"Not old, not old at all." Gu Lingling shook her head like a rattle drum, "Brother Yang is very young, and I just love mature, charming men like you."

"Those little punks my age can’t compare to you at all."

"Then I am old after all." Yang Yunhai said sullenly.

Gu Lingling, "..."

Oh my, why is he so hard to appease!

"Am I cold?" Yang Yunhai, who hadn’t been comforted yet, asked her again.

"No, not at all." Gu Lingling laughed out loud, "Passionate as fire, how could you be cold? When I’m with Brother Yang, I feel like there’s warmth all over me every day, not cold at all."

"Besides, your coldness is only towards those who foolishly try to get your attention. I just like you this way." Gu Lingling said seriously, "I don’t like those who are overly enthusiastic towards everyone, it’s too shallow."

"So, I am still cultured? Charming?" Yang Yunhai asked.

"Of course." Gu Lingling hugged his neck, continuing her flattery, "Super charming, very manly, absolutely incomparable to others."

"So you’ve compared me with others?" Yang Yunhai pinched her ear and asked.

Uh-oh.

The flattery went too far, and she accidentally hit a nerve.

"No, how could I." Gu Lingling quickly denied, "Comparing you with them would only lower the status of my Brother Yang. How could they ever compare to you?"

A single "my Brother Yang" successfully soothed a certain elder gentleman.

"That’s more like it." Yang Yunhai kissed her earlobe and asked once again, uncertainly, "Am I really that good?"

"Really, really, really." Gu Lingling nodded rapidly, "More real than gold."

"So when do we get married?" Yang Yunhai suddenly asked, "I won’t be at ease until you’re officially mine."

"Whenever you say." Gu Lingling continued nodding rapidly.

Anyway, at a time like this, no matter what Yang Yunhai says, I should agree.

At this moment, deeply suspecting her man is truly hard to appease.

"Really?" Yang Yunhai said with surprise.

Huh?

Gu Lingling looked up at Yang Yunhai, puzzling, what?

Just now he said marriage, right?

Did she agree?

Uh... Seems like it?

"What did I just say?" The little girl looked at him in confusion, "What did you say?"

Yang Yunhai, "..."

They can’t keep this conversation going.

"Brother Yang," she placed her hands on his cheeks and said seriously, "No matter how excellent others are, or what others say, at the start, now, and in the future, I’ve always loved only you."

There’s plenty of excellent people out there; does she have to like each one of them?

Besides, in her heart, no one can truly compare to Yang Yunhai.

He’s always been the one and only.

The one and only Yang Yunhai is thoroughly comforted now.

Never thought he’d actually be childish like this, needing Gu Lingling to appease him, and so difficult to comfort?

Thinking of this, Yang Yunhai’s face went a little blush.

"How about I take you out for a good meal later?" Yang Yunhai ruffled her hair, remembering the reason he came back.

There’s an evening event, a bonfire party at the military base, in honor of the new recruits.

He wants to take the little girl to have some fun.

Been on the base so long and hasn’t properly spent time with her.