Fireworks continued to burst outside, and waves of shimmering light flooded through the floor-to-ceiling windows, casting their two long shadows onto the floor behind them.

Caroline Whitman, her waist encircled by his arms, glanced down at the ring on her ring finger. Then, she looked up and kissed him just as the next firework blossomed in the sky.

After the passion subsided.

Caroline Whitman rested her head on his chest. “Why did you decide to set up the proposal here?”

She really couldn’t wrap her head around it.

“If I hadn’t come here, wouldn’t all your effort have been for nothing?”

She asked again, her curiosity piqued.

Adrian Grant stroked her hair and smiled. “It wouldn’t have mattered if you went to The Seraphic or back to your own place.”

The implication of his words was clear.

Caroline Whitman’s eyes widened slightly. “You decorated every single house?”

“Yes.”

“What if I had suddenly wanted to go back to Golden Crest Manor?”

“That one’s decorated too.”

“…”

Caroline Whitman looked up at him, her eyes inexplicably welling with tears. For some reason, they were suddenly stinging, ready to overflow.

Strangely, she hadn’t felt this weepy during the actual proposal.

‘This man…’

He was more thoughtful than she could have ever imagined.

Adrian Grant seemed to notice the shift in her mood. He raised a hand and gently caressed the corner of her eye, his fingertip coming away with a trace of moisture.

He lowered his head, his lips brushing gently against her eye.

“You… you really thought of everything.”

Caroline Whitman turned her head slightly to rest against his chest and murmured.

Adrian Grant chuckled softly. “I don’t do things I’m not prepared for.”

“So that’s why you weren’t at work today.”

“Mhm. According to my original schedule, I was supposed to have just returned to the country today.”

‘In other words, after this guy dropped her off at her company this morning, he started setting up all these scenes.’

‘No wonder she hadn’t run into Adrian Grant all day, even with all her social engagements.’

Caroline Whitman looked up at him, a little curious. “Why did you suddenly decide to propose today?”

‘It was so sudden. If she hadn’t discovered the ring last night, she would have been completely unprepared.’

Adrian Grant was a straightforward person. “I told you, I was originally going to wait until after Ryan’s birthday to propose. But since you found out last night, well, no time like the present. I didn’t want you to be on edge every day, and frankly, I didn’t want to be a nervous wreck myself. The longer you wait, the more can go wrong.”

“…”

‘What could possibly go wrong with a little delay?’ Caroline Whitman wondered.

“You’re actually quite considerate.”

‘He knew she’d spend the next few days overthinking things, constantly on edge.’

‘It was true. Knowing the “ending” in advance but not knowing when the proposal would actually happen was enough to make anyone antsy.’

“Can we go see the scenes you set up in the other houses?”

“Of course.”

It was almost eleven o’clock now.

On any other night, they would have already been tucking their child into bed at this hour.

But today was an exception.

‘Their child wasn’t with them, and with something so momentous having happened today, how could she possibly sleep?’

As they left the apartment, Caroline Whitman felt a little reluctant to go.

‘In a way, this apartment was the first place they had lived together, and now, who would have thought, it was also the place he had proposed.’

Holding the bouquet, she smiled and said, “I never expected a seemingly straight-laced guy like you to pull all this off. Where did you learn all these tricks?”

Adrian Grant: “…”

‘Do I really seem that straight-laced?’

“I learned online. I also asked Milo Morgan and Chloe Carson for some advice.”

“What did they teach you?”

“They both said a proposal must have fireworks and flowers, and the more extravagant the venue, the better.”

He paused, then added his own opinion. “Some of what they said was useful. As for the extravagance, I guessed you probably wouldn’t want to be in front of a crowd, so I didn’t make it too public.”

Caroline Whitman was pleasantly surprised. “How did you know?”

Adrian Grant looked at her with an “I knew it” expression.

“A guess.”

And it wasn’t entirely untrue.

What he didn’t mention was that he had previously looked into Caroline Whitman’s background and naturally knew about her low-key nature at school.

She herself had said that after graduating from high school, she deleted every classmate she could.

She rarely went to reunions, even after graduating from college.

All these little details showed that Caroline Whitman didn’t like to be too conspicuous.

Of course, Adrian Grant would have loved for the whole world to know.

But considering how Caroline Whitman would feel being proposed to, he figured she wouldn’t want to be gawked at like she was in a play. So he avoided that kind of display, not wanting to pressure her or make her feel awkward.

‘She was a cat that was easily embarrassed.’

He didn’t want Caroline Whitman to look back on his proposal and cringe so hard her toes curled.

And he certainly didn’t want the scene of his first and last proposal to turn into a bad memory.

Caroline Whitman blinked, a little shy. “Oh. Well, you guessed right.”

‘It wasn’t that she had never imagined Adrian Grant proposing to her in public.’

‘But just thinking about it was enough to make her cringe.’

‘She had even been wondering if she should drop a hint to Adrian over the next few days to get him to be a bit more low-key.’

Caroline Whitman touched her diamond ring, hugged the flowers, and took out her phone to snap a flurry of pictures. She tilted her head slightly toward the door. “Let’s go. I want to see the other places you decorated.”

This place was close to Golden Crest Manor, so they went there first.

They had moved out of this apartment a while ago. Since their relationship was already confirmed, logically, they should have terminated the lease.

It was only a short while ago, on the way over, that Caroline Whitman learned Adrian Grant had actually bought the apartment.

They entered.

The original furniture in the apartment was still the same as before.

The only difference was that this place was also covered in flower petals, with a heart shape arranged in the middle of the living room.

Even Caroline Whitman, who didn’t usually like taking pictures, couldn’t resist pulling out her phone and snapping a dozen shots.

Working their way from nearest to farthest, their third stop was Azure Heights.

Another new setup. Caroline Whitman had never thought her own home could one day be filled with so many flowers.

The petals were strewn all the way to the bedroom.

Caroline Whitman looked at the heart made of petals on the bed and couldn’t help but be amused.

‘I’ve got to hand it to him,’ she thought. ‘He really knows how to pull out all the stops.’

The last stop was The Seraphic.

It was already midnight when the car stopped in front of the villa.

Caroline Whitman opened the door and got out. The night breeze, carrying the humid heat of early summer, brushed against her face.

She had been wearing high heels all day, from leaving the house in the morning with a full face of makeup to bouncing between four different locations until midnight, yet she still felt surprisingly energized.

She pushed open the door to The Seraphic, and the lights came on.

Caroline Whitman stood in the foyer, gazing at a sea of red roses that carpeted the floor from her feet all the way to the floor-to-ceiling windows. In the high-ceilinged space, the petals didn’t feel cramped; instead, they created an overwhelming, breathtaking effect.

Unlike the other three locations, the flowers at The Seraphic were simply for decoration, without any special arrangements. This was purely because he had originally planned to propose here, so he had used the most flowers by far.

Caroline Whitman spun around in the center of the living room. She looked up at the crystal chandelier, then down at the floor covered in petals. Suddenly, she felt as if tonight had been like opening four different mystery boxes—each one was unique, yet all had been prepared by the same hand.

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