Chapter 742 - Marry Me (1/2)
Looking at Qin Gengxin, who was playing with his daughter on the merry-go-round, Xian Guiying smiled as she raised her phone to take a picture. Looking at the child's fixed smile in the photo, she felt extremely satisfied.
It was sweeter than it had ever been before.
After a while, Qin Gengxin brought out cotton candy and handed it to her. ”I didn't expect that there would be people selling this kind of thing in this part of the United States.”
”Don't you know that small traders are everywhere? The places where they can make money must have everything visitors want.” Xian Guiying said as she looked at Qin Wenqian, who was sitting on a swing not too far away. She's also eating the cotton candy with a happy expression.
Xian Guiying then said softly with a smile, ”Being able to come to the amusement park with her parents is a dream she has had since she was almost two years old.”
Qin Gengxin sat beside her and watched his daughter swing around on the swing. ”What did you tell her at that time?
”Tell what?”
”When Qianqian wants her father, when she asks you where her father is, and when she says this dream, what did you say to her?” Qin Gengxin looked at her.
Xian Guiying pursed her lips. She knew that he was just curious about how she described him to his daughter. Otherwise, how could Qin Wenqian be so happy when she first saw Qin Gengxin?
”No matter how cold and desperate my heart was, I didn't want to wipe away her love and expectations towards her father. I only told her that her father had to work and had gone on a long business trip. He might not be back for a long time, and he might not come back.”
Qin Gengxin put his arm around her shoulders and pushed her head against his shoulder.
She could feel his silent apology. Ever since the two of them rekindled, Xian Guiying could feel Qin Gengxin's love and regret towards her all the time. He knew that the years he had lost would never come back, but he was trying his best to make them happy.
Someone once said that the greatest happiness is when you hold the person you love the most.
This kind of hug from him, Xian Guiying had been waiting for it for twelve years. Right now, she was filled with the bright and clear joy of being able to see the light of day. She didn't have that much sadness anymore and she felt that she had to cherish it.
Xian Guiying leaned on Qin Gengxin's shoulder, closed her eyes, and said softly, ”Qin Gengxin, before we returned, I received a call from your grandmother.”
He looked down at her.
”She said she hoped the two of us would live a good life and not let the past affect our hard-won feelings. She went through a lifetime of resentment and at the end, when the two men who loved her the most had left her, she knew that it was only because she did not know how to cherish them and that it was not entirely their fault. She said it was because she was too stubborn. There were some things that she could have put down, but she was so stubborn about what she should do and what she shouldn't do. In the end, she hurt two men and she, herself, didn't get anything.”
”She told me that a lot of things in this world are not perfect. There are all kinds of pain and suffering under happiness on the surface, and we have already experienced all kinds of suffering, so we shouldn't hurt our future selves, and we should embrace and cherish each other.”
”After I returned to the United States, my heart had always been at peace. With such a simple life, instead of working at Xian Enterprise, I would prefer to stay at home, take care of our children, and wait for you to come back from work. Everyone says that no one dares to love a strong woman like me, but in reality, every woman has their childish side and desire for something in their bones.”
”To embrace each other, to cherish each other.” Qin Gengxin muttered the words Xian Guiying had just said as he lightly embraced her shoulders. Suddenly, he took out an exquisite little velvet box from his jean's pocket and placed it in front of her.
Xian Guiying, who was leaning on his shoulder, looked at the small velvet box that held the ring. She immediately laughed and rolled her eyes. She stood up but didn't accept the box. Instead, she smiled and said, ”What are you doing?”
Qin Gengxin raised his brows. ”Propose you.”
”Our daughter is already so old, why are you asking for marriage? What's so special about it? Isn't our life pretty good now? Actually, we don't need to --”
Before she could finish her words, fireworks shot out from the flat ground in the amusement park where the two of them were sitting, lighting up the night sky.
Qin Wenqian happily jumped down from the swing, waving the cotton candy in her hand as she laughed and shouted, ”So beautiful!”
Xian Guiying was stunned for a moment as she lifted her eyes to look at the fireworks in the sky. For a moment, she seemed to recall the time when she was also fond of watching fireworks. At that time, she was really young.