"This story is in Seclusion atm" Continue Dreaming ~ ELOD

Chapter 26 - Our Last Moments

He walks around to make sure it was safe for her to come down here. As he walked around he indeed found some snakes inhabited in this cave still. But those snakes were just tiny baby non-poisonous ones and they are currently hibernating due to the sudden weather change. LiTing didn't want to harm them so he let them be. He walks back to the entrance and looks up the hole. "Xiaoyue! It's safe now, you can come down!" he yells out. YueLing is so happy, she just jumps down the hole right away without thinking. Lucky LiTing was all prepared to catch her otherwise she would have landed on her bum. "Xiaoyue! Why didn't you warn me before you jumped down? What if I wasn't ready to catch you! You will get hurt!" he scolds her while holding her in his arms.

"Look you got me and I am safe! I believe in my husband! He will keep me safe no matter what happens." she sweetly says to him while caressing his face in her hands. "I seriously don't know what to do to you little devil!" he sarcastically says while leaning in close to her face. "I know you will never dare to hurt me because if you hit me on my body but then you will feel the pain in your heart!" she teasingly says while lifting his chin up with her index finger then pointing with her other finger at his heart.

"Wait until tonight, see how I will punish you. I will punish you so hard that you will be begging for mercy. And you will probably be unable to walk the next morning or for a few days." he seductively whispers into her ear. She slaps him on the arm and pushes him lightly. "When did you ever become this... this... ummm... bad... no that's not the right word... ummm..." she utters and ponders on the right word to describe his past days' attitudes. "Naughty?" he answers for her with a smirk. "Yes! Naughty, shameless and bad!" she agrees while nodding her head. Then random images appear in her head.

~Flashback~

*A couple is sleeping on the bed and the girl is awake, watching the man with white hair sleeping. She happily once in a while touches the man's lips, nose, eyes, hair and ear, then slowly makes her way down to the chin by following the strand of hair on his cheek. The man starts to stir then grabs her hand by his chin and she quickly pretends to be sleeping but she was busted by the man. "Why are you not sleeping?" he groans out while slowly opening his eyes to look at the girl. She was still pretending to be sleeping with a finger close to her lips. She quickly springs up and lets out "I... forgot that... I need to get up early in the morning to make purple sweet potato pancakes." she says while sitting on the bed. "I'm not hungry!" he says with his eyes closed while he grabs her hand.

"But... according to the traditions... a couple... must eat sweet potato pancakes on the next morning of the con... summat... tion..." she shyly says without looking at him. He opens his eyes and smiles at the words she just says. He pops his head up and supports it with his hand. "So, you want everyone to know that we just consummated yesterday?" he smiles and asks. She quickly waves her hand. "No... I didn't mean it that way..." she shudders and looks away while he happily smiles at her shyness. "Don't stand on ceremonies. Sleep with me for a while." he softly says while pulling her back down on the bed and embraces her.*

**The white hair man walks down the stairs while the girl walks out from a different room with a basket in her hand. "Hey, you're finally up! Come!" she says while walking close to the stairs then opening the basket to take out a purple sweet potato pancake. "Have a try of the purple sweet potato pancake I made!" she happily says and passes to him while he just reaches the bottom of the staircase. He stood there for a second and stared at the pancake in her hand. "You made them anyway!" he says while taking it from her hand and examines it in his hand.

"Hush... lower your voice. Chacha and the others don't know, I secretly made them." she happily says while closing the basket and he takes a bite out of it. His facial expression was a bit suppressed and happy. "Soft, sweet and glutinous. It's just to the point. You can even make such good purple sweet potato pancakes!" he happily says while holding up the pancake. "You should say something else if you intend to praise me." she proudly says then he turns his head a bit with his eyebrows raising up. "That's sort of demanding. I am not good at saying nifty things. It's such a surprise that you attach great importance to these costumes and rituals as you are generally playful and restless." he says in surprise while looking back. "I wouldn't care if it's an ordinary day. I just thought for today I have to do it." she happily says.