The pearls are dazzling and complement her perfectly.
Better than the luster and beauty of the emerald necklace at auction.
Is he feeling guilty?
Make it up to her?
Or maybe it's the dignity of Yuanyi and Yuanzhou's family.
After all, she married a cripple.
"Xi'er, are you getting off work so late?" Zhou Huaikang felt really guilty and even felt unnatural when facing Cheng Xi.
She smiled obediently, "I've been taking leave a lot lately, so I've been working overtime."
"We are getting engaged tomorrow. You are going to take a long leave this time, at least for a month, to get to know the relatives and family friends of the Geng family." Mrs. Zhou finalized the decision, and Zhou Huaikang became silent again.
There was a sudden sound at the entrance door. Mrs. Zhou stretched her neck and looked around, "Jingchen, the Geng family has sent a betrothal gift. I counted the number, and it is about 70 million."
"Did it arrive?" Zhou Jingchen paused.
He told Geng Shiqing clearly in the hotel that he would give a bride price at the engagement party. He was impatient enough and was afraid something would go wrong.
"The Geng family and Shi Qing came to the door together, and the etiquette was very thorough." Mrs. Zhou opened the box lids one by one, "This is the family heirloom of Mrs. Geng. She was reluctant to give it to her eldest daughter as a dowry, so she gave it to Xi'er."
Mrs. Zhou knows the goods well and knows that this thing is rare, so she urges Cheng Xi to try it on.
The jadeite necklace is of the aqua-green dragonstone variety, and the bracelet is of the waxy-white high-ice variety. The green is noble and the white is tender.
Cheng Xi has fair skin and is even more beautiful.
Mrs. Zhou was satisfied, "Our Xier's appearance is so graceful, let your brother Jingchen take a look."
She kept her back to Zhou Jingchen. When Mrs. Zhou spoke, she turned around slowly.
"Lift your head."
The man's voice was deep and commanding.
Cheng Xi slowly raised his face, his long hair spread loosely, covering the necklace. Without any warning, Zhou Jingchen reached out his hand and lifted a bunch of hair, revealing his bare neck.
She was so frightened that her breath suffocated.
"not bad."
After watching it, he commented casually, then picked up the crystal tiara in the wooden box, "Aren't you going to try it on?"
Cheng Xi felt angry and struggled with him, refusing to cooperate.
"I didn't wash my hair."
Zhou Jingchen looked at her hair and said, "It doesn't affect it."
"I'm afraid it will get dirty."
"You're not afraid of dirtying the Geng family's jewelry." Zhou Jingchen glanced at her indifferently, "It seems you like this necklace very much."
Cheng Xi ignored him.
He didn't care much and put down the crystal crown.
She didn't sleep well all night.
Aunt He dressed her up early in the morning. For four hours, Cheng Xi never left her chair.
At eight o'clock, she put on her red wedding dress and came out of the room.
Zhou Huaikang and his wife directed the security guards to lay out the red carpet and hang wedding flowers in the courtyard. The neighbors in the next few buildings also received wedding candies and cigarettes, and came to congratulate them one after another.
There was a lot of joy.
Cheng Xi, however, was not festive at all. She was wearing a wedding dress and red high heels, numbly standing on the stairs.
Zhou Jingchen then pushed open the wooden door of the cloakroom. He was wearing a dark red suit and trousers, with his arms bent and a watch strap tied on his right hand.
"Aunt He, are you ready?"
Aunt He was arranging cosmetics in the room and didn't hear him shout.
Zhou Jingchen looked up impatiently.
Cheng Xi was on the second floor, looking down at him.
His dark pool-like eyes were also looking at her.
But I couldn't detect any emotions.
"You look bad." Zhou Jingchen said, "Didn't you rest?"
Cheng Xi looked straight at him.
There is resentment and hatred.
Zhou Jingchen turned a blind eye and looked at the floor-to-ceiling window, "On a sunny day in March, the peach blossoms bloomed in the alley. This year the peach blossoms are more beautiful than in previous years. Maybe it's because you are getting married?"
He laughed.
There is a small alley at the west gate of the community, which was Cheng Xi's secret base when she was a girl. She fed stray cats and hid in rabbit nests. Mrs. Zhou was mysophobic and hated animals that shed hair, so she did not dare to take them home.
Later, while Mrs. Zhou was away, she took him to the attic and raised him.
Zhou Jingchen encountered her secret.
He also hated pets. She begged him not to reveal her secret. After a week of fear, he kept the secret.
Later, the calico cat went into heat and jumped out of the window and ran away.
Cheng Xi was touched and blinked his dull eyes, "You can't bear the engagement between me and Geng Shiqing, can you?"
The man is still calm and indifferent, "The dead end is done, there is no room for recovery."
Her eyes wet.
Zhou Jingchen took the golden hairpin from the nanny, which was in the shape of a golden lotus, and gently inserted it into Cheng Xi's bun.
He was so close yet seemed so far away.
"At the luncheon after the engagement ceremony, remember to change into your dress and wear the crystal crown." His eyes drooped, "You should wash your hair today."
Cheng Xi lost all hope.
After the ceremony was held, everyone in the powerful and wealthy circles knew about it, and there was no way to change it.
Zhou Jingchen fiddled with the golden tassels on her temples, feeling the familiar scent of perfume on his wrists.
"Miss Xi'er, hurry up and get in the car. The Geng family is waiting for you in Huiyuan!" Aunt He helped Cheng Xi and stepped onto the red carpet. "Six private rooms, eight guests at a table, it's a lucky number. Madam's It means that the engagement should be simple and the wedding should be grand. At that time, there were sixty-six and eighty-eight tables! Now that Mrs. Hua is hospitalized, it is inappropriate for the Zhou family to hold the wedding with great fanfare, and I have wronged you."
Cheng Xi walked out without saying a word. Zhou Jingchen answered the call from his secretary. He evaded to the balcony, gave a few instructions and walked out of the house.
Zhou Huaikang and his wife were already in the car. Zhou Jingchen, as his natal brother seeing off his bride, accompanied Cheng Xi in the second car.
"Jingchen, do you have the red envelope for Shiqing's change of mouth?"
Mrs. Zhou searched everywhere but couldn't find it.
"Here we are." Zhou Jingchen settled Cheng Xi and went around to the other side of the car door, "There are two in total, one for you and your father, each with a package of ten thousand and one yuan."
Mrs. Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, "How much did you pack for yourself?"
He pulled the car door and said, "Don't worry about it."
