King of the Wilderness-Chapter 194 - 150: Autumn Planting and the Family’s New Member (Part 3)

Lin Yu'an's body instantly tensed, he took half a step back, and his gaze became sharp: "What do you want to say?"

Seeing his reaction, Emily not only didn't back down, she instead laughed, with a hint of understanding and a hint of bitter smile.

"Lin, Aliya gave you an out, and gave me a choice."

"But ultimately, what decides our relationship isn't her! Nor are those damned secrets and recordings! It's you and me."

Her voice was lowered even further, only the two of them could hear, and a hint of vulnerability appeared in her blue eyes.

"I just want to tell you, Lin, I've been in a bad state lately..."

"I always have nightmares, sometimes, I dream that you shoot me, just like I did to that man!"

"Sometimes... I even dream that I marry you in a church, Aliya smilingly blessing us below! Ethan and Olivia calling me mom..."

"The scariest thing is, I also dream that the three of us, wearing prison uniforms, spend the rest of our lives in jail!"

"I can't distinguish which is reality and which is illusion!" Emily looked at him, her emotions becoming somewhat agitated, her gaze extremely serious.

"My mind is very chaotic, Lin. I know, that's not the love I have for you."

"I don't know what our relationship counts as, and I don't want to define it. I just want... to end those nightmares, to find a position that allows me to sleep peacefully."

"And everything that happened that night between us... It has tightly bound me, and you, and Aliya together! I can't untangle it! Nor do I want to anymore."

She took a deep breath, facing Lin Yu'an's sharp gaze, without yielding.

"Lin, I don't need your pity, nor do I need love." Her voice was full of firmness.

"Before I met you, I lived just fine on this damned Earth, I could shoot, take care of myself and my clinic."

She stepped forward again, this time, Lin Yu'an didn't retreat.

"Aliya's invitation was sincere and unexpected, I'm very grateful to her. But what matters more than her attitude is your thoughts on this matter."

She looked at him, speaking word by word: "Aliya opened a door for me, but only you can decide if I can really walk through it."

"I want to end those nightmares, I want to find an explicit position, I want..."

"So, I need an answer, Lin, a definite answer from the bottom of your heart."

Emily looked into his deep eyes, her tone becoming extremely solemn.

"I'll only ask this once, no matter what your answer is, I'll fully understand, from now on, I won't bring it up again."

"We'll start as friends like Aliya wishes, I'll be your best and most reliable neighbor and friend, but that's all."

After saying this, she turned around, continued to pick up a vegetable seedling, calmly saying: "Okay, let's keep working, these small seedlings can't wait too long."

Lin Yu'an stood calmly at his original place, looking at Emily's pretended strong back, though his heart wasn't as calm as it looked.

This woman, she's not seeking anything now, she's seeking a kind of liberation, a liberation that can be obtained through recognition of identity.

She completely handed the final decision to him.

Refuse? The thought flashed through Lin Yu'an's mind instantly.

To interact as friends, keeping a distance, it seems to be the choice that best fits his values.

But he immediately denied this thought.

Lin Yu'an doesn't understand psychology, but he understands the psychology of wanting to join when you can't beat them.

If Emily's heart is always tormented by this matter, he can't guarantee Emily won't one day for the sake of inner peace, raise a gun against their whole family...

He recalled Emily, this woman, smart, independent, brave, they're accomplices, and even... after that night, they're some sort of closer existence.

What's more important is, Lin Yu'an can see from Emily, an alarm that can constantly ring against the dark side of his heart!

With this experience, he has to better control the power brought by the Golden Finger, avoiding more troubles resulting from consequences like this.

A certain lady once said, the fastest way to win a woman's heart is to make her have a child for you...

Lin Yu'an decided to accept Emily into this family, transforming from being bound by shared criminal interests, into a deep bond with this family, if they have a child in the future...

Then he believes the accomplice event will definitely be buried forever beneath Alaska's frozen soil!

Understanding all this, Lin Yu'an no longer had any hesitation.

He took off his gloves and stepped forward boldly, gently grasping Emily's hand that was filling the hole with soil.

Emily's body suddenly stiffened.

Lin Yu'an didn't speak, but with an irrefutable yet extremely gentle force, he pulled her up from the half-kneeling posture, then turned her body to face him.

Emily raised her head, what she saw was a pair of deep and extremely serious eyes.

In those eyes, there was no longer any struggle or contradiction, only a firmness of a final decision made.

Then, in the warm and moist air of the greenhouse, witnessed by a garden full of vegetable seedlings, Lin Yu'an gently yet extremely solemnly kissed her.

This kiss carried no lust, no hint of aggression.

It felt more like a silent answer, a solemn promise.

Emily first opened her eyes wide in shock, then she closed her eyes, the strong defensive line that had been tense for a long time, completely collapsed at this moment.

For a long time, lips parted.

Lin Yu'an looked into her now watery blue eyes, and in a softer tone than he ever had with her, said: "Welcome home, Emily."

When Aliya returned to the greenhouse holding two well-fed, diapered babies, what she saw was such a scene.

Lin Yu'an and Emily were kneeling side by side in front of the seedbeds, tacitly carrying out the final transplanting work.

The sunlight shone on their focused profiles, they didn't speak, yet the air flowed with a settled, peaceful, and intimate atmosphere.

Aliya's eyes showed a satisfied smile.

When the last radish seedling was successfully transplanted, Lin Yu'an activated his simple automatic drip irrigation system.

Clear water droplets began to drip uniformly, nourishing the newly sown seedling bed.

"Okay." Lin Yu'an patted the soil off his hands, looking at the neat vegetable plot in front of him, a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

"Now, we just need to wait, probably before the first heavy snow falls, we'll taste the freshest cabbages and radishes grown by ourselves."

And Lin Yu'an's family is growing increasingly solid in an unseen but complex way.

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