Unaware of the ongoings outside, the pair continued their window-shopping?
The man was lurking in the skirt section of the shop as he did mental imaging of her in those skirts and rejected many of them, while the lady concerned, had already chosen a three-piece suit and only wanted to select a color for the day.
In the silent space, suddenly the voice of the man reverberated, "Linlin, I want to see you in a skirt."
Without a second of wait, a reply came back, "No!"
"Eh~~, Linlin! Linlin!!", he was like a 5-year whiny kid.
It was good that the staff was not here, or they would have vomitted blood ma.
He was too OOC!!
"No! Not in the office. I'll wear one at home", and we are once again fed with dog food and shown that she was really soft to him.
"hmm..!", his eyes were sparkling.
In his head, he was already imagining her in a Maid-sama cosplay or maybe a cheerleader outfit.
Because of the incident when she was a child, she was home-schooled till the end of her high-school and then she went abroad and hence, both of them never got a chance to see each other doing regular-school activities, as worst as it gets, he was still sulking that he didn't see her in a sailor uniform!!
As far as he knew, she has always been reclusive and introvert of sorts after 'that' incident and only came out of the main house for family outings and business/family gatherings, that too for the VERY important ones, emphasizing on the word 'very', it was once a year or so.
She was kind of a modern-day Rapunzel but without the slightest wish to take a look at the outside, she stayed inside the palatial Qin mansion and was abstinent of worldly affairs, never having the curiosity of the outgoings in the secular world....well, she was only interested in the finance news and economy of the world outside, a thorough black-bellied woman indeed!
She was someone who lived in her own small world and very few people got a place in it, but she was content with it. She really was happy with it.
Qin ZiXuan was more than happy to have a Meilin like that, it was enough for her to only have him in her world, it really was enough.
It was enough for the aloof and without-a-desire-and-interest-in-worldly-affairs immortal beauty to have only him in her eyes.
Thinking about such a Meilin made him have a cynical smile on his face but she was not the same anymore.
Well, he was still the only person in her world, he was content with that for the time being.
Since he got an okay for the skirt, this time he went to get a pair of heels for the beauty.
QE focused on their clothes only and had a separate section for other accessories including footwear, bags, jewelry and such.
Meilin went to change into the suit she finally chose and ZiXuan wandered around the accessory section.
Meilin never wore jewelry except for some few events and if it was a certain thing a certain someone gave her, leaving that 'exceptional cases' aside he knew her well so, he didn't put them in his eyes.
In his case, if he had decided to gift her anything at all, then it will be custom made, the only type in the world just like she is, to him.
Wandering around the shoe section, his eyes directly fell on a pair of black PRADA stilettoes, a pair of glossed-textured leather pumps with small diamonds inscribed into a crown shape at the ankle-end to be exact.
It would definitely look sexy on her snow-white skin and will create a contrast with her pale skin, just imagining it made his face turn wild.
He directly took the 5-inch beauty to the changing room.
Just then Meilin came out of there.
Meilin didn't have a voluptuous figure but had the right amounts of muscles and fats at the right places.
Her body wasn't rigid, it was very flexible, she had a body fit for every kind of dress there is, let it be traditional qipao to an LBD, she would look gorgeous in anything.
The suit was not tailor-made but on her, it looked as so.
It hugged her body, outlining her beautiful shape and curves.
The slim-fit dress pants made her long legs seem longer and ended just above her ankle and as you may have guessed, she was in black.
Was ZiXuan an ESPer?
No, of course not.
It's just that he understood her quite well.
Today she will be working with him throughout the day, visiting different sites and establishments to get hold of their ongoings.
It might seem coincidental that they are visiting QE too, but all these choices were made subconcsiously by her.
Black will make her mingle in the surrounding while the MC was himself, the CEO....she will be acting as his shadow and hence the choice of colour.
Did he mind her acting as so?
No, he didn't.
They were both aware of what needs to be done.
It was not a day's decision when he chose to become the CEO.
Meilin was someone who never wanted to be bound to anything or anyone except him. So, reigning over the empire was never a choice for her.
He knew what the Empire meant to her and their family and hence didn't want anyone else to take her rightful place and he himself, chose to take the throne in order to bind her to it, though indirectly.
But he is also aware that the masses will only take the orders from the Emperor, making her stand out was never an option to him for both their sake and the Qin Empire's sake.
If there is something that is never enough, it's people's gossip. It won't change a thing but they never took chance, a ripple can cause Tsunami somewhere...it's a proven fact.
The last thing they want is an internal war, Meilin has kept a perfect balance in the family so as not to have him take the burden of those so-called petty ongoings inside the family itself so, he made sure to let her have a place for herself, where she can relax and do what she deems is best for her and what she likes without a worry,.... the only condition being, she would be tied to him.... forever.
Was the choices he made for her or only for his selfish desires only he knows, but as long as she is beside him, he won't even mind signing a devil's contract.