Thank You

The hotel Tang Manman’s cousin had booked for her was checked out of by Lin Yu after breakfast that morning.

The accommodations there were fairly mediocre.

Lin Yu had only considered staying there long-term before because it was convenient.

But now Tang Qinqin had arrived.

As her brother-in-law,

Lin Yu felt it was necessary to give her a perfect vacation.

So he decisively checked out of that inn

and moved them to a nationally recognized chain hotel instead.

There were no strict requirements for when Tang Qinqin had to return home.

Since they had plenty of time,

Lin Yu planned to take Tang Qinqin and Tang Manman around N City for some proper sightseeing and fun.

Their first stop was N City’s amusement park.

Standing outside the gates of N City Discovery Kingdom,

Lin Yu was holding Tang Manman’s hand and had yet to take her inside when, on the breeze blowing toward them, he caught a faint sound carried along by the wind.

It was shrill and distant,

as though it had come from somewhere very high up.

By the time it drifted all the way over to them, it was barely louder than the cry of a kitten.

Yet the terror contained in that sound had not faded in the slightest.

It sent a chill down the spine of anyone who heard it, while also making them strangely eager to find out more.

He wondered which ride in the park could possibly be so thrilling.

A force tightened around his hand.

Lin Yu instinctively turned to look.

Tang Manman’s little face was tense, her large peach-blossom eyes opened wide.

Like a small animal, she looked at Lin Yu with a touch of pitiful vulnerability in her features, as though seeking someone to rely on.

Tang Manman needed someone to lean on, and Lin Yu was more than happy to let her.

He squeezed her little hand and winked at her.

“It’s okay.”

“Don’t be scared.”

“Your husband’s here.”

“I’ll protect you.”

At the word “husband,”

the corners of Tang Manman’s tightly drawn lips curled upward into an unmistakable smile.

The unease in her eyes receded like a tide.

Even her anticipation for the amusement park seemed to fade somewhat.

Her eyes shone sweetly, as if someone had brushed them with honey.

“Come on, call me husband. Let me hear it.”

Seeing how adorable Tang Manman looked, Lin Yu wanted to tease her even more.

Tang Manman was a little bashful.

She was nowhere near as thick-skinned as Lin Yu. She couldn’t casually toss out the most intimate terms of endearment in the world as if they were everyday vegetables.

Still, she did not refuse.

She was simply gathering her courage in secret, trying hard to force those two words past the shyness tightening her throat and out of her mouth.

“Hey!”

“That’s enough, you two!”

“There’s still a living person right here!”

Tang Qinqin had been fed a mouthful of lovey-dovey sweetness against her will, and she was so annoyed that she stamped her feet.

She puffed out one cheek, her peach-blossom eyes—so much like Tang Manman’s—glaring furiously at Lin Yu.

This time, Tang Qinqin was genuinely a little angry.

She was jealous!

Thinking back to the days before Lin Yu appeared,

the two sisters had been inseparable, as close as could be.

To Tang Qinqin,

their mother was their mother,

but her sister was her sister—and, in a way, half a mother too.

She had grown up trailing after her sister everywhere.

Her sister loved her.

Whether it was food, drinks, or toys, she could always have the better ones.

But now, seeing the sister who had once put her first in everything treat her as if she didn’t even exist—

Her heart and eyes filled with nothing but this guy, Lin Yu—

Tang Qinqin felt both sour and furious.

She wished she could take a chainsaw and viciously saw apart the hands the two of them were holding so tightly!

Of course.

The blade would be aimed at Lin Yu’s wrist!

Tang Qinqin glared furiously at Lin Yu.

Lin Yu didn’t find her any more pleasing to look at, either.

This little third wheel was seriously getting in the way!

The two glared at each other.

The hostility in their eyes was so intense that sparks practically flew through the air.

In the end, Tang Manman stepped between them, cutting off their line of sight.

“Come on, come on.”

“Let’s go get our tickets checked.”

“There’ll be a line soon.”

Tang Manman grabbed her younger sister’s hand with one hand and tightly held Lin Yu’s with the other, pulling them both toward the amusement park entrance.

The two could only call a temporary truce.

After rolling their eyes dramatically at each other, the three of them lined up and entered the park.

After walking around the amusement park for a while—

The three of them came to a mutual realization: they might have seriously underestimated how intense the rides here were.

Outside the park, they had all agreed that whichever attraction produced the most ear-piercing screams had to be the most thrilling.

But that wasn’t actually the case.

Because the truly terrifying rides left people too scared to scream at all.

Take the ride called Crazy Cobra, for example.

Its tracks twisted and looped through the air without any discernible logic, like a ball of yarn a cat had thoroughly destroyed—messy, yet horrifying—as it sprawled across the sky.

Lin Yu saw with his own eyes that many visitors riding it kept their eyes tightly shut, their faces scrunched up, sitting there as quietly as if they were asleep.

Though, of course, it was also possible that they had genuinely passed out...

Staring at the launch coaster they had never seen before, the three of them silently agreed to leave it for later and try something less intense first!

Right next to the roller coaster was a pirate ship.

A pirate ship, huh?

To Lin Yu, it was basically just an oversized swing.

Safe and fun.

Seeing that there was barely anyone in line for it, Lin Yu immediately grabbed Tang Manman’s hand, called over Tang Qinqin, who was still standing there in a daze, and rushed with them toward the entrance where the line was shortest.

Completely ignoring the visitors who had just gotten off the pirate ship, their legs trembling so badly they could barely stand...

...

The moment the massive safety restraint came down over his shoulders, Lin Yu realized something was probably not quite right.

Did a giant swing like a pirate ship really need such a tightly secured harness?

Swallowing quietly, Lin Yu turned to look at Tang Manman beside him...

???

Why was this girl sitting here?

Looking at Tang Qinqin’s excited little face, Lin Yu rolled his eyes at her in annoyance before turning to look to his other side.

Tang Manman was much more nervous than her younger sister.

The smile on her face was somewhat stiff, the corners of her lips faintly tugged down by unease.

Seeing that, Lin Yu immediately reached over and interlaced his fingers with Tang Manman’s, almost as though he were taking advantage of the moment.

Their palms clasped tightly together.

The sensitive skin of their hands—more sensitive than most parts of the human body—pressed together over a wide area.

The skin of her palm keenly caught the warmth of his.

It traveled through her blood and into her heart.

That heated warmth gave Lin Yu a strangely wonderful illusion.

It was as if someone had placed another heart inside her already cramped chest.

Two soft hearts pressed tightly together, and there would be no more unease.

Her hand was held.

Tang Manman instinctively looked over.

Lin Yu winked at her. The corner of her lips curled into a roguish, carefree smile—one that somehow made people feel safe.

“Don’t be afraid.”

“I’m here.”

A faint blush spread across Tang Manman’s cheeks.

She stared earnestly into Lin Yu’s dark eyes, the smile on her face gradually eclipsing her unease.

She nodded gently, her face red as she whispered,

“Thank you…”

“...”

“Hubby.”