Chapter 344 Pearl Hairpin
The nightmare from this morning still lingered, and a wave of paleness washed over Bai Lu's face, instantly forcing away any rosy glow.
My palms were also ice cold.
Bai Lu's unusual reaction took Xiao Cheng by surprise. Without thinking, he immediately threw the gift box on the table, hugged Bai Lu tightly, and patted her back to comfort her.
"It's alright now."
"Lulu, don't be afraid..."
"I'm here...don't be afraid..."
Bai Lu's eyes were glazed over, her face was as pale as paper, her expression was still, her whole body was stiff, and her breathing was weak.
The person was still in the initial reaction after seeing the gift, as if they were stunned by fear.
There was no reaction at all.
Pulled into Xiao Cheng's arms, the familiar, crisp scent filled her nose and mouth, forcefully filling her breath. After a faint, almost inaudible breath, Bai Lu's mind, which had been caught in a vortex of memories, returned to the real world and gradually awoke.
The stiff hands regained feeling.
She immediately nestled into Xiao Cheng's broad and solid chest, letting the aura of safety envelop her.
From top to bottom, inside and out, the body gradually relaxes and returns to normal.
Xiao Cheng was still gently patting her back to comfort her, the force was light and slow, and his coaxing voice was reduced to a minimum.
"Lulu, don't be afraid..."
"It's alright now..."
Once she had recovered, Bai Lu looked up from Xiao Cheng's arms and stared straight at him.
"Did you buy the gift?"
Xiao Cheng lowered his eyes slightly, looking at her face, which had lost its fear but was still slightly pale, but her clear eyes were no longer listless and lifeless. After a moment of eye contact, he raised his gaze slightly.
I glanced at the open gift box on the table.
The pearl hair clip fell out.
Bathed in moonlight, the seven crystal-clear white pearls appeared perfectly round and translucent.
It silently attracts all the attention around it.
It was exactly the same as when Xiao Cheng first saw fishermen opening a giant deep-sea clam in Guangdong Province.
My eyes were instantly drawn to it.
His first thought was that Bailu would like it.
A thought suddenly popped into his mind: he should buy them, buy seven pearls for Bailu.
An extremely strong and undeniable thought took root in Xiao Cheng's mind, reminding him like a resounding bell.
You must buy seven pearls before you can leave.
If he didn't buy it, even if he wanted to leave, he couldn't take a step; his feet seemed to be frozen in place, unable to move at all.
Then... "I bought it."
Bai Lu then asked, "Did you buy it while you were in Guangdong for business, or did you buy it after you returned? And from whom did you buy it?"
Her tone was slightly hurried, and her gaze was also urgent.
Xiao Cheng explained, "The day before Qixi Festival, I went to a coastal city to scout out locations and bought pearls from fishermen."
Bai Lu's breath hitched.
Her heartbeat, which had just calmed down, raced again: "Were all seven pearls on the hair clip produced from the same pearl oyster?"
Xiao Cheng nodded slightly: "I watched the clam-opening process."
Bai Lu unconsciously clenched her fingers.
The silence was so profound that I could hear my heart pounding: "Those seven white pearls, were they all different shapes, polished into the perfect round shape for a hair clip, or...were all seven naturally round pearls without any carving?"
Natural pearls that emerge from pearl oysters typically come in all sorts of shapes.
Oval, irregular circle, teardrop, pear, flat bead, button, near-round bead, etc.
It's almost impossible to get perfectly round pearls from an open clam. The round pearls on the market are all artificially polished.
Not to mention, the seven white pearls were from the same oyster, each one a perfectly round pearl of the same size.
This is extremely rare, with a probability of one in a billion. Not only has Xiao Cheng never seen it before, but even fishermen who have been operating pearl oyster farms for decades have never seen or heard of it.
But accidents always happen unexpectedly.
We don't give anyone a chance to prepare mentally.
A miracle, one in a billion, appeared before Xiao Cheng's eyes and the sea people without any warning.
The facts are undeniable; nothing is more real than witnessing them firsthand.
Xiao Cheng didn't know if Bai Lu had ever witnessed a miracle with a one in a billion chance, but seeing that besides urgency, there was also a hint of expectation in her eyes, he was slightly surprised and replied at the same time.
"Seven perfectly round pearls from the same clam."
Bai Lu's rapid heartbeat visibly stopped for a moment. She stiffened her neck and slowly turned her head to look at the hair clip on the table.
She turned back and stared intently at Xiao Cheng.
Incredulously, she asked, "You personally witnessed the fishermen opening the oysters and bought seven perfectly round pearls, but this gift... is a hair clip. Did you later have someone process and make it so that all seven white pearls could be set into the hair clip?"
Xiao Cheng looked at Bai Lu and saw that there was no longer any fear or dread in her eyes, and the rosy complexion on her face gradually returned.
She responded softly, "Mm."
The large hand that hadn't left her back patted her again, but was suddenly pulled back to her front.
Bai Lu wrapped her two small hands around his large hand and asked him, "Why did you want to make it into a hair clip?"
"Why not a necklace? A pendant, a bracelet, earrings, or some other accessory? Aren't the gifts the male protagonist gives the female protagonist on TV necklaces? We've seen them together on TV before."
There's a TV at home, but Bai Lu and Xiao Wei only like to watch martial arts dramas and the punctual news broadcast.
Xiao Cheng had no interest in television and never used the remote control; he watched whatever Bai Lu watched.
The only two times the two watched reality shows were on the movie channel, once was "The Herdsman".
Another time, when a martial arts drama was airing commercials, Bai Lu switched to the movie channel. At that time, a romantic comedy was nearing its end, and the male protagonist was giving the female protagonist a gift—a necklace.
The story ends after they confess their feelings and get together.
Xiao Cheng remembered that scene because Bai Lu said at the time, "The necklace is actually made of little stars."
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