“Mar... Mar...”
Gu Shishi was dumbfounded.
The man in front of her narrowed his black eyes as though he was thinking about something very important.
Then, his profound look landed on her little face.
He nodded and opened his mouth.
“You pick a date.”
Gu Shishi, “??”
And then she heard the sound of the system.
[Beep! Main mission 1 completed.]
[If you love her you will hug her skill awarded. Please confirm receipt.]
[Main mission 2 announcement!]
[Trying on wedding gown, picking out the wedding band, preparing for the wedding banquet. You deserve all three of them.]
[Mission requirement: Complete all three steps above within 30 days.]
[Award: Semi-permanent shapely brow halo.]
[Main mission 3 announcement!]
[First get the marriage certificate, then love. As you have chosen this step, you should start preparing for your wedding night!]
[Mission requirement: Before you become his woman, start with basics — kisses (0/3) and hugs (0/3). Time limit is 7 days.]
[Reward: Never have double chin halo.]
The string of texts floated past her eyes.
Gu Shishi’s knees felt weak and she almost felt onto her butt.
Those were certainly like bombs exploding in her head.
Kissed three times and hugged three times in 7 days??
She gulped. Bad, system, bad, bad.
The missions in the past only awarded skill shards for awards.
The awards for these shameful missions were so lucrative. They were tempting her to commit crimes.
She has had such good self-control in front of the beauty.
Up until now...
Just thinking about it was enough to make the tips of her ears blush and her cheeks even redder.
Huo Sishen regretted it after he had said it out loud.
It was such an important once-in-a-lifetime even for a girl.
How could he just casually throw it out like that?
If this had happened to his sister Chuchu and some man had just tossed out the idea of marriage just like that with no plans whatsoever then him, as her brother, would for sure kick the guy out!
He didn’t even have a ring with him. Not even a flower!
And he expected her to accept his proposal? How was he so impulsive today?
He regretted deeply and when he looked over, he was taken aback by the girl’s limpid eyes.
“Then, we go take some wedding photos?”
Gu Shishi shut her eyes and her eyelashes fluttered.
She straight up brought up the mission requirements.
“I’d like to pick out my own ring. Then we need to organize the wedding banquet and send out invitations to a few friends?”
She didn’t have many friends.
But she would like to have the lively celebratory feel.
Huo Sishen’s black eyes sparkled immediately and he suddenly felt the big boulder that had been sitting in his chest started to crack.
She didn’t resent that at all.
In fact, she was already thinking about the next steps and sharing her thoughts on them.
She was so pro-active on this. How long had she been thinking about this already?
All of Huo Sishen’s toughness started to soften.
“Mmm.
“Do as you please.”
Gu Shishi blinked.
That was easy?
“We have it all done within a month?”
Such a rush?
Huo Sishen narrowed his eyes.
He didn’t say or show anything but he had taken it more seriously now.
Not just to get married. He also needed to give her a purpose to live for even after they were married.
“Mmm.”
He nodded.
It was all up to her.
Gu Shishi, who was already dumbfounded, now felt like she was walking on clouds.
She was going to get married just like that?
This was the proposal?
Their banquet would take place within a month?
She was conflicted.
She felt both sadness and joy inside of her.
Back then, her master had told her that all she knew was to paint and she’d never be able to get married that way.
But her future husband was not only handsome and rich, he even let her have her ways with things. Albeit she had no idea why the sudden proposal, it seemed she would be able to marry off after all..
Did you see that, Master?
She had an emotional and complicated look on her.
Huo Sishen looked at her carefully and didn’t miss any of the slightest changes on her face.
“Is there anything else that you need?”
Even his voice has softened.
Gu Shishi looked up at him with her limpid eyes.
After the shameful feeling had subsided, her rationality had returned.
Did that mean she could legitimately paint handsome man painting every night from now now?
With Boss Huo’s handsome appearance, cold temperament, and prideful statue along with her newly acquired, mid-level Living the Painting skill from the system that could affect one’s emotions...
Oooh...
Gu Shishi covered up her nose that was getting both hot and itchy.
She felt that her even breathing was getting faster uncontrollably!
When she was a child, she had taken a sneak peak at her master’s ancient books, erotica... ahem, ahem, those had certain left a lot of room for imagination!
Word had it that that was how Tang Yin became famous.
“Kekeke.”
Gu Shishi couldn’t help but put on an eerie smile.
Huo Sishen frowned.
The girl with bright eyes and white teeth had already stretched out her hand toward him.
“It’s nice working with you, Mr. Huo.”
Huo Sishen was taken aback a little.
The corners of his lips turned upward and, the moment that he reached out his hand, the girl wrapped her arms around his waist.
Huo Sishen went stiff immediately.
He detected a very pleasant scent in his nose and it was indulging.
The delicate and soft body in his arms pressed against his seamlessly.
His brain went blank immediately.
For the first time in his life, he had lost his ability to think.
When he recollected himself, the girl has already left his arms.
Gu Shishi only hugged him quickly, just for a few seconds, before she backed up, blushing all over.
She quickly said, “I... I am going to go prepare dinner!”
And she ran off.
The pleasant scent had departed and the door to the study was closed once again.
The room returned to its normal silence and darkness.
Standing at the same spot, Huo Sishen felt a sense of loss that he had never felt before.
After running out of the study, Gu Shishi covered her face, dashed back into her own room, and started reading the instructions on the system in details.
“Calm down! Deep breath!”
She forced herself to calm down.
She read the description over a few but nothing registered.
“Ooooh!”
Gu Shishi finally tossed herself into the tub.
She submerged her head into the water in an effort to calm herself down.
A whole ten minutes had passed before she was finally able to process what had happened.
Everything was real!
She was going to marry the boss!
After spending some time in processing that, she calmed down a little and started looking into the details of the missions.
She did give the boss a hug earlier. That feeling on her hand... even just thinking about it was enough to make her blush.
He was certainly someone who jog in the morning and keep up with his workout routine. Even just from the brief hug, she was able to feel his strong abs.
Then, when she felt embarrassed, she moved her hand to his back and felt the smooth and strong contour of his back muscle!
Top notch!
This man was of top notch!
He looked skinny with clothes on but had muscles when the clothes came off.
Gu Shishi spaced out all over again.
Scooping up some water in her hand, Gu Shishi splashed it onto her own face.
She was finally able to think again.
She had impulsively hugged the boss but the number of hugs for mission #2 remained at 0.
She needed three hugs and three kisses and, so far, she had none.
Gu Shishi pulled up the details and looked at them carefully.
Quickly, she let out a sad cry with her head tilted, “Darn!”
In mission #2, there were specific locations requested for the three kisses.
The man’s chest, the man’s cheek, and the man’s lips.
Gu Shishi almost tossed away her towel in her hand.
Two of them, maybe. What’s with the one on his chest?
She quickly moved on to look at the requirements for the hugs and, just one look, she almost stopped breathing!
They were three very shameless poses!
One of them had the woman’s arms wrapped around the man’s waist and the man holding her tightly around her shoulder.
Second one, the man was princess-carrying the woman.
And the third one, the two of them were lying down side by side, spooning each other.
“Hot... dang!”
Gu Shishi was now truly speechless.
No wonder the system had become so generous and handed out complete skills one after another all of a sudden.
So that was the catch!
Were these missions even reasonable?
[These are normal activities between a couple.]
[Marriage before love. You have physical contacts first and that will improve your relationship.]
[Host, this is the path that you have chosen. You will need to see it to the end even if you must get to the end on your knees.]
Gu Shishi felt her chest tightened.
She didn’t mind summoning up her courage and go for it.
All in all, she wasn’t the one with the short end of the stick going to bed with a handsome man.
But would the boss agree to it?
He was a severe germophobic man.
Seven days. The system only gave her seven days of time for all of her.... activities. Would the germophobic man die from suffocation?
Gu Shishi felt that her brain was about to explode.
[ Do you want to apply the If you love me you will hug me halo?]
Gu Shishi paused for a little, then nodded.
[Effect: soft and fragrant body in arms. You will feel soft and your fragrance attractive. Cool in the summer time and warm in the winter time. You will be a must-have for man whether he is at home or out. Hugging you from time to time will achieve the result of alleviating tiredness, becoming more spirited, increase of fondness between the individuals, and enough to take away his soul!]
[Remark: When you are in his arms, you will feel 10% lighter, creating the effect that you are small and delicate.]
Gu Shishi, “......”
Such a misrepresentation...
Tsk tsk. Okay, she would try it out in a little bit.
Climbing out of the bathtub, she casually tied up her hair and went back to painting. As she painted, she tried to come up with ways to complete her missions.
Inside the study at the same time, Huo Sishen, after recovering from his temporary loss of ability to process information, had quickly returned to his usual rational self.
She quickly asked for Siyi.
“Contact the few jewelers that we work with and have them send over samples of diamond rings.”
He frowned after he had finished saying that.
He then added.
“Wedding rings.”
Siyi was completely dumbfounded.
But his expression changed almost immediately.
His boss actually listened to what Dr. Qin had said?!
Inside of Gu’s at the same time, Huo Wencheng was working on cheering up Gu Wushuang whose eyes were reddened.
“I’ll go with you overseas in person for your treatment after my mother’s 55thbirthday.
“We will get our marriage certificate before we take off and have the wedding after we return. What do you say?”
Gu Wushuang dabbed the corners of her eyes with a tissue and turned away her fair and perfect face.
“No, aunty doesn’t like me. She will never agree to it.
“If I have a surgery and don’t wake up from it, I will still be your wife in name. Your mother and grandmother will never go for that.”
Huo Wencheng sighed and put his arm around her. “I am doing it one way or another. Wushuang, you are the only one on my mind all these years. I am going to marry you no matter what.”
Tears streamed down Gu Wushuang’s face all of a sudden. “Brother Cheng...”
“Trust me, Wushuang, I will keep my promise. I have already said I will marry you ten years ago.”
Huo Wencheng hugged her tightly and buried his head between her hair.
“Nobody can influence me; not even my brother.”
Gu Wushuang’s red lips curved upward and she let out a sob.
Huo Wencheng knew that she had already agreed to it.
He felt a pang of joy immediately and tightened his fists happily.
He felt that he owed her.
If his brother wasn’t the walking curse who caused the death of their father and gave his family a bad impression, her mother and grandmother would not be so traumatized and objected to him being with Wushuang.
With their families, having the best doctors to provide treatment for Wushuang and providing her with the most cutting-edge medicines were not a problem at all.
They would never had objected to it so adamantly just because she was unhealthy.
Asking for forgiveness is easier than asking for permission. He had his mind made up!
“Wushuang, stop worry about so much. Just leave it all up to me, okay?”