The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

"You are right. I do need a shrink even though I don't want to admit it." She laughed out of the blue.

He stared at her worriedly. Was it time for him to call Han Xichen? Or could it be that he was in fact late and should have done it ages ago? He took out his phone.

She burst into tears and he was relieved. If she was willing to let it out, she would be alright. Even so, he sent Xiehan a text message to report her situation like a tattletale, just to be certain that she would not be left alone to fall into depression. He knew that was a stretch but he couldn't help being worried about it.

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When she finally left work, she felt as though her head was on the verge of exploding. She had worked like a robot with a mission and wasn't certain that the articles she had approved were the best. If this continued, she would cause Lin Media Group losses so she gave Han Xichen a call as soon as she got out of the Lin Media Group building.

He had already gone home so he asked her over, since he had to leave the country for a seminar the following day. Since she wouldn't be long, she gave Xiehan a call to tell him that she would be slightly late.

When she arrived at Han Xichen's house, she was greeted by Little Yue who tried to run out on her short legs as soon as she got the chance.

"I caught you!" Xiaoshi grabbed her and lifted her up, laughing when the little girl looked bummed. She gave Lanni a brief hug. "Hi Lanni. You don't look well."

Lanni smiled when the girl in Xiaoshi's arms struggled to say "Aunt Lanni". She took her from Xiaoshi's arms and kissed her cheek, playing with her as she responded to Xiaoshi's words. "I feel much better after seeing this little cutie."

She blew air onto the girl's little tummy and the girl burst into a giggle. When Lanni stopped, she stretched her small arms to once again present her tummy for her to blow.

Xiaoshi glanced at them and laughed. "She plays too much."

"It's perfect. Can you imagine how odd it would be for your toddler to be inactive and not play at all?"

Xiaoshi stepped aside to welcome Lanni as she shook her head. "I mean, she gives me more of a headache than her dad does most of the time but I'll choose her any day. If my baby were inactive, I'd think she was sick."

The women laughed loudly when Yue buried her head into her own tummy to blow it and frowned when it didn't tickle as much as it did when Lanni did it.

"Who did you just say gives you a headache?" Teased Han Xichen who was sitting in the living area and reading a thick book. Yue got down from Lanni's arms and bounced away to jump onto her father, nearly knocking the book out of his hands. As though he had always expected her to make such moves, he pulled the book out of her way and held her to support her.

Xiaoshi laughed and looked at Lanni beside her. "The two headaches are each other's sweetheart."

After playing with the little girl who was more active and adventurous than Xiaomu, Lanni and Han Xichen talked in the living room as Xiaoshi took Yue away to play in her toy room.

"How have you been feeling lately?" He asked as he sipped his cup of the tea that Xiaoshi had brought them. Knowing what had happened to her brother, he didn't need to ask to know why she had sought him.

She looked into her cup. "I don't know. I feel sad sometimes. Sometimes I want to scream my lungs out and at other times I'm happier than I should be. I mean, I know it isn't right to be happy so soon…"

"Hold." He made a gesture for her to stop talking. "Who told you that you shouldn't be happy?"

She thought about it. "I don't know. Logic?"

He nodded and reached for the remote control to turn on the television, then switched to a kids channel. "What are they doing?"

Lanni glanced at the little bundles of joy on the screen then at him. What was he getting at? "They're… dancing?"

He switched to a different channel, where as if by coincidence, there was an alcoholic drink commercial that featured people dancing in a bar. "What about them?"

"Uh… dancing?"

When he switched to a fashion channel she was finally confused. Still, he asked. "What about them?"

"Walking down the runway." She blinked in confusion. Did he think she was a child?

He turned off the television and placed down the remote control. "All I did was turn on the television and you saw that everyone is minding their business. Life still goes on, Lanni. You can't mop forever."

"It's different for them. He is my brother." She sighed.

"And that means you have to remain sad for the rest of your life? Do you think he would want you to feel that way?" He asked.

She shook her head sadly. "I can't help myself."

"Why don't you create a happy occasion and celebrate? You can push your birthday forward for a few months, for instance, or do something you have always wanted to do. If you kept postponing anything, this is the right time." He would have suggested that she hit the nightclub but that might just make her misunderstand and think that drowning in alcohol might make her problems easier to face. The last thing he wanted was to be the reason for her alcohol abuse.

She thought about it. Was there anything she had been postponing? For a while, she couldn't come up with anything.

As if reading her mind, he smiled. "Don't think about it right now. Go home and sleep on it. When you are certain of what you want to do, you can start making plans about it. No one's rushing you."

She nodded.. Actually, there was something she had wanted to do in the past and now that she thought about it, there was a way to make it even better.