Guan Xian could hear his father dissatisfied voices and Xiao Ni's groan at the same time. He greeted the housekeeper that opened the door for him and immediately went to the family room.
"He did, but they don't trust each other since the emperor is her family's opposition," Xiao Ni's voice getting louder as he approached them.
"Aiya, can you two stop talking?" Mother's Guan complaint rang out next, the exact time when he stands in front of the television.
"HEY!"
"GO AWAY!"
"MOVE YOUR ASS!"
Complaints and cursed words (mainly coming from Xiao Ni's mouth) filled Guan Xian's eardrums. As if he felt pleased to be scolded, he grins wide and deliberately spread out his arm to cover the television's screen.
"Guan Xian! Move before I pull you back to my stomach!"
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Mother Guan's words have shaken Guan Xian's souls slightly. His jaw dropped as he steps aside and accepts his defeat.
"Oh, you bought something home? Wah, brother, you've changed," Xiao Ni's gaze falls on the paper bag he holds.
"Guan Xiao Ni, what do you mean? Half of my salary went to your stomach," Guan Xian furrowed his eyebrow at her sister, who seems didn't care and take the paper bag from his hand instead.
"Wah, it smells good," Xiao Ni praised.
"This is not for you," Guan Xian faked a smile at his sister while smacking her disrespectful hand. His glaring eyes are warning Xiao Ni to keep her hand to herself.
Xiao Ni was dumbfounded.
"Mom, Aunty Shen give this for you," Guan Xian present the paper bag to his mother instead.
"What?! How can you," Mother Guan look confused as she took out the food container, "You go to her house?" she asked.
Guan Xian is wearing an angelic smile on his face. Weirdly, he looks brighter than 25 years of his life.
"Yes, I send Xia Sha home today after having a delicious dinner at Sky Longue," Guan Xian glance at Xiao Ni as he flaunts his date today.
"What's the special occasion?" Father Guan asked. His gaze falls on the container box on her wife's lap.
"Nothing, it's just the first snow is falling tonight," he answers.
Guan Xian chuckles lowly when Xiao Ni started to pout and sulk.
Xiao Ni excitement draws their mother and father's interest in what he bought. Mother Guan opens the container lid, and a delicious scented black sesame soup reveals.
"Wah, that looks good," Xiao Ni drooled.
"Nah, Guan Xiao Ni, you won't get shares in this. Do you remember all the times when you bullied aunty Shen's daughter? Where is your self-conscience?"
Disbelief was written all over Xiao Ni's face. She knew her brother is annoying but never knew he could irritate people to this extend. Is this how he wants to treat his only little sister right now?
Xia Sha hasn't even agreed to date him, and he has started picked aside. Tsk, Xiao Ni never felt this betrayed before.
"Dad Brother is bullying me," she pits to her savior.
"Guan Xian, stop making your sister remember her bad memories."
Father Guan looks annoyed when one figure practically popped out in his mind.
Hmph! Did he think himself too highly? Dumping his precious princess, he'll make sure that cocky young fellow won't ever see her daughter again!
"Aish, stop it, you two. We shouldn't let people steal our family's peace and happiness," Mother Guan scolded the pair of father and daughter.
"My handsome son, did you finally set your heart on one girl now?" she asked. Mother Guan has Guan Xian's back this time. She turned to her son with a sweet smile.
"Ah, Mom, how could you ask me like this," he pretended to be shy and cover his face with his hand. Xiao Ni hissed and threw a cushion to her brother.
"Of course, mom, you don't know what he has done in the mall today. I'm amused, proud, but embarrassed for him," Xiao Ni shook her head and took out her phone from the table.
Guan Xian widens as he lost his face's color.
"Do you want to watch the video?" Xiao Ni asked playfully.
Three people on the couch asked in unison but with a completely different tone. Xiao Ni raised her eyebrow at her brother and smirked.
"How can you get the video?" Guan Xian gets wary.
He knew some people taken videos with their phones, and he has no problem with that. However, Xia Sha first text after she unblocked her is,
'I'm gonna blocked you again if the news got spread.'
Along with Wang Kai's demand and Jian Jun's carrier consideration, he had his people delete every evidence the public had. There is no way Xiao Ni could get the video.
"I recorded it."
Xiao Ni's straightforward answer got Guan Xian dumbstruck. He silently gives two thumbs up to Xiao Ni. Of course, the only person who can get away from Wang Kai, Jian Jun, and his people is Xiao Ni.
"You are great (ni zhēn bàng)," Guan Xian admits.
"What is it?" Mother Guan got curious and wanted to see the video.
"No! That video is confidential! This family embraces democracy. I claim the right to keep my privacy," Guan Xian stood up and seized Xiao Ni's phone.
"I claim my right to have my phone back!" Xiao Ni didn't want to lose it and tried to take her phone back from Guan Xian's hand.
"Since your phone had my privacy content, I'll confiscate this for now."
"NOOOO!"
Guan Xian raised Xiao Ni's phone high. Xiao Ni jumped and stretched her body to reach his hand. But Guan Xian is six feet one-inch while Xiao Ni embraces her mini size body.
Since it's unfair competition from the start, Xiao Ni didn't bother to play by the rule and try everything she can to get her phone. She bites, tickled, climbs, hangs unto him. It's total chaos in the family room.
Father Guan look at his wife and shook his head helplessly. They have used to watch this kind of view ever since Xiao Ni can talk. Guan Xian has this weird tendency to tease her sister until she cries and Xiao Ni just likes to bicker with him.
They are the perfect brother and sister to fill the Guan's family's big manor. House will never felt lonely if Xiao Ni and Guan Xian are living together.
"Guan Xian! Give me back my phone!" Xiao Ni gnashes her teeth and glare at him.
"Guan Xiao Ni, I can't let you have the video. Xia Sha didn't want people to spread it, and since it's failed, I don't want any people to have it too. I'll keep it as my personal collection," Guan Xian said calmly, but give Xiao Ni a tongue out after she jumps and fails to reach her phone.
"Hmph, you actually admit that it hurt your ego to get rejected. Again. That is why you don't want me to keep the video!" Xiao Ni provoke him even further.
"Guan Xiao Ni, you!"
"What? How many rings will you waste before she agrees?" she tilted her head and put her hand on her hips.
"Why do you care? I'll buy a thousand ring if I had to. I have the money!" Guan Xian scoffed angrily.
Although he said to Xia Sha to keep the ring until she agrees to marry him, there is a tradition in the Guan family he wanted to follow. His father once told him that when you find the right girl and the right ring, your proposal will definitely succeed.
If you are certain that you've found the right girl and you fail your proposal, then the big problem must be the ring. You haven't found the perfect ring to move that girl's heart.
The ring is the key to a woman's heart. Finding the ring that they loves shows how much effort you made to get to know your girl. Guan Xian likes the meaning and logic behind his father's story.
So that's what Father Guans did when he proposed to mother Guan. He got rejected six times before he succeeds the seventh time. Every time he got rejected, he would change the ring at the next proposal.
Guan Xian wanted to follow this tradition. As he keeps working hard to get her heart, he hopes he also could find the right key to her heart.
Father Guan never give up on his girl and ring, thus why he had a happy family with two grown-up rascals in his house. However, he might not believe his ear when he heard his children bickering.
"Father tried seven-time, I'm afraid you will set up a very high record for your son."
"Guan Xiao Ni! Say that once again?"
"I said, You will surpass far from father record-"
"Even if I need to propose a hundred times before she agrees, I will keep proposing!" Guan Xian yells out loud.
Mother Guan's eyes flare up when she heard Guan Xian's remarks. She almost dropped the black sesame soup if she hasn't closed the lid well. She put the container on the coffee table before she turns to his son with disbelief.
She opened her mouth to say something, but before she did, she heard a surprised exclamation from someone besides her.