Wan Wei immediately pressed down on him. “Who are you calling a pig?”

Dare to call her a pig and see what happens! Just a moment ago he was calling her Little Princess, and now that he’s satisfied, he changes his tune!

Did he still want to remarry or not?!

Yang Xun rubbed her messy short hair. “Be good. I didn’t mean you. I was joking.”

Wan Wei: “Hmph. You breeding pig!”

Yang Xun: “…”

He was just making a joke. Was that necessary?

The next day, Yang Xun urged her. “Call Gao Yan and make it clear to him. There is no need for fair competition. You are going to remarry me.”

Wan Wei paused. “How did you know he said he wanted fair competition?”

Yang Xun clicked his tongue and laughed. “That day downstairs at your place, when we were smoking together. He told me.”

Wan Wei: “Then what did you say?”

Yang Xun: “What was there to say? Could he win against me?”

Wan Wei: “Arrogant.”

Yang Xun smiled and handed her phone to her. “Call.”

Wan Wei glanced at him. “It is 8:30 in the morning. I have to go to a film production company soon. Can you let me breathe for a moment?”

Is he sick? Calling someone early in the morning to talk about this.

Yang Xun put on his glasses and looked at her. “Fine. But if he calls you tonight to ask you to dinner, don’t agree.”

Wan Wei rolled her eyes. She didn’t want to talk to him.

Yang Xun walked over, held her hand, and smiled. “When will you be done with your meeting today? I’ll pick you up.”

Wan Wei bent down to put on her shoes. “No need. I’m driving myself.”

Yang Xun frowned. “Aren’t you going to ask if I have plans?”

Wan Wei didn’t even look up. “Don’t you just want to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau?”

He had been grinding on about it all last night. How could she not know what was on his mind?

Yang Xun laughed. “Correct. Let’s get it done as soon as possible.”

Wan Wei finally looked up at him. “Why are you in such a hurry? Don’t think that just because you stayed here last night, I’ve agreed. The probation period isn’t over yet.”

Yang Xun: “…”

Wan Wei smiled at him and walked off to work in her high heels.

Yang Xun stood in the apartment, looking back at the bedroom. He had put in so much effort last night, yet he still hadn’t coaxed her into it. In the past, doing it once was enough.

…

Wan Wei got busy and forgot to call Gao Yan. Gao Yan used to call her every day, but he had been quiet for the past two days as well.

On the third day, Gao Yan called her. “I was on a business trip for the past two days and just got back today. Do you want to have lunch together?”

Wan Wei thought for a moment. “Okay. My treat.”

Gao Yan laughed. “How can I let a woman pay?”

Wan Wei smiled too. “You treat me every time. Let me treat you this once.”

Gao Yan didn’t refuse. “Alright.”

Better to clear things up over lunch.

They met at a restaurant near the company. They hadn’t booked a table in advance, so there was a wait during the lunch rush. The two ordered coffee at the cafe across the street. Gao Yan looked at her. “Has work been busy lately?”

Wan Wei nodded. “Incredibly busy.”

Gao Yan smiled. “Have you considered changing jobs?”

Wan Wei tilted her head. “Change to what job?”

She had been in this industry since graduation. After so many years, she had no intention of changing careers.

Gao Yan said seriously, “Come help out at my company.”

Wan Wei was stunned. “Your company? I can’t do that kind of work.”

Gao Yan looked at her, the corner of his mouth curving up. “What about being the boss’s wife?”

“…”

Caught off guard by a confession. No, this was a proposal, right?

Wan Wei took a sip of coffee to calm her nerves, then looked at him. “I plan to remarry Yang Xun.”

Gao Yan looked at her in silence for a while. After all, he was a mature man in his early thirties. He had anticipated this outcome after that night. It wasn’t too unexpected, but he was still somewhat unwilling to give up. “Have you thought it through? Since you’ve been divorced for three years, there must still be many issues between you two. Are you sure?”

Wan Wei nodded. “Mm. I’m sorry.”

There was another silence. Gao Yan maintained his gentlemanly demeanor and forced a smile. “Alright. I respect your decision.”

He looked at her and added a sentence. “In the short term, if you regret it, I’m still here.”

Wan Wei was about to speak when Gao Yan stood up. “It’s our turn.”

Wan Wei stood up as well and walked into the restaurant with him.

…

A month later, Wan Wei finally let Yang Xun pass the probation period and announced, “Let’s go to the Civil Affairs Bureau tomorrow.”

Yang Xun leaned against the headboard, staring at the “Unequal Treaty” she was holding, and rubbed his forehead.

Then, he pulled her into his arms. “Little Princess, you finally agreed.”

Wan Wei held up the piece of paper. “I want to paste this on the headboard!”

Yang Xun: “…No. If someone sees it, how shameful would that be!”

Where would his manly dignity go!

An hour ago, Wan Wei had asked, “You will always spoil me, right?”

Yang Xun laughed. “Yes. I’ll still call you Little Princess when you’re eighty. Happy?”

Wan Wei nodded. “Happy. Then if I say divorce, you aren’t allowed to actually do it.”

Yang Xun: “If I agree to that again, I’m an idiot!”

Was chasing her back once not enough? To chase her back twice!

Wan Wei: “I don’t want to have a baby this year. We’ll consider it next year. Do you agree?”

Yang Xun gritted his teeth. “Agreed!”

Wan Wei: “Then what if I act up and make a fuss and be high maintenance?”

Yang Xun laughed. “It’s fine. Your man will spoil you.”

Wan Wei: “Then…”

…

After a while, she took out her phone and giggled. “I recorded it. Don’t go back on your word, or I’ll put it on Weibo.”

Ruthless!

Yang Xun smiled. “I absolutely won’t go back on my word. Can we go to the Civil Affairs Bureau tomorrow?”

Wan Wei ran to the study and printed out something she had prepared long ago. “Come sign this.”

Yang Xun: “…”

He had worked hard to chase this woman back. He accepted her high maintenance ways. Gritting his teeth, he signed!

…

The next day, the two went to the Civil Affairs Bureau and got their marriage license.

Yang Xun sighed with emotion. “If I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have let you carry on back then. Wasted three damn years.”

Wan Wei: “Wasted?”

She felt it was okay. At least she could see her own heart more clearly.

Yang Xun looked at her with a smile and said, “How many times did we miss out on doing it? Let me calculate. Maybe we would have even made a baby by now, one old enough to buy soy sauce.”

Wan Wei: “…Old rogue!”

That night, Yang Xun and Wan Wei treated the great hero, Yang Xiaole, to dinner.

Yang Xiaole raised her wine glass. “Come, a toast. Celebrating your walk into the tomb of marriage once again.”

Wan Wei: “Thanks.”

Yang Xun laughed. “This isn’t a tomb. It’s a graveyard.”

Wan Wei glanced at him sideways. “How about we go to the Civil Affairs Bureau tomorrow?”

Yang Xun took a slow sip of red wine and said, “If you mention that again, see if I don’t break your legs.”

Wan Wei glared at him. “You dare!”

Yang Xiaole laughed loudly. “You two really are a match made in heaven. One is willing to hit and the other is willing to get hit. Stop going out to harm other people, okay?”

During the meal, Yang Xun went to the restroom and took a call outside.

Yang Xiaole patted Wan Wei’s shoulder. “Weiwei, your Brother Yang is truly not bad. Can you stop acting up all the time?”

Wan Wei looked innocent. “Am I very high maintenance? Even if I am, he spoiled me into this state. He has to take responsibility.”

Yang Xiaole: “Fine. You make sense.”

Wan Wei’s phone rang. She glanced at it; it was a work matter.

Yang Xiaole watched her switch into “career woman mode” in a split second and suddenly felt a bit envious.

Actually, there weren’t many women who could live like Wan Wei.

Wan Wei hung up the phone and looked at her strangely. “Why are you staring at me?”

Yang Xiaole smiled. “Nothing. I just suddenly feel you are very lucky. In the eyes of outsiders, you have money, a house, and ability. You are a complete career woman, a queen, a boss lady. But in your bones, you are a little woman. Someone is willing to call you Little Princess and spoil you like a Little Princess.”

Be a queen in your own world, and be a little princess in your two person world.

Yang Xun walked over and happened to hear Yang Xiaole’s last sentence.

He rubbed Wan Wei’s short hair and chuckled. “Isn’t that right? Where else would you find a man as good as me? And you still dare to mention divorce!”

Wan Wei slapped his hand away. “Whoever mentions it again is a pig!”

She didn’t want a divorce! She wanted to be a Little Princess forever! Even at eighty, she would be a Little Princess!

NOTES

Tomb of marriage (婚姻的坟墓): A common cynical saying in Chinese: “Marriage is the tomb of love.” 

 Buy soy sauce (打酱油): A phrase used to describe a child old enough to run errands, implying the child would be 3-5 years old by now. 

 One willing to hit, one willing to get hit (一个愿打一个愿挨): From the idiom “Zhou Yu beats Huang Gai,” meaning a consensual situation where both parties are willing participants in their dynamic, no matter how strange it looks to others.