An Nuannuan and Yao Mingyue took out a stack of red envelopes from their pockets and distributed one to everyone present.
"Thank you all for helping my Musen, and I wish you all a Happy New Year."
An Nuannuan spoke softly to everyone. Compared to her previous naive and adorable manner, An Nuannuan now truly bore the air of a proprietress capable of holding up half the sky.
"Thank you, proprietress!"
"The proprietress is so generous. For the proprietress, we're all sticking with Musen as our boss, hahaha!"
With red envelopes in hand, the crowd imdiately grinned and winked at Xu Musen.
Xu Musen watched them with a smile, feeling a sense of pride welling up in his heart.
Having a sensible wife at ho sure beats wearing any Rolex or driving a Rolls-Royce Bentley when it cos to prestige.
And to have two such wonderful won, can you handle that?
Just as Xu Musen was basking in self-satisfaction, he felt soone step on his foot.
Zhu Yulan gently bit her pearly white teeth and gave him a stomp before standing up expressionless.
"If there's nothing else, I'll be going back first."
"Won't you stay and have a al together?" Xu Musen asked.
Zhu Yulan rolled her eyes at him. If she really stayed, he would definitely start nagging again.
"I have things to do, I'll owe you one."
After Zhu Yulan finished speaking, she passed by An Nuannuan and the others with a smile, elegantly got into her Ferrari, and drifted away.
The others also left one by one, very tactfully.
Yao Mingyue also spoke up, "I'm going to go shopping with mom today and have a SPA. It's been a long ti since we went out together. I'll also buy so things for Uncle Xu and Auntie Jie, so I won't bother you and Nuannuan."
Yao Mingyue's tone was nostalgic; indeed, she hadn't had the chance to go out with her mother since her leg injury.
Xu Musen looked at her, confirming she wasn't saying sothing against her heart, or perhaps he was just used to the jealousy.
Xu Musen smiled. "Alright."
In a while, Liu Rushuang arrived to drive Yao Mingyue away.
Xu Musen and An Nuannuan waved goodbye to them.
The bubble tea shop, which had just been bustling with noise, was now left with just the two of them.
"The New Year is coming..."
Xu Musen exhaled a breath and turned his head to look at An Nuannuan.
With no outsiders around, An Nuannuan reverted to that pure-eyed, naive and adorable appearance whenever she was by Xu Musen's side.
"Nuannuan."
"Mmm?"
"This year, will you co ho with for the New Year?"
Xu Musen clasped her delicate hand tenderly.
"Haven't we been ho before?" An Nuannuan blinked her clear eyes.
"This ti it's different," Xu Musen smiled and shook his head.
Before, it was more like bringing a girlfriend ho for a quick visit.
But this ti... it's different.
"What's different this ti?"
An Nuannuan also gripped his hand and shook it.
"This ti, it's an official visit. I think..."
Xu Musen paused slightly, gazing into An Nuannuan's bright eyes. His smile was warm yet firm, "I want us to take a step further."
"What does... taking a step further an?" An Nuannuan still asked, but the speed at which she shook his hand noticeably quickened a lot.
The fluttering speed of her large eyes also seed to get faster, as if urging him "Say it quickly, say it!"
Xu Musen smiled, turned around to face her, and slightly bent down, "I would like to invite you to go from being my girlfriend to becoming my fiancée, may I?"
His words seed to lt away so of the chill outside.
An Nuannuan's eyes sparkled, her long, lush eyelashes trembling slightly.
Two people eting, knowing each other, had been two years.
But for her, this mont had been waited for more than just twenty years.
From silently watching him from behind to their first "accidental" encounter.
From lifelong friends to the most desired boyfriend and girlfriend.
And now... a fiancée.
It was rely three changes in titles, yet she had waited far more than twenty years for them.
Looking at Xu Musen's tender gaze, An Nuannuan's cheeks couldn't help but flush a rosy hue.
But she still went up on her tiptoes, "I don't want to hear any more questions from you because you've always been my only choice."
She stood on her tip-toes, her clear eyes now rippling with emotion, revealing long-buried feelings; the tenderness and resolve in those eyes were unwavering, whether in past lives or the present.
Xu Musen was montarily dazed, but finally smiled and took another breath before repeating.
"Nuannuan, I love you. This New Year, I want to formally introduce you to my parents, the girl called An Nuannuan whom I love, I want us to take our relationship further, please promise , I want to be engaged to you!"
This ti, Xu Musen's words held no hesitation or pause. This was a declaration he had rehearsed countless tis in his heart.
An Nuannuan's eyes glead, her clear gaze shimring with a hint of moisture. She didn't respond but raised the tips of her toes the last few milliters and gently kissed him.
"Is that a yes?"
"Didn't I tell you to stop with the questions?"
"You didn't answer, though."
"Hmph."
An Nuannuan looked at him, eyes expectant, a little anxious, and her lips curled into a mischievous smile.
Xu Musen was, of course, a bit nervous as an engagent is a big deal; dating is between two people, but an engagent involves two families.
Dating is youthful recklessness; engagent is commitnt in a relationship.
"Hmph, Grandma likes to eat fish, Grandpa likes to eat crab, my sister likes sweet things, and there's Dad—he likes the pork intestine noodles my mom makes..." An Nuannuan counted off on his fingers one by one.
"Nuannuan, this isn't about food, right?" Xu Musen said, amused yet exasperated.
"Dummy~"
An Nuannuan tightened her grip on his hand, the fingers she had just counted with forming into a warm fist.
An Nuannuan raised her beautiful brows and eyes, a mischievous twinkle amidst her naive and adorable expression, "Of course, I have to take you ho first. This is like helping you cheat to pass the test, my fiancé."
The last three words, sweet as honey, slowly perated Xu Musen's heart, as he gazed at the girl before him.
Truly, it was a fortune to be had in three lifetis.
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