Perfect Fiancé Chapter 52

Chapter 52: Formal Wear Preparing this sort of clothes design seems hard…

As expected, just like what Gege had said, Madam Lu seemed to really like her?

In the depths of her heart, she was a little moved. While on the surface, Su Jin had shown a lovable smile towards this unfamiliar n.o.ble madam before her.

Truthfully, if one needed to describe their relations.h.i.+p, she was not entirely unfamiliar with her. Lu Xi's mother was known as Dong Xue and her father was a reputed calligrapher in Beijing. He had been extremely doting towards this sole daughter of his and as for her, Dong Xue and Lu Boan; they had both known each other since they were young. They were a couple who were innocent childhood friends/playmates who had become sweethearts and after their marriage, their feelings for each other had deepened greatly. She had swiftly recalled all this information from the recesses of her brain in a flash and Su Jin looked upon this lady before her. Although she had already pa.s.sed her own golden jubilee years[1], yet in her appearance, she was as childlike and innocent a woman as before. Seeing this, Su Jin felt a slight wisp of envy towards her.

[1] 天命之年 (tiān mìng zhī nián) – This refers to 50 years, it comes from the phrase, 'when you are fifty, one knows the heaven's will' by The a.n.a.lects of Confucius: Serving as Politic Articles. It explains that when one reaches fifty years old, or their golden jubilee years, one would know the difficulties between ideals and reality. Therefore, when one does something, they would no longer stubbornly pursue something to bear fruit. It is explained as one would still remain dedicated to forget one's meals and to be so happy to overlook one's worries, but what changed for a person was that they would be indifferent about achieving a great reputation or disgrace through their years of legacy.

It could be a.s.sumed that Uncle Lu was truly very in love with her so that she could remain, unchanged even for a day, as innocent as a child for several decades. All so she would have a sincere heart like a pure and innocent babe that had never been polluted by the dust and tar of the world.

"Good child, may I call you Xiao Jin?" Seeing this rather pure and slim girl before her, when Dong Xue recalled how this young girl had kept vigil over the hospital bed of her own family's son, the measure of her good opinion of this girl could not help but slowly rise.

"Of course you can." Her lips curled into a smile and when she raised her gaze to look at Dong Han's peach blossom eyes that were alight with smiles; all of a sudden, Su Jin had actually been slightly dazzled by the view.

Speaking of which, these two young masters of the Lu Family: the older who resembled the father, Lu Jing was fresh, elegant, grave and stern while the second brother, Lu Xi resembled his mother's refined looks; he had some hints of manly grace and handsomeness. Especially with those pair of peach blossom eyes, it was extremely similar to his mother's.

As for men, peach blossom eyes mostly appeared distinguished, romantic and pa.s.sionate. When that very feature was on women, it could be described in two words, lovely and charming.

Although Dong Xue's golden jubilee years had already pa.s.sed, still her life was happy and she had maintained her body suitably well. Moreover, with her born and bred temperament that she had since she was young- at this moment while she may have some faint wrinkles, still, that could not conceal the liveliness and charmingness in those pair of eyes. Now, with her heartfelt favourable impression towards Su Jin, there was a smile in the well of her eyes that bore more resemblance to Lu Xi's.

"You must have been tired after taking care of Xiao Tuan during these past few days, right? Look, you've lost some weight." Dong Xue drew Su Jin's hand towards herself while there were some distress and pampering in her tone.

Xiao Tuan?

Su Jin blinked her eyes and a trace of laughter could be seen in those beautiful phoenix eyes.

Xiao Tuan = Lu Xi?

Su Chenghai and Han Meng had shared a glance and the both of them were somewhat helpless over how Dong Xue had intimately and warm-heartedly pulled Su Jin to face her to talk. It was as if…… Su Jin was their daughter, right? Was this her stealing their lines?

Still, despite their grudging helplessness, seeing their own family's daughter getting along intimately with her future mother-in-law, the two people now felt rather at ease. At the very least, when she would marry into their family later, it seemed that they need not worry about that little girl being taken advantage of.

On the other hand, Dong Xue had already introduced the other two men in the Lu Family to Su Jin.

When a bunch of people had entered the patient's room, on the contrary, Lu Xi was not surprised by his parents' presence and only questioned with a raised eyebrow when he saw Lu Jin, "Ge, wasn't I only in a coma for five days, why are you still here? Has Yan He not called you thrice a day to urge you back?"

Yan He was Lu Jing's special a.s.sistant and had followed Lu Jing for close to ten years. No matter if it was in capability or in position, despite his role still remaining as a special a.s.sistant, he was not lacking in comparison to the vice-chairman.

Hearing this, Lu Jing's cold face gradually warmed as a shallow smile surfaced.

"You had been in a coma all this while, how could I be at ease to return."

Unlike Lu Xi's deep, elegant and low voice, his voice was like that appearance of his; it had been more cool and cold.

The eldest young master of the Lu Family's personality was cold and cool and Su Jin blinked as she saw that slight curl at the edge of his lips and that pair of eyes of Lu Jing's that were filled with gentleness. In the depths of her mind, two large words suddenly appeared.

Brother complex.

Hearing this, Lu Xi laughed and greeted everyone present.

"Lu Xi." Standing by the bedside, Su Chenghai saw that the complexion on the man in the bed had finally regained some colour as he spoke, "this time, I have to thank you."

Without even saying why he gave his thanks, everyone was well aware of why he did so.

In such a car accident, for Su Jin who had been sitting in the front pa.s.senger seat to be entirely unharmed, all that could be credited to or rather, be blamed on this man who had given his life to try and protect them both.

Speaking of this, even the three Lu family members had looked over to them.

Most of all, it was Dong Xue who paid most heed to this as she was the one who clearly understood what both of her sons were like. Although her eldest son had a cool and cold personality, he still had a childhood friend, Xiao Ya, who was beside him. The bystander was most clear; the two people would sooner or later have their relations.h.i.+p come to fruition. Although she had always pressed him, still she was not too worried either.

The one who made her worried the most was her youngest son. Although on the surface, Lu Xi seemed gentle, the truth was that he was fundamentally arrogant and indifferent. Granted he was now in the peak of his adolescence[2], however, she had never seen him particularly friendly with any young lady. Therefore, when the old father Lu had initially brought up this arranged betrothal of the minors between these two families, she had used the excuse of not being able to break apart Lu Jing and Xiao Ya's fated and predestined marriage to push this engagement to her little son. She had no intentions of forcing him and had merely asked him to have a gander. After which, once the two people had interacted for a while, if there was truly no affinity or affection between them they would then let this matter pa.s.s. Yet she did not expect that her own family's son would actually fall headfirst into love's web and for this future wife of his, he would even give up his own life. That is, it was great that this mother-in-law of hers was broadminded and had also been longing for a daughter-in-law for so many years now; otherwise, if this was someone else, who knows how much they would have made this daughter-in-law of theirs suffer then.

[2] 青春萌动 (qīng chūn méng dòng) – This refers to the peak of adolescence where one is finally interested in the opposite s.e.x (or in the act itself) or is at the point of realizing one's s.e.xuality and interests/preferences to the attractive traits of their lover/partner.

"Uncle Su." Lu Xi leaned against the divan of the bed, showing with a slight curl on his lips, a slight and faint smile, "this was what I should have done."

To have said this in front of her parents, this comment of his was not too excessive. It was even said in a very restrained manner; yet for some reason, under the exposure of everyone's attentive gazes, Su Jin had actually flushed.

"Ge, are you returning to Beijing tomorrow?" Lu Xi raised his gaze to ask.

"En," Lu Jin nodded, "at the company's end, if I push Yan He any further, he would come over to murder me already."

"Then what about you, Mom and Dad?"

"We……" Lu Boan had just begun to speak when his sleeve had been pulled by his wife. He stopped and then looked towards his family's wife.

"Lately, both Boan and I don't have anything we have to hurry for and since we've already come to Shenhai, then why don't we organise an engagement ceremony for the two children?" Dong Xue suggested this while looking towards Su Chenghai and Han Meng with a rather inquiring intent on her gaze.

Engagement ceremony?

The eyes of everyone present shone.

Su Chenghai and Han Meng's eyes met for a moment; as a couple for so many years, naturally, they could understand the meaning within each other's eyes.

"That's good too." Su Chenghai nodded and chuckled, "although we have a marriage contract between our two families, yet we still have not prepared a proper engagement ceremony. What do you feel about it?"

This last phrase was posed to ask the two direct parties involved.

Su Jin blinked and the flush in her cheeks from before had yet to subside as she heard this question. With that, she could only face the gazes of everyone present with a nod.

Naturally, Lu Xi could possibly have no objections or complaints to that matter. Although he could hardly wait for that engagement to become a marriage immediately, still his young lady had yet to graduate from university so he too did not expect that his father-in-law would agree to that notion of his.

"Alright, it's decided then." With a smile on her face, Dong Xue clapped her hands in delight as she pulled Han Meng and continued, "come, come, come, Meng Meng, we need to look into deciding the day."

Due to Lu Xi's presently ill state, after consulting the doctor's opinion, the two families had talked over and set the date of the engagement ceremony to be on the 15th of February. It was the final day of Valentine's Day, which was coincidentally on the 23rd of the 12th month in the lunar calendar. It was also on a date that was a week before Chinese New Year. Moreover, it was also the day when Sheng Ming Corporation began it's New Year holidays.

Su Jin sat by Lu Xi's bedside with her back facing the window. As the backlighting from the light golden rays of sunset filtered in through the window and fell upon her body, she lowered her head slightly. Her facial features were a little fuzzy and only revealed a dim silhouette.

"Jin'er." Seeing the movement in the girl's hands stopping, Lu Xi called out.

"Hm?" Su Jin raised her eyes as she looked at him.

In those limpid and glittering phoenix eyes, one could clearly see his reflection reflected in those pitch-black pupils of hers.

That gaze was too concentrated on him that unexpectedly, Lu Xi had somewhat become absent-minded.

"Lu Xi?" Discontentedly, Su Jin pouted as she called out once more.

Lu Xi snapped back to his senses and received the apple and fruit knife from Su Jin, then while pulling out a piece of tissue paper to help her clean her fingers, he also asked, "what sort of formal attire do you like? Chinese or Western-style?"

Su Jin stared blankly before she asked in reply, "has there ever been anyone who wore Chinese-style formal clothes to be engaged in?"

"Why not?" Lu Xi kneaded the la.s.s' soft little hand in his as his lips curled, "the wedding is ours, who cares how others' formal wear is supposed to be like?"

With a click of his tongue, he had said this.

Su Jin pounced on one of the crucial points in that sentence with a slight raise of an eyebrow, "wedding?"

The girl's phoenix eyes were lightly stirred with glimmering waves of emotions in them that even a teasing gaze of hers could bring out her absolute loveliness.

"Ahem." Lu Xi lightly coughed and s.h.i.+fted his gaze away from hers as he spoke, "it was a slip of the tongue."

A slip of the tongue?

Su Jin shot him a glance and hid the laughter in her eyes.

What slip of the tongue, it was just this man who could barely wait to get married right away right?

"Jin'er, how about I design our formal wear?" Looking at the expression of his family's young lady, Lu Xi swiftly changed topics.

"You?" As expected, Su Jin had been easily swept away from it and yet as she heard this, she was somewhat doubtful, "you can design clothes?"

"Is this you looking down on me?" Lu Xi raised a brow too, "do you still remember that hanfu I gave you the last time?"

"Of course." Su Jin nodded and instantly reacted, "you?"

Those were the exact same words, yet it was a completely different tone each time.

Without a comment, Lu Xi simply nodded.

"But……" Su Jin tilted her head as she gave him a measuring glance, "originally, hanfus do have a preset pattern."

"That was designed by me too!" Lu Xi was so upset and bitter. Still, he reached out to pat the young lady's head, "come on, why don't you tell me what sort of design you like."

"Then," Su Jin rolled her eyes, "what if I like both styles?"

Liked both Western and Chinese styles?

At first, Lu Xi was flabbergasted. Then, he finally came to his senses. This girl; was this her not trusting in his skills so she had decided to have him have a feel for what might have seemed difficult and then retreat to avoid being defeated?

Was this not just a fusion of the two styles? Did she think that his thousand years and more of living were for naught?

Still……

"Hm, it's a little difficult, but I will do my best." He blinked, "seeing that I will be putting in so much effort, so even if it's no good, Jin'er would still wear it right?"

Fixated, those beautiful peach blossom eyes stared at the girl before him and as he raised his jaw towards the bandaged leg of his, the depths of his eyes were filled with laughter.

This was him asking for something in return for the good favour he had done right? Isn't that so?

Su Jin sighed and looked at the person before her, no matter what she could not even utter the word no.

Forget it, since both of them were going to wear it, then it was no matter if both of them seemed embarra.s.sing!

Holding onto the notion of facing death with equanimity, Su Jin gritted her teeth with a nod.

Translated by Irisu

Edited by TokyoFool

I do love sweet family fluff and dog food like this from a couple~ ❤

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