Luo and Daryl had a good time at dinner and as usual laughter filled their entire dining time since Daryl was also a very hilarious man.

  A waiter approached them and with a meaningful smile said, "Sir, the dessert you ordered…"

  "Thank you…" Daryl said and dismissed the waiter when he served the plate.

  Luo blinked several times as she looked at the mango cheesecake.

  "A ring?" she mumbled as she looked at the small, beautiful red velvet box. kept opened at the side of the plate.

  "Yeah… a ring…… Luo, I really like you very much… I want our relationship to progress to the next level… I want you to be my girlfriend. I want to ask you to give me a chance to prove to you we can be more than friends and that I'm sincere with my intentions towards you and what I'm feeling towards you is not friendship but much more than that."

  Luo was speechless when she heard all this. It was a sudden confession from Daryl, and she was totally flabbergasted when she heard his confession.

  "I don't know what to say right now, Daryl." she whispered. She liked Daryl a lot, and they used to spend a good time very often, working together had given them a very fair chance of knowing each other well and she knew him inside out and kind of admired him too but somehow her feelings never were able to go too deep about him.

  This time when he proposed to her, she felt a little flustered and didn't know how to react. She didn't want to hurt him in any way.

  Daryl looked at her confused state and decided to give her some space and not force her for anything. He stood up and brought out a gold chain from his pocket. Then he also picked up the ring and put it on the chain as a pendant.

  Luo quietly watched him and did not comment when Daryl walked behind her and put the chain on her neck.

  "I'm not in a rush Luo and I'm willing to wait for your answer and the day when you're ready to put the ring on your finger. If you will simply wear this ring someday in your hand, I will take that as a yes…" Daryl explained bashfully with a red face as soon as he got back in his seat.

  Luo touched the ring and looked at it with a smile. It was the first time someone confidently and formally confessed to her like that. She felt touched, but at the same moment Noah's face once again popped up in her head.

  She wondered how Noah would react if he found out about it?

  "Luo?" Daryl whispered when he noticed Luo was spacing out. He even had to clap his hand before her face to bring her back to reality.

  "I'm sorry, Daryl. I really don't know what to say right now…" She whispered. Somehow she wanted to give Daryl a chance, but her heart that was lost for Noah was making it hard for her to say yes to Daryl.

  "Please give me some time to sort things out… I need to make sure before I decide on this thing. I'm really surprised by all this, you know… I thought you won't have the balls…" She said in a jest to ease the tension and because she could notice Daryl was getting uneasy and nervous.

  Daryl chuckled and scratched his head as he breathed, "Yeah… I was actually afraid, but I thought I shouldn't waste any more time or else someone else may enter…"

  Luo laughed because Noah's face kept on popping in her head when she heard Daryl about mentioning that someone.

  Daryl looked at her, a little bit confused and she apologized saying, "Sorry someone suddenly came into my mind."

  Daryl's face twitched as he worriedly gasped, "You mean someone is already pursuing you as well?"

  Luo exhaled loudly and sincerely answered, "I'm not sure about this all either, Daryl that's why I want to think about everything carefully first. You're a good man and we are compatible in a lot of things… But then…"

  "Then what?"

  Luo pursed her lips and said, "Nevermind. How about we just drink? I owe? you one so I will drink with you tonight."

  Yes, she needed a drink because she was utterly confused and somewhat heartbroken for not receiving this kind of response from the man she loved…


  She would be stupid if she would let someone like Daryl get away after tonight, but yet the fact remained that it was always Noah in her mind, even though she was with Daryl.

  They drank like old times and talked a lot of things. Luo shook her head while staring at Daryl, who, as usual, passed out before her. She did not understand why her tolerance was so high, unlike any other man, in getting drunk like she was born for it.

  "This is now boring…" she murmured and stood up to go to the restroom.

  She left her mobile phone on the table and it rang several times while she was out, waking Daryl up.

  With his head still on the table, Daryl's hand searched the loud phone on the table and answered it with half-closed eyes.

  "Hello!" Daryl grumbled in his drunk voice.

  "Who's this? Why are you answering Luo's phone?!" Noah yelled on the other line. His relaxed face started frowning.

  "She's with me, why? I will be her future boyfriend… Hear that? I will be her boyfriend soo……n…… You wh……o a……re yo……u?" Daryl sheepishly mumbled, stuttering. He did not bother to raise his heavy head from the table.

  "Where is she now? Where are you?" Noah asked.

  "Oh, here…." Daryl answered and gave the address as he added, "I confessed to her tonight you see here… In this memorable place and I'm……"

  "Hellooo. How dare you hang up on me!" Daryl barked as he dozed off with Luo's phone still in his hand and near his ear.

  Luo then was finally back and her eyebrows knitted, seeing her mobile phone in Daryl's hand.

  "This drunkard!" she hissed and walked up to Daryl.

  She grabbed her mobile phone and asked a waiter to help her with Daryl so she could bring him in her car. Daryl's one arm was on her shoulder while the other arm was on the waiter's shoulder.

  They walked towards the door but halted when she saw Noah approaching with his one hell fury dim face.

  He saw her holding Daryl so intimately and instantly pulled Luo towards himself forcefully, causing Daryl and the waiter to almost slump on the ground.

  "Hey what are you doing!" Luo growled because he was clasping her wrist tightly, hurting her a little.

  "It hurts!" she complained, and Noah realised what he was doing and stopped for a second. Realizing he was holding her wrist a little too tightly, he loosened his grip on her hand but did not let her go.

  "Daryl…" Luo murmured.

  "Don't worry about him. My driver will take care of him and he will be home safely!" Noah grunted as he pulled Luo with him and pushed her inside his car, closing the door after making her sit in the front passenger seat.

  "Be good and sit obediently!" he instructed as he closed the door walking around the front of the car to sit on the driver's seat.

  Though a bit confused on what was happening and why Noah was so angry, not to mention her confused brain thinking what he was doing there suddenly, Luo got inside his car.