Chapter 59 Chapter 59 Let’s Get Married
Chapter 59
“…”
Ruan Yan understood instantly, but still lowered her head and drank the Tom Yum Goong soup, pretending not to understand.
Lu Peishi also looked as if nothing had happened.
Luna deliberately sighed again: "What are you thinking about? I'm talking about your boyfriend."
Ruan Yan laughed dryly.
When Ruan Yan's boyfriend was mentioned, Luna clearly felt that Lu Pei's expression changed a little.
She smiled, propped her face up with her hands, and turned to Ruan Yan: "Honestly, I've always felt that your boyfriend wasn't very good. Not only was he unworthy of you, but he also didn't care about you at all."
Ruan Yan continued to laugh dryly, thinking about how to change the subject.
Luna, in a playful mood, became even more unscrupulous and said with a smile, "When you break up, consider my brother."
"Puff—cough cough cough—"
Ruan Yan was choked by these words and coughed violently. Lu Peishi finally couldn't help but say, "Luna!"
"Oh, I was just kidding. I really was kidding." Luna apologized and patted her friend on the back.
Ruan Yan coughed so hard that tears came out of her eyes. Lu Peishi hurriedly handed her a few tissues, his eyes full of concern.
There is a vague ambiguity in the interaction between the two.
Luna saw it all, but why did she always feel that their relationship seemed to be deeper than she had imagined?
At the end of dinner, Luna happened to receive a phone call and then looked very regretful. "Oh, I have something important to attend to. I have to leave first."
Before Ruan Yan could speak, she turned to Lu Peishi and said, "I'll leave Ruan Yan to you. I'll take her back later."
Lu Peishi replied calmly: "Okay."
Luna winked again, "It's still early. You live next door anyway, and there's no rush to go back. Just walk around. Don't waste this beautiful scenery and good time."
Then he winked at Lu Peishi.
Ruan Yan was about to say something when Luna raised her phone again in a serious tone: "Hey, the phone rang again, rushing me. I have to leave now. You guys take your time eating. Bye-"
Ruan Yan: “…”
The performance here is too obvious, my dear.
As soon as Luna left, the table suddenly became extremely quiet.
Ruan Yan felt that the atmosphere suddenly became a little strange, and she hesitated whether to continue eating or end the meal early.
Although she quite likes today's dishes.
"Eat slowly, don't be in a hurry." Lu Peishi suddenly said.
Ruan Yan slowed down the speed of chewing the curry shrimp in her mouth: "Oh."
By the time they came out of the restaurant, it was not yet eight o'clock.
Lu Peishi hesitated for a moment and said, "Do you want to... go for a walk somewhere?"
Ruan Yan remembered Luna's deliberate teasing before she left, so she said, "Forget it, let's go back."
"Okay." Lu Peishi said, and the hint of loss in his eyes disappeared in a flash.
This was the first time they met since Lu Pei proposed marriage and was rejected last time.
It was fine when they were in the restaurant just now, but now that they were in the car, in the closed and narrow space, the slightly awkward atmosphere between the two of them was clearly evident.
Lu Peishi cleared his throat and started to make small talk.
"Are the dishes tonight to your liking?"
"Yeah, not bad."
"Luna always likes to tease me, don't mind it."
"No, it's okay."
"How is Wen Ying's health lately? Is she okay?"
"fine."
"The weather is really nice tonight."
"Yeah."
They chatted haphazardly, and Lu Peishi delved into almost every suitable topic he could think of.
He glanced at Ruan Yan out of the corner of his eye. She had been looking down at her phone and didn't seem very interested.
Lu Peishi could only shut up tactfully, driving sullenly, and secretly observing her expression from time to time.
It wasn't long before we returned to Bijiawan and parked the car outside the Ruan Mansion.
"Oh, we're here," Ruan Yan craned her neck to look out the window and said, "Thank you for taking me back."
Lu Peishi held the steering wheel with his hands, hesitant to speak: "It's okay."
He was always good at planning and making decisions, but when facing her, he became timid and lacked confidence for unknown reasons.
Ruan Yan put away her phone, unbuckled her seat belt, and was about to get out of the car.
He finally mustered up the courage and called out to her: "Ruan Yan——"
The unbuckled seatbelt slipped from Ruan Yan's hand: "Hmm?"
Lu Peishi looked ahead and heard his own voice saying, "I've calmed down and thought a lot during this time. Is there something wrong with me? Or am I usually behaving very poorly and irresponsibly in front of you, so you can't fully trust me?"
"It's not like that..." Ruan Yan wanted to explain, but she didn't know how to make it clear.
Lu Peishi lowered his eyes in frustration. This was the first time in his life that he was deeply immersed in the negative emotions of self-denial.
"You would rather force yourself to put on a smile all day long in front of the man you don't love, rather than let me stay by your side to help you share the pressure and solve the problem."
Every time he thought of this, he felt particularly uncomfortable. "I've been trying to put myself in your shoes these past few days, but no matter which angle I look at it from, I find it hard to understand. If you want revenge, wouldn't it be more satisfying to just dump him and use me to fight back and suppress him? I really can't figure out what reason is there that keeps you from being with him?"
Lu Peishi's tone was a little excited, and his expression of sadness could not be controlled, which surprised and astonished Ruan Yan.
I didn't expect that he, who has always been calm and restrained, would have such great emotional fluctuations.
I didn't expect that my indecision would bring him such misunderstanding and trouble.
Once the emotions are released, it is easy to get out of control. Seeing her silence, Lu Peishi continued: "I don't want to force you. I will work hard to improve if there are any shortcomings. As long as you don't push me away all the time, as long as you can try to slowly allow me to get closer..."
Seeing his humble appearance, Ruan Yan felt a little guilty: "You are not lacking in anything. You don't have to deliberately change for me."
The living environment she grew up in made her good at using multiple false faces to disguise various appearances to confuse others, but when it comes to revealing her true self to face emotional problems, she becomes tongue-tied and dull.
Emotionally, she is a complete novice.
Ruan Yan's simple answer was misunderstood by Lu Peishi as a perfunctory response. He felt quite aggrieved and his voice couldn't help but rise: "So you're going to give me the nice guy card? Are you going to reject me again?"
That extremely hurt look, like a pitiful puppy.
Knowing that he had misunderstood her meaning again, Ruan Yan was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
"I've broken up with him," she said.
Huh? Lu Peishi looked up and couldn't help but repeat himself, "You mean... you broke up?"
"Yes."
Lu Peishi's brows relaxed, and his dull eyes instantly brightened up.
"Oh, is that so?" His emotions were blocked. Thinking of his own loss of composure just now, he felt a little embarrassed.
However, my mood improved immediately.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know that just now." He adjusted his mood. He had prepared a lot of things to say, but now it seems that there is no need for them.
What he didn't know was that from the moment she got in the car, Ruan Yan's inner thoughts were no less intense than his own.
"I hope you can think carefully about what I said tonight when you get back," he said, choosing his words carefully, trying to appear more appropriate. "I don't want to put too much pressure on you, really..."
"Let's get married."
Ruan Yan, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly interrupted, like a bolt of thunder that shook Lu Peishi's world.
He was stunned and couldn't believe his ears for a long time.
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Lu Peishi couldn't remember how he and Ruan Yan got off the car, how they said goodbye, and how he returned home.
He only remembered that he replied calmly, "Okay, sure."
And then it was gone.
Obviously, his calmness was just an appearance, and in fact he had fallen into another state of brain nerve disorder.
He was in a daze the whole night, lying in bed with his eyes bright and open until midnight.
I can't sleep and don't feel sleepy at all.
He simply picked up his phone and started browsing his Moments.
What a coincidence, the first update I saw was posted by Ruan Yan.
She posted a photo of the night view outside the window and a bowl of instant noodles.
The time displayed is 7 minutes ago.
She hasn't slept yet?
Lu Peishi felt warm in his heart and poked open her profile picture with his finger.
After repeatedly deleting and revising the message in the chat box for a long time, I finally sent only three short words: [Are you asleep?]
Not long after, she came back: [Not yet.]
Lu Peishi: [Can I answer the phone now? ]
Ruan Yan just replied "Yeah" and within two seconds, her phone rang.
Lu Peishi's low, hoarse voice came from the other end of the receiver: "It's so late, why haven't you slept yet?"
"I'm a little hungry, get up and eat something," Ruan Yan just finished eating instant noodles and returned to the room, "Why haven't you slept yet?"
Lu Peishi hummed and said truthfully: "I can't sleep."
Ruan Yan walked to the windowsill, picked up a small cartoon ornament on the table, and said "Oh" in a low voice.
Of course she knew why Lu Peishi couldn't sleep, because she had the same reason.
Lu Peishi was silent for a moment, then asked her, "Is what you said tonight true? Will you regret it?"
Ruan Yan answered simply: "No."
What happened tonight was not something she did impulsively, but something she had thought carefully about.
She wanted to follow her heart, whether it was willfulness or taking a gamble, she would accept any outcome.
Lu Peishi, who was leaning against the headboard, couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth. After a moment, he asked again: "Can I know why you suddenly changed your mind and made this decision?"
"How should I put it? It's not a sudden decision. To sum it up simply," Ruan Yan drooped her eyelids and slowly organized her words, "Didn't you say last time that since you like me and I like you, why should we waste each other's time and energy? Let's just skip all those troublesome steps of misunderstandings..."
Lu Peishi didn't listen carefully to what Ruan Yan said in the second half. All his thoughts were focused on the sentence "Since you like me, I like you too."
After being rejected by Ruan Yan, he had doubted himself countless times. Could it be that everything was just his misunderstanding, his unrequited love, and she had never been interested in him?
He was deeply trapped in this feeling of depression and loss, and was tortured and tormented repeatedly.
At this moment, when he heard Ruan Yan personally admit that "she liked him", his mood instantly dissipated, and the gloomy world suddenly became bright and shining.
He was so excited and happy that he could hardly suppress it, but he tried hard to restrain himself from appearing too excited and tried his best to maintain his calm and reserved image.
"Okay," he took a deep breath and calmly said what he had been holding back for a long time, "Then let's go get the marriage certificate tomorrow morning!"
Ruan Yan didn't know how to respond to this unexpected response: "Ah? So soon?"
Lu Peishi didn't feel it was fast. He was just worried that the night would be long and full of dreams and unpredictable changes.
He originally thought that she had the same mentality as him.
Worried that he was putting too much pressure on her, his tone became cautious: "Do you regret it?"
Ruan Yan could hear his awkwardness and said, "No, but tomorrow is Saturday, the Civil Affairs Bureau should be closed, right?"
Lu Peishi was very calm: "I checked, the door is open."
He hesitated for a moment and then asked, "Do you have all the relevant documents with you?"
"Yes, I do," Ruan Yan paused and asked deliberately, "Then I should bring my own ID..."
"Of course it's yours," Lu Peishi said without hesitation, "Who else could it be?"
Ruan Yan replied: "Okay."
My heart felt like it was sprinkled with a handful of crystal clear white sugar grains, so sweet.
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