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.
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.
Same, doing the most ordinary things and living the most ordinary life in this twilight.
Standing in the kitchen of Gu Xijue's house, Xi Haitang suddenly felt confused. Washing 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. The clam kept giving its best efforts to reduce the pain. Finally, a perfect pearl was born.
Got it
Such painful love, such desperate love
Facing the faucet, Xi Haitang washed the vegetables, and her tears fell down 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. He also accompanied her.
It was almost 12 o'clock, and she suddenly realized how busy the day had been and how confused she was.
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 I am the same. You don't like me, you even hate me, and you are more likely to hate me. This sudden marriage makes you confused. I
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 their upcoming marriage 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, 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
dazzling
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?" There was a tremor in her voice caused by 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 that was not holding the ring. His voice of guilt and pain was flying at low altitude in the lonely snowy night, "Because... I can't pass my own test. I want you to be there."
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 is only so much warmth in his life, he just squandered it for her
——Have we ever loved each other?
——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, in the snowy light, the light of the platinum and diamond ring shone brighter. His eyes were confused and his heartbeat was 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...)