"This..." Uncle looked embarrassed, scratching his salt-and-pepper hair, and didn’t imdiately promise Sienna. "It’s too dangerous outside. It’s not safe for to take you out!"
"In that case, Uncle, just send back to my Husband!" Sienna turned away abruptly, perfectly playing the part of a petulant young woman.
Adrian Desmond, as expected, looked completely smitten, as if he’d lost his mind. "Alright, alright, I’ll go with you. Through hell or high water, to the ends of the earth, I’ll go with you!"
"Uncle, you’re so good to ." Sienna cast a flirtatious glance, her eyes shimring, making Adrian Desmond’s heart flutter. If only she were this well-behaved every day, he’d give her anything she wanted! But no, she just had to pick fights with him.
Adrian Desmond led Sienna out of Uncle’s mansion, swaggering all the way. When Sienna saw the ordinary streets outside and the common Himakati folk in the marketplace, she felt a sense of having escaped to freedom.
"Have you arranged for soone to et us? Where are we escaping to?" Sienna asked, lowering her voice.
"You suddenly decided you wanted to go shopping. How could I have arranged for anyone to et us?"
"This is such a good opportunity, and we’re not going to escape?"
"What’s the hurry?"
Adrian Desmond pulled Sienna into his embrace and said, "Uncle is very rich. We’ll buy whatever you set your eyes on. Weren’t you talking about buying jewelry and cars? Go ahead, buy as much as you want."
"Is it because it’s not your money, so you don’t feel the pinch?"
Adrian Desmond smiled faintly. "Yeah."
Sienna didn’t have Adrian Desmond’s composure. When they went out, that man, Patrick Morris, had assigned an additional twenty soldiers to Uncle. Patrick Morris also looked very shrewd, and Sienna was genuinely afraid Adrian Desmond would reveal a flaw.
Sienna glanced back at Patrick Morris in the car behind them. Her eyes t his hawk-like gaze, and she quickly looked away.
"Do you think that Patrick Morris has discovered any flaws in our act?"
Adrian Desmond gently kissed Sienna’s earlobe and whispered, "Uncle is lecherous. When he ets a beautiful woman, he tends to do outrageous things. Patrick hasn’t found any flaws; he’s worried I’ll lose my mind over you."
"Will you?"
"Of course, I will!"
His gaze was as deep and unfathomable as the ocean, yet turbulent waves churned within. The way he looked at her, it was as if she were the only one in his world.
"Mai, how many foolish things I’ve done for you!"
"I didn’t force you. You did it willingly. Who’s there to bla?"
"You heartless woman!"
"So I am heartless. What about it?"
He loved watching her act coquettish; her every expression was vivid and adorable. He gently pecked her lips and said indulgently, "I must have owed you sothing in my previous life."
"That’s right! You owed so much in your previous life, so you can spend this lifeti slowly paying back!"
"Alright! I’ll pay it back!"
In a jewelry store in Himakati, Sienna didn’t recognize the Himakati Language, so she didn’t know the store’s na. However, the shop was large, and all the won inside wore purple Ao Dai. They were tall and slender, their delicately made-up faces quite exquisite.
Patrick Morris exchanged a few words with the store’s Boss, who then had the Waiters bring out all the best jewelry in the shop and place it before Sienna.
They sat there drinking tea and eating fruit while staff brought jewelry for them to choose from. This was clearly high-level VIP service.
"Which one do you like?" Adrian Desmond asked.
Sienna had no interest in jewelry whatsoever; only Sabrina Johnson liked such things. Sienna glanced at the various types of jewelry on the table—gemstones, jadeite... From them, she selected an old-mine jadeite bangle and slipped it onto her wrist.
Her skin was fair, and the jadeite bangle had excellent translucency, its vibrant green color delightful. Sienna said, "This one will do."
Seeing she liked jadeite, Uncle said to Patrick Morris, "Have all the jadeite in the store wrapped up for ."
"Yes, Uncle!" Patrick Morris went to speak with the shop owner. Faced with such a large buyer, the owner showed no signs of joy; instead, his face was mournful. Sienna asked, puzzled, "Why isn’t he happy that we’re buying things?"
Adrian Desmond chuckled. "Because when Uncle buys things, he never pays!"
"Huh?"
In the end, it was Sienna who insisted, so Uncle paid for the jewelry this ti. The shop owner looked at Sienna as if she were a living Bodhisattva, thanking her profusely. Sienna couldn’t bear the owner’s intensity and pulled Adrian Desmond away.
She didn’t know if this street was the most prosperous in Himakati, but it was lined with shops and bustling with shoppers. Sienna was very interested in the small trinkets and ethnic handicrafts. When Adrian Desmond encouraged her to buy them, Sienna shook her head and refused.
She was planning to escape; she wouldn’t be able to take these things with her anyway when the ti ca. So, what was the point of buying them?
"What’s wrong?" Adrian Desmond suddenly stopped, and Sienna asked, puzzled.
Adrian Desmond had stopped in front of a jewelry store. It was a Darry Ring chain store, which also had many branches Dostic. The unique feature of this store was that each man could only purchase a single DR engagent ring in his lifeti.
Won are believers in love. Which woman doesn’t want to be the one and only in her beloved man’s life?
"I promised to give you a ring," Adrian Desmond said.
Sienna smiled. "I’m afraid you won’t be able to buy a ring from this store."
"Is it very expensive? No matter how expensive the ring, I can afford it!" Adrian Desmond’s wealth was astounding. How expensive could a single ring possibly be?
Sienna looked at Adrian Desmond, a hint of amusent in her eyes. "Every man who customizes a Darry Ring here must submit his ID. This ID is matched with the unique DR code of the purchased ring, ensuring that he can customize only one true love ring in his lifeti to give to his one true love. Furthermore, a true love agreent must be signed, attesting that this once-in-a-lifeti commitnt is given to the person he loves most. Once signed, the purchase record and the recipient’s na are permanently recorded and can never be altered or deleted."
"..."
"...I seem to recall you also have a Fiancee."
Adrian Desmond hadn’t expected such a rule. "So, if a man marries several Wives, he can’t buy one here?"
Sienna said lightly, "The design concept of this jewelry store is ’the one and only.’ Since you can’t offer that, buying a ring that symbolizes ’the one and only’ for —isn’t that rather ironic?"
Their relationship was driven by passion, not by heart. For Sienna and Adrian Desmond to discuss such topics of true love felt deeply ironic.
"Huh? What’s going on up ahead? Look at all those people. Co on, let’s go see."
Ahead, a crowd had ford a circle, apparently watching so kind of street performance or juggling act. Sienna quickened her pace and squeezed into the throng to see what the commotion was about.
Adrian Desmond glanced one more ti at the ring on the Darry Ring store poster. He really liked it; it would look beautiful on her. What a pity about that ridiculous rule.
Adrian Desmond, feeling quite disgruntled, composed himself and went to find Sienna, but she was nowhere in sight. "Mai!"
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