"I am the only one who is willing to cook for you without charging. Can't you cherish me and not bully me? Will that make you lose a piece of meat?"
Tang Yi didn't say anything, but just supported himself on the glass platform, stood between her legs, and looked at her from top to bottom. His eyes were deep, and under the light, they looked like the quiet and deep night sky. Zhao Chuning could clearly see her own shadow reflected in his eyes. She seemed to be frozen for a moment, and didn't move. When she smelled burnt food in her nose, she came to her senses and pushed him away quickly, "The food is burnt."
As she spoke, she was about to slide down from the glass platform. Tang Yi held her thigh tightly with one hand, preventing her from getting down. With his other hand, he turned off the fire skillfully and neatly.
Zhao Chuning stared at him with a tight breath, her eyes clearly wary. She thought he wanted to do something to her here - this man always did that kind of thing based on his own preferences, never caring about her wishes or the occasion. Just as she was about to wave the spatula to drive him away, she heard him suddenly say: "Mimi came to my place tonight and asked me for a favor."
Zhao Chuning just looked at him with a questioning look, waiting for what to come next.
"She asked me to marry you."
"..." Zhao Chuning was stunned for a moment, then said, "Children don't understand anything. You don't have to take her words to heart. I didn't..."
"I have already promised."
"I didn't instruct you... Hmm? What did you say?" Zhao Chuning wanted to finish her words, but after saying one sentence, she paused. She looked at Tang Yi in surprise. Did she hear something just now
"I've already promised her." Tang Yi repeated this sentence, and raised her chin with his long finger in an evil way. He leaned down slightly, and his handsome face approached her face inch by inch. When the tips of their noses were about to touch, he raised his thin lips and said, "I plan to marry you instead."
"..." Zhao Chuning was shocked. His eyelashes fluttered, his lips moved a few times, and he finally squeezed out a few words from his throat, "For... Mimi?"
“I guess so.”
Zhao Chuning thought he was being too absurd.
"Tang Yi, you are..." Treating marriage as a joke. Can the bride change her mind at will? Moreover, he didn't come to ask for her opinion, but to inform her.
"I don't want to hear any rejection now. If you refuse, save it for your daughter." Tang Yi cut her off. The fingers holding her chin slowly rubbed her face, and the wonderful touch made him a little distracted. He whispered, "Anyway, I don't like Mo Liangyan, and she doesn't like me either. Marrying you can not only fulfill her wish, but also make that little girl happy. This is a win-win situation, and it's more cost-effective no matter how you look at it. Isn't it?"
“…” He’s a big-headed ghost!
As a party involved, she is the person who least needs to consider feelings or ask for opinions in this matter.
She moved his hand away and rolled her eyes at him. "Whether you like Miss Mo or not, whether you marry her or not is your business, but whether I marry you or not is my business. You can treat marriage as a joke, but I won't play with you."
After she finished speaking, she pushed Tang Yi aside, stepped down from the glass platform, and poured out the burnt food in the pot.
Tang Yi stood aside and looked at her, and couldn't help but think of what he had just said to Tang Yu. He... loved her? But what was it like to love someone? He thought that he had never loved anyone before.
He took a step back and stared at her. "What kind of man do you want to marry? Cheng Zheng?"
Zhao Chuning paused while serving the rice. She looked at Tang Yi and said, "Cheng Zheng is indeed much more suitable than you."
His eyes narrowed, and his hostility burst out, which was indeed a bit scary. Zhao Chuning was frightened for a moment, and clenched the rice spoon, but still spoke slowly: "Tang Yi, I am not Miss Mo, and I can't tolerate a man who doesn't love me as my husband. The man I want to marry can be not as tall as you, not as handsome as you, and even, he can be penniless..."
He sneered, showing disdain for her words, "Your requirements are really pitifully low."
She can accept any man with that kind of condition, but she can't accept me. Isn't this clearly embarrassing and humiliating him
"Is it a low request? But you can't do it." Zhao Chuning raised her head and met his sneering eyes, with a bit of loneliness but determination in her eyes, "Tang Yi, my only request is that he at least love me. I don't want to be a humble beggar in my future marriage, begging for my husband's love forever."
It seemed understandable that she sincerely hoped for a love relationship. He could see clearly the expectation and loneliness in his eyes.
His thin lips moved several times, and he wanted to say something eagerly. But in the end, a trace of inexplicable pride got stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say a word.
Zhao Chuning looked at him, and his final silence made her eyes dim little by little.
She actually had expectations.
He proposed to her in a domineering way, but she was courting him openly and secretly. However, until now, she still couldn't get him.
"Eat first, or it will get cold if you don't eat now." She regained her composure, served two bowls of rice, and handed them to him, "Take them to the living room. Take the chopsticks with you, they are over there."
She didn't even look at him, but just pointed.
Tang Yi stood there holding the bowl, looking at the chopsticks, and then at her wearing an apron. It was natural for her to command him like this. Besides, no one dared to drive him like this. Tang Yi suddenly felt that this seemed to be the real way to live.
Normally, he lived alone in the hotel, feeling lonely, as if he was abandoned by the world and isolated from the world. Even if he died there one day, the first person to find out would be the hotel's housekeeper, not any of his relatives.
Moreover, at this moment, he actually felt that the feeling of being ordered around by a woman was actually quite good.
Seeing that Tang Yi didn't move for a long time, Zhao Chuning thought that this young master was unwilling to do this, so he opened the disinfection cabinet and prepared to get the chopsticks himself. However, before he touched the chopsticks, a hand had already snatched the chopsticks away.
She withdrew her hand, looked up, and saw only Tang Yi's back as he walked out of the kitchen.
Zhao Chuning stared at him in shock, and her heartbeat was still disturbed when she thought of what he had just said about marrying her. However, a slight bitterness also came with it.
She used to think that this man didn't know how to love, but after he met Mimi, she realized that he did understand and was willing to give everything he had to coax her.
His gentleness and patience can be given to those he loves.
She never got it, probably just because she was not among the people he loved.
That's all.