A Favor Done, A Husband Won-Chapter 471 - 465: The Man Who Knelt on One Knee Before Her
Owed her?
How did she not know what else Jing Jihan owed her?
"Hungry?" The man understood the momentary confusion in her eyes but didn’t answer. His deep voice brushed against her lips.
Shi Su nodded while holding that large bouquet of roses. When she nodded, her chin accidentally brushed against the rose petals, cool and refreshing. They were genuinely fresh and stunning, filled with the fragrance of roses.
"What do you want to eat?"
"Anything is fine."
This hotel already has Michelin dining, and they’ve recently eaten a variety of seafood, so she’s not really interested in Western cuisine. As for other options, Shi Su actually prefers the rare occasions when Jing Jihan cooks for her himself, which is even more delicious than many signature dishes from outside restaurants.
"Let’s go."
Go?
To eat?
Just carrying the flowers like this?
Shi Su originally wanted to say she would take the flowers back to her room, but Jing Jihan didn’t give her the chance.
When they reached the first floor of the hotel and saw Jing Jihan heading outside, it was clear that he didn’t plan to eat at the hotel tonight. There’s a glass tunnel at the doors leading to the private beach from the hotel lobby. As soon as Shi Su walked into it holding the flowers, she suddenly discovered that something seemed different today in the tunnel that is usually lit up.
The usual lights above were all flashing in various colors, forming a continuous pattern. They twinkled like Disney castle fireworks, creating beautiful patterns that captivated Shi Su. She walked the whole way with her head tilted up, focusing on the lights, not noticing that the private beach outside, which should have been brightly lit, was now pitch black, and she could see nothing.
Only when she finally reacted and walked out of the glass tunnel did she look outside. At first, she saw the darkness and thought there might be a power outage on the private beach. But suddenly, she saw a small firework burst into bloom on the beach. She halted abruptly, holding the roses and staring in shock at the brief seconds the fireworks lingered in the sky.
For that instant, it seemed like she understood what Jing Jihan was doing, so she could no longer move her feet. She just stared in the direction of the private beach, watching one firework after another replace the vanishing fireworks. They exploded from small to large, from slow to fast. She didn’t know how many were set off in the sky, so gorgeous that she couldn’t bear to blink her eyes for quite a long time.
After a few minutes of fireworks exploding in succession in the sky, everything suddenly returned to darkness, as if it was over.
Shi Su stood at the exit of the glass tunnel and turned to look at the man beside her, about to ask if he planned to propose at such a moment?
Just as she was about to speak, before the words even left her mouth, a burst of dazzling light suddenly illuminated the surroundings. Fireworks from all directions accompanied by fountains by the pool suddenly shot upwards at once. In the neon-like glow of the fireworks and musical fountains, Shi Su saw Jing Jihan’s face, the man’s gentle and composed features revealing nothing of how long it took to prepare all this or when he started preparing. She had been staying at this hotel for several days without a clue.
Shi Su looked around at the simultaneously shooting fireworks, noticing a few would linger in the air for a long time, forming various patterns. As she examined them carefully, they seemed familiar, until she realized what they were, and Shi Su was even more astonished.
Weren’t those the illustrations from the CP super topic chats on Weibo that she secretly followed about her and Jing Jihan? 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
Many artists and fans loved to draw the two of them in all kinds of versions, each one beautiful and heartfelt. There were a few particularly good ones that she’d secretly saved on her phone.
Jing Jihan, who usually doesn’t even use Weibo, only registered to help her sort out her stance, and would never linger in such contentious online places, let alone have the time to look at those things.
Yet he knew about the CP drawings of her and him...
He even had them incorporated into the fireworks, with each display accompanied by the upward-reflected lights from the fountain, as if painting him and her in the sky.
Never mind how difficult it must have been to create such fireworks, just speaking of these drawings... with Jing Jihan’s character, since he used them, he would certainly have bought the copyrights.
Just how many did he see, and how many did he buy?
Watching one after another appear painted in the sky, Shi Su watched, smiling so much her chin almost ached, then saw those drawings gradually turn into countdown numbers in the sky.
Ten.
Nine.
Eight.
...
Three.
Two.
One.
As the last number exploded, lights suddenly illuminated the pitch-black beach. Shi Su looked over and saw countless star lights hanging around the pool, the lawn, and the beach. The ground was covered with rose petals. Her gaze traveled from near to far, seeing that at the end of the petals was the beach, where several barbecue chefs were already standing by the grills preparing dinner.
Only moments ago, Shi Su’s nose was filled with the scent of roses, and she hadn’t yet caught the aroma of the barbecue wafting through the air. She was astonished to see the grand BBQ already set up on the beach.
She walked through the star lights holding the bouquet and suddenly noticed a long table next to her filled with all sorts of small cakes, along with many music boxes.
She hadn’t seen the styles of these music boxes before, but inside the transparent glass spheres seemed to be colorful natural crystal-engraved silhouettes. Curious, she reached out to pick one up and saw that the silhouette inside resembled herself dancing. She turned on the music box, and along with the beautiful light refracting in the crystal silhouette, the little figure that looked like her spun with the music box.
As she walked towards the beach, she picked up each music box one by one.
After taking a closer look, she realized that they were indeed of her, capturing many iconic poses from her past and present dances, as well as freeze frames of many dance poses she took on in film and TV. Each one was her.
The sound of different music from each music box played in Shi Su’s ears, each turning her into various silhouettes that danced with the music.
She couldn’t believe that someone like Jing Jihan, who seemed excessively elite, would have the patience to prepare so many things for her in advance.
Shi Su stood holding the bouquet, watching the music boxes while saying, "Jing Jihan, when did you start prepar..."
As she was speaking, she suddenly turned and was just about to look at him, but she was completely stunned as she turned around.
The large bouquet of roses she was holding almost slipped from her arms, and she tightened her grip, lowering her gaze to see the man already kneeling on one knee in front of her.
The star lights around them shone brightly, casting light on their silhouettes. The man’s whole frame seemed to be basked in the glow, his every move as always, as boundless as the sky and as deep as the sea, but at the core of all that, it was as if he enclosed her within, allowing room for nothing but her, with no space left over.
