Daohua laughed, softly speaking to Xiao Yeyang about disciplining maid servants and old matrons.
Home is for two people, requiring both wife and husband to build and manage it together, to discuss and measure events, able both to brainstorm and to solve problems together, thereby enhancing their relationship.
She wouldn't be the kind of wife who silently gives everything and doesn't speak up, only to let her husband take it for granted that everything she does is a matter of course.
Of course, specifics about changes in details and procedures were not mentioned by Daohua; it was her problem to solve.
Xiao Yeyang provided for her outside, creating a space that is free from oppression; it was her duty to build a warm home for him.
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The next morning, as Xiao Yeyang got out of bed, Daohua also struggled to get up.
Seeing this, Xiao Yeyang, with a face full of surprise, hugged her and whispered in her ear with a soft laugh, "It seems you weren't tired last night."