Perfect Fiancé Chapter 47

Here, we see a frustrated Lu Xi who was always perfect and a cheeky Su Jin~

At the Pearl Film Festival, 《Heart-pounding Excitement》had cinched multiple awards: Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score and Best Director- bagging four of the top grand awards of the night. Although they had missed out on the most prestigious honour of the ceremony, the Best Film award, for a man who had just entered the film industry, these four grand awards were enough for him to appear on the front-page headlines of the various news media.

After the film ceremony ended, Lu Xi continued to remain low-profiled and rejected all special interview invitations by all of the news media and magazines. Moreover, he had not even attended the after-party for the film ceremony either, and instead immediately brought Su Jin through the side exit as they slipped away.

Sitting in the front pa.s.senger seat, Su Jin asked rather curiously, "Lu Xi, why do you go to such painstaking efforts to remain so private?"

This year, he was just twenty-six years old, an age where he could still be hot-blooded, brilliant and youthful. In addition to that, he had an unbelievably good family background and looks that were a game cheat in and of itself. If he had not deliberately remained so low-profiled to hide himself, he would definitely be able to attain a considerable amount of popularity, therefore, as a person who was in the entertainment circle, it would be obvious that all of this should have been an advantage to him.

Yet, for this man to remain this subdued, it truly caused others to raise their hackles at such an act. It was just that he acted as petty as a child at times, therefore she used this appellation of 'Three-year-old Lu' to tease him too. Yet, the truth was that even for her who was living through her second life, she could not outdo this man; so much so that… …He might even be more mature than she was.

Lu Xi remained silent for a long while and shook his head. Then, he spoke lowly, "living under the spotlight would be very strenuous."

Very strenuous?

Su Jin raised an eyebrow.

"Public figures have no freedom but I am not only including myself," he turned his head to look at the girl with a raised brow and continued, "but you as well."

Su Jin blinked.

"When the moment comes, even if we were not holding hands while taking a stroll on the streets, this could be interpreted as a fight and then it would evolve into a split of affection between us, and then we might even divorce."

"Why is there a need for that then?" He lightly chuckled, "being like this is perfectly fine. Even though there is enthusiasm and popularity for me right now after the award ceremony, it is short-lived. As long as I don't actively hype this news up, then this forgetful entertainment circle will quickly put this news item behind them. What will forever remain present for the public will be 'Director Lu Xi' and his works, not the person himself."

Mm, listening to this, it all seemed sensible, however……

With her right hand propping up her chin, her features had quirked up slightly while her body was reclining against the car door as she stated, "I still have not said that I will be getting married to you, you know."

By lucky coincidence, Lu Xi had pressed on the brakes as he turned his head to look towards the girl in the front pa.s.senger seat.

With long tresses like water, snow-white skin and a forest green cheongsam that silhouetted her perfect figure, as she raised her head slightly to glance at him, her phoenix eyes were filled with some laughter and some teasing. Under the warmth of the lights, it made her look even more attractive.

As if he had been bewitched, he leaned and bent towards her. With his outstretched hand, he brushed the unruly locks of her long tresses that curled at the side of her cheeks behind her ears. Then, he lightly kissed that tender cheek before him.

"Then, tell me," he continued talking lowly by her ears as his ever-constantly mellow and deep voice contained several traces of raspiness in it. "If you don't get married to me, then which other person are you planning to marry?"

As that warm breath fell on her ears, Su Jin's face flushed red. She had not even had the chance to reply before she saw that the man had sat upright to start driving the car and he had not given her a chance to refute at all.

In the car, silence gradually fell upon it and from his peripheral vision, Lu Xi glimpsed at the girl who was seethingly nibbling on chocolate. Traces of laughter flashed across his eyes but then quickly evolved into traces of worry instead.

That very night, Su Yue received a call from his future younger brother-in-law.

"Big Brother Su, considering that I have previously done you a favour when I told you about Xue Kai's matter, tell me, what did you tell Jin'er yesterday, alright?"

As soon as the phone call was connected, Lu Xi had immediately asked this.

Su Yue had been startled by this question and blurted out in reply, "how did you…"

He only spoke these few words before he paused.

The man on the other end of the line had his lips curled up, "originally, I only guessed but was only eighty percent sure. However, right now, I'm completely certain."

"Did Xiao Jin say something to you?" Somewhat puzzled, Su Yue shook his head. Probably not right, though if this were the Xiao Jin of the past, after listening to what he had said yesterday, she would have immediately gone to find Lu Xi and gotten right to the point as she interrogated him. However, ever since grandfather pa.s.sed away and the sudden unexpected appearance of Xiyue's matters, this girl had matured greatly, so she probably would not have gone straight to Lu Xi to have a chat.

"Nothing at all." Lu Xi shook his head as he confirmed Su Yue's opinion, "only, I feel that Jin'er has been a little out of sorts. She has always had her own opinions so the people that could influence her aren't many. Uncle and Aunt are away and furthermore, the only one whom she could have met face to face yesterday was you. So, you being the main suspect of this was extremely likely."

"So you have arrived at this conclusion to swindle information out of me?" Su Yue's voice had traces of helplessness in it.

"All's fair in love and war." Lu Xi chuckled lowly and brought the topic of conversation to the matter at hand, "so what did you say to her after all?"

"Actually, it was nothing much either and it was something you had told her before too." Su Yue drank a sip of the coffee that was on the table and then facing upwards, he leaned back against his seat.

"I proposed to Ming Xuan, but she refused it."

"So many years had pa.s.sed and really, in our hearts, our love was actually just a perfect embellishment of the other half. After that, while I was alone on the balcony reflecting fondly on our youth, I conveniently b.u.mped into Xiao Jin. I then told her that in this world, the hardest thing to figure out was a person's heart."

Although he had casually said this, Lu Xi, who had been listening to all this, was firmly grinding his teeth.

So with your misstep in your own relationship, now, you are attempting to ruin mine?

"Lu Xi." While unsure if he heard the person on the other end of the line grinding his teeth, Su Yue refrained from teasing and spoke seriously, "Ever since she was young, Su Jin has grown up while being indulged by us. Although she has matured greatly now, her personality still remains extremely pure. For a young lady who has not even graduated from her school life, you are also her first love. As her elder brother, what I truly am afraid of, is that she will fall into this too deeply. You are aware as well, that when girls in their adolescence fall in love, they have no care for anything else."

"……" Lu Xi remained speechless.

I am aware? Who in the world would be more d.a.m.nably aware of that!

As he ended the call, Lu Xi stood before the French window and helplessly he reached up to pinch the bridge of his nose.

Yes, Su Jin had a pure disposition and was not worldly.

Yes, he was her first love.

And yes, a girl in her adolescence, when she falls in love, she would not care about anything else.

These were not all wrong and Su Yue's opinion was indeed only natural. However, d.a.m.n it all, the truth of the matter had nothing to do with any of this!

It was rare for this man, who had always been as gentle as jade, to swear.

Like a frog that had been initially cooked in tepid water, her heart had already somewhat been wavered. Yet, with Su Yue's very words, all of his hard work so far had been all for naught. Yet, every word that Su Yue had spoken were precisely what he had nothing to counter with.

In fact, the person on the spot remained baffled while the onlooker saw clearly. He had realised that the young lady's feelings towards him had no longer been as simple as the 'like' she had a.s.sumed it to be. Yet, this young woman had always been great at stifling her own feelings. He had originally thought that he could imperceptibly influence her, and like the method of boiling a frog[1], he could slowly have her realize her own feelings. Then one day, she would definitely admit that she had fallen in love with him.

[1] 温水煮青蛙 (wēn shuǐ zhǔ qīng wā) – This is an actual fable of a frog being boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out. However, if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.

Yet, now with all that had happened, she had already detected his method of subtle influence and persuasion. Now that she had a guard up against him, the tortoisesh.e.l.l that had finally been cracked with great difficulty was once more firm and guarded. With this method of his, even if he continued further on this path, there would no longer be any effect.

Since this was the case……

Looking up slightly at the crisp and clear moonlight that shone through the window, from his peach blossom eyes, a dull l.u.s.tre glimmered.

Translated by Irisu

Edited by Ely