Perfect Fiancé

Hehe, Su Jin is adorable here and Lu Xi is panicking~

The award ceremony had begun right on schedule.

The Shenhai International Convention Centre was brightly-lit and the final day of the Pearl Film Festival award ceremony had welcomed numerous top celebrities of the field.

Due to《Heart-Pounding Excitement》being shot overseas, many of the actors were mostly Westerners or people of Chinese origin having foreign citizenship. Therefore, those who came with Lu Xi were mostly staff members, like the director of cinematography, editing director, etc, since the areas for the seven nominations were Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Director and Best Film.

Simultaneously holding the t.i.tles of both the screenwriter and director, the red carpet for《Heart-Pounding Excitement》was practically his personal show.

The arranged time for him to walk the red carpet had been scheduled close to the time that the ceremony began.

Lu Xi, due to his profession and personality, along with the fact that he had spent the past few years overseas, had brought along Su Jin. However, neither of them were recognised by the aisles of fans along both sides of the red carpet. Yet, once they were seen by the news media, they were recognised in an instant and the news reporters and photographers directed their video cameras to film their presence there, and cameras to take dozens of photos.

However, even if this was the case, the two people"s arrival had caused an enormous stir for another reason.

Even without his reputation, it was merely due to the fact that their appearances were too outstanding.

Forging ahead under the stage lighting that brightened up the entire dark red carpet, hand in hand, this well-suited couple sauntered forth.

The man was dressed in a vintage double-breasted tailcoat suit. Still, he did not wear it like others, tidily and neat. It had been left unb.u.t.toned and had shown hints of the white dress shirt and the dark coloured vest beneath it. As his slender and thin legs strode forward, his figure emanated a sort of relaxed gracefulness that was distinctly on another level from anyone else.

As for the lady by his side, she had dressed in a sleeveless deep-green long dress. Around the neck, the style was similar to a qipao with its b.u.t.toned-up collar, while the entire upper part of her body was wrapped extremely tightly by her dress. She had only revealed a little teardrop-like patch of fair skin at her clavicles. As for her long skirt, the hem had stopped at her ankles and exposed high-heeled sandals of the same colour. Her wonderful figure and beautiful appearance had been perfectly shown with these complementing little elaborate and fitting details to her attire.

As for her face, she had only put on a faint layer of makeup, yet that could not cover her exquisite facial features.

Constantly, the gazes of everyone around them could not help but travel back to the pair.

As the wind blew, Su Jin could not help but shrink into herself.

As if perceiving the movements of the person beside him, Lu Xi frowned and suddenly stopped moving.

Not to mention the audience around them and the media, with his abrupt pause, even Su Jin had been startled.

What"s wrong?

She turned her head slightly and hinted this to him with her gaze.

Lu Xi did not reply but instead extracted his arm that she had borrowed and reached to take off his suit jacket before draping it over her shoulders.

As that familiar warmth spread all over her body, caught between laughter and tears, Su Jin lowered her head to see that the suit jacket was long enough to cover her knees. She wanted to say something but at that moment, a hand had been placed on her shoulders.

Embracing her around her shoulders, Lu Xi then brought her forward with him as his footsteps were a little quicker than before.

Until the rear view of the two people had disappeared to the autograph board, the strange quietness that had pervaded the red carpet suddenly exploded in a cacophony.

"d.a.m.n![1] Just a moment ago, who was that?"

[1] 卧槽 (wò cáo) – An internet slang to express surprise or a surprise that one could hardly accept before their very eyes, or used as an expletive, it means the abbreviation "wtf" or d.a.m.n!

"How handsome!"

"Other people"s boyfriend[2]… …"

[2] 男盆友 (nán pén yǒu) – This is a humorous and newly coined internet slang term for boyfriend. Unfortunately, it"s a play on the tone of the character "peng" to "pén" that means friend, which gets lost in translation.

"What?《Heart-Pounding Excitement》 ‘s director?"

"Then who was beside him?"

"His fiancée……"

"To appear on the red carpet like this, aren"t they afraid of meeting with a mishap?" A reporter who had just joined the industry exclaimed in surprise as they stared at the figures of the two people in stupefaction.

"This young fellow, what would you know?" Hearing this, the middle-aged man standing beside him turned his head and continued, "An accident? With their status and family background behind them, even if something truly happened, so what? If we did not have their permission, would we even dare to release a story on them?"

The newbie behind him was still rather wet around the ears and hastily questioned, "Liu Ge, what background? Isn"t this person merely just a director?"

Even if he was that amazing, he too was a person in the entertainment circle right!

"You, this is why you"re a rookie." The man who had just been addressed as "Liu Ge" reached out to poke the other"s brain, "Director Lu"s status and ident.i.ty in the circle isn"t some big secret. Beijing"s Lu Family, the Sheng Ming Corporation, do those ring any bells?"

"Yes." He dumbly nodded and instantly reacted, "the Lu family, Lu Xi?!"

"That"s right." Liu Ge raised his chin, "that person was the youngest master of the Lu Family, the current chairman of Sheng Ming Corporation, Lu Jing"s biological sibling and his younger brother."

"Whoa." He had been flabbergasted for a short while before sighing, "then what about that woman then?"

To be walking down the red carpet with the youngest master of the Lu Family, that woman; if she wasn"t part of the entertainment industry, who could she be?

"You don"t recognise her?" Liu Ge looked at him with some bafflement.

"I don"t." He rubbed his head.

"Hey you, how in the world did you manage to enter this line?" Liu Ge felt resentment and impatience to this youngster who failed to muster even the littlest of pre-knowledge. He glared at him, "that person, although her status can"t compare with Director Lu, her reputation among Shanghai"s media industry isn"t small either."

"Just a while ago, the matter about Su Family"s genuinely blue-blooded daughter, you know of it right?"

"Ah." At this, he hastily nodded his head, "I do."

"Su Jin." Liu Ge sighed, "that was the eldest young lady of the Su family. Although she had been swapped with the real young lady at birth, she"s the eldest young lady that is even more favoured than the true blue blood."

This conversation between them had gradually spread to the ears of the people standing around them and had been slowly pa.s.sed about the crowd around them.

For a moment, even the celebrities that had just walked onto the red carpet had been given the cold shoulder. Unanimously, the crowd could not help but lament and sigh about the couple.

However, the ongoing discussion outside had not the slightest bit of an effect on the two people who had already entered the ceremony grounds.

Su Jin sat beside Lu Xi, then took off the coat and handed it back to him. Suddenly, her lips curled as she questioned, "tell me truthfully, were you afraid that I would catch a cold or……"

"Are you jealous?"

To abruptly hear this question, Lu Xi was slightly startled.

"Why do you ask this?" With an odd expression, he arched a brow towards her.

Su Jin did not reply either and merely leaned against the seat to look at him as those pair of phoenix eyes sparkled.

The two people"s gazes connected for quite a while before Lu Xi finally surrendered in retreat.

He averted his eyes from her gaze and turned his head to sit upright once more. With a hand curled up into a fist as he covered his lips, he slightly coughed twice before replying, "it was both."

He had mumbled those words.

Taking a lock of her long tresses, that had fallen on her shoulder, Su Jin played with it in her hands as she raised an eyebrow to press further, "what did you say? I couldn"t hear you clearly, you know."

This girl!

Lu Xi then turned his head and his peach blossom eyes met with that familiar pair of phoenix eyes as he slowly leaned closer to the young lady before him.

"So what if I was jealous, what then?" His voice was low and mellow as it rang softly by her ears. Yet, his words had been enunciated clearly and heavily, with some hints of upset while gnashing his teeth.

"So what if I did not want them to look at you?"

"So what if I had wanted to hide you away, to make you belong only to me; how about it?"

Question by question, it fell upon her ears and Su Jin slightly raised her gaze and noticed the slightly reddened earlobes of his. Abruptly, she laughed.

As expected, this man who had constantly teased her from the very beginning was actually an awfully pure and innocent man. So long as she took a little initiative, then his ear lobes would definitely become flushed.

This was just like… …the last time at the graduation ceremony.

Seeing her laugh, Lu Xi could only helplessly shake his head.

"Satisfied?"

"En." Su Jin nodded.

In the depths of his eyes, his gaze was scorching, filled with ardent emotions and possessive desire.

In front of her, he would never ever conceal this.

Or perhaps, because he was like this, the her who had always been indifferent would thus so easily lay down her safeguards for him.

For some unknown reason, those somewhat anxious thoughts of hers that had been initially stirred up by Gege"s words had abruptly calmed down.

As she placed a hand to rub at her chest where her heart was, she faintly lowered her eyelids.

With these days of spending time together, the very last safeguard in her heart had actually been gradually wavering. If it had not been for Gege and Ming Xuan"s affairs, perhaps she would not have discovered this so quickly. If she had waited until she truly realised it, then she was afraid that it would truly be of no use. Split water is difficult to retrieve and the damage to her heart, by then, would have been done.

Just like this then, she would firmly hold onto her heart. If you don"t change, then I won"t either. If you truly do change, then I too would be able to escape this unscathed and get through this in one piece.

Leaning against the back of the chair, Lu Xi"s black pupils had swept across the side profile of the person beside him with a slight frown.

She was acting queer.

Something was truly amiss.

This little girl always used to curl herself up in a sh.e.l.l and had always required this pure-hearted old man to use every kind of trick in his repertoire before she would be willing to peep her head out of her sh.e.l.l and lazily give him a glance before retreating into it.

When did she ever ask such frank questions like "are you jealous" that were close to being flirtatious comments with him?

There had to be some devil behind this peculiar behaviour of hers.

He knew her too well, this sort of situation had only two reasons: one, the little girl had already completely unlocked all her defences around her heart. Two, she was still somewhat uneasy and was preparing to retract those claws back.

If it was the first reason, then with his strategy of using boiled water to cook a frog; the water had yet to boil, so how could she be thoroughly ready to fall in love with him?

Then, it could only be the second reason.

What on earth happened?

Before this, everything was fine and yesterday evening… …Did something happen? Or… …Did someone say something to her?

Translated by Irisu

Edited by Ely