Duan Yanhao fixed his gaze on Bai Yaoyao before glancing at the red mark on her shoulder. His eyes reddened as he did, and the desire he had suppressed almost surged up again.

He coughed and said, "I want to leave a mark. A mark that belongs uniquely to me."

Bai Yaoyao looked at Duan Yanhao reproachfully and said, "I want to leave a mark next time too. See these fingernails? Are you scared?"

Duan Yanhao looked at Bai Yaoyao's fingernails that were painted red. They were really pretty. He imagined a particular scene, which made his face redden uncontrollably.

"You are welcome to do that."

Bai Yaoyao was anxious now. "Ahh, Yanhao, your skin is too thick. How did I not know this before? Everyone said you're a cold and aloof Major, someone who could only be admired from afar but not up close. They even said things like you're a male idol and only the heavens were allowed to own you."

Duan Yanhao clutched Bai Yaoyao's hand in his and said, "That's only to outsiders. Of course I have to be more thick-skinned with you. That's how I bring my wife home."

"So you had such thoughts about me from the start?"

Duan Yanhao smiled without saying a word. Anyway, he was not going to answer this question.

"Are you not going to answer me? You just said you will indulge in me!"

"Then, my wife, did you like me from the start?"

"You keep calling me your wife. I'm not your wife yet, you know."

Duan Yanhao hugged her and lowered his head, locking his gaze deeply with hers. "Yaoyao, the whole country, including the whole world, now knows you're mine. Even if you go on the streets, everyone will know that you're the First Lady. The only step that's left is the wedding ceremony."

Bai Yaoyao realized suddenly that this was true. She had already been imprinted with Duan Yanhao's mark now.

"Duan Yanhao, you're really scheming. You did this on purpose."

"It's not on purpose. Things happen when you least expect it. I just felt that giving you a wedding without a wedding proposal would be letting you down and make you think that I don't treat you with importance, so I thought really hard for the wedding proposal. But I didn't know anything about it. You know, I've been learning to train ever since I was born. I wouldn't know about being romantic. I still went to ask many people and even held a meeting to vote on this plan. However, the effect in the end really made me satisfied."

This time, it was Bai Yaoyao's turn to cough. This… A marriage proposal can even be thought of like this? Holding a meeting to vote on the options seemed too much…

Alright then. Three lines appeared on Bai Yaoyao's forehead. Forgive her for not being able to think properly now.

Just as Bai Yaoyao's mind was in a whirl, Duan Yanhao said very seriously, "Yaoyao, I won't let you cry next time, even if you're moved."

These words were said with utmost importance.

Bai Yaoyao was really moved when she heard that. "Yanhao, I believe you. With you around, I won't cry next time either. Don't you feel that ever since I got together with you, I have never really cried?"

"Yeah, that's good of you."

"I'm not a child. You always coax me like you're coaxing a child."

"I want to pamper you like how I pamper children."

"Other people will laugh at us."

"What has other people's words got to do with me? It doesn't matter as long as we're happy."

"Alright then!"

…

In Country E.

When Xirong Ziye saw the international news report, the sharp, stabbing pain in his heart was unbearable. He could only give his blessings silently.

He had read this article countless times. When he saw the scene of the wedding proposal, his eyes were throbbing in pain.

The woman he once neglected now had someone who treated her like a treasure.

He could only mock himself. There was no way he could talk about his pain nor vent it out.