Seeing that Leng Yuan wasn’t angry, Gu Jiaojiao broke into a sweet and beautiful smile.

"As long as you’re not angry. Husband, today is our wedding feast. Everyone else already gave me a gift. You wouldn’t have forgotten to prepare one for me, would you?"

She knew Leng Yuan hadn’t prepared a gift for her.

She just wanted to use this as an excuse to get him to help her hide the box.

Leng Yuan looked at the woman in his arms, his expression earnest. "Do you really want one?"

Gu Jiaojiao nodded. "Of course I do! Everyone else gave me a gift, but the one I want most is from my husband. On a day as important as this, you wouldn’t have forgotten to prepare something for me, would you?"

"If you didn’t prepare anything, then you’ll have to accept a punishment. I’ll punish you by making you help me..." hide the box.

Before she could say the last three words, Gu Jiaojiao saw him pull open the wardrobe and take a scarf and a hat from a side compartment. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

The scarf and hat were a pure, immaculate white, impossibly beautiful.

She blinked, staring at the scarf and hat for a moment before looking back at him, her face lighting up with delighted surprise.

"You got these for me?"

Leng Yuan gave a cool hum of affirmation, placing the hat on Gu Jiaojiao’s head and then wrapping the scarf around her neck. They were a perfect fit.

Gu Jiaojiao’s skin was already fair, and now her large eyes seemed even wider. With the hat covering most of her head and the scarf wrapped snugly around her neck, only her eyes were visible. They were dark, bright, and dewy, full of a sweet innocence. She looked exactly like a silly little rabbit hopping about in the snow.

’Then again, my wife isn’t silly, she’s adorable.’

’She just looks so gullible. He was genuinely afraid that if he took his eyes off her for a second, some other man would lure her away.’

The soft fur was warm and comfortable. Gu Jiaojiao absolutely loved it.

She took off the hat and scarf, examining them over and over before finally speaking.

"This is rabbit fur, isn’t it?"

Leng Yuan nodded.

They came from wild rabbits he had hunted. He’d sold the gray ones, as they weren’t as pretty, but he’d kept the white ones and asked Wang Xiuhua to help make them into a hat and scarf.

Even back then, he had thought Gu Jiaojiao would look beautiful in a white hat and scarf.

And he had been right.

Leng Yuan’s eyes roamed over his wife, his gaze lingering appreciatively on her fair, delicate face.

’She was truly more beautiful than any flower.’

After a moment of happiness, Gu Jiaojiao started to feel a pang of guilt.

Leng Yuan had prepared a gift for her, but she hadn’t gotten him anything.

Leng Yuan looked at Gu Jiaojiao with a gentle smile.

"I’ve given you my gift. So, where’s yours?"

"Jiaojiao, don’t tell me you didn’t prepare anything!"

Leng Yuan was deliberately teasing his new little wife.

’They had been so busy lately, and she had hardly left his side. Of course he knew whether she had prepared something or not!’

’He just wanted to tease her a bit.’

’Gu Jiaojiao knew this was inevitable.’

Her mind raced.

Normally it spun at three revolutions per second; right now, it was doing thirty.

Finally, an idea struck her.

"I did prepare one! Of course I did."

"My gift, however... has to be made right now."

"Just you wait."

Gu Jiaojiao wriggled out of Leng Yuan’s arms and ran out of the room.

Leng Yuan...

’Don’t tell me my wife really didn’t have a gift and just bolted in a huff!’

After waiting a moment with no sound from outside, Leng Yuan started to worry. Just as he was about to go check on her, Gu Jiaojiao rushed back in.

Leng Yuan sighed, fondly exasperated.

’What a handful,’ he thought.

He smiled as he looked at the red string in Gu Jiaojiao’s hands.

It was the red cord from their wedding ceremony earlier that day, the one that had been tied in the bride’s hair. Unlike ordinary yarn, this was a special kind of braided red cord.

In a wedding, a red cord symbolizes good fortune, celebration, and warding off evil. It is believed to drive away malevolent forces, prevent disasters, and bring good luck.

Beyond these auspicious meanings, the red cord also represents the Red String of Fate, said to be tied by the matchmaking god to bind two people tightly together, ensuring a life of happiness, fulfillment, and peace.