It took Jianjun many seconds to register what had just happened.

Even the back of the pants he was wearing was now wet and he could feel the cold prick his skin.

There was only one name that came to his mind and quickly, he marched to the room.

When he entered, Changyu was still lying on the bed with an innocent look on her face. Her eyes were also still fixed on her phone's screen just like he had met her earlier.

"Are you not already too old for games like this?" He asked her rather coldly.

"Games? What did I do?" She sat up and looked at him with an innocent look.

If someone had told her a week ago that she would be having fun and acting all naughty now, she never would have believed it.

She could not count the number of times she had laughed loudly ever since she came in here.

She was happy! And she knew she deserved it.

Even if many years had passed, she was lucky to have been able to find happiness before leaving this cruel world— Even if that happiness meant soaking someone's couch.

Anyone else would have believed her with that look. But he knew her best.

He turned around to show her his buttocks that was already soaked with water.

As Changyu looked at it, she tried her best not to laugh. But she could no longer keep a straight face before letting loose with a loud guffaw.

Jianjun turned around when he heard her laugh and frowned even more.

"It's not funny. You'll be a grandmother soon, yet you're still acting naughty. If you continue like this, you'll have to return to your place"

Changyu frowned at that and stood up to look at him angrily.

"What is your problem? Everyday 'I'll send you to your place, you'll have to go back home' Did you build this house? Is it yours? If you are tired of seeing me, why don't you leave instead?"

Jianjun scoffed in disbelief. This woman seemed to always surprise him with her shamelessness.

First, she took over his room. Now, she was even asking him to leave the house?

"Do you have a mental problem or something? How can you ask me to leave my own house?"

"Don't ask me! You always nag everyday. You don't even let me do the things I want to do."

"When did I ever not let you do things? You've been possessing the whole house like you paid the rent" He shot back.

"So what's so bad in me soaking a couch that I do not like?"

Jianjun closed his eyes, used his hands to massage his temples and sighed.

There was no way he would ever win against her. He came to that conclusion.

He saw her begin to arrange her things together and shoving them in a small nylon bag since she did not come with any clothes and had been wearing Sara's clothes.

"What are you doing?" He asked even though he knew what she was doing.

"Leaving your house for you" She answered rudely. "You can go have fun with your ugly couch"

As she pushed past him to the door, Jianjun called her back.

Changyu smiled secretly before turning around to face him with an angry face.

She did not like that he was playing hard to get.

Did she always have to try to seduce him or put in an effort before he slowly begin to join her? She thought she was done with that many years back. But Jianjun never ceased to surprise her.

"What is it?" She asked with a straight face.

He pointed at the wardrobe. "Your shoe is there. You should also take it with you"

Changyu frowned even more before throwing the nylon bag at him which caused her purse and other things to spill from the bag.

Was he crazy? Did he not see that she was bluffing?

Jianjun could not help laughing out when he saw her reaction.

"You should just remain here. It would be boring if you leave" He admitted for the first time before walking past her to leave the room.

Changyu had a missed emotion. She did not know whether to be happy or sad.

He asked her to stay and said the place would be boring without her.

But, he still was not willing to sleep in the room with her.

She turned back to stop him from leaving but bumped into his hard chest which startled her.

She raised her head slowly to look up at him.

"I...thought you left"

Since the door was still open, she thought he had already walked out but he was standing just behind her?

Jianjun did not answer her. Instead, he pulled her closer to him and hugged her, which startled her since it was the last thing she expected from him at that moment.

"Chang..." He called her the name he usually called her back then.

"Hmmm?" She was still a bit flustered so she could only answer that way.

"I have never been so unsure in my entire life" He admitted in a gentle but serious tone.

"Unsure about?" She asked.

"You. Me. Us."

"And what about you, me, us?"

Jianjun did not speak for a while and Changyu became worried.

She tried to pull away from the hug to look at him but he held her firmly in place.

"Things did not go well with us when we were younger. I am.. I am just scared. I don't want to invest my emotions into this and all of a sudden, something comes up again. I am not sure I can take any more of that at this age."

He explained in a low voice.

"We can handle things properly at this age. We both know what we want, I believe.." Changyu added.

She was never a woman to give up.

If there was something she wanted, she went straight for it.

And now, she wanted Jianjun Wang!

"I know I want you.." He did not bother to deny it.

Even though she was a pain in the ass, he could not imagine living without her again.

"But you do not deserve this kind of life. You do not deserve staying in a home where there is no heater to warm up the place. Neither do you deserve to take those stairs. I see it that you are too much for me and —"

"You do not deserve this kind of life either. Neither does your sister, Sara, or Joreen deserve it. No one deserves it. The brother Jun I knew grew up in a nice home. Even though he did not care about the kind of clothes he wore, he had a lot of clothes that he did not even notice when it began to miss. He ate good food and was focused on his dreams—to take DELIFOOD to great heights with his parents."

She slowly pulled away from the hug and lifted her eyes to look into his.

"Let's go back there. I'll help you with everything, even taking my parents to court for what they did to yours. I want you to start living like a human from now on. To live your dreams."

Jianjun opened his mouth but he could not say a word. His eyes continued to blink rapidly like he was fighting back tears.

But he managed to shake his head "I'm... not sure I can do all of those now"

"You can. And you will do it. Not just for yourself, but for your only daughter. For your little niece, and for yourself."

"Don't you think living like this makes you a selfish person? Your father once struggled to build DELIFOOD for you and your sister. You should also do this for Sara. You should leave something significant behind that would make even up to your great grand children to remember you for. Or what else do you think they would be able to inherit from you? Your clothes or that little restaurant downstairs?" She asked him harshly.

Jianjun closed his eyes and allowed her words to sink in.

"Look at me Jun" She stood on tiptoes and cupped his face with her hands.

"Look at me"

She demanded again.

This time, he opened his bloodshot eyes to look at her.

"If you really love me, then do this. I want you to see that you are not too much for me. When you've done it, you'll realise that. You'll realise just how capable you are."

"But first, let's make my parents pay for what they did"

He pulled her into a hug again and she felt him shake his head.

"I don't want to."

"You don't want to build DELIFOOD?" She asked sadly.

"Not that. I don't want to take your parents to court"

"But why?" She asked in confusion.

"Because.. they are your parents."

"So what?" She asked without any intention of pulling away from the hug.

"I don't want people to say bad things about you when they see you beside me. It's the price I am willing to pay for falling in love with their daughter."

When Changyu did not say anything else, Jianjun slowly pulled away from the hug to look at her and just like he suspected, he saw tears in her eyes.

"It's okay. It's fine" He said before using his thumb to clean her tears.

Changyu also did not like to raise charges against her parents. She only felt it was something necessary. Now, Jianjun did not even want her to do so after everything just because he did not want people to talk bad about her?

"But promise me. If in the future, the issue comes up about your parents, we would have to open the case."

He was quiet for a bit before finally nodding. "I agree"

She finally smiled.

"You are a good man." She complimented.

"But you'll be a bad man if you don't sleep here tonight"

Jianjun began to smile and scratch the back of his head awkwardly.

As he stood there, some question popped inside his head. But he had the answers to them.

'Was it a good idea to sleep in the same room with a woman he was not married to?'

'Well, the couch was soaked and there was no other place to sleep. So ya!'

'What if the others complain about it: Cixi, Sara and Joreen?'

"Damn it! The couch is wet!" He said out loud before grabbing her by the waist.

"Right choice" She said with a naughty smile before their lips locked.

Jianjun thought it was the best time to also take off his wet pants so she would not get wet.

Changyu thought the room was hot so she also had to take off her clothes (winks* winks*)

Did he really not know that his daughter had assisted her in messing with the couch?

If he had not played along, how else would he have gotten the opportunity to sleep here with her?

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"Aunt do you hear that?" Sara asked Cixi who was already sleepy.

"What is it?" Cixi asked groggily.

"Silence...absolute silence" Sara said with a naughty smile before drifting off to sleep.

She was going to wake up half a million bucks rich for only assisting in wetting a couch?

Ah! How nice it was to have a rich mother and a hard-to-get father.

Was she supposed to do it for free?

Well, she would have but Changyu had offered her first.

It seemed Changyu was a businesswoman who thought people should always be paid for their time and services.

Sara was also a businesswoman and had a wedding to plan for so..Duh?