Shen Fangli, whose cheeks were pinched, was as obedient as a kitten being held by the scruff of fate's neck.
She shook her head innocently, but this expression looked familiar to Yan Xianjue.
Isn’t this the innocent expression he makes every time he does something wrong?
Not only did Shen Fangli imitate his expression, she also seriously suggested to Yan Xianjue: "Next time, try making a noise as a signal? Like, maybe smashing a cup as a signal?"
Yan Xianjue signaled him with his eyes to continue, he really wanted to know what else Shen Fangli could say.
Shen Fangli didn't know how she understood that look, and she boldly said, "None of those guys are reliable, and it's even worse when they get together."
Upon hearing this, Yan Xianjue smiled meaningfully towards the corner.
In order to prevent Shen Fangli from being put in a sack by those petty-minded people, he rather helplessly stretched out his finger and gently tapped her forehead.
But he agreed with Shen Fangli's words in his heart, and he made a plan B in advance in case those people suddenly failed to deliver.
Yan Xianjue raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and the night light in front of the villa door lit up first.
In the dark night, the warm yellow light landed here, and then passed through the courtyard and over the archway like a wave, until the entire villa was shrouded in a warm yellow soft light filter. Yan Xianjue looked at Shen Fangli.
At this moment, Shen Fangli had no time to care whether Yan Xianjue was looking at her.
She opened her eyes wide and was speechless for a moment.
She had seen a rose garden and had personally raised the roses that Yan Xianjue gave her. She knew how delicate these roses were.
But at this moment, all she saw were roses.
She took small steps, leaned over and gently stroked the petals of the rose closest to her, then stood up again and admired the villa inch by inch, which looked like a rose castle described in a fairy tale.
Rose vines are wrapped around the arches, roses of various colors are spread all over the villa, and even the walls are hung with clusters of rose buds that are about to bloom.
Shen Fangli looked up and met Yan Xianjue's gaze. She opened her mouth but no sound came out. She was worried that if she opened her mouth she would make a bumpkin-like exclamation.
She wasn't making a big deal out of it; she believed most people would react the same way she did to this scene.
She had attended many long-talked-about weddings with her parents, and had also visited the most famous rose garden in the world, but none of them shocked her as much as this villa decorated with roses.
It was rare that Shen Fangli found herself feeling a little nervous.
Until then, she had always treated the proposal as a ceremony.
It was a process that both families knew well, but Yan Xianjue gave her such a big surprise.
Yan Xianjue smiled lightly, as if seeing through her confusion, and deliberately extended his hand towards Shen Fangli, as if inviting her to dance at a ball. "Beautiful Princess, do these roses please you in the slightest?"
The inexplicable uneasiness in Shen Fangli's heart was dispelled by his deliberately controlled tone. She cooperated by raising one hand and placing it on Yan Xianjue's hand, slightly raised her chin, and nodded proudly as a response to Yan Xianjue's question.
Yan Xianjue's composure was instantly broken. He took Shen Fangli's hand and adjusted it to interlock their fingers: "Let's go over and take a look?"
"Okay." Shen Fangli responded softly.
This time, the few people squatting nearby finally didn't let the team down again.
As the two walked through the archway decorated with rose vines, stepping on the petals all over the ground, countless rose-shaped sky lanterns slowly rose up.
The lights on the other side of the archway were bright, and the guests who had been invited after the two of them discussed it together were now standing on both sides. At this moment, Shen Fangli was even more nervous than when she was speaking on the podium.
Yan Xianjue seemed to notice her nervousness and squeezed her hand calmly.
Soothing and gentle music sounded at this time, and Yan Xianjue led people into the Möbius strip made of vines. Of course, there were still a few scattered roses trembling on the vines.
It was not until this moment that Shen Fangli realized that the guests who had been on both sides of the petal path had slowly formed a circle outside.
She blinked, looking somewhat dazedly at the Yan siblings who occupied the best seats, and Lin Shizhou, Ye Jixi and the others who were standing next to them.
Yan Xianjue seemed to sense her distraction and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
Shen Fangli shook her head: "Nothing, I just feel so scary. When Lin Shi stood with them, I felt like I saw a hundred kilograms of explosives."
Yan Xianjue chuckled softly and said comfortingly, "Don't worry, at least there will be no explosion today."
"What are the young couple whispering about? Let us hear it too." Yan Wan said with a look of excitement on her face.
Shen Fangli's face flushed red all the way to the tips of her ears. Yan Xianjue responded carelessly, "What's the point of whispering when I tell you."
Shen Fangli poked Yan Xianjue, and Yan Xianjue withdrew his gaze and ignored the jokes of others.
With a gesture from Yan Xianjue, the music instantly changed. The soft and soothing female voice turned into a passionate duet between a man and a woman. Yan Xianjue took a half step back.
Shen Fangli immediately understood what he wanted to do.
She pursed her lips and tried hard to suppress the smile at the corners of her mouth, wanting to make herself look a little more reserved, or at least not so proactive.
The noises of people booing around died down, and the music also died down. For a moment, everyone looked at the two people in the center of the Möbius strip.
Yan Xianjue took out the box containing the diamond ring from his pocket.
He started preparing this ring as soon as he decided to have the surgery.
The designer is a well-known jewelry master in the circle. His difficulty in making an appointment is proportional to his craftsmanship. Yan Xianjue flew back and forth more than a dozen times during the finalization period, and revised the draft more than a dozen times from the draft to the final version.
The designer provided him with many different options, but in the end, Yan Xianjue did not choose those traditional options. He had his own small pear tree.
Yan Xianjue knelt on one knee with an elegant demeanor and opened the box to Chen Fangli, revealing the diamond ring in full.
There were no guests in Shen Fangli's eyes at the moment. She looked at Yan Xianjue steadily. Before he opened his mouth, her feet had unconsciously moved a little in his direction.
Lin Shi looked away with an expression of dismay.
Yan Xianjue looked up and met her gaze, his eyes full of smiles. He said with a hint of grievance, "Do you know how many times I argued with the designer over this ring? He said I would ruin his reputation."
Ji Xi grumbled to Lin Shi, "I can prove this is true. If Yan Xianjue hadn't given him so much, the designer would have slammed the table and quit."
It’s not that Ji Xi likes Lin Shi now, but when he looks around, he can only complain to Lin Shi.
Lin Shi laughed. He hadn't seen the entire ring yet, but what Ji Xi said sounded like something Yan Xianjue could do.
Then they witnessed Shen Fangli's partiality: "The designer is so bad."
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