ABO diurnal boundary

Christmas and New Year's Day are very close together. Thanks to the blessings of merchants who started preheating activities in the middle and late December, there is still one day before Christmas Eve, but the streets and alleys are already full of festive atmosphere.

When passing by CapitaLand, Xie Jingchi stared for a long time at the towering golden Christmas tree, conservatively estimated to be 30 meters high.

The tree is covered with twinkling light strips and falling silver stars, and in the sky not far from it, the gray clouds are mixed with wisps of red, like inexhaustible ashes.

The weather forecast said that there would be sleet later, and he liked rain as well as snow, but Xie Jingchi, who hated sleet, wrinkled his nose unhappyly.

Even he has things he can't change, such as the established weather, or this terrible traffic.

After finally reaching the downstairs of Qin's Building, Xie Jingchi parked his car and walked in.

The person in charge of receiving him was Qin Shen's secretary, a kind female Beta.

"Director Qin is still in the meeting, and it is expected to end in about 10 minutes."

She took him to Qin Shen's office and asked him if he wanted tea or coffee.

Xie Jingchi chose mineral water, "Go and do your work, I'll just wait for him here."

She knew that he didn't like to be disturbed by others, "I'm right next door, if you need anything, just call me."

After the secretary left, Xie Jingchi sat alone for a meeting.

Qin Shen's office has a wide view. In addition to the main entrance, behind the small door on the left side of the desk is a small lounge with all internal organs. There are beds and showers in the lounge, and there is even a small cloakroom , there are several sets of formal clothes for different occasions.

In the summer of his sophomore and junior year, he practiced here.

Qin Shen often asked Jiang Yu or his secretary to communicate with him, and he never shy away from going in and out of the chairman's office on the top floor, so within a week most people knew about his relationship with Qin Shen.

Of course, there are also gossips, very few, and Xie Jingchi basically ignores them.

The days in winter are very short, as short as five o'clock, and the sky gradually becomes dizzy.

"Why did you come here suddenly?"

Xie Jingchi turned his head and saw a serious Qin Shen who had just come out of the conference room.

Qin Shen whispered something to Jiang Yu beside him, Jiang Yu smiled, turned around and entered the elevator.

"I suddenly remembered that I didn't tell you the location of the restaurant."

Xie Jingchi methodically said the excuse he had prepared in advance.

A faint smile flickered in Qin Shen's eyes, "Then please take me there."

Xie Jingchi looked at him for a while, probably because he thought it was boring, so he gave up on himself and told the truth, "Actually, I can't wait to see you." I don't know what came to mind, his eyes wandered, "You promised me , all your time tonight is mine."

"Well, I promised you."

Nobody likes hearing their partner confess to missing him.Qin Shen put away his things and came over to hold his hand, interlocking his fingers, "Since it's getting dark, shall we leave now?"

Xie Jingchi pursed his lips, "Could it be bad?" At a quarter past five, it's not even Chairman Qin's usual off-duty time.

"No." Even after saying such sweet words, Qin Shen still had that indifferent expression, but privately pinched Xie Jingchi's calloused fingertips, "It's more important to be with you."

The restaurant Xie Jingchi chose was newly opened in the second half of this year. The head chef is Belgian. To eat conservatively, you need to make a reservation one month in advance.

Looking down from the 32nd floor, the swaying lights are connected together, and the prosperity of the city is unobstructed.

After dinner, a waiter in a black vest and white shirt came in with a tray.

There was a pear-shaped glass with a round bottom and a narrow mouth and a blue box on the plate. A trace of doubt flashed in Xie Jingchi's mind, but it was soon overwhelmed by other emotions.

"Please use it slowly." The waiter put the cup in front of Xie Jingchi and the box in front of Qin Shen, and then he was about to leave.

"Is this... for me?" Qin Shen picked up the velvet box wrapped with a ribbon and weighed it twice.

Before they went out to eat, Qin Shen often only ordered one dessert.Knowing that her husband doesn't like sweets, Xie Jingchi bought the waiters for tonight in advance and asked them to bring up the presents he had prepared at this time.

Xie Jingchi nodded pretending to be calm, "You don't tell me anything, I can only watch and pick something." He tried his best to control his tone, not to appear too eager, "Open it and see if you like it." ?”

Qin Shen opened the box as he said.

The upper layer of the box is a watch. The dark blue dial is like the vast night sky, and the fine diamonds inlaid on it are the brightest stars in the night sky.

Qin Shen took out the watch, took off the original one on his wrist, and tried wearing it.While doing these things, he conveniently placed the box on the table.

The medical certificate was hidden on the bottom floor, in order for the other party to find out earlier, Xie Jingchi even deliberately exposed some corners outside.However, Qin Shen just focused on the watch as if he didn't see it.

——What if he didn't find out in the end?

Just thinking about the possibility, Xie Jingchi felt anxious and had a stomachache.

He wants to relieve this tense atmosphere by eating, and the most ready-made food is the one just delivered...

It was only then that he took a closer look at this dessert that seemed to have something wrong for the first time: a white snow egg was held on top of the dark pink smoothie, and he used a spoon to break the outer layer of the sugar shell, Just as I was about to dig down, I suddenly bumped into a hard object.

The hard object collided with the spoon and made a crisp sound. He felt strange. He lowered his head to check and found that the foreign object in the egg was neither ice nor unmelted sugar as he thought.

There is actually a ring hidden in the center of this snow egg.

An orange-red sapphire was inlaid on the platinum ring setting. Even under such a dim light, the bright fire of the gemstone seemed to burn people's eyes.

Xie Jingchi bit his lip, and subconsciously glanced at the direction the waiter was leaving.

Whether it was the gift box or other small details, he had agreed with the restaurant operator in advance, except for this ring, he didn't remember that he had arranged this.

So most likely... a mistake.

Thinking of a stranger who lost his engagement ring at the same time and was at a loss explaining to his partner that he really bought the ring, his conscience suddenly felt uneasy.

Especially since he broke the egg, even if he returned it, he might not be able to achieve the surprise effect...

He reached out to ring the service bell on his side, hoping that the waiter would return the ring quickly so as not to miss someone else's good deed.

Unexpectedly, he was stopped before he could press it down.

"what are you doing?"

At some point, Qin Shen stopped looking at the watch.

Qin Shen looked at him with complicated eyes, "Did you encounter any problems?"

"There's...a ring in the cup." Xie Jingchi was still thinking about the unknown poor man who lost the ring, completely oblivious to the atmosphere, "It should be someone else's wedding proposal..."

"ring?"

"Ah."

As he said that, Xie Jingchi tilted the cup a little towards Qin Shen, so that the other party could see clearly what was inside, "Ring, proposal ring."

Qin Shen glanced at the ring in the cup, nodded noncommittally, "Why do you think so?"

"Ah?" Xie Jingchi blinked, not understanding why the topic suddenly jumped to this place.

Qin Shen repeated his question patiently, "Can you tell me why you think someone made a mistake?"

"Because I haven't ordered this..." Xie Jingchi found the most critical argument.

He suddenly remembered that this dessert is one of the restaurant's signatures. Because the production process is too cumbersome and complicated, it needs to be ordered several months in advance, and it is not on the rotating menu.

He hasn't ordered it, so it is absolutely impossible for him to give it to him.

The corner of Qin Shen's mouth rose slightly, and he fixed it at a rather helpless angle, "Silly boy."

Speaking of this, no matter how dull a person is, he should be able to hear something wrong, not to mention that Xie Jingchi has never been stupid.

"You mean..." Regarding his guess, he couldn't believe it was true.

Before today, he obviously didn't tell this person what he had prepared.

He didn't even say the name of the restaurant...

Qin Shen sighed, "Xie Jingchi, I let someone put the ring in because I plan to propose to you today."

Hearing what this person said, Xie Jingchi was completely stunned, "Marriage proposal? We've been married for four years..." He subconsciously pointed out the fallacy in Qin Shen's words.

Qin Shen picked out the ring from his cup, and slowly wiped off the cream stained on it with a napkin.

"The one that gives you nothing but registration?"

Xie Jingchi was stopped by his rhetorical question, and after a while he said dully, "I said no..."

"Yes, I remember you said no, I asked you on the day of registration, but did you ask me if I wanted it?"

Indeed did not ask.Xie Jingchi was speechless and couldn't find any point of rebuttal.

Qin Shen chased after the victory, "Today is my birthday, I should have some privileges, right?"

"Yeah." Xie Jingchi's crashed brain still remembered this.

As long as it's not too much, birthday people should have privileges, as Qin Shen once told him.

Qin Shen encouraged him to act like a baby or make some strange requests to himself, so today he should pamper this person in the same way.

After getting an affirmative answer, Qin Shen glanced at the box, "I received your gift, but it's not the one I want the most. I want something else, can you give it to me?"

Xie Jingchi stared at him.He wants to say that there is something you want under the box, but he can't say it.

"What do you want?" His voice was dry.

"Don't be nervous, Mrs. Qin, what I want is not too much." After saying this, Qin Shen's eyes were very aggressive, "I want a wedding."

Xie Jingchi looked at him for a long time, as if he could finally confirm that this person was serious.

"Mr. Qin, are you really... proposing marriage?"

Their legal connection had never been severed, and he couldn't see why it should.

"Well, I am seriously proposing to you."

To prove his sincerity, Qin Shen left his seat.

Like a kid in this world who was about to propose to his beloved, he knelt down in front of Xie Jingchi with the ring in both hands.

Rarely looked up to by this person, Xie Jingchi's hands and feet were so stiff that he didn't know how to place them.

"We have had a marriage for four years that we don't know how to define, and it can even be said to be a bit of a failure. Because of my arrogance and misunderstanding, I almost lost you. This is the regret and pain of my life."

Xie Jingchi wanted to say that it wasn't your fault alone, but something in Qin Shen's eyes made him unable to say it.

"I want to have a better start with you. I know you don't like extravagant weddings, and I don't plan to do it either. You can invite all the people you have a good relationship with, Lu Xu, Jiang Lian... and your sponsorship The child of yours, I think, they will bless you."

Qin Shen stared at Xie Jingchi with a gaze that was so deep that it almost sucked people in.

"I'm going to be a good husband and I'm going to do everything I can to love you and that kid we might have."

Speaking of children, Xie Jingchi's expression went blank for a moment.

He still remembered that during the susceptible period, Qin Shen had an extraordinary resistance to the possibility of him being pregnant.

"I thought...you didn't want it."

"Yes." Qin Shen admitted readily, "I admit, I have a selfish desire to monopolize you, wanting you to only look at me alone, things like children that will take up a lot of your energy and time have never been there On my wish list, if you really want a child, I will also seriously be a good father, but with or without children, you are my favorite child, there is no one in this world that can compare to you .I love you and everything about you."

Xie Jingchi looked at him, as if carefully distinguishing the truth from the false of these few words.

Holding up the ring, Qin Shen didn't urge him, but waited patiently for his reply.

"Mr. Xie Jingchi, are you willing to entrust the rest of your life to me?"

"Mr. Qin, you are really greedy." Xie Jingchi raised his head to suppress the sourness in his eyes, "You actually want so much..."

"Yes, because I not only want a wedding, I also want the rest of your life." Qin Shen's eyes reflected his figure, and his words were incredibly gentle and sincere, "Will you give it to me?"

In a moment of silence, Xie Jingchi closed his eyes.

How could he have other answers?

He had liked this man on that cold winter night many years ago... no, he couldn't say he liked him, he loved this man.

He loves Qin Shen, just like Qin Shen loves him.

He is willing to give his all to him.

No more harm, no more distinction.

"I am willing." He turned his head sideways, not wanting Qin Shen to see his gaffe at the moment, "Mr. Qin, shouldn't you put the ring on for me?"

Alpha Orionis is a blazing red supergiant that glows a rare warm orange color in cold winter night skies.

On the simple ring setting, six bright star lines in the center of the orange gemstone move slowly with the movement of the holder.

His star, the star that will never be extinguished, is in his hands now, going nowhere.

Across the day's borders.

From then on, time flowed.