"Then you can take a guess on how I answered." Suddenly, Daisy's aloof attitude changed and a teasing smile broke across her cold face. It must be fun to play a joke with Edward.
"I know how you answered, of course. There's no need to guess. You must have said you love your husband very much and you will die if your husband discards you." Though Edward spoke that as a joke, he indeed got the point.
"You are confident of my love toward you, aren't you? How can you be so sure that I will die without you?" Daisy didn't get angry. She just cast a glance at Edward and then lowered her head down. What mattered was not the conversation between her and Hero, but the things Edward said just now. Yes, she loved this man very much, with heart and soul. She loved Edward so much that she had no reason to refute his seemingly joking truth and his confidence in her love toward him.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Daisy. I got it wrong. I will die if you discard me. So, please close your eyes now. I have a gift for you." Edward never hid his love toward Daisy in front of her. He was willing to speak it out and show it whenever he got even a slightest chance. In Edward's opinion, there was no need to conceal the true feeling if you were truly in love with somebody. The right way was to follow your heart and love the one you wanted to love.
"What is it?" Daisy felt happy. She seldom received gifts from Edward before. Daisy was not a shallow woman who worshiped money, but she still expected some romantic gestures and surprises from her husband every now and then.
"Close your eyes now." Edward looked at Daisy with infinite tenderness and helped her close her eyes with his hand. Then he took out the tiny box from his pocket that he had been carrying around for the whole night.
Daisy followed Edward's instruction and closed her eyes. She bit her lip to smell Edward's jasmine scent that she was already very familiar with. Then she felt something cold being put on her ring finger. Her heart beat fastened and a thought struck in her head.
"All right, it's okay. Now, slowly open your eyes, Daisy." Edward raised Daisy's hand and kissed it. How he wished to put on that ring on Daisy's finger! It finally happened now! That ring represented their eternal love for each other, and would witness their love for each other until the end of their lives.
"Why do you give this to me?" Daisy's eyes became red with the tears welling up in her eyes. This ring was precious. But Daisy viewed it as precious only because of the unusual significance it had and not because of the price at which it was bought. Although she and Edward had been married for a long time, she always felt insecure for reasons she could not tell. It dawned upon her that all her uncertainty and insecurity was because of the lack of a wedding ring. There was no denying that she longed for a wedding ring all this while. The ring was a representation of their love, and served as a tangible testament of their marriage. Daisy didn't care whether the ring was valuable or not. She did care about the reasons why Edward finally decided to put that ring on her finger.
"Please put this one on my finger too, Dasiy." Edward handed over another ring in his hand to Daisy, and stretched out his slender fingers.
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