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Over the next few days, we spent most of our time together, the black couple on vacation, giving up the house to both of us. Every day when we opened our eyes, we would kiss and make love, then Gao Kan would cook, I would clean the house, I would tend to the flowers in the garden.

We spent the whole morning in our room eating, washing clothes, cleaning and teasing father Demoux, then walked aimlessly along Malcolm Avenue at noon. Gao Kan put his arm around my shoulders and pointed out to me the place where he lived, the interesting things that happened there. We chatted and laughed on the street, bought some small items and passed by the Sylvia 'Sfood' where he used to wash dishes.

In the evening, we would stroll to the Apollo Theatre or attend a bar's jazz night where Gao Kan would encourage me to wear a weird mask and sing on stage. Gao Kan would also encourage me to wear a weird mask and dance along with him, as the Harlem District is the birthplace of hip-hop culture, and everyone here seemed to be able to dance and play with their talents all night long, making people feel less and less bored. On the contrary, they would grow more and more spirited, unable to pull themselves out of the frenzied world.

On the fifth day, just in time for the weekend, Gao Kan woke me up early. He dressed neatly and brought me to the Jia Nan Baptist Church to listen to the gospel.

I only called two times: one was Lisa, she told me that all the troubles had passed, and the other was Hua Yang. She still didn't look too good, so she didn't mention Zhou Jin at all. After saying a lot of words of thanks and not to worry about her, she ended up hanging up. Gao Kan said that she was feeling sad, and did not want to bring up that matter.

Of course, I didn't mention anything about the women's clothing in the closet or the photo albums. On one hand, I thought that it was all a blessing from the past. On the other hand, I didn't want to ruin the happy time of our trip, so I fooled myself by ignoring them.

However, he couldn't ignore the memories of others.

Once I return to the Blue Water City, I would be labeled as "Sister-in-law", "Su Jiawang has chased you for many years" and "Su Jiawang really loves you".

Almost everywhere, everyone who knew him would look at me and say, "Where is he?"

At this point, Gao Kan would gently smile, say "sheisbusy," and then introduce me, "This is my daughter."

"Oh …" Their faces revealed a profound smile, seeming to be filled with regret and disappointment.

Whenever this happened, I would reveal the indifferent smile of my real girlfriend and openly greet them. In my heart, I wanted to tell everyone that Han was just a friend of his.

Sometimes, Gao Kan would also explain to me in a casual tone that he and Han Youya had dinner somewhere and played together. When he was working at a car repair shop, she would wait for him at the side to get off work. Things like that, I guess.

I nodded my head magnanimously, pretending to be interested. Listening to him speak, I felt extremely sore in my heart. I really wanted to reverse the flow of time. The person accompanying her was me.

It was also at this time that I learned how to think in another place. I had a deeper understanding of why Gao Kan hated Su Jiawang so much, hated that small apartment in Jade Water, hated shopping with me and talked about the past of those years. He was not stingy, because I could not stand it either.

In the first two days, I was still able to joke around with him, saying that he was a fallen frog who had turned into a prince. But as I conversed with the people who knew him in simple English, the more I knew about Han Youya and the more I understood about their past, the jealousy in my heart grew even stronger. I was jealous enough to become a bad woman and my happy mood plummeted.

That morning, after we finished eating breakfast, when I went to wash the dishes and wash the dishes, Gao Kan was on the phone and after that, he excitedly said that he would take me to the exhibition hall later on. There was an art tramp that he knew who had finally managed to gather enough money to display his work, and due to habit, I agreed. However, when I went to my bedroom to change my clothes, I saw the photo album, and changed my mind.

Startled, he turned his head and asked, "Where are you going?"

"This beach." I took it out, opened the first page, and showed it to him.

Gao Kan glanced at it and stopped shaving. He turned around and stared at the photo, frowned and said "Where are we going?", then continued shaving in the mirror.

I was afraid that he would be angry, so I explained carefully, "I don't have any other intentions, I just want to go and take a look."

He said, "Nothing to look at."

I walked over and put my arm around his bare back and rubbed my hand against his cool skin and whispered, "Yes, I want to leave my mark on your world so that you can think of the sea later and remember me as well."

"Jealous?"

"He's not just jealous. He's so jealous." "I've never seen you look shy," I said.

Gao Kan sighed, and raised his tone, "Oh, about that, I'd rather you never see it in your entire life, that's truly terrible, it doesn't fit my husband's image of being handsome and tall."

"Then why didn't you hide it earlier? Why did you let me see it? Or do you think I'm very generous and don't care about anything?"

The buzzing stopped, Gao Kan put down his razor and turned to me. "How is it?"

"Very handsome." I kissed his smooth chin.

Gao Kan placed me in front of the dressing table and kissed me with such force that I had to take a breather. Then he left and said, "There's no way to wrap a paper around a fire, you will know sooner or later. I didn't plan to hide this from you either."