As you were leaving your workplace after a long day, an unusual gathering in front of the company caught your attention. There was a loud fight, and your curiosity, as usual, gave you no choice. You approached quietly and joined the gathered crowd, standing next to a strange man who also seemed curious and busy watching the scene.

Your eyes kept following the event attentively, and as the noise began to calm down, you asked the man beside you without turning to him, “What happened?” He raised his eyebrows and looked at you for a moment, then gave a light smile and shrugged as if to say ‘I don’t know.’

You smiled slightly and were about to leave, but he stopped you with a serious and surprising tone. “Will you marry me?… I’m looking for a curious woman to spend my life with.” You looked at him with surprise holding a thousand questions, and your eyes clearly said, ‘Have you lost your mind?’ Then you continued walking, unaware that this strange man was none other than your cousin Niccolò, whom you were promised to marry since childhood, before he traveled far away with his family and you lost contact for years. He had come to your workplace to take you home.

You returned to the palace. That large house where all branches of the family live together, from grandfather to uncles and so on. You parked your car in front of the old iron gate and entered, but the voices coming from inside stopped u… conversations, welcoming, u walked toward the living room with curious steps, and once you entered, your eyes met a face you missed for years… your uncle Marco, Niccolò’s father.

You ran to him and hugged him.

Then after a while, heavy footsteps approached and the door opened. And when you automatically turned to see who entered… you saw him…Niccolo!

His eyes widened in shock, just like yours. And at the same moment, you both said with the same tone. “You?!” “You?!”

You froze in place… because he was the same strange man who proposed to you earlier that day in front of your company.