[Mutual devotion][Success in both career and love]
Heroine: [intelligent] [business prodigy] [bold in love and hate]
Hero: [quietly protective] [occasionally tsundere]
Everyone heads to the ancestral shrine for the final ceremony.
Su Manning deliberately falls a step behind, waiting for Gu Zhixing to catch up.
“So, how did I do today? Pretty good, right?”
Gu Zhixing smiles and gives Su Manning exactly the answer she wants to hear, and one he truly means: “Miss Su was magnificent. I’m impressed.”
Su Manning laughs, and the teasing words slip out before she can stop them. “Since I’m so impressive, why don’t you just give in to me, sir?”
As soon as she says it, both of them are shaken.
The smile freezes on Su Manning’s face. Su Manning, what are you saying?
At that moment, she wishes she could dig a hole in the ground and crawl into it.
Gu Zhixing hadn’t expected such a bold remark from Su Manning. After standing stunned for a few seconds, he answers seriously.
“Okay.”
But by the time Gu Zhixing says it, Su Manning has already hurried ahead.
Watching her figure, Gu Zhixing wonders to himself: I wonder if you even heard me.
