Chapter 13：Aren’t You Afraid I’ll Max It Out?

After lunch, they headed to the largest furniture store in Rongcheng City.

It was a huge place with all sorts of furniture, from fanciful to simple and functional types, and in all different shapes and colors. Given so many choices, Ye Banxia was a little lost. But she was also extremely excited to start picking out things she liked.

She hadn't been to a furniture store in a long while.

"Have you decided what to get?"

The man beside her asked. If one listened closely, he'd find out that the usual coldness of his tone was absent. Perhaps the radiance and happiness on her pretty face had infected him too.

"The couch has to be really big and comfy."

Banxia then turned to look at him, as if asking for approval.

The man nodded. "Mm."

Seeing that he was agreeable to it, Banxia's eyes lit up even more. She went on, "The wine cabinet… lily-white looks good, but I think light gold is pretty classy too. What do you think?"

She was just short of saying that light gold was "classier", what else could he think?

Mo Chenyan looked at the girl beside him, her head tilted slightly sideways and a look of expectancy on her face.

He felt his heart flutter.

His lips curled inconspicuously as his eyes settled on her. "What else, tell me all about it."

Anyway, he wasn't all that particular about such stuff, it was fine as long it made her happy.

She blinked for a while before letting ideas flow. "As for the vase stand, I think white would suit it pretty well." But the one they had at home was the original one and had been there for a long time. "The flowers are already colorful enough, with white as a base, the flowers themselves would be more outstanding."

Perhaps it was because Ye Hanyan's matter had been settled, Mo Chenyan felt like her mood had changed rather significantly.

She didn't have that sort of gloominess of a few days back.

"Oh, and the television console, the cabinet under the oil painting, the drawer and chair in the study room… let's walk around and see if there are better ones. If not, the ones we have now are pretty nice too. How's that?"

Only when Ye Banxia was done with her monologue did she realize that the man had been looking at her deeply.

She stiffened for a moment, but the man quickly took her hand and walked forward. "Alright, let me know when you see something you like."

As she trailed behind him, she couldn't help but admire his slender back view.

Although it was in the day, the warm, gentle lighting of the store reflected off him like a glowing halo. His tailored pants were neatly ironed, his sleeves rolled up halfway, and it seemed like he was wearing a different watch today.

The two of them picked out several things they liked along the way.

Mo Chenyan did not say much and only gave his opinion when she was caught in a fix between a few choices. Ye Banxia was happy each time this happened, for it made her realize just how important a simple word from him could be to her in a time of dilemma.

"Mo Chenyan, don't you need to work today?"

She hadn't forgotten to show her husband a little concern in the midst of her excitement.

It seemed like this very busy man had skipped work for two days.

Mo Chenyan stopped in his tracks and turned around to face her. Before he'd managed to say anything, the cell phone in his pocket started ringing.

Banxia blinked. Wasn't this too much of a coincidence?

Mo Chenyan did not excuse himself from her. Hence, she stood quietly and waited as he answered the call. The more she listened to it, the surer she was of her speculation.

When he hung up and looked at her, her pretty face was written in innocence.

At that moment, Mo Chenyan really felt that this woman jinxed it. And was also someone good at pretending nothing had just happened.

He furrowed his brows a little helplessly and slightly amused. "I'll be going to the office, I'll send you back first?"

"It's fine." It was such an urgent call, how could Banxia take up any more of his time? "I'll shop around on my own for a while more and then take a cab home."

He did not insist and instead told her nicely, "They'll put the furniture on my tab. You just pick out anything you like, they'll send it to our home tomorrow." He then took a Black Card out of his wallet. "This is my subsidiary card. If you find something else you like while you're shopping elsewhere, you can get them to deliver it instead."

Banxia looked at the card in his hand. Grandpa used to give her a card like this too, but what mattered wasn't the card per se. Rather, it was the care and concern that went into it and the fact that he'd taken her needs and wants into consideration.

Ever since Grandpa left, she'd never felt this loved.

She smiled and waved the Black Card. "Aren't you afraid I'll max it out?"

For men like him, it embarrassed them more if the women refused to spend his money.

The man seemed satisfied with her response. "Well, you've got to have what it takes."

Banxia smiled at him gleefully. "I'll try my best. Be safe on the road."

"You too."

Banxia stood there for a while more as she watched him leave and felt a smile creep upon her face.

Just as she was about to leave, a voice came from behind her. "Second Sis?"

Banxia's smile fell the moment she heard that voice and a chill dissipated inside her.

She paused for just a split second before walking off again as if nothing had happened.

But just a few steps in, someone grabbed her from behind.

"Second Sis, is it really you?"

Ye Youran looked at her with those wide sparkly eyes, her smile radiant as an angel's. Only Banxia knew that the difference between an angel and a devil was just a matter of which side of the person one saw.

"Let go," she coldly said.

"Second Sis…"

Ye Youran's voice was even softer now and trembling slightly, sounding almost pitiful.

"I know I'm in the wrong, don't blame me, alright? Hanchuan and I are truly in love. If you're still mad at me, you can scold or hit me, but Second Sis, don't ignore me…"

Banxia did not want to pick a fight with her in public. She closed her eyes momentarily and her voice went lower. "I said let go."

"Banxia."

A man's voice came through.

"Youran isn't to blame for our breakup. She didn't know anything at all, I'm the one who's in the wrong. Youran is your sister no matter what, how could you treat her this way?"

Banxia had kept her back to them the whole time, so it was only now that she realized Ye Youran wasn't alone.

Li Hanchuan.

She went through that name once in her head and then told herself she was through with this person.

"Ye Youran, I don't want to repeat myself a third time."

Li Hanchuan's expression darkened when he realized that she'd completely ignored his presence. "Ye Banxia!"