Their Intriguing Marriage

"Good." Li Qingning also reached out and gently grasped his hand, intuition told her that this man is not a bad man.

"My name is * * yde. What's the name of this beautiful lady?" He gentlemanly took her soft, smooth hand and then gave it a kiss.

Probably surprised by his action, she looked at him with wide eyes, and her expression seemed unnatural. More than ten seconds later, she calmed down and said with a smile of embarrassment: "Oh, my name is Li Qingning, li of the dawn, Qing of the morning, peaceful Ning. You look good in Chinese. "

Brad noticed the awkwardness and unnaturalness in her eyes. He gently let go of her hand, nodded to her gentlemanly and said, "sorry, you may not be used to this kind of Western greeting, Li Qingning... Well, it's a very beautiful and artistic name."

She looked down with a smile and said, "then I can call you Brad later?"

"Of course." His deep eyes now look like a child, incomparably clear and touching.

"I just saw the expression on your face is not very happy, like something on your mind." Brad suddenly put away the smiles and asked earnestly.

She lowered her eyes and said in a soft voice, "in fact, there's nothing wrong with it

Brad held his arms in one hand and rubbed the shallow sexy stubble on his chin in the other. He said, "let me guess what's bothering this beautiful lady..."

Li Qingning was amused by him and his face was full of smile. Looking at him, he said, "I'm sorry if you say that again."

"We are friends, and you don't know anyone else here. If you have any difficulties, tell me. Even if I can't help you solve them, at least I can listen to you pour the bitter water." He said, winking at her seriously.

"It's really nothing. I'm just looking for a house, but I haven't got a clue yet." Speaking of this matter, a lot of things that need her to consider all gushed out, heavy pressure in her heart.

Brad looked clear and said, "Hey, I thought it was something. It's simple. I live in a duplex. Anyway, it's empty. I can rent it to you upstairs..."

"Ah?" Li Qingning's eyes were full of surprise. She could not imagine that things would become so simple and easy to solve.

Before she could react, Brad naturally took her hand and walked in a direction outside the square.

"Hey... I haven't said if I want to rent your house yet..." Li Qingning was pulled by him and walked behind him, a little embarrassed.

Brad looked back at her with a smile and said, "don't worry, I swear with my handsome face that I'm definitely not a human trafficker or something."

Li Qingning seems to have been seen through his mind. The expression on his face looks very unnatural. She looked back at the far away square, looked at his back and said, "Hello, but your painting tools are still there."

He stopped suddenly, turned to look at her seriously and said, "do you remember my name?"

Li Qingning swallowed his saliva, looked at him timidly and said, "Brad."

Then he laughed and said, "that's right. I don't call it 'hello'. Don't worry. They're safe there. No one will take them away."

At first, she wanted to escape. Although the man didn't look like a bad man, and her intuition told her that the world was still full of kindness to her, everything came so easily and suddenly that she couldn't believe it.

But later, she suddenly felt relieved that she had nothing left, and what to be afraid of. Now that she had taken the first step with the man in front of her, she tried to believe in the kindness of a stranger. Anyway, she had experienced so many thrills, and the worst was the worst.

She thought so, so she quickened her pace and followed him to a residential area.

Brad took her to park in front of a historic apartment building. He turned his head to smile at her and said, "this is the house my parents used to live in. Now that they have moved to California, they leave it to me. I'll take you up and have a look. Then you decide whether to rent it or not?"

His voice with a calm mild, like latte, warm mellow, flowing through her heart, let her suddenly have a kind of inexplicable peace of mind.

She nodded to him with a smile and followed him upstairs.

If this building is really old, it reveals the whispers of time everywhere. The red painted railings on the stairs look mottled. The wooden floor looks gray. Even the doors on each floor look very old-fashioned. The whole apartment building is quiet, which makes her heart beat faster.

The man walking in front seemed to be able to guess her mind. He went upstairs and said softly, "most of the people living in this apartment are very kind old people, so it's quiet. I like this environment very much. I don't like too much noise."

Listening to what he said, Li Qingning was a little relieved. He nodded to him in surprise and said, "what a coincidence, I'm also a quiet person."

The gentle smile on his face dispelled all the uneasiness left in her heart. Her hand naturally lay in his warm palm. When she stopped in front of the apartment, she quietly pulled it back from his hand.

Brad dropped his eyes and laughed. He didn't say much. He took out the key from his trousers pocket and pushed open the door of the apartment. The gentleman turned around and made a please sign to her.

Li Qingning nodded to him and seemed to walk into the apartment carefully.

The interior decoration and furnishings of the apartment really surprised her.

She thought that for an artist like him, his home should be in a mess, like Picasso's abstract painting style, with no place to stay.

But his home is unexpectedly neat and clean, the overall western European style looks simple and generous, but the beige sofa adds a warm atmosphere to the whole room, and there are even several blooming calla lilies in the glass vase on the tea table.

"How's it going?" Brad asked, leaning his head aside as he closed the door gently.

She also turned her head to his line of sight, nodded and said with a smile, "I can't see... Oh, I mean, it's really clean and tidy."

"Can't you see how tidy a single man's room is?" He asked jokingly.

This man is like a mind reader, always able to guess the meaning of her heart.

Li Qingning quickly waved his hand and said, "no, no, I didn't mean that."

He shook his head with a smile and said, "no, no, no, you can say that. I think you are praising me for being different, as long as you don't doubt that I am gay."