"Thank you." Bai Shiqing looked at Li Shuxian strangely, staring at him, waiting for him to explain his purpose.
Li Shuxian leaned against the banyan tree, his hand unconsciously gripping the hem of his clothes: "Well, actually, I wanted to say..."
Even though I've practiced at home, I just can't bring myself to say the words.
"say what?"
Bai Shiqing looked at Li Shuxian with a puzzled expression.
"I...you..." Li Shuxian gritted his teeth: "Hey, I just want to ask you, would you like to be my girlfriend?"
After he finished speaking, his eyes wandered off somewhere, his palms sweating, waiting for Bai Shiqing's judgment.
"Li Shuxian, what are you saying?" Bai Shiqing was inexplicably annoyed. "Are you here to pity me?"
Li Shuxian immediately said, "That's not what I meant!"
"Then what do you mean? I don't need your pity. Aren't you already engaged to someone from Huangjiazhuang? Don't meddle in my business!"
Bai Shiqing knew that Li Shuxian was a kind-hearted person, and thought that he felt his reputation was ruined and he couldn't get married, so he wanted to use this method to comfort her.
However, Bai Shiqing has self-respect and doesn't need help from someone like Li Shuxian.
"When did I get engaged to someone from Huangjiazhuang? Who told you this nonsense?" Li Shuxian was agitated; he was truly innocent!
"Didn't you tell me that yourself? Right there in the village, you told me you were going to Huangjiazhuang to find a partner."
"I went on a blind date with my mom, but who told you we got engaged?"
Li Shuxian didn't seem to be lying. Bai Shiqing muttered, "You were all smiles that day, did you look like you hadn't found someone?"
"You really are..." He was all smiles, because that was only because his mother had said she would arrange a marriage for him with the Bai family.
Seeing how much Bai Shiqing looked down on him, Li Shuxian didn't know what to say. He frowned and said, "Anyway, I have nothing to do with that Huang family village."
"oh."
"What do you mean, 'oh'?"
"I see."
"Then what?"
"And then what?"
"Would you like to be with me?"
Li Shuxian thought that since he had already gone all out, he might as well just throw caution to the wind and not care about losing face.
Bai Shiqing glanced at Li Shuxian, then immediately looked away: "Forget it."
Li Shuxian knew he had no chance: "Although I know you look down on me, it still hurt me to hear you say that."
"It's not that I look down on you."
"Alright, you don't need to comfort me." Li Shuxian adjusted his expression. "If it doesn't get better, then so be it. We're from the same village now, so you don't have to avoid me when we meet."
“No…” Bai Shiqing looked at Li Shuxian, whose expression was genuinely sad. He seemed to be trying his best to suppress his emotions, not wanting to lose his composure in front of her.
Li Shuxian really couldn't stay in front of Bai Shiqing for another second. He was about to leave when Bai Shiqing called out to him, "Wait a minute!"
With his back to Bai Shiqing, Li Shuxian listened as she asked, "Do you want to be with me because you feel sorry for me now that my reputation is ruined and I can't find a husband, or do you really want to be with me?"
Li Shuxian turned around, his face full of disbelief: "What are you saying? I think you're pathetic?"
He was so angry at Bai Shiqing that he laughed, pointing to his own face: "Look at me, do I look like that sucker?"
Bai Shiqing muttered to herself: Who knows?
Li Shuxian and his son were known as kind-hearted people; who knows what they were really thinking?
"No!" Li Shuxian said, enunciating each word clearly, his expression becoming somewhat ferocious with seriousness.
Bai Shiqing's heart skipped a beat. Li Shuxian's denial undoubtedly confirmed that he was indeed interested in her.
"No, no, why are you shouting like that?"
Li Shuxian crossed his arms and said, "You can't insult people like that."
"If you like me, why would you go to Huangjiazhuang to go on blind dates with other people?"
Bai Shiqing's questioning made Li Shuxian a little nervous: "That was, that was my mom who made me go. I didn't like that girl. When I came back, my mom said she would go to your house to arrange a marriage for me. I was so happy. Who knew you would tell me that you didn't care about me at all."
Bai Shiqing recalled what happened that day, and it seemed to be true.
Li Shuxian muttered, "If you don't care, then you don't care. You can be with whoever you want, but don't invite me to your weddings in the future!"
Li Shuxian felt a lump in his throat; why was it so hard to find a wife?
“Hey,” Bai Shiqing walked up to Li Shuxian, “I agree to your request.”
Li Shuxian's mind went blank: "What?"
"What did you say?"
Bai Shiqing looked at Li Shuxian's silly expression and tilted her head to stare at him.
In the next ten seconds, Li Shuxian's expression changed ten times per second. He was so excited that his lips twitched: "You agreed to date me? I...I...really?"
Li Shuxian touched his face: "Is this real or fake?"
"Of course it's true."
Bai Shiqing's inner turmoil was instantly resolved in front of Li Shuxian, and a smile appeared on her lips.
"real?"
"real."
Li Shuxian licked his lips, reached out his hand to Bai Shiqing, then trembled and withdrew it: "Well, I'll tell my mother right now and have her come to your house to propose marriage!"
"Proposing marriage?"
Bai Shiqing didn't expect Li Shuxian to be in such a hurry. Li Shuxian exclaimed "Ah!" and threw Bai Shiqing under a big tree. He rushed to the field where his mother was working.
Bai Shiqing was both amused and annoyed, but at the same time, a sweet feeling welled up in her heart, as if the sky had fallen but someone had held it up for her.
Bai Shiqing didn't know when she started to like Li Shuxian, but she was very happy to know that Li Shuxian genuinely wanted to be with her.
She couldn't wait to share the news with Bai Jiaojiao, saying, "Didn't you tell me last time to remind Li Shuxian that the girl from Huangjiazhuang is sick?"
"What's wrong? Didn't Brother Shuxian say he didn't care?"
Bai Jiaojiao moved a stool and the two sat in the courtyard talking.
Bai Shiqing blushed and laughed, "He has absolutely no relation to that girl from Huangjiazhuang. He told me today that he wants his mother to come to our house to propose marriage."
"Really?" Bai Jiaojiao exclaimed excitedly.
"Hmm, you seem happier than me."
"Sis, of course I'm happy for you. Brother Shuxian is a good person. He'll definitely treat you well if you two are together."
Bai Shiqing knew that Bai Jiaojiao was genuinely happy for her: "He's really a good person; he's saved me twice already. This must be fate, isn't it? Isn't that how it's always written in novels?"
"Yes, this is fate!"
It's a predestined fate, a connection from a past life.
Bai Jiaojiao was in an extremely good mood. When Shen Heng returned and saw her, he asked, "What are you so happy about?"
“My sister said that Brother Shuxian wants to come to my house to propose marriage.”
Shen Heng pinched Bai Jiaojiao's smiling apple cheek: "Why are you laughing when he proposes? Why weren't you all smiles when I proposed?"
Why are you bringing up old grievances?
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