Mr Carlos Huo, She's Your Wife

"Rat-a-tat-tat." Debbie was startled by a sudden knock at the door. It was already well past her usual sleeping time and she wondered who could it be at this ungodly hour. She had just unzipped her down jacket. She had no choice but to zip it up again.

"Who is it?" she called out.

"Young girl, it's me." It sounded like the voice of the village head's wife.

Her guess was right. When Debbie opened the door, she saw the village head's wife and her handsome son standing outside.

The woman smiled pleasantly on seeing Debbie and asked, "Young girl, did I wake you?"

Debbie shook her head. "No, it's okay. I hadn't slept yet. Is everything okay?" she answered, confused as to why these two were paying her a visit at night.

The woman turned towards her son. He immediately lifted up something from the ground and handed it to Debbie. "This is our electric warming fan. My mother and I have brought it to you so that you don't get cold," he told her coyly.

"But...no... I can't take this. This is too generous." Debbie was deeply moved. As far as she knew, there was not even a water heater in the village. How on earth did they manage to procure an electric warming fan for her?

She didn't want to prove a burden to anyone, but the village head's wife was having none of it and straightforwardly asked her son to carry the fan into Debbie's room. Before Debbie knew how and what, the boy had already plugged the fan into a socket and the room was filled with the slight hum of its motor.

"Thank you so much! But if I keep the fan in my room, what about you? You'll be cold at night without it," Debbie protested, though she wasn't entirely ungrateful. If she had guessed right, then this might have been the only electric warming fan in the whole village.

With a genuine smile, the woman responded, "We're used to this weather, young girl, but you've come from the big city. You can't fall asleep at night without it. Please sleep tight. We should get going now!"

Then, she held her son's hand and they left together, leaving Debbie to her confused thoughts.

With the warming fan on, the room was soon filled with a warm ambiance. Sitting at the edge of the bed in her thoughts, Debbie even forgot to lie down.

She was confused. 'Why does the village head's wife treat me so well? Is Jared's joke true? Does she really want me to stay and marry her son? Truth be told, her son is quite handsome. But...I'm married. I have Carlos. If that's why this whole special-treatment-thing is going on, I'm afraid their wish can't come true, and it's got to stop, ' she mused.

farther from the truth. This was proven when she went to

a part of her life at the moment was being very kind. Even the owner of the house which she was staying in gave her special care. When she walked out of her bedroom and told the hostess that she wanted some hot water, the hostess immediately brought

she had prepared a new basin and a clean towel for Debbie too. At the moment, Debbie

notion was broken rather abruptly when after washing her face and wiping her body, she slipped into the bed again. Much to her

that she noticed there was an electric blanket on her bed. And moreover, someone had turned it

Unable to hold back her curiosity, she took out her phone

we feel cold Deb! I couldn't bear it so I've come to sleep

voice message from Jared. "Dude, what the fuck! It is such a cold weather here and

choice but to

comical. "Jared, are you a snake?

their words, Debbie was sure that they didn't have

who has it?' she wondered. To confirm her guess, she texted Gail too. She couldn't sleep right now anyway

am I supposed to fall asleep? I shouldn't have brought snacks for the kids. I should have brought something to keep myself

her to catch a cold or get some serious illness, so she returned a message. "If you can't withstand it, how about you come to my room

reply. This time, she had resorted to text. "No way! I will never sleep in the same bed with you! Who knows what

stay in your cold bed!' Debbie angrily repeated Gail's sentence in exasperation. She didn't care about her anymore and decided to

at a small school and began to distribute the supplies

have parents and were being raised by their grandparents. She silently

even knelt down in front of Debbie, which startled her, and she quickly lifted the old woman up from the ground. It would

the kids there. They shared a lot of things with

there wasn't enough space inside. With keen pleasure,

There were new cotton shoes and clothes in this batch. The university students helped the kids wash their feet and

didn't have any mission this afternoon, so she silently went to the yard behind the school on her own. She wanted a breath of fresh air for as long as she could have one. Earlier, she had told the village head's son to help her send out a few postcards. 'Have Kasie and the others received my postcards yet?' she wondered.

a big rock and taken out her phone which had no signal, when a person suddenly