21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 178 Proposal (1 more)

"Hiromi, will you marry me?" Chen Yu looked at Jounouchi Hiromi and asked a question that had nothing to do with what she was talking about.

"Eh?" The question from Chen Yu caught Jounouchi Hiromi off guard, shattering her resolve and leaving her flustered, "Why are you bringing this up all of a sudden? What does your belief in me have to do with whether I am willing to marry you? If I don't want to marry you, does that mean you can't trust me?"

Jounouchi Hiromi's retort left Chen Yu silent for a moment. He pursed his lips as he looked at her, his eyes filled with hesitation and indecision, but the gaze of his girlfriend, wounded yet still fixed on him, eventually forced him to make a decision, "Hiromi, do you really want to know my secret?

There are some secrets I can only share with the person who is willing to spend a lifetime with me, forever. And once you know my secret, you can never leave me, not even death can separate us."

"What you're saying…" Initially, Jounouchi Hiromi thought Chen Yu was just brushing her off with such words, but as she looked into his eyes, she understood that Chen Yu was serious; he was not joking.

This realization forced Jounouchi Hiromi to reconsider the decision she had made.

Should she choose to know Chen Yu's secret and be inseparable from him thereafter, even to the extent that not even death, as he said, could part them? Or should she back off now, maintain the status quo but add a crack to their relationship? Or should she choose to break up and cut off all ties with him?

The plethora of choices overwhelmed Jounouchi Hiromi, making it even harder to decide than when she confronted Chen Yu with her question. She was unsure if she should keep pressing for an answer…

But she was certainly not a quitter, especially since the only thing separating her relationship with Chen Yu from an actual marriage was a ceremony and a marriage certificate.

However, she obviously wasn't going to let Chen Yu off the hook that easily. So after taking a deep breath, Jounouchi Hiromi looked at Chen Yu seriously, revealed a wry smile, and then said with a plaintive tone, "Really, you! Even if you want me to marry you, the least you could do is a proper proposal, right? Who makes someone make a choice like this?"

If Chen Yu couldn't understand such an obvious hint, he truly deserved to be single for the rest of his life.

"Miss Jounouchi Hiromi, will you marry me, become my wife, and stay together forever through sickness and in health, even if death and time cannot tear us apart?" Chen Yu knelt on one knee, assuming the standard posture for a proposal. Continue reading stories on empire

The scenario that every woman dreams of was now unfolding before her, causing Jounouchi Hiromi to no longer hold back her tears, which she had been desperately trying to keep at bay. Still, with a touch of pride, she tilted her head back, attempting not to let the tears roll down while speaking in a tone feigning dissatisfaction, "Seriously, a proposal without flowers or a ring?

How do you expect someone to accept you like that?"

At this point, Jounouchi Hiromi had actually accepted Chen Yu's proposal; she was only trying to play it coy and wasn't truly expecting him to produce flowers and a ring right then and there.

In her mind, even if Chen Yu said he'd go buy them after work, she would have accepted it. If he managed to run out and buy them immediately, she would undoubtedly have been deeply touched. However, what Chen Yu did next completely took Jounouchi Hiromi by surprise.

"Hiromi, wait for me a second," Chen Yu stood up and said to Jounouchi Hiromi. Suddenly, he took a step back and, as if blending into the water, disappeared into the air behind him.

"Mr. Chen Yu!" Watching her boyfriend disappear so abruptly in front of her eyes, Jounouchi Hiromi was immediately thrown into panic. As she called out his name loudly, she also reached out her hand to grab him, but all her palm met was air.

The incomprehensible scene before her eyes sent Jounouchi Hiromi into a frenzy. She looked around in place, trying to find Chen Yu who seemed to be hiding, but felt it was so futile. The entire rooftop was in plain sight, with only a helipad on the flat surface for helicopters to land.

There were no other places to hide, and it was impossible for Chen Yu to conceal himself in a corner of this rooftop in that instant and make himself undetectable.

The sudden loss of her boyfriend's figure, the joy and happiness of being proposed to by her boyfriend just moments ago, followed by watching him blend into the air and disappear from in front of her—the blow was almost too much for Jounouchi Hiromi to bear. She sat down on the ground, completely at a loss.

"Don't joke like this, come out quickly!" Jounouchi Hiromi cried out somewhat fearfully. She was really afraid that Chen Yu would completely disappear. If it wasn't for the last thing Chen Yu had told her, which was to wait a moment, she might have already collapsed under the shock.

"Come out quickly! I don't want to know your secret anymore, just come out!" Jounouchi Hiromi looked up and shouted loudly in the direction where Chen Yu had disappeared, as the fear and worry in her heart turned increasingly to despair. She didn't know why this was happening, but the fact that her boyfriend who had just proposed to her vanished right before her eyes was indisputable.

Just as Jounouchi Hiromi's despair was about to spiral into a breakdown, Chen Yu's figure reappeared on the rooftop, only this time with a bunch of flowers in his hand that seemed to have been freshly picked, a bunch of deeply black roses.

"Hiromi? What happened to you?" Chen Yu was about to give the flowers to his girlfriend but saw her sitting on the ground crying. He quickly went over to her and helped her up: "What's wrong, Hiromi? Why are you crying…"

"Slap!" A slap landed on Chen Yu's face, cutting off his unfinished words.

"Jerk!" Jounouchi Hiromi cursed and finally broke down in tears. Yet, her arms wrapped tightly around Chen Yu, burying her face in his chest and crying bitterly: "Why? Why did you disappear in front of me? I thought you were never coming back… Sob, sob! Where did you go?"

"Sorry, I…went to pick flowers for you," Chen Yu apologized and pulled Jounouchi Hiromi up from his chest, presenting the flowers he had just picked to her: "Didn't you say that without flowers and a ring, you couldn't accept my proposal? So I thought I'd pick a bunch of flowers for you."

Jounouchi Hiromi, not even bothering to wipe her tears, took the strangely colored black roses, sniffled, and then looked up at Chen Yu with tear-filled eyes, asking, "And the ring?"

"It's right here," Chen Yu said, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a silver ring with a purple gemstone that sparkled brilliantly like a star.