Jiang Se stretched out his hands, lay on the sofa, and looked up at him with a smile.
Pei Yi was so anxious that his eyes turned red, and he looked around for clothes:
"I'll go buy it."
It was still dark outside, and it was not even seven o'clock yet. Most of the shops in the capital were still closed early. Even if he could persuade them to open early, he was afraid that Jiang Se would go back on his word.
He paused while getting dressed, rolled his eyes, turned on the light in the study, and squatted in front of Jiang Se:
"Sese, is a ring necessary for a marriage proposal?"
He looked pleading and acted coquettishly towards her:
"Can you make it up later? If you make it up later, will you regret it?"
He seemed a little scared when he said this. He stood up and walked around in the study. He was very tall. After two months of separation, he seemed a little thinner and taller. He didn't know if it was Jiang Se's illusion.
Under the light, his shadow was stretched out very long, covering her tightly.
Pei Yi's eyes fell on the desk beside him. Behind the desk was a row of bookshelves. The books on them were all books that Feng Nan had read or liked before, and he had collected every one of them.
There was a pen holder on the table and his eyes lit up.
Pulling out a pen from the pen holder, he licked his lips and sat down cross-legged in front of Jiang Se. Her hand was still stretched out, her fingertips white, tender and slender.
He opened the pen cap and held her hand with some force. The room was heated, but his fingertips were cold and trembling slightly, and he was obviously nervous.
"Sese, can you draw a ring and stamp it first?"
When he asked the question, he did not raise his eyelids to look at her. Instead, he licked his lips and drew two lines on his hand with the pen. After making sure that the tip of the pen would not hurt her and that color appeared, he clenched the pen, took a deep breath, and the tip of the pen touched Jiang Se's fingers. His expression was serious and almost pious. His lips were tightly pursed, and he was drawing a ring, still looking very focused.
The tip of the pen felt a little cold as it moved across her fingers. She looked at the ring he had drawn on her ring finger. He clenched the pen and grinned at her fingers. The ring was clearly drawn, but he felt that it was more beautiful on her hand than any jewelry.
He lowered his head and blew on the wet marks again and again. After they were dry, he reached out and held her fingers:
"Sese, draw one first and fill it in later, okay?" He was afraid that she would refuse, so he kept saying:
"Do what you like then. This is just a representation for now."
He pulled their clasped hands to the side of his face, and handed the pen in his other hand to Jiang Se. He blinked his eyelashes, and when he looked up at her, his slender eyes seemed to be dyed with ink, black and white, with expectation and nervousness, fear of being rejected by her, but also with the expectation that she would agree to his request.
In fact, Pei Yi had no idea whether she would really agree. He raised his pen in front of her, as if holding his true heart, waiting for her reply.
He didn't know how cute he looked at this moment. In Jiang Se's heart, his feelings were more important than jewelry and diamonds.
She had seen too many gorgeous clothes and jewelry, and had owned them before, so they were really not rare for her. But the way he held the pen at this moment touched the softest corner of her heart.
"good."
She reached out to take the pen and nodded.
Pei Yi was nervous at first, and felt that his heart was beating so fast when he was waiting for her response.
When she nodded in agreement, his heart in his chest began to beat wildly, "bang, bang, bang", the sound was so loud that it seemed like it would jump out of his throat. He let out a long breath that he had been holding in his throat, and turned his face to kiss her palm that he held in his palm. Only through this action could he vent his inner excitement at this moment.
He looked at the drawn ring again and again as if it were a treasure. He clenched his fist and stared at it for a long time, not daring to blink, looking very proud.
It was getting brighter outside. After a while, it was already past seven o'clock. Jiang Se went to change clothes, leaving him alone sitting in the study and laughing.
Even though it was freezing and snowy outside, his heart was like a hundred flowers blooming.
He was so happy that he couldn't wait to share it with others. He took out his cell phone and dialed Nie Dan. On the other end of the line, Nie Dan hadn't gotten up yet. As soon as the call was connected, he started swearing. Pei Yi didn't bother with him at this moment.
Nie Dan's curse words sounded like envy and jealous praise to him. He looked out secretly, afraid that Jiang Se would discover his childish behavior:
"A Dan, I proposed to Sese."
On the other end of the phone, Nie Dan was still a little unhappy about being woken up early in the morning. He grinned:
"Sese promised me. Have you seen my ring? I sent it to you in the message. Painted? So what if it's painted? My wife painted it herself..."
He hung up the phone in a good mood, but he still couldn't calm down, so he called Cheng Runing again. When Jiang Se came out after changing clothes, he hadn't washed his face or brushed his teeth yet. He was sitting on the sofa with his upper body naked, talking on the phone, looking like a smug man.
"Ayi, it's half past seven."
She reminded him.
She was going to see Feng Zhongliang later. When he heard Jiang Se calling, he agreed:
"Hey, coming right up."
"Hey~ I'll be right here."
Xiang Qiuji, who was woken up by the noise, said something in a half-hearted way. Master Pei Yi was generous and didn't bother with him, thinking his tone was the face of a jealous villain:
"Okay, I won't talk to you anymore. I have a lot to do today."
He hung up the phone, then jumped up from the sofa. When he washed his face and brushed his teeth, he was afraid that he would wash off the "ring", so he looked very careful.
Feng Zhongliang's home is located in the south of the imperial capital, not far from Pei Yi's original house. It only takes about half an hour to drive there. Needless to say, the houses in the east of the imperial capital are places that cannot be bought with money. The south is a well-known wealthy area. Jiang Se was very familiar with this place before her rebirth. After her rebirth, she had thought about returning here countless times, but she didn't expect that one day when she wanted to return to "her own" home, she would still need to be led by Pei Yi.
When she thought of this, she couldn't help but hold Pei Yi's hand tighter.
It was not yet nine o'clock when the two of them arrived. Feng Zhongliang always got up early. When the car entered the Feng family's house, Pei Yi threw the car keys to the Feng family's security guard. When he pulled Jiang Se out of the car, Feng Zhongliang, leaning on a cane, had been waiting at the door for a long time.
He should have been standing here waiting when he heard the message from the security guard at the front door saying that they were coming.
It rained last night. Although the rain had stopped in the morning, the weather was still very cold. He wore a gray Zhongshan suit inside and a black cashmere jacket outside. He was meticulous, with his back straight, and his expression was as serious as the last time they met at Pei's house.
But Jiang Se found that after not seeing him for nearly a year, his grandfather seemed to have lost a lot of weight and looked older. (To be continued)