Master's Untamed Wife

Even after freeloading dinner, Hyson didn't seem like he planned on leaving anytime soon. He felt no mental burden over the fact that his best friend was now married. Since he wanted to stay, he'd just stay. No one could stop him. Perhaps not even Raelle herself could stop him and that's why Hyson was following Raelle around like her little tail.

"Everything okay with him?" asked Shui Koshing to his son.

Shui Xian moved his eyes away from Raelle and Hyson and answered his father, "Doesn't look like it. He must have something on his mind to act like this right now."

Shui Koshing patted his son's shoulder, "Then let him be." He took a pause and added, "And make sure to rest well. No matter what is going on with you, it's not worth it to ignore your health."

Shui Xian lowered his head, "You noticed?"

"I'm your father," said Shui Koshing. "Although I'm old, I ain't blind!"

Shui Xian smiled and nodded his head, "I'll be fine soon."

"I hope so," replied Shui Koshing.

After having this small conversation with his father, Shui Xian went upstairs and found Raelle and Hyson lazing around in the lounge. Okay, it'd be better to say that only Hyson was lazing around while Raelle turned on the tv and eventually settled for watching the news.

Meanwhile, Hyson had placed his head on Raelle's shoulder as he played a game on his phone. The atmosphere around them was so comfortable and natural that even Shui Xian found it difficult to interrupt them. That's why he just found himself a seat and scroll around his iPad.

When Hyson couldn't clear the level, he'd puff up his cheeks adorably. His expressions were a sight to behold while he just played a game on his phone. One might even think he was going through an internal conflict or something. 

"Argh!" He got frustrated and threw the phone to Raelle, "Help me clear the level. I don't have the patience anymore!"

Raelle silently took the phone and concentrated on the game he was playing while he took the remote and changed the channel. Since he was not the kind of person to care enough about what was going around the world, he'd just shuffle through it. 

Shui Xian raised his eyes to glance at Hyson when he noticed that Hyson actually stopped shuffling the channels and was currently watching cartoons. He didn't even know whether he was supposed to find it surprising or not. But somehow, he just couldn't bring himself to be surprised. 

Hyson was giggling to himself as he enjoyed the cartoons.

Raelle knocked the phone on his head gently and said, "It's cleared. It was too easy. Don't give this to me again. You know I don't like easy things."

"Right?" snorted Hyson. "How can a difficult person like you can actually like something easy? That'd be ironic." Hyson checked and confirmed that she cleared the level and smiled happily. He extended his arm out as his phone's front camera faced him. Putting his other hand over Raelle's shoulder, he told her, "Now, look here! Let's click a photo to remember that you helped me with my game."

Raelle looked towards the camera and Hyson's lips twitched.

"We are not going to war," said Hyson. "Give me a smile. I need a smile!"

Raelle's lips slowly stretched into an arc as big as she had practiced for hours in front of a mirror. In other words, it was so fake that even an idiot could see it.

"I told you to smile, not scare me!" Hyson placed his hand over his heart saying, "I have a weak heart."

Raelle tilted her head slightly to face him and that's exactly when Hyson clicked the photo. He looked at his masterpiece saying, "Look at it. Doesn't it seem like you're a big bad wolf bullying a weak little lamb like me?"

Raelle looked at the picture before saying, "Now that I see it, I suddenly feel like having some lamb skewers."

Hyson hugged a cushion and leaned back, "Hold it there! I don't taste good."

"How would we know that unless we try it?" said Raelle seriously.

Hyson shook his head like a rattle, "No, I'm serious. I really don't taste good."

"Are you sure it's my wife who is bullying you and not the other way around?" came Shui Xian's voice. Hyson looked over at Shui Xian and raised his brows inquisitively at him. "It's definitely you who is bullying my wife."

Hyson tsked at that, "Xian Ge, stop looking at everything through your pink-tinted glasses. I know I'm quite capable there is no doubt about that. But the truth is still the truth. I still am not capable enough to bully Raelle Xiang. Even if it seems like it." Then he turned back to his best friend, "Am I right, Ellie? Or am I right?"

"Whatever makes you happy," was Raelle's response.

"Oh, don't be like that now," pouted Hyson.

"Like what?" she asked.

"Like that!" 

"Like what?"

"Like you're acting just now."

"And how was I acting just now?"

"Hahahaha!" Shui Xian couldn't help it anymore and burst out laughing at this pair of best friends. "You both together in one place are truly a combination worth seeing."

Hyson hugged Raelle's neck saying, "Isn't that right? We just make that awesome pair."

"That's true," agreed Shui Xian wholeheartedly. 

Raelle placed her hand against Hyson's face and pushed him away, "Go away already."

Hyson gasped at her, "Are you kicking me out?"

"Why? Can't I?"

Hyson pointed at her, "No, you can't!" 

And then the debate began over why Raelle wasn't allowed to kick out her one and only pitiful best friend and how she'll never be able to find as an understanding a best friend as Hyson. So, she should learn to cherish him a little more. Shui Xian was having difficulty keeping his face straight.. All this time, his lips were stretched into a big arc that was hard to hide.