Chapter 219: Cicada Summer Proposes (3 in 1)

"You've decided to graduate?"

"Dang dang dang dang~! Nah! I got all my certificates back!"

The 15th of July, the height of summer.

Today is the start of the summer break at Suzhou University, and Shen Yu has already met the length and credit requirements to apply for early graduation, followed by Rika, who has also completed her exams for international students and applied to end her studies early.

"You can stay off work again, you're not pregnant, and our wedding date isn't set yet, so you can keep studying again, and I'll pick you up from school every day anyway."

Shen Yu was quite upset that Rika was determined to end her studies, as she had come to China to study, and now that she had graduated, she was inexplicably distressed.

It's hard to explain where this panic comes from, after all, subconsciously one would think that even if something happened, she would still stay at Sunan because of her studies, and now that reason seems to be gone.

Got to propose, got to find a different way to tie her to him forever.

Shen Yu is not a person who is in need, but when he does feel love for her, the urge to have her grows stronger.

"Hmph~ Rika wants to hang on to you!"

Rika put the certificate away, took his hand and they walked together along the school road.

Suzhou University is beautiful, the summer sun leaks through the shade of the trees, scattering them into tiny patches of light on the ground, and the cicadas seem to be tireless, interweaving words of love and songs of the wind to accompany the summer.

"This way I don't have to come to class every morning, we can go to the office together and we don't have to do homework in the evenings... Rika's drawings haven't been submitted to Matsushima's editor yet and she's getting pissed off ......"

"Wow, so you still remember that you can draw comics?"

"It's all your fault ......"

After graduation, it was rare to come back here afterwards.

More than a decade of school life ended this summer, and life has now officially moved on to a new journey.

Shen Yu took Rika with him to the office to say goodbye to some of the teachers who had helped him, and to the student dormitory to say goodbye to his classmates who were packing their bags to go home, so perhaps the chances of actually seeing them again were slim.

"In our class, you're the most brilliant, after we graduate, we'll hang out with Mr Shen! Don't be disgusted!"

"When are you two getting married? You have to send us a post then, preferably this year or next year, our classmates are all at Suzhou University, we'll go together to support you!"

"A bully is a bully, always turning in papers faster than us, jealousy and envy!"

"The future is bright!"

In the evening, Shen Yu and Rika ate together in the school canteen, and afterwards walked around the athletic field, watching the sunset and the others running and playing football.

As time slows down, relaxed and at ease, Shen Yu finds a spot of grass where he won't get hit by a ball, takes off his shirt and lays it on the grass for Rika to sit on.

Rika snickered at his hooligan look in his white vest: "Mr. Shen is so unpresentable!"

"What's the point, look at the guys playing over there, don't they all wear vests."

"I'm worried that some schoolgirl has her eye on my husband!"

"Don't worry, you're the only one I can look at, so sit here for a while while I go to the kiosk and buy you a watermelon."

"Then you have to come back soon oh."

"Soon."

Shen Yu moved his body and ran straight in the direction of the kiosk.

Watching his back as he ran, Rika's eyes were tender and her heart was sweet.

Within minutes, he was back, carrying a clear plastic bag with a cold, cut watermelon and two bamboo sticks.

"Whew~ Hurry up and eat it while it's cold."

Shen Yu sat down next to her, opened the bag, held the watermelon in his hand and poked a piece of it with a bamboo stick and handed it to her mouth.

"Ah... uh~!"

Watermelon is a perfect match for summer, and Rika loves to eat it. The cold and sweet taste of watermelon blossoms on her tongue, and the juice flows down her throat, making her eyes squint in happiness.

"Is it sweet?"

"Super sweet!"

Her mouth puffed up like a little ball and with a hard poof, the watermelon seeds were spat out far away and landed inside the grass, and like a small child she, nodded contentedly.

"Will it grow watermelon seedlings?"

"Probably will."

The cicadas chirp more cheerfully in the evening, as if their sound never changes, tirelessly, and Rika, while eating a watermelon, looks up curiously for them, but can't find them.

"Honey~"

"Hmm?"

"Have you seen the cicadas?"

"Nah, got to get Puffs to look at it, not only can she see it, but she can catch it all."

Rika was amused, leaning her little head on his shoulder, watching the sun sink bit by bit in the distance, the sky a red haze.

"And does the husband know about the life of the cicada?"

"For a number of years the cicadas will develop and moult underground, and after the rain on summer nights they will burrow out and climb up into the trees and squeak and squeak."

"Yeah, yeah, it must be a lot lonelier without cicadas in the summer."

Rika takes Shen Yu's large hand and draws the outline of a cicada in his palm with his white fingers.

"Waiting alone for so long in the dark underground, breaking through the ground, full of anticipation, screaming your heart out in the short summer months! Doesn't that feel super romantic?"

"Well, all I know is that there are only 30,000 days in a person's life, and if I didn't have you, I would have died of loneliness the rest of my life."

"So husband you are summer and Rika is a cicada!"

"A perfect match?"

"Superb match!"

It's hot in the summer, but Rika still likes to cling to him, and her literary spirit hasn't changed at all, nestling in his arms like a kitten and saying sweet things.

Shen Yu squeezed her soft flesh, kissed her down and asked, "Now that we're on holiday too, when are you going back to Yokohama?"

"Ooo ...... Rika I don't know, want to go home again, but I don't want to leave you ......"

Shen Yu couldn't let her go either and reached out to pick her up and put her on his lap.

Many of the students on the walk looked over and Rika, shy, buried her face in his chest and listened to the pounding of his heart.

"But you'll still have to go back this time, so why don't you book a flight for the day after tomorrow?"

"Well!"

Rika's forehead rubs against his chest, pouting, not wanting to go back so early.

When she pampered herself, Shen Yu was softened that she almost blurted out 'my husband will go back with you'.

He would have to go to Yokohama with his parents later to propose the marriage and bring her back from Yokohama in a dignified manner.

"You forgot. ......"

Shen Yu whispered in her ear and saw her face and ears tinged with scarlet.

"So, then you'll have to pick me up a little early oh ......"

Rika opened her little mouth and nibbled lightly on his shoulder, holding up her little fist and threatening, "If you trick Rika into going home and then don't come to pick me up, I'll ...... I'll run back myself ...... "

What kind of threat is that? To come back here and give it to yourself for nothing?

After all, Rika is a bit of a roadie and if he runs back, he might end up in someone else's house.

"Don't worry, I'll get you back happy and then I'll get you back happy."

"How much fun is it?"

"How happy do you want to be?"

"Well, it's happier than eating balloon pudding."

"Go home, I'll carry you back."

"Hee hee ......"

Shen Yu got up with her in his arms, patting the grass clippings from his bottom, and when she was steady on her feet squatted down in front of her. Rika took his shirt, her soft body fitting onto his firm back, her small hands on his front, her mouth kissing the back of his neck in an unfaithful manner.

"Like now, it's a third of a balloon pudding happy~"

"Is it only that little?"

"That's a lot!"

"Then you hold it steady."

Before Rika can react, Shen Yu is running, the evening breeze blowing the girl's hair and the cicadas chirping with her shrieks and laughter.

Without the eyes of the pipers, Shen Yu carried her like he had abducted a wife.

"Now! Now! Where!"

"Giggle! Half a happy balloon pudding!"

The car was still parked at the school and halfway through the run, Shen Yu was so tired that he took a taxi and sat in the back seat with Rika.

Regardless of the psychological trauma caused to the driver, the two kissed passionately in the back seat.

When they got home, their parents were watching TV in the living room. When they saw Shen Yu and Rika in such a state of disarray after such a vigorous workout, they wanted to say something but stopped, but finally they just ignored it and continued to watch TV with melon seeds.

It's never too early to have grandchildren.

Rika was so shy that she had been living with her aunt and uncle for the past two months, but after all, she hadn't been officially named yet.

Shen Yu is getting thicker and thicker, treating Rika as his wife, and sometimes kissing her in front of his parents, as if he is not going to marry her.

When he is not embarrassed, it is Shen Deyou and Zhang Xiaoru who are.

Recently, my parents have been thinking about whether they should find an excuse to move out for a while and leave the place to Shen Yu and Rika.

These two have been getting along like this every day, don't they have any regard for the feelings of their parents!

When they got home, Shen Yu and Rika hid in their room, went to the bathroom, took a shower together, and fell into bed, naked and sticky.

The lights were left on, and perhaps because of the emotion of parting, Rika was extraordinarily engaged and proactive.

It was not until late in the night that she fell asleep exhausted.

Even when he fell asleep, he didn't want to let go and wrapped himself around him like an octopus.

Shen Yu adjusted the temperature of the air conditioner, pulled the thin blanket over her and hugged her, looking closely at her sleeping face.

The red marks on her back from her excitement were still there, and Shen Yu could feel her emotions.

The lingering of life, the passionate love.

Rika's mouth puckered up and her eyebrows furrowed, and she twisted her body in a mischievous manner, as if in anger or shame.

Shen Yu turned quietly and turned off the light, recalling the afterglow of what he had just experienced, his hand on her back, stroking it gently.

The feeling that she is all you can think about is probably the Rika control.

The diamond ring for the proposal was already prepared, the new house was decorated, the cheering partners were arranged, and everything was ready.

For the first time in his life, he's going to propose to Rika on the 17th of July, the day after tomorrow, and it's going to be a hundred times more intense than facing the entrance exams.

The infinite cycle of seasons, on a night permeated with haze.

Shen Yu has decided not to miss out on this summer.

......

Ke Liangji and Zhao Yage, along with Jiang Ningle and Li Jing, were surprised when they entered the courtyard with a clear and concise "Wow!

"Landed gentry!"

"You're a cottage, right?!"

"There's a Koi Pond! It feels like your yard is so much wider!"

Today is the official completion of the renovation and the courtyard is also a place that Shen Yu has taken great care to design, making the most of the space, walking along the cobbled pathway, flanked by lawns and surrounded by small Koi Pond and vegetable gardens, stone tables and other empty spaces with many small flower beds.

The lawn has been laid and the seedlings have been planted, with all the flowers and plants that Rika likes.

Su Zhifu, with her hands covered in mud, squatting in the small five square metre vegetable garden planting garlic and spring onions, has watched the transformation of Shen Yu's brother's house little by little, but not as surprised as Ke Liangji and Zhao Yage.

Shen Yu took the keys and showed Ke Liangji and Zhao Yage from the first to the third floor, with his arms crossed, he said proudly: "It's just average, barely enough for a wedding room, not really a villa, it's mostly Japanese in style, Rika will live here for the rest of his life, and Da Moyo can get more used to it. "

"A humblebrag face!"

Zhao Yage sputtered, especially as he toured the master suite, "You guys are pretty good at this, with such a big bathtub and such transparent bathroom glass walls ......"

Ke Liangji also nodded repeatedly and said to Zhao Yage, "I'm not asking for much, in the future Brother Duck you buy me a house like this and I'll just barely help you with laundry and cooking for the rest of my life."

Zhao Yage poked him in the head, "Are you used to dreaming in broad daylight?"

Jiang Ningle is also a sight to behold, especially with such a large bed and a great bathroom, and I can't believe it's Shen Yu and Rika who are the best at what they do.

She and Li Jing have already gotten their license in Singapore, and the wedding is still up in the air, but unless Zhao Yage and Ke Liangji take a sharp bend in the road, they'll probably be the next couple to get married.

"Where's Rika, she has to cling to you day in and day out, and today you managed to sneak over on your own?"

"Went shopping with my mum, come on come on, snappy set up the scene."

Shen Yu did not feel comfortable proposing in a square or at a company, and Rika was not comfortable either.

Balloons, ribbons, lights, candles, red roses, etc., Shen Yu had all been prepared in secret.

Several of the young men and women were also doing this sort of thing for the first time and seemed very excited and thrilled - after all, it was quite an amazing feeling that two best friends were about to enter a new chapter in their lives.

Shen Yu is not a particularly ritualistic person, but he wanted to give Rika a romantic proposal.

Rika is a girl who likes to live a small life at home, and the simple presence of three or five friends to witness this joy is enough to satisfy her.

"Let's go through the process again. First you, Puffs, give me the ring when you see me coming into the room, then Liangji, you guys hide in the wardrobe and when I start proposing and Rika says she's going to say no to me three times and she hesitates, you guys come out and help!"

"Perfect! It's decided!"

......

After dinner the next night, Rika helps Zhang Xiaoru put away the dishes while Shen Yu avoids her and takes out his mobile phone to send a message to the marriage proposal team.

"Don't worry don't worry, we're ready!"

"Don't forget to pick her up at the Puffs'."

"There she is."

Rika is in a slightly downbeat mood today, after all, I won't see him again for a while when I go home ......

This bad guy, the reserved maiden has hinted at him many times, why hasn't he proposed yet?

Hum, anyway Rika eat your home, live your home, and sleep with you at night for fun, I will not leave until I propose ......

Even if you propose, you'll be rejected three times!

Rika made up her mind and planned to return her ticket later, just to see when the wooden lump would propose to her.

When she came out of the kitchen, Shen Yu waved the car keys in front of her eyes.

"Come on, let's go for a walk together."

"I've got to pack, I'm going back to Yokohama in the morning, I've just woken up."

Rika hints darkly.

"It's not that bad, I'll help you pack later."

"......"

For the first time ever, Rika was dragged out of the house for a walk by Shen Yu.

Drive the car, wander slowly along the road, see the city at night and listen to soft music.

Probably because he had something on his mind, Rika didn't notice the music in the car, which was replaced by sweet love songs and confession songs.

"Honey~"

"Hmm?"

"The moon is so beautiful tonight."

The last time Rika said this to him was last year at Mid-Autumn, but this time, Shen Yu has learned his lesson.

"You too."

"Hehehe ...... Where are we going?"

"You'll find out later."

Rika was a little excited to hear him being so secretive, after all, he was as wooden as he was mysterious.

Any other girl would have recognised where she was going after a few junctions, but it wasn't until the car turned into an alley that Rika, a roadie, realised that she was going home.

"Honey, have we finished decorating our home? Didn't you say it would take a week or two?"

"Come on, get out of the car and have a look."

Hand in hand, they wandered from the courtyard to the ground floor and then to the first floor, Rika's little face full of excitement.

"How about it, do you like it, is it exactly as you drew it?"

"Mmmmmm! It feels like I'm living in a painting!!!"

The design of the house was the result of long discussions between the two of them under the covers, and now Rika is thrilled to see her dream home being built.

"Honey, let's go see the room!"

Rika dragged him to his room, but Shen Yu said without moving, "You go ahead and watch, I'm going to the toilet."

The room was dark with the lights left on.

The large room was lit up as Rika flicked the switch.

She froze.

In front of her was a heart made up of nine hundred and ninety-nine roses, the whole room was covered in flowers and decorated with pink balloons beside it. As she took a wooden step forward, a rainbow path built of small coloured lights shone up on either side and the projector activated, projecting on the clean white walls a memory of her time with Shen Yu.

He did not forget to prepare a proposal for her, although the big straight man was not romantic and the ceremony was not sensational, it was just plain and quiet, giving her the best things and the most beautiful scenes in his perception.

It's hard to describe how I feel at this moment, whether it's the feeling of a cicada finally waiting for summer, or the sweet impulse of a deer in the headlights.

Heart struck by a certain stirring, Rika lowered his head, nose sore, big tears sliding down his face ......

"Oooh ...... husband ...... husband!"

Rika was about to run out to find him when Shen Yu came out in a little white suit.

He walks up to Rika, kneels on one knee and extends his left hand flat, and Su Zhifu nimbly places the ring box in his palm.

Shen Yu opened the box, took the diamond ring out of it, took her hand and looked into her big, teary eyes.

He could feel the emotions she was feeling, and the lines he had memorized were now a little forgotten for a moment ......

"I had thought that I would never fall in love with anyone in my life, let alone propose, get married and live my life ......"

It was the first time he had seen her tears flow so fiercely, warm teardrops falling down onto the back of his hand, and his voice became a little more guttural as he spoke, following her emotions.

"Until that time last year when you came home, that empty feeling in your heart, the longing didn't diminish with time, but grew stronger ......"

"When I went to you, enjoying the feeling of being a little happier with every passing minute, I probably knew that I really liked you ......"

"Since then, I have realized that I am a coward, afraid that I am not strong enough, afraid that I cannot protect you when you need it, afraid that fate is unpredictable, afraid that things in the world are unpredictable, afraid that life is not long enough to cherish slowly, afraid that I am not sober enough to appreciate all the feelings ...... "

Rika listened to his words word by word, the back of her hand wiping her tears over and over again as she sobbed and sobbed: "Oooh ...... husband ...... you're doing great... ..."

"I'm not romantic and my mouth is silly, no one else but you can make me think so much about you, maybe I'm not giving you the best, but I'll give you the best of everything, have a home of our own, go grocery shopping together, cook together, wash dishes together, take walks together ...... "

"I want to see you carefree and smiling at me every day when you wake up, and I want the one who gives you a lifetime of happiness to be me ......"

"Asaba Rika, would you like to ......"

"I do! I do!!! I do!!!"

Before he could finish his sentence, Rika couldn't hold back any longer and threw herself into his arms, crying, and they fell to the ground together, kissing each other hard, regardless of the presence of Su Zhifu, a small child.

Ke Liangji, Zhao Yage, Jiang Ningle and Li Jing, who were hiding in the wardrobe and were about to come out to cheer, looked at each other in disbelief ......

What does this mean?

I thought we agreed to say no three times!

Not even a chance to run the show!!!