“Yes. You are Little Red Riding Hood.” He suddenly got rid of her hands and turned around lowering his face towards her, which reminded her of his kiss in the car. But then she thought of the beautiful lady whom he paid for in the supermarket so she turned away her head and avoided his kiss naturally. “It’s time for dinner,” she said with a smile.
“Okay! Let’s go.” He was kind of upset. Was it because she avoided his kiss? She was not sure. But when they walked downstairs, he had been holding her hand tight as if they were real couple. But she understood they weren’t. They had never been.
They walked down towards the dining table where there were delicious dishes. He stood in front of the dining table appreciating the food she cooked including 4 dishes and 1 soup. He sniffed before he sat down and asked her earnestly, “How delicious! Shall we have some wine?”
She shook her head, “I don’t drink.”
“Then why would you go selling alcohol? Never do it again.”
She smiled, “I’m not selling alcohol now as I live on you now. But when I can’t live on you, it’s none of your business.”
He suddenly said holding his chopsticks, “It should be arriving now.”
“What?”
He didn’t answer her and said, “It’s a pleasure even looking at the dishes. Halle, I can’t eat the food.”
“Have a try. They are no match to the food in restaurants.”
“They are different from those in restaurants which have been adding a lot of seasoning to. Some of them are added with unknown ingredients that are bad for our health. I’ve never been a fan of eating outside. It’s just I have no other choice.”
Hearing what he said, she just realized she knew nothing about him and his family. The agreement between them two was like what the buzz “Flash Marriage” indicated. The difference was that there was uncontested divorce between them after the flash marriage.
“Jingle…” The doorbell rang when she was contemplating. When she was about to get up to open the door, he said, “I’ll get it.”
He walked quickly to the door and opened it. And then he turned around fast with hands on the back, smiling mysteriously.
“What have you got? Is it a love letter?”
He walked to the dining table and took out the empty vase on the side. Then he took out the Gerbera from his back and placed it in the vase carefully. “I will have people bring a bunch of Gerbera everyday as long as you are here.” He sat down and said.
“Thank you.” Although she felt strange about the flowers, she agreed on his idea. He could send the flowers everyday if he liked since it didn’t cost her a penny anyway.
She didn’t drink. Neither did he. After dinner, he leaned on the chair contentedly, “Halle, thank you for preparing such a great meal. It was really delicious.”
She stood up to do the cleanup but was stopped by him, “Just leave it here.”
Before she told him not to pay for people to do the cleanup, he held her hand and said, “Let’s go out for a walk.”
“Don’t you need to work?” She thought and asked.
“Nope. Let’s go.”
“Okay.” She was led out by him. When she was in his BMW which drove in the shining neon lights of the city, she was gonna ask him where they were going but felt it was kind of abrupt.
Ronan seemed to be in a good mood. It was not long before he stopped. When Halle got out of the trendy BMW, she found many people staring at Ronan. All of them were female.
“Rustle…” A girl of some seventeen blew a whistle loudly to Ronan who smiled coldly without too much attention to it. Halle just realized that they were standing in front of the Paris Fashion Shop. She didn’t go inside with him because she thought he must be buying gifts for the lady who was coming to his house tonight. It must cost more than a thousand yuan for even a pair of shoes here. She didn’t feel like visiting such a shop.
Instead, she leaned on the car, which made many people stare at her. All of them were men, various types of men.
“Halle, why don’t you come along?” Ronan asked when he finally noticed that she didn’t come with him while she was trying to figure out whether those men were staring at her or the car.
“Go and buy your clothes. I’ll just wait here.”
“Well, I need you to try the clothes.” She should at least try one on so that he could pick the right size for her. He wouldn’t let her choose her clothes as she wouldn’t choose the right clothes. She might choose the ones with carton images just like the strap Denim dress she was wearing.
It turned out he just regarded her as someone to try clothes on. Alright, since it was boring waiting him, she would just do him a favor to try clothes on. “All right.” She quickly came up to him. She was just wearing a normal strap Denim dress. Why would those men have their eyes fixed on her?
He seemed to have spotted something and stretched out his arm for her to hold. She was going to reject him when he whispered to her, “Hold my arm. Those guys work for my grandpa.” So she held his arm obediently. It was because of his grandpa that she was getting married to him.
Ronan glanced at the clothes in the shop and then pointed at a white chiffon dress, “I want this one. Take her to try it on.”
“Sure.” The salesperson took a look at Halle and then picked one, “This way, please.”
She wanted to refuse but his eyes glancing at the window were telling her that those guys were still there. Well, she had to go on with the pretending.
When she put on the Korean Fashion chiffon dress, Halle could hardly believe the lady in the mirror was actually her. She had never put on such a fancy dress. It was so beautiful. And the material was so comfortable. She turned around and around wearing the dress before she finally walked out of the fitting room. Ronan was picking shoes on the shelf on the opposite side. He held a pair of white high heel shoes and scrutinized for a while before he turned around to see Halle watching him, “Take her to try these on.”
“Yes, sir.” The salesperson took over the shoes and walked up to Halle who just noticed that her black ballet flats didn’t match at all the white dress she was wearing. She immediately changed them and appeared to be surprisingly gorgeous.
“Ok! I will take this outfit in her size. I’ll pick some more later. Then you wrap them up for me in her size.”
Ronan was so efficient. After talking to the salesperson, he picked more than 20 outfits of various styles in less than 20 minutes. There were so many that Halle marveled at watching the salesperson wrapping them one by one after checking the right size.