Indifference

With You

A month later

"Are you ready, Shen Yue? The airplane will not wait for us!"

"I'm coming!"

"Mom, thanks for taking us to the airport. We'll come home for the holidays to visit."

"Have a nice time in Africa, my dear. I am proud of you two, going there to help those children. You truly are two peas in a pod!"

"Thank you, mom. It will be great for us to do this together. She will teach and I will see patients. I cannot wait to see her with those kids, they love her so much!"

Dylan's mom smiles proudly. "Send pictures! I wish I could go with you, but your dad has a handful with the company..."

"I will help him after I finish my MBA next year, you'll see."

"Since we haven't found another buyer for the company, as long as you give us a grandchild before your fifth anniversary, we can handle the rest. Don't worry!"

"We have it covered, mom. Here's the future mother of my children, right princess?"

"Yes, we will start trying in a couple of years, mom," Yue says as she approaches them.

"It's so nice when you call me mom... I always wanted a daughter. Let's go now. You'll miss your flight otherwise!"

Dylan and Yue spend a year in Africa together. During that time, their bond as a couple strengthens and they learn to greatly rely on one another through thick and thin. However, they worked hard all the time.

After that amazing year, they go back home to Beijing. Dylan starts working at Wang Enterprises as planned and Yue teaches English at the same prestigious school she did when she married Dylan.

Another year of hard work goes by and soon it is time to expand the family.

Dylan and Yue have been married a little over 3 years at this point and Grandpa Wang's will states they need to have a child soon or they will lose everything.

One evening

"Shen Yue, come here, we need to talk!"

Yue comes running down the stairs and goes straight to sit on Dylan's lap wearing one of his sweatshirts: she still steals his clothes. She looks at him and he starts caressing her face and hair.

"Princess, it's time... Are you ready?"

"Yes. What's the plan?"

"Well, we will try for a couple of months with no stress, we'll have fun without worrying too much, ok?" he says with a smile that reveals how eager he is to start trying.

"And if having fun doesn't work?" she asks with a raised brow.

"Then we will both go on a fertility protocol designed by yours truly... I didn't become a health coach for nothing!"

"Yes, doctor!"

Dylan's voice becomes more serious and he keeps caressing Yue: "What I don't want is for you to go through fertility treatments with hormones and all that stuff..." he says tracing her moles on her face and neck with his gentle hands, he is not even looking at Yue in the eyes, he simply keeps talking without noticing what he is doing to her. After a couple of minutes, he asks: "What do you think?"

Yue's head is tilted to the side, her mouth slightly open, her eyes closed, warm and pink cheeks... Fascinating. Dylan looks at her and grins... He did this to her: his hands are Yue's weakness. When he strokes her lovingly, she is put in a trance, and lately it has happened more and more for some reason. She loses physical and cognitive power; he can do whatever he wishes, and she will love it.