Perfect Fiancé Chapter 53

For this school term, Su Jin's course ended at the start of December. After their elders had determined the date for the engagement ceremony, these same elders used the excuse of preparing for it to leave the hospital together and leaving behind the young sweethearts, Su Jin and Lu Xi.

For now, Su Jin gritted her teeth and nodded, this matter of the formal wear could be decided later. For a moment, all was silent in the hospital room.

Half leaning against the headboard of the bed, Lu Xi looked at the young lady before him. Seeing that look of hers as if she was resigning peacefully to her death, he could not help but curl up his lips. Yet, in the depths of his heart, a burst of warmth welled up.

"Come here." With a slightly hoa.r.s.e voice, he shot a wave to her.

Considering how that certain someone was immobile, despite her misgivings, Su Jin still complied and stood up. She then came closer to Lu Xi.

"What's wrong?" She seemed to have thought of something as her complexion reddened slightly. Covertly, she took a glance towards the direction of the toilet.

Could it be that he wanted to go to the toilet? It was not very convenient on one leg……
That move of hers was not exactly stealthy so naturally, Lu Xi had noticed it too. This little girl, she truly had a rich imagination. Raising an eyebrow, he did not pay heed to this glance and simply patted the bedside ledge beside him. He spoke, "sit."

"Eh?" Su Jin was surprised then as she reacted, she swiftly pushed aside those disorderly and chaotic thoughts in her heart. Following suit to the direction where Lu Xi pointed, she sat down.

"To have me sit here……"

Without even finishing her sentence, she was stopped.

A pair of big hands grasped her palm. Su Jin, who had not guarded against this action, found her body leaning to the side from just that small amount of strength from that pair of hands. Her body leaning so much so that she swiftly fell in the direction of that force, right into a familiar embrace.

Sensing his intentions, Su Jin did not struggle either and clearly relaxed her body as she curled up in his arms.

With that warm body half leaning against his chest, that familiar scent of her hair lingered at the tip of his nose. Lu Xi took a deep breath as his arms, that was wrapping the girl in his arms, tightened. In his heart, the joy that he felt seemed to want to burst at its seams.

On this day, so many things had happened.

When the very sentence that he had been yearning for even in his dreams was finally spoken from her lips, even if it came as no surprise, he was still nearly drowned by that immense joy.

After Xiao Qi completed the final transaction between them and left, the elders then had arrived once he woke up. So, he could only suppress this joy deep down inside.

When the elders deliberately left them alone, he had feigned a semblance of normalcy as he discussed with her the subject of their formal wear.

After a thousand years of a long-cherished wish and unyielding pursuit, he had obtained so much in one morning. After the feeling of endless heartfelt elation, there followed an abundance of complex thoughts that surfaced in his mind one by one. Yet, it wasn't until this very moment, when his surging emotions had finally calmed down, did he dare to pull her into his embrace.

"Jin'er."

He lowered his head slightly as he spoke by the edge of her ear.

"Hm?" Su Jin raised her gaze.

"Jin'er." As his eyes met her beautiful phoenix eyes, he could not help but call out.

"En."

"Jin'er."

"En."

"Jin'er."

"En."

"Jin'er."

After a short while, Su Jin rolled her eyes as she arched an eyebrow, "are you done yet?"

This young lady was half reclining in his embrace as she raised her head to look at him. Despite the look of impatience on her face, still, her eyes were entirely filled with laughter.

He softly laughed and those alluring peach blossom eyes curved faintly. All the while, one hand was curled around the slender waist of the person in his embrace while the other hand lightly stroked her cheek.

As those slender and long fingertips softly brushed across her eyebrow, her eyes, the bridge of her nose, and her dark red pair lips, finally, they lingered on the crow-black tresses at her temple. In those bright and clear irises, one could clearly see the reflection of her figure.

"You are mine." He suddenly said, his voice low and deep yet elegant, "these eyes are mine, your nose is mine, these lips are mine. All of you belongs to me."

Su Jin was slightly stunned and suddenly recalled him saying this before after they had met Zhao Wenze in the elevator.

These eyes are mine, your nose is mine, these lips are mine. All of you belongs to me.

It was undoubtedly a phrase said in a childish manner, yet when this man said it so earnestly, it made one incapable of ignoring it.

Trickle by trickle, the emotions in her heart swelled and stirred.

The exact same phrase but when she had last heard it, although she had been surprised by this visible sign of possessiveness and desire, nevertheless, it seemed funny to her. Therefore, at that time, she was able to let slip an indiscreet remark and tease him by asking his age. Yet, as she heard this same phrase by her ears, now there was a different sort of feeling.

What swelled up in the depths of her heart was a flowing warmth: there was joy, antic.i.p.ation and even more…… a scorching heat that was similar to his.

He had used the most unexpected and also the most decisive method to break her tortoisesh.e.l.l and had completely liberated those feelings of love and attachment that she had deeply hidden the depths of her heart.

One never knows when love begins, yet that spark continues to eternity.

Thinking only this far, all of a sudden, she smiled ever so sweetly.

That fair hand moved to a similar position, stroking the cheek of the person before her. Little by little, her fingertips began to brush down from his eyebrows.

"I am not yours." She lightly shook her head and without waiting for his response, she continued, "you are mine."

"Here." Her fingertips brushed from the middle of his forehead downwards to the edge of his eyes then slid to one cheek and fell on the curl of those tightly pursed lips. "Here, here, all these are mine alone."

The girl rested in the crook of his arms and what one could see were lightly fluttering long lashes and dark red petal lips showing a trace of a smile that revealed small peeks of her pearly white teeth. Her long and narrow phoenix eyes were slightly raised, and in the clarity of those irises, was the reflection of gleaming waves of light. Her look was clear and charming as if crafted by the heavens. Furthermore, the expression on her face was both earnest yet unrestrained.

Truly beautiful.

Lu Xi's thin lips curled slightly and along with his words, those warm lips landed softly on her forehead.

"Alright, I am yours."

The smile at the edge of her lips deepened.

As her arm moved slowly down his neck, she immediately wrapped it around the person before her in a close embrace as her head tilted up slightly. Seizing the opportunity, Lu Xi then lowered his head as those thin lips tenderly yet firmly landed on the girl's red lips.

Those pair of lips met in an affectionate caress.

It had nothing to do with l.u.s.t but was filled with heartfelt affection and tenderness.

While the numerous disturbing, confusing and complex thoughts had been, at first, suppressed; all of a sudden, they dissipated without a trace. All the scheming, the struggles, and the vicious and ruthless tendencies., The merits and teaching of civility, all the honour and glory in the world that he had once held in his palm- everything gradually became fuzzy in his memory.

A millennium of time, it seemed like a dream.

Now, he had finally become content: his wish had been fulfilled.

Tightening his arm a little, Lu Xi's lashes slowly moved as he opened his eyes and saw the flushed-red expression of the girl before him.

Seeing the smile in the depths of his eyes, the courage that Su Jin had just had to proactively bring her lips close to his had swiftly disappeared without a trace. Trying hard to maintain her composure amidst meeting his gaze, she finally could not help but let out a sound of feigned and coquettish anger as she shrunk back into his embrace.

Although the red flush on her face had yet to dissipate, that had brought out a sweet smile for her.

First kiss.

That was the first kiss for both of her lifetimes.

She had only known him for half a year and it was only in these recent months that their relationship had gradually become close and intimate.

He would hug her, and also, lovingly and dotingly kiss her forehead and eyes. Yet, in the past, he had never actually kissed her (on the lips).

Was it due to fear of her rejection or was it due to fear of her disliking it?

Speaking of which, he had an extremely good grasp of what he should have been doing (appropriate behaviour when interacting with her). Although he had never concealed his thoughts in front of her, still without receiving her consent, he had never done anything too overly intimate either.

Therefore, even if she had once been suspicious of him and had even been afraid of the excessively fiery affections that she had seen in his eyes, she had not had the slightest thought to hate him.

"Jin'er."

His voice was slightly hoa.r.s.e and low like a sigh. The end tone of his words had quietly dissipated into the wind.

Yet after all those thousands of thoughts and feelings came together, warmth finally filled his eyes.

Su Jin had abruptly stilled the finger that had been playing with her long tresses as the depths of her heart could not help but soften and a sweet warmth pervaded her heart.

It was as if…… it was more alluring and captivating than the light pink rabbit-shaped cotton candy that they had seen that day.

In the southern area of Shenhai, the climate had always been mild. Even if it was winter, the various trees planted in the small flower garden of the hospital were as verdant as before. Occasionally, there were some leaves that fell but what remained were the bare tree branches where new buds of greenery were beginning to appear.

Over the next few days, it had been cloudy and after a spell of a moderate snowfall, the weather was finally fine again. As the sun hung in the sky, the sunlight that fell upon the earth was a rare warmth.

Pushing Lu Xi, who was sitting in a wheelchair, Su Jin walked along the little, clean and even pathway in the garden. Looking around at the thin layer of snow all around them, a little disappointed, she let out a sigh.

"What's wrong?" Hearing the voice from behind, Lu Xi asked.

"The snow here will become slush soon." Su Jin shook her head, "truly big snow would flutter and swirl in the air; the silvery-white winter wonderland made with blankets of snow cannot be seen here."

In her past life, she had been born in the north. Therefore, later when she started working, she had chosen that small Southern county town because she liked that little, delicate and beautiful flowing bridge with a flowing stream. In this life, she had been born in Shenhai city, yet her mind still kept remembering the majestic North where it was uninhibited and dignified.

"Want to see a heavy snowfall?" Hearing this, Lu Xi arched an eyebrow and with a shift of his gaze, he suggested, "then why don't you return with me to Beijing to celebrate the New Year[1]?"

[1] 过年 (guò nián) – Whenever a character usually refers to celebrating the New Year with their friends, loved ones and family, it means the Chinese or Lunar New Year that usually happens just before spring begins.

"Beijing?"

"That's right." Lu Xi chuckled, "Beijing is the ancient capital of six dynasties (220-589), not to mention the Imperial Palace; one can bear witness to the rise and fall, the prosperity and decline of several reigns of the Emperor and its empire. No matter if it was the scenery or the local conditions and customs, all of it is starkly different from Shenhai.

"En……" Pondering a little more, he then added, "If the South could be considered delicate and beautiful, then the North-"

"Can be considered majestic, uninhibited and dignified."

Hearing this description, Su Jin was startled and could not help but laugh aloud.

Could this be considered as their hearts having mutual telepathy and sensitivity?

"How about it?" As he heard her laugh, Lu Xi turned back and looked, "will you go?"

Those peach blossom eyes of the man were filled with a surplus of smiles and his face was constantly gentle as well. Those five senses of his that he had inherited from his mother were refined and due to the presence of sharp angles to his features, it made his clear and handsome looks more apparent. With such a smile, under the rarely-seen sunlight of a wintery day, it made him seem even more striking[2].

[2] 丰神如玉 (fēng shén rú yù) – The general meaning of this expression likens a person to have a charming appearance that was handsome and bright; with a face that was like fine jade, an overall disposition that made one appear attractive and intelligent, a bearing that is endlessly distinguished and accomplished. Therefore it was just like a silver jade plant embracing the wind, it made one unable to overlook nor forget it.

It was a rare occurrence when Su Jin was not dazzled by his face and staunchly shook her head.

"Not going."

With a click of his tongue, the look on Lu Xi's face fell as he revealed a wounded expression and pointed to his leg, "are you this heartless?"

Noticing how he had already removed the plaster case and most of the bandages, his leg was only lacking some splints to set it in place; Su Jin gave him a glance and lightly snorted.

It was not even a month, yet this fellow, who had tried to seek favour after doing a good deed, had feigned a pitiful mien endlessly. Who knew how many times he had done so to get her to do things for him.

When Mother had sent over some stewed bone soup, she had ladled out some and held it in front of him. Yet this just-about three-year-old fellow, he had actually asked her to feed him. If she refused, then he would not say anything and simply widened his pair of peach blossom eyes while looking at her. Occasionally, he would peer at his injured leg and this caused her to stiffen and be unable to suppress the guilt in her heart. Thus, in the end, it went as he wished.

However, just this once alone had caused her to feel as if she was on the brink of death.

"My opinion is not important." Su Jin shrugged and showed Lu Xi a smiling face.

"Most importantly, my dad, mom and brother would not agree to this."

Inclining his head to the side as he looked at the charming and beautiful smile of the girl behind him, he then remembered his future parents-in-law and adding on to that, his brother-in-law. Finally, he gave a deep sigh as he abandoned this alluring notion.

In the gentle sunlight, during the two people's rambling, they had walked towards the side of a stone table.

At eleven in the morning, if this was in the summer, then it would definitely be the hottest time of the day. However, in such fine wintery weather, it was the most comfortable period of the day.

Sitting on the wheelchair, Lu Xi had just been playing the latter half of the recently completed edited copies of the television drama. With a slight turn of his head, he saw his family's young lady, who was dressed in a pastel pink coat, leaning against the warm stone table that had been shone on by the sun and had fallen asleep.

As the sunlight mischievously fell on the exposed half of her face, one could clearly see the fine hairs of her cheeks.

Lu Xi could not help but express a smile as he reached a hand out to touch her cheek to have a feel of her temperature. Then, he took the thin blanket draped on his knees and put it over her shoulders.

At a spot not too far away, Su Yue stood at the edge of that little path. As he looked at the pair of lovers on the lawn, no small amount of a contented gaze flashed through his eyes.

Translated by Irisu

Edited by Ely

Kya~ It's a kiss!!! More fluff in the train ahead~ I can't wait to share it with y'all~ Whaddya all think about this chapter? :3

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