Rashad’s POV
In the morning, when I passed by the lake, I happened to meet Uncle Jacob pushing Flora to bask in the sun.
I was going to take a detour, but Uncle Jacob stopped me, “Master.”
Hearing this address, Flora looked back.
I also saw Flora at this time.
At the moment when my eyes were opposite, I was busy looking away.
I nodded to them, and then said to Uncle Jacob, “I’m just passing by, so I won’t bother you.”
“Rashad.” Flora whispered my name, as she did many years ago.
I looked at her again, and my vision was very complicated.
Uncle Jacob thought about it and said, “Master, it’s a little cold. I’ll go back and pick up Flora’s coat. Can you keep an eye on her for a few minutes?”
I nodded and Uncle Jacob tapped Flora on the shoulder and turned away.
Flora looked at me and smiled. “I asked my father about you the day before yesterday, but I didn’t expect to meet you today.”
I stood where I was and didn’t move. “Are you… recovering well?”
“Yes. I’m quite good.”
I nodded again and fell silent.
She said, “Rashad, you have changed.”
“Am I?”
“Yes.” She sipped her lips. “You used to be very talkative, your face was glowing, and you always looked like a big boy full of sunshine.”
I look down. “I’m almost 27 years old, and I’m not young anymore.”
“Yes.” She sipped her lips. “You all know how the years go by, but I don’t know. Sometimes I think about it, I really feel too wronged. How can I open my eyes and get four years older? God seems to have made a big joke with me.”
I looked up at her with guilt in my heart.
“Flora, I… I’m sorry.”
She frowned. “Don’t say that. Although some things seem to have just passed for me, put yourself in your shoes and think about it from your point of view. It was four years ago, and it was the old yellow calendar that has passed.”
“Even if the days have passed, there are some injuries that cannot be remedied no matter how long it takes.”
“Before you also said modest words, I did not say long ago, that is not your fault. People’s feelings are beyond their control. You don’t force yourself. When you are with people you don’t like, you are also responsible for yourself and your other half in the future. Although I felt sad at that time, in hindsight, there was a lyric that was right, saying goodbye to the wrong person and meeting the right ones. Now I feel very happy. Let’s not mention these things in the future, shall we? ”
I nodded and fell silent again.
What if Flora knew… that the right person in her heart had become someone else’s husband?
She thought of something and said, “By the way, this weekend, I want to invite everyone to get together. Would you like to come?”
“Will the second uncle go?”
She has a smile on her face. “Of course, Cheney will be there.”
“That… I won’t go.” I tore my lips lightly, “So as not to disturb everyone’s interest.”
“Rashad, come on, you’re one of us. Think about the three of us when we were young. It was really a happy time, wasn’t it?”
I looked at Flora. She was the same Flora four years ago, but my uncle and I were getting farther and farther away.
Although we are both in the Fischer family and related by blood, in such a big family, Grandpa’s side and Grandma’s side are doomed to live in harmony.
I can’t expect any more.
The time has passed, and I have already learned to accept it.
“Rashad?”
I recovered.
Flora said, “You must come this weekend, Okay? It’s just in the Seongsan Resort, not far away, and it won’t take you much time.”
I’m a little embarrassed. I don’t want to go, but I’m afraid it will provoke my uncle. When the time comes, Flora is caught in the middle, which is even more difficult.
“You don’t know, I really can’t find any friends, so besides Cheney, I also invited Afra’s tutor. By the way, do you know Afra’s tutor? It’s Miss Krista who is very beautiful.”
I looked at her, “Krista?”
“You know her, too?”
“Yes. Did she say yes?”
“Well,” Flora nodded. “It’s not good for me to do this. After all, we didn’t know each other before.”
I shook my head lightly. “Interpersonal relationships are unfamiliar to familiar people and develop slowly.”
“You see, I have invited people I don’t know. Just give me a face and come together, Okay?”
I nodded. “Okay, I see. I’ll be there.”
She smiled. “I’m looking forward to the weekend now.”
Krista’s POV
On Saturday afternoon, after working overtime from the construction site, I hurried to the Seongsan Resort.
Uncle Jacob and Flora arrived in the morning.
They said Rashad came at noon, and Cheney agreed to come over for dinner in the evening.
I’m not surprised to see Rashad here.
Looking back on what Rashad said in the past, I know that he has a great relationship with Flora.
Just because I didn’t know Rashad would come in advance, I didn’t tell Rashad about my new identity.
Flora warmly entertained me and said, “Miss Krista, welcome.”
I nodded to Flora and said hello to Uncle Jacob. “Sorry, I wanted to come in this morning, but there was something at work, so I worked overtime.”
“I feel very happy when you can come.” Flora looked at me with kindness on her face.
I took out a gift box from my bag and handed it to Flora. “Miss Flora, I don’t know what you like. When I came, I bought you a scarf. Winter is coming soon. I hope you can keep warm while basking in the sun.”
“How shameful of me.” She said gratefully, taking the box. “Thank you so much, Miss Krista. I wanted to invite you to have a good time, but I didn’t think that it caused you trouble.”
I smiled. “That is not a troublesome thing. I just bought it on the way. I hope you like it.”
Uncle Jacob said, “Miss Krista, please sit down. I’ll get a cup and make you a cup of tea.”
“Uncle Jacob, don’t bother yourself because of me. I don’t drink tea.”
Flora said, “Miss Krista, let’s have our own barbecue tonight. Let’s do it ourselves. We’ll be very happy.”
I nodded, “Okay, I’ll be responsible for watching it for a while.”
Uncle Jacob said, “I’ll cook it.”
I sipped my lips and said, “Uncle Jacob, I am very good at this. Let’s leave it to someone who is good at it. I can see a supermarket ahead. I will go to the supermarket to buy something first and come back in half an hour at most.”
Uncle Jacob nodded and I turned to Rashad.
Rashad hooks lips “Miss Krista, I didn’t expect to meet you here.”
“Oh, young master, can you accompany me to go shopping? I have something to buy, and one person may not be able to carry it.”
Rashad grabbed his hands into his pockets. “Let’s go.”
Rashad didn’t turn to look at me until he had gone far.
I looked sideways at him, and he was busy looking away.
“You didn’t mention me in front of Miss Flora, did you?”
“What do you think?”
“I don’t think so.”
Rashad embraced “Why?”
“You just called me Miss Krista, but you are very improvised.”
He raised his eyebrows. “I did it for Flora’s good, but you really surprised me and turned yourself into Afra’s tutor.”
I sipped my lips and smiled. “You used to be too dog-eyed.”
He gave me a leaning look. “Don’t beat around the bush and scold me. Are you over?”
I smiled and said nothing.
“Krista, let me ask you something, don’t you feel wronged? You don’t know Flora, so you don’t have to do this.”
“Identity is not so important.”
“You are not doing this to please my second uncle and let him not abandon you, aren’t you?”
I looked at him seriously and said, “I have this little mind, can you see? It seems that you are not so stupid as imagined.”
He showed disdain in his eyes and answered, “Even if he had to pay so much, when you should be abandoned, my uncle will not be soft.”
I raised my chin. “Your uncle is not as rude as you think.”
“Oh, that’s because you don’t know him well.”
I looked sideways at him. “Maybe, but I want to believe that he is a good man.”
“What if one day he deserted you?”
I shrugged. “Abandon? Then abandon me.”
He looked at me in surprise. “Are you kidding me?”
“When a man wants to abandon a woman, it proves that he really wants to be separated. He wants to be separated, so do I still need to be with him? No. Marriage won’t be happy by wronging yourself or forcing others. What’s the point of such a marriage, even if it comes reluctantly?”
He looked at me for a moment, then said coldly, “Flora is back. I believe the day when you are abandoned will not be far away. I’d like to see if you will really be as noble as you say.”
“You used the wrong word. I have never been a person with high moral integrity. I just know that it is useless to force something that does not belong to me.”
When Rashad and I came back from the supermarket, we carried a lot of fruit in our hands.
Entering the courtyard of the single-family villa, I saw Cheney sitting next to Flora at a glance. He glanced at me and ignored me.
Uncle Jacob came forward and took the things in our hands. “Master, Miss Krista, why did you buy so many fruits?”
“Eating more fruit is good for your skin.” I smiled and walked over to say hello to Cheney. “Good afternoon, Mr. Cheney.”
He just gave me a faint hum then talked to her again.