Chapter 279: Gold-Wrapped Silver

“Store Manager, I’m leaving it to you!”

“No problem! This is the bond between us!”

Gou Yu stood at the counter, unleashing a combined technique with the store manager behind it.

The sight even caught the attention of other customers.

“What did that guy do to make such a big fuss?”

“He bought two silver rings and some gold, planning to gold-plate them.”

A customer who seemed to have witnessed the entire negotiation between Gou Yu and the jewelry store manager informed the others of the details.

“Why is gold-plating a silver ring being treated like buying a pure gold engagement ring?”

“You can’t say that. This really is his engagement ring. That young man is still wearing his delivery uniform, and earlier he even pulled out steel.”

“Great, it’s pure love. We’re saved.”

Some people even started tearing up.

“Store Manager, can you engrave on this?”

Gou Yu looked at his remaining balance and said to the bustling jewelry store manager.

“You mean you got a gold-plated silver ring and you want to engrave on this thin layer of gold foil?” The store manager raised an eyebrow.

“Is that not allowed?”

“Of course it is. Watch my skills!”

It inexplicably heated up again.

In the end, Gou Yu still didn’t have enough money, so he immediately sent the store manager’s payment QR code to his good sister and had her transfer the remaining amount.

With that, completely broke, Gou Yu finally achieved the goal he had set months ago.

He had obtained his and Zhu Niao’s engagement rings.

Even though this was just an engagement banquet, Gou Yu intended to take it seriously.

Even though for Zhu Niao this was only a performance, he planned to make it real.

At this moment, he was quite grateful for how abstract he usually acted when hanging out with Zhu Niao.

Even if he knelt on one knee right now and proposed to her, she wouldn’t think anything of it.

At most, she might think, ‘How far is this guy going with this joke?’

That was why he could be so unrestrained.

‘Little Bird can’t be wronged just because she’s with me. What others have, Little Bird should have too.’

‘Little Bird deserves all the good things in this world.’

Humming a tune, Gou Yu carefully placed the ring box in his pocket and zipped it shut.

It was him and the ring together now—live or die.

Even though he couldn’t afford to buy a pure gold ring right now.

But there was still a long way to go. He would have enough romance and love to make up for it later.

Gou Yu glanced at the time on his phone.

8:30. Still early.

Zhu Niao should be home now, just finishing her bath, probably curled up in bed playing on her phone.

Or maybe watching a movie on her laptop.

A few more deliveries, then bring back something good to eat.

He had been neglecting his Little Bird queen lately. He wondered if she would accept his apology.

At this moment, Gou Yu finally understood why guys who started a family suddenly became mature and began actively earning money.

Just thinking about Little Bird’s surprised expression when she saw this pair of rings made him happy, even if it meant running deliveries late into the night until he was dead tired.

His expectations for his future life were terrifyingly strong.

He used to not understand why some people felt motivated at work. Now he got it.

For him right now, every day he went out to deliver food, came home to a hot meal, and after a shower, could hug a warm Little Bird who had already warmed up the bed in the cold winter.

But he felt a bit sorry for her too.

Because most of the time, Little Bird didn’t know when he would come back.

So after 9 PM, an alarm would go off every hour to wake Zhu Niao up so she could reheat the food she had prepared for Gou Yu.

Gou Yu had a big appetite, and the small rice cooker the two of them used couldn’t hold much.

Zhu Niao had almost no cooking skills, but reheating food was something she could manage.

It was cold. Freshly heated food would cool down in an hour.

Zhu Niao would hug her pillow, bleary-eyed, and get up again and again to reheat it for him.

He had told her it was okay to eat cold food, but she didn’t seem to agree.

She said cold food was fine in summer, but not in winter.

He delivered the food to the door, knocked twice, took a photo, and then left.

It was already past 10 PM.

He knew where to get good food at this hour.

Nine-Ninety Swiss rolls, one-fifty each for egg tarts, spicy strips, and ham sausages.

As a delivery driver, Gou Yu naturally knew which places were tasty, cheap, and clean.

He sped back home.

Before even getting off his scooter, Gou Yu instinctively touched his pocket.

The two ring boxes were still there.

Gou Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

He carried the things in his hand and trotted over to open the door.

After entering, he first reached out and touched the temperature of the food on the table.

Slightly cool. It had been reheated a while ago, but it hadn’t yet reached the next alarm time.

So Gou Yu tiptoed into Zhu Niao’s room, looked at Little Bird curled up into a ball on the bed, grabbed her phone from the nightstand, and canceled all the subsequent alarms.

Then he put the things he bought into the fridge.

After that, he took the two small, delicate boxes from his pocket and hid them well in his own room.

Ever since he started sleeping in Zhu Niao’s room, his own room had become a storage area and closet.

Finally, he returned to the dining table to eat.

A bit cold, but nothing serious.

While eating and looking around, Gou Yu suddenly noticed something.

A box. White. Sitting on the sofa.

He held his bowl with one hand and opened the box with the other.

It was a pair of shoes.

Inside the box, besides the shoes, there were two smaller boxes.

They contained folded white knee-high stockings with peacock lace, around 30 denier. Gou Yu could easily recognize them.

But why would Zhu Niao put this in such a conspicuous place when she knew Gou Yu was a leg and foot fetishist?

Of course, she had thought about it.

“Hiss…” Gou Yu put everything back properly. “No smell. No fun.”

It smelled purely of industrial chemicals with the raw scent of fabric.

He finished eating, took a shower, and dried his hair with Zhu Niao’s hairdryer.

Finally, he slipped into the bed and gently hugged Zhu Niao.

The delicate young girl seemed to sense something. Still drowsy from sleep, she turned around to face Gou Yu.