Ideal Mary Sue

There is the lantern festival at night, and I have to be with Lin Yuan. I can’t let Xiao Hei follow us.

Su Ning changed her clothes, turned around twice in front of the mirror, ran to the windowsill, and knocked on the edge of the window. “Xiao Hei! Xiao Hei, are you there?”

Xiao Hei came down from the roof.

“I want to eat Zhang Ji’s sesame cake. It costs a catty!”

Xiao Hei nodded and jumped out of the window.

Zhang Ji’s sesame cakes are very popular on Liutai Street. They usually start selling every morning and are sold out by noon. Now that it’s getting dark, they must be almost sold out by now. Xiao Hei is the type of person who, if you ask him to do something, he will definitely get it done.

Su Ning looked at Xiao Hei’s disappearing figure in the alley, turned around, and left the room.

Lantern Festival, Liutai Street.

The whole street was covered with lanterns of various colors, with people coming and going. It was very lively.

Su Ning carried a small rabbit-shaped lantern and walked side by side with Lin Yuan, her face blushing.

He won the lantern by guessing riddles written on the lanterns. The boss had said, “This one is for your sweetheart.”

“There are too many people here, so it’s hard to avoid bumping into others. I know of a lakeside pavilion not far ahead. You can place your lantern in the water next to it, and it’s also quieter. Ning’er, would you like to go?”

“En.” Su Ning nodded, her eyes lit up. “I want to place a lotus flower…”

“You can write a wish on the lantern and let it flow with the current. The farther it goes, the more likely it is that your wish will come true.” Lin Yuan smiled warmly and asked: “Does Ning’er want to know what my wish is?”

Out of the corner of his eyes, he caught sight of a kid laughing and running behind them, and when the kid was about to collide with them, he stretched out his hand to embrace Su Ning and took two steps to the side.

“Of course, what is it?!” Su Ning exclaimed, lying on his chest helplessly and looking up at him.

There seemed to be a gleaming reflection of the moonlight in her clear, watery eyes. He only saw himself in her eyes. All of this is soon going to belong to me. No… he tightened his arms around her waist. She already belongs to me. A treasure that’s mine only!

“You…”

“En?”

“My wish… is to have you!”

“…Really?” Su Ning asked nervously and expectantly: “Then will you marry me?”

“Yes!” Lin Yuan took her hand, placed a kiss on the back of her hand, and said, very sincerely and seriously, “I’ll get an eight-seat sedan chair and come to take you in as my wife.”

Su Ning was very shy being stared at by his affectionate gaze. She blushed and lowered her head, she took off the white jade bracelet from her wrist and handed it to him, saying softly, “This was given to me by my mother. I have been wearing it for two years now, but now I’m giving it to you. You must take it to Tongzhou and propose marriage before my parents. You have to come!”

“Why can’t we go now?” Lin Yuan took the bracelet and said, with a light smile: “I wish I could marry you right now…” The urgency in his tone did not seem to be fake.

Seeing that he was not on the road and was solely preoccupied with communicating his feelings for her, Su Ning could only remind him.

“Then you have to give me a token too…” With that said, Su Ning stretched out two fingers, poked his shoulder, and said, embarrassingly: “The love token should be…”

Without waiting for him to react, she pointed to the wolf king’s tooth on his sword and said: “You give this to me!”

Lin Yuan took her hand and smiled gently: “I can give you anything you want, but my token of love can’t be sloppy…” After saying that, he took off the jade pendant from his waist. The jade pendant was transparent and was engraved with complicated decorative designs, and on the back, the word ‘YUAN’ was embedded in purple.

“But I want it to be sloppy…”

“This is a fake white jade bracelet I bought at a stall for 20 cents. I feel embarrassed to exchange it for this jade pendant that looks very valuable and meaningful.”

Su Ning was moved. She held the jade pendant close to her heart and said: “I will take good care of it…”

However, Su Ning pointed to the wolf king’s tooth attached to his sword and said: “I want this too! It looks so special. I want to string it on the bracelet. They would look good together.”

Lin Yuan took hold of the wolf king’s tooth, handed it to her with the sword spike, and said with a light smile: “I didn’t expect this wolf tooth to be taken down by my own hands in the end.”

Su Ning squeezed the wolf king’s tooth happily and listened to the sound of the 30 points broadcasted by 444 and asked in a very good mood: “Why do you say that?”

“Because I once made a statement to all corners of the country that whoever could take the wolf’s tooth from my sword spike, I would marry. I thought the wolf’s tooth would stay on my sword forever…”

“The wolf tooth is with me now!”

“Therefore… you are destined to be my wife.”

Su Ning smiled and said nothing.

That’s not necessarily true!

I have the wolf king’s tooth now, so what excuse should I use to leave? Su Ning looked at the high platform built by the lake with a lotus lantern on the top.

Okay, I’ve got an idea!

Su Ning stretched out her hand and tugged at Lin Yuan’s sleeve. Her eyes fixated on the lotus lantern on the platform as if it was her favorite. “Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan, that lotus lantern is so beautiful. Can we put it on the lake later? It’s so big, I can definitely write a lot of wishes. We can write them together…”

“Do you want it?”

“En en!” Su Ning nodded hurriedly.

Lin Yuan smiled warmly and fondly: “I said I can give you whatever you want…”