Chapter 312. Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (4)
When he said this, she was startled and she peered up at him. Her eyes twinkled like the stars as they brimmed with a faint glimmer. A while after that, she muttered, “Didn’t we decide on October first? We’ll have more time then.”
“I don’t want to wait too long. It’s not a bad thing to have our wedding. Just let Grandmother handle it, hmm?”
He held her hand, the faint gleam on her ring finger flickering gently. He gazed down, then held her tightly. “I want to marry you sooner. I want to let other people know that you’re mine.”
When Xi Xiaye heard this, her heart trembled. She slowly gazed down and let him hold her hands tightly till they hurt, but she did not say anything.
“If you don’t say anything, I’m going to take it as a yes,” he said, lifting his hands to hold her frail shoulders and pulling her gently into his embrace. He planted an emotional kiss on her forehead before he breathed in and said in a lowered voice, “That way, we can save the trouble. We have to do it sooner or later anyway, so it might as well be sooner.”
“But…”
“No buts. You just have to be a bride when the time comes. You don’t have to worry about anything else. Hmm?” His voice was sensitive and gentle. It even carried a fatal seductiveness. His wise eyes that could see through everything were filled with a distant vortex. As she watched them, she found it hard to pull away. Instead, she fell deeply into his gaze bit by bit, and was extremely attracted to him.
He locked onto the gleam in her eyes and said tenderly, “I’ll give you a grand wedding. After the magnificent curtain call, our lives will return to this peace. Whatever anyone else has, you can have too.”
When he said this, Xi Xiaye felt her heart soften. She felt touched in a way that could not be described. With a deep inhale, she stared at him in contemplation. A while after that, she asked softly, “Why are you so…?”