“But isn’t it?” Sammy Jones circled his neck with both arms and lowered his head to hold his eyes, purposely feigning displeasure, “I just saw your fiancée downstairs.”
“Fiancée?” He bites the three words hard, as if he’s not happy that she’s crowning Jo Yuanyuan with such a title again. She laughed away, “She looked so angry, she just about cooked me and ate me.”
Joey Xu’s brow furrowed as he cupped her lower jaw and waved her face in front of his face twice, one eye again roving up and down her body, looking at her with extreme scrutiny.
Seeing his intentions, her heart instantly warmed up, and she said soothingly, “Don’t worry, although she did want to cook me and eat me, however, she didn’t do anything to me. Besides, I’m not that fragile, she’s a little kid, she can’t hurt me.”
Hearing her say that, Joey Xu then breathed a sigh of relief, “That’s true. You still dare to flail around like a hedgehog in front of me, not so much that you can’t deal with a Zhao Yuanyuan.”
“Eat first, it’s getting late.” Sammy Jones sidled up and opened the bento, took the spoon and handed it to him. He didn’t take it, just wrapped his arms around her and sniffed her hair greedily.
Sammy Jones had no choice but to hold up the bento himself, take a spoon and hand feed it to him.
The smile on Joey Xu’s face deepened and he obediently ate.
“Well?” She asked.
“Uh-huh, the more you eat, the more addictive it gets.” He quipped fervently.
Sammy Jones, fearing another bad mouth, hurriedly scooped up a spoonful and shoved it in his mouth, “Stop, you don’t have to say anything after that.”
Joey Xu smiled and looked into her eyes, that mesmerizing look impish. Seeing Sammy Jones’ heart racing, he fed another spoonful. He blacked out, “Sammy Jones, are you feeding me like a pig?”
“Then eat it yourself.” Sammy Jones had to pass the spoon over, and he tightened her waist in a sign of displeasure.
Sammy Jones sighed helplessly. She realized that now she was actually really slowly starting to indulge Joey Xu, and … it seemed like, she was enjoying being close to him like this …
“By the way, I … have to go to the pharmacy in a while.” Sammy Jones seemed to say such a sentence casually, but, only in his own heart, he knew the searching in his tone.
“Drugstore?” Joey Xu took the bento out of her hand and looked at her, “What’s going on? Is it possible that you’re still not fully recovered from your cold? I’ll send Dr. Chen over directly.”
A few questions, already unabashedly highlighting his concern, Sammy Jones lifted his lips and couldn’t help but smile, a flicker of emotion flooding through his heart, but he still managed to complete his next words, “I’m not catching a cold, I just want to go get some medicine.”
Seeing Joey Xu’s skeptical look, she said matter-of-factly, “Birth control pills.”
Joey Xu’s face darkened instantly, “No!”
Damn birth control pills!
He had always known that the side effects of birth control pills were relatively strong and could cause endocrine disruption. The only reason he said that kind of thing the first time was because he was pissed off enough by her to want to hit back.
Now, if she wants to eat again, no way!
“Huh?” Sammy Jones didn’t seem to understand.
“I said, no buying! No eating!” He bit each word so hard, so forcefully, that you could hear his strenuous objections.
The corners of Sammy Jones’ lips lifted, but, the mouth continued, “But I wasn’t safe yesterday.”
“I don’t care what period you’re on, you’re not allowed to take it again! I’ll be responsible if there’s a baby – I’ll marry you.”
Sammy Jones was originally in a good mood, but once she heard the word ‘responsible’, she grabbed a pillow from the couch and threw it directly at his face, “Who wants you to be responsible?”
He actually used the word ‘responsible’ on her!
Dare I say, if he wants to marry her later, it’s only because of the baby?
The more he thought about it, the angrier he got, the more Sammy Jones got up off his lap in a flash and twisted around to leave.
Walking up to the door, only to pull it open, he was met by Joey Xu who had the door panel deadlocked.
“Who gave you permission to leave?” Joey Xu wrenched her over.
“You let go!” She was still slack-jawed. This fool stupid man, can he talk anymore or not? She purposely pissed him off, “I’m going downstairs to get some medicine and I see a pharmacy right across the street. Any further delay and it’ll be too late.”
“Sammy Jones, don’t you dare take another one for me!” There was hidden anger in his eyes.
In fact, in the heart, the anger was half gone.
Regarding this man, she didn’t know when she actually couldn’t be angry anymore. However, she still didn’t forget to settle the score with him, “In case if I really get pregnant, mustn’t Mr. Xu marry me because he’s responsible? Then how reluctant, how aggravating.”
Joey Xu realized what the woman was angry about, and laughed a little.
“You know full well that’s not what I meant by my words.” Joey Xu hooped her waist and held her tightly in his arms, “Do you like to mess with me so much that you purposely misrepresent me? Hmm?”
Sammy Jones face loosened and his hand rested against his chest, “Then you’re just not talking right, that’s what it sounded like to me anyway.”
Joey Xu leaned down and gave her a light bite on the end of her nose. She let out an ‘ouch’ and raised her hand to cover the tip of her nose, where there was already a red patch. Before she could say anything, Joey Xu had already spoken, “Sammy Jones, let’s get married now!”
The sudden words shook Sammy Jones to his core. His eyes were all sincerity, solemnity, not a hint of a joke.
Heartbeat, ever faster and faster …
A wave of joyfulness, but also from the heart constantly climbed up.
The original …
This is what it feels like to be proposed to …
It was like stepping on a cloud, light and somewhat unreal.
But …
This man, however, was clearly standing right in front of him.
“Sammy Jones, marry me!” He, again, repeated.
Don’t ask him why he suddenly proposed; in fact, the idea of marrying her had been swirling around in his head for some time.
The first time I drank her chicken soup? Or that time when he was at the bridal store, looking at all those wedding dresses, but his mind was full of her shadow? Or when he watched her busy in her new home, heating up his food in the middle of the night and making him breakfast in the morning?
The moment that gave him the most urge to take this woman for himself immediately must have been when Luo Mingfan said those words to her. God knows how much he wanted to take her directly into the Civil Affairs Bureau and mark her as belonging to him, Joey Xu, so that no man could ever covet her again!
Sammy Jones was in a soaring mood, not a hint of twisting, dry nodded: “OK, I promise! But … you are so rich, you have to send me a diamond ring, right? I like money very much, the more expensive the better. And ah, flowers luxury car house …”
She mumbled, Joey Xu cut her off directly, “No problem, I’ll have Sunburn prepare it now.”
He said, letting go of her and immediately turning to his desk to grab the phone and dial the intercom. Yoshimoto’s voice came from the other end, and before he could say anything, Sammy Jones had sharply pressed the phone off.
“Stop it, I’m messing with you.” What luxury car house these things, where is what she wants? In life, the most important thing is nothing more than peace and tranquility.
“Nonsense?” Joey Xu’s eyes tightened, “So the promise to me was nonsense too?”
“I mean, I don’t want a house or a car or any of that stuff. Of course, a ring is a must, not just one, a pair. You’re too much of a peach blossom attractor, you must have the ring on, lest you attract another peach blossom outside.”
She couldn’t have been more obvious with that.
Joey Xu put the phone down and hugged her onto the desk in a flash. Pulling her delicate little face down, he looked at her with a smile, “So some people care about me so much that they’re afraid I’ll be wooed away by someone else’s peach blossoms?”
“You don’t like it, do you?” Sammy Jones wrapped his arms around his neck and leveled with him, grinning and deliberately teasing him, “Then forget it. Anyway, if you can attract peach blossoms, so can I, right? Well … actually I’m not too young, besides you, if someone else proposes to me, I’ll have to say yes …”
“How dare you!” Joey Xu raged.
Without saying a word, he bent his head and sucked her red lips.
He was so overbearing! Not giving her any breathing room at all, it didn’t take long to suck her breath away. He watched her fall into his kiss, “You can only be seen by me alone! Your first love, your first kiss, your first night are all in my hands, no one but me, Joey Xu, can covet you! I won’t allow it!”
Joey Xu is a man of his word, so it wasn’t long after he proposed that day that he had to drag Sammy Jones to pick out a ring.
“Both of you, please wait here for a moment.” The waiter politely led them into the rest area.
Joey Xu held her hand the whole time, and the two of them were so sweetly intertwined that they were simply envious of each other. Sammy Jones obviously felt that he had a lot of envious eyes betting on her from the moment he entered this door. Joey Xu was so good, and made a big splash that it was enough to make all the women look at her sideways.
Tightening his clasped hand, Sammy Jones ducked his head and smothered a laugh.
“What’s so funny?” Joey Xu pulled her down on the couch, his long arms already instinctively wrapped around her waist.
“Nothing.” She laughed and shook her head without saying anything. Joey Xu tightened her, pulling her closer to him, and a hint of laughter in the bottom of his eyes, “Sammy Jones, marrying me makes you this happy? Just picking out a ring can make you smile so stupidly.”
She narrowed her eyes slightly, resting her lower jaw as she moved closer to him, “Aren’t you happy that you got to marry me?”
Joey Xu did not answer, just looked at the small face, the idea of a slight movement, bent his head and sucked her lips. Her eyelashes fluttered slightly, grabbed a sliver of reason and pushed him, her afterglow stole a glance at the waiters who watched their intimate behavior and covered their mouths, she blushed, and swept Joey Xu a glance in an angry manner.
Joey Xu, however, was unimpressed and nipped at her lips again.
“The guests who came today, a couple of them are really handsome and beautiful.” On the side, a waiter was whispering quietly, the voice wasn’t too high, but both Sammy Jones and Joey Xu could hear it as well. The two of them didn’t take this to heart, they were just messing around with themselves.
“Right ah. That pair downstairs is no less oh, a pair of really eye-catching. But … although they are here to pick jewelry, however, the woman is obviously not happy.”
Just at this moment, the words the two discussed came to an abrupt end. A sound of steady footsteps accompanied by the sound of high heels gradually made their way upstairs, getting closer and closer.
Sammy Jones subconsciously turned his head to look and saw an unfamiliar man. The man had a pair of sharp and deep eyes, unfathomable. His absolutely handsome face always wore an impassive smile, and although he looked warm and modest, he was actually detached and cold.
Sammy Jones instinctively felt that this man was anything but simple.
And then look behind him, holding … Zhao Lanlan?
So this is her husband?
Joey Xu had obviously seen them as well, and the fluctuations in his heart were long gone. She just lightly raised the peak of her eyebrow as a sign that she had seen them.
“No introduction?” The words, though spoken to Joey Xu, naturally referred to Sammy Jones.