Leigh grins, “Louis, you misheard it. I hadn’t said that, I swear!”
The emcee rewards the ‘love’ couple rings to Stella and Daniel who have won the first place. Nevertheless, Stella is apparently not interested in it at all. She hands it to Lily, “I have a ring. You take this.”
“No, thanks, I’m not in a hurry.” Lily waves her hand. She’s wearing a ring on her hand. Even if it is used for protecting herself, it was presented by Louis. So this is enough. “Give them to Leigh and Jessie,” says Lily.
Leigh puts his arm around Jessie’s shoulders and grins, “Thanks. But I customized a ring for Little Fairy back then. By the way, this brand is not up to my standards. You guys keep them.”
“You really have a sharp tone.” Lily doesn’t know how to respond.
Louis and Daniel look at each other, their eyes turning gloomy.
Louis asks Leigh, “You bought diamond ring?”
“Yeah, the customized ring of Van Cleef & Arpels.” Leigh says complacently and pulls Jessie hand, trying to show them the diamond ring. But he then finds that there’s nothing on her hand.
“Honey, where’s the ring? Why don’t you wear it?”
A light flashes across Jessie’s eyes. She puckers up her lips, “It’s so big. What if someone with bad intentions notices it if I wears it? It’s in my bag. I only wear it at home.”
“Little Fairy, you’re really good at saving money for me.” Leigh gives her a passionate kiss and adds, as if he’s not bothered by whether if the ring would be stolen, “The ring is bound to be worn on hand. If it’s lost, I will buy the other one for you. Your fiancée, me, is not in short of money.”
“There’re many people here. Don’t kiss me.” Jessie feels embarrassed of his shameless deed and pushes his head away.
A smile creeps on Louis’ face when he hears Leigh’s words, “Leigh, it’s rare to see you treating a relationship seriously. You two even engaged.”
“Of course.” Leigh raises his eyebrow, “Maybe we’ll suddenly come to get the marriage certificate one day.”
Louis turns to look at Daniel. Daniel nods, the coldness on his face becoming more apparent, but he doesn’t say anything.
“Now that Leigh is so rich and even bought Jessie the customized Van Cleef & Arpels,” Stella smiles, hands the ring box to Lily and continues, “Lily, Louis, I can only give them to you.”
Before Lily can reply, Louis reaches out to take it and then opens the box.
There’s a pair of delicate 18K gold rings in the box.
“Not bad. They look good.” Louis praises heartedly. It’s rare for an organizer like this ball room to give such an expensive reward.
He picks up the ring for the lady and puts it on Lily’s hand.
“Wait.” His action is so quick that she has no time to stop her. The ring is appropriately put around her middle finder.
Louis pushes the ring box to her, “Mrs. Smith, please help me put it on.”
“Don’t mess up.”
As their friends are around them, Lily blushes when hearing him addressing her ‘Mrs. Smith’.
“Lily, you look reluctant. Is it because this engagement ceremony is too simple?” Leigh smirks, “You despise this pair of ring because they are free? And you think Louis doesn’t value you much?”
Lily replies helplessly, “I didn’t mean it.”
“Then put it on Louis’ hand. Look, he’s waiting eagerly and pitifully.” Leigh urges and then calls the violinist to come over.
Leigh says, “Play the song ‘I Do’ for them. I’ll give you 100,000 later.”
The violinist immediately puts the violin on the shoulder.
The gentle and lively rhythms that carrying the emotions of love rumble in the ball room, Leigh, Jessie, Daniel and Stella all chant, “Put the ring on his hand. Put the ring.”
Lily blushed slightly and feels awkward. She glances at Louis with begging in her eyes, hoping him to stop them.
Louis chuckles and reaches out his left hand.
Other guests also come over and applaud. It looks lively.
After one minute, Lily finally can’t bear it. She picks up the ring for gentlemen from the ring box, her fingers trembling.
Louis smiles, “Is your hand okay?”
“It’s out of control. It’s trembling.” Lily feels awkward. She raises her left hand, gives a hard slap on the left hand, and then holds up Louis’ hand and slowly pushes the ring onto his finger.
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