He walked over and put the lid on the pot, “How long will it take for you to boil it?”
Serina regained her senses and smiled awkwardly at Derek.
“What’s the matter with you? How do you feel?” Derek asked, circling Serina by the waist.
“It’s because of the post on your Weibo.”
Serina muttered.
“Why? Are you touched by my romantic post?”
Serina glanced at Derek and said, “Many people have called to interview me. I feel disturbed. There were several calls when I cooked, so I failed.”
“Alright, it’s my fault. I’ll tell you first before my public display of affection next time.”
Serina pursed her lips and smiled, “I didn’t expect you to remember our fifth anniversary.”
“Of course, I remember. I thought you would forget, but you didn’t. I didn’t expect that you would have prepared a big meal for us.”
Serina smiled shyly and scratched her head, “Actually, I forgot it.”
“What? Then why did you cook?”
“It was because…” Serina was about to say what Hayden had told her. However, Hayden didn’t allow her to say, so she immediately changed the topic, “It was because we seldom had dinner together. I wanted to cook a big deal for you.”
Derek sighed and shook his head, “I knew it.”
Serina stuck out her tongue, “I will not forget it next time.”
“Don’t bother. Since you don’t know how to celebrate our anniversary, I will do it.”
“Okay. Leave here and wait outside. I’ll make some tomato and egg noodles for you.”
Ten minutes later, Serina brought four bowls of tomato and egg noodles out. When the noodles were ready, Serina had a taste of it to make sure that she hadn’t failed. She didn’t want to keep them hungry on this special day.
“Mommy, didn’t you say that today is your wedding anniversary with Daddy? Why do we have noodles? We should go out and have a big meal!”
Cherry gruntled.
“Noodles are symbols for long love, so we should have noodles on this special day. In this way, Mommy and Daddy will be with each other forever,” Derek explained.
“Then what do tomatoes stand for?” Cherry continued to ask.
“The red tomatoes symbolize our family’s prosperity in the future!”
Derek continued to explain.
“What about the eggs?” Blueberry added.
“Round eggs stand for the reunion of our family.”
Cherry and Blueberry nodded in unison, “Then let’s have noodles!”
Serina looked at Derek surprisingly.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” Derek felt somewhat uncomfortable at this.
“I think you will be a good writer with such literary talent. It’s a pity for you to run the game business,” Serina gave Derek a thumb-up.
They looked at each other with smiles on their faces.
After Serina helped their two daughters wash in the evening, Derek told them bedtime stories before they slept.
Then Serina and Derek returned to the bedroom together.
“Serina, I have a gift for you.”
“What? A gift?”
Serina’s eyes lit up. In the past few years, she hadn’t received many gifts from others except Ernest. Ernest would give her a birthday gift each year.
“I have two gifts for you. Here is the first one,” Derek took out a well-decorated box.
Serina took it and opened the box excitedly.
There were two marriage certificates on it.
They remained the same as before, as if no one had even touched them.
Five years ago, they had registered by accident. After that, Derek took the marriage certificates away, so Serina had no idea of them.
“Open them and see.”
Serina opened the marriage certificate and was surprised to find that the photo was of her and Derek!
“I remember that it should be Ernest and me.”
“It is a photomontage. I have changed my name, so I went to the Department of Civil Affairs and got two new marriage certificates. I thought we should take a new photo of the marriage certificates. However, I can’t wait longer.”
Serina looked at the marriage certificates and suddenly rolled her eyes.
She quickly tore a few pages off and stuffed them into her mouth!
“Serina! What are you doing?”
Derek was shocked by her. Was Serina crazy?
Was it a symptom of a certain disease by eating red things? Would Serina be alright?
Serina chewed hard on the paper in her mouth. The pages were small in size.
Derek immediately opened her mouth. He wanted to pick out the papers but was bit by Serina.
Serina immediately swallowed them in one go.
Derek hurriedly went to get his phone and was about to call 120 to check Serina, but Serina stopped him.
“I did it on purpose!”
“What? Why did you eat paper?”
Serina stroked her chest. “You can’t divorce me if I swallow the marriage certificates. The marriage certificates will be invalid then. If you want them, you can find them on the toilet tomorrow.”
Derek stared at Serina with wide eyes. He thought he already knew Serina very well, but he was wrong.
“Serina, you didn’t need to eat them. You can tear or burn them.”
Serina blinked her eyes and thought Derek was right.
However, it was too late.
“You are such a foodie!” Derek flicked Serina on her head.
“Anyway, I’ve already eaten it. Anyway, you can’t get a divorce!”
“Serina, I will transfer Cherry’s and Blueberry’s household registration to mine. And I will give you some shares of the Dark Empire. The marriage certificate is a must for these things.”
Serina patted her forehead, “I didn’t know it.”
“Forget it. We can have new ones after we take a new photo.”
Serina stuck out her tongue and realized that she had done it wrong.
“Didn’t you say there were two gifts? What about the second one?”
“The second is this,” Derek took out a small red velvet box from his pocket.
He opened it.
It was a diamond ring.
The ring was dazzling.
“Will you marry me, Serina?”