Their eyes met, and there were strange sparks in the air. His eyes were still sharp, but a little more tender. She looked away in panic, and continued to push the car, with a thin trickle of sweat flowing out of her palms.
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After buying the groceries, the four people put the big and small bags into the trunk of the car. He carried the heaviest ones, she carried the lighter ones, and Xiaochen and Yunhen carried the smallest ones. They were just like other families.
Just the same, doing the most ordinary things and living the most ordinary life in this twilight.
Being in the kitchen of Gu Xijue's house, Xi Haitang suddenly felt confused. Washing her hands and making soup is the most beautiful happiness for a woman, and it is also the ultimate happiness. But how can she be happy in this marriage with him?
Suddenly I remembered that Li Bihua once said: Marriage is a very simple thing. Marriage is a clam and a pearl. A grain of sand accidentally walked into the body of the clam, and the clam continued to devote its heart and soul to reduce pain. Finally, a grain of sand was born.
The perfect pearl.
What a painful love, what a hopeless love.
Facing the faucet, Xi Haitang washed the vegetables, and her tears fell without warning with the rushing water.
She thought she wouldn't cry, but she didn't know why she couldn't help it...
Every time she cut a vegetable, there was one more wound in her heart. She had never been so hesitant and afraid. She couldn't see the bright future. She didn't know if what she was doing was right. She was struggling, unable to advance or retreat...
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Stiffly and numbly, she prepared dinner, ate, and washed the dishes. Then she packed the soup and took it to the hospital to deliver to her father, who also accompanied her.
It was almost 12 o'clock, and she suddenly realized how busy and confused the day had been.
In front of the car, she hesitated for a moment, raised her eyes and looked into Gu Xijue's deep eyes, "I can just go back by myself... I want to be alone."
He stopped her, calm as never before, "Haitang, I know you are in a very confused mood, and so am I. You don't like me, you even hate me, and you are even more likely to hate me. This sudden marriage makes you confused.
I understand, and I don’t want to force you. I’ve thought about it. We can just hold the wedding banquet without registering. Whatever the media wants to know and shareholders need, I will do it for them... But before that,
I want to do something."
"What?"
He suddenly took out a small red velvet box from his pocket, opened it and faced her. A delicate platinum diamond ring shone brightly, "I have thought about it for a long time, but I don't know how to speak to you, and I don't know if you can."
Nodding in this situation where there are only two of us... Qin Hao helped me with a lot of ideas and designed a lot of romantic plots, but I found that none of them are suitable for you, and I can't do it... I can only do this,
While you are still hesitant, still afraid, and still hesitant, before you completely deny me, marry me, okay?"
She was stunned. She understood what he meant. This was their private ceremony. He hoped that she would nod. Only in this way would the marriage they were about to begin seem less cold, but... she couldn't do it.
"I'm sorry, I can't." She said expressionlessly as the clock struck midnight.
Gu Xijue sighed softly, curled her lips and smiled. The smile was very complicated, and it was an emotion that others could not understand.
He had known that she would refuse like this, and the result was already expected, so the disappointment would not be too obvious, but——
His eyes were narrowed, his fingers were slender, and his joints were distinct. He gathered the five fingers slightly, put the small box containing the diamond ring into his palm, raised his hand, and drew a perfect parabola under the night sky. After a muffled sound, the box disappeared without a trace and was buried in the white snow.
between.
Xi Haitang's eyes widened in shock, and he subconsciously wanted to chase it and pick it up. If she didn't want it, he couldn't throw it away so casually!
But he stopped her again, and he took a step back, knelt on the ground on one knee, and took out an identical small box from the pocket on the other side. After opening it, it was still a platinum and diamond ring, different styles, but the same
Brilliant.
Xi Haitang's breath was suffocated. She didn't know what he wanted to do, but she also vaguely knew...
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"What...are you doing?" Her voice was trembling with disbelief.
"The proposal just now was before 12 o'clock. It happened yesterday. Now it's past 12 o'clock and it's a new day. I still want to try again. If you still refuse, I will continue tomorrow... until our wedding.
That day."
She didn't understand, "Why are you like this?"
His eyes dimmed, and he covered his heart with the hand without the ring. His voice of guilt and pain was flying low in the lonely snowy night, "Because... I can't pass my own test. I want you to
Before the wedding begins, have some fun, even just a little bit."
If she hadn't met him in her life, she might have lived a happy life. Now, all he can do is tell her the meaning of the ring——
"My mother is very proficient in philosophy. When I was a child, she once told me something about the creed of the ancient Greeks. They said that there is a blood vein under the ring finger of a person connected to the heart veins. A man and a woman wear rings at the same time.
This activates the love lifeline of these two people. If it is removed, the heart will be broken, and the person who cannot survive will die... Over the years, I have always remembered this passage very clearly, but I don't believe it.
I didn't believe there were such intense emotions in this world, but I believe it now... You gave me the ability to be paranoid."
There was only so much warmth in his life, and he was squandering it just for her.
——Have we ever been in love?
——Fell in love.
--how long?
——It seems like a moment.
——What about the rest?
——The rest is endless struggle and longing.
He gently took the ring out of the small box and held it between his thumb and forefinger. In the night, under the snowy light, the light of the platinum and diamond ring shone brighter, making his eyes confused and his heartbeat racing.
He gently held her hand, raised it, and pointed the ring at her ring finger, "Begonia, promise me, okay?"
(Wow, guess whether Haitang will agree? Smirking...)