the little boy whose height barely reaches Lily’s thigh. His face is fair, like the suet jade and he has distinguishable baby fat that a boy of that age possesses. He can see that his chin is slightly protruded and his mouth resembles Lily’s while his eyes and nose take after his features.

He doesn’t need to verify whether this little child is his own child, all it takes a glance to vanquish all his doubts and suspicion.

This is definitely his child, or more specifically their child.

Whenever he registers in his mind that this little kid is related to him, he feels like his whole body is burning up and an inexplicable emotion is surging throughout his body. A sense of longing and nostalgia accompanied by loss and anxiety are threatening to blow him up.

The man can’t help feeling sorry and regretful for this woman, who repeatedly mentioned that she never loved him, who told him that she has fallen for another guy. She was feeble and helpless with nothing to rely on, but she had somehow been bearing and eventually giving birth to his child in a foreign country.

If what she has said before is true, that she has forgotten everything between them, then what logical explanation is there for her to do all this for him?

He is now thirty seven and no longer young. Although his features and figure still carry a resemblance of himself when he was thirty, it is another story when it comes to his thinking. He now craves for his own family, a family where he can love his wife and children.

But his dreams were shattered five years ago in that accident and he really thought that his life was over, that he will carry his regrets to death’s door, alone, and he really thought that he won’t have any chance to immerse himself in this kind of happiness. Alas, God does not abandon him completely; this turns out to be quite the pleasant surprise for him.

Rex stands there stiffly like a pine tree as he registers the doubts and suspicion in the little boy’s eyes. It is only natural he can’t recognize his father who has been absent in his life for five years.

fast, thinking how he should communicate with the little kid. He can’t be too matter-of-factly and neither

adults are remaining silent, it is Adair who breaks the silence by tugging at Lily’s sleeve, “Mum, we should go, aren’t

blurts out without thinking. He has just met his son, it is hard for him to part with his son again just like

immediately becomes apprehensive. She retreats slightly and says, “It’s okay, it

child after all, so he won’t be able to read between the lines. He lets out

he’s at the kindergarten, but now he is beyond bored staying

weather is chilly, why can’t you listen? If you want to go, then go

little kid clams up with a wronged expression, she suddenly feels

him like that, I’ll

acknowledges the peculiar feeling rising in her heart since the three of them have met. This is especially true when the man was talking to Adair, his tone was gentle

she doesn’t want to see that happen. Therefore

this time. When he sees that she is still in disagreement, he nonchalantly asks

want to go to the

his

and your mum there, is

kid clasps his hands, obviously in a dilemma as he really wants to go. But he is still an educated child, hence he shakes his head, “I really want to go, but uncle, you have to ask my mum, if she agrees

him behaving like this. He can see from these small things that Lily has been teaching him

solemn-looking woman standing beside him, and his eyes

hard to actually say it out loud. She knows that he’s actually telling her to stop resisting in a roundabout way.

relationship in front of Adair; therefore she is careful not to provoke him. She can only