Julian said indulgently, “If you like them, I’ll give you flowers every day from now on.“Why don’t I go to the gym with you now to grab the flowers?”Quinn said, “Let’s go and get them. You don’t have to give me flowers every day. Just occasionally as a surprise will do. It’ll lose its novelty if I get flowers every day.”Julian chuckled. “Okay, I’ll listen to you.”He gave her flowers, but she thought of flower pancakes instead.Julian was afraid too that if he gave her a bouquet every day, she would only have flower pancakes on her mind and not think of how much he loved her.Women liked two things the most—having money and the freedom to spend it at will.He could give her money folded into flowers so that she had money to spend.“Let’s go shopping for clothes first. I want to buy an outfit for you.”Quinn felt that she had to give him something in return for the bouquet of flowers he had given her.Thus, she decided to give him a thick coat.“You want to buy an outfit f

Walter checked the time and said, “We are a little bit early. If this was summertime, most people would be up by now. Why don’t we wait in the car for a while before knocking on the door?”Stacy said, “I’ll call Julian to wake him up first.”Then she proceeded to do just that.Julian had just started kissing Quinn in his dream and had not gotten a deeper taste of it yet when he was woken by the piercing sound of his ringing phone. When he woke up, he touched his lips, reminiscing about the kiss in his dream, and then realized it had been a dream.It was not real.Although Quinn had not run away and graciously faced his confession head-on, she had said she needed to think about it.She had not given an immediate response to his feelings.It was just that the dream had been so sweet. Damn the phone call. Who was the insensible person who called him so early in the morning and interrupted his sweet dream?Julian instantly felt irritated.Grabbing his phone, he picked up the call

In truth, Julian had hidden that matter from his parents, but his parents were not ordinary people. They knew everything he did but just did not say anything about it.When Zoey, who had been watching from the door, saw her daughter lead two strangers who resembled Julian in. She quickly guessed their identities.She hurriedly pushed open the doors of the main house.When Stacy spotted Zoey, she nearly called Zoey her future in-law.The words were almost out of her mouth, but she quickly stopped herself for fear of frightening her future in-laws with the suddenness of it all.Zoey had not expected Julian’s parents to come here.She mused to herself about how her husband and eldest son had just left for the airport to fly to Wiltspoon and find out more about their characters, though it was good that they had come. Then her husband would not be discovered trying to find out about the Buchams and it would not be too embarrassing.The Crawfords were quite satisfied with Julian.If

Zoey turned to look at Quinn and asked, “What do you mean by hypoactive sexual desire disorder?”“Julian has a disorder—hypoactive sexual desire disorder. He’ll only have a reaction toward one woman in his whole life. If he never meets that woman, he’ll basically be a eunuch. It’s incurable. You could say he’s at the mercy of God.”Zoey was silent for a moment before saying, “This is my first time hearing about an illness like that in all my decades of living.“In that case, if you marry Julian, you don’t have to worry about him changing his mind about you nor about other women climbing into his bed to steal him away from you.”Quinn replied, “Theoretically, that is the case. Julian also told me that he doesn’t have any reaction at all to other women.“When his parents found out about his disorder, they arranged blind dates for him every day. When he didn’t go on the blind dates, his parents would show him pictures of young ladies in hopes that one of them would trigger a reaction

Mark was chatting with Walter and Stacy in the living room.Walter was a very easygoing person. He was a few decades older than Mark, but they got along very well very quickly.If Julian had not brought his parents’ breakfast out for them right then, Walter and Mark probably would have taken an oath to become sworn brothers.Only the Lord knew how many times Stacy surreptitiously kicked her husband.Had that old man forgotten where they were?This was the Crawfords’ home, their future in-laws’ home.Mark was their future daughter-in-law’s older brother. If the old man became sworn brothers with Mark, how would their son address Mark then? The seniority would be all messed up.“Dad, Mom, Mrs. Crawford prepared breakfast for you guys. You should eat it while it’s hot. The rest of us have already eaten.”Julian called for his parents to come to the dining room to eat and said, “And let’s stay here for lunch. Quinn and I will go out to buy groceries later.”Stacy said smilingly, “