6 The Mediation (1/2)

Joann was lying in bed reading a book when she heard the door open. She turned towards it and saw her husband, Xu Jing's head poke through the opening.

Xu Jing flashed a placating smile at her, adding, ”How is my precious, gorgeous and most importantly, kind and understanding wife doing tonight?”

Joann rolled her eyes at the childish man and turned back to focus on her book.

”Still mad, is she? But do not worry, Xu Jing because you have the perfect cure for this situation,” The man said out loud even though there were only two of them in the room, well, one and a half of them were at least.

”Joann, being mad takes a lot of energy and you would not want to do that on an empty stomach now do you? See what have I brought you.”

Joann then could hear the sound of plastic rustling. She turned towards the door and saw Xu Jing had extended one of his hand inside the door and was holding her bag of take-out she had left downstairs earlier.

Joann smiled in spite of herself and Xu Jing took this as the cue to say, ”I know you are still angry but you have to eat something, skipping meal is not good for your health.”

”Fine, come in then. I have no beef with you after all,” Joann finally said.

Xu Jing pushed the door open and walked into the room with a bright and relieved smile. The man was wearing a white shirt with the top two buttons open and a black slack pants. He was of average height and build, lean and fit but not muscular.

Based on how he was dressed, Joann assumed he had just came back from work. Like Lin family, the Xu's were also in business but on a much smaller scale. They could be considered well to do but definitely not insanely rich like the Lin family.

On a side note, this had always been the modus operandi within the Xu household, the two strong-opinionated women would get into a quarrel and it would be Xu Jing who always act as the mediator. If not for the man, there would definitely be a fourth world war in the Xu household already.

This was thanks to Xu Jing's personality who was a complete opposite of how Mrs. Xu was. The man was an easy-going and happy-go-lucky kind of guy.

He was a man who had no sharp angle to his personality as if the personal mission in his life was to be as inoffensive and as accommodating as possible.

Viewed from another perspective, one could criticize him as childish and often does not take things as seriously as he should. This was a source of headache for Joann because sometimes she felt she was looking after two children instead of one.

Xu Jing walked to the side of the bed and knelt down on one knee to present the take-out to Joann, ”Your dinner, your highness.”

Joann laughed and said, ”Stop joking around. Get up from the floor.”