Chapter 146 Engagement: Billion-Dollar Gifts Are Just the Engagement (1)
Chapter 146 Engagement: Billion-Dollar Gifts Are Just the Engagement (1)
Gu Jinxing looked at Shen Wancheng and asked.
Are you sure everything's alright?
When Gu Jinxing returned, he first asked about the situation of Ke La and Shen Wancheng on the way.
Therefore, Gu Jinxing knew about Shen Wancheng's shooting and killing.
Shen Wancheng smiled at Gu Jinxing.
"fine."
Gu Jinxing was still a little uneasy, but he didn't ask any more questions.
He walked to the dining table and said.
"Come and have a taste of the red date and bird's nest that Aunt Liu has been simmering over a low flame."
Shen Wancheng walked to Gu Jinxing's side, and Gu Jinxing had already scooped the bird's nest out of the stewing pot.
When Shen Wancheng saw the two blood-red dates in the bird's nest, she suddenly lowered her head, suppressed her nausea all the way, and finally vomited.
Gu Jinxing immediately grabbed Shen Wancheng's hand, turned her body to the other side facing the trash can, and handed her a glass of water.
"It's normal to feel uncomfortable the first time."
Gu Jinxing comforted Shen Wancheng.
Shen Wancheng vomited a few more times before she felt better.
"I'll go rinse my mouth first."
Shen Wancheng went to the bathroom. Gu Jinxing was worried, so he pressed the alarm bell to let someone go into the room to tidy up. He then followed her into the room and stood at the bathroom door watching Shen Wancheng.
After rinsing her mouth, Shen Wancheng felt much better, both physically and mentally.
Gu Jinxing was the first to speak up.
"I don't think you'll be able to eat anything tonight. Are you going to bed now?"
Shen Wancheng glanced at the clock on the wall; it was just 9 p.m.
"sleep."
"Okay, I'll accompany you."
Shen Wancheng was taken aback.
Aren't you going to handle things?
Gu Jinxing looked at Shen Wancheng and said.
"Your business is the most important right now."
Shen Wancheng's heart skipped a beat for no apparent reason. Without responding to Gu Jinxing, she turned and walked towards the bedside.
Gu Jinxing followed behind her, turned off the lights, and got into bed.
Tonight, Gu Jinxing didn't ask any questions, but instead directly pulled Shen Wancheng into his arms.
Shen Wancheng shifted and adjusted to a comfortable position.
Then he asked Gu Jinxing.
"Was your journey smooth?"
"Yes, we took a detour and shook off our pursuers; they couldn't catch us."
"Then you're in luck."
At this moment, Gu Jinxing held Shen Wancheng's hand and squeezed it hard as if punishing her.
"You're incredibly bold, how dare you stop the car to investigate?"
"I had a strange feeling that parking would bring unexpected benefits."
"What gain is more important than your safety?"
"Actually, I knew I shouldn't have stopped, but I had a strange intuition that I should stop and check. Maybe it was because I was on edge and my thinking was limited, so I didn't consider everything."
Gu Jinxing placed his hand on Shen Wancheng's lower abdomen, but he didn't say anything about what Shen Wancheng should do because of the child, he only said...
"You know that's good. Don't do it again next time."
Shen Wancheng understood Gu Jinxing's meaning; she was now responsible for the safety of three people.
Shen Wancheng now belatedly realized how frightened she was; this was the first time since she transmigrated that she had acted without thinking.
Gu Jinxing then asked Shen Wancheng.
Are you still feeling uncomfortable?
"It's much better now, probably because I didn't see the person fall down with my own eyes."
"That's good. To avoid any further complications, we'll head back to Hong Kong first thing tomorrow morning."
Shen Wancheng had no objection to this, "Okay."
"Go to sleep. If you have nightmares tonight, wake me up."
"it is good."
Perhaps because there were people around, Shen Wancheng didn't have any nightmares that night.
The next morning, Gu Jinxing specifically instructed Liu Ma to prepare a light breakfast and to avoid meat-colored or blood-colored foods for the next two days.
So Shen Wancheng didn't vomit again after returning to Hong Kong and calmly got through the adjustment period after her first shooting.
*
Two major events have recently dominated the headlines of Hong Kong newspapers and magazines.
The first incident involved the death of Tsui Yiu-cho, the only son of Tsui Yau-wai, the head of the powerful Tsui family in Hong Kong, in an accident in South Africa. The perpetrator remains unknown.
Xu Youwei was devastated and offered a high reward internationally for the assassination of the murderer.
The second event was a joyous occasion: the marriage of the two powerful families of Hong Kong and Taiwan, the Gu and He families, with Gu Jinxing, the current head of the Gu family, getting married.
This joyous occasion was not only widely reported by the media, but also became a hot topic of conversation among Hong Kong Island residents. The main topics of discussion were how much the Gu family would offer as a bride price, and whether the He family would provide a corresponding dowry for their little-known daughter.
This discussion grew increasingly heated as Shen Wancheng and Gu Jinxing's engagement date approached.
But Shen Wancheng was oblivious to everything else, and after returning from South Africa, she had been busy with her own company.
She first selected a batch of diamonds and outsourced the processing to a professional and reliable diamond rough processing team. Then, she handed over the four watch design drawings to the acquired watch factory for production. At the same time, she settled the Lanqin team and formulated a plan for five sets of high-end custom-made watches.
Finally, after consulting with Li Su, the company was clearly divided into departments, new employees were recruited, and rules and regulations were reviewed, so that Dongfang Yasong Company could officially start operating.
Shen Wancheng organized and arranged all these trivial matters, and the day of her engagement with Gu Jinxing arrived.
After discussion, the Gu and He families decided to hold the wedding of Gu Jinxing and Shen Wancheng entirely in the traditional Chinese style.
The engagement was arranged in a very grand and formal manner.
On this day, the Gu Mansion was decorated with lanterns and colorful streamers, and incense burners, red candles, fruits, pastries and other offerings were placed on the Eight Immortals Table outside the ancestral hall.
Before going to propose marriage, Gu Jinxing had to first worship the Gu family ancestors in the ancestral hall, and then worship the gods in front of the Eight Immortals Table, which was auspicious.
Although Gu Jinxing was still pretending to be "lame," he still had people help him stand up to offer incense and pay respects.
Afterwards, Gu Jinxing, his parents Gu Hengzhi, and Wen Nan got into the car first. The butler of the Gu mansion took the gift list, checked it, and arranged for people to move all the gifts that had been prepared and placed in the Gu family courtyard into the car.
The cars carrying the gifts were all Lincoln limousines, all uniform and identical.
Numerous Hong Kong media reporters and paparazzi staked out the entrance of the Gu Mansion, following the Gu family's marriage proposal convoy all the way to the He Mansion.
Originally, reporters and paparazzi couldn't enter the villa area where Gu He's mansion was located, but because the Gu and He families were getting married, these media outlets knew the date in advance and had already smoothed things over.
Because of the media's advance reports, everyone knew that Shen Wancheng was a daughter of the He family who appeared out of nowhere, so most people guessed that Shen Wancheng was just a tool for the Gu-He marriage alliance.
To dispel these speculations, the Gu and He families directly ordered people to read out the gift list at the entrance of the He mansion.
Engagement gifts are not the same as betrothal gifts. Engagement gifts were originally made according to the traditional customs, and consisted of four items: tea, cigarettes and alcohol, sweets and pastries, and jewelry.
No one had high expectations for the gifts to be presented during today's marriage proposal.
But not only did the reporters filming the news not expect it, even the He family didn't expect that the betrothal gifts brought by the Gu family would be more valuable than other people's dowries.
The gift books were several meters long and were rolled into scrolls.
The Gu family's butler stood at the entrance of the He mansion, unfolding the gift book while loudly reciting it, his voice booming like thunder.
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