Then I looked at him and said, "Yuan, don't you think that we should go out for some time today?" I asked him.
He looked at me and said, "Where does my girl want to go out now?"
I smiled excitedly and said, "I wanna go out to just have a first outing with my dear husband, Yuan Yuan, after our wedding," I said.
He chuckled and said, "Do you really know how cute you sound when you call me your husband?"
I smiled while trying to hide my blush from him, which was indeed of no use, and I said, "I know, I know."
He smiled, and after getting ready to go out, we both headed out from our home. Then we sat inside the car, and after almost forty to forty-five minutes, we reached our destination. We reached the Shanghai mall successfully, and then we went out of the car. There, we took each other's hands, and I started smiling stupidly as always whenever he is around me, and Yuan noticed it as always, like he does.
After walking for a while, I asked Yuan, "What about watching a movie?"
He looked at me and smiled and said, "Okay."
Then we both headed to watch a movie. Yuan was wearing his usual black mask on his face, and then we both headed inside the theatre. But when the movie started, I got a little shocked and looked at Yuan's face very shockingly.
Yuan's eyes were on the screen while eating the popcorn, but even without looking at me, he said, "What? What does my silly girl want to ask me?"
"Yuan, why are we watching this animated movie? I mean, see around us. There are kids only with their parents or guardians, and we are the only adults here who are watching this. I think we mistakenly bought the tickets for this movie," I said.
"No, we didn't. I already knew which movie tickets I was buying to watch," he said.
"Then why did you choose this movie to watch?" I asked him.
Then he looked at me and said, "Because we can't watch a horror movie."
"Why?" I asked him.
"Because I can't take a risk with my little wife. You get scared and end up fainting yourself," he said.
"Then what about the others?" I asked.
"Comedy movies don't have any good sense in them, action films don't go well because there are lots of fights in them, and sci-fi movies are a bit boring. And romantic movies are not worth watching, especially when we are already living our own," he said, then started looking back at the screen again.
Then I looked at him and asked, "Yuan, but why do I feel that there is something else also?" I said this to him.
"What?" he asked while still looking at the screen.
"All those movies have a male lead, and you don't really want me to watch any other male lead, isn't it?" I asked him.
He looked back at me and said, "So what? Is there anything wrong in it if that's really the case?" he said.
I smiled helplessly because I know my Yuan. He wants me to see only him, but I don't know why he doesn't know this very well till now, that in this whole world, which is crowded with lots of people in it, still my eyes choose to watch him, only him, because he is my one and only in this whole world.
I said this to myself, and then Yuan put popcorn into my mouth and said, "Watch the movie. It's really not that boring. In fact, it's a bit interesting."
I smiled and looked at him and said, "Having you sitting beside me makes every boring thing in this life beautifully interesting."
"Mrs. Xu Yuan, I must say you are so much into your husband," he said while looking at me.
"My husband is really worth being so much into. I really can't help it. I really can't," I said.
And like this, the whole movie went by. After finishing it, we headed out of the theatre, and after a while, we headed towards the waffle stall outside the mall.
There we ordered our waffle, and it took a few minutes to get prepared, so we sat at a chair and table there to wait for it. That waiting for the waffle led us back to our sweet memories that we had created in this journey of ours, the sweetest ones, where we both fell in love and learned a lot from this journey.
Then I held his hand in mine and said, "Yuan, you know what? When I look back at us a few months ago, it really makes me think that we have really come so far in our journey, so far."
"Indeed we have. There is no doubt in it. Even sometimes I also think that we had so many ups and downs in our journey, but we crossed them successfully. And you know what was the most important thing in it?" he said.
"What?" I asked.
"That at the start of our story, we both weren't ready to accept that we were in love with each other. We were just continuously denying it," he said.
I smiled and said while looking at him, "In order to deny my love for you in front of others, I even called you a lousy actor."
Yuan looked at me very amusingly and said, "Only Zhao Shiza can do this. Only you can say such things about the person you love the most."
"Of course only I can say such things about you. It's only my right, and no one dares to take it from me," I said.
"But you silly girl, you called me a lousy actor. It's really not acceptable," he said.
"It's not really my fault. You tell me, what should I even do at that time? I knew very well that no one was going to believe me if I simply said that I hadn't fallen for you, so I had to say such things about you. It's really not my fault, Yuan. Actually, I had fallen for you way before I even knew or realized it, but slowly I was able to realize my love for you, which is infinity and beyond this world," I said.
He smiled while looking at me and said, "Then I would love to be your lousy actor."
"Yuan, that's only for others. It was just an escape plan for myself. If I hadn't said that, then I know no one would have believed me. No one, really no one," I said.
He smiled and said, "Okay, okay. I know, I know, my little wife. You don't need to explain yourself this much to me. You really don't."
And by that time, our order had finally arrived on our table—the waffle with choco-vanilla ice cream on it, with some strawberries as toppings.
Then Yuan cut one bite from it with a spoon and fed it to me. Then I got the feeling of eating the strawberry from my own strawberry only. It's really like a dream to live on.
I said this inside myself.
After finishing that sweet, sweet waffle, we both headed back to go home. But then suddenly, the rain started pouring heavily on the ground, making us both drenched and soaked in it completely.
Then Yuan removed his coat and put it over both of us while holding it with his hands so that we wouldn't catch a cold from it.
Then we both ran from there to reach our car, and we finally reached it successfully, but we had already drenched ourselves in the rain completely. There was no use anymore.
Then we both sat inside the car, and Yuan drove us back to our home.
The rain at night in Shanghai kept getting heavier and heavier, but I loved it. I really did because my favourite weather had just arrived.
Then we finally reached our home, and the moment we entered the house, Yuan said, "You go and change first. Make sure you don't catch a cold."
"You too," I said to him.
After getting changed, when I went out of the room, I saw that Yuan was already in the kitchen with
his apron on, which really seemed like he was up to something.
Then I went to him and said, "Yuan..."