Perfect Fiancé Chapter 58

Chapter 58: Happy Birthday The happiest birthday celebrations to one of my dearest couples~ ❤

"Lu Xi!" Xiao Ya immediately turned around and raised her voice in a yell.

At this, the people in the living room were startled by this voice and all turned their heads over to look.

"What's wrong?" Lu Xi frowned as he casually replied but did not get up, still clutching the phone where he had finally pressed the call button on it.
He had not heard Xiao Ya's reply but the phone call had already gone through.

"Hello." That familiar voice sounded through the phone and the girl's tender and soft voice could be heard at the edge of his ears and his heart, which had initially been melancholy but had all of a sudden softened. Lu Xi could not help but curl the edge of his lips yet he restrained his voice as he asked, "little lady, do you still remember what day it is today?"

"Today?" The person on the opposite end of the line seemed to have been smiling as her voice swiftly answered, "I do, of course, it's your birthday."

She did know? Lu Xi slightly raised an eyebrow. Since she did not forget, then had she done this on purpose?

"That's right, yep, I did do it on purpose." Su Jin seemed to have known what he was thinking as she laughed.

This girl– Lu Xi gently laughed; as long as she did not forget about it, then he was content. Then, just as he had been wanting to say something, the girl's voice came through the phone once more.

"Come out here."

Come out here?

Lu Xi was startled.

Not go out but come out here…… Just now Xiao Ya had yelled for him, could it be……

He immediately raised his head as he followed the crowd's gaze to look towards the door. Yet due to the people in the hall blocking his line of vision, he could only see Lu Jing who was standing in front of Xiao Ya.

That distinct and handsome pair of eyes stared as the hem of dark red clothes came into view through that slight crack of space between them. Thinking of the possibility, at that very moment, Lu Xi's heart jumped a beat.

That slender body leapt up and quickly walked over.

When the girl in her dark red capelet coat came into view, Lu Xi's footsteps suddenly stopped.

In his heart, it seemed that his imagined hopes and expectations had been confirmed and a countless number of complex feelings burst out from within as though it flowed throughout his body.

It was undeniably indescribable and unexplainable.

He stood merely a few paces away from her. As if in a daze, he gazed at her with a flickering gaze in the depths of his peach blossom eyes, yet he was completely unwilling to even blink them.

Time seemed to have slowed down a little as all surrounding sounds around them seem to fade away in that instant. It was only that little girl in her red coat in the embrace of the extremely mild sunlight of the winter day and all over her body, she brought along with her the remnants of the wind and snow as she walked straight up until she was right in front of him.

Fixated, she looked at him for a short while. Suddenly, she curled her lips in a laugh and at that moment, he had even thought that he had heard the sound of flowers blooming.

"This expression……" Su Jin's head was skewed to the side as she looked at this man who had evidently received an excessively large shock, "are you not welcoming me then?"

Her fine and long eyelashes and those fair cheeks of hers that had been so chilled that they had turned flush in the cold, wintery air; as she lifted her eyes to look at him, in the depths of her beautiful eyes, one could clearly see the silhouette of his figure reflected in them as that figure began to slightly shake along with her blinking eyes.

"– Jin'er?" He lightly spoke as his voice was slightly hoarse.

"En." Su Jin's lips curled slightly, "are you surprised?"

Pursing his lips without speaking, Lu Xi only reached a hand out to lightly touch her cheek.

In an instant, the slight chill that spread to his fingers had made him clear-headed, snapping out his surprise as he frowned, "why are you this cold?"

"Ah." Su Jin was startled.

Without even waiting for her to respond, she noticed that the man before her had turned his head to look towards Lu Jing who had just been welcomed into the door by Xiao Ya as he scolded, "the weather in Beijing is so cold. She does not know but it's not like you don't. When you picked her up, why did you not tell her to dress a little more thickly."

It was the same sort of frown, however, in comparison to before, his current worried tone had even contained certain strains of reproach and blame to it.

He had been removing his outer coat, but Lu Jing suddenly paused. After suddenly hearing this criticism that had no end to it, the man who had always been cold and stern seemed to be caught between laughter and tears as he looked at his own family's younger brother.

This pot was too heavy, he could not possibly bear to shoulder it! Moreover, what the young lady had been wearing was not too thin, it was only because she had not worn a scarf so her face was a little cold. Also, on this great winter day, was there anyone that did not carry the slightest cold on them when that person came in from the outside? Was that even still a person?

Tsk, to have actually had this stinky youngster take his anger out on him; Lu Jing could not help but laugh in spite of himself as he shook his head. Then, in following suit with Xiao Ya's strength, he pulled off his coat and strode inwards towards the residence.

"Wait! Ge, pass me the car keys."

Lu Jing slightly raised an eyebrow then turned back to look at his younger brother who had been sternly finding fault with him through a certain sense of justice. So when he wanted to borrow his car, only he would know to call him Ge?

This fellow–

Shooting Lu Xi a glance as his lips curled, he still helplessly threw him the keys in his hands.

Lu Xi gave him a nod as he took his own coat from the rack and holding onto the somewhat dazzled Su Jin, he walked out.

Seeing that silver-coloured race car vanish from sight along the mountain road, Xiao Chen blinked his eyes in amazement and pointed to the door that had yet to be open, "they just left like that?"

He would not even let them get to know her for a little while?

Hearing this, Lu Jin nodded affirmatively and smoothly received the teacup that Xiao Ya had handed over to him.

"Since Lu Xi drove off with your car, shall I send you back home later?" Xiao Ya offered.

The hand holding onto the porcelain teacup paused as a strange look appeared in Lu Jing's eyes as he agreed, "alright."

While sitting on the front passenger seat, Su Jin had finally snapped to her senses.

"Where are we going?" She looked towards the mountain road that had been curving upwards as she asked with some doubts.

"Going home." Lu Xi had looked ahead at the mountain road ahead and responded in a heavy voice.

Going home? Was it also in the Binhai villas? Su Jin was slightly surprised.

After less than ten minutes, the car stopped before a house that was closer to the peak of the mountain.

Opening the front door, a burst of warm air rushed out.

Lu Xi had situated Su Jin on the sofa and then poured a glass of hot water, placing it in her chilly hands.

As Su Jin took the proffered cup, she felt that the extremities of her body had gradually warmed up as she bit her lip.

"Are you unhappy?"

The man before, ever since they had been at Xiao Ya's home, his pair of peach blossom eyes had been staring at her darkly, and Su Jin pouted her lips as what was revealed on her face was some dejection and grievance.

"Are you still cold?" Lu Xi did not reply but merely asked another question.

"Ah." Su Jin was a little surprised and then shook her head.

Hearing this, Lu Xi reached out to hold onto her pair of hands as he then gently caressed her cheek and finally, a satisfied look appeared in his eyes.

Taking the cup in her hands, he placed it on the coffee table behind him.

"Hey, you……" Looking at her own cup being taken away before her very eyes, Su Jin had wanted to say something. Yet, a handsome face appeared and grew larger before her very eyes.

Shifting over, he immediately pushed the little lady who had made him worry down on the sofa.

Seizing the opportunity while they were still agape, those thin lips of his landed on that little mouth of hers as his tongue slid across a row of white teeth and in the depths of that warm mouth, he sought out that small, sweet and exquisite tongue, engaging it in a mutual dance.

With that familiar scent taking over her senses, Su Jin didn't have the will to resist. She quickly relaxed her body as she sunk into following suit with his actions.

After a while, finally, with a somewhat unsteady breath, Lu Xi released the person in his arms as he rested his forehead against hers.

"Jin'er……" He quietly spoke her name in a deep and low voice, carrying with it hints of hoarseness, and as he called her, that tone of his seemed to wrap around that word with tenderness.

Under his scorching gaze, Su Jin's cheeks flushed as she reached forward to push him away and sat upright, taking off the dark red cloak coat on her body. Only then did she genuinely feel that the warmth on her face had finally begun to dissipate a little.

Lu Xi had sat beside her as he reclined against the sofa. Wiping away the traces of laughter as he bit his lip, those alluring peach blossom eyes of his did not even blink as he continued to look at her.

"Why are you looking at me?" Su Jin cast a quick glance at him beside her.

"Why did you come to Beijing?" Lu Xi asked with a curled lip.

Why did I come to Beijing? Su Jin blinked, was this not an obvious answer to a question he already knew.

However…… With a slight shift in her gaze, Su Jin laughed, "I heard someone say that the wintry landscape in Beijing is really beautiful, so I decided to come to enjoy it."

This little girl was still unwilling to admit that she came here because of him?

Lu Xi slightly raised an eyebrow, yet he did not try to pop her bubble and merely gently said, "since that is the case, then stay here at my place for a few days, I will bring you around Beijing."

"Speaking of which–" He raised his eyes to look at the winter wonderland that had been covered all over with new-fallen snow outside the window, "not far from here, there is a plum forest."

"Plum forest?" As expected, Su Jin perked up, "shall we walk in the snow to view the flowering plums?"

At a not too distant mountain peak near the villa, Su Jin wrapped a scarf a few times around her neck as a fiery colour and lustre appeared before her eyes.

On the withered brown branches, there were large, tender and beautiful red plums that had bloomed like burning flames that seemed to hide the sky and cover the earth with its omnipresent presence.

"How beautiful."

The Su Jin who had not seen such scenery in a long time had been somewhat absent-minded when Lu Xi had brought up the plum forest earlier, and she had thought that there would still be the cool and elegant white plums here. Yet who would have known that what would fill her vision was an enchanting red.

"How beautiful."

Lu Xi too had gently exclaimed.

Yet his gaze was not on the red plums but fell on the person who had stood under the plum flowers.

The girl had raised her head slightly as her chin in that half-concealed face was revealed and that entirely exquisite face was exposed to the elements.

Slightly arched phoenix eyes, thick, long and delicate lashes, at the edge of those cherry lips of hers, there were slight traces of a smile.

Specks of snowflakes fell gently from the sky and like mischievous fairies, some had drifted onto her long and delicate lashes. With the light movement of those phoenix eyes, once more, they fell to the ground.

"Lu Xi!" Abruptly, she turned around to call for him.

With gleaming eyes that sparkled like the shimmering water, those refined facial features of hers were filled with happiness and in comparison to the unrestrained, gorgeous red mountain plums, her appearance was even more moving.

For that split moment, it seemed like she was the only one who left in the world.

As he came to his senses, his lips curved into a slight smile as he trod forward and took the person into his arms.

"Happy birthday."

From his chest, he could hear her voice that lightly tickled his ears was lovably soft and sweet.

A warmth that seemed to spread through the depth of his eyes swept towards his heart as it spread throughout all the limbs and bones in his body.

This was the girl he cared about.

Like so, she had cared about him.

In this very moment, it seemed as if all of his past despair and hesitation had vanished and those deeply repressed feelings of darkness and loneliness buried in the gulf of his heart had finally sunk into oblivion.

Yet in that icy-cold snowfall, every inch of his skin was warm.

"Where's my present then?" He took a deep breath as he smiled and questioned.

"Hm?" Su Jin was slightly startled as she retreated from his embrace.

"I mean," Lu Xi reached out and tapped the tip of her nose, "you came over for my birthday, yet you did not even bring a present?"

"A present?" Su Jin's phoenix eyes blinked as she dropped her gaze down towards the butterfly knot of her capelet cloak at her clavicle.

"Well." She pointed to her own neck and replied, "here it is."

Translated by Irisu

Edited by Ely

Here are Ely's thoughts as we end Perfect Fiance: Every once in awhile I crave a low stress romance- just lots of lovin', no crazy family politics, no conniving second male or female lead, and just a hint of angst to keep things interesting… takes a sip of wine Yep, PF ticked all of those boxes and sleeping. Is it possible to craft characters that are TOO perfect? Yep. Is it possible to remind the reader of this fact too often? Are peach blossom eyes embedded into your brain? Yep and Yep.

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