"You've deliberately broken the air conditioner in your room for over a year."
Chen Lu's heart skipped a beat when he heard this.
However, who is Master Chen? With his strong mentality, he immediately turned the tables and bit back:
"What do you mean I deliberately broke it? Where's your evidence?"
He involuntarily gasped.
No wonder Liang Zhirou hasn't mentioned air conditioning at all in the past year or so.
It turns out this silly girl knew everything, she just didn't say it.
That makes sense. No decent person goes a year or two without fixing their air conditioner. No matter how much this simpleton trusted him at first, he should have realized what was going on later.
"......"
How was his smug behavior any different from that of the Joker?
Damn, I'm invincible when playing Dou Dizhu now. I can just randomly draw a King or Queen and use it as a royal flush with a photocopy of my ID card.
"If you didn't break it on purpose, why don't you fix it?" Liang Zhirou muttered softly.
"Of course I forgot! How could I, a dignified gentleman, do such a despicable thing?"
Chen Lu continued his defense without batting an eye, "Besides, assuming I really did break that air conditioner on purpose, it's been over a year, why are you only doing this now..."
He stopped halfway through his sentence, only staring at the girl in front of him with an ambiguous look.
Liang Zhirou quickly covered her head with a pillow, lay on the bed and stammered, "I...I'm so stupid, I don't know anything!"
Chen Lu was in a daze for a moment, then lay back on the bed, looking at the white ceiling, and suddenly laughed out loud again.
They went to great lengths to trick Liang Zhirou into coming here to sleep at noon.
Later, not content with sleeping in one place at noon, they started thinking about how to sleep in the same bed.
They even deliberately damaged the air conditioner...
That's absolutely amazing.
He raised his hand and looked at the ring on his middle finger.
After more than a year of wits and courage, I finally managed to trick this simpleton into becoming my wife.
Oh right, she's not my wife yet...
Chen Lu's temples suddenly throbbed twice.
Why can't we get our marriage certificate yet?
Why is this kid's birthday so young?!
Just as he was feeling down, the ostrich next to him finally poked its head out from under the pillow and whispered, "And you? You...you're my fiancé, how does it feel?"
"What has become?" Chen Lu asked, feigning ignorance.
The girl refused to look at him, and after a few seconds she finally managed to utter a few words: "Fiancé... fiancé".
Chen Lu was satisfied now and grinned foolishly, a rare occurrence for him.
This new nickname sounds so nice, it's way better than my boyfriend.
I have this strange feeling that I've been promoted.
After a long while, he finally stopped smiling, and his expression became much more serious: "I want to be promoted to a permanent position as soon as possible."
Liang Zhirou smiled and rolled over on the bed to snuggle into Chen Lu's arms.
"Shouldn't we still have an engagement party?" Chen Lu suddenly remembered this while the fiancé and fiancée were chatting.
He vaguely remembered that his older cousins' engagements were all quite grand, which also served as a way of announcing their engagements. He, on the other hand, had just casually arranged for Liang Zhirou to become his fiancée after a brief discussion between the two of them...
Something feels off.
It seems like even if things aren't going well, the two families should at least get together for a meal.
"Huh?" Liang Zhirou blinked blankly. "I don't know, I've never been married..."
Chen Lu was speechless; this person didn't seem very bright when he spoke.
Of course I know you've never been married!
He muttered a complaint to himself, then fell into deep thought again.
He really doesn't understand this. Among the people around him... Jiang Chao is the only one who got married, and he even got married because he was pregnant. He probably didn't have time to think about things like an engagement party.
My mom seems to have attended a colleague's son's engagement party. Should I ask her about it?
Chen Lu then remembered that Chen Guanglin and Wang Xiaoxia, the elderly couple, were still traveling all over the country and hadn't gone home at all.
It's not convenient to discuss this over the phone; it's best to wait until we get back.
"Maybe we shouldn't do it."
Liang Zhirou suddenly made a suggestion in a low voice.
Chen Lu was somewhat puzzled, "Save money? But it seems like they only start discussing the bride price and such after the engagement banquet is over..."
Although the two of them can't even get their marriage certificate yet, it's definitely a good idea to prepare for such an important event as marriage in advance.
Think about what you were doing three months ago, and you'll realize that three months really does fly by.
We can't wait until we get the certificate to think about this, can we? That would be too late.
"My mom said our family doesn't want a bride price," the girl in my arms whispered, her voice filled with shyness. "I don't want one either..."
Chen Lu: "?!"
"Wait, when did Auntie say that?" he asked quickly.
"I'd mentioned this before, and then the night before I was supposed to propose, I brought it up again..."
Chen Lu looked at her blankly.
He couldn't sleep the night before he proposed, and this silly guy even planned out the bride price before proposing.
Liang Zhirou stretched out her delicate arms and hugged him tightly. "I just want to marry you. I don't care about anything else."
"......"
Chen Lu didn't say anything more, but leaned down and kissed the girl's lips. His words and tongue intertwined, expressing what he wanted to say clearly.
After a while, a rustling sound suddenly came from the quiet bedroom.
"I... I'll go take a shower first, I just worked up a sweat..."
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