President's Substitute Wife

After I agreed, Ming seemed to want to say something. I heard his other cell phone ring.

“Wait a minute. I have to answer the phone.” Ming didn’t hang up. I heard him answer the phone and say, “I’ll be right there.”

Then he picked up the phone and said, “I’m sorry. There’s an emergency in the hospital. I have to go.”

“OK, you can go.”

I responded.

I hung up and soon heard Ming open the door.

I opened the door, too. He was dressed and waiting for the elevator.

He smiled when he saw me. He came up and hugged me. “Wait for me to come back. Remember the birthday present you promised me.”

“OK.” I nodded and hugged him. “I’ll wait for you to come back.”

Although Ming wanted me to accompany him for one day, I still thought I had to prepare a birthday present for him.

The next morning, Ming didn’t seem to come back. I sent Lester by myself and went shopping.

The clerk at the counter recommended me countless gifts in the morning, but I didn’t like them very much.

Ming was not a business person, so ties and cufflinks were not suitable for him.

But I didn’t know what else to send him.

When I was about to find a place for lunch, my cell phone rang.

It was my personal cell phone.

And it was Linda!

I answered the phone at once.

She asked me out for lunch. We chose a western restaurant not far from both of us.

By the time I arrived, she had arrived.

Today Linda was wearing a well cut cape and skirt and high heels.

Five years ago her hair was black, long and straight, but now it was brown and curly.

When Linda saw me, she said, “I didn’t expect Becky, the famous designer, to be you.”

I was a little diffident. “My master is famous, not me.”

Murray no longer designed. I did design

he gave me all my contacts

like I had

“it’s lucky to have a good master.”

these years? You quit when you came back from the

what happened to us in

to study abroad. There she met her

husband returned to the United States because of his work, so

back and took only one job.

She designed Tang Time.

I remember going to Tang Time that day. Jonas promised to

But I met Linda

planned to take part in a design competition at the end of the year and

design competition, I was also very excited.

chat, we decided to take

and I seemed to have a lot to talk about.

o’clock when I got back

She and I were going to pick up our children. Besides, I hadn’t bought a gift for Ming.

I was going to buy Ming a present. She suggested, “I think you can think

Her words reminded me.

All stationery in

I chose an ink blue pen.

I had the owner

to Linda and went to

was Ming’s

would break Ming’s birthday present. I

called Ming when

phone had been off.

I hadn’t seen him in

long, but after I came to York, Ming would contact me no matter

He seldom did that!

help feeling uneasy.

Lester. During this time, I had been

But every time the result was the same.

cold system sound, “the phone you dialed is off...”

I had a bad feeling. Was something wrong with Ming?

Lester alone, and I couldn’t take him to the hospital.

I could only endure.

I said to Lester before he fell asleep, “Lester, I’m going out to find Uncle Jessop. I’ll

“OK.”