Because once you get married, your relationship with her and your relationship with her will be much weaker than it is now. Even if her position in your heart remains unchanged, you should always pay more attention to the change in status.
I don't want to alienate her, so I haven't paid much attention to the marriage. Now that I am thirty-two, I know that I can't delay it for long. Even if I can delay it until the age of forty, what about her?
She is now twenty-two, and as she grows up day by day, she will always have a boy she likes and someone she will marry in the future, so this fact must be faced.
Suddenly, He Lichen withdrew his thoughts and stopped thinking about it. He told himself in his heart that he should live a good life now and live a good life now. At least the little girl was by his side and in his arms at the moment, and his relationship with her was still there.
Being close is still the same as before, this is enough, I am satisfied.
After that, He Lichen and Xiao Niu'er didn't say a word until the end of the movie. When the movie ended and everyone in the venue had left, He Lichen said to Xiao Niu'er, "Let's go."
"Yes." Jian Yi responded, and then left her uncle's arms.
The two walked back to the apartment. After returning to the apartment, He Lichen changed into slippers and then carried the little girl to sit down on the sofa.
"You take a rest first, and I'll put the bath water in for you." He Lichen said.
"No," Jian Yi said, "I'll just take a shower."
"I'm too tired and don't want to take a bath." Jian Yi added later.
He Lichen doted on her, nodded and said, "Then you go in and take a shower, and I'll get you pajamas."
"Yeah." Jian Yi responded and went to take a shower.
He Lichen went to the bedroom, took the girl's pajamas, hung them on the hook at the bathroom door, and went to the living room to sit and wait.
Jian Yi came out after taking a shower and saw her uncle sitting in the living room. While wiping her hair, she said to him, "Uncle, you go take a shower."
"Yes." When He Lichen responded, he stood up and walked towards the little girl.
When he stood in front of the little girl, He Lichen said to her gently, "Dry your hair before going to bed."
After saying that, He Lichen asked again, "Tonight... will you let me sleep with you?"
Jian Yi nodded, looked at her uncle and said, "Well, it's the same as last time."
"Okay," He Lichen readily agreed this time and said, "I'll dry my hair and go to bed first. You don't have to wait for me."
"Um."
Jian Yi watched her uncle walk into the bathroom, then wiped her hair and rested herself.
Maybe it was a day's work and she was really tired. Jian Yi lay on the bed and fell asleep vaguely after a while. Until she felt movement around her and smelled a familiar breath, her body was pulled into a warm embrace.
, Jian Yicai shook off some sleepiness, opened her eyes, and looked at her uncle.
"I woke you up," He Lichen whispered, "Sorry."
"No," Jian Yi replied coquettishly. At this moment, her mind was still heavy with sleepiness, and she didn't think much about it before she spoke, "Uncle."
"Um?"
"Can we still... be like this in the future?" Jian Yi asked. Since chatting with her uncle in the office today, she has started to have all kinds of conjectures and random thoughts in her heart, so that now, she still cares about it.
.
He Lichen also understood in his heart what the little girl meant by asking.
He felt a little sad in his heart, but He Lichen still faced the reality and answered, "Maybe... it won't work."
"Girl, after...I get married, I can continue to pamper you, love you, and protect you, and your position in my heart will not change. But..." He Lichen paused, "As a man with a family, I
People, there are some things that you need to pay attention to."
He Lichen understood this very well. Even if he married a woman he didn't love, he would still be that person's husband. Some things should be done in moderation. On the one hand, it was good for himself, and on the other hand, it was also good for the little girl.
"Uncle," Jian Yi felt very sad because of his words. She said to him through the weak light of the wall lamp, "I don't want you to get married."
I don’t want my brother-in-law to get married, I don’t want other women to dominate my brother-in-law, and I don’t want my brother-in-law to be nice to other women.
He Lichen did not answer the little girl because he knew that this was impossible.
Silence, He Lichen didn't speak, and Jian Yi didn't speak either.
After a long time, He Lichen hugged the little girl tightly and said, "Let's sleep, okay?"
Avoiding this question, He Lichen did not intend to answer.
In fact, why do I want to get married? If I can protect her like this for the rest of my life, even if I leave her first when I grow old, I want to do this and protect her until the end of her life.
However, he knew that he could not give her such protection. He had family responsibilities, family expectations for him, and the expectations of the entire He family. He could not be so willful.
And in the future, she will also have her own happiness, and the person who can make her happy should be about the same age as her, who can give her more happiness and protection, so that she will not
alone.
Jian Yi closed her eyes and said nothing more. She wanted to cry, but her tears couldn't flow out, so she could only hold back.
Gradually, Jian Yi fell asleep again.
He Lichen couldn't sleep at first, but he didn't dare to move for fear of disturbing the person in his arms. He stared ahead and thought deeply in his mind.
He Lichen didn't fall asleep until after three o'clock in the morning.
…
On Saturday, nothing happened to He Lichen and Jian Yi. They slept until they woke up naturally and then got up.
Jian Yi's mood was much better today, as if nothing happened yesterday and she didn't know anything. She was still acting coquettishly in front of her uncle as usual.
"Uncle, let's go out to eat later. I want to eat Cantonese food." Jian Yi said.
"Well," He Lichen responded and added, "Sit down and don't move."
Jian Yi sat on the sofa and did not move.
He Lichen held the little girl's socks in his hand, walked over, squatted down on one knee, and put the socks on the little girl.
Jian Yi enjoyed her uncle's care very much. She remembered that when she was in school, every time she came to see her uncle, she would be very lazy and sloppy, so her uncle would take care of her and help her with these little things. She liked this very much.
The feeling is the same now.
In He Lichen's mind, taking care of her has become a habit without any embarrassment or awkwardness.
After putting on the socks for the little girl, He Lichen looked at her clothes and said to her, "Go and change into warmer clothes before we go out."
"..." Jian Yi opened her eyes a little wider, looked down at her clothes, then looked at her uncle again, and said, "My clothes are quite warm, it's definitely not cold."
"It's windy outside today, go and change clothes." He Lichen's tone became more serious, saying that there was no need to discuss and he had to change clothes. (To be continued)