Chapter 379 - I Dont Need You, I Want You (2) (1/2)
All the people there were focusing their eyes on Su Yicheng, while n.o.body knew when the lights in the banquet hall had dimmed. Finally, they saw the gentle candlelight and the sweet red roses.
Su Yicheng stepped down from the rostrum and walked straight toward Luo Xiaoxi.
The people who were standing beside Luo Xiaoxi stepped back, forming a circle around her. The candlelight shone around them and the banquet hall was filled with the aroma of roses, which produced a romantic atmosphere.
Su Yicheng stopped in front of Luo Xiaoxi. He stared at her with unparalleled sincerity and love. With the candlelight in his eyes, he looked tender and soft as water.
He raised his hands and gently wiped away the tears from Luo Xiaoxi’s face, saying, “Xiaoxi, thank you.”
Luo Xiaoxi tried to say in a calm voice, “You say thank you… and then? If you are saying that you won’t love me and you want to thank me for annoying you in the past 10 years, for which you realized who you really love, I will pummel you.”
“I want to thank you for your perseverance,” Su Yicheng said. “If you had given up, who’s proposing to you tonight might be another man. I would have regretted it.”
“Proposing?”
Luo Xiaoxi just realized that she was nearly inundated with the candlelight and the flowers. The rose petals all over the floor smelled pleasant as the candlelight shone; it was soft and sweet.
People around them were all smiling brightly as if they had understood all of that.
While she stood there blankly, Su Yicheng knelt on one knee, saying, “Xiaoxi, will you marry me?”
His words seemed to have come from deep within his heart, and they rammed heavily into Luo Xiaoxi’s ears.
Those were the most pleasant words that Luo Xiaoxi had ever heard.
“I see. The most beautiful words are those from my beloved,” she thought.
“Xiaoxi, I love you,” Su Yicheng said with extremely deep love, “though I realized who I really love after 10 years. Fortunately, you didn’t give up. So—marry me before it’s too late. I want to be with you forever.”
He opened a jewelry box, inside which was a perfectly-cut diamond ring.
Luo Xiaoxi touched the ring, saying, “Have you realized that you need me instead of a brilliant and capable woman?”
“I don’t need you,” Su Yicheng said, “I want you now, and I want you for the rest of our lives.”
The word “want” meant much more than the word “need”, which made the crowd begin to hum with excitement.
Luo Xiaoxi turned her lips into a smile, not hiding her happiness at all.
She took the ring out of the black velvet box and handed it to Su Yicheng. She said, “Yes, I will.”
At that moment, Su Yicheng was probably the most excited he had ever been in his whole life.
His heart was beating fast with overwhelming joy and his hands began to tremble. But it didn’t matter because he could still place the ring on Luo Xiaoxi’s finger.
There is a saying that goes “A man’s fingers are linked with his heart”. He thought, “Her finger has been ringed by a hard diamond, and so has her heart. That way, she will never leave me all her life.”
A great cheer rose up from the crowd. Luo Xiaoxi smiled with her lips pressed together and she said, “Now we should kiss each other.”
As soon as her voice died down, Su Yicheng held her with his arms around her waist, lowered his head, and kissed her lips.
With the camera lights flas.h.i.+ng wildly, the reporters from the main magazines and newspapers called their headquarters. “Big hit! Su Yicheng proposed to Luo Xiaoxi at the anniversary. Now remove all the previous reports about them! I’m sending the photos to you, report it at once! The engagement diamond ring and Luo Xiaoxi’s dress have long stories, I’ll dig them up!”
The reporters were in chaos, while Su Yicheng and Luo Xiaoxi could hardly tear themselves away from each other’s kiss.
It seemed that only by kissing heartily like that could they make sure what had just happened was real. And only by kissing in that way could they calm themselves down.
“It’s been two minutes!” The extremely excited and gossipy crowd checked the time and yelled, “Hold on and kiss for nine minutes, then your love will last long!”
If kissing for nine minutes, the two would be out of breath.
When they kissed for three minutes, Su Yicheng released Luo Xiaoxi, gently staring at her, with his arms still held tightly around her waist.
He said in a firm and thrilled voice, “They all witnessed that you agreed to marry me. From now on, you are mine.”
Luo Xiaoxi sniffed. “I say that you are mine!”
Instead of arguing with her over that, Su Yicheng gave Luo Xiaoxi a deep kiss and said in a soft voice, “No one will shout insults at you anymore.”
Luo Xiaoxi was temporarily at a loss. She asked, “Is that why you chose to propose tonight?”
“Not exactly,” Su Yicheng said. “All of your friends were aware of it when you were wooing me. If I want you to marry me, why shouldn’t I shock the entire city?”
He would repay Luo Xiaoxi double the love for what she had done.
Luo Xiaoxi giggled happily with sweetness in her whole heart.
At that moment, Su Yicheng realized that the usually arrogant and aggressive Luo Xiaoxi would easily be pleased.
Once he heartily loved and cared for her, she would feel like she owned the whole world.
Su Yicheng suddenly thought that he was lucky to be loved by Luo Xiaoxi. Otherwise, she would have suffered a lot if she had loved someone who would only take advantage of her.
The lights in the banquet hall were turned on again as the emcee returned to the rostrum. He started with “Wow,” and added, “the proposal just now was a real surprise and romance.” Then he motioned for the sound designer to turn on the music, and a beautiful waltz came on.