Ji Rui's body stiffened, and his arms around her uncontrollably pulled her into his embrace, as if only satisfied after embedding her into himself.
"What did you say?"
It's not that he didn't want it, nor was he unhappy; rather, the happiness was so sudden, he thought he must have misheard.
You must know, getting Le Tong to accept him had already taken him tremendous effort, and the period from being in a relationship to becoming mutually affectionate had undergone several months of testing. It was only the other day that he officially got a taste of it. This gradual step-by-step process had wrongly led him to think convincing her to marry him might take longer than expected.
Even though from the moment he confessed, he wanted to brand her with a "Ji Rui Property" stamp, to respect her feelings and to show his own sincerity in respecting her wishes, he didn't dare suggest marriage to her despite it lingering in his mind for some time.
