Chapter 2 Marriage proposal
“Sir and madam?”As soon as Hong Dali heard these words, his heart took a sudden jump: “They should be the biological parents of the original owner of this body? I …… how should I deal with them? What att.i.tude should I carry?”
No wonder, he would feel a bit hesitant under this situation.
He was an orphan when he was on the earth. His parents had died because of some reason while he was very young. During his childhood, there were no close relatives around him who could love him or take care of him. Now, in this world, not only his body had changed, even more than that, he got a pair of new parents, because of which he was feeling a bit perplexed and complicated in his heart.
He was really very happy at the moment, after all, to get love and care from the parents was something that he never dared to imagine even in his dreams. But at the same time, he was not just happy but was also perplexed and disturbed, because he was not familiar with his new parents. Since he didn’t even know their names, hence he decided that when he would meet them, he would simply utter mom and dad from his mouth, just to be on the safe side.
Ambivalence and hope along with fear, he was holding this kind of self-contradicting mood right now, due to the present situation, which was making him quite disturbed and nervous. Adding more to that, he was now also burdened with the task given by that Prodigal System – to be prodigal and waste one hundred thousand within four hours. It was quite natural that he could get this large amount of money only from his new parents…….
Therefore, he thought that eventually, it doesn’t matter how one speaks, as we all believe in what we see.
As these thoughts crossed his mind, his mind completely blanked out for a moment. Nevertheless, after controlling his emotions, he arranged his clothes then went along with the maid.
Along the way, although he didn’t speak even a single word, and kept on following the maid quietly, but his eyes were not idle at all, in fact, they were busy in the careful observation of the surrounding environment: “It’s a three storey Villa, with a huge courtyard at the centre, above which there is a transparent gla.s.s, from where the stars in the sky can be seen clearly. The entire first floor is a super luxurious drawing room, but nothing is yet clear about the third floor. My room is on the second floor of the eastern part of the building. The entire floor area of this villa is around–three thousand square meters. So, overall, it seems like the financial condition of his family is quite well and perhaps they are regarded as a top-notch rich and powerful family.”
This was indeed good news for him as he could squander money freely on the basis of the strong financial resources of this family to increase his attribute points as per the Prodigal system.
Therefore, at this time, he was in an extremely delightful mood, and with this pleasant state of mind, he quickly entered the drawing hall on the first floor, and finally saw two males and three females, altogether five people there. In the Eastern part of the hall, he saw a couple sitting, the man was in very simple home clothing, but actually, couldn’t conceal the dignity on his face, especially the pair of his bushy eyebrows which also added a bit of heroic spirit to his personality. Sitting next to him was a woman clad in a purple nightgown. Very lazily, she was leaning against one side of the man. She had a very faint smile on her face along with lightly pursed-up lips, giving her a very elegant and graceful appearance.
“They should be his parents, right?” He secretly questioned in his heart.
In addition to them, there were three other people and certainly seemed like a family of three. The man would probably be in his mid-forties, was clad in a grey waistcoat. He had a lightly bearded face and was holding an old bronze tobacco pipe in his hand. His short and black hair was combed backwards meticulously and looked quite s.h.i.+ny. His wife was clad in a black evening dress and had a very long black and beautiful hair, which was coiled up high. Her legs were slanting on one side and gave her quite a s.e.xy and attractive appearance.
Finally, there was a young girl, about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a snow white and greasy soft skin. Her flesh was s.h.i.+ning so brightly that it could even beat the brilliance of the snow in comparison. She was dressed in a short white dress, revealing her beautiful slender legs. Her long and beautiful hair was hanging all over her shoulders. Her milky white skirt was s.h.i.+ning even more brightly and making her delicate curves look prominent and conspicuous, however, he couldn’t continue to watch intently. For a moment, Hong Dali felt completely dazzled seeing such a beautiful flower in front of his eyes, as if he was seeing a beautiful dream and his heart started pounding and jumping crazily, thumping again and again. At the same time, when the girl saw him approaching towards her, she frowned and turned her face away.
“This family of three people has arrived here in the evening, what can be the possible reason for this?” Hong Dali couldn’t trace out the goal behind their visit. Moreover, he also didn’t dare to make any big movements in order to avoid getting exposed in front of them. So he thought that it would be better to ignore them for a while rather than greeting them and getting caught in the process. Hence, he turned aside and started walking towards his new parents. While walking he was wondering: “It is eight o’clock in the evening now, this family of three has chosen to come at this time, and from their body language and gestures, it seems like they have come here to request some kind of help. In addition, they also have specifically called me down to meet them, on the other hand, a 17-18 years old young girl has accompanied them, and on top of that, her parents’ att.i.tude appears very ambiguous. Besides this, both of my parents’ visions are constantly sizing up this beautiful young girl……” The moment he thought about this, he took a deep breath and thought “Don’t tell me, they have come here with a marriage proposal, or, perhaps to seek some kind of help?”
While he was still busy a.n.a.lysing the situation, involuntarily, he looked into the eyes of the girl and felt that the girl’s facial expression didn’t seem quite happy. She was literally pouting, had lowered her head and was playing with her fingers.
“She doesn’t seem to have any favourable impression towards me, I mean the previous owner of this body. Apparently, these two people might have been familiar with each other before, however, they haven’t been in any positive relations.h.i.+p? Well, I need to be careful and pay attention.” Hong Dali secretly thought.
“Oh dear… come here Dali, see Uncle Tang and Aunt Tang have come here with their daughter to see you.” When his father saw him walking down the stairs, he said that with a smile on his face.
His voice was very gentle which gave a very warm feeling to Dali’s heart. Although, he had the memory of his past life, but it seemed like the father of the original owner of this body loved him very much. Therefore, he could easily infer that in the future, he would also get the same degree of affection from him. For him, it was a matter of big happiness to have a father like him around who would love him and take care of him unconditionally.
“h.e.l.lo….Uncle Tang, Aunt Tang.” He greeted them but was not clear how the previous owner of this body used to behave and what kind of disposition he had. By collecting the fragmented parts of his memories, he could manage to remember only partial information like – The previous owner of this body used to know only one style, the Prodigal style.
Therefore, in order to avoid unmasking his true nature, he sat straight and stretched out his hand in front of his mother and asked “Give me some money. I am going out to be Prodigal!!”
“Keke….Keke!” Uncle Tang suddenly coughed fiercely and had a kind of expression on this face as if did not know whether to laugh or cry. After he calmed down, he asked with a smile: “Dali, well, you and our Xin Xin have known each other since childhood, but I still don’t know how you feel about her.”
As he expected, these three were really a family.
Hong Dali thought that since he neither had any clue about the relations.h.i.+p between these two families nor he had any idea about how deep was his friends.h.i.+p with this girl, so for the time being, he would maintain a little distance with them in a kingly way. After all, at present, he was ‘the presumptuous guest in the role of a host’ where only he knew the true ident.i.ty. Therefore, he nodded lightly: “Well, she is a very good-looking girl.”
Although he was known as the black sheep of the Hong family and was a well-known Prodigal, but still, when she heard him praising her, she blushed hard and her face turned bright red all of a sudden.
But right after saying that, he turned towards his mother and said again: “Mom, give me money. I want to go out and waste money!”
His mother helplessly shook her head, smiled gently, went close to him and while arranging his scattered hair, said in a soft voice: “Silly boy, your Uncle Tang has come to discuss about the marriage between you and Muxin, according to the wish of your grandfather that he made before you two were born, and listen, you cannot oppose. So, don’t be in a hurry to go outside to be prodigal, anyway, I and your Dad are still quite talented in making money which means this family property won’t be pa.s.sed on to you in the near future.
After listening to this, he nodded and obediently sat down and started secretly collecting information in the meantime: “Uncle Tang’s family seems to have a good relation with my family, at least since the generation of the grandfathers. This girl’s full name should be Tang Muxin, her nickname is Xin Xin. She is my fiancée since our marriage has already been decided by the elders long ago. So, her family business or possessions would come to me in the future, for sure. Also, it seems like she is the only child, no wonder, the way she is pampered, it won’t be a surprise if her family willingly gives favour to me in the future.” But on the second thought: “They must already know about the previous owner of this body that he is a well-known spendthrift and prodigal of the family, not at all a good candidate for their daughter. Moreover, Tang Muxin, who is such an adorable and beautiful young lady, still willingly came with her father for the engagement, which proves that this family must be experiencing some kind of trouble and they seek help from the family of this guy. About which I can guess, either they have come for nothing more than money, or they can’t afford to make this guy’s parents their enemy. But the possibility of the former is higher.”
With the deduced information, he began to observe Tang Muxin very closely and secretly.
All in all, it couldn’t be ignored that Tang Muxin was a real beauty as if descended directly from the heaven. Earlier, seeing her from the distance, her beauty was not very apparent, however, now seeing her more closely; he got shocked to the very core of his soul.
After all, she was from a rich and powerful family, also too young, she had not yet involved and got affected by this world that was why freshness, purity and natural look could be seen on her face. Her dark big eyes were really nimble and beautiful, not to mention her long eyelashes were natural killers. Her delicate and charming facial expression appeared somewhat miserable as she seemed to have been forced by her parents for this engagement. He really felt pity for her and looked at her with the intention to take her into his arms and comfort her well.
Of course, it was just his feeling and actually would not do such a thing as he would not dare forget that his health attribute had only 39 points. This meant that if his spirit became even a bit more excited, then it could easily lead to his death.
Now, the matter was very clear and forthright, the opposite party had certainly come to propose marriage, and they were waiting to see his reaction on the same. He thought that to have such a beautiful fiancée was by no means a bad idea for him. Therefore, he was delighted but then he collected few words and contrary to the expectation of others, he answered: “I don’t have any opinion actually……”
When Tang Muxin heard his words, her tender body suddenly s.h.i.+vered a bit.
Seeing Hong Dali had no opinion on the matter, his mother quickly said to him: “Dali … ah, why don’t you take Xin Xin for a walk to have a look around, meanwhile you both can talk to each other, get to know each other. Since we are here, you two must be hesitating from opening up to each other.”
“Oh …… Alright ……” He answered and looked at Tang Muxin. Needless to say, this girl clearly knew what to do next. Immediately afterwards, they left together and arrived in a studio on the first floor of the villa. While pa.s.sing through the door, Tang Muxin said: “I warn you, though I am your fiancée but you cannot make a move on me, you – waste, spendthrift, a black sheep of the family, do not even think about coming too close to me. You better stay away from me!”
Apparently, it seemed that the original owner of this body had little prestige, ah, even his own fiancée didn’t show respect to him.
Fortunately, now this matter didn’t matter to the current owner of this body. Hong Dali indifferently shrugged his shoulders and replied: “No problem, as you wish. Actually, I want to ask, are you prodigal? Since if you don’t have the qualifications to be prodigal then you don’t qualify as my fiancée. Moreover, even if you would be willing to marry me, I won’t marry you.” He was not a fool. As soon as he heard her speaking like this, he instantly got the idea what was going on in her mind. He guessed – Wasn’t it like at first she would try to draw money from them, then she would wait for her family to stand up from failure, and when the right time comes, they would come up with some excuse and break the engagement? He was not a fool who would give her a chance to say that “This guy took advantage of me” and so on. So he decided to demonstrate his authority and strength to her now itself.
She was a heavenly beauty, so what? He was tasked with the holy duty of being prodigal in order to save his a.s.s by increasing the attribute points in the Prodigal system, and for that, he wanted a supportive wife. If he got a diligent wife who preferred the general norm of saving money then wouldn’t that ruin his plan of becoming the biggest prodigal ever?!
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