They kept expanding the connotation of making love, and there were fewer occasions when they "got straight to the point," while foreplay became increasingly rich. During their baths together, they would communicate fully and caress each other freely, which made the taboos for their pleasure fewer and fewer. When Aileen extended her tongue into her husband's eyes and even his ears to "clean" them, Sun Jie felt as if he had not lived in vain. They intentionally chose to make love in the morning so that they could experience the wonderful feeling of becoming one with heaven and earth. Sometimes, they would take advantage of holidays to travel to the suburbs and stay overnight, enjoying the novelty of a strange environment while talking about interesting things that happened during the day.