Perfect Fiancé Chapter 29

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Anyways, please enjoy Chapter 29! ?

The atmosphere was still.

Lu Xi reached out to pat Su Jin's head and spoke in a low voice, "I'll go and change my clothes, but don't cop out of paying, okay."

Cop out of paying? Su Jin let out a sound of slight indignation and responded with an arched eyebrow, "go, go. Although I, this financial backer of yours, cannot give you whatever you want so easily, I can still pay for a dress s.h.i.+rt."

"If it was Jin'er," with a small smile, Lu Xi looked at her with light laughter in his eyes, "giving your heart to me would be good enough."

"You wish." Su Jin's face turned slightly red and she pushed him, "hurry up and change because once I buy this, I won't be beholden to you anymore."

Lu Xi quietly laughed and compliantly went into the fitting room.

Walking out side by side, the two people left the store front of this shop without even gracing Zhao Wenze, who stood there with his expression constantly changing like the colours on a palette, with the slightest glance.

"What do you want to eat for lunch?" Lu Xi took the shopping bag in Su Jin's hand and looked at his watch, "it's past twelve already."

"What?" Su Jin was surprised and smoothly pulled Lu Xi's arm to look at the watch on his wrist.

12.15pm.

"What a relief. I have an appointment with someone to discuss some matters at half-past twelve at the cafe opposite this mall." Su Jin sighed in relief, "thankfully, I have not missed it."

"Discuss some matters?" Lu Xi slightly arched an eyebrow, "do you want me to accompany you?"

"Um…" Su Jin furrowed her eyebrows in thought and tilted her head as she asked, "since you are in the entertainment industry, are you familiar with contracts about novels adapted into screenplays?"

"Contract? Novel adaptation?" Lu Xi's eyes shone brightly and nodded, "I'm fairly familiar with them."

Fairly familiar?

Thinking back to the time when he hacked into those secret websites and afterwards he had mentioned the phrase 'it was nothing', Su Jin inwardly nodded. Fairly familiar, then that probably meant he was adept in them.

As she pondered on this, she glanced at the man who stood beside her with a smile on his face. Her lips curled as she continued politely, "then I will have to thank you, Mr Lu, for your trouble then."

"No, no, you flatter me." Lu Xi nodded as he stroked his bright and clean chin.

Yep, it would be even more effective if he had a white beard on him, then he would really have an aura of having a divine poise like an old sage.

Looking at Lu Xi's deadpan expression, Su Jin bit her lip. But in the end, she could not help but burst out in laughter.

As they were conversing, the two people had walked towards the elevator. With a hand supporting the young lady who had doubled over with laughter, he used his other hand, that was carrying the two shopping bags, to press the downwards b.u.t.ton.

"Ding—-"

The crisp and sharp sound of the elevator rang.

Standing upright as she tried to calm herself and recover her breathing, Su Jin strode into the elevator after Lu Xi.

There were a total of four elevators in the shopping mall and they encircled the heart of the shopping mall to form a circle. Other than the doors, the surrounding walls of the elevators were made of gla.s.s. The speed of the elevator as it descended was unhurried; the intentions of this design was to allow customers who made use of the elevator to admire the entire aesthetic appeal of the shopping mall.

Probably due to it not being a public holiday, there were not many people in the shopping mall today so the elevator just happened to also be empty.

As the door closed, Su Jin stepped back a step and leaned backwards, the grip of her hand holding onto the handrail slightly tightening.

Then, a warm palm covered hers snugly, startling Su Jin. As she raised her head, her eyes locked upon Lu Xi's somewhat worried countenance.

With a light curl of her lips, she shook her head and her body turned again to lean against the handrail. As she gazed out of the gla.s.s, her breathing gradually relaxed.

Subconsciously, due to her suppressed memories of the event, she had not been aware of the upheaval of her emotions and therefore, she was to some extent uneasy as she took the elevator.

It wasn't until the incident in the darkness of the warehouse happened, and she recovered her memories, that she understood.

As it turned out, she was suffering from a mild case of claustrophobia.

The good thing was that it was minor, thus it would be alright if she could overcome it.

While pondering this, she observed a glitzy billboard outside the gla.s.s aimlessly. Then, she suddenly recalled Zhao Wenze's mien that was like a coloured palette before at the store.

"Speaking of which," turning her head back as she ribbed Lu Xi, "has young master Lu never been pursued by such cra.s.s means before? And, it was by a man too. Hehe, I have never seen the self-proclaimed suave Zhao Wenze show this sort of expression."

"Why?" Hearing this, Lu Xi slightly arched an eyebrow. His head lowered to her ear, he murmured, "jealous?"

The tepid breath wafted over her ears and her neck shrunk back. Startled, Su Jin instinctively took a sidestep.

"What nonsense?" She glanced at him, "I'm just unused to him s.n.a.t.c.hing without asking…"

Su Jin's tone paused.

"s.n.a.t.c.hing what?" Lu Xi reclined against the handrail of the gla.s.s with a slight smile on his lips.

s.n.a.t.c.hing what's mine.

Su Jin pointedly swallowed that incomplete phrase into her stomach.

When did, had he, become part of what she had roped into what she considered as 'hers'?

"s.n.a.t.c.h… …" She paused and properly spat out a phrase, "a gentleman from a good family."(1)

(1)  (liáng jiā fù nán) 良家妇男 – there is no accurate phrase in the English language for this. 'Liang jia' means a good family and 'fu nan' means a house husband, and separately, these words do make some sense. However, as an idiom, the meaning of these words become clearer. This means a gentleman of a good family who has no vices (such as drinking, gambling, smoking and cavorting) and is capable of doing house ch.o.r.es and cooking. In summary, this is likely to be praising a man for being ideal.

Though she spat out this phrase, Lu Xi had no reaction. However, on the contrary, Su Jin herself could not help but laugh.

"I had thought that Jin'er would say 's.n.a.t.c.h what's yours.'" Lu Xi faintly sighed and stepped a few paces forward and stood only a foot's distance away from Su Jin.

"But, Jin'er, I'm jealous, you know."

The man's voice was mellow, and that voice fluttered smoothly and tenderly over her ears.

"What?" Su Jin was shocked and in puzzlement, she glanced up at him.

"Zhao Wenze, the youngest master of the Zhao family and the younger biological brother of Zhao Wenhua. His loose and uninhibited behaviour," His long lashes blinked and covered the flash of coldness in his eyes as he continued, "does not abstain from neither men nor women."

All this… …She already knew.

Wait, she abruptly realised.

Could it be…

"That's right." When he saw that Su Jin understood, Lu Xi confirmed her speculation with a nod, "when he looked at you, his gaze was filled with dazzlement and also-"

"Greed."

"Jin'er, you are mine." In the depths of his peach blossom eyes, a familiar flame surfaced.

Su Jin was shocked and out of the blue, she somehow understood what that blazing flame meant.

It was probably the desire to possess.

In front of her, it appeared that he had never masked his thoughts of her and instead, he had openly bared everything.

It was probably because he was too honest and broad-minded that she had not actually perceived the slightest bit of danger, and because of this… …Bit by bit, she had fallen in…

While Su Jin was looking at him with a distracted expression and a gap in her defences, Lu Xi raised his hand up and sketched out her silhouette in the empty s.p.a.ce.

"Your eyebrows are mine, your eyes are mine, your nose is mine, your lips are mine, all of them belong to me." He let out a small sound of indignation, "he shouldn't even think about it (possessing her)!"

"How old are you?" Su Jin asked with a raised eyebrow as she ignored the complicated thoughts that flashed across her mind.

"Oh." Lu Xi was in deep thought for a while, then, "probably around-"

"- 3 years old."

At this, Su Jin could not help it. The edge of her lips curled into a large grin and with a low tone, she enticingly coaxed, "be good, and call me Jiejie then."

Translated by Irisu

Edited by Ely