Chapter 125 – Love Letter

It was fine to buy a watermelon without a gift, but it was impossible to buy watermelons without the slightest depression in his heart. Thus, when Xu Jian bought a watermelon, he bought the biggest one, thinking—

Eat, eat, eat! Eat till you’re stupidly filled!

Because he had two cat ears on his head, Xu Jian wore a peaked cap when he went out.

When he went upstairs, Xu Jian gently kicked the watermelon on the ground with his tiptoes, muttering in a low voice that Qin Chen wasn’t romantic.

The elevator door opened, and Xu Jian came out with the watermelon. But he found that the lights weren’t turned on at home, and it was pitch black.

“Why isn’t…”

Xu Jian’s puzzled words stopped abruptly as soon as he left the exit, looking at the dark room with a flash of inspiration—

Could this be the birthday surprise prepared by Qin Chen?

As he said, Qin Chen wouldn’t be so unromantic!

According to the usual routine analysis, Qin Chen really didn’t want to eat watermelon but deliberately had him leave to create a surprise. With the lights turned off, there must be a candlelight dinner waiting for him!

Thinking of this, the corners of Xu Jian’s mouth couldn’t help but rise, and he slowed down very thoughtfully to buy time for Qin Chen. While constantly adjusting his facial expressions, he told himself in his heart:

Later on, he must pretend to be very surprised and he shouldn’t hit Qin Chen’s enthusiasm by acting with an ‘I knew it all along’ appearance.

Relying on his own memory, Xu Jian fumbled forward with the watermelon in his arms for two steps. Suddenly, the huge lamp in the living room turned on with a ’click’, and the light made his eyes narrow.

Qin Chen placed his hand on the switch by the wall and looked at Xu Jian, who was holding the watermelon in a daze, and said doubtfully, “Why didn’t you turn on the light?”

Xu Jian: “?”

I didn’t… Didn’t want to break the surprise you prepared for me…

Walking over and taking the watermelon in Xu Jian’s hand, Qin Chen let out a ‘huo’^[1]Don’t know how to say this so I put the pinyin. This means sounds of laughter.

“Why did you buy such a big one? How can the two of us finish it?”

Xu Jian: “…”

Qin Chen carried the watermelon to the refrigerator and first said ‘Fortunately, the refrigerator at home is big.’

After taking two steps, he turned back to Xu Jian as if he remembered something. “The food is ready, wash your hands and eat.”

Xu Jian: “… Oh.”

Within a short period of time, Xu Jian’s mood was like riding a roller coaster.

He finally went to wash his hands in a dejected and numb manner.

When he came out after washing his hands, Qin Chen was already waiting for him in the dining room. There was no candlelight dinner, but only a small chandelier was turned on. The warm yellow light created the atmosphere of a candlelight dinner.

The dishes on the table were also richer than before, and in the center was a six-inch double-layer cake with numbered candles.

Looking at the ‘25′ above, Xu Jian’s mood immediately turned gloomy to sunny. He looked at Qin Chen. “It turns out that there is really a surprise ah.”

Under the light, Qin Chen’s eyes became more gentle and affectionate, “Happy birthday, my dear Mr. Xu.”

Xu Jian’s eyes were bent into a crescent moon, his eyes were shining. He walked over and sat down.

He saw a white cat made of chocolate on the top of the cake.

With long white fur and blue eyes plus a fluffy tail, it was simply a reduced version of Milk, and it was as lifelike as it could be.

Xu Jian stretched out his hand to take the white cat, but Qin Chen stopped him. He lit a candle and said, “Blow out the candles and make a wish first.”

Retracting his paws, Xu Jian closed his eyes and made a wish obediently. After a while, he opened his eyes and puffed his cheeks to blow out, “Hu~”

While Xu Jian was cutting the cake, Qin Chen took out two boxes from under the table and put them in front of him, “Birthday gifts.”

Xu Jian was quite surprised: “Why two boxes?”

Xu Jian originally thought Qin Chen hadn’t prepared anything, but he didn’t expect that he didn’t only prepare, but there were even two gifts.

Qin Chen smiled and raised his eyebrows at him, “Open it and see if you like it.”

Xu Jian opened his mouth to suck off the cream on his fingers and wiped his hands before going to get the box.

There were two boxes, one big and one small, one square and one rectangular. Xu Jian opened the square first. Looking at the size, before he opened it, he thought that there might be cufflinks, collar pins, wristwatch, and other decorations inside, but he didn’t expect that there were two rings lying inside.

Looking at the identical rings inside, Xu Jian’s heart skipped a beat. He looked up at Qin Chen in a daze, “This…”

Qin Chen took out the two rings that looked exactly the same from the outside, held Xu Jian’s hand, and put on the one with a ‘QC’ engraved on the inside, then nodded in satisfaction, “The size is just right.”

Looking down at the ring on his left ring finger, Xu Jian raised his eyes to Qin Chen, his mouth faster than his brain, “Is this considered as your proposal?”

“Yes ah.” Qin Chen nodded his head, and then asked with a solemn expression, “So, Mr. Xu, will you marry me?”

Qin Chen was unexpectedly so direct. Xu Jian paused, and finally raised his hand, waved the ring in front of him, and asked with a smile, “The ring is on my hand, can I still refuse?”

After saying this, under Qin Chen’s gaze, Xu Jian leaned over and kissed him, then pressed his forehead against his and softly said, “I do, Mr. Qin.”

Although he knew that Xu Jian wouldn’t refuse, Qin Chen was far happier than he expected when he heard him say yes. Then, he pressed the back of his head to deepen the kiss that just stopped after taking a sip.

After the kiss, Xu Jian put on the ring engraved with his initials on Qin Chen, and happily took a picture.

After zooming in and out of the two hands in the photo, and admiring it over and over again, Xu Jian finally sighed in a regretful tone, “It’s a pity that I can only wear it at home and enjoy it.”

Nowadays, netizens are like Sherlock Holmes. If he and Qin Shen wore the same ring, even if they weren’t in the same frame, the netizens would find out that they were wearing a couple’s ring in the next second.

As for Xu Jian’s concern, Qin Chen was prepared for it and took out two identical platinum necklaces from the bottom of the box and said to him, “You can wear it on your neck.”

The necklace was hidden under the clothes and wouldn’t be discovered.

Xu Jian’s eyes lit up, “This is a good idea!”

After carefully storing the necklace, Xu Jian suddenly laughed, and Qin Chen looked at him, “What are you laughing at?”

Xu Jian touched the ring on his ring finger and pretended to be serious, “You just put a ring on me without asking. Wouldn’t it be embarrassing if I didn’t agree?”

After listening to Xu Jian’s words, Qin Chen replied without hesitation, “You won’t refuse.”

Xu Jian just wanted to ask Qin Chen why he was so sure, but before he could say anything, he listened to him slowly explain, “I asked the same question last night, and you agreed. I even recorded it.”

Xu Jian was stunned. When he was just about to ask Qin Chen what he asked last night, a fragment suddenly flashed through his mind—

Last night in bed, he was so tired that he couldn’t open his eyes in the end. He seemed to hear Qin Chen ask something softly in his ear but he was too sleepy and too tired at that time, so he casually agreed without hearing the question clearly…

Watching Xu Jian’s expression gradually stiffen, the corners of Qin Chen’s mouth rose slightly, “Remembered?”

Xu Jian: “…”

Seeing Qin Chen’s reaction, Xu Jian knew that he was right. His face instantly exploded to red and he glared at him. “At a time like that, you even recorded it!!”

Too ashamed, Xu Jian was almost tongue-tied when he said this.

Seeing Xu Jian’s face flushed with anger, Qin Chen knew his thinking deviated, and explained out loud, “I recorded it because I was afraid that you wouldn’t recognize it after your pants were pulled down.^[2]Basically means abandoning your partner after doing it. I only recorded these two lines between us, don’t think too much.”

Xu Jian breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words. Then he reacted and looked at him with dissatisfaction, “Am I the kind of person who doesn’t own up to their deeds?”

Qin Shen shook his head wisely and pointed at another box. “There is another one.”

With his attention successfully sidetracked by Qin Chen, Xu Jian picked up the rectangular box and shook it lightly. “Necktie?”

Qin Chen: “You’ll know once you open it.”

Xu Jian just wanted to open it after hearing this, but Qin Chen pressed his hand. He looked up in confusion and saw that the other party’s face was a little uncomfortable.

Qin Shen changed his attention again, “Forget it. Wait until you finish eating, the dishes are almost cold.”

Hearing him say that, Xu Jian, whose appetite had been whetted, became even more curious about the second gift. “Can’t we see it now?

Qin Chen took the box in Xu Jian’s hand and said resolutely: “Look at it after eating.”

Xu Jian: “… Fine, ba.”

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Xu Jian felt like a donkey, and the box was a carrot hanging in front of him. He could see it but couldn’t eat it. It made him scratching his heart and liver, making him inattentive to eating, and he was distracted by what was inside.

After the meal, Xu Jian wanted to ask Qin Chen for the box, but the other party got up and started to clean up the dishes, so he had to swallow his words and help clean up.

Today was his birthday, Qin Chen didn’t allow him to wash the dishes, so he could only wait in the living room.

Ten minutes later, Qin Chen finally finished cleaning. As soon as he left the kitchen, he was met with Xu Jian’s expectant eyes, and his footsteps paused, and then he walked towards the bedroom.

The ignored Xu Jian: “???”

Xu Jian reasonably suspected that Qin Chen regretted it and didn’t want to give him a second gift.

Not long after, Qin Chen came out again and handed Xu Jian the box in his hand before quickly saying. “Look at it. I’m going to take a shower.”

Looking at Qin Chen’s almost deserted back, and then looking at the gift box in his hand, Xu Jian was puzzled—

What do you mean, is this a gift or a bomb ah?

The sound of rushing water soon came from the bathroom. Xu Jian sat on the sofa and opened the box after being mentally prepared. In the next second, he finally knew why Qin Chen felt uncomfortable.

The box wasn’t the necktie he thought. What was lying quietly inside was a letter, and the envelope was even peach pink.

The familiar handwriting on the envelope, Xu Jian knew at a glance that it was from Qin Chen’s hand, and it read: Love letter to Mr. Xu.

Looking at the envelope in the gift box, Xu Jian was startled at first, and then his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, like a frisky rabbit in his arms.

Unexpectedly, Qin Chen actually wrote a love letter to him. Xu Jian’s heart throbbed. He turned his head and looked in the direction of the bedroom before carefully opening the envelope, for fear of tearing the paper…

It took Qin Chen an extraordinarily long time to take a bath tonight, and by the time he came out Xu Jian had already returned to the bedroom.

When he came out and saw the box that had been opened on the bedside, Qin Chen knew that Xu Jian had finished reading the letter he had written. When he turned to look at Xu Jian again, he saw that he looked naturally calm.

Seeing Qin Chen coming out, Xu Jian turned off his phone and asked casually, “Finished washing?”

Qin Chen nodded, “En.”

Xu Jian got up and took the pajamas on the bed and headed for the bathroom. “I’ll go wash up then.”

Qin Chen only reacted when the sound of water flow resumed in the bathroom. When he approached the bed, the envelope inside the box had already disappeared.

Qin Chen subconsciously frowned and glanced at the bathroom. He was a little puzzled, Why are you so calm?

For the first time in his more than 20 years of living, he wrote a love letter and even chose a pink envelope full of girly hearts. Even Qin Chen was a little hot-faced and struggled for a long time before giving it. As a result, the other party read it but didn’t react at all.

For the first time in his life, Qin Chen didn’t feel confident—

Could it be that it wasn’t well-written? The little ancestor didn’t like it?

Qin Shen’s self-doubt was maintained until Xu Jian came out after taking a shower. He was relieved by the other party’s unusually throwing himself in his arms.

Holding Xu Jian’s smooth and naked waist and feeling his excitement, Qin Chen thought to himself: It seems that he likes it.

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The author has something to say:

The content of the love letter written by Qin Chen will be written separately after the text is over. At that time, little angels will decide whether to buy it based on their preferences~

Because it was the first time Qin Chen wrote a love letter, the content was daily, so it wasn’t placed in the main text.

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XJ too stunned and too shy to speak: *silently jumps into Qin Chen’s arms*