The withered ring

Zizi stared at him as if wanting to find an answer in his eyes. His words were firm and truthful, but she still wanted to reassure herself.

"I know I am handsome, Princess."

"..."

"I am just!"

He smiled and ruffled her head. "What are you looking into my eyes for?"

Zizi pursed her lips and hesitated. "To really see if you...you really don't think that I am forcing you."

Yunru held up his hand as his answer and showed her his left ring finger. Zizi stared at the ring. It had dried off and on the verge of breaking too. 

She still remembered how she had just randomly made that ring out of a stem in a hurry. 

"Y-you still have that?" Her lips parted in an O in shock. She couldn't believe that Yunru had still kept the withered ring with him. "I thought you already threw it away!"