You Are The Apple of My Eyes
Chapter 437 Things More Important Than His Life

"Have you thought about your future?" To avoid answering the question, John shifted the topic to Henry and Adrian.

The attempt at evasion was so obvious that anybody with half a brain could see it. Adrian went along with it and answered, "It's going quite well for us, actually. Right?"

He elbowed Henry's arm and cast him a sideways glance.

"Yes, we are doing quite well." Henry concurred with Adrian's statement. "My mom already knows."

"What?" Adrian sat up straight. "When did our mom find out? When did you tell her?"

"You're calling her your mom now. Of course, she should know why she has acquired another son." Henry wanted to laugh at the look of apprehension on Adrian's face. "While we were on a video call one time she asked me if I liked someone. I told her the truth. Why are you so agitated?'

"Agitated? Who, me?" Adrian's heart was pounding in his throat. He rubbed his sweaty palms against his thighs.

After a moment's pause, he asked, "Did your mom come out of the screen to beat you up? Did she point at your nose and curse at you for being an unfilial son?"

If Adrian's parents found out about them, the Song family would be in an uproar.

"So she's 'my mom' now?" A dangerous glint flashed in Henry's eyes, and Adrian chuckled at how inflammable he was. "Oops. Our mom. Did she warn you or something?"

"Well, she ignored me for a month. I called my stepfather so that he could put in a good word for me, but to no avail." Henry didn't really intend to hide these things from Adrian. As he listened to Henry recount the unpleasantness of the time, Adrian's heart ached. He didn't realize that Henry and his mother hadn't talked to each other for an entire month. Worry and guilt warred inside him.

"It's really impossible to make others accept us." Adrian hung his head in resignation.

How long could they go on like this?

What if their families forced them to marry?

It wasn't that Adrian had never considered it before, but he only thought that it was too soon to think about the topic. But Henry had told his family, so they had to get ready to face what the world would think of them.

A small smile lingering on his lips, John shook his head slightly. "Henry hasn't finished his story yet. Let him finish first."

"Huh?" Adrian's head snapped up.

Henry smiled. "After a month, my mother gave me two choices."

"Two choices?" Adrian swallowed nervously. He dreaded the choices that Henry's mother offered. His own mother threatened him from time to time, and he felt helpless.

"Either we adopt a child, or she will give me a brother or sister whom we could raise as our own kid."

After scooting closer to the other man, Adrian asked, "What does that mean?"

With a gentle smile on his face, Henry placed a hand on Adrian's palm and stroked it gently.

John slapped a palm on his forehead, speechless.

How could Henry stand being with such a dense person? John could feel the second-hand embarrassment keenly.

"She agrees." John breathes out a sigh of relief. Really, he couldn't bear North Yard's air to be polluted by Adrian's obtuseness any longer.

"She agrees?" Adrian voice was an octave higher, and his eyes were round with shock. He hurriedly grabbed Henry's shoulders. "Really? Our mom is really okay with us? Does she really agree?"

In Adrian's excitement, his mouth sprayed Henry's face with spit as he spoke.

"Wait, wait, calm down! Your spit is all over my face." Henry reached out for some tissue to wipe his face, but Adrian beat him to it, raising a sleeve to casually wipe Henry's face like he was wiping a table. Henry wanted to hit him, but he couldn't.

The way Adrian wiped his saliva from Henry's face seemed familiar to John. He was reminded of the time when Nina blew a snot bubble.

John once made her laugh so hard, and that happened.

He also used his sleeve to wipe her face, which turned redder the more he cleaned up her face.

That time, his little girl's face turned red with embarrassment. In Henry's case right now, his face was quickly turning red from how hard Adrian was scrubbing it with his sleeve.

"You two wait for me here. I'll go upstairs to get something." John rose to his feet and headed up the stairs.

Henry followed John's back with his eyes. "Won't you stay in North Yard tonight?"

"No." John reached the floor's landing.

He pushed a door open and silently walked into the room.

The furnishings inside was never changed. The photo used on the marriage certificate hung on the wall, and the dresser was still full of Nina's skin care products. There was a lone rose in a white porcelain vase on the table by the window.

This vase originally contained the rose that Nina gave him on May 20th. The flower had already wilted, but Nina would always replace the withered flower with a new one.

In the vase, she would only put one rose, which was either bought outside or picked from the North Yard's flower garden. Every time, she would pick the best bloom available. Chester had once asked Nina, "Why do you pick the best one?"

Nina replied, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.' We have to pick the most beautiful flower. The flower needs someone to appreciate it, and we must respect its wish." The memory made John chuckle. He didn't know if Nina only said that to amuse the child, but her explanation sounded reasonable.

Hls little girl could be quite whimsical sometimes.

John sat in front of the dresser mirror and pulled open a drawer on the right side. A dark blue notebook lay in it. Carefully, he took it out and read a few lines on the flyleaf. John turned over the pages in silence, and his eyes started to burn after reading a few pages.

He couldn't read it anymore.

He was going to take this notebook with him.

Along with the notebook, he took out two more items: an album of paintings from the safe and the cheongsam he had made for Nina in the closet. He placed them together in a box. Then, he placed the marriage certificate on top of everything.

These items were incredibly important to him, as they carried all of the memories of him and Nina.

John took the box downstairs and handed it to Henry. "The things in it are more important than my life. Give the box to Leon for me tomorrow."

"Don't worry, I'll hand the box in its entirety to Leon." Henry suddenly felt a weight press down in his chest as he took the box.

The things in it were more important than John's life.

"Mr. Shi, you're making me nervous. You just handed your life over to Henry. What are you going to do tomorrow? Don't scare me like this!" Adrian's face darkened as an ominous feeling filled him. "It wouldn't be convenient for me to take it tomorrow," John explained.

Adrian breathed a sigh of relief. "You are going to get married, but you sound like you are going to die. Even your instructions sound like your last words."

"Really?" John asked in a low voice.

The two nodded at the same time.

"Nine,

let's go." John whistled at Nine, and the dog immediately followed John out.

"Are you going to take Nine to get married?" The Tibetan Mastiff looked so docile, Adrian couldn't help but want to play with it.

John's eyes were dark and unreadable. "Nine is good at swimming."

"Swimming?" A chill suddenly ran down Adrian's spine. He knew that John had aquaphobia. "Wait a minute, I remember something. The wedding will be held at the Mist Water Park, correct? Why did you choose that place?"

"It's convenient."

"For what? It's convenient for you to drown in?"

"Hmm." John nodded.

Adrian thought John was just joking, so he let out a chuckle. "You are finally getting a sense of humor! I don't know whom you learned it from."

Maybe he got it from his little girl.☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐