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There was a long and wide natural waterfall on the west side of The Fragrant Hill. They were passing by that and saw there were many people standing in the open space and watching the waterfall. The sound of the water was so nice and soothing that some people liked to spend their whole day there watching it and listening to its sound.

"Ava, what wish did you make just now?" Sarah asked curiously.

"How can I tell you that? It won't work if I tell you." Ava smiled and pretended to be mysterious.

"Oh please, I am sure it has something to do with brother-in-law." Sarah looked at Ava's sweet smile and said confidently.

Ava smiled but didn't say anything. Indeed, she had only one wish in her life, she just wanted to spend the rest of her life with Oliver happily.

They came close to the "Cherry Blossom resort". It was one of the expensive resorts here, so not many people like to come here.

"Let's go to the resort and have some rest," Erika suggested.

"Good idea." Ava smiled and agreed. They were walking for a while and she was a bit tired now.

Erika and Sam walked in front together side by side, Ava and Sarah followed them. As the four people were about to enter the resort, Ava's cell phone started to ring. She stood there, took out her cell phone from her bag, and saw it was Oliver. Ava checked the time, it was a little after 10 o'clock. She thought shouldn't he be sleeping now?

"Hello, Oliver," Ava said with a gentle smile and started to walk forward.

"Where are you?" Oliver asked expressionlessly.

He had been annoyed for a while now. He came back to the hotel after dinner and checked Ava's location through the GPS but found she was at The Fragrant Hill. He felt helpless, this woman really couldn't stay home. She went hiking on such a hot summer day.

"I.. home. " Ava said awkwardly in a low voice.

"Really? Since when Fragrant Hill become your home?" Oliver pursed his lips and said calmly.

Ava froze. Shit! He already found out? How does he do that? She asked embarrassingly, "How did you know?"

Oliver felt tired, he leaned on the bed and rubbed his temple. He didn't have the heart to fight with Ava over this. The Fragrant Hill is warm in winter and cold in summer. As long as the woman doesn't suffer from another heatstroke, he will endure her willfulness.

"Someone took a picture of you and sent it to me." Oliver lied smoothly.

Wow, he got eyes everywhere, she can't even go anywhere without him knowing. Next time she will put on sunglasses and a mask to cover her face like a celeb so that no one can recognize her.

"You have so many friends," Ava said flatly and continued to walk forward.

"Did you take any medicine to prevent heatstroke before you went there?" Oliver smiled and changed the topics. He didn't ask her who she went with to Forest hill, he just assumed it would be Sarah.

"Yes, I have. Don't worry."

"That's good. Don't stay for too long."

"Oliver, it should be late at night in there, you should get some rest," Ava said with a smile, she was relieved that he didn't get angry and now felt happy that he called.

"Yes, I just wanted to hear your voice before I go to bed." Oliver smiled softly.

He was really missing Ava terribly. After the last trip to Australia, he tried to avoid any business trip because he didn't want to go anywhere without her. He thought from now on he will bring her along with him on any business trip so he wouldn't miss her like that.

"Good night, Oliver. I love you." Ava's eyes were tender and her face was full of smiles.

Oliver felt very happy hearing Ava say that because she rarely expressed her love through words, the smile on his face got wider, "I love you too baby. Bye."

Sarah who was walking beside Ava felt like gagging herself, she was single, and seeing her sister all mushy mushy with Oliver she felt jealous and her heart turned sour. She wondered if all the people who were in love act like that.

They came inside the "Cherry Blossom resort", and saw a large pink cherry garden. The cherry garden was divided into two types of trees, some were original and some were fake. Since the cherry blossom season was over so the fake trees were adding a different kind of beauty to the place. It looked so beautiful and unless someone sees it from closer they wouldn't even realize that those trees were all fake.

Ava walked to the soft path covered with fake cherry blossom petals and found Erika and Sam were waiting for them in the cherry blossom garden. Erika was very busy capturing the beauty around her through her DSLR.

Seeing Ava and Sarah came, Erika handed the camera to Ava and said with a bright smile, "Sister-in-law, take some picture for us."

"Sure," Ava said happily.

Sam felt distressed, he agreed to come here because he wanted to see Ava but now Erika was clinging to him. For a second he was doubting himself for involving her in his plan. He helplessly stood with Erika facing the camera stiffly but he deliberately kept about 20 cm distance between them.

Ava understood what Sam was doing and she had an idea, she looked at them through the camera and said, "Mr. Evan come closer to Erika."

Sam also knew what Ava was doing but he couldn't say no to her, so he came closer to Erika until their shoulder touched.

Sarah looked at the beautiful scenery of two people under the tree and thought it was so romantic. She suggested, "Mr. Evan, why don't you hold sister Rika's shoulder. You look too stiff, you need to relax a bit."

Samuel smiled, he didn't know how to react. He thought it should be alright he was just pretending to be with Erika anyway. He could tell Erika's feeling toward him was just friendly, even though she thinks she likes him but he could tell she has someone else in her heart. So in a way, they both were using each other. In fact, that was the reason Sam didn't hesitate to approach Erika. If she truly liked him he would not do this to her.

"Rika, is that ok?" Sam asked politely with a smile.

Erika nodded: "Sure, no problem."

Sam put his arm around Erika's shoulder and smiled at the camera. His eyes were very tender and the smile on his face was very warm, his heart suddenly filled with joy as he looked forward but he was not looking at the camera, he was actually looking at the person behind the camera.