I am hungry

She kept on staring at the man giving her feet the gentlest ever treatment. She'd be lying if she says she is not touched by any of his actions. She still remembered the way he stood up for her when they wanted to take her away, she knew his action drained all of his strength at that time but he still did it for her a stranger.

She withdrew her feet from him and tucked her feet under her thigh in a crisscross manner. She flattened her dress to ensure none of her undies are showing. She then stared straight into his eyes and said, " I have no place to go tonight, if I go home those thugs would be waiting for me, what should I do?"

"Let your hubby work hard for you alright?" he replied with a reassuring smile.

"What if I am actually a star of destruction, disaster and bring bad luck to you and your family?"

"Then I will gladly accept all of it because if it weren't for you, I won't even be alive today, hence, everything I have today is all because of you, so why would you think you'd bring me bad luck when all you have brought me is nothing but fortunes. Listen, Du Ru Ran, what happened to your parents years ago is not your fault and it was done by those bad men," he said as he lean in closer to her.

He really could not help but scoot closer to her. He could sense that she is about to breakdown any moment. If she wasn't, he would still scoot closer as well because he really just can't stay away. In the past, if it wasn't because his treatment required him to be in Japan, he wouldn't want to leave her. He purposely came looking for her that year, the year before he had to leave for Japan. He begged and kneeled for two days and finally he had his way only to find her being thrown into the river. He did not think much when he attacked those boys and jumped in to save her.

He remembered how she touched his face that day and said, "Sickly handsome boy, it's you again, thank you" and then he was rewarded with a kiss and she fainted.

"I have never told this to anyone, but that day if it wasn't because I wanted to eat ice cream, we wouldn't have gone out and we wouldn't have gotten into an accident," she said in a small voice.

"Silly girl, if it wasn't that day, it would have been another day, it is really not your fault. I will say this once more, I don't believe you are a star of disaster, but if you still insist on being one, I would still choose to be with you," he said as he gather her into his arms.

The moment the back of her head touched his warm chest, she just broke down and started weeping, something she had not done for the past 20 years.

He felt conflicted, a part of him felt glad that she had accepted him to tell him her innermost demon but at the same time, he is sad that she crying pitifully in his arms. He never wants to see her shed tears of sadness anymore because it breaks his heart. He just held her in silence and allow her to pour out her heart content.

Ru Ran made herself comfortable by turning her whole body to face him and hugged him tightly while burying her face in his chest.

Being in his arms is truly comforting. She never told anyone about how guilty she felt towards her parents death. Listening to him telling her it did not matter what she is and he is willing to bear the consequences tore her last line of defence, the reason she broke down and cry.

She always thought she had to fight this battle alone. Her shoulders had always been heavy by the burden she put on herself, at the same time, her heart had always guilt stricken because deep down she felt she played a role in their death but was never strong enough to admit it. Now that she had let it out in the open, she felt lighter.

Uncle Tek who was watching from far felt the young man is definitely the one for his young miss. The past 20 years, he has never seen his young miss allowing anyone near her. She has always been a loner and a recluse. He hopes that his young miss would be able to lead a good life in the future and allow herself to love and be love.

From far, people might have mistaken the two for a quarrelling couple that has just made up. One was dressed in black looking devilishly charming while the other dressed in white looking like a pure angel. Basically, a well matched couple.

After crying her heart content out, she pushed herself away from him, she bit her lips and then said, "Your future wife is hungry Mr Shen."