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“Nonsense.”
“Very important person,” Li Ying teased and poked Hanjun while his call was answered.
Hanjun scowled at Li Ying, yet spoke perfectly calmly on the phone. The interns kept marveling at how Li Ying could keep teasing their icy cousin. Then again, they had already figured Big Sister Li was no ordinary girlfriend. She could do whatever because she was cool like that.
Anne looked at Li Ying firmly. “Those sneakers are out of the question now. Li Ying, which pair should I bring you from the car?”
“Can I wear the murder heels?” Li Ying asked.
“Good choice. Yiyi, can you come to open the car for me?”
“Of course, Miss Lü.” Yiyi got up with Anne, and off they went.
Yiyi opened the car door for her, and Anne rummaged through the dozen-or-so bags for the McQueens and a smaller clutch bag that better fit a dinner occasion, cutting off the price tags with the emergency shears in her purse. She also took out the single most precious purchase of the day: reverently, Anne lifted up a choker, consisting of five rows of finely cut diamonds totaling over twenty-three carats, from its cushy box.
I wonder,Anne thought,is Hanjun going to add one more diamond on Li Ying tonight?
Chapter 12: Finding The Words
Anne headed back to the bar with Li Ying’s new shoes and accessories.
She was relieved Li Ying had better options fresh off the shelf, because if she let her client wearsneakerswhile being proposed to in a fancy restaurant, she might as well end her career now.
Anne was almost sure of Hanjun’s intentions: Christmas was, after all, a popular day for romance in China, and now that Hanjun’s choice of restaurant had proved to be many calibers fancier than originally thought, Anne just had a feeling.
Back at the bar, she gave Li Ying the McQueens to change into.
Li Ying subtly switched out his sneakers for the heels under the table. His feet were already in pain, but Anne was right, he couldn’t enter a formal restaurant setting in anything less, and besides, Li Ying really, really liked his new shoes.
Anne leaned to whisper to him: “Let’s go to the ladies’ room.”
Li Ying blinked in surprise, but followed her.
Inside the washroom, Anne made sure they were alone before taking out the choker and hurrying to put it on Li Ying.
“Anne?” Li Ying sensed her electrifiedair.
“Do you know what this could mean?” Over Li Ying’s shoulder, Anne could see him blink in confusion in the vanity mirror. “Hanjun might propose to you tonight.”
First Li Ying’s eyes widened, then he chuckled nervously, almost losing his feminine voice. After clearing his throat he said:
“What makes you think that?”
“Well, it’s Christmas Eve, super romantic, and then there’s the fancy restaurant…”
“No way. He reserved it on a whim because I was making a fuss about having nothing special for Christmas.”
“Okay, maybe, but the signs are in the air. Just don’t freak out if he goes on one knee.”
Li Ying snorted in laughter. “Hanjun, doing grand, romantic gestures in public? I just won’t believe it until I see it.”Would he?
“Fix your lipstick, and let’s go,” Anne ordered.
They returned, Li Ying now all glammed up, and Hanjun was obviously pleased to see him collared with the diamonds he’d just bought him.
It had become time to part ways. Li Ying insisted on hugging Xinyu, and Yiyi as well, as he wished them a merry Christmas, and they received their hugs with reddened cheeks. While Anne was hugging Li Ying, she whispered to him:
“Good luck.”
