72 A Secret Kiss 2 (1/2)
Jin Qingyan had his hands clasped behind his back. He turned and darted a glance at her. ”How about we take a picture together?”
”Sure. Let's go over there where there's a long bench and some lighting,” she replied, pointing to the area ahead.
Jin Qingyan walked alongside her to the area ahead. An Xiaoning stood on the bench, flashed a wide smile revealing a line of shiny white teeth, and said, ”Take it.”
Jin Qingyan aimed the phone camera at her and snapped a shot. The effect of the snow was not too overpowering or subtle. It made the shot look perfect.
Next, he took over the position An Xiaoning was standing on and let her take a shot of him too. They then finally took a shot together.
Both of them were facing the camera for the shot, but who'd have guessed, when it was five seconds before the self-timer was about to go off, he caught her off guard by giving her a kiss. An Xiaoning glared at him and immediately went to check if the picture was blurry. Surprisingly, the shot turned out pretty well.
”The solo shots were taken using your phone. You can keep them. This one of us together is in mine, I'll keep it then.”
”I'll just send you these two pictures and you can send me that one.”
”That's true.”
The two headed back to the main house, using their Bluetooth to send the pictures as they walked.
Arriving back in their bedroom, there were two sets of pajamas placed neatly on the bed, one was blue and the other red. An Xiaoning noticed and asked, ”You prepared this?”
”Mmm, there are two more sets in the cupboard. The blue one's mine, the red one's yours. I picked them carefully.”
An Xiaoning reached for the blue pajama top. There were Mickey Mouse patterns printed on it. Then she looked at her red one, which had Donald Duck patterns printed on it, and asked, ”Why is yours Mickey Mouse and mine Donald Duck?”
”No reason. I like it. Also, the ones in the cupboard are different from these two.”
An Xiaoning noticed his lips had curled into a strange smile so she quickly went to take them out to see. The blue one had a pattern of Pleasant Goat, a cartoon character, printed on it, while on the red one was a pattern of Slow Goat, another cartoon character, printed.
She rearranged them into the cupboard. After trying it on, she realized it looked pretty good and fit very well. She asked, ”This doesn't look like it's sold outside, you had it custom-made?”
”What a good judgment you have. Would it fit that well if I hadn't had them custom-made?” He wore the blue pajamas — the soft fiber on the inside rested against his skin, and it felt exceptionally comfortable.
”But how did you know my measurements?”
”I relied on… my sense of touch.”
An Xiaoning's face blushed slightly. She wore her socks and sat on the cushioned mat to do her yoga poses.
”Your body is great enough, what more do you need to shape?”
”A good body needs to be maintained too. Don't be too full of yourself and think I'm doing this so that you won't get sick of me. I'm doing this so that I'll be in a great condition every day.”
”I didn't think of it that way.” He lay on the bed, sipping some red wine. ”Don't flatter yourself.”
”Babylifewasgoodtomebutyoujustmadeitbetternull, Ilovethewayitstandbymethroughanykindofweathernull…” Jin Qingyan took his own sweet time before he picked up his phone, glanced at the screen, and said, ”It's from Father.”
He then answered it. ”Hello.”
”Qingyan, your mother's been hospitalized.”
”How did that happen?” Jin Qingyan got down from the bed and wore his shoes.
”I'm now in one of the wards at the community hospital. We can talk about it when you come — oh yes, bring along Xiaoning.”
The call was hurriedly ended. He turned to An Xiaoning and said, ”Don't practice anymore. Mother's in a hospital. Hurry, get changed and come with me.”
”Okay.” An Xiaoning questioned as she changed, ”Why was she hospitalized? What happened?”
”Father didn't say, he said we can talk when we get there.”