853 A Million Times for You 215 (1/2)

Mo Li had had no idea what he went through in the past. However, she knew that it must not have been easy.

”Training must have been tough, huh?” she asked.

”It's quite grueling, but it's all over now.” He picked up the cup and took a few sips of tea before saying, ”To me, it's a fresh beginning now.”

”Same for me. How are we so similar?” Mo Li said with a smile.

”After having been through so many obstacles and hardship, do you still believe in love?”

After some hesitation, Mo Li answered, ”I believe that luck is not on my side. In fact, I'm actually really unlucky. I don't think it'll be easy for me to ever find true love again.”

”I used to think like this too in the past, but I've changed my mindset. My life is already pathetic enough. If I continue to resign myself to fate and deny myself a life that I truly want, I would've lived in vain all this while,” said No. 8. Mo Li seemed to have been inspired by his words.

Mo Li nodded and said, ”I agree with you. I'm only thirty years old this year. I still have a long way ahead of me.”

She stood on a balcony and looked below with a pair of binoculars, only to find that Ye Xiaotian was still sitting on the bench.

”He hasn't left yet.”

”I'll stay for a while longer, then.”

Although Mo Li was fatigued, she did not want No. 8 to wait in boredom. ”Shall we play a game of cards?” she suggested.

”Sure.”

Mo Li was on a losing streak, game after game, due to her lack of skills in poker. As a forfeit, she had strips of paper stuck all over her chin.

”I look like an old granny with a beard.”

Noticing how tired she was although she was still wide awake, he said, ”Go get some rest. I'll leave once he does.”

Exhausted beyond limits, she tugged the paper strips off her chin and stretched her back. ”I'll go to bed, then. You may sleep on the couch if you're tired too.”

”Alright.”

Mo Li lay down onto her bed immediately, without even changing out of her clothes.

The sky had already turned bright by the time she woke up, and the sunlight was shining brightly into her room.

The golden rays of the sun gave the room a gilded appearance.

She took a look at the time and found that it was already nine o'clock.

She got out of bed and headed to the living room.

Just like she had expected, No. 8 was no longer in sight.

Mo Li shifted her gaze onto the dining table and hurriedly rushed forward to discover that there was a delicious-looking set of breakfast on the table, a note beside it.

The message written on the note was simple but enough to warm her heart.

”I only left in the morning and I decided to make you some breakfast. I'm not a great cook, don't mind my poor culinary skills.”

He even added a smiley at the end of the note.

She sat down by the dining table after freshening up and began eating slowly. The fragrance of the food lingered in her mouth, and she found it to be rather decadent.

She polished off every morsel of the food.

He had done me a favor and even fixed breakfast for me. I must do something in return or I'm just going to appear insincere, she thought to herself.

After much consideration, Mo Li decided to give him a gift as a token of gratitude and appreciation.

What would be a suitable gift?

She decided to buy him a shirt.

She bought him a shirt that was made of superior fabric. In order to ensure that it would fit him perfectly, she repeatedly got a male sales assistant who was of the same build as No. 8 to try on the shirt again and again.

She finally bought it.

Upon returning home, she slid a note inside the shirt and headed to An Xiaoning's mansion, which was opposite hers. She pressed the doorbell, and No. 1 answered the door.