Chapter 54: On a Date (3) “Not Just Want to Kiss, But Also…”
In the end, Shen Zhuo still didn’t ask anything.
By the time they left Flower Sea City, it was already evening.
The cool wind blew at the collar.
At this time, Flower Sea City was mostly empty.
The sky was a blending of pink-gold and orange-purple, like the gemstone dome in the manor’s glass house.
Sparrows fluttered from the rooftops to another tree.
Shen Zhuo walked side by side with Du Xun, holding the flowers.
Their fingers intertwined.
No conversation.
“I want to take a photo for us.”
The young man’s voice broke the tranquil silence.
Like the summer evening breeze, carrying the cool timbre to Du Xun’s ears.
Du Xun looked around, fixing his gaze on a mailbox.
In this technologically advanced era, there were still people who liked to express their sentiments in the most primitive way.
The man adjusted the camera, the camera emitting a 20-second countdown sound.
“What pose would you like?”
Shen Zhuo looked up at him.
Before the man could prepare, he cupped the alpha’s face, standing on his tiptoes to kiss the thin lips.
Warm.
Du Xun paused slightly, then tightly embraced the young man, supporting the back of his head, deepening the kiss.
Behind them was the sky, brilliant like gemstone crystals.
Splendid and romantic.
The camera clicked.
The image captured the two with eyes closed, embracing and kissing.
“I’ve wanted to kiss you since we were upstairs.”
Shen Zhuo smiled slightly, his slender fingers poking the alpha’s chest, “Didn’t you also want to kiss me?”
Du Xun put the camera back in the bag, then re-grasped the young man’s hand.
“Not just want to kiss, but also…”
Du Xun looked back at the young man’s raised brows, squeezing his hand, “Let’s go, there’s one more stop.”
The next stop, the amusement park.
“Unfortunately, my dear.”
Du Xun stood at the entrance of the amusement park with Shen Zhuo, gazing at the surging crowd in front of them.
The clamor, the shrieks, the laughter were incessant.
As far as the eye could see, it was just people.
The various attractions were spouting flames and steam.
The glow-in-the-dark headdresses lit up the crowd like a starry sky.
“The pocket money isn’t enough to rent out the whole place, so I can only buy the skip-the-line two-person tickets, so you’ll have to stick close to me.”
Du Xun was wearing the firework-shaped glasses given by the ticket booth staff.
They were originally for Shen Zhuo.
But he wanted to see how Du Xun would look in them.
So the originally stern, cold man, in this atmosphere and attire, also had a touch of bizarre cuteness.
The crowded flow of people meant they didn’t need to worry about being recognized.
The flowers and water bottle were left in the car, so there was no worry about losing anything.
This was Shen Zhuo’s first time coming to a place like this.
And Du Xun’s first time too.
So when they sat on the roller coaster with blank expressions, Du Xun even felt a little sleepy, he realized he might have chosen the wrong place.
“No, I like it.”
Du Xun pulled him into his embrace, shielding him from being jostled by the crowd.
“I’ve never been here before, so coming here with you for the first time, I feel very happy.”
The faint rosemary scent around him gave him a strong sense of security.
Some things may not be inherently interesting in themselves.
But doing them with a certain someone would give them meaning.
Shen Zhuo had heard Shen Ruoyin say this since he was young.
Although every time after saying this, he would drag Jiang Yuening to travel, then leave him at home.
“So this is why you were scaring ghosts in the haunted house?!”
The staff next to them couldn’t bear it anymore.
Du Xun coughed, speaking up to explain:
“My dear is just very light on his feet, it’s not intentional.”
That staff member eyed the young man skeptically.
Because Shen Zhuo had later won a roller coaster pattern glasses from the staff, so this haunted house worker didn’t recognize who they were.
The two strolled through unhindered, from the pirate ship to the rapids, from the bumper cars to the freefall, they tried almost everything.
The only thing worth boasting about was Du Xun’s superior driving skills in the bumper cars, avoiding all collisions.
Just as Shen Zhuo was still softly praising his alpha’s skills, a bystander muttered confusedly:
“Isn’t the point of bumper cars to bump?”
Du Xun: “……”
Shen Zhuo: “……”
?
This question was obviously also in Du Xun’s knowledge blind spot.
The two looked at each other through the colored lenses for a few seconds.
Pfft –
“Let’s be ordinary citizens for a day.” Shen Zhuo said seriously.
“Mn, it’s normal to not know some things.” Du Xun agreed.
“What’s the next attraction?”
Du Xun checked the park map in his hand:
“The fireworks performance is in half an hour, the parade in an hour and a half.”
Du Xun raised his hand, and a semi-transparent red flag was inserted into the map.
This was Du Xun’s ability [Virtual Sandbox], which could not only create a virtual sandbox to simulate battle situations, but also make markers on all kinds of maps.
After the marker was placed, the nearest route would appear in his field of vision.
Shen Zhuo tilted his head to look at the location marked by the flag.
It was the Ferris wheel.
Shen Zhuo recalled the cliched rumor, just about to look at Du Xun, but the corner of his eye caught sight of something.
“Du Xun, I’ll go to the restroom.”
The man nodded, utterly unaware:
“I’ll wait here for you, if you can’t find me, just call.”
Shen Zhuo had already released his hand and disappeared into the crowd.
Squeezing through the people, he inevitably got his feet stepped on a few times, and stepped on others, but the atmosphere was joyful, and no one even stopped.
A large part of the reason was also that the crowding made it impossible to stop.
Shen Zhuo finally made it to the other side of the street.
His eyes quickly scanned the stalls, glancing at the small trinkets reflecting the warm lights, and he selected one:
“How much is this one?”
“89.” The stall owner greeted him with a smile.
Shen Zhuo frowned slightly.
The things Du Xun gave him were all very expensive.
Just casually taking one out, it would be hundreds of thousands or millions.
He just chose something under a hundred…
Not very good.
Shen Zhuo thought for a moment before speaking up, “Do you have anything more expensive?”
Seeing the stall owner’s surprised expression, Shen Zhuo quickly amended:
“Do you have anything of better quality, these all look fake.”
The vendor then said, “Of course!” He took out a display board hidden at the bottom of the stall.
“They’re all real, with certificates, it’s just the price…”
“Price is not a problem.” Shen Zhuo interrupted him, finally spotting something that caught his eye.
“This one.” The young man reached out, pointing.
“This one is quite expensive.” The owner chuckled, “When you’re out playing, it’s better to just buy some cheap ones, they make good mementos.”
Shen Zhuo had already started opening his phone, “How much?”
“This amount.” The owner held up five fingers.
“Fifty thousand?” Shen Zhuo tapped a few times on his phone, “Transferred.”
Du Xun was still waiting for him, he couldn’t take too long.
Otherwise, he’d be found out.
“Eh, eh! This isn’t…”
The rest of the vendor’s words were completely drowned out by the crowd as Shen Zhuo hurriedly squeezed through.
He had no pockets, and the item wasn’t easy to hide.
He could only cup it in his palm, trying to conceal it.
Throughout his long youth, Shen Zhuo’s emotions had always been arranged in scripts.
He had admired people who didn’t belong to him, and thus never had the chance to take the next step –
Jiang Yuening would always stop him.
With an expression as if he had done something wrong.
Later, he knew everything was fake, and also wondered if Jiang Yuening had known about it all along.
But the facts proved that Jiang Yuening’s sixth sense was just too good.
He didn’t want his child to humbly pursue a love that wouldn’t end well.
Therefore, he had prepared gifts before.
But never given them out.
So the young man, who had never learned how to conceal himself, appeared a bit nervous.
“Is it too hot?” The man asked, looking down, “Your palm is sweating.”
Shen Zhuo acted nonchalant, nodding, “Too crowded.”
Du Xun: “I…”
Shen Zhuo immediately, “No pheromones.”
Du Xun: “…Okay.”
The crowd seemed to be mostly heading towards the fireworks performance area, so not many were going to the Ferris wheel.
Shen Zhuo didn’t mind when or where he watched the fireworks.
He believed in Du Xun’s arrangements.
The item tightly gripped in his palm had already become a bit slippery from the thin layer of lotus-scented sweat.
But when the Ferris wheel slowly rose, Shen Zhuo was so stunned by the surrounding scenery that he forgot to breathe.
He took off his glasses, his vision becoming clearer.
Heads crowding, the same smiling faces, the same joy.
Shrieks and songs, raging flames and dancing.
Bustling and lively.
As if infected, Shen Zhuo rarely experienced the same state of mind as those reveling people.
He turned his head, looking at the Du Xun sitting beside him.
Those blue-gray eyes, behind the light brown lenses, reflected the brilliant lights.
The various colors cast on the alpha’s face softened his usually harsh features.
Shen Zhuo finally understood what his feeling had been all along.
Du Xun seemed to only have his physical body in the mortal world.
In the depths of his eyes was a void, unfathomably empty.
It was a kind of emptiness that had nothing –
Just emptiness.
But at this moment, Shen Zhuo saw a faint light.
That beam of light turned towards him.
He saw it more clearly –
In the light, was the shadow of the young man named Shen Zhuo.
“What are you looking at?” The man gently pinched the young man’s cheek.
“Looking at you.” Shen Zhuo answered straightforwardly.
“Me?”
“You’re unhappy.” Shen Zhuo stroked his heart with his right hand, enunciating each word, “I can feel it here.”
Du Xun followed his gaze downward, chuckling softly.
“I’m not unhappy.”
“It’s more accurate to say, I’m too happy.”
The cable car had only a few minutes left until it reached the highest point.
Shen Zhuo heard the exclamations from the crowd below the square.
The prelude to the fireworks performance was a resonant symphony that echoed through the amusement park.
Shen Zhuo felt the timing was about right, immediately moving to the other side.
“What’s wrong?”
The young man fidgeted with his fingers, intently watching the height of the Ferris wheel.
Until they reached the highest point.
He suddenly stood up.
Taking a long, deep breath, then blinking his eyes forcefully.
His face regained its usual calm.
He said, “I finally know why you were so nervous when you proposed.”
He said, “Now that you’ve proposed, it’s my turn to confess.”
The young man brought out what he had been hiding in his hand.
It was a black obsidian ring engraved with “true love”.
The soft wind blew up his delicate black hair, sweeping across his refined, beautiful brows and eyes.
The young man bent down, extending the ring with his fingertips.
He said –
“Du Xun, I like you, and I’m willing to…”
“Bang – !!”
Shen Zhuo’s words were interrupted by the deafening explosion.
The raised black pupils reflected the bursting, massive colorful fireworks.
The dazzling lights flashed on his face, alternating between bright and dark.
The fireworks performance had begun.
Before he could shift his gaze from the fireworks, the ring in his hand was taken away.
Slipped onto the man’s knuckles.
Shen Zhuo turned his head.
Seeing under the fireworks, the alpha’s eyes were equally brilliant.
“I do.”
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