A Love For Keeps

Questions

(DAYU)

I cannot help smiling. I've received wonderful news and I cannot wait to tell Qing about it.

It feels so good. My life is going on track. There are ups and downs and sudden turns but it's mostly staying it's course and I can feel the relief that things are slowly getting into place.

Qing will be happy too. This news will lessen his concern for me. I know my lover worry about my career and what I want to do with my life. This news will settle his concern for me a little.

I cannot wait to share it to Qing.

I look at the clock hanging on the kitchen wall. It's still a bit early but I think I can start planning what to cook for dinner. Qing will be home in his usual time. I know he has no dinner meeting today. My lover will notify me if there will be a sudden change in his schedule.

But until then, I have to think of dinner. What will be our meal for tonight? Something light and easy? Is it time to serve Qing vegetables? My lover is not that fond of vegetables, he is a self confessed carnivore. He is not apologizing for loving roasted chicken and steaks.

I was checking the fridge for what to cook when my phone blared to life. It's my grandfather, calling me.

"Hello, Grampy. Why did you call today?" I asked as I took the call.

"I want to hear your voice. Why? Am I not allowed?" He said with a frown on his tone on the other line.

I rolled my eyes, "Grampy..."

"Meet me for lunch tomorrow. I want to eat out with you," He said.

"Eat with me...? Okay. We can do that..." I said.

"Good. I feel glad that you can fit me in you busy schedule of writing and baking," there's a note of heavy sarcasm on Grampy's tone as he speaks. "If those are what you really want to do with your life, bake something and bring it tomorrow. I will see if it is enough for me to start a bake shop for you..."

I winced at his words. "Grampy, I bake because I find it fun. It's a hobby. I don't intend to make a career out of it. Writing is what I want to do. And you don't have to worry about that..."

"Really? Why? Have you talked to your mother and asked her to talk to the publishing house their family own? They can help you to get published..."

Oh my...Grampy is as bad as Mrs.Wang and Qing's grandfather in their thinking that I will use my connections to launch a career in writing for myself.

"I didn't talked to Mama about that," I grumbled.

"Why not? You said you want to write. Don't you want to get published?" Grampy is sounding moody.

"I will settle that on my own. Stop worrying about my career, Grampy..."

"You are wasting your education, Feng Jian Yu. I have told this to your parents. You graduated with a degree. You should be using that. Not proscastinating around, writing and baking sweets..." Grampy sounded disappointed now.

Oh he is giving me a headache. And I can just bet that Grampy also pressured my parents about this. "I am not wasting my life. I am doing what I want to do, Grampy. Please trust me. And it's not like I am starving..."

"It was really wrong of your Grammy to leave all those shares on your name. Her legacy is giving you confidence to slack around. You think you are in a cushy situation when it comes to your finances because you earn money from those shares, while doing nothing..."