Time passed quickly. By six in the evening, Ye Yang and his brothers were ready to go home, leaving the rest for the following day.

Ye Liu was wiping mud off his legs when he saw Ye Mo and Li Wazi walking towards him shoulder to shoulder. He called out to them, "Yo, I thought you guys broke off your friendship. You sure don't look like it!"

Simple-minded Li Wazi did not sense that he was joking, "Liu, that never happened."

Ye Mo glanced at Ye Liu, saying nothing. If he dared mutter a word, Ye Liu would come back blabbing a lot more, so no discussion was needed!

"Go," Ye Yang said and took the lead home.

Ye Liu quickly followed up, "Let's go, let's go! One moment without seeing Liu Duo leaves me frantic!"

Ye Mo and Li Wazi walked behind them.

Back home, Liu Duo and Ye Ling were still busy in the kitchen. Ye Ling helped boil the water while Liu Duo was in charge of cooking.

"Little Duo, we're back. Is dinner ready yet? I'm hungry," Ye Liu said as he walked into the kitchen, after seeing that the yard was empty.

Liu Duo looked back, rolled her eyes at him, and said, "Just wait for it!"

He was not a kid, so there was no need to yell when he wanted food.

Ye Liu sat by the side and observed her keeping busy at the stove. He smiled, "Little Duo, how can you be so vile, leaving me to starve like this?"

Being able to see the wife cooking whenI get back home, I better not get too used to this. It'll be better if we have a kid, Ye Liu thought to himself.

Ye Ling added, "Liu, dinner's coming right up."

Liu Duo prepared three side dishes and one soup. She served the dishes from the pot into the bowls, and they were ready to eat. Chopsticks at the ready, everyone went and sat around the table.

"Mo, when Duo Er and I came back, we met Chunmei," Ye Ling said, thinking he should tell him about what happened.

At the mention of the name, Ye Mo knew nothing good would come of it, so he got annoyed. If he had known this would happen, he wouldn't have bothered her. "So you did. What's that got to do with me?"

"Good stuff, it seems," Liu Duo took a sip of her soup. "You see, Chunmei came to me and said she has had a crush on you for ages, and she wants to marry you."

Everyone except Liu Duo and Ye Liu furrowed their brows - especially Ye Mo.

Ye Liu just had to mess things up even more than they already were. "Wow, what's this I hear about a crush on our Little Mo? But judging by the name, it sounds like bad luck. Are you sure it's a crush?"

Pffft, Liu Duo guffawed. Bad luck? That's one way to put it. Every woman other than her should be stomped out anyway.

Ye Mo pounded the bowl heavily on the table, "Don't bother. I'm not marrying her."

"Of course we won't. That's your mess. You clean it up! If not, and if you make Little Duo miserable, let's see how I clean you up! If you want to get a wife on your own, I'll make everything that I said before come true!" Ye Liu put on a serious face and said to his brother before he turned to look at Liu Duo, grinning from ear to ear.

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"Little Duo, there may be many other distractions out there, but I don't care for any of them. I don't like them. In fact, if there's any one that I like, it's the one at home, your ladyship! I can't adore you enough!"

Yet, Liu Duo responded, "Liuzi, you and your perverted ideas… Let's see how I punch your lights out!"

Though she said that, she was actually very happy. She could feel that what he had said was completely honest.

"Punch me with all your might, then. As long as you're happy, I don't care what you do to me. I'm fully willing, even if you tie me to the bed and hit me violently, I won't fight back!" Ye Liu said and winked at her, as though tempting her to abuse him.