Seventeen times.

Professor He leaned back in the chair and jotted down something. The words terrifying did not speak to a great start of anyone's relationship. That and the absence of public declaration of each other's status in their personal spaces communicated a lot. There was a gap between them somewhere that needed bridging.

This was definitely an important aspect of the relationship which needed looking into and fixing. This was not a one sided problem, the husband and wife both needed to play an active role in fixing it. 

Professor He was glad that this was something Alix was willing to open up about and she readied herself to dig deeper into it. 

While this was happening, Caishen was busy sorting out information related to work and that related to Lai Yanfang. One of the things he was learning was that she had paid him secret visits in the past but Mo Sen and the other guards did not inform him about said visits.