Perfect Fiancé

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Lu Xi did not know if he truly did join Su Jin in her dreams as he wished. However, at about nine in the evening, he received a call from Qin An.

After ending the call, he opened up the Weibo application in his phone that had almost become a mere decoration. Then, he lightly arched an eyebrow.

Zhou Tong… … Actually, if she had not posted this long Weibo blog text, he would have practically forgotten about her. After all, there were too many reporters that day and he had only happened to hear that question by coincidence. So, he had merely given her a warning, however who knew that this… …situation had intensified and s...o...b..lled further?

Really, even if the matter about Su Jin being Su Jin the author, was exposed, it truly did not matter. However since that young lady had, finally with great difficulty, gave thought and consideration for him and was unwilling to make this matter public, then he would go along with her kind regards and intentions.

As for this Zhou Tong, for her to wrestle and one-sidedly grab hold of public opinion? He ought to―commend her for her intelligence, yes?

On the other hand, in the event that he truly did want to retaliate, then what could public opinion even do to prevent that?

Thinking about the person that Qin An had mentioned on the phone call, he lightly shook his head.

On the second day, Su Jin climbed out of bed and when she had swiped through her Weibo in pa.s.sing, this matter had, more or less, already quieten down.

The root cause of that was due to "Film Emperor" Zhuo Junan posting a Weibo text yesterday night at exactly nine in the evening.

Zhuo Junan (✔️):『Through constant refining and polishing of knowledge, a thoughtful and reflective gentleman will, like a diamond in the rough, sharpen his good traits to become even better[1]. Unable to successfully collaborate this time, it truly is regretful. Hope to have a chance to work together with you next time! @Lu Xi』

[1] 有匪君子，如切如磋, 如琢如磨 (yǒu fěi jūn zǐ, rú qiē rú cuō, rú zhuó rú mó) – These verses are from a poem from Shijing, the Book of Songs (an early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Cla.s.sics of Confucianism). The poem (loosely translated) named as《National Customs · Wei Style · Aoqi River》is one of China"s olden time realism poems to eulogize a man"s image. The phrase used here is part of the poem"s techniques wherein metaphors and similes are used to depict a then ideal of a gentleman. Each verse in the poem has now become an expression that people use to describe morals and character, displaying the poem"s profound and long-lasting influences on Chinese history.

The party involved had already spoken, then what could the boneheaded fans still cause trouble about?

Due to Xue Kai"s matter, everyone did not have the mood to film. Therefore, Lu Xi had generously and immediately given the production crew two days off. He had planned to reconsider and make a resolution after the wait was over and the results from Xue Kai"s side were out.

By chance, he had also taken advantage of this idle time to bring his young lady, who had been ill at ease, out for a spin.

When the black Porsche had stopped at the gate of the theme park, Su Jin was astonished.

"He, Here?" With her phoenix eyes wide open, even her speech became a stammer.

"Yep." All smiles, Lu Xi nodded and got off his car to open the pa.s.senger door for her. Calling out to her, he continued, "come down quickly."

In front of the large entrance were several streamers floating and waving in the sky, an enormous teddy bear that bore as the theme park logo was placed on top of the gate. At a closer glance, one could even distinguish the music from the carousel out of the noisy hubbub inside.

"With both of our ages added together, we would be almost equivalent to a quinquagenarian (a fifty years old) person. What kind of circ.u.mstances would have you to bring us to come here?" Somewhat between laughter and tears, Su Jin sighed, "youngest master Lu, really, how old are you?"

"Me?" Hardly concerned, Lu Xi simply raised an eyebrow, "didn"t we previously mention that I was three years old?"

"Three years old huh… …" Albeit earnestly, Su Jin nodded and then pointed to the signboard at the gate.

[Babies five years old and below are not allowed to come, okay~]

"Oh, don"t know who had hung up that placard," Su Jin rubbed her chin as she could not help but laugh, "the tone of that signage is rather adorable."

Lu Xi"s expression froze for a second, then very naturally, he switched the subject.

"Jin"er can consider it as accompanying me then. As a child until now, I have never been to a theme park."

"How have you never… …" Su Jin paused for a bit, then seamlessly continued to say what had been stuck in her throat, "that"s unlikely?"

Fortunately, Lu Xi did not seem to mind and began to directly talk about his sad history of blood and tears.

"Why can"t it be unlikely?" He shook his head, "the Lu family"s family rules are extremely strict. Even though it"s already the 21st century, there was even restricted access to places. So to have never gone to a theme park when I was a child, what"s so strange about that?"

"My brother and I have gone through an especially harsh education ever since we were young. My family"s old man had always said that once we had become adults, he would no longer manage us; regardless of how we wanted to, if we wanted to have fun, we could. In fact, places just like theme parks, when I had wanted to come here when I was young, I was not allowed to. Now, when I"m grown, I don"t have any wish to come here any longer."

"After the last time, when we had met that young lady, only then did I recall about this."

"Young lady?" Su Jin puzzledly replied.

"Yep. Have you forgotten? When we had gone to buy a dress shirt, it was that little girl holding onto a cotton candy that we met on the lift." As he said this, Lu Xi bought a stick of cotton candy from a road stall and gave it to Su Jin.

It was in light pink and in the form of a rabbit, Su Jin subconsciously reached out to accept it with a slight curl of her lips.

"I remember."

How could she have not? That delicate and tender young lady who had even called her "Aunt", had a completely doted upon appearance that was evidently clear, it even made her envious.

"What are you distracted about?" Lu Xi reached out to rap his young lady on the head and piteously blinked his eyes, "Jin"er, are you truly this unwilling to accompany me in?"

The man, who had initially seemed as gentle as jade, had impeccably dressed with a change of clothes. Clothed in a v-necked t-shirt, capri pants and a cowboy hat on his head, his entire person seemed a bit sunnier and energetic than usual.

Su Jin lowered her head to grab a bite of the cotton candy in her hand. As the oily and excessively sweet taste unravelled on her tongue, her lips curled and grabbed onto the man"s large hand.

"Let"s go, Jiejie will bring you in to see the world."

Bring me to see the world? Lu Xi raised an eyebrow, this girl… …

On the roller coaster, as it dived down from the final hill, Lu Xi narrowed his peach blossom eyes slightly as he glanced at the girl beside him.

With long raven hair fluttering in the wind and an overflowing smile that brightened up her entire face, the initially low exhale from her voice had become an unrestrained shriek.

His young lady.

It undoubtedly not her prettiest moment, yet he still thought that she was incomparably beautiful and even the gale of wind that blew past her ears seemed gentle.

Whatever you had ever previously lacked, I will make up and patch all of those empty holes for you.

Your childhood, your trust, your freedom, your happiness and your loveless life.

Until the end of life, until the end of the world.

When they had come off the roller coaster, Lu Xi had felt fairly alright.

Yep, apart from his somewhat rather pale pallor and unsteady pace.

"Be careful!" Su Jin reached out to prop up the young master Lu who had almost fallen and rather worriedly asked, "are you alright?"

As Lu Xi steadied himself and rubbed his forehead, he looked at the girl beside him who had seemed to adapt well to the thrills of the rollercoaster. With a helplessly sigh, he unwillingly conceded the truth that this body of his seemed unsuited to ride this sort of attractions.

Seeing the man"s rather wan complexion and his face filled with an awkward expression, Su Jin suppressed the smile on her lips with a light cough. She lowly spoke, "I feel that this rollercoaster does not seem very fun, why don"t we try… …"

As her phoenix eyes swept through the theme park guidebook for a short while, rollercoaster, drop tower, frisbee, pirate ship, skydiver, spinning apples (like teacups), flume ride… …

"The Ferris wheel or the carousel?"

Half an hour later, Su Jin sat on the carousel and recalled the uncle who was selling tickets a moment ago to them. Looking around for a short while as he saw the two of them buying tickets when he did not see any young kids following them, he gave them an indescribably baffled gaze. Unable to bear it, wrapping her arms around the wooden horse"s neck, she laughed until she cried.

Really, she did not know why this man had given up on the Ferris wheel, the legendary symbol of true love, and had chosen the extremely childish carousel.

While children"s laughter and music filled with delightfully animated music surrounded her ears, groups of people around her had swapped over and over.

Having eaten dinner before coming here, the sky had steadily grown dark. The lights on the carousel ceiling gradually lit up one by one, the theme park"s cartoon-like lamps lit up too. As far as her eyes could see, all of the light emanated from the fantasy-like lamps. Almost like it had even lit up the dark night sky, the stars at the horizon could not be seen clearly.

As the carousel spun around and around, it felt as if it would never rest.

At some moment, Su Jin turned her head to look at the man who had sat abreast on the wooden horse. Returning her gaze to herself, out of the blue, a tear fell.

A long time ago, she had once sat on a bench alone, watching the crowd move by and the carousel revolve in circles until the entire theme park had been lit up by those shining lamp lights.

From a very small girl, she had grown up into a qualified doctor.

However, she had never sat on one before.

Even if later on, she had long since been able to bear the cost of riding a carousel, however on her own, was there any meaning to it then?

The Ferris wheel was the dream of lovers everywhere, yet the carousel was her personal dream.

Now, her dream had come true.

Until the very end, the two people had never sat on the Ferris wheel. When they had reached home, it was already close to nine in the evening.

After sending her safely home a moment ago, Lu Xi then received a call from Qin An.

Zhou Tong, who had just been snided by Zhuo Junan yesterday, had posted another Weibo text.

She had candidly and euphemistically questioned ad nauseam if Zhuo Junan had received some sort of threat and while filled with hot air of righteousness, she queried why would he change his tune so quickly.

As for these threats, obviously, the person behind this was the youngest master Lu.

What sort of weird brain loop was this… …

When he saw this Weibo text, even the always unperturbed Lu Xi could not help but think of this.

It was not like he had not previously suspected that there was someone behind Zhou Tong that had been specifically targeting him. However, when Qin An had done some background check, he finally investigated that Zhou Tong had initially received a small lead and wanted to dig out a big scoop. Hence, she had then persistently tried to get her claws into him without dropping this matter.

As for the first Weibo post, that was the result of Apple Entertainment hearing about the matter from her colleague, the photographer from the company a.s.signed to the opening ceremony that day. The company had been prepared to dismiss her, therefore, she had tried confounding the enemy with dangerous military moves and recklessly wanted to use the public opinion from the ma.s.ses to keep her job[2].

[2] 兵行险招 (bīng xíng xiǎn zhāo) – the phrase here is similar to another phrase, "fighting desperately when confronting mortal danger" or to find a way out of an impa.s.se. However, here, it refers to Zhou Tong, using such risky moves, of making a Weibo post, against an opponent that do not show absolute signs of victory. Often, it refers to strange tactics that could potentially inflict harm on themselves or could cause a turnabout in triumph.

However, Zhuo Junan had already voiced out. As for him, Lu Xi, he too had no interest in investigating any further. Yet, what did this person still have to pick about?

Sighing about this ridiculous state of events, he opened up Weibo and logged into the account that had always been managed by Qin An. Then, he posted a particularly profound literary phrase.

Lu Xi (✔️):『As the bl.u.s.tery wind abruptly stirred, ripples appeared on a pond of spring water.』

As a result of the noise that Zhou Tong had stirred up recently, there were many fans that swelled up in numbers with the cacophonous ruckus and had then proceeded to follow Lu Xi"s Weibo.

Once this phrase was published, the discussion area was bizarrely silent for a minute.

That was until Qin An posted something that became the first comment posted in the discussion area, it was a small story that was written in the spoken language, casual and filled with slang.

『"As the bl.u.s.tery wind abruptly stirred, ripples appeared on a pond of spring water” had originated as a phrase from Feng Yansi, as part of a poem created to the tune Golden Gates of Ye.

During the Five Dynasties period (a period of history between the fall of Tang dynasty in 907 and the founding of the Song dynasty in 960 where the five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China), the Tang emperor (in 937-975, part of the Five Southern Dynasties) Li Jing had been disinterested in imperial governance and politics.

He had only liked to recite poetry and create lyrical poetry. When he saw the prime minister Feng Yansi"s poem of "Golden Gates of Ye", he had made fun of him and said, “ripples appearing on a pond of spring water, dost thou think that mine affairs require thine a.s.sistance?"』

In other words, even if there are bl.u.s.tery winds and stirring waters, how does it concern you?

Translated and edited (quickly) by Iris

Un-edited (Will be as soon as possible by Ely when available)