The fragrance wafted over, and as they both held it to their noses, they indeed found it very pleasant, akin to the best gift nature had to offer humanity. Just breathing it in was comforting.
Ye Ning felt her mood wasn’t as bad anymore and contentedly placed the flower into the vase.
Seeing this, Ono Yoshiko chuckled, "Are these... all for your husband?"
"Husband, that is... Husband!"
She actually... said a word!
How did she come up with that?
Ye Ning’s face instantly flushed red, "No no no, Miss Hezi, you’ve misunderstood, he’s not my husband, he’s just my boss."
"Yes, I work for him, I’m his assistant," Ye Ning explained slowly, making sure Miss Hezi understood clearly.
Ono Yoshiko seemed to half-understand but still looked at her with an unchanged gaze, smiling gently with an implicit hint of ambiguity.
Ye Ning was exasperated and wanted to explain further, but seeing Ono Yoshiko’s perplexed expression, she ended up stamping her foot in frustration and ignored her, focusing on her own flower picking.
Ono Yoshiko watched her with an even bigger smile, "Then I won’t disturb you anymore, I have to deliver a meal to my brother; he’s at school. When I come back, I’ll visit you again."
After saying this, she lifted the small wooden box she was carrying.
Understanding the situation, Ye Ning immediately stepped aside, "Alright, then please go ahead."
Grateful for having found such a helpful person in this foreign country, Ye Ning sincerely appreciated every word she said to her.
However, she didn’t expect that as the Japanese woman was about to leave, she suddenly turned around and said, "Take good care of your husband, you will be happy."
Ye Ning didn’t understand again, this time because Miss Hezi hadn’t gestured.
So the Japanese woman stood there, pondering for a while, and finally found a few words she knew in that sentence, "Take care of..."
Ye Ning stood there, stunned...
A woman who was but a stranger to her, telling her to take good care of that man?
All of a sudden, she felt as if something had struck her in the chest; standing there, holding the vase, she was so upset she couldn’t say a word...
Indeed, even she knew at a time she should take good care of him, but what about herself? Other than thinking about leaving, what else could she think of?
Did she really believe... that by leaving, he would truly be safe?
Ye Ning stood there, watching that retreating figure for a long time before finally holding the vase and slowly walking back.
By this time, it was already afternoon!
Meanwhile, Ou Mucen, after she had gone out, hadn’t rested at all but rather continued to use the doctor’s mobile phone to remotely instruct his team in Tokyo.
"Third Young Master, I have already called the police station. I believe it won’t be more than half an hour before the whole of Japan’s media will see the news of your accident."
He logged into his email and saw that the first email was sent by Secretary Gao, so he opened it to read it.
Not bad, it was a little later than he had planned, but in this place, it was acceptable.
After quickly typing a series of characters on the keyboard, he pressed send...