Marry Her—He Doesn't Need a Secret Engagement

“Aida, please wait for my message! Be sure to follow my directions.” “Okay.” On that Friday afternoon, Aida was sitting at her desk, scribbling in her hand-drawn book, but it was just a few stray lines. She started to get kind of... torn inside. She wondered why her mother had made such a request, and what she had meant by the “promise” she had mentioned last week. An instinct told her that she would receive another message from her mother soon. Sure enough, at 4:15 p.m., her smartphone beeped twice. She hurriedly checked the message, closed the hand-drawn book, took a long breath, picked up her school bag, and walked out of the dormitory. Braven, heir to the Company of Wind Forest. He is twenty-four, handsome, super rich, and rebellious. Due to the tremendous strength of the family, those who get along with him will consciously ignore his arrogance. College is back in session, but Braven doesn't take it seriously at all. There's really nothing in college that can raise his interest. At the moment, he is holding a party with his “friends”. The only thing they did was eating, drinking, and having fun. He had been out there for almost seven days. At nearly five o'clock in the morning, the waiter looked very tired because of overworking. He walked forward and put a meter-long bill on the table and said, “Excuse me, sir. It’s your bill.” Seven boys were surrounding the table, but they didn’t want to pay the bill. So they pretended to do something else and kept silent. Braven didn't care and grabbed the bill. When he saw him handing over a “Black AmEx”, the waiter immediately stood up straight, and took the card that represented his distinguished identity with both hands. Even so, those so-called “friends” did not relax. They held their breath, stared at the POS machine, and waited quietly for the sound that meat he paid the bill successfully. The waiter put his hand on the POS and waited for the ticket. After a few seconds, he frowned, gently pulled out the card and bent down, “Sorry, sir, your card is no longer valid.” Immediately, the guys looked like deflated balls. Each of them sitting on the couch, their faces full of complaints. “Huh?” “I knew it !” “Again?” The waiter added again, “Sorry, this card is currently unavailable!” For Crewe, it was already commonplace for his son to not be home for a few days. However, as his grandmother was old, she missed her grandson and nagged Crewe to find him every day. Braven's father had no choice but to tell his secretary to deactivate his credit card again. It was the only way to force him to go home. Braven frowned, took the credit card from the waiter, put it onto his lips in a kiss-goodbye gesture, and threw it directly into the steaming soup pot in front of him. “I'm sorry, you guys follow the old rules!” Everyone was helpless and wailed as they realized that they needed to pay several thousand dollars. Braven grabbed his clothes, and fished around in his pocket. He became happy when he took out a few coins from his pocket. He flashed them in front of the guys, and said directly, “I'll go home!” He then swaggered away. He clutched the few coins in his hand, and he knew that it was just enough for him to buy a subway ticket. It was about six o’clock in the morning and there weren't many people on the subway. He easily picked a corner seat and sat down. He was indeed a bit tired and just wanted to get some sleep. The subway was extremely quiet. It didn't take long for him to fall asleep with his head tilted. He was dreaming of something strange that he had fallen into a very deep valley in a cold winter. He suddenly felt his shoulder being shaken by someone. The movement was so gentle that Braven even thought that he was still in a dream and didn't pay any attention to it. “Excuse me, can you move your feet?” This voice, crisp and gentle, just hearing one word, was enough to fall in love. He opened his eyes and saw Aida. She is slender, wearing a figure-hugging white T-shirt and light blue jeans. Carrying a small aqua backpack, she looks like a college student. Her skin looks healthy and youthful. Her dark eyes reveal a sense of playfulness. Braven locked eyes with her, and at that exact moment, she smiled at him, with a mouthful of neat, snow-white teeth, as if advertising toothpaste, and a pair of dark eyes that instantly curved into the shape of a crescent moon. Braven's heart rate speeds up, his breath quickens, and his muscles tense. He had seen a lot of beautiful women. What was wrong with him? He was drooling at the mouth but he had not noticed that at all. And he didn't move. “Is it okay to move your legs?” Aida raised her voice, but she still had a very soft voice. It took a while to collect himself. He didn't hesitate at all and immediately sat up straight. “Thanks.” Her cheeks dimpled as she smiled. Then, she turned around and stretched out her hand to help the old woman beside her, slowly handing her towards the door. It was the smile that seemed to carry a kind of magic and Braven was so fascinating about her. His eyes kept chasing after her. The subway doors opened. He saw the girl get off the subway. Braven stood up suddenly, instinctively trying to chase her out! He followed her! But he found she got on the subway again. It turned out that she was helping the old woman. After getting on the subway again, she stood close to the door, looking at the flickering advertisements without any expression. Braven leaned against the opposite door as if nothing had happened. However, his eyes did not move away from Aida. He just stared straight at her without fear, and for a while, he was a bit out of his mind. Aida was wearing headphones, but actually, she didn’t listen to music or anything else. There was no sound in her headphones. In fact, she had been watching him in the reflected light of the subway glass. Aida turned her head to look at Braven when she arrived. She smiled at him and then walked out of the subway. Braven was obsessed, following her again, and he totally didn’t realize what he was doing! He seemed to be clear-headed gradually—he would not miss the opportunity! This was the truth that his father had instilled in him since he was a child. Although he had always hated what his father told him, mostly about life and business. Now he was convinced that this opportunity must be seized immediately! In order not to arouse Aida's suspicion, he intentionally walked towards another exit, waiting for her to walk away a little bit, and then immediately circled back to follow. Aida smiled, and really he followed. She deliberately walked very slowly. About ten minutes later, she walked into a villa area. Braven stopped, and he saw that the stone doorpost and the address number engraved on it: No. 30. He wanted to figure out which one she lived in, but he was stopped by the security guard and had to quit. After Aida returned home, she immediately walked up to the second floor. Her mother was already standing at the bedroom window. She also came up and looked through the bedroom window. Braven stopped at the door for a while, then walked in the direction of the subway station, turning to look back repeatedly at every step. Braven disappeared. Aida looked at her mother, who was still looking into the distance as if she was already out of her mind. “Mom, I'm going downstairs to eat something. Would you like something?” There was no response. She slowly turned around and went downstairs. At the corner of the stairs, she looked back at her mother again. She didn't understand her mother's intentions, but she definitely wouldn't ask. Aida’s mother, Susan, was a very charming woman. Twenty years ago, everyone in the business field knew about her. She was beautiful, intelligent, and always able to help her husband deal with the troubles in business. Everyone envied her father. And of course, many people who had ever met her secretly had a crush on her mother. At the age of five, an accident happened to her father. Since her father's death, she realized that the light in Susan’s eyes seemed to have disappeared gradually. Sadly, her mother seemed to have become a stranger. In less than a year, Susan remarried Jack, the president of a big company in New York. All the relatives accused her of being heartless, but Aida had always been on her mother’s side. She believed that the decisions her mother made had her reasons. Even now, she believed her mother had her own right plan. Her mother didn’t cry or laugh before her. Sometimes she really wanted to chat with her mother but Susan showed no interest. Last weekend, they were the only ones left in the house. Susan sat at the dining table early in the morning to wait for Aida. Aida heard the voice of Susan. “Honey, come here. I have something to tell you.” Aida thought she had misheard. When she looked at Susan, she had already walked towards her. This was what her mother used to call her when she was a child, and she hadn't heard it for a long, long time. She felt so happy and smiled at Susan. After listening to her mother's words, she knew that Susan was developing a plan. Although she couldn’t guess the details, she knew that it had something with her late dad. The first step of her plan——to meet with Braven. Susan put all the information about Braven in front of Aida, looking at her with expectant eyes. She knew Aida would do it. Aida nodded. Susan’s eyes sparkled with joy. After so many years, her mother's eyes appeared to shine with wisdom again, making Aida feel close. She was so excited that this should be a secret that belonged only to them because her mother had said that this matter should never be known to a third person. Before her father passed away, her mother used to tell her many little secrets—secrets that belonged only to the two of them. Since that day, she felt as if she and her mother had gone back to the old days. She was willing to do whatever Susan told her.