"I never see you taking the initiative to go shopping with me."

Upon hearing Ye Yuqiao's complaint, Chen Hao laughed heartily twice before drawing close to her and saying, "I might have been passive before, but from now on I'll take you shopping every day!"

"Alright then!" Ye Yuqiao chuckled lightly. "Consider it a timely repair for lost sheep. Although shopping is joyful, it's actually quite tiring. Going every day definitely won't work, once every half a month is enough."

"Tired?" Chen Hao suddenly stepped forward, crouched down halfway, and lifted Ye Yuqiao onto his back. "If you're tired, I can carry you. This is an essential skill for boyfriends!"

Ye Yuqiao smiled warmly, feeling a surge of warmth in both body and spirit.

"Yes, you can be carried by your boyfriend when you're tired," Ye Yuqiao remarked sentimentally, "It's just that I'm wearing a skirt, and it doesn't seem quite right to be carried."

"What's there to worry about? You're wearing long stockings, aren't you?"

"By the way, Chen Hao, what do you think a girlfriend's essential skills should be?"

Chen Hao suddenly stopped, looked up at the increasingly dense crowd on the street ahead, and after some serious thought, replied, "A girlfriend should be responsible for being as beautiful as a flower, and of course, it's most important to be as gentle as water and to nurture a tactile sense. It would be even better if she can do laundry and cook. Also, if she knows massage, acupuncture..."

"Enough!" Ye Yuqiao suddenly interrupted Chen Hao, seeming a little angry from her tone, "I didn't know you had so many requirements. Well, from now on, your queen will only take care of being as beautiful as a flower!"

"Not necessarily," Chen Hao said with a sly smile, "we'll have plenty of time in the future, and you can slowly develop the skills you don't have. Ah!"

As he spoke, Chen Hao suddenly let out a yell—Ye Yuqiao had bitten him on his right cheek.

"Bitten by a dog during a walk!"

"Jerk, you're making me so angry!"

Carrying Ye Yuqiao on his back, Chen Hao walked a distance down the street, rushed by the cold wind and cars, and then suddenly spotted an acquaintance across the road.

"That's Grandma Zhou from the building next to ours!" Chen Hao told Ye Yuqiao. "Following her is Grandpa Zhou."

Chen Hao's tone carried a touch of sadness, for the Grandpa Zhou he mentioned was a Yin Soul. His old partner, Grandma Zhou, could not see him, so her silhouette looked somewhat lonely.

"It's sad, but it also feels very touching," Ye Yuqiao said, sharing Chen Hao's sentiments while watching the now separated by life and death elderly couple.

"Grandpa has been right beside Grandma all along, yet she has no idea."

Chen Hao sighed, then hoisted the Ye Yuqiao on his back higher up.

"Yuqiao, I must make sure to die after you in the future!"

"Why's that?" Ye Yuqiao asked curiously.

"I'm afraid you would endure the loneliness of walking alone at dusk, just like Grandma Zhou."

Ye Yuqiao was taken aback, and when she came to, her eyes were already brimming with tears. She then asked in a hoarse voice, "If I were to go first, wouldn't you be the one bearing that loneliness?"

"Why are you crying!" Chen Hao said in surprise, turning his head to look at Ye Yuqiao.

Seeing that her makeup was about to be blurred by tears, he quickly put Ye Yuqiao down, took out a piece of tissue from his pocket, and wiped her tears, saying, "Yuqiao, I'm sorry, I didn't mean I hope you die early, rather..."

"Silly!" Ye Yuqiao burst into laughter through her tears. "I cried because I was moved, not because I was angry."

"Even though you look beautiful when you cry, we still have shopping to do later, so hold back for now, and you can cry when we get home."

Ye Yuqiao laughed, lifted her hand, and gently thumped Chen Hao on the chest.

"You haven't answered my question though, what would you do if I left first? Wouldn't you be all alone enduring the dreadful solitude?"

"I can always find another partner."

Ye Yuqiao's expression darkened.

Chen Hao couldn't help but laugh, holding Ye Yuqiao's hand and saying, "Alright, I'll stop joking. Such a sentimental young girl! Since you already know it's a kind of terrible loneliness, you must never leave me alone. I'll do the same. We need to live hard for each other."

After Chen Hao's words, Ye Yuqiao cried even harder, and her tears were even more beautiful. Under the neon lights and the street lamps, the tears on her face shimmered like a lake surface bathed in the afterglow of a summer's dusk, moving and sparkling. Her messy waist-length hair in the cold wind was like the gently fluttering willows by the lake's edge, tender and affectionate.

Looking at Ye Yuqiao at this moment, Chen Hao told himself in his heart: This was his real Yuqiao, emotional, fragile, sentimental, and in need of his careful protection.

"Don't cry anymore, the wind is strong, and you'll catch a cold if you keep crying," Chen Hao said while wiping away Ye Yuqiao's tears.

"Mmm, I won't cry anymore," Ye Yuqiao nodded, her voice quivering.

"Silly girl, we promised to be together forever, and none of us will leave the other behind."

"Mmm! We must believe in miracles."

...

...

Three hours later, dragging their exhausted bodies, Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao returned to their apartment building.

Although he was carrying a lot of things, Chen Hao had no complaints in his heart because most of the items were for him, bought by Ye Yuqiao.

Ye Yuqiao personally picked out several expensive suits for him, along with matching leather shoes, saying they would last Chen Hao for a lifetime. Besides that, Ye Yuqiao also bought many household items that would last a long time, and even ordered a new set of curtains, planning to replace the old ones that had been used at home for over a decade.

"Yuqiao, we only started renovating yesterday, and you're already ordering curtains. It looks like you're preparing for a wedding," Chen Hao said.

"Many things at home are very old, and they have needed replacing for a while."

"Mmm!" Chen Hao agreed with a smile. "After all, you're the future lady of the house, so it's all up to you."

As they talked, the two had reached their front door.

Just as Chen Hao was putting down the items to fish out the keys, Ye Yuqiao's face suddenly changed, and she said anxiously, "She's here again!"

"She?"

At that moment, the door opened, and Chen Hao saw another Ye Yuqiao.

"Why are you still coming!" Ye Yuqiao glared at her Nether Soul Body and demanded.

"Chen Hao, did you freeze the Nether King's Heart? I couldn't sense the Nether King's Heart and worried something had happened to you, so I rushed over," she said.

Chen Hao showed a disgusted expression, darkly saying, "Why would anything happen to me? You sure keep a tight watch. Seems like I need to freeze the Nether King's Heart more often, so not everything gets back to you!"

Looking at Chen Hao, who seemed to push her thousands of miles away, Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body showed a look of hurt.

"Go back, and don't come here again!" Ye Yuqiao said.

Ye Yuqiao's Nether Soul Body huffed, glaring at Ye Yuqiao, and asked, "Did you tell Chen Hao about that thing?"

"What thing?" Chen Hao's eyes suddenly widened.

Ye Yuqiao's eyebrows immediately knitted together, her face showing unease.

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