Perfect Fiance

Chapter 59: Until the end of time (Finale and Epilogue)

Translated by Irisu

Edited by Ely

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On a dark blue large bed, a man and a woman's figures were intertwined together.

With a bare upper body and a lean lower half, the man's skin tone was a supple and fair unlike the woman's. Under the hazy lights, glimmering beads of sweat were faintly illuminated on his back.

Covered in his embrace, the girl's nightgown strap had already fallen, revealing half of her shoulder that was as fair as jade.

Raising his head from the collarbone of the woman below him, Lu Xi's eyes were flushed giddily in an intense scarlet hue.

"Jin'er..."

He huskily panted as he spoke.

"If you continue on like this, I really won't be able to stop."

Her phoenix eyes, that had been half closed, opened as Su Jin's gaze slowly slid down the distinctly handsome face of the man before her.

Then, her lips curled as her arms curled around Lu Xi's neck.

"You can unwrap your present now."

Her voice, that was usually tender and soft, had seductively become raspy too. It was not at all loud, yet, that still made the arms of the man above her suddenly tighten up.

Stooping down, his thin lips traced over her forehead, her eyes, her red lips and lingered for a while at her neck before he continued downwards.

As the nightgown on her body was pulled off, his lips and hands were like sparks of fire as they slid passed over every nook and corner of her body. At the same time, they lit up a hidden sweltering flame in her heart.

Even her consciousness was somewhat in a state of confusion.

"It's alright, bear with it a little more."

Dazedly, she heard him murmur in her ear.

Only, he did not wait until she understood before a penetrating ache spread throughout her whole body.

In a flash, her mind had a sense of clarity.

As her phoenix eyes opened, they gazed honestly at the man that was close at hand.

Long inclined brows that reached the temples, a straight nose bridge and thin dark red lips.

In those slightly curved pair of peach blossom eyes, with the minute flicker of his delicately long eyelashes, one could see the shadows of his semicircular eyelids. From the centre to the outward edge, the pure black pupils of his eyes gradually lightened in colour. Finally, from the corner of his eye, a tinge of red welled and after combining all of these points, an especially alluring sight was revealed.

It was seriously a pair of peach blossom eyes.

When one sees the tender and supple willow branches and gaily-coloured peach blossoms, one recalls the youthful, pretty looks of one's bride[1].

[1] 桃之夭夭，灼灼其华 (táo zhī yāo yāo, zhuó zhuó qí huá) - A phrase from a poem used as a song to both congratulate a bride and welcome the bride, it originated from the Book of Songs, Shijing. It was an early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism. The poem is called 'Shijing·Zhou Nan·Tender Peach'. As written in the translation above, this is the direct (yet poor) translation of the prose in the poem.

It reflects a snippet of people's lives at that time when this poem would be sung beginning at the bride's home as she travels to the groom's home. It conveys the meaning of one having such luck to have married such a bride which would lead to the birth of many sons and much fortune. In this context, the bride is referred to as Lu Xi and Su Jin is thinking that if she marries this man, she would definitely have a sweet and blissful family with him.