"Um...this..." I felt everything was too sudden, I had slept for three days and three nights.
When I woke up and casually chatted with Xiao Li, I admitted that I might have fallen for Yu Longting.
Then, right after that, this guy proposed to me.
The speed is like catching a rocket...
Yu Longting's voice twisted, "Is it that hard to give me a status?"
"No...not hard..." I stammered, scared out of my wits.
For such a significant matter, he completely disregarded giving me any buffer time.
Yu Longting pinched the flesh at the back of my neck, rhythmically, with no intention of letting me go, "I've had my way with you completely, before you didn't like me, and I didn't trouble you, now you still won't marry me?"
"Well, listen to my explanation, this isn't something I can decide by myself, right?" My heart pounded wildly, ready to be driven insane by Yu Longting any second.
Yu Longting looked at me in confusion, "Who else needs to be consulted? Just agree, and I'll immediately go with you to register our marriage and hold the ceremony, our Dumpling will then be a child born within wedlock..."
Geez, is he a negotiation expert?
He hit right where it mattered in an instant...
Previously, I considered Dumpling a monster, naturally never giving much thought to it.
Now, deep down, I actually hoped that Dumpling would grow up little by little in human society.
"It's my mom, ah, she struggled to raise me on her own, I need her consent to get married," I almost blurted out my agreement, but ultimately considered the practical situation and told Yu Longting the truth.
Yu Longting propped his hand on the bed, those beautiful peach blossom eyes glistening as they stared at me, and after a long while, spoke faintly, "You're right, we should ask her. What will you do if she doesn't agree?"
I really hadn't thought about that before.
But it was also very realistic—I could love Yu Longting.
Yet, being with Yu Longting in marriage, if my mom was staunchly against it, life in the future definitely wouldn't be too happy.
She is the only family I have in this world, I need her recognition, her forgiveness, her support for me...
"Can we discuss this issue if she objects?" I scrambled to kneel up and blinked at him.
Yu Longting took off his jacket and wrapped it around me, "Sure, although the weather isn't cold, your body is weak, you need to keep warm until you have completely recovered."
"Oh." I noticed that I had indeed become colder after waking up, struggling to handle the chill away from the quilt, I looked down and started buttoning up his jacket.
Yu Longting's cool fingers traced over my jaw, "I'm going to make you lunch. If I go too late, the chef will have started, and there won't be any place for me to cook."
I had only buttoned two buttons before I looked up again.
All I saw was Yu Longting's retreating back.
At this moment, he was intent on marrying me, yet I still felt unworthy of him.
"Dad, why did you have to do that to Yu Longting back then? Sigh, it's really the Sky Pit!" I sat dazed for a long time before I couldn't help but let out a long sigh, "One day I will help him cultivate an inner core as big as the one from back then, and then I won't always feel like I'm not good enough for him."
In the evening, my mom got off work and came home.
As usual, I went to bring her the meal I had saved for her.
The difference was that this time Yu Longting was also there.
There was a subtle tension between my mom and Yu Longting.
Both appearing in the same space, Yu Longting didn't mind due to his thick skin, but my mom felt uncomfortable.
"You're both here to see me, is there something you want to talk about?" My mom still had sharp insight. Discover more novels at novｅlfire.net
I felt that since we're all family, whether or not there's any preamble, we have to get to the point and the main topic, so with determination I blurted out, "If...I were to marry Yu Longting...what would you think?"