Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu

"Why is the theater so empty?"

Chyou asked as they made their way towards a screen devoid of any people.

"It's a date and I thought to enjoy a private screening with my girlfriend," he smiled. "And now that Cheng Yin is gone, it's time to celebrate."

Her eyes shone. "Absolutely!"

They entered the VIP screen where large, comfortable recliners were placed equidistantally. Soft yellow lights guided them the way. They took the center seats and the lights soon dimmed.

"What are we going to watch?" Chyou eagerly asked.

"I always wanted to enjoy the movie we worked together in privately with you."

"How can you read my mind? I was thinking to have a movie date just like this one~"

As the film rolled on the screen, it had their full attention once the credits part was over. The scenes that played before Chyou took her into a trance as she walked down that memory lane.

She sobbed emotional tears. "I feel so proud. That's the end product of my efforts."

"Hm?" He tilted his head.

"Training you, I mean," she sniffled. "You did such a fine job. I feel like a proud mother hen."

"..."

His mouth twitched hard.

"That's the famous pendant scene!" She exclaimed joyfully.

Then came the walk in the garden scene where Yating smiled at her. "I remember how the mother hen was struggling in this part."

She coughed. It was the day when Jun, Ai and the gang came to visit the set and Chyou made back to back mistakes in following the script.

"I am telling you, that was your fault only," she cleared her throat.

"Suuuure," he snorted.

When the scene of Yating's character's death arrived, Chyou's train of tears refused to stop. Yating could only console her that it was a movie scene and pass her tissues. By the end of the scene, the tissue box had also emptied.

"You dare do something like this in real life and I will kill you," She sniffled with red eyes.

He exhaled helplessly and wrapped his arm around her back, kissing the top of her head. "I would never even dream of it."

The time passed with the mixture of their laughter and banter just like that and as the end credits flashed by, the lights were back on and Chyou stretched her arms, satisfied.

"It felt so good watching it again! My boyfriend was so handsome and charming the whole time~" she grinned.

"The movie is not over yet."

She blinked. "The end credits just got over."

"Of this movie's but in a nutshell, isn't our life like a movie as well? There is a beginning, a middle and a climax just like the novels I work on and the stories you act in," his smile lifted on his lips felt like an onset of a gentle spring.

"Of course~"

"So I would say that today marks as an ending of one scene and the beginning of another. Wish me luck because there is not going to be a second take for this," he breathed out deeply.

She blinked further in confusion but soon, her eyes stretched wide as Yating went down on his knee. The realization that struck her got stuck at the tip of her tongue.

Yating nervously took out a small velvet box from his coat's pocket. His heart drummed louder and faster as he looked into Chyou's breathtaking eyes that couldn't believe the unfolding of this moment.

"Miss. Zhu Chyou. You cried just now that I should never leave you alone. Trust me, I have full plans of turning my hair grey alongside yours."

Chyou felt a peal of laughter sneakily snuck in but she was too overwhelmed at the moment to even laugh.

"Our hair will be grey and our skin will be wrinkly many years down the line but we will be happily watching over our children and grandchildren. Don't worry, we will live long enough to see our great grandchildren too. No matter the age or grey hair, you will always be the Queen of my heart. So…,"

Yating slowly opened the box, revealing a shimmering diamond ring that sat atop a miniature pillow with royal grandeur. It glistened so brightly in the theatre as if everything else had become secondary.

"Will you allow me to be the King of your heart? Will you marry me Chyou?"

At the last part, tears burst forth her eyes once again as her heart couldn't contain the endless bliss anymore.

"We don't have anymore tissues, Chyou."

"S-Shut up. Who told you to make me so happy? Everything is overflowing. Ah my patience is finally rewarded…" she cried. "We can finally go further than just making out!"

"..."

The ring box was very close to slipping off his hand.

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"That's your point?"

"That's the main point, you dummy! Do you know how envious I felt when I listened to Ai and Leina telling their passionate bedroom stories to me? I had such limited stories to share with them! I felt so left out. But now my time to shine will come too!"

He choked out hard but he was very close to choking blood too.

"You ladies…just what do you talk about in your pajama parties?" His jaw dropped in speechlessness.

"Boyfriends, husbands and hush-hush stuff," she said in a matter of fact tone. "Don't act like you don't do the same in your men's version of pajama parties?" She looked at him suspiciously.

He gave her a dry look. "...We don't."

She gasped in shock. "That's the whole life of the party!"

"..."

"My dream has finally come true now," she shed heartfelt tears and immediately brought her left hand forward. "Quick, quick! Put the ring on!"

Yating had completely different expectations with how this proposal would go down but Chyou was Chyou after all. Always bringing the unexpected.

He burst into laughter and slid the ring in her ring finger.

"So pretty! As expected of my boy- oops, my future husband of his choice~ First the pendant and now the ring."

Chyou dropped her body into his embrace and crashed her lips on his. Yating grabbed her head and kissed her back with the same fervor that tickled their veins of their beautiful future to come.

After a long and breathless kiss, Chyou whispered, "This has been the world's best proposal. I love you."

He kissed her lips again and smiled. "I love you too."