Marrying a Woman of Mother's Choice

Better Just Shut Up

'Until when does the cold war end? How long are we supposed to stay like two people don't know each other? You're with your world, I'm with my world that's also faltering.'

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"Ren, did you really meet a man named Rama?" asked Doni who Reno met at the time in his apartment.

"Where do you know?"

"Tenri told me everything, when you left for Australia he was visited by Elsa. Elsa reveals all about Rama who she says is not a good business partner. Then the worried Tenri tried to contact me because your number there was never active. Now I just want to know what you and the guy named Rama are up to?"

"I sold all the assets of the Eastern Light workshop."

Quite a short, dense sentence but hit Doni's heart.

"What's? You're crazy, aren't you? What about all our employees?"

"That's what I wanted to talk to you about, so I came here. I ask you to take care of all those employees, including severance and others. I still have a little money to give the last award to those who have been with us all this time."

"Ren, don't tell me you sold it to a man named Rama?"

"You're right. I sold it to Rama. Is something wrong?"

"God. Why don't you discuss this to me first? You can have my opinion, you can find out what a man named Rama is like. You're so reckless, Ren."

"I don't think I need to talk to you, Don. The company is mine, entirely in my name and I have every right to do anything against it."

"When we can still wake up from zero, Ren. You don't have to sell everything that's left. That effort is what you build from the bottom, not an effort that seems to just pop up and get big. I think you took the wrong step, Ren."

"No need to worry, I will open a new business, which is to open a car sales showroom from Japan. Next month it will all start and I have chosen a strategic location for the showroom."

"Again I ask, do you not intend to find out first the origin of the man named Rama? Don't let you regret it, Ren. There's no harm in us listening to Elsa this time, maybe she knows Rama in detail."

"Here it is, the contract of cooperation has been worked out, I believe in Rama. Please Don, take care of all those employees. I'm counting on you."

"Ren, Reno ..." call Doni because Reno suddenly left without listening to his explanation first.

***

"You've come home, daeng. I have prepared warm water for the bath, there is also coffee if you want to coffee for a while. After that, we had dinner together downstairs. I wait, daeng."

Reno did not say a word, she opened her shirt and went bare-chested. Just pass by in front of Tenri and enter the bathroom. Tenri tried to understand, maybe her husband was very sultry and wanted to clean his body immediately.

Tenri went down to the first floor to provide food, assisted by Bi Surti. Twenty minutes later, as Reno did not come down, she went upstairs to call her husband.

"Daeng, dinner's ready. Get down, yuk." Tenri stood in front of her husband who never wanted to look at her.

Reno stood up and walked ahead of herself out of the room. Tenri took a deep breath, then followed her husband's steps down one by one of the stairs.

They also sit in their own chairs. Just two. Tenri was about to spoon the rice onto Reno's plate, "i can do it myself." Reno's words then made his hand stop just like that. Tenri handed the rice spoon to Reno.

Next they ate in a quiet atmosphere, there was only the sound of a spoon clashing with a plate. The rest of their mouths never came out again until they had finished eating.

Bi Surti came and cleaned up everything on the dining table. Reno has been leaving the dining table since.

"Mom, keep trying. Stones can be broken after being exposed to water continuously, especially only human hearts. One day it will be destroyed by sincerity. Auntie knows, I love you dearly."

"Yes Bi, thank you. I went upstairs first, maybe there's something Reno needs from me."

Up above, he saw Reno sitting on a pillow on the bed. Tenri also went up to the bed and sat side by side with her husband, Tenri tried to massage the legs of her husband.

"Daeng, how are you doing? Is it going well?" Tenri tried to fish the conversation.

"So, I called and asked how you were doing. She misses you because she said you haven't called her in a long time."

"You're telling mom anything?" suddenly Reno spoke in a high tone of voice. It made Tenri surprised and stopped for a while to massage her husband's legs.

"No daeng, I've never talked about any of the problems we're having here. I'm just saying everything's fine here, I said you're busy and therefore didn't have time to call mom. Is there something wrong with my words, daeng?"

"Next time you don't have to talk to me, let me talk to her directly."

"Good, daeng."

What Tenri did was always wrong in her husband's eyes, therefore perhaps she would rather just keep quiet.