Chapter Thirty-two: Delighting in His Joy and Mourning with His Sorrow

  "I'm sleepy, I'll go sleep first!"

  Huang Xiangyun decided to go to bed early, lest another incident occur. He drove Huang Jiaojiao out of the house to study and then took off his clothes and went to sleep on the kang.

  There is also a bed in this house, but the weather is still cold now. Although there is heating, sleeping on a bed is not as warm as sleeping on a kang. For comfort, Huang Xiangyun specially bought some mattresses and put them on the kang in each room. It feels similar to sleeping on a bed, but it's much warmer, and the space for tossing and turning is also larger.

  Huang Xiangyun lay down but couldn't sleep. He took out his phone, intending to send a text message to Li Mengmeng, only to find that it was out of battery. No wonder, since he got back, he hadn't received any messages from Li Mengmeng and had been puzzled: the little girl (who was actually much older than him) was so good to him, it was impossible for her not to send him a text message to chat! It turned out that's what happened.

  Got up and plugged in the phone charger, turned it on after a while, and indeed received a bunch of text messages, mostly from Li Mengmeng.

  He saw Li Mengmeng's text message, which was still coquettish at first but later became worried and anxious. So he directly dialed her phone number, and the call was answered immediately. Li Mengmeng anxiously said: "Husband, are you okay?"

  Huang Xiangyun's voice trembled as he heard her, with a hint of crying. He felt both moved and guilty in his heart, and hastily said: "Don't worry, wife, I'm fine. It's all my fault, I forgot to send you a text message when I came back earlier. My phone was out of battery, that's why I just charged it now. Wife, apart from waiting for your husband's messages and calls, what else are you doing?"

  Li Mengmeng burst into tears: "You rascal, you scared me to death. Waaahhh..."

  Huang Xiangyun heard her cry and felt particularly uncomfortable in his heart, so he hurriedly coaxed her: "Wife, don't cry, husband will apologize to you tomorrow by pouring tea for you, isn't that okay? If not, I'll go to the toilet and sing 'Conquest' upside down, how about that? However, you have to help me hold the microphone!"

  Li Mengmeng had just cried, and then he made her laugh again. Huang Xiangyun heard her laughing, and his mood immediately improved. He smiled and said: "Little silly wife, don't cry, I don't want you to become a little panda when we take our wedding photos tomorrow!"

  Li Mengmeng sat neatly in the room, thinking that if Huang Xiangyun didn't respond to her messages and calls, she would go find him at the address he mentioned earlier. She held her phone and smiled with a hint of tears: "Hateful, bad husband! You're the little bear... Husband, do you know? I've already dressed up, if you don't respond to my messages or calls again, I'll have to go find you... Husband, don't scare me like this in the future, okay?"

  Her gentle and affectionate words softened Huang Xiangyun's heart, making it warm and tender. He immediately said seriously: "Wife, I won't do it again. As soon as I heard you crying, my heart ached, like being stabbed with a knife. Wife, I love you!"

  The three words "I love you", Huang Xiangyun had only heard in movies and TV shows, he never thought that he would say these three words himself!

  Although Huang Xiangyun had never talked about romance before, he also has his own understanding of love.

  All along, Huang Xiangyun has always felt that the three words "I love you" are not to be taken lightly, and once spoken, they represent a promise and an oath! He feels that these three words are not easy for him to say, and he is also too embarrassed to say them out loud.

  But now, when he says the three words "I love you", he doesn't feel a bit of awkwardness or shyness, nor does he feel any pretence or artificiality! On the contrary, when he says these words, he suddenly feels a sense of relief and fullness in his heart, and an infinite sweetness and happiness!

  Huang Xiangyun only truly realized at this moment that he had really fallen in love with Li Mengmeng, the lovely girl he had only met once and spent half a day with! Love came so suddenly, yet it was so fierce and intoxicating!

  Huang Xiangyun felt a little drunk! Because of the excitement, because of happiness, because of tenderness, because of care, because of many, many reasons - but no matter how many reasons there are, they must all be related to Li Mengmeng!

  When Li Mengmeng heard the three words "I love you", she felt a sudden explosion in her head, a blank space! Her heart stopped beating, and she forgot to breathe!

  After about three seconds, or five seconds, she regained her senses. Her mind and eyes were filled with dazzling, confusing colors. She covered her chest with her small hands, feeling that if she didn't press here, her heart would jump out of her body! She asked in a rapid, trembling voice: "Husband, what did you say? Can you repeat it?"

  Huang Xiangyun said solemnly: "Wife, I love you!"

  Li Mengmeng was struck as if by lightning, stunned for a moment, then holding the phone like a little fool, covering her mouth with happiness and excitement, she burst into tears!

  In the living room outside the boudoir, Li Yun-chuan and his wife were watching TV. Hearing the crying sound coming from that room, Li Yun-chuan frowned and asked: "Wife, what's wrong with Mengmeng tonight? One moment she's messing around, one moment she's throwing a tantrum, one moment she's laughing, and one moment she's crying again. What's going on? You go take a look."

  His wife Li Fangyu leaned against his chest and shook her head: "I'm not going, Mengmeng is in love with Xiaohuang, what's the point of me going to interfere?"

  "Why are they reacting so fiercely? This is not right, I think Momo and Xiao Huang are moving too fast! We don't know anything about Xiao Huang's family situation, what if he has some problem, our girl will be ruined!" Li Yun Chuan felt that his understanding of Huang Xiang Yun was really limited, he didn't even know which alley his house was in, let alone who was in his household... He didn't want his precious daughter to make a big mistake in the heat of the moment.

  Li Fangyu shook her head and said, "I don't agree with your idea. Mengmeng may look like a little girl all day, but in fact, she's already an adult, she has her own thoughts and opinions, and can choose her own path in life. Husband, you also know that this child is usually obedient, but her personality is actually very strong-willed and persistent. If it weren't for Xiao Huang's feelings for her, even if you killed her, she wouldn't fall in love with him!"

  She turned her head to look at her daughter's room and listened carefully. She could no longer hear the crying, only her daughter's sweet and crisp giggles. She pointed to her daughter's room and said: "You listen, Mengmeng is laughing again, laughing very happily."

  Li Yunhe listened with his ear sideways, and what he heard was also the sound of his daughter's murmurs and crisp laughter.

  What he can't bear to hear is the crying of his wife and daughter; what he can't bear to see is them being wronged! Now, hearing his daughter's happy laughter and her speech like a nightingale singing, his heart suddenly relaxes, and his thoughts change along with it.