Chapter 1554: The Contract of Life
Chapter 1554: Chapter 1554: The Contract of Life
After dinner, the two of them drove away.
"Mister, where are you going? Isn’t the road back to Li Garden that way?" Jian Dan pointed to the road on the right.
"It’s not Li Garden. I’m taking you to a special place." Chu Liyuan said as he pressed down harder on the gas pedal.
After a burst of speeding, the car finally came to a stop.
"Where is this place?"
"Get out and see for yourself." Chu Liyuan opened the car door and pulled Jian Dan out.
"Wow~" Jian Dan exclaimed as she stepped out, completely stunned by the scenery before her. "It’s so beautiful!"
"From here, you can see the entire city’s panorama."
"This is the first time I realized our city is so stunning," Jian Dan said as she gazed at the view, unable to look away.
Chu Liyuan unbuttoned his suit jacket, took it off, and draped it over Jian Dan’s shoulders. Then, with both arms, he pulled her tightly into his embrace.
Jian Dan rested her head on Chu Liyuan’s shoulder. "Mister, why are you so good to me?"
"I’ll spoil you so much that no one else in this world would be able to tolerate you but me. That way, you’ll never be able to leave me."
"I wouldn’t leave you anyway! Even if you tried to send me away, I wouldn’t go. I’m sticking to you for life!" Jian Dan turned around and hugged Chu Liyuan’s waist tightly.
"That’s not good enough."
"Huh?" Jian Dan tilted her head up to look at him.
"A lifetime is too short. I want Jian Jian to belong to me for all eternity."
"Eternity? Mister, have you really thought this through? Spending so much time just looking at my face – won’t you get tired of it?"
"Even if I get tired, it’ll be a sweet kind of tired."
"Then let’s make an eternal pact. Let’s promise to be together for all our lifetimes to come." Jian Dan raised her pinky finger and gazed sincerely at Chu Liyuan.
"Alright! But an eternal pact isn’t sealed with a pinky promise – it’s sealed with... this." He hooked her chin with his hand and leaned down to kiss her.
"That’s not right!" Jian Dan curved her lips into a smile and stared directly into Chu Liyuan’s eyes. "Eternity is such a long time – how can sealing it be this simple?" As she spoke, she grabbed Chu Liyuan’s lapels, stood on tiptoes, and leaned in for another kiss.
Chu Liyuan cupped the back of her head with one hand and deepened the kiss.
The sky gradually lightened, and warm sunlight illuminated Jian Dan’s eyes. Slowly opening them, she looked through the car window toward the horizon, where a fiery red sun was rising and painting the clouds in brilliant colors.
"Mister, look—the sunrise!" Jian Dan softly woke Chu Liyuan beside her.
Chu Liyuan opened his eyes but didn’t look toward the sunrise. Instead, his gaze stayed fixed on Jian Jian.
"Mister, what are you looking at? The sunrise is over there!" Jian Dan pointed toward the glowing egg yolk in the distance.
"I am looking," he replied. In Chu Liyuan’s eyes, the person beside him surpassed the most beautiful scenery in the world.
Jian Dan kept staring toward the horizon and didn’t notice Chu Liyuan’s gaze lingering on her. Only when the sun fully revealed itself did she turn her attention back to him.
The moment she turned back, her lips were sealed once again.
"Mmph!" She gently pushed him away. "Mister, I didn’t even brush my teeth!"
"That’s not a valid excuse—overruled!" He said, holding the back of her head and kissing her again.
"Mister, why can’t you ever get enough of kissing me?"
"I just can’t. You got a problem with that?"
"But..."
Chu Liyuan deprived Jian Jian of the chance to say any more words.