
Hearing Karen's plain statement, makes Darren full and feel funny. He immediately remembered the genius scientist Stephen Hawking who once mentioned that women are the greatest natural mysteries that are difficult to understand. Yeah, true! Women are a collection of question marks and men are required to break them. A real example he had felt for himself in his wife.
Darren smiled wryly and then acted foolishly. "Darling how does that mean? Every day we love!"
"Much more affectionate, that's it!"
"How do you like?" daren asked deliberately to lure his wife. The man's head slightly looked back.
"Ih, pretend to bego!" Karen's getting upset.
Darren turned around, pinching both of his wife's cheeks in a fit of anxiety. "If you want something, yes, by the way. Don't play riddles!"
"And I've already coded you, but you're insensitive!" This time, Karen showed a timid face.
Darren placed his palm on Karen's head, then bowed as he advanced his face. "Why do you have to use codes, anyway! Why not start first?"
"I'm a girl, masa' chick first! It's shame ...."
"Yes, no papa. We are husband and wife. I disagree with people's perceptions as if only men need a biological relationship."
"Yes, but as women sometimes embarrassed to ask first because the stigma of the wife is only in charge of giving satisfaction to the husband," Karen said.
Darren lifted Karen's face gently, forcing their eyes to meet. "You are my wife, my life partner. Your position is beside me, parallel to me. Not under me. You have the same rights and obligations as me" he said.
Although their marriage was based on an arranged marriage, but from the beginning Darren had been realistic. In his view marriage only happens once in a lifetime. Therefore, from the first day Karen became his wife, he tried to build love in his heart for her.
Darren also has his own principles in his marriage. In this case, the man with the title of professor of economics was using the principle of equal partner marriage pattern, namely there is no higher or lower position in husband and wife. Where the husband's work is as important as the wife's work, the couple meets each other's needs, does household chores together and has an equal opportunity to develop.
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On the other hand, Nadya had just arrived at the literature faculty building to deliver the journal that Darren had asked for.
"Excuse me, Sir? Mr. Bonar is, isn't he?" nadya asked one of the lecturers who was in the lecturer room.
"Sir Bonar?" The bespectacled lecturer scrunched his forehead to form a wrinkle fold.
"Yes, Sir!" Nadya nodded.
The lecturer swept his gaze across the room and said, "There is no lecturer whose name is Bonar in the literature faculty, there is in the law school! You got the wrong address!"
Nadya then gaped for a moment with wide eyes. Already far to come to the place, but Mr. Bonar who wants to meet instead is in the law faculty whose building is only beside the faculty of economics. He also dropped out of the literature faculty while grumbling.
"This is what my deaf ears are or my senile Darren sir, yes!" he was confused himself.
After coming from the research room, Darren is now in the library to find books of world economic scientists who support his research. Unexpectedly, Karen followed him from behind. The woman stood beside Darren as if looking for a book. She just wanted to stay with her husband.
As Darren sat with a pile of books, he sat down next to the man, carrying a book he had taken carelessly. They sat next to each other at a table that had a bulkhead. Fortunately, their seating position was in the corner, where no one was sitting in the row of tables. The library itself is not as common.
Karen covered her face with the reading book in order to be able to look at her husband's satisfied face from the side. Every now and then, his leg deliberately nudged the man's leg to disturb him who was seriously reading.
"What, anyway? Don't come here just to bother!" ketus Darren with his eyes fixed on the reading book.
"Seriously very! Once in a while my lyrics, dong!" said Karen, spoiled.
Darren then raised the reading book parallel to his face, just as Karen had done. The two looked at each other from behind the book that covered their faces.
For a moment, Darren watched the book Karen was holding. "Whether do you read such a book during the day?"
"Huh?" Karen immediately glanced towards her book. Her eyes bought instantly as the book's grand title was written "Kama Sutraa" which is the oldest romance book from India. The page of the book that was opened earlier also displays the art of making love.
Instantly, the woman's face flushed like a boiled crab. She was too focused on watching her husband until she did not look at the contents of the book she was holding. Because of embarrassment, he immediately headed to the bookshelf to replace the book.
Feril smiled as he said, "It turns out my eyes are really observant even though I only see you from the library window, Kar. Here, ice Boba for you!"
Karen rushed out of the library as if seeing a ghost in broad daylight. Honestly, he was actually afraid if Darren saw him being with another man, or Feril saw him being with their lecturer.
Unheard of Karen, making the soul of Feril's character as if scratched. "Look at a moment! You'll definitely get to the cave, but after that will be the measles cave!" said Feril with the corner of the raised lip.
In the afternoon, Nadya, Karen, and their other friends hang out in one of the cafes that are hits among young people of South Jakarta. This hangout event is sponsored by Nadya who wants to introduce a girlfriend.
Nadya, who was agitated because her boyfriend never came, suddenly said, "That's it!"
Karen and her friends turned around. Karen's eyes suddenly turned around when she saw Nadya's boyfriend coming with Feril. While Nadya immediately welcomed her boyfriend with great joy.
"Know all, this is Farel!" nadya said while holding her new boyfriend.
Nadya's friends even misfocused with the presence of Feril. "Oh, how come your faces look alike!"
"This is my brother!" sahut Feril embraces Nadya's boyfriend.
Nadya was shocked just like her friends. "Seriously? I just found out, too, you know!"
Karen flinched and nearly choked on hearing Ferril's confession just now.
"Eh, is there Karen as well?" Feril sat down right in front of Karen. "I'm sorry I disturbed you in the library earlier, yes" the man said.
"Eeng .. no papa, Brother. I am the one who apologized for going. I forgot to tell the lecturer again." Karen suddenly misbehaved.
"Eh, Kar, how come you suddenly get so nervous. Don't-don't-don't you two pedekate anymore, yeah," guess his friends.
"No, really. No!" look at Karen who's getting uncomfortable.
Feril just smiled as he looked at Karen. If considered carefully, women with shoulder-length hair is quite interesting and no less beautiful than the collection of ex-boyfriends. He was obsessed with conquering it.
After spending a few hours in the cafe, Karen finally returned to the apartment. He sat on the floor with his back propped up at the foot of the sofa. Five minutes later, Darren came home and greeted him warmly.
"Eh, have you gone home too? How was the show with friends?" asked Darren who was sitting on the sofa while wrapping his hands around Karen's neck.
"Lumayan is fun" replied Karen. He turned his head to look at Darren who was sitting behind him.
Darren lowered his head, then briefly kissed his wife's soft lips. "Brake together, yuk! You smell asem!" he said later, pinching his wife's nose.
"Have a son!" Karen immediately nodded.
Darren's hand, still coiled around Karen's neck, now came down and began unbuttoning his wife's cameja one by one.
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author note:
Okay, there are many loyal readers who say amused or still can not believe read my novel this one because like not me who wrote 🤣. First, you are not familiar with my writing style like this because my previous novels are set abroad by combining romantic themes of mystery. Second, this novel plot has been determined in NT, even so there are some scenes that I did not enter because it impressed cringe. Third, inserting an element of humor and marriage education was my initiative, she said, I also intentionally insert institutional family relationships vs. companionship in the characters of Oma Belle and Mami Valen so that my readers are educated to choose which family patterns might be suitable for you to adapt. Suppose this novel does not include these elements, surely this novel is very flat.
When I write the bonus chapter Chiba and Mayu, I will tell your ma that I suddenly want to make a novel of modern household life, but lazy to make a new novel. That's why I made a bonus chapter Chiba and Mayu to pour my mind about people's perceptions of household life and children. Uh, I did not expect that I was even given the challenge of the editor to write a novel with a theme that also touched on this issue. Btw, I also often write freelance articles. But that was before.
Enjoy this story with Santuy. Don't expect extreme conflict in NN novels.