Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 320 - 315: The Original Look of Love (4)

"If my conscience is clear, my shadow will not crook, as straight as can be. ’Buddhahood springs from the heart; if there’s Buddha in your heart, everything you see is Buddha,’" Yan Yan deliberately swayed her head as she spoke.

"Since when did you become so refined? What you really mean is the latter half, ’If your heart is full of bullshit, everything you see turns into bullshit,’" Yan Ling saw through Yan Yan’s little game at a glance. (note 1)

"Yan Da, just focus on getting ready to eat. Why bring up shit in conversation? Do you still want people to eat their meal?" Yan Yan, having been exposed, refused to take the blame.

"Bringing it up?" Yan Ling looked utterly disinterested, "Are you saying you don’t want to eat at all now?"

"Of course I do, just because it’s on your lips doesn’t mean it affects my appetite –" Yan Yan seemed completely unconcerned.

"You win." Yan Ling decided to surrender.

"Win what? Have you been this lonely and pitiful in recent years? Should I go talk to your ex-sister-in-law?" Yan Yan, without warning, switched the topic.

At that moment, what she was most concerned about was Yan Ling’s personal life.

"I’m still in touch with her. Why would you go find her?" Yan Ling asked with a smile.

It was perhaps because Yan Yan finally dropped the previous topic that Yan Ling’s expression seemed particularly relaxed.

"I know you haven’t lost touch. At her beck and call, you rushed over to New York. If that were severed, that would be news.

What’s the current status of my former sister-in-law? Single? In a hot romance? Married? Pregnant?" Yan Yan’s tone was as gossipy as could be.

"She’s probably single, I didn’t ask specifically," Yan Ling replied with his usual nonchalance.

"Want me to go win her back for you?" Yan Yan’s gossip continued.

"We already split up, what would you do that for? Unless your own preferences have changed a bit recently?" Yan Ling teased in return.

"If my preferences had changed, I’d be robbing Bao Bao, wouldn’t I? Why would I come cause a commotion here?" Yan Yan looked disgusted by the idea.

"Your Bao Bao is already married, you still plan to snatch him?" Yan Ling’s words were clearly "questioning" Yan Yan’s moral character.

"If it’s a lifelong love, it’s worth considering, isn’t it? What can I do? I can’t just let my dear cousin stay lonely forever, can I?" Each cell in Yan Yan’s face seemed to be expressing she did this reluctantly.

"How many so-called lifelong loves can there be? When a relationship is over, it’s over. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

It began spectacularly and ended peacefully. She was hounded by reporters in New York because of me, so of course, I had the duty to come over ’posthaste.’"

In the time it took for Yan Ling and Yan Yan to chat, he had prepared curry rice, bacon and eggs, and borscht soup.

"If it’s not a lifelong love, then why get married?" Yan Yan absolutely disagreed with Yan Ling’s reasoning.

Although she disagreed, once she tasted the curry rice, Yan Yan gave her cousin a thumbs-up.

With such speed and yet such flavor, she thought about it and felt that one thumbs-up was not enough.

After putting down her spoon, Yan Yan promptly gave two thumbs-up.

"Getting married was because we were deeply in love at the time and wanted to be together. When we got married, we certainly thought we could walk together forever," Yan Ling explained to his younger cousin.

"If that’s the case, then why split up?" Yan Yan’s confusion only grew after Yan Ling’s explanation.

"How old are you to ask such childish questions?

What the future holds, who can predict? People in love might go their separate ways, and those with no previous connection might come together.

Being together when in love, separating when not. This is all part of human nature, what’s so hard to understand?

Love and its absence happen naturally. Do you remember, there was a poll about reasons for divorce a couple of years ago?

Squeezing toothpaste from the middle or from the bottom.

Such differences could even become one of the main reasons for divorce," Yan Ling said these words with the same light and breezy attitude.

"That’s just too fragile for a relationship, isn’t it? Have these people’s brains been flooded or what?" Yan Yan felt that Yan Ling’s words were a bit alarmist.

"Life is just like that," Yan Ling pulled over another bar stool and sat down to eat as well.

"Don’t always act like you’re someone who has been through it all.

So what are you planning on doing now?

Just drifting through life and ending up alone?

Or are you planning to marry your job and have kids?" Concerned words, when they came out of Yan Yan’s mouth, often took on a different flavor.

"When have I ever just drifted through life? I’ve always been very serious about life. Don’t worry, I definitely won’t end up alone," Yan Ling’s smile widened a bit more than before.

After hearing this, Yan Yan fell silent for a while as she pondered over the conversation with Yan Ling.

"Now you say ’I definitely won’t end up alone.’ Earlier you asked me who said nobody wanted you. Yan Ling, you’ve got a situation going on!" After reaching her conclusion, Yan Yan suddenly became very excited, as if she had discovered a new continent.

"I’ll tell you about it in a while," Yan Ling did not deny it, and his smile grew even thicker.

"Okay," Yan Yan said just one word and did not ask any further.

Yan Ling’s expression already said it all, as for the actual content.

Since her cousin said he would talk about it later, there must be a reason.

Gossip when it’s time to gossip, and hold back when it’s not.

"Such deference, huh. Well, let’s talk about you then," Yan Ling smoothly changed the topic.

"Me?" Yan Yan was unsure what Yan Ling suddenly wanted to ask her about.

"That senior from Xiamen University, didn’t his whole family come to New York?" Yan Ling asked Yan Yan.

"Yeah, you’ve heard about that huh.

And right, it was that unreliable friend of yours who told.

That’s just the long story I was talking about.

Just let me be an ostrich for a couple of days, and we can talk about it after the shoe launch is over.

Didn’t your Mom and Dad let slip anything before?" Yan Yan hoped to indirectly find out her parents’ true intentions.

"Nope, the last time I came to New York, your Mom and Dad were very insistent on having me persuade you.

Then they got a talking-to from me instead, and they haven’t approached me since.

I think I must have convinced your Mom and Dad.

I don’t have any insider information for you, otherwise you could ask my Mom and Dad," Yan Ling suggested to Yan Yan.

"Oh right, how could I forget that Aunt is a devoted fan of Xiao Qizi?" Once Yan Yan knew where to get her information, she went back to her room to sleep.

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note 1:

The lines about "Buddha" and "shit" are classic, they’re from a conversation between Su Dongpo and the monk Fu Yin who made him eat humble pie. The conversation is found within the author’s words.

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(What could be going on with Yan Ling? Everyone, come and guess, there’s a prize for the right guess~)