Lu Xing was stunned, then stepped forward to ask with concern, "Mr. Yan, are you alright?"
Yan Jue shook his head and looked at the footprints on his white shirt.
"It tickled, what could be wrong."
"Mr. Yan, if I may say so, Miss Tang has not been very stable lately."
"Shut up!" Yan Jue reprimanded.
"What does it matter to you how she is."
Lu Xing: ...
Alright, it's true, one should never interfere in a couple's affairs, or one will end up on the wrong side.
As Tang Xiaomin stepped out of the elevator, she bumped into Yan Jue. She had no idea how he managed to come down to intercept her.
She ignored him as if he were air and walked straight past.
"Minmin, listen to me, I can explain..."
"Get out of the way! I don't want to hear it!"
Yan Jue didn't move aside, but he still couldn't stop the furious Tang Xiaomin.
She walked, he chased, relentlessly.
"Minmin, you know, when you told me about the engagement banquet, I was really happy."
...
Tang Xiaomin didn't react. He simply ran ahead of her, talking to her while backing away.
"For a long time now, I've wanted to marry you. But you always dangled me with various excuses. Finally, you agreed to date me."
...
"If there's one thing that keeps me steadfast, it's marrying you."
...
"No matter what I've done wrong to upset you, I apologize first, and I'll change. Let's make up, Minmin."
The first rule of relationships: apologize to your girlfriend immediately, regardless of whether it's your fault.
Yan Jue's direct, "steel-straight-man" style of admitting fault immediately worked. Tang Xiaomin indeed stopped in her tracks.
However, her gaze towards him still burned with anger.
"It's not your fault, it has nothing to do with you."
Under certain circumstances, women say the opposite of what they mean, and this was one such situation.
If Tang Xiaomin said it wasn't Yan Jue's fault, then he must have been wrong.
Yan Jue's mind raced as he tried to recall what had happened earlier. He remembered Tang Xiaomin asking him when they were getting engaged.
Could it be about the engagement banquet?
And that time she said there was something important she wouldn't remind him about.
Now, Yan Jue was certain of the reason for Tang Xiaomin's anger.
As usual, he dotingly reached out to touch Tang Xiaomin's face, but she turned her head away and dodged him.
At this moment, she was like a petulant, immature young girl, not to be trifled with.
Even though she gave him a cold shoulder, Yan Jue had plenty of patience to coax her, as he cherished her.
"Not long ago, I booked a venue at the Modu Grand Hotel. Later, I got too busy with work and didn't have time to check the decorations. How about you accompany me there?"
What kind of venue had Yan Jue booked?
Tang Xiaomin froze. Thinking of a certain possibility, her arrogant demeanor immediately subsided, and her angry eyes lowered.
Could it be that Yan Jue had actually been preparing for the engagement banquet all along?
Then, her angry kick wasn't unreasonable at all, but rather excessive...
Looking at Yan Jue again, his eyes were playful, a half-smile on his lips, as if he had already figured her out.
After a long stalemate, Tang Xiaomin neither agreed nor refused.
After all... what if Yan Jue had truly prepared everything? She would be utterly humiliated today.
"Let's go, I'll take you to see it."
Yan Jue pulled Tang Xiaomin into the car and they left in a hurry.
Lu Xing, who was hiding in the shadows and watching, was speechless, thinking that one really couldn't take a couple's arguments seriously.
One moment they were fighting, and the next they were holding hands. It was utterly ridiculous. If you take it seriously, you lose.
Tang Xiaomin remained silent all the way, trying to maintain her righteous stance.
It wasn't until she was led into a banquet hall that was exquisitely romantic yet dignified that her stance could no longer be maintained and crumbled.
So, without her knowledge, he had actually meticulously prepared the engagement banquet.
An unprecedented wave of awkwardness washed over her, her face burning all the way to her neck, wishing she could disappear into a crack in the ground.
As if it were not bad enough, Yan Jue deliberately asked for her opinion.
"Minmin, how do you like the decorations here?" Su Dan Novel Network
At this moment, Tang Xiaomin wished she were blind, deaf, and mute.
The more she tried to avoid it, the more Yan Jue escalated.
"Minmin, feel free to voice any opinions you have. We still have time, so it's not too late to make changes."
"Before long, everyone in the city will know that you are my fiancée."
...
When Tang Xiaomin entered, she had secretly noticed the sign at the banquet hall entrance read, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
It coincided with the date she had casually given Zhang Meiyu, as if it were destined by fate.
University students could legally marry, but it wasn't encouraged.
She stammered, "You... you've already prepared everything... why didn't you tell me."
"Is it fun to keep me in the dark like this?"
Making her worry for so long, overthink for so long, and even kick him in anger.
This was the original sin.
This time, Yan Jue was truly wronged.
"I remember someone once said that she wanted to focus on her studies and didn't want the engagement to be known by everyone, and she didn't allow me to publicize it."
"I really want to ask her, what about me makes her feel I'm not presentable. She wants to keep such an important event as an engagement a secret."
One should know how much bitterness he silently swallowed when one side was always the initiator in a relationship, yet received no proper affirmation.
If it weren't for loving her to the bone, Tang Xiaomin's attitude towards relationships would have driven him mad and driven him away long ago.
The stark truth was laid bare: it was all Tang Xiaomin's own doing, and she had wrongly accused Yan Jue.
She felt deeply apologetic towards Yan Jue and regretted her impulsiveness.
"I..."
She wanted to say that she had forgotten.
"You... you are not someone to be ashamed of. I was overthinking and neglected your feelings. I'm sorry."
"Did kicking you just now... still hurt?"
Tang Xiaomin looked at Yan Jue with remorse.
If she could turn back time, she would never have been so impulsive.
But impulse is the devil, and who was she if not a devil.
Finally realizing her mistake, she apologized and softened her stance.
Yan Jue was very satisfied with this. His patience had not been in vain.
Taking this opportunity, he shamelessly made a small request.
"You kicked me and injured me without understanding the situation. Shouldn't you comfort my injured body, and my heart?"
He stepped forward and took Tang Xiaomin's hand, placing it on his chest.
Feeling his strong heartbeat and his expectant gaze, Tang Xiaomin's heart began to pound.
"How... do you want to be comforted."
Knowing she was flinching, he deliberately leaned close to her ear and whispered.
As his thin lips moved, warm air spread to her skin and shamelessly flowed in from her collar, a rush of heat unexpectedly engulfing her body.
"It's very simple, you stay with me all day today."
...
"Stay until tomorrow morning."
Her body reacted reflexively, and she involuntarily straightened up slightly.