My Platinum-Blonde Childhood Friend is Too Pretty - Chapter 126

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Translator: ZERO_SUGAR

◈ My Platinum-Blonde Childhood Friend Is Too Pretty ◈

Chapter 126: 50. Marry Me -2

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For today, Elli had spent a short stretch of time doing things in brief little windows each day, because she had no desire to be away from her boyfriend for long.

She worked at it diligently, and she prepared just as diligently.

And through all of it, there was the one lie she had told Lee Do-yoon.

On the first day she had started going out.

She had said she was going to meet Lee So-yeon, but the truth was she had gone to visit both sets of parents.

To ask permission.

"I'm going to marry Do-yoon. The wedding ceremony can come later, and we can wait a few years for children, but I want to at least do the marriage registration now. Please give us your blessing."

"......"

Both families fell quiet for a moment after hearing Elli's declaration.

Since the two of them had just barely turned twenty-one, Elli had figured that even if their parents had allowed and supported living together, convincing them to go as far as marriage wouldn't be easy. So she had steeled herself for a fight.

Then her future mother-in-law spoke, sounding more baffled than anything.

"...You haven't done it yet?"

"...Excuse me?"

"We all assumed you'd dragged Do-yoon off and taken care of it ages ago..."

"We haven't needed to pull a household register lately so we had no idea~"

"Come to think of it, I checked once around year-end tax season and Elli wasn't on it."

"I figured our cunning little daughter-in-law would have swung by the community office the moment she moved in."

"Ahem... Elli. Marriage can wait a little lon-"

"Mark-nim, please be quiet~"

"......"

They seemed more surprised that it hadn't happened yet than anything, and they spoke as if to say go ahead, clearly trusting that Elli and Do-yoon would be just fine together not only now but well into the future. That made her happy, and yet.

"......"

"Why do you look sulky? You came here to declare you're stealing my son, and that's the face you make? Do you want to have it out with your mother-in-law right here?"

"...Thank you."

The fact that they had apparently expected her to have already gone ahead and filed the marriage registration without even asking, the fact that she hadn't managed to give them that much confidence in her, made Elli's lip jut out a little.

Still, she had the permission she needed.

"A few months ago she was all frantic about wanting a baby, and now she shows up with this solemn face asking whether she can do a marriage registration... honestly."

"...Mother."

"Oh, did you hear that?"

"I'm standing right in front of you, so of course I did... Are you going to keep doing this, ajumma?"

"Ajumma?! What kind of way is that to talk to your mother-in-law!"

"Hmph."

Anyway.

The biggest obstacle she had imagined, getting permission from both families, had turned out to be no obstacle at all. It was over in the blink of an eye.

When they asked why she wanted to do the marriage registration now specifically, Elli laid out her entire plan.

"A surprise proposal...? Why would you be the one to... well, goodness. That's just like our daughter-in-law, isn't it. We'll keep our mouths shut, so go ahead and do it right."

"Fighting, Elli~"

They were a bit taken aback, but both families promised to keep it to themselves.

After leaving the family home, the real preparations began.

"You're proposing?! Really?! Eeek! I absolutely have to help! What do you need us to do?"

"I don't really want to help..."

"Hye-ryeong. Keep talking like that and I'll stop making your breakfast."

"I can make it myself, you know? My cooking is actually bett-"

"You can barely drag yourself out of bed in the morning lately because you're so tired. You want to skip breakfast, binge later, and end up gaining weight?"

"I don't binge... I can manage my own..."

"Hye-ryeong?"

"...Fine, I'll help."

She got help from Lee So-yeon and Joo Hye-ryeong.

"A dress?! Oh no... there are so many things I want to recommend to you, Elli, I can't possibly show you everything in a day or two...! Just wait. I'll put together a full list and we'll try them one by one. But... this time you're letting me take pictures, right...?"

Through Seong Min-ah, who threw herself into it even more enthusiastically than Elli herself, she tracked down a princess-style dress that could be ready within one or two weeks and that matched Do-yoon's taste to a tee.

"Don't think about getting a wedding ring for this~ You two aren't getting married right away, are you? So you should give him a proposal ring. Wouldn't you want Do-yoon to be the one to get the wedding rings later?"

"You're right. The wedding rings are Do-yoon's job. Unni's right."

"Actually, I'd been quietly looking into it myself since Jeong-woo still hasn't said a word~ Want to go look together today?"

Together with Seon Woo-bin, who had been one step ahead of her in that department, she found a proposal ring with a small diamond.

"Bini's been giving off some suspicious vibes lately... what are you two scheming?"

"We're not scheming anything. Just help out."

"Treating me like your kid brother or something."

"I'm asking for your help. Or should I stop lending you Do-yoon?"

"What does that even... fine, what do you need me to do."

She also enlisted Seo Jeong-woo's cooperation.

And so, at this very moment.

In the perfectly set romantic atmosphere, there was Lee Do-yoon, moved to his core by her princess cosplay.

"Marry me."

Not a request. More like a decree, delivered with complete certainty that it had to be done.

"......"

Her cute boyfriend stared down at her, too stunned to answer right away.

Looking up at him, Elli thought.

She had gone out for a few hours every day to make this happen, and even for her, cutting into the time she spent with her boyfriend hadn't been easy.

He was someone she loved so much that even a single minute apart made her miss him.

And soon, she would go nearly two months without being able to see his face at all.

But.

That was exactly why she had prepared this proposal.

To endure that separation, to keep her heart steady through it.

Being lovers who were deeply in love with each other wasn't going to be enough.

She needed something tighter, something stronger.

More than she strictly needed, she wanted it.

She didn't want to be a military sweetheart waiting for him. She wanted to be a wife waiting for him.

Whatever their relationship, the longing to see him would be the same either way, but she thought it might give her a little more peace of mind.

And besides.

It was only moving something up that they would have done eventually anyway.

This sweet, adorable boyfriend of hers had been hers in the past, was hers now, and would be hers going forward.

So yes.

"Aren't you going to answer?"

Marriage was, in the end, just a formality.

"...Yeah. Let's get married. El... no."

She was Do-yoon's, and Do-yoon was.

"Honey."

Hers.

* * *

"Hehe... mm..."

My princess was nestled in my arms, smiling softly to herself.

I was stroking her back, that deeply cut neckline leaving the smooth expanse of her exposed, running my fingers through her platinum hair as I did.

But mentally.

"......"

I was completely stunned.

The princess cosplay alone had already blown past every limit of what I could have imagined as a surprise.

And then a proposal on top of it.

Of course I was happy. Of course I was overjoyed. There was a small pang of wishing I had been the one to do it, but somehow it felt like the most Elli thing in the world.

It was exactly like the image I had admired when I was little. The brilliant princess who faces every challenge head-on and blazes her own path.

I had gone and fallen for her all over again because of it, completely fresh, and.

"Husband."

"Huh?"

"What kind of reaction is that. Aren't you my husband?"

"...Yeah? Yeah. I am. Yeah."

I looked down at my adorable wife, who had tilted her head up and was smiling at me with those pretty eyes, calling me husband.

"We're going to submit the marriage registration paperwork tomorrow."

"Okay. Let's go."

"Once we hand that in, there's no taking it back. If you ever so much as breathe the word divorce, I'll kill you."

"Why would I take it back. And the ring... oh, the ring. You haven't put it on yet."

"Don't put it on. Keep wearing the couple rings we already have. I'm going to turn this one into a necklace."

"Wouldn't it make more sense to turn the ones we already have into necklaces?"

"No. I like the one you gave me better."

"Well then..."

Thump, thump.

My heart was racing.

This beautiful princess in my arms was going to be my wife starting tomorrow.

The makeup on her face, the scent of it, the warmth of her, all of it was making my head swim the same way it had the very first time.

Elli seemed to notice, because she laughed and said, "Husband, your face is all red."

"...Is it very red?"

"Incredibly. Are you happy that your... princess proposed to you?"

"I am. So happy... so happy it feels like too much... I don't even know what to do with myself right now."

"Hmm..."

"Sorry, I know that doesn't make any sense. But that's really where I am right now..."

"Is that so..."

She trailed off with a strange little smile at my rambling.

Then she sat up.

And took hold of my arm.

"This way."

I followed her quietly.

The full, sweeping skirt of the dress. The open expanse of her back. The platinum hair swaying with each step. Everything in front of me looked like a mirage.

Maybe it was the back-to-back surprises that had pushed past anything I could have imagined today, but everything felt like a dream.

Like I had stepped into a fairy tale.

That feeling grew even stronger when Elli led me by the hand into the bedroom.

"Wow..."

"Is it okay?"

"The atmosphere is incredible... it's beautiful..."

It was clearly the kind of room where the night view from the bed would be spectacular, but that view was hidden completely behind thick curtains.

The room was far darker than the living room as a result.

A single soft lamp glowing faintly beside the bed.

And rose petals scattered across the large bed, giving everything a strangely charged, intimate feeling.

The atmosphere, at any rate, was perfect.

"Get on the bed and lie down."

"Like this?"

"Just like that."

She was telling me to lie down on the bed fully clothed. I climbed onto the bed and lay flat in the very center, lifting only my head slightly to look back at her.

When she saw that I had done as she said, Elli brought her hand to her waist and undid something.

Then.

-thump, swish...

"Oh?"

The outer layer of the dress skirt, the part that had given it all that full, sweeping volume, separated and fell to the floor.

But her lower half wasn't completely bare.

There was still a skirt attached to the bodice, almost like a one-piece dress. The front and back lengths were different, though. The front was cut like a miniskirt, baring her thighs up high, while the back fell in a long, body-skimming skirt that draped down past her legs.

The princess feeling had softened a little. The elegance and the sexiness had gotten stronger.

Seeing Elli's pale legs on full display from the front, like catching a glimpse of a princess's secret, sent something rushing through my body and my mind.

In that state, she stepped up onto the bed.

"......"

With eyes that were far too suggestive for a princess, eyes like a snake that had spotted its prey.

Red lips parted by the slow drag of her tongue.

She settled herself over my lower half, kneeling above me, and looked down at me.

Just looking up at her felt like a privilege. She was that beautiful. That graceful.

And between her legs, the faint white of her underwear just barely visible beneath the hem of the skirt...

"Ha... hah..."

It was enough to pull a rough breath out of me.

"Husband."

"...Mm..."

"Starting now, your princess is going to... your wife is going to consume you whole. How does that feel?"

"...Can't I be the one to consume you?"

"You think you can just put your hands on a princess whenever you feel like it? How presumptuous."

"You're my wife too."

"Hmph. Doesn't matter. Your turn is later. I'm going to have you first."

"......"

"Answer me."

"I'll wait my turn..."

"Good."

Elli's smile deepened.

At the same time, she slowly lifted the front hem of the miniskirt portion of the dress, revealing her beautiful, pristine white underwear inch by inch.

Against her fair skin, a luxurious silk lace pair of underwear.

Nothing cheap about it.

Just sexy. Just indecent. Just beautiful.

"We're going to do this just like this. I'll give it to you in your favorite princess outfit, so let yourself be taken by me quietly. Understood?"

"...Yes, princess."

"Good boy... hah..."

My princess, my wife, who had proposed to me with such poise and grace.

In an instant she transformed into a far more sultry, shameless kind of princess.

She climbed on top of me, and from that point on she showed me everything, holding nothing back.

When her turn was finally over.

Every bit of strength I had built up at the gym, every bit of pent-up desire, I spent the rest of the night writing it into my wife's body.

* * *

The next day.

We went to the district office and submitted the marriage registration paperwork.

Elli had prepared the documents in advance so we filled them out at home, and we brought Lee So-yeon and Jeong-woo hyung along as witnesses to sign.

The whole thing was surprisingly simple, to the point where it felt almost too easy to count as getting married.

There were quite a few twenty-year-olds who rushed into marriage registration without thinking it through, apparently, because the community office staff gave us a friendly little talk about various things to consider. But none of it applied to us. We listened politely and didn't hesitate for a moment.

Then we went home.

"...Honey?"

"Call me by my name normally. I like that better."

"Are you going to keep calling me husband?"

"Depends on the mood. Are you hungry? Go rest. I'll make dinner."

We were now living together not as lovers but as a married couple.

Technically it was just one more piece of paper, just a legal tie added between us, and yet.

It felt less like a sense of belonging and more like a sense of being bound.

Not that I minded. That binding actually made things feel warmer, steadier.

Of course, none of that changed what our daily life actually looked like.

"Mm... do you want to?"

"I do, honey."